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Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester. Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Worcester has eighty-five thousand inhab- 
itants. The volume of lier business ranks 
third in the line of New England cities, and 
perhaps first in proportional comparison. 
Her institutions of learning are large, numer- 
ous, general, and sensible, and may over- 
shadow the classic shades of both Cam- 
bridges ; the shelves of her libraries are bend- 
ing beneath the heavy books ; her musical 
men and women have set up among her hills 
an international organ, whose notes resound 
from ocean to ocean and over the ocean ; her 
churches tell of Christian Christianity ; her 
clergymen are brainy men of brains ; her bar 
has made law as well as practised it ; her 
homes are yet founded upon the Puritanic 
rock, with the modern improvements of the 
day so firmly fastened to it, that her people 
live in the good times of the past, the present, 
and the future ; her societies are powerful in 
quality and quantity ; her people are honest, 
law-abiding, and intelligent ; her geographical 
location opens to her the country wealth and 
prosperity of her state, and makes of her a 
happy medium between unhealthy cosmopoli- 
tism and tiresome rurality. For her and hers 
LifiHT was lighted. 



Light loves the firesides of Worcester too 
much to harrow into the cheerful hearts, 
which sit within its cheery glow, by digging 
up old political bodies, or abusing live ones. 
Light is non-political, non-sectarian, and de- 
cidedly pro-homiletic. 



Recreative Worcester recreates at right 
angles, — to the North in summer, to the South 
in winter. When the cold frosty December 
breathed its chilly breath over the hoped-to- 
be-snowed-capped hills of Worcester, her 
people gave a reciprocal shiver, and turned 
their open pocket books towards the land of 
orange blossoms and palms. Like true citi- 
zens they ordered the home papers sent to 
their sunny abodes, and in the columns read 
the cheery news that Worcester is becoming a 
winter resort, with all the changes of the zones 
crowded into the measure of a day. 



The almost entire lack of whole houses to 
rent, and the not over abundance of flats or 
tenements, speak well for the prosperity of 
Worcester, but are rather discouraging to the 
stranger who desires to enter her doors with 
wife and band-bo.\. 



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There are nearly two miles of stores in 
Worcester, many of them occupying entire 
blocks. Few of them are small, dingy, and 
imluisiness-like in methods. The variety of 
the stocks in trade includes the entire cata- 
logue of retail commodities ; the assortment is 
extensive, and the volume of goods on hand 
rises to immensity. The proprietors are en- 
terprising and progressive, and generally meet 
retail demand, frequently in advance of it. 
Boston is forty-four miles away. An hour and 
a quarter's ride, at a cost of a dollar, jumps 
the separating chasm, which even at this day 
is frequently crossed by Worcester people in 
search of that will-o'-the-wisp of trade which 
mythology has christened by the generic 
term of bargains. The retail trade of Worces- 
ter is simply the retail trade of Boston, re- 
duced proportionately in quantity, not quality. 
There is little in Boston which can not be 
duplicated in Worcester, and unless one is 
going to buy a case load, the price in Wor- 
cester will seldom exceed the price in Boston, 
and at the most will save a part of the rail- 
road fare. The universal rule of local pro- 
gress demands that local people support 
local interests. The greater the retail trade 
and the heavier the retail sales, the greater 
will be the prosperity of the central city of 
the state. 



Li(iHT will never admit into its advertising 
columns matter unfit for household reading, 
nor will it intentionally print any obscure or 
unreliable advertisement. Light has no pa- 
tience with those publications, so eminently 
respectable in editorial tone, and so grasping 
for moneyed income, as to publish side by side 
with lofty sentiment, advertisements unrelia- 
ble, disgraceful, and often positively immoral. 



Editor McCuUough. of the St. Louis Globe- 
DciJtocrat. says that " women of intelligence 
and education do not object to expressing an 
opinion through the newspapers ; " and the 
Spectator adds that " in point of fact, some 
ladies whose ideas are of value, insist upon 
keeping out of print. It is generally the sen- 
sitiveness of their husbands that decides 
them to do so. Men who do not hesitate to 
find fault with their wives are easily irritated 
when other people do so. We doubt if it is 
true tenderness ! The best type of husband is 
one that wishes his wife's development in 
every direction, irrespective of the annoyance 
it may give him." Light believes in woman's 
rights in the broadest sense; it believes that 
Eve was admitted into equal partnership in 
the Edenic firm of Adam & Company; and 
that the not always silent partner has walked 
up the steps of the centuries hand in hand 
with man. as often leading as being lead. 
LlfiHT invites the ladies of Worcester to a 
free expression of thought and action. 



Whatever Light may be, it will never be 
other than pure in tone. Its gossip will not be 
slanderous ; its personals will never pry into 
the privacy of the hou.sehold ; its news will 
not be flavored with unsavory spice. It will 
be a safe paper to place in the hands of the 
whole family. Moral, not religious; of citi- 
zenship, not of politics ; temperate in all 
things. 



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Our esteemed neighbor, the Worcester Spy, 
editorially says that "the value of a free li- 
brary as a means of popular education is now 
universally acknowledged. It might be wise 
for the state to require every town to provide a 
free library, expending upon it yearly not less 
than a certain fixed proportion, say one per 
cent, of the sum raised by tax for general pur- 
poses ; but, if the time for this has not come, 
the state may wisely encourage the founding 
of town libraries. The aid should be given in 
books rather than in money, for the books can 
be more judiciously selected and more advan- 
tageously bought by the state authorities than 
by the towns." The opinion advanced is solid 
sense and broad political economy, and too 
much cannot be said in its encouragement. 
It may well be said of the towns that " by their 
libraries we shall know them !" The man 
who knows only what is in books is shut up in 
himself and useless, but the man who knows 
only that which is out of books is a fool. 



There are thousands of Worcester men and 
women with gray matter within their craniums. 
Many of them have earned a name in letters, 
in music, in art, in science. Many more would 
follow in the footsteps of those before them, if 
some one would give a starting push. With 
apologies to the phrenologists, there is more 
latent talent than that which is both moving 
and boring the world to-day. The aspirant for 
literary honors who uses her own style may 
succeed ; the one who enters into assumed or 
unnatural originality, never. Light is for 
Worcester people, — to encourage the good and 
to feebly aid in developing it. Its columns 
are open to respectable people of every class. 
Correspondence is welcomed, under only three 
conditions : — purity, something to say, and 
brevity in saying it. 



Five thousand intelligent people were pres- 
ent at the recent exhibition of the Boston 
Athletic club. The entertainment was refined 
and enjoyable. Athletics, in their pure ama- 
teur form, are worthy of encouragement, and 
are receiving it from the best classes of men 
and women. The winter gymnasium and the 
summer field are calling for recruits from 
the old as well as from the young, and to-day 
one sees activity topped with gray, about as 
often as he sees it in the teens. There are 
exceptions, — book worms crawl slowly, — but 
active brains are seldom found supported by 
sluggish bodies. 



The new theatre presents to the dramatic 
side of Worcester a cosy, commodious, com- 
fortable, and safe temple of dramatic art. 
The managers are wealthy and respectable 
men who stand at the head of their profession. 
The good of the drama will be presented to 
Worcester people, and to them will be left the 
shaping of the local dramatic future. The 
new theatre has been built, it will open with 
the highest standard, but dramatic, as well as 
any other kind of economy, will force its man- 
agers, sooner or later, to move in the plane 
mapped out for them by their patrons. 

With our wash-ladies, our scrub-ladies, our 
kitchen-ladies, and ladyism tacked on to almost 
every class of feminality, the good old name 
of woman is becoming obsolete. God created 
the woman; tlie lady was made afterwards. 



About Folks. 



The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and any-thing reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



March i: Sun rises, 6.20 A. m.; sets, 5.34 
p. M. Length of day, 11 hours, 14 minutes. 
Full moon, 6th inst. 



The Bay State Bicycle Club is arranging for 
a race meeting, at the Park, Memorial Day. 



Piedmont church people are expecting a lot 
of fun at their " deestrict schule " entertain- 
ment, at the vestry, Monday evening. Mr. 
James Wilson is to be the pedagogue. 



Trinity church raised $2536.92 last Sunday, 
toward paying off the church debt, and they 
intend that the remaining $25,000 shall be 
gradually sliced off, even if the natives in 
Tirabuctoo go without neckties this year. 



Judge Hamilton B. Staples is presiding over 
the Superior Court of Berkshire County, at 
Pittsfield. 

The Washington Post has been finding out 
how the members of the Senate regale them- 
selves at luncheon- It dishes up the follow- 
ing concerning our " rosy-cheeked senator " : 

" Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is a sub- 
stantial feeder. Terrapin is one of his favor- 
ite dislies, and he is fond of a chafing-dish 
stew. He eats a hearty meal ever)' afternoon, 
and always rounds it off with a red-cheeked 
apple, whicli he carries with him to the Senate 
Chamber. Senator Dawes, his colleague, is 
much more moderate. He contents himself 
with a prosaic sandwich and a bottle of beer." 



Mr. Louie E. Ware, now at Cornell Univer- 
sity, '92, was the historian at the recent Soph- 
omore banquet. During the recent warfare 
between freshmen and sophomores, the presi- 
dent of the freshmen class was spirited away 
by daring sophs in order to prevent his attend- 
ance at the banquet. The freshmen wanted 
to capture the sophomore president, but he 
quietly disappeared, and as they were looking 
for vengeance of some sort, they attempted to 
gather in Mr. Ware. He had a scrimmage 
with a party of freshmen, but other sopho- 
mores came and he escaped, after whicli he 
remained under cover until the night of the 
banquet. 

Quite a number of Worcester collegians 
from the nearer colleges spent Washington's 
birthday and the following Sunday at home, 
among them being Mr. E. N. K. Mears, of 
Williams, Messrs. H. Y. Simpson, jr., and 
George E. Partridge, of Harvard, Misses 
Mary Lincoln and Maliel J. Stone, of Welles- 
ley, and Mr. Arthur C. Smith of the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. 



Mr. Charles Elroy Burbank,the gymnasium 
captain of Amherst College, has beeen ap- 
pointed superintendent of Natural History 
camp for the coming season, a deserved pro- 
motion from his rank of adjutant and teacher 
of gymnastics during tbe season part. Am- 
herst will be well represented in the corps of 
instructors, for Mr. Henry L. Ballou, who will 



occupy Mr. Burbank's former position, is an 
Amherst man, and so is Mr. .-Vddison A. 
Ewing, who is to be quartermaster and swim- 
ming teacher. He is Amherst's athletic and 
baseball director. Trinity boys are already 
booked for the season of 1890, and the camp 
will be a large one. 

The Second Women's Christian Temper- 
ance Union has invited the Worcester 
County South, to hold its ne.xt County Con- 
vention in Worcester, at Grace Chuach, on 
the 19th inst. The convention will open at 10 
A. M., and continue through the day. State 
President Miss E. S. Tobey, of Boston, State 
Supt. of Juvenile work, Mrs. Helen G. Rice, 
of Boston, and Mrs. S. S. Fessenden, Supt. 
Department of Franchise, will speak. Mrs. 
Johnson, of Milford, the county delegate to 
the National Convention, wiU also be present 
and read her report. Members of the Union 
will sene lunch to delegates at noon, An 
Anniversary Crusade meeting will be held in 
the evening. The public is most cordially 
invited to these meetings. 



S. A. Kinsley, of the Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, is a member of the executive committee 
of the Intercollegiate Press Association. 



The Young Men's Christian Association re- 
quire $1000 to make up the deficient be- 
tween the expenses and the receipts for the 
ensuing year. 

Mrs. E. D. Morse is visiting Mrs. W. P. 
Heald, at Framingham. 



Mr. Dwight F. Dunn and Rev. Lucius Ban- 
croft, D. D., who have been for some time in 
the south, are now at Jacksonville, Fla., but 
will soon move northward to Charleston, S. C. 



There was something painfully suggestive 
about the report of the fire engine experts 
when they came to pass judgment on Steamer 
No. 4, for the enlightenment of the City 
Council. " Of no further use in this world," 
was the verdict, and now the members of the 
City Council want to know if the experts were 
casting reflections. 

The oyster supper given by the ladies of the 
South Unitarian Society, Monday evening, 
was a very successful affair. 



The Worcester Cholasterine Co. has been 
chartered with a capital of $25,000. Mr. Jo- 
seph R. Marble of this city has been elected 
treasurer. The new corporation will at pres- 
ent have its head oflice in this city. 



Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Nye have returned 
from their visit to Washington. 



Dr. Homer T. Fuller, president of the Poly- 
technic Institute, will lecture on " The Geol- 
ogy of Worcester," at the Old South Church, 
Monday evening. The lecture will be illus- 
trated by choice mineralogical specimens. 

Professor James Jenkins' lecture, in " The 
Moon to a Worid," at the Old South Church, 
Monday evening, was as entertaining as it was 
interesting and instructive. The strong point 
of the lecture was the bring out of almost ab- 
solute proof of the discoverers of the earth's 
satellite. 



When Mr. Walter Scott Kennedy touched 
the keys for accompaniment to the first num- 
ber on his soiree musicale program, Tuesday 
evening, his pleasant face half turned towards 
a brilliant audience which completely filled 
the floor and gallerj' of Horticultural Hall. It 
was beginners' night, and personal interest ran 
liigh. The program was as follows : 

SMART— Trio, " Down in the Dewy Dell." 

Mrs. W. R. Irwin , Mrs. A. L. Wood and Miss Alma L. 

Collins. 
COM BS — Song, a^ " The Journey is Long." 
NORRIS— Song b, " Slumber Song." 
Mrs. A. L. Wood. 
VON WEBER— Prayer and Scene from " Der Fries- 
chutz." 

Mrs. F. J. Harwood. 
GORING-THOMAS— Songs, " Winds in the Trees," 
"Countryman's Love Song." 

Miss Jennie T. Pevey. 
VENZANO— "Vabedi Bravura." 

Miss Mabel F. Shorey. 
HENSHAW DAN A-Song, " Among the LiUes." 

Mr. H. D. Reed. 
REINECKE— " Song of Spring." 

Miss Bertha Norton. 
Violin Obligate, J. N. Truda. 
BISHOP— Air, " Lo, here, the Gentle Lark." 
Miss A. Cordelia Hobart. 
Flute obUgato, N. Valva. 
PINSUTI— Quartet, "Spring." 
Miss B. T. Handlin, Mrs. C. E. Chadbourne, Messrs. 

Charles Flynn and S. N. Crosby 
PROCH— Air, " De Torno Mio Bene." 

Mrs. W. R. Irwin. 
MATTEI— Song, " Patria." 

Mr. S. N. Crosby. 
HANDEL— Air, "Oh, Had I Jubal's Lyre." 

Miss Lizzie M. Bassett. 
VOWAK— Waltz Song, " Morn's Sweet Blush." 

Mrs. C. E. Chadbourne. 
EMERY— Song, "Burst Ye .•\pple Buds." 

Miss B. T Handlin. 
SHELLEY— Song, "Love's Sorrow." 

Mr. Charles Flynn. 
BIZET — " Habenera," from Carmen." 

Miss .-Vlma L. Collins. 
BRACKEN— Song, " Hey, ho, the Daffodils." 

Mrs. Adelaide L. Wood. 
RANDEGGER-Trio, "The Mariners." 
Mrs. W. R. Irwin, Mrs. A. L. Wood, and Miss Akna L. 
Collins. 



Arbutus Council, Home Circle, gave an en- 
tertainment in Knights of Honor hall, Mon- 
day evening, at which Mrs. C. A. Richardson, 
Miss Ann Foskett, Mrs. W. E. Bowen, Mr. 
W. J. Flagg and Miss Ida Hurlburt, gave val- 
uable assistance in the way of readings and 
musical selections. 



Mr. George Redding's friends have been 
cracking jokes at his expense during the past 
week, because of a little trip that he took a 
week ago. Mr. Redding had a matter of 
business in Uxbridge that he was desirous of 
attending to without delay, so he arose with 
the dawn and took an early train for that 
town. When he arrived, and sauntered up 
the street, he met a bank clerk whom he 
knew, and asked him how he happened to be 
out drinking in the pure ozone instead of 
counting over greenbacks. The pained look 
that came over the Worcester man's face, 
when he was informed that it was Washing- 
ton's birthday, lingers there yet. George 
didn't get back until noon, and still mourns 
the loss of half a day. 



Some Older Gentlemen. 



BY ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN. 



A group of story-tellers in a Main street 
office, a day or two since, drifted around to 
remembrances of the late John F. Pond, and 
called out some interesting yarns about that 
eccentric genius. Mr. Pond was a practical 
joker from his cradle up, and he was never too 
bu.sy to be on the lookout for fun. 

At one time he kept a store on Providence 
street, and it chanced one day that a young 
man came in during one of Mr. Pond's frolic- 
some moods. He was looking at a nice new 
tub of butter at the time, and when the young 
man came along, he said : " See here, did you 
ever see any nicer butter than that ? Just get 
down and smell of it." 

The young man removed his hat and bent 
down, with his nose close to the golden con- 
tents of the tub, when Mr. Pond brought his 
hand down on the back of the young man's 
head and suddenly made a face mask in the 
butter. The butter inspector went in up to 
his ears, and the joker stood by, chuckling, 
when he drew himself up. He was prepared 
for a stormy scene, and asked, " Well, what 
do you think of it ? " 

The young man knew Mr. Pond of old, so 
he straightened up and simply remarked, 
" Well, as far as I went. Pond, it's the best 
butter I ever tried." 

The old gentleman was so mightily tickled 
with the reply that he at once invited the 
young man out to lunch. 

The conversation brought out another pretty 
good .story about Mr. Pond, in which a mem- 
ber of the present City Council was the vic- 
tim. It seems that some one had thought it 
would be a fairly good joke on Pond, in return 
for some of his sharp ones, to have him 
brought before the court and fined for fast 
driving. A complaint was brought against 
him for driving at a rate e.xceeding eight 
miles an hour, and he was convicted and fined. 

Mr. Pond thought it was rather a rough 
joke, and the next day he said to the friend 
who now wears a city government toga, 
." Don't you think it was rather hard on me to 
pull me up in that way, for driving more than 
eight miles an hour ?" 

" Yes, Pond, I do," was the response, which 
came with a grim smile, " for I don't believe 
you ever owned a horse that could go eight 
miles an hour." 

This was one of Pond's own kind of re- 
plies, but he prided himself somewhat on the 
horseflesh he owned, so he made up his mind 
to get even, and he said, " Well, get in and 
take a ride with me, and I'll let you see her 
speed." 

The future maker of laws and ordinances 
got in and off they started. When they got 
down to Vernon square, Mr. Pond said, " Now, 
you get down and I'll let her out." 

The critic of speed did get down, and Mr. 
Pond did " let her out." He let her out 
toward Millbur>', and when he had vanished 
from sight, he turned about, probably, and 
went through some cross street and home. 
His friend wasn't long in seeing what the situ- 
ation was, and he " let her out," on foot for 
home. 

Mr. Pond doubtless felt entirely[vindicated 



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About Folks. 



Councilman Daniel W. Prouty of Ward I 
is arranging for a trip to Kentucky. 



At the ladies' night social of the Young 
Men's Christian Association, last Monday 
night, Miss Sadie Parsons, reader, Mr. Ernest 
W. Marshall, violinist, and Mr. C. C. Kenyan, 
reader, gave selections, and Misses Lina John- 
son and Carrie Williams sang a duet. 



Miss Nellie A. Phelps, a daughter of Mr. 
George A. Phelps, entertained a company of 
friends at her home, No. 26 Fountain street, 
last Monday evening, the occasion being her 
eighteenth birthday anniversary. Miss Phelps 
received numerous gifts, including a costly 
gold watch and chain from her father. 



Mr. John M. Kendall, whose verse-making 
abilities have won him no little honor, and 
who has had one or two songs published, has 
become a prize winner in the poetical field. 
He was recently awarded the gold pen offered 
by the New York Morning Journal ioT \.\\^ 
best original poem on George Washington's 
hatchet. 



The frequent reports of suspicious charac- 
ters about the city, while undoubtedly exagger- 
ated, should warn the people to be more care- 
ful about securing doors and windows. 



The Unitarian Grove Meeting Association, 
of Concord, N. H., has elected Mr. John C. 
Otis, a prominent member of the South Uni- 
tarian Society, one of its vice-presidents. 



A parlor concert is to be given at Mrs. E. 
A. K'elley's, 45 Cedar street, Monday evening, 
at which Mi.ss Stella M. Haynes will read. 
Miss Florence M. Sears will play one or more 
violin solos, and Mrs. C. A. Richard.son will 
give selections. 



The Polytechnic Institute Camera Club held 
its first exhibition last Saturday, at Boynton 
Hall, and abouf 300 pictures were shown, the 
exhibitors being Louis E. Booth, the presi- 
dent, H. H. Tracey, Charles A. Davis, Harry 
Sinclair, Edward W. Vaill, jr., Merrill W. 
Allen, Paul B. Morgan, Harrison P. Wires, 
A. L. Smith, and Sibley H. Keyes, beside C. 
O. Plummer, the honorary member. 



City Solicitor Goulding returned from his 
Washington trip in time to be promptly at his 
desk in the aldermanic chamber, last .Monday 
evening. 



In the voting ~on the world's fair site, at 
Washington, Congressman Walker voted on 
every ballot for Chicago, and, as usual, came 
out on top. 



Judge George M. Woodward, Messrs. .S. R. 
Heywood, J. R. Torrey, E. B. Crane, David 
Manning, jr., and Francis M. Gray listened to 
George W. Cable's address before the Massa- 
chusetts Club, at Boston, last Saturday. 



Sam Small, the eccentric evangelist, is com- 
ing to Worcester about the 20th of next 
month. He will lecture on "From Bar Room 
to Pulpit." 



Inside the House. 

A small box filled with lime and placed on 
a shelf in the pantry or closet will absorb 
dampness and keep the air in the closet dry 
and sweet. 

An old recommendation often given young 
housekeepers is to use tea leaves in sweeping 
carpets, but their use in delicate colors sliould 
be avoided, as they will surely stain light car- 
pets. 

To leave the soup kettle uncovered while 
the soup is boiling is to sacrifice much of its 
most delicate flavor and aroma, and to lose 
that peculiar nutritive and digestil)le property 
present in dishes cooked with all their steam 
tightly closed in upon them. Cover the soup- 
kettle steam-tight and boil it gently from one 
side, if you want good soup. 

A retired plumber thus gives a point for the 
gratuitous relief of householders : " Just be- 
fore retiring at night pour into the clogged 
pipe enough liquid soda lye to fill the ' trap ' 
or bent part of the pipe. Be sure that no 
water runs in it until the next morning. Dur- 
ing the night the lye will convert all the offal 
into soft soap, and the first current of water 
in the morning will wash it away and clear the 
pipe clean as new." 

Dipping fish in scalding water will cause the 
scales to come off very easily, but if the fish 
are to be salted down they must be on no ac- 
count be scalded. You may pour over them 
vinegar with the same result. Salt fish will 
soak fresh much quicker in sour milk than in 
water. 

A house that lacks that great convenience, 
a butler's pantry connecting with the dining 
room, may find a very convenient substitute 
for one in a tall screen placed near the kitchen 
door. If of strong material, the screen may 
have a shelf fastened to the inner side, on 
which may be placed the dessert and fruit 
plates until ready for use. A small table be- 
hind the screen may hold other necessary ar- 
ticles, like a pan of hot water and towels to 
supply clean forks and spoons to the table, or 
to hold delicate tableware that cannot safely 
be >-ashed in the kitchen. Such a pantry 
may easily be constructed by the house car- 
penter. A well-made pair of clothes frames, 
covered with marbleized oilcloth on one side, 
and Canton flannel or cretonne on the side to 
be e.xposed to the room, could be used for a 
screen. 

Boys' shirt waists always wear first at the 
belt, where the trousers fasten. For the next 
set, make a double belt of strong jeans which 
place under the percale of linen ; when the 
buttons are sewed firmly on, and the threads 
fastened, it is hard for the boys to get through 
with them. 

It has been asserted that chewing wooden 
toothpicks sometimes produces small ulcers in 
the mouth, and that even the stomach has 
been similarly affected by the action of the 
small particles of wood detached by chewing. 

An easy method of removing bits of foreign 
bodies from the eye is to place a grain of fla.x- 
seed under the lower lid, and close the lids. 
The seed becomes surrounded by a thick, ad- 
herent mucilage, which entraps the foreign 
body, and soon carries it out from the angle of 
the eye. 



About Folks. 



The second entertainment for the benefit 
if the Pilgrim Gymnasium will be given in 
'ilgrim Hall, on the evening of the iSth inst. 
rhe program will include songs by Messrs. 
:. S. Stoughton, F. S. Craig, and J. H. Caf- 
erty. A fan drill by the young ladies of the 
>alem Street Church, is to be an interesting 
eature, the corps-de-la-van being under the 
iirection of Professor L. C. Havener. Mrs. 
Z. A. Richardson, the elocutionist, will give 
lelected readings. The Worcester City 
IJuards, under the command of Captain Wil- 
iam A. Condy, will delight the big and little 
oiks with an exhibition drill ; and a squad by 
he same company, commanded by Lieut. M. 
H. Tisdell, will give a bayonet drill, executing 
many of the difficult movements. Orchestral 
selections will be rendered during the evening. 
rhe entire entertainment will be under the di- 
rection of Mr. Fred Knight. 



The foundation is in position for the new 
apartment house which Mr. George W. Coombs 
is building, at the corner of Main and Beaver 
streets. Work will be pushed as soon as the 
weather is favorable. The building will be of 
the prevailing style of brick, with brownstone 
trimmings. It will be five stories high, with a 
frontage of 62 feet, and a depth of 80 feet. On 
the first floor will be two large stores, and 
eight apartments of seven and eight rooms 
each will occupy the upper floors. The rooms 
will be finished in hard wood, will be heated 
with hot water, furnished with electric bells, 
and speaking tubes, and other modern improve- 
ments. Above the main entrance arch will 
appear the name "Beaver" carved in brown- 
stone. The building, when completed, will 
be one of the finest at the South End. 



A five-story apartment house is to be erected 
at the corner of Belmont and Fountain streets 
this spring, for Mr. C. W. Wood. The cellar 
is dug and the cellar walls are being put in. 
Work on the building will be commenced as 
soon as the weather is suitable. The plans 
are nearly completed. The building w-ill have 
a frontage of 100 feet on Belmont street, and 
106 feet on Fountain street. There will be 28 
apartments, furnished with all the modern 
conveniences. At the corners of the Belmont 
street front will be a large and high circular 
tower, each containing room for a spacious 
parlor on each floor. The buildings will be 
after the prevailing style of brick and brown- 
stone, pressed brick exterior walls, and arched 
entrances. There will be two main entrances, 
one on each street. This will undoubtedly be 
the largest first-class apartment house in Wor- 
cester. 



The engagement is announced of Major 
George H. Hill, instructor of military tactics 
and mathematics at the New York .Military 
Institute, to Miss Ella Stevens, daughter of 
Mr. George L. Stevens. 



Major George H. Hill expects to spend 
next summer travelling abroad. 



Mr. L. L. Flagg is building a three-tenement 
house at No. 6 Piedmont street. 



Mr. E. E. Carpenter has erected a three- 
story tenement house at No. 11 Hrigham 
street. His family will occupy one tenement. 
All modern conveniences will be put in. A 
stable and carriage-house is connected. 



A fine residence is being built for Mr. John S. 
Brigham, of the Logan, Swift and Hrigham 
Envelope Co., on the Institute road. It will 
contain 11 rooms, with the best of modern 
improvements. 

Mr. C. W. Bowker is building two twin 
houses on Blossom street, of three flats each. 



Miles & Houck are putting up three 
houses, of six rooms each, at the corner of 
Hudson and Townsend streets. They are 
all being constructed in the same attractive 
style of architecture. 



Worcester Lodge, Knights of Honor, will 
"lunch" at their meeting, next Wednesday 
evening. 

Rev. Dr. Almon Gunnison, of All Souls" 
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., supplied the pulpit of 
the First Universalist Church, last Sunday. 

Rev. M. H. Harris has been in Chicago, ar- 
ranging for the removal of his family to that 
city. 



Seventeen of the ladies and gentlemen from 
the School of English Speech, will present a 
dramatic reading of " The Merchant of 
Venice," at Horticultural Hall, early in May. 



Mr. Walter S. Kennedy will begin Iris en- 
gagement, as tenor and musical director of 
the Church of the Unity, the first of next 
month. 



The new crushed strawberry postage .stamps 
are being sold at the uniform price of two 
cents, at the Post-office emporium. 



"A street divided against itself:" Half of 
Brigham street is now called by its former 
name, and the balance has been christened 
Murray. 



Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sawyer. Mr. and 
Mrs. E. H. Swan, and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. 
Smith, who are enjoying the anti-Bay State 
climate of Lower California, will return to 
Worcester, about the first of April. 



Worcester may be a wee little bit of an in- 
land provincial city, but she has at least ten 
thousand young, middle-aged, and gray haired 
men who believe themselves capable of hold- 
ing the World's Fair. 



Miss .Maude S. Bosworth has been spend- 
ing a few days with friends in Webster. 



General Secretary Samuel G. McConaughy 
of the Young Mens" Christian Association has 
has been in Philadelphia for a few days. 



Mr. H. T. Buck has completed a stable and 
carriage house, in the rear of his Queen street 
residence. 



One of the busiest places in the city of 
Worcester is the Union Station. There is 
scarcely an hour in the twenty -four when there 
is not one or more engines on the move under 
the roof of the building. Every time the 
earth turns around (except Sundays) 102 
passenger trains arrive and depart from the 
depot over the five lines of railway which fill 
the train house. On Sundays, 14 trains arrive 
and 10 leave. Of the week day trains, 42 
come over the Boston and Albany tracks, 19 
over the New York, Providence and Boston 
road, 15 behind Boston and Maine engines, 
and the New York and New England engines 
bring in 14 trains. The Fitchburg road runs 
the least number of trains, 10. A Boston & 
Albany train is the first to arrive and the last 
to leave. The noon trains also come in on that 
road. From five to about seven o'clock in the 
evening is the busiest time of the day. Within 
these two hours thirteen trains arrive and de- 
part. At about six o'clock the rush is the 
greatest for the people who work in the city 
and live in towns five to ten miles out are go- 
ing home. 



The following dialogue occurred on Main 
Street, yesterday : — 

H.ANDSOME Policeman: — What's all 
this row ? Did you knock the man down ? 

Citizen : — I did ! 

Handsome Policeman :— You have com- 
mitted a breach of peace, sir. I must take 
you to the station house. Come along I 

Citizen : — But he got off a joke. 

Handsome Policeman ; — What joke ? 

Citizen : — He said there's more Light in 
Worcester." 

Handso.me Policejian (to man on the 
ground) : — Come along to the station house, 
miserable man. 



Mrs. Levis G. White and Miss White are 
among the Worcester people in Florida. 



The new Worcester theatre, which is to be 
opened by the first of May, at the latest, will 
give to Worcester a play house not surpassed 
in finish and appointment by any theatre in 
New England. Manager Rock will give his 
whole attention to its management, and Mana- 
gers Rich and Harris of Boston, will spend a 
generous proportion of their time in their 
W' orcester venture. It is the intention of the 
managers not to run any one-night attractions, 
comparatively few two-nights, many three- 
nights, and occasionally one of a week. Either 
" Little Lord Fauntleroy " or " Shenandoah " 
will be given at the opening, and if the former, 
Little Tommie Russell, will appear in the 
title role. Mr. Henderson, who was the stage 
carpenter at the Boston Bijou Theatre, and 
the 23d Street of New York, is permanently 
engaged. ."^ll the companies and combina- 
tions playing at the Hollis Street Theatre, 
Boston, will be be brought here, besides other 
dramatic companies, it being the intention of 
the managers to present to the theatre-going 
public of Worcester only the better of the 
best. 



Mr.Edvvard B. Hamilton, of Oak avenue, who 
has been extremely ill with pneumonia, is 
convalescent. 



Mr. Ben T. Hammond has been given 
charge of the music at the First Unitarian 
church, for the ensuing year. 



Religious Worcester. 



liY REV. A. E. r. TERKINS, D. D. 



If the work of drawing the portrait of an 
individual were confided to several different 
artists, one feature to each, it would not be 
strange if the result should lack somewhat in 
truth of proportion and harmony of result. 

If a building were framed by different 
workmen, at a distance from each other, mor- 
tise and tenon might not all fit. Once in past 
ages such a work was successfully performed. 

We are told that the materials of Solomon's 
Temple were so prepared at a distance that 
when brought together and combined, there 
was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of 
iron heard in the house, while it was in build- 
ing. 

Hut tliat work was performed under such 
guidance as we cannot claim in our attempt to 
present a truthful picture of this city of Wor- 
cester. 

Its different features must be presented as 
.seen from different standpoints and though 
each should be painted truly, it must be left to 
the imagination to combine the whole in a true 
picture. 

But a true view of the religious condition of 
Worcester would be a great aid to a correct 
idea of the city as a whole. 

Few who read this article will doubt that 
religious ideas have a bearing upon all the 
relations of life and decide their character. 
Tell me what the religion of a nation or a 
community is and I will tell you its character. 

Hut when we speak of the religion of a 
people we refer not to its forms and ceremo- 
nies, not even to its written creeds but to its 
actual beliefs such as enter into and control 
the life. What these are will decide what 
the homes of a people are, whether they are 
pure, refined, the abode of peace and love, or 
scenes of low pleasure, of selfishness and 
strife. 

So with the business of a community. It 
mav be that of the Hindoo, the Chinaman or 
the Mohammedan, among whom fraud is lit- 
erally unblushing, and nuniversal want of con- 
fidence renders credit impossible, or it may 
be that of a Christian people, where the ele 
vating influence of Christianity though but 
imperfectly realized, yet by its high stand- 
ards does render fraud disgraceful, and makes 
honesty in the long run at least, the best pol 
icy. 

And upon a people's religion will depend 
the value of its educational privileges. It has 
already become evident to every impartial 
observer, that the education which leaves out 
of view the spiritual nature of man is worse 
than worthless. We have nothing to do here 
with the question how and when religious 
education should be given, whether in the 
church, the home or the public school, or in 
all of them, but given somewhere it must be, 
or the more education one has, the worse it 
will be for him and the community. 

There is not so dangerous a character as 
an educated villain. And so it is evident 
that the real prosperity of a town or a city is 
to be measured not by its growth alone, not 
by the number of people there are in it, but 
by the kind of people they are ; not by the 



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amount of business that is done in it, but by 
the way its business is done; not even by how 
much its inhabitants know but by the use they 
make of their knowledge. 

What then is the religious condition of 
Worcester? Well! We liave not reached 
the Millenium of universal holiness, but we 
believe we are making some progress toward 
it. In saying this we make no e.\travagant or 
exceptional claim. There is an impression 
fostered sometimes by theological alarmists, 
that the world is growing worse, that in New 
England at least there is a decay of religious 
faith. Hut the facts are all the other way. 

At the opening of this century skepticism or 
blank Atheism was the fashion of the day, 
especially among the educated young men or 
those who wished to be thought so. 

When Dr. Dwight, who had been elected to 
the Presidency of Yale College in 1795, pro- 
posed giving a course of lectures upon the 
evidences of Christianity, his friends, even 
among the clergy protested, fearing it would 
cost him his popularity with the students. 

Churches in all this region were small, con- 
sisting almost entirely of aged people. In 
Worcester the two Congregational churches 
had about 250 members, about 6 per cent, of 
the entire population. Now the same denomi- 
nation has 14 churches with a membership of 
over 4000, about 5 per cent, of the whole pop- 
ulation, or 8 per cent, of the native born citi- 
zens. Then other denominations had hardly a 
foothold. There was one Baptist church, one 
Unitarian, no Metliodist and no Episcopal, 
and no Universalist church. Now there are 
49 Protestant churches with about 20 missions, 
so that it is safe to say that the percentage of 
membership in the Protestant churches on the 
basis of those of native birth and parentage is 
twice as great as it was 60 years ago. 

There are eight Roman Catholic churches, 
one Greek church, two Jewish synagogues be- 
sides numerous organizations of a benevolent 
or semi-religious character. Tho.se best ac- 
quainted with the city say that, with scarcely 
an exception, the men prominent in business, 
officers of banking houses and manufacturing 
corporations, are connected with some church. 
The wealth of the city is largely in the hands 
of Christian men and is freely used for the 
support of distinctively Christian institutions 
as well as for others of public utility. 

The same is true in a good degree, of the 
men who control and teach in our higher in- 
stitutions of learning. The young man in 
Worcester who should think to gain anything 
financially or socially by proclaiming his hos- 
tility to religion would find that he could not 
have made a greater mistake, to speak of no 
more serious consequences. Hut while we 
find so much that is gratifying in the religious 
condition of our city, it is well not to forget 
that there is room for improvement. While 
we have .so many fine houses of worship, we 
must see that they are not always filled. 
While provision is made for all who wish to 
enjoy the privileges of worship, it would be 
well to ask if those privileges might not, in 
some cases at least, be made more available 
for those of moderate means who are now 
virtually excluded from them.? While there is 
no unseemly strife among the different denomi- 
nations, would not a more hearty co-operation 
cause the power of the churches to be more 



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efficient for the ends for which they exist ? 
In short would they not gain by being more 
perfectly imbued with the spirit of the Mas- 



What, something new in wit 



A Worcesterian Tragedy. 



liV CUECKERBURKV S. HlLL. 



'Tis said there came, in days of yore. 
To dwell in favored Worcester, 

A handsome youth, wiio proudly bore 
Tlie Pilgrim name of lirorcester. 

He met a maid more fair tlian thought 
Upon the streets of Worcester: 

He saw, he thrilled, he loved,"lie sought 
A friend, wlio introdorcester. 

The maid was kind ; in swift delight 
The days went by in Worcester, 

Of her he dreamed through all the night. 
Till crowed the early rorcester. 

Alas! that there should be an end 
Tu those sweet days in Worcester; 

The maiden had a fair, false friend, 
Who to her love tradorcester. 

The maiden said, "I find you cold," 

Low hung the clouds o'er Worcester 

"Vou do not greet me as of old. 
Nor love me as you yorcester. " 

Her lover answered not a word ; 

lie went away from Worcester; 
The maiden pined, a captive bird, 

Till death from sorrow lorcester. 



Uncertainty. 



It's cool and warm, and warm and cool. 

There's calm and then there's bluster, 
.So that we don't know which to wear, 

.■\n overcoat or duster. 

Food for the Brain. 



Chai'I'IK:— I say, ole fellah, that Miss I)e 
Vere is a doocidly stupid girl. 

CHor.LV: — I nevah noticed it. 

Chappie: — Oh, but she is, though. Vou 
know I always call on her on Fridays, her 
reception days. 

Cholly: — Ya-as. 

Chappie: — Well, the last time I called 
1 thought I'd like to say something pretty, 
and so wcmarked that 1 wished every day 
were Friday. 

Cholly: — Ya-as. 

Ch.-\ppie: — And, bah Jove, she misunder- 
stood and said she thought a fish diet would 
be good for me. — J/u/isiy's U'l'fk/y. 



In Life and Death. 



After the railroad accident. Husband (ex- 
tricating himself from the wreck): — Emily, 
thank Heaven you are safe ! Heavens ! isn't 
this awful ? 

Wife:— Dreadful ! Hear the poor people 
groan ! Dearest ! 

Hltsh.axd: — What is it, love.' 

Wife:— Is my hat on straight?— /T-ir/zr/w^'f. 



A Choice of Reasons 



There are two reasons why some people 
don't mind their own business. One is that 
they haven't any mind ; the other, that they 
haven't any liusiness. — Hciivard Lampoon. 



Steel Gray and Crimson. 

Beyond such work as some of the Poly- 
technic Institute men are doing at the Y. M. 
C. A. gymnasium, no special training for the 
New England Inter-collegiate field meeting, 
in May, has yet been undertaken. Notwith- 
standing this, however, and the fact that the 
Polytechnic men who contested in the recent 
sports at Boston did not meet with great suc- 
cess at that time, the interest is not lessened. 

Captain White is setting the team a good 
example by constant attendance at the gym- 
nasium, while Farnum is fully as regular, and 
no doubt will show forth the results when the 
rope is stretched for the practice tugs. Dad- 
mun has given up long runs, and will confine 
himself to the dashes. 

The unexpected admission of the Univer- 
sity of \'ermont to the association, at the an- 
nual meeting, has furnished a theme for con- 
siderable talk. The Vermont men have a 
strong base ball record, but in general athlet- 
ics have never done a great deal. There is a 
chance, however, that they may develop one 
or two dark horses who can win. events, and 
thus cause a more even division of first hon- 
ors than there was last year. The Polytech- 
nic men entertain hopes of this sort, at any 
rate, and there is a general feeling that even 
if the pennant is green and white again this 
year, Dartmouth wdl not win with eight first 
prizes. \V illiams is looming up well to the 
fore, and will do better than it did last May; 
Amlierst will strain every nerve to recover the 
prestige lost last May; and the Methodist 
boys are said to be preparing to give their 
yell once or twice this time. Light beUeves 
in Worcester and is especially anxious that 
the pennant should be of steel gray with three 
big letters, "W. P. 1." upon it. 

An indication of what the Williams men 
will do is obtained from the record of their 
college sports, held last week. Person, 91, 
broke the role vault record of the college, 
vaulting 9 ft-, 8 5-8 in., and Welsh, '93, was 
second, vaulting 8 ft., 8 5-8 in. The New 
England intercollegiate record, made by 
Warinner of Amherst, at the meeting of May, 
1888, is 9 ft., 7 in. If Person holds his own, 
and come to Worcester in May, he will stand 
a good chance of winning the event for Wil- 
liams. Last year, Marshall, of the Institute, 
won with 8 ft., 8 in. 

In the jumps, also, the Williams men did 
good work. In the running high. Crook, '90. 
jumped 5 ft. 4 in., and Peters, '91, 5 ft. 3 in. 
Last May Peters won with 5 ft., 2 in. The In- 
tercollegiate record is 5 ft. 4 3-4 in., made by 
Porter of Amherst, and Cobb of Dartmouth 
at Hartford, May, 1887. Crook won the stand- 
ing high jump, last May, with 4 feet, 10 inches, 
not equalling his previous record of 4 ft., 11 
3-4 inches, and last week, he jumped 4 ft. 11 
1-4 in. Strong, 90, was second, with 4ft. 6 in. 
The standing broad jump was won last May 
by Crook, with 10 ft., i 1-2 in. and Amadon, 
also of Williams, was second with 9 ft. 10 1-2 
in. In the sports at Williams last week, Crook 
just equalled his record of last May, and 
Strong, who appears to be a recent develop- 
ment of Williams' athletic strength, jumped 9 
ft. I 1-2 in. In the running broad jump. 
Strong jumped only 19 ft. S in., which is 7 



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'nches less than the Intercollegiate record. 
The Williams men are evidently doing the 
best work, as they are competing for gold and 
silver medals offered to the men winning the 
highest number of points in three gymnasium 
exhibitions. The Worcester men will watch 
for records of future games with interest. 

The class base ball teams at the Institute 
have had a strong backing among the stu- 
dents in the last two or three years, and there 
are likely to be some strong teams put in the 
field as soon as the season opens. The 
juniors have begun well by electing their 
base ball manager at the first election of offi- 
cers. If Mr. Tucker is equal to the emer- 
gency, the class ought to push the seniors 
well. If all the football enthusiasm which 
was perforce bottled up and allowed to cool 
can be warmed up to boiling, again, when 
the base ball season arrives, the Institute 
ought to be thinking about putting a team in 
trim to meet other colleges in this section. 
Base ball isn't football, to be sure, but it is 
something. 

By another month there will probably be 
chances to put in an occasional hare and 
hounds run on Saturdays and holidays. A 
great deal of interest was taken in the runs 
last year, and as the leaders in the sport are 
still at the Institute, it wiU undoubtedly be 
revived. 

Altogether, the athletic outlook is a bright 
one and promises to dispel something of the 
stately gloom which has thrown its mantle 
over Boynton Hall, during the interior be- 
tween the football season and spring sports. 

Listening to Music. 

BY REYD. 



It is a very different matter to listen to 
music, as the majority in an American audi- 
ence does, with eyes aided by opera glasses 
and lorgnettes, than it is to drink in the har- 
monies, melodies and composers' true meaning 
with the ear and mind, as do the Germans. 
It was my good fortune, not long ago, to hear 
two of the selections, given so grandly at the 
last Symphony Concert, before a typical Ger- 
man audience, filling the magnificent "Philhar- 
monie" at Berlin. The third number on the 
programme was the descriptive suite of 
Grieg's illustrating in such a vivid panorama, 
Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Bulow had led his per- 
fect band through a new overture by Joachim. 
The great "Parsifal," Van Dyck had sung an 
aria from Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride," 
when, after the applause had subsided a little 
man with a shock of iron grey hair came upon 
the stage. As he approached the director's 
platform Billow, in his inimitable manner, 
bowed the audience to him, and we realized 
that Grieg himself was with us, to conduct— I 
think for the first time in Berlin— his poetic 
production. He stood, bowing to the ap- 
plause of welcome, like an animate jack 
knife, opening and closing itself without aid. 
His appearance was unique, for he has lit- 
tle regard for conventionalities. He wore a 
brown velveteen sack coat, baggy black trou- 
sers, a loosely-tied cravat, his pleasant face 
and rather massive head giving his short, 
small figure an arti.stic interest in itself. Sud- 
denly he turned his back upon us, and in- 



stantly with one sharp click of his baton con- 
centrated the band's attention in himself. 
All through the breaking morn of the day he 
was almost creating the red and yellow rays 
of a Norwegian sunrise came upon us till we 
found ourselves blissfully awake in its full 
light ! The quiet feeling of approbation 
greeted this movement, for who could encore 
with noisy hands a sunrise ? The funeral 
effect of the death of Aase was equally im- 
pressive, and her last sighs were followed by 
sympathetic replies from the audience who 
truly mourned her death. When he suddenly 
took us to Morocco in the third movement we 
were as ready to dance with Anitra as we had 
been to sigh with Aase. It was in the final 
march however that the mar\-elous power of 
the great little man was supremely felt. We 
watched for a long time mountain imps both- 
ering and pestering the Don Juan Gynt al- 
most in pity, but finally our scruples were 
overcome, and we joined them in their wild, 
ever quickening march with him to their 
cave. How excited we were ! When we left 
him finally with parting threats we were quite 
out of breath. For an instant all was quiet, 
and then the beautiful hall fairly rang with 
applause. The stucco angels, holding med- 
allions of the old music masters in their 
places on the walls, seemed about to drop 
them, that they might join in the acclamation 
to the musical hero of the hour ! The little 
man opened and shut himself more rapidly 
than ever, the trumpets gave him a fan-fare, 
the Emperor's wreath with Prussian colors 
was handed him, and in reply he tookus over 
the same way again to the hall of the moun- 
tain kings ! 

No list of patrons is needed for successful 
concerts in Germany, and in all probability the 
orchestra in Berlin under Bulow's direction is 
the only one superior to our Boston Symphony 
in the world. Why, then, do we allow our 
musical reputation in Worcester to longer re- 
main fictitious .'' Let us hear with our ears and 
minds our fine band and greatly gifted con- 
ductor as often as we can, and strive with 
their aid and our own love of the divine art to 
merit what we possess — a musical reputation. 



The statement made in joke that Worces- 
ter makes everything from a knitting needle 
to a steam engine is substantiated in fact. 
The resources of Worcester, both mechani- 
cal and agricultural, furnish everything 
needed to secure the necessities and luxuries 
of the modern life of her people. 



Spring Sight-Seeing Tours on the Pacific 

Coast. 

The tenth annual spring sight-seeing tours through 
California, announcecf by Messrs. Raymond & Whit- 
comb. are exceedingly attractive. They differ from the 
winter excursions inasmuch as they are complete sight- 
seeing rounds, with all e.\penses included for every day 
of absence. One tour consumes sLxty-one days and the 
other seventy-five, Monday, .^pril 28, being the date of 
departure in both cases, both tours comprise a round 
of California, and the latter also encompasses visits to 
Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Montana, the 
iellowstone National Park, etc., the return eastward 
bemg over the Northern Pacific Railroad. The shorter 
tour includes a return via Salt Lake City and the Den- 
ver & Rio Grand route, with visits to Manitou Springs, 
Denver, etc. Both parties will travel in elegant trains of 
Pullman vestibuled cars, with dining-cars attached, and 
every facility will be had for the full enjoyment of the 
trip. Ample time is given for the Vosemite \'alley, and 
iivconnextionwith the Pacific Northwestern tour there 
will be an opportunity to visit Alaska. Descriptive circu- 
lars may be obtained by addressing W. Raymond, 296 
Washington St., opposite School St., Boston. 



Darkened Music. 



Mechanics Hall was full. There were folks 
from the West Side, people from the South 
Side, crowds from the North Side, hundreds 
from the other sides. The symphony orches- 
tra devotee was there; the man and woman 
who look upon classical music as heaven 
born, laughed and applauded to the full ex- 
tent of the laughable organs. It was a cos- 
mopolitan audience made up of everybody 
from M iddletown and Toneville. 

Twenty-two hundred people were there, and 
the stream of laughter began at eight o'clock, 
with no relief to aching jaws, until the final 
curtain fell. 

The arrangement of the stage was good. 
The opening scene brought into view, Wor- 
cester's blackened singers, arrayed in the form 
of the Mastodon Minstrels. 

Now here is the 

PROGRAM. 
Part First. 

1. Introduction. 

2. Opening Chorus, " A'ow Forward." 

3 Solo, " Only to see the dear old place again, '' 
Mr. Merrill. 

4. Selection, "Bugle Song," Quartette. 

5. Song, " The Darkies' Lament, " Mr. Schmidt. 

6. Solo, " My Fiddle and /," Mr. Howard. 

7. Song, " The rattle of the latch-key in the door," 

Mr. Macomber. 

8. Solo," Sailor's Dance, " Mr. Howell. 

9. Song, " Daylight a Breaiin'," Mr. Rider. 
10 Selection, " Dinah Dor, " Quartette. 

Part Second. 
Selections, The Arlington Quintette. 

Sketch, "iSth Century Twigs," by the two B.'s; 
T. H. B. and J. S. B. 
Club Swinging, Professor Havener. 

Whistling Solo, Mr. John Dorris. 

Acrobatic Feats, by Egyptian Acrobatic .Aggregation. 
Parade and Drill, Dixie Guards. 

The first part, built on the regular lines, was 
fully up to the best professional minstrel en- 
tertainment. The singing was harmonious, 
melodious, and strong. The jokes were built 
for the occasion, and there was no flavor of 
antiquity about them. "Uncle Tom," Sam- 
uel E. Winslow, majestically occupied the 
front row of the center circle. His charcoal 
face shone like a black diamond, and his eyes 
twinkled, yet over all was that dark-meated 
dignity, and around his vision hovered the 
admiring glances of the Evas of the audi- 
ence. The end men were very good indeed, 
and handled the bones and tambos with a 
familiarity equal to professionalism. 

Mr. P. L. Rider's address to Uncle Ben 
Harrison was one of the richest bits of humor 
perpertrated, and he spoke his piece with all 
the fen-or of negro eloquence. Mr. H. F. A. 
Schmidst's song, "Don't feel ter big," was 
well sung and greatly applauded. Mr. Fred 
G.Davis' address on " Looking Backward," 
was replete with local hits, and was really the 
hit of the evening. The lulaby entitled 
"Winslow's Soothing Syrup," fairly soothed 
the intolocutor into peaceful slumber. The 
Arlington Quintette was encored to the echo. 
The two Bs, in their sketch "Eighteenth Cen- 
tury Twigs, " gave a perfonnance as artistic 
as it was humorous, the dancing of the Min- 
uet being finely executed. Professor Haven- 
er's club swinging was equal to that of the 
best professionals, and his automatic wrist 
movements were thoroughly remarkable 



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while his attendants created a world of fun 
by their grotesque antics. Mr. John Dorris' 
whistling solo well deserved the encore 
given to it. The acrobatic feats, by the 
Egyptian Acrobatic Aggregation consisted of 
many remarkable numbers, and yet none of 
them seemed dangerous to the performers. 
Difficult as were the feats performed, the actors 
crowded into their performance the best of 
active humor, the situations being irresistably 
funny. 

The " aggregation " was " cast " as 
follows : 

General Manager, Fred. G. Davis, as- 
sisted by P. L. Rider, F. D. Freeman, Jas. W. 
Allen, H. B. Fairbanks, O. B. Wood, 
Frank R. MacuUar, C. R. Macomber. 

Interlocutor, Samuel E. Winslow. 

Bones, Fred. G. Davis, C. R. Macomber. 

Tambos, P. L. Rider, H. F. A. Schmidt. 

Musical Director, Edward L. Sumner. 

Accompanist, George E. Brown, 

Chorus: Fred L. Ward, Wm. F. Merrill, 
Nelson C. Keyes, Fred. H. Howard, Frank 
L. Allen, F. S. Chickering, Stanley H. Rood, 
G. H. Learned, H. E. Richardson, Hoskinson 
Gates, Chas. S. Holden, Geo. A. Smith, 
Henry E. Morse, J. Edward Fuller, Wm. E. 
Ryan^ H. F. Blood, H. Ward Bates, W. E. 
Fairbanks, Edward Bates, L. W. White, E. E. 
Lincoln, John H. Howell, J. A. Brennan, C. 
S. Stoughton, J. H. Cafferty, W. H. Desper, 
E. C. Gilman, Homer Whiting. 

Dixie Orchestra, H. I. Osborn, Leader. 

Arlington Quintette: Fred. B. Fisher, C. 
H. Morse, W. F. Boswell, A. B. Weixler, L. 
R. Bradford. 

Ham-Town Students Quartette, C. S. 
Stoughton, ist tenor, J. A. Brennan, 2nd tenor, 
John H. Howell, ist bass, J. H. Cafferty, 2nd. 

Dixie Guards: H. B. Fairbanks, F. D. 
Freeman, H. Ward Bates, F. L. Allen, W. F. 
Gilman, Robert Mason, F. M. Clark, Jr., F. A. 
Hatch, G. W. Macomber, J. E. Morse. 

Egyptian Acrobatic Aggregation, L. C. 
Havener, Benj. Townsend, Fred Daniels, J. 
Herbert Adams. 

Ushers: Fred L. Ward, S. Frank Gates, 
Wm. S. Lincoln, Fred. D. Sibley, Arthur C. 
King, Charles F. Lancaster, Henry J. Kettell, 
Harry B. Fairbanks, Albert F. Hyde, Edwin 
S. Clark, Frank A. Clark. 

The performance from first to last was an 
unqualified success, and in many respects the 
best entertainment ever given by the Dixie's. 
It was thoroughly refined, never dull, always 
fresh, and extremely original. 



What tlie Stair Clock Saw. 



CORRECT BREATHING. 

Lucy Stone says : " Breathing through the 
nose saves irritations of the throat and lungs 
by warming the air if cold, by straining it if 
dusty, before it reaches their more delicate 
membranes. 

" Breathing through the nose secures the 
uniform temperature of that organ through 
the constant expelling of warm air. 

" Breathing through the nose strengthens 
the muscles of the diaphragm, thus inducing 
deeper and fuller respiration." 

" Emphasize the object of breathing, and 
show how the minute blood cells, through 
their system of thread-like capillaries, become 
the wonderful builders and repairers of the 
body." 



Up on the landing the stair clock stood — 
Tlie prim old clock. 

As staid as rock — 
And ticked away as hard as it could ; 

" Tick-tock, tick-tock, 
' Tis late, go lock." 

Down in the doorway a lover wooed — 
A sighing swain, 

A cooing twain, 
Each heart with love in a melting mood ; 
To part was pain, 

'Twas plain, quite plain. 

The sighing swain took a final kiss — 

A rousing smack, 

A bold attack— 
The dying note of their soulful bliss ; 

Alas ! alack ! 

A parting crack. 

The old clock saw, and it hid its face ; 

A shocking sight 

So late at night ; 
It woke the echoes about the place; 

" Not right ! not right ! 

Young man, take flight !" 

It looked again and beheld a sight — 

An old man mad — 

The young girl's dad — ■ 
A fleeing form in the cold, dark night, 

A maiden sad, 

Half sad, half glad. 

— Frank B. Wekh. 



Of Coming Things, 

Monday, March 3. 

PiEDMO.NT Church.— "Deestrict Schule" enter- 
tainment. 7.45 p. .M. 

Old South Church.— Lecture by Dr. Homer T. 
Fuller, on "The Geology of Worcester," illustrated by 
mineralogical specimens. 7.45 p. .M. 

P.^RLOR Concert.— At house of Mrs. E. \. Kelley, 
45 Cedar street. S P. M. 

Tuesday, March 4. 

Association H.\ll. — Concert by Gounod Club. 8 

Wednesday, March 5. 

Pupils Recit.^l.- .At Mr. Ben T. Hammond's 
rooms, 452 Mam street. 8 P. M. 

HorticulurAl H.\ll.— .\rUngton Club, Social. 
Evening. 

Thursday, March 6. 
Association Hall.— Reunion of Natives of Maine. 
Evening. 

Saturday, March 8. 

Hall of the Art Students' Club.— Worcester 
Art Society's Course of Lectures; third lectuie ; "Pro- 
gress ef American .Architecture, by Mr. William Henry 
Goodyear, of N. Y. 7.45 p. M. 

Tuesday, March 18. 

Pilgrim H.all.— Second entertainment for benefit 
of Pilgrim Gymnasium. 7.45 p. M. 

Wednesday, March ig. 

Grace Church.— Worcester County South W. C. 
T. U. Convention. 10 a. M., and throughout the day. 

Friday, March 21. 
Horticultural Hall.— The drama of "* Michael 
Earle, " under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. 
Tuesday March 25. 
Second Parish Club.— Subject; " Theodore Par- 
ker ;" paper by Mr. George A. Steams, Jr. 
Tuesday, April i. 
Plymouth Church.— Fancy dress carnival. 



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The Gounod Club. 



In its fourth year, and flourishing as never 
before, the Gounod Club represents the high- 
est musical culture which Worcester has to- 
day, aside from the yearly festival. 

The club is to give its second concert of the 
present season at Association Hall, Tuesday 
evening and Light improves the opportunity 
to say something about the concert at this 
time. 

Worcester people will be interested to know 
the names of those who have made the 
Gounod Club so notable an organization. The 
club was organized in 1886. The present of- 
ficers are iMr. Henry F. Harris, president ; 
Mr. Arthur W. Parmalee, vice-president ; Mr. 
Josiah A. Rice, secretary ; Mr. Benjamin A. 
Barber, treasurer ; Mr. W. A. Anthony, libra- 
rian. Worcester does not need to be told that 
Mr. Edward N. Anderson is the musical direc- 
tor, for had it not been for .Mr. Anderson, 
the club might have sought long before 
finding a captain to lead it on to a succession 
of triumphs which have been offset by no re- 
verses. 

The club has at present 45 voices, divided 
as follows : 

SOPRANOS. 

Mrs. George F. Bigelow, Miss Maude L. Davis, 
Miss Hattie L. Ellsworth, Miss Emma E. Hayward, 
Mrs. Henry F. Harris, Mrs. Albert W. Ingraham, 

Mrs. Harrison W. Johnson, Mrs. John W. Mitchell, 
Mrs. Charles A. >lerrill, Mrs. Josiah A. Rice, 
Mrs. Harry Stone, Mrs. Charles S. Stoughton, 

ALTOS. 

Miss Ann Foskett, Mrs. John H. Howell, 

Miss Nellie Ingraham, Mrs. George E. Kirby, 

Mrs. Jerome Marble, Mrs. Frank H. Mason, 

Miss Elizabeth Parmelee, Mrs. Charles F. Rugg, 
Mrs. Joseph A. Titus, Mrs. Oliver B. Wood, 

Miss Lillian Whittemore. 

TENORS. 

Thomas Callahan, Charles L. Clark, 

Hoskison Gates, Thomas B. Hamilton, 

William F. Little, Harold C. Powers, 

Walter C. Powers, Frank H. Potter. 

Frederic A. Ricker, D. Herbert Smith, 

Charles S. Stoughton. 

BASSES. 

William A. Anthony, Benjamin A. Barber, 

Henry F. Harris, George Learned, 

Arthur W. Parmelee, George G. Manning, 

Charles J. Marshall, Addison E. McGaffey, 

John W. Mitchell, Josiah A. Rice, 

George L. Sanborn. 
Pianist, Mrs. Carrie King Hunt. 

Spohr's Hymn to St. Cecilia, the goddess of 
music, is not a pretentious work, the full vocal 
score occupying only twenty-one pages, but it 
reveals his style of writing as clearly as does 
his larger works. Its first performance here 
in Worcester, by the Gounod Club, will 
doubtless be a strong feature of next Tues- 
day's concert. 

Spohr is well known as a writer who was 
particularly fond of chromatic progression, 
and this characteristic feature of his composi- 
tions is made evident in the opening number 
of the Hymn. This adagio is ertremely diffi- 
cult in its harmonic progression, and would be 
impracticable with a less skilled and drilled 
choir than is this club. The apparent ease 
and fluency with which this band of singers 
renders such works has often covered up the 
real difficulties, and the large amount of care- 
ful and severe study necessary to attain it. 
But herein should the singers receive due 
credit. 

Following the opening adagio is a stirring 
soprano solo, with chorus accompaniment, 
the solo, almost wholly in rippling melody, in 



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the upper register of the voice, seeming to 
suggest the blissful dwelling of the mythical 
goddess. 

The work closes with a fugue, of much diffi- 
culty of e.\ecution, on account of its rapidity. 
Especially trying is it for the basses, whose 
naturally more ponderous voices make rapid 
singing extremely difficult. The fugue is so 
clear in its structure that any one acquainted 
with musical forms can easily follow it. 

The second number upon Tuesday night's 
program is a charming Bavarian song, " Sky- 
lark," sung by the ladies' voices. It is in 
canon form, and the listener will hear the duo 
sung, first, by the sopranos, accompanied with 
light trills in the altos, afterward sung by the 
altos and accompanied in a like manner by 
the sopranos. It is a charming composition, 
well wrought out, and especially beautiful is 
the coda, the whole song being brought to a 
close by a rapid scale which seems to leave 
us in mid-air on the fifth of the scale, instead 
of the tonic. 

Two of Mr. Anderson's part songs form 
the next number on the program, the first- 
named, " Morning Wanderers," showing a 
merry party anxious for early morning sports, 
but deterred by the lengthened slumbers of 
one of their number, the second a song in 
marked contrast, called " At Eventide," sug- 
gesting the rest and repose of night. It might 
not be inopportune to say that Mr. Anderson, 
as a composer, is much better known through- 
out the country than in the city where he 
lives, as his part-songs are in use by the best 
musical organizations of the land, such as the 
Rubinstein Club of New York, the Boylston 
of Boston, Cecelia of Brooklyn, N. Y., Loring 
Club of San Francisco, Ladies' Glee Club of 
Jeffersonville, Masurgia Club, of Norwich, Ct., 
vocal societies at Jersey City, Minneapolis, 
Minn.. Atlanta, Ga., and Toronto, Canada. 
Only a few weeks since, one of his composi- 
tions given by one of the New York clubs 
aroused so much enthusiasm as to make an 
encore imperative. 

Following these songs, the male voices will 
sing an arrangement of the old Scotch air, 
" Lass o' Gowrie," by Duernerr, and that 
charming bit of melody and sentiment by 
Hugo Juengst, " Spin, Spin." 

The next number which falls upon the full 
club is a very striking setting of Kingsley's 
famous poem, " The Three Fishers." The 
music is by George A. Macfarren, the English 
composer, whose name has been familiar to 
every musician for years, as an interesting 
composer of local music. The setting is de- 
cidedly original in its treatment of the poem. 
The peculiar effect of the running accompani- 
ment sung by the ladies choir against the 
unison melody for all the male voices while 
they sing the refrain, " For men must work 
and women must weep " is very strong. 

Henry Smart's setting of the 23d Psalm, for 
ladies' voices, is beautiful in its melodious 
treatment of that melodious psalm ; included 
in this number, also, will be sung Rubinstein's 
" Song of the Summer Birds," one of the hap- 
piest expressions of that famous master. 

The club will close the program with Eaton 
Faning's " Song of the Vikings," those hardy 
Norsemen around whose existence clusters so 
much of historic interest. The poem, how- 
ever, is a modern one, set to music in a 



modern manner. It breathes forth a vigor 
which does not need a very strong imagina- 
tion to bring up the mental picture. Espec- 
ially to be noted is the surging effect of the 
music at the words : " Lords of the waves are 
we." Surely music can go far beyond lan- 
guage in stirring our emotions ; we are made 
by these stirring strains to feel that these men 
of whom we have read were brave and verit- 
able " lords of the waves." 

Interspersed between the above-mentioned 
will be two vocal numbers by Mr. Francis 
Fischer Powers, the eminent New York bari- 
tone, and also a piano solo by Mr. Arthur J. 
Bassett. Below we give the complete order 
of the selections : 

Hymn to St. Ceciha. Spohr. 

Mixed Voices. 

Solo, by Mrs. H. W. Johnson. 

The Skylark. Bavarian. 

Ladies Voices. 

I a. Reverie. Neidlinger. 

( b. Slumber Song. Gerrit Smith. 

Mr. Powers. 

{?: LVvlS^'''^"'""^- Anderson. 

Mixed Voices. 
( a. Lass o' Gowrie. Duernerr. 

) b. Spin. Spin. Juengst. 

Polonaise in E. Liszt. 

Miss Bassett. 
The Three Fishers. Macfarren. 

Mixed Voices, 
i a. Psalm xxiii. Smart, 

t b. Song of the Summer Birds. Rubinstein. 

Ladies Voices. 
Muleteer of Tarragona. Henrion. 

Mr. Powers. 

Song of the Vikings. Faning. 

Mixed Voices. 



SOURCES OF IMPURE AIR. 

There are many sources of foul air in a 
house in winter, when nature's own disinfect- 
ants, the frost and snow, are purifying the out- 
side air. Next to the plumbing, which may at 
any time become a source of danger to health 
if not continually looked after, the furnace 
claims special attention. The stupidity of the 
average workman who is set to cleaning chim- 
neys and furnaces can hardly be exaggerated. 
In the majority of cases he seems to regard his 
duties as purely perfunctory. Tapping the 
stove pipe, heater pipes and different parts of 
the heater with a poker will soon tell whether 
the work has been done properly. The cold- 
air box opens into the cellar or basement 
kitchen, instead of outdoors, as it should. 
Thus the unwholesome warm air of the lower 
part of the house, laden with the cooking odors 
of the kitchen, is forced into the upper part of 
the house, to be breathed over there. 

Not only should the furnace have a cold-air 
box opening outdoors, but there should be no 
crack or opening through which the air of the 
basement can become mixed with that from 
outdoors. The spot where the cold-air box 
opens outdoors should be as far removed as 
possible from the kitchen cesspool, or any 
source from which impure air may come. It 
is doubly necessary in winter, when the house 
cannot be so freely ventilated as in summer, to 
look after all parts of the premises, where de- 
bris of vegetables or refuse of the kitchen may 
engender source of disease. The practice of 
keeping the garbage pail in the kitchen under 
the sink, as is sometimes done in careless 
households, cannot be too severely censured. 



Lent, nth Day to i6th Day. 



AT ALL SALNT? 



March 2. Second Sundav in Lknt. 
Holy Communion, 7.30 A. M. ; morning prayer, 
sermon and Holy Communion, 10.30 A. M., 
offertory for the poor ; Sunday School and bible 
classes, 3 p. m. ; evening prayer, 7.30 p. m., ser- 
mon by the rector. 

March 3. Monday. Morning prayer, 9 A. 
M.; evening prayer, 5 v. M.; Vestment com- 
mittee, bible class, 4 P. M. ; church temperance 
society, 8 p. m. 

March 4. Tuesday. Morning prayer, 9 a. 
M. ; Evening prayer, with address, 5 p. m. ; 
Choir guild, 7.30 p. m. 

March 5. Wednesday. Litany, 8.30 a. 
M. ; Evening prayer, 7.30 p. m., sermon by 
Rev. F. B. Allen, head of City Mission, Bos- 
ton ; kitchen garden, 2.30 p. m. ; Parish library 
open, 4 to 5 P. M. ; Depository open, 3 to 5 
p. M. ; rehearsal of voluntary choirs after eve- 
ning service. 

March 6. Thursday. Holy Communion 
7 A. M. ; morning prayer, 9 A. M. ; evening 
prayer, 5 p. M., address to the children of the 
church ; women's meeting, 7.30 P. M., address 
by Rev. Edmund S. .Middleton. 

March 7. Friday. Morning prayer and 
litany, 10.30 A. M., address by Rev. Edmund 
.S. Middleton; instruction preparatory to first 
communion, 7.30 p. M. ; society of the Willing 
Mind. 

March 8. Saturday. Morning prayer, 9 
A. M. ; evening prayer, 5 P. M. ; sewing school, 
2.30 P. M. ; parish library open, 3 to 5 P. M. 



L I Ci H T 

Miss Mary Howe. 



at saint John's Lincoln street. 



March 2. Sunday. Morning prayer, ad- 
dress, and Holy communion, 10.30 A. M. ; Sun- 
day school at noon ; evening prayer and ser- 
mon, 7.30 P. .M. 

March 5. Wednesday. Evening prayer, 
with sermon by Rev. George E. Allen, 7-30 
p. M. 

March 6. Thursday. Evening prayer and 
address, 4.30 p. m. ; evening prayer and ad- 
dress, at Chadwick Square Mission, 7.30 
p. M. 

March 7. Friday. Evening prayer and 
address, 7.30 P. M. 

March 8. S.\turday. Free sewing school, 
2.30 P. M. 



Talk about a pastor for Plymouth church 
and a soprano for the quartet are the chief 
themes of conversation among the people of 
that congregation just now. No one has yet 
been fixed upon for either place and the com- 
mittees are doing the sharpest aid of " look- 
out "work. Rev. C. D. Harp of Cambridge 
is to occupy the pulpit to-morrow. 



The most notable social event of the past 
week has been the entertainment by Mr. and 
Mrs. Jerome Marble, at their Harvard street 
residence, of Miss Mary Howe, the charming 
young singer who returned in December from 
Paris, where she has been studying since the 
music festival of 1888. 

Miss Howe was present at Mr. Ben T. 
Hammond's pupils recital, given at his rooms 
on the 19th, and sang several selections, and 
on the following day she sang privately for 
Mr. Ellis, of the Boston Symphony Orches- 
tra, who has been desirous of securing her 
services for concert work. 

Last Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- 
ble gave a whist party, complimentary to Miss 
Howe, and beside Miss Howe, and her 
brother, Mr. Lucien Howe, there were present 
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. 
Benjamin A. Barber, Mrs. W. G. Strong, 
Mrs. W. A. Pickett, Miss Currier, Miss Ida 
Johnson, Miss Elizabeth Cheever, Miss Ry- 
der, Miss Williams, Mr. Rufus S. Woodward, 
Mr. J. Russell Marble, Mr. Charles A. Wil- 
liams, Mr. William B. Scofield, Mr. Ben T. 
Hammond, and Mr. Newton Darling. 

After leaving the card tables, refreshments 
were provided, and then Miss Howe sang 
three selections, "Sweethearts," by Lynes, 
"My Dearest Heart," Sullivan, and the 
"Nightingale" song of Alabieff, which 
aroused so much enthusiasm at the F"estival 
of 1 880. 

Last Monday evening, also. Miss Howe was 
given a complimentary card party, at Mr. Ben 
T. Hammond's, 15 Kendall street. Progres- 
sive hearts was the game which occupied the 
company's attention for a time, and afterward 
there was an adjournment to the music room, 
where Mr. Lucien Howe sang "Down the 
River," a composition of his own, playing his 
own accompaniment. Miss Howe was very 
generous in gratifying the desire to hear her 
sing, and her numbers were "Do I Love 
Thee," Lucien Howe, the "Nightingale" song 
previously referred to, and three songs by 
Cowen, "Thy Remembrance," "Snow Flakes," 
and "Love Me if I Live." 

After Miss Howe had sung, Mr. Hammond 
yielded to persuasive friends and sang Tosti's 
"La Serenata" delightfully. 
The usual entertainment was provided. 
Those present included Mr. and Mrs. Je- 
rome Marble, Miss Marble, Mr. Stephen Sal- 
isbury, Mr. Frank R. Macullar, Mr. and Mrs. 
Alexander DeWitt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. 
Dewey, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Witter, Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank E. Heywood, Miss Jennings, 
Mr. Herbert A. Currier, Miss Currier, Miss 
Towne of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. J. 
Fred Mason, Mrs. Harry Stone, Mr. John G. 
Heywood, Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Davis, Dr. 
Leonard Wheeler, Mr. William B. Scofield, 
Mr. Newton Darling, Dr. Arthur McDonald, 
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Hathaway, Miss Flor- 
ence Johnson, Mr. John Nelson, Miss Nelson, 
Mr. Rufus S. Woodward. 

Miss Howe left Worcester last Wednesday, 
and sang at Northampton that evening. 

The growth of artistic method in Miss 
Howe's singing is apparent to all who have 
heard her voice during her stay in Worcester, 



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and remember her performance at the Festival 
of '88. Worcester, with the rest of New Eng- 
land, may feel a decided satisfaction in the 
thought that Miss Howe is a thorough New 
Englander, and, as she said to Light a few 
days since, "Yes, I enjoyed my stay in Europe, 
but I like America much better." 

Light is privileged to announce that Miss 
Howe is practically engaged for the I-'estival 
of 1890. Another announcement of interest is 
that she will give a concert here either during 
the present month or early in April. 



THE COLD CURE. 

A cold is not a cold, but an intiammation. It 
cannot be cured when once fairly established, 
but it can be prevented in the majority of 
cases by frequent use of cold foot baths and 
cold air baths. I mention them with confi- 
dence, because I have tried them thoroughly 
upon both my patients and myself. The air 
bath, with light gymnastic e.xercise at the same 
time, is a most excellent, simple and generally 
available form of toughening. In my own 
case, and in most others that I have observed, 
an ordinarj' cold is caught through the feet. 
The feet are the tender region as regards re- 
sistance to low temperature ; first, because they 
are the furthest extremity of the body; and 
second, because in its ordinary attitudes they 
are usually the lowest part, and are so exposed 
to the colder strata of air. Most of us are lit- 
erally "tenderfeet." What shall we do to 
toughen ourselves against this particular in- 
vasion of the cold.-"' Plunge your feet on ris- 
ing and retiring into very cold water. Keep 
them there a minute or two only at first, so as 
to be on the safe side. The next day keep 
them in the tnb or basin longer, tlie third day 
a little longer still. 

Let the water be very cold indeed, and keep 
your feet in it until the very bones ache. Does 
that seem heroic treatment? It is not so se- 
vere as you may think. The application being 
local and limited, it gives no shock to the con- 
stitution, such as the cold bath gives. The 
minute your feet come out of the cold bath, 
wrap them up warmly, and rub them, if nec- 
essar>', and you will find a delicious thrill of 
warmth diffusing itself through them as the 
blood rushes back with redoubled energy. I 
have seen the remedy tried by the most deli- 
cate persons, and with none but excellent re- 
sults. It strengthens the circulation; it invig- 
orates the nerves ; produces, in a word, what 
we call toughening. Many a woman whose 
feet were hardly ever warm from October un- 
til June has found a glowing circulation in 
them after a few applications of this simple 
bath, and has obtained immunity against the 
besetting colds which had previously been the 
mi.ser>- of life. Duly bearing times and sea- 
sons in mind, this remedy is one in which the 
most delicate can find no danger, and one 
which will prevent more colds than any other 
single measure. — From a Doctor. 



Col. W. S. Hopkins returned Thursday eve- 
ning from his southern trip. He has been gone 
for nearly a month, and arrived in .\ew York 
last Wednesday. Col. Hopkins's friends will 
be glad to learn that he is greatly improved in 
health, and will resume his busine.ss at once. 



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About Folks. 



A number of young voices which have been 
trained by Mr. Ben T. Hammond were heard 
at his last pupils' recital, Wednesday evening. 
Four of the pupils were from out of town, 
Misses Milnes. Midgley and Chadwick being 
from Cherry Valley and Miss Corser from 
Spencer. The program follows : — 
SONG. "Thy King." Rodney 

Mr. Harry C. Robinson. 
SONG. "My Boy.'' Pinsuli 

Miss Mary .\. Milnes. 
SONG. "Sweetheart and I." H. Loge 

Miss Emma F. Fay. 
SONG. "Only a Rose." Wellings 

Miss Georgie M. Corser. 
SONG. " Pauline." Mayviood 

Mr. Ralph W. Knapp. 
SONG. "Love's Golden Dream." Lennox 

Miss Cora L. Fisher. 
SONG. "Angel's Tears." Pontct 

Miss Louise A. Midgely. 
SONG. "The Fisher Girl." Linley 

Miss Mattie Chadwick. 
SONG. " Father's Boat." Pontet 

Mr. Robinson. 
SONG. " I Think of Thee." Denta 

Miss Milnes. 
SONG. "The Lamps of Hope." Roeckel 

Miss Corser. 
SONG. "Sing again ye happy Children." Roeckel 

Miss Midgely. 
SONG. " Marguerite so Fair."' McFartane 

Mr. Knapp. 
SONG. " When the Lights are Low." Lane 

Miss Fisher. 
SONG, ".\long the Shore." Cowan 

Miss Fay. 

DUETT. "Gentle Breezes." Watson 

Misses Milnes and Chadwick. 

Mr. Hammond also sang " In Old Madrid." 

The programme for next Wednesday evening 

will be made up largely of concerted music. 

Mr. George N. Morse has been reengaged 
as organist and director of Trinity church 
choir for the coming year. 



Mr. J. E. Hudson, who has been the notably 
efficient chairman of the reception committee 
of the "Young Men's Christian Association for 
the past year, has resigned his position and is 
to locate in Cleveland, O. Mr. Hudson will 
leave Worcester on Monday, going to Boston, 
where he will spend a week among old 
friends, and then, with his family, he will go 
directly to Cleveland. Mr. Hudson is to 
manage the store of Wardwell & Co., in the 
new Arcade building on Euclid avenue. Mr- 
John E. Thomas has been elected chairman 
in Mr. Hudson's place, and Mr. Albert H. 
Inman has been chosen assistant chairman 
and secretary. 



Darling Brothers have secured the contract 
for building Lowell's new city hall building, 
their figiires being ;?3i7,io8. Light rejoices 
in Worcester enterprise and success at all 
times. 

Mr. Edmund R. Ware, whose home is in 
Worcester, although his business headquarters 
are at Chicago, is at home, and is superintend- 
ing for his company the putting in of new and 
improved steam heating apparatus in the resi- 
dence of Hon. .Samuel E. Hildrcth. 



Mrs. George W. Hubbard attended a per- 
formance of " The Drummer Hoy " at Put- 
nam, Conn., Wednesday evening, and was the 
guest of Mrs. M. M. Thompson, who imper- 
sonated " Mrs. Rutledge," 



Miss Lizzie W. Warren is on a visit to 
friends in Boston and Portland. 



Mrs. Charles H. Flint gave the second and 
last of her Wednesday at homes, on the 26th. 
The pleasant rooms of Mr. Flint's new resi- 
dence, at 58 Cedar street, were thronged during 
the usual hours. Mrs. H. M. Witter, and 
Mrs. Dr. F. M. Johnson, of Boston, received 
with Mrs. Witter, and the ladies who presided 
at the urns were Mrs. Nathaniel Paine, Mrs. 
A. George Bullock, Mrs. George S. Barton and 
Mrs. George B. Witter. 

Col. Samuel E. Winslow, Col. Fred W. 
Wellington and Col. Henry E. Smith were 
among the guests at the ball of the Boston 
Lancers, Wednesday evening, at the armory 
in Boston. 

Messrs. James E. Dennis, Henry S. Pratt, 
Frank R. Macullar, D. H. Fames, W. W. 
Johnson, Granville A. Longley, Arthur E. 
Davis, William A. Lytle, Wendall P. Taft, 
Herbert B. Kelley, Edward L. Talbot, and L. 
P. Petit, prominent representative of the Wor- 
cester clothing trade, were the guests of the 
Clerks' Protective Association, at the banquet 
at the Bay State home,Wednesday evening. 



Abou t Exe rcise. 

People who wish a fine figure and erect car- 
riage should learn to stand well. The secret 
lies in throwing forward and upward of the 
chest, the flattening of the back, with the 
shoulder-blades held in their proper places, 
and the definite curving in of the small 
of the back, thus throwing the whole 
weight upon the hips. By perseverance and 
watchfulness this will become second nature. 
It preserves the figure, because it keeps the 
muscles firm and well strung, and prevents the 
sinking down of the flesh around the waist and 
hips, so common in men and women over 
thirty, and which it is perfectly easy to escape. 
Another thing to avoid is a bad habit of going 
up-stairs, which most belles do, bent forward, 
with the chest contracted, which, as well as an 
indolent, slouchy manner of walking, is in- 
jurious to the heart and lungs. 



Nothing is a better tonic for the complexion 
than a brisk, cold sponge bath on rising, fol- 
lowed by vigorous rubbing with a dry towel, 
not too coarse, the face and neck receiving 
their full share of the friction, unless the skin 
is very sensitive, in which case the bare hands 
may be the instrument instead of the linen. 
This sets the blood to moving briskly and 
electrifies the system. At bed-time a warm 
bath may be taken, and the face should be 
washed slowly, carefully, and thoroughly with 
warm water and Castile soap. The oily mat- 
ter exuding from the skin catches minute par- 
ticles of dust, which cannot be removed in any 
other way, and many eruptions on the face are 
caused by nothing else than neglect of this 
simple precaution. After this wholesome 
cleansing dip, the face into a basin of clear, 
cold water, opening and shutting the eyes 
under the surface, and the flesh will be left 
firm and healthy. This entire process will 
take barely ten minutes in the morning and 
twenty at night, and can, if needful, be taken 
from the regular sleep — the bath being quite 
as restful and refreshing. 



About Business. 



If you wish good advice, consult an old man. 

For what thou canst do thyself rely not on another. 



Keep your store windows shining. Nothing 
looks to uninviting as a dirty or dull-looking 
window. 

Bill files are often very useful when one 
wishes to reorder or to settle some point not 
clearly remembered. 

A letter calling for an answer should get it 
promptly, and should then be filed for refer- 
ence. Letters should always be copied. 

It is a fatal mistake to take a store in a lo- 
cality out of the way, and then imagine that 
customers will hunt you up to buy from you. 

Keep your stock in perfect order, and keep 
no salesman who betrays the least vagueness 
or uncertainty in regard to patterns or rem- 
nants in stock. 

Every dealer, no matter how small his busi- 
ness may be, should have an ofiice for himself, 
to be entered by no one else without special 
cause or permission. 

Correspondence, bills, letters, price lists, 
catalogues and other papers should be kept in 
a systematic way,so that anything amongthem 
that is needed can be found easily and 
quickly. 

Impoliteness to customers does not consist 
merely in open impertinence. It may appear 
in impatience while showing goods, annoyance 
at a customer's statements, or a positive man- 
ner that seems to assume that the salesman 
knows what the customer wants better than 
she does herself. 

If you want to sell goods, see that they are 
in a convenient place and that the proper ef- 
forts are being made to show them. Some 
dealers seem to think that the public can read 
their minds and see their goods in the clair- 
voyant fashion, though they be downstairs, 
upstairs,or in all sorts of out-of-the-way places. 

A merchant cannot afford to sell only the 
goods called for. He must push certain 
things if he sells them. He usually asks " Is 
there anything else you would like to-day 1" 
but he is barred by lack of time for more 
than one or two questions. Consequently 
there are many good sellers that he cannot 
really call attention to. He must keep the 
goods before the public, in the store, by attrac- 
tive arrangement, and out of it by intelligent 
advertising. 

John Wanamaker, in an interview, is quoted 
as follows : " You have asked me how I have 
managed to build up so large a concern. Per- 
sons who imagine it has been done simply by 
putting in a large stock of goods, opening the 
doors and inviting the people in — that a busi- 
ness like this simply grows by its own im- 
petus — are mistaken. You can start a loco- 
motive on its journey simply by getting up 
steam and opening the throttle, but that is no 
guarantee of the train reaching its destination 
in safety. " " And you believe in liberal ad- 
vertising " "I spend $5,000 a week in ad- 
vertising, and pay a skillful man — a former 
newspaper editor, and a good one — 5i,ooo a 
month to do it for me. I make money by it. 
Advertising is the leverage with which this 
store has been raised up. " 



About Folks. 



The ladies and gentlemen who assumed the 
parts in the drama "Caste," which was pre- 
sented by the Chapin club at the First Uni- 
versalist church, recently, have been sitting at 
Rice's for photos, and have secured two fine 
groups, in both of which appear Misses Carrie 
Stearns, Maud A. Knowlton and Effie C. 
Walch, and Messrs. Mel W. Hrigham, Harry 
Putnam and Edwin F. Whitten. 



Mr. George N. Morse is to give an organ re- 
cital at the Congregational church in Holden, 
Tuesday evening, and will play an offertory in 
C minor, Batiste, a familiar hymn, with varia- 
tions, an andante of Beethoven and Bellini's 
•'D'un Pensiero, and, finally, the "Pilgrim 
Chorus," from the "Taunhauser." The organ 
is a new one, and Mr. Morse will have an op- 
portunity to prove its merits. 



The new theatre is being decorated in or- 
namental papier-mache-relief. The balcony 
will be figured in Moorish Arcade design with 
a soffit frieze moulding. The gallery front is 
of Moresque figuring with soffit frieze. On 
the ceiling, just below the balcony, will be 
placed at intervals of eighteen inches resets 
after Moorish patterns. The decorations 
will be rich and truly elegant, all the designs 
being made especially for this theatre. The 
frescoers are about to begin their work, which 
will be in perfect harmony with the solid 
decorations. 



Mr. John O Longley is building for himself 
a residence at 20 Tirrell street. 



The heirs of the late William H. Hackett 
have sold their store at 305 Main street, to 
Mr. Eben VV. Ho.\ie, who takes posse.ssion to- 
day. Mr. Hoxie will continue his south end 
store without interruption. 



Miss Hope Narey is now conducting morn- 
ing classes of young ladies at the Y. M. C. A. 
gymnasium, on Mondays and Thursdays, and 
about 25 young ladies, in neat gymnasium cos- 
tume, go through the drills, use the travelling 
rings, the parallel bars and the various muscle- 
building machines, presenting an exceedingly 
pretty spectacle. On Monday afternoons, 
Mi.ss Narey has a class in club swinging, in 
Curtis hall, and on Thursdays, a class in fenc- 
ing. Fencing for ladies is something new 
hereabout, and it ought to be encouraged in 
every possible way. A more charming sight 
than Miss Narey 's young ladies wielding the 
slender foils and making a musical clashing 
of steel, is seldom seen in a gymnasium. 



Burton W. Potter, Esq., and H. W. Aiken, 
of Millbury, is the latest law firm formed. 
Walker building seems to be having a general 
shaking up. 

The Second Parish club, at the meeting 
last Wednesday evening, listened to papers 
by Mr. Fred G. Davis, on "The Beginnings 
of Unitarianism," and Miss Lucy A. Throop, 
on " Channing." Mr. Davis's paper was a 
continuation of that read by Col. Edward B. 
Glasgow at the last meeting. 



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" Mrs. Jarley's Waxworks" at Alderman 
Webster Thayer's residence, 17 Oak avenue, 
Tuesday evening. There were seven groups 
of figures, and Miss Mary T. Gale was an 
ideal Mrs. Jarley. The Pleasant Street Bap- 
tist quartet sang selections, and Mr. C. C. 
Stearns, Misses Nellie Lemoine and Fainiy 
Hapgood played piano solos. 



The executive committee of the '^'oung 
Women's Christian Association gave an after- 
noon tea at the rooms, 352 Main .street, Tues- 
day, the active, associate, sustaining, honorary 
and life members being invited. Coffee and 
tea were served, Mrs. George C. Bigelow and 
Mrs. John C. Cutter having charge of the 
tables. In the evening, Mi.ss Olivia Tracy, 
instructor in domestic service in Northfield 
Seminary, gave a greatly enjoyed lecture on 
" Practical Housework." 



Miss Queenie Kennedy goes to Milford to- 
day to spend a week with Mrs. Harry Waldo 
Marsh. 

Mr. Henry L. Parker, jr., the elder son of 
Senator Parker, has been appointed to a posi- 
tion in the census department at Washington. 
He is also attending the law school. Mr. Parker 
took the civil service examination at Boston 
last fall and ranked very high. 



Mr. Ernest W. Makepeace, formerly a Wor- 
cester man, and for the past two months or 
more in residence here, has accepted a position 
with the house of Forbes & Wallace in Spring- 
field. Mr. Makepeace came here from Lord 
& Taylor's, New York. 



Mr. Alfred Clifford's singing class at Har- 
vard gave a concert there last evening, Mi.ss 
Alma L. Collins, Miss Flora H. Clifford and 
Nfr. Arthur L. Clifford assisting. 



The ladies of the Pleasant Street Baptist 
church gave a successful presentation of 



Worcester people will be delighted to re- 
ceive tidings of Mr. and Mrs. Cieorg Henschel, 
who sang at the Gounod club concert a year 
ago this month. The London Liitc, which 
comes out of a British mailbag with news to 
interest even Worcester people, says: "In 
Italy the vocal recitals of Mr. and Mrs. Hen- 
schel have been so highly esteemed and largely 
patronized that a second series was given be- 
fore returning to London in the several cities 
in which they had held their musical enter- 
tainments." After the impre.ssion made by 
the " Peer Gynt " suite at the last Symphony 
concert, it is interesting to know from the 
Z/c/t' that Mr. Henschel resumed the London 
Symphony concerts on Thursday, Jan. 23, 
when Grieg's suite, " Peer Gynt," and Ferdi- 
nand Praeger's symphonic poem in F, were 
announced for performance. 



The choir arrangements at the First Unitarian 
church have just been completed, and the 
parties engaged are: Mrs. H. W. Johnson, 
soprano; Mrs. (ieorge M. Bassett, contralto; 
Mr. J. Edward Fuller, Jr., tenor; Mr. Ben T. 
Hammond, bass and director; Mr. Walter (J. 
Ingalls.organist. Thiswillbe Mr. Ingalls's 14th 
year at the First L'nitarian. and it is worth 
noting that Mr. Hammond began his first 
choir work at this church, having sung there 
in the past, for several years, during three of 
which he was director. 



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Tlie Pleasant Street Baptist Church people, 
who recently sold their house on Pleasant 
street to Mr. R. C. Taylor, have purchased of 
Mr. Horace M. Hedden his lot at the corner 
of Ashland and Pleasant streets at a cost of 
j(20,ooo, and will take po.ssession April i. The 
lot has a frontage of 81 feet on Ashland street 
at a depth of 123 feet. The building will be 
of brick, cruciform in shaiie, and not unlike 
Worthen street church in Lowell. Messrs. 
Robert F. Comstock, Josepli P. Cheney, jr.. 
Freeman H. Pelton. George F. Brooks and 
Frederick Simester, the building committee, 
who have been doing notably judicious and 
business-like work in looking for a site, are 
under instructions to procure plans for a new 
church and to secure rooms for present use. All 
Saints will, therefore, soon have a near neigh- 
bor, and if the new church is as artistic in 
plan as its Episcopal companion, it will be a 
substantial addition to Worcester's gallery of 
architectural beauty. 

The Women's Club meeting on Wednesday 
was a " club meeting," with no outside speak- 
er. The general subject was " Home, Art 
and .Science," and papers were read by Mrs. 
Charles A. Merrill, on "The Value and Power 
of Music in Home and Social Life"; Miss 
Helen A. Ball, on "Household Science"; 
Mrs. 1. J. Lansing ; on " The Effect of Color; " 
and Miss S. L. Lawrence, on "The Ideal of 
Art in the Home." There was a brief di.scus- 
sion. The club voted to invite Miss Amelia 
B. Edwards to lecture again before the club. 

Mrs. Henry Y. Simpson has the sympathy 
of friends in her confinement to her home by 
reason of a serious fall which she received 
early in the week. Mrs. Simpson tripped on 
a stairway and fell, getting severe bruises. 

The officers, teachers and substitute teach- 
ers of Piedmont Sabbath school met at the 
cliapel last evening and discussed two inter- 
esting subjects, " How can we maintain and 
increase the average attendance in our Sun- 
day school?" which was opened by Mr. Wil- 
liam Woodward, and "The Primary and In- 
termediate teachens, and the teachers' BibL- 
class," opened by Mrs. M. P. Higgins. 

Col. Henry E. Smith, Col. Fred \V. Wel- 
lington and Mr. John N. Morse, Jr., had a de- 
lightful trip on Washington's birthday. They 
were with a party of 25 gentlemen of the Com- 
modore club of Boston, who went to Moose 
pond, in Hartland, Me., to open a magnificent 
new club-house recently built for the club. The 
notable members of the party, aside from the 
Worcester gentlemen, were Adjutant-General 
Samuel Dalton, Surgeon-General Alfred Holt, 
Postmaster-General C. A. Corse, Col. Sidney 
M. Hedges, Col. Horace Rockwell and Maj. 
Fred G. King. Moose pond is the general 
rendezvous for such fishing and hunting par- 
ties as the Commodore club gentlemeji may 
plan. 

Mr. (ieorge S. Boutwell is building a hand- 
some modern residence at Sunnyside. 

Mr. E. C. .A. Becker is planning for a 
"business men's jubilee" to be given at Hor- 
ticultural hall, about a month hence, in which 
the pupil s of Becker's Business College will 
appear, costumed, in a novel entertainment. 
A social and dancing will follow. 



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The Days Have a Holiday. 



•• Cupid was the best of all !" said the young 
ladies who followed the brilliant star that hung 
over Mechanics Hall, Thursday evening, and 
stayed awhile beneath it to make up a part of 
the brilliant, shifting scene. Of course the 
young ladies agreed that Cupid was the best, 
but this time all the other people coincided. 
However, Cupid was not the only one who 
came to worship at the shrine of Stella, that 
night, and his cousins and his second cousins, 
in the Carnival of Days of which he was a 
part, must have due notice. 

When the ladies of Stella Chapter plan 
anything in the way of an entertainment, it is 
very safe to feel confident that they will make 
it all that heart could wish. The elaborate 
plan of Thursday evening's carnival, involving 
an immense amount of thought — real, hard 
thought, such as sets the grey matter palpita- 
ting — as well as the expenditure of money 
and time, was carried out in all its details with 
admirable tact and ingenuity. That it was 
one of the prettiest entertainments in which 
children bear the leading parts, ever con- 
ceived, was the universal verdict. First praise 
belyngs to Mrs. Dwight C. Sumner and Mrs. 
Charles L. Gates, who are at the head of the 
entertainment and executive committees, re- 
spectively, while Messrs. T. Heywood Blood 
and J. Stewart Brown, two veterans in stage 
management, come in for their snare of credit 
on that score. Mr. Walter E. Holmes had 
charge of the decorating, and his experience 
with the " Kiahkta " and the " Purim " stood 
him in good .stead. Mrs. Joseph B. Parker 
looked after the Delmonico in the west ante 
room. 

The hall was opened to the public in the 
afternoon, and many a John .Smith went there 
at 6 o'clock to eat turkey rather than go home 
to find in the larder a cold ham sandwich 
which Mrs. J. S., in the excitement of prepa- 
tion, would be likely to consider sufficient for 
his lunch. 

The decorations of the hall were not elabo- 
rate, but booths are seldom more tastefully 
arranged than were those devoted to ice 
cream, candy and paper, fancy articles, mys- 
tery and flowers, while the gypsies had a tent 
of their own kind. All these airy habitationsi 
which reminded one, in picturesqueness of 
pictures of the famous fair of Nijni-Novogrod ; 
although it is not to be presumed that the 
tawny Ru.ssians u.se lace and satin for drapery, 
were made pleasant to the eye by the use 
of colors and .skillful drapery. The ladies 
in charge were costumed for the occasion and 
completed the pretty picture. The presiding 
goddesses, then, were as follows ; 

Mystery— Mrs. Clare W. Putnam, Mrs. 
Charles HJ Woodcock, Miss Edith Putnam. 
Art— Mrs. Dr. J. M. ISarton, Mrs. Charles 

E. Black, Mrs. Henry R. Gilmore, Miss Nellie 
Parkhurst, Miss Josie Parkhurst, Miss S. 
Lawrence. 

Klowkks — Mrs. Charles M. Booth, .Mrs. 
Arthur C. Hull, Mrs. George A. Park, Mrs. K. 

F. .Swan. 

Candy asd Paper— Mrs. Robert W. Clif- 
ford, Mrs. A. F. Prentice, Mrs. A. E. Wheeler, 
Miss Maud Clark. 

Ice Cream — Mrs. G. Frank Gates, John 



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A. Lowe; assisted by Alderman Gates and 
Mr. Lowe. 

The Gypsies— Mrs. E. W. Dodge, Miss 
Emma Burke, of Providence. 

The ladies who assisted .Mrs. Parker in the 
supper room should not be forgotten. Those 
who helped were : Mrs. F. M. Clark, Mrs. Ed- 
ward Wright, Mrs. A. A. Rheutan, Mrs. W. 
S. Dadmun, Mrs. Jesse Smith. Mrs. Thomas 
A. L^rury. Mrs. John W. Greene, Mrs. Frank 
L. Sessions, Mrs. Frank H. Rice, Mrs. Rob- 
ert Ruddy, Mrs. E. E. Wheelock, Mrs. F. 
D. Bushnell, Mrs. Samuel H. Fuller, Mrs. 
Mary M. Wheeler, Mrs. S. Theodore Wheeler, 
Mrs. George D. Boyden and one or two 
others. 

Prompt ser\-ice and toothsome viands made 
the supper a means of putting everyone in the 
best of spirits for the evening. 

While the J. N. Truda orchestra was 
throwing out upon the air tantalizing strains 
of waltzes and melodies of dreamland, while 
the galleries, crowded to the fullest extent, 
were, for the moment, a unit, gossiping and 
looking down upon the people beneath, and 
while everybody, having looked at the clock 
and knowing that it was time for those mys- 
terious realms behind the stage to send forth 
something more tangible than murmurs of 
voices and rustlings of garments, the stage 
entertainment really began. 

It was a carnival of the days, or, perhaps, a 
panorama, in which the past days and 
national days and other days passed along on 
the curtain, only in this case there was no cur- 
tain, and the pictures were children, for 
the most part — very pretty children, 
too. Thirty days were represented, 

from New Year's day down through 
the year. The Old Year was represented by 
Mr. Fordis O. Bushnell, who solemnly marched 
across the stage with the traditional scythe 
over his shoulder. 

Immediately following came Miss Edith L. 
Smith, who was charming in a costume of 
white. She represented the New Year, and 
gave an appropriate recitation. 

Candlemas Day was Wilton Dadmun, in 
bear skin and mask, and then came " Cupid," 
for St. Valentine's Day, of course. " Cupid " 
won everybody at once. He was Master 
Frederick N. Cooke, jr., and '"Teddy" was a 
study for an artist. He wore white tights, 
and wing.s, and carried a little bow and 
arrows, which he aimed at the crowd, and 
whether Teddy is a good marksman or not, 
it looked as if there were a good many cases 
where the arrows had struck the mark. 

For Mardi Gras, six characters appeared in 
costume, including Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. 
Dodge, Fred A. Bigelow, Misses Blake, Lytic 
and Burke. 

Very appropriately attired in the garb of a 
priest, Mr. William A. Stark represented Ash 
Wednesday, and then came Days of Lent, 
twelve ladies dressed as nuns, Mrs. Nathan 
Price, Mrs. Frank C. Winn, Misses Mabel 
Chamberlain, Mary Rice, Annie Weixler, 
Florence Gates, Nellie Stimpson, Alice Trask, 
Miss Butler, Mrs. Fay. In the list of Lenten 
days, too, came Good Friday, and Mr. Charles 
C. Milton, in priestly garb, sustained the part. 
Eight boys of All Saints choir, in surplices, 
represented Easter, and sang a joyful Easter 
carol. The youthful singers were Masters 



Ben Hill, Roy Stimpson, Edward Stark, 
Charles Burleigh, George Stacey, Louis Bar- 
bydt, Lawrence Tolman, and Louis Brennan. 
Master Willie and Miss Edith Barton, 
Treasurer Bartons' pretty children, repre- 
sented Washington's Birthday, dressed in 
iSth century style. They danced a minuet in 
a charming way. 

Mr. Tom Walters, Jr., always an acceptable 
funmaker, appeared as St. Patrick's day, in 
Hibernian costume, and sang -'The Wearing 
o' the Green. " 

All Fools' Day brought forth eight ladies, 
Mrs. Henry H. Gabeler, Mrs. Heath, Misses 
Adams, Julia Davenport, Carrie Smith, Maud 
Clark, Minnie Rice and Emma Burke. They 
wore veils, and, on the backs of their heads, 
false faces and made a very funny spectacle, 
which they ended with a quadrille. 

Miss May Harrington, carrying a little 
fir tree, and followed by Master John S. Har- 
rington, with shouldered shovel, represented 
Arbor Day. 

Mr. Isaac L. Rheutan, in a suit of mail, es- 
corted his sister. Miss AUce Rheutan, in court 
costume, across the stage, for a representation 
of Saint George's Day. 

For May Day, there was a queen, little Miss 
Arlene Hall, attended by four small pages, 
Winfield Rheutan, Charles Burleigh, Walter 
Dadmun and Frank Jones. The dancers of 
the May dance were Masters John Washburn, 
Alfred Lowe, F"rank Whittemore, and George 
Bartlett, Misses Angie Jefferds, Grace Gar- 
land, Edith and Grace Stockwell. 

Veterans Frank H. Rice, Harvey T. Buck, 
Samuel H. Fuller, Cephas N. Walker, Henry 
A. Green, J. H. Booth and J. Henry Locke, of 
Post lo, preceded by drummer Johnson, repre- 
sented Decoration Day, bearing wreaths and 
flowers. 

A very pretty rose dance, perhaps the pret- 
tiest spectacle of the evening — for Children's 
Day, was given by a dozen young ladies and 
another dozen little girls. Misses Dottie 
Prentice, Edith Taylor, Flora B. Chamberlain, 
Maria Wright, Bertha Bigelow, Ida Blake, 
Laura Sessions, Gertrude Smith, Maud Long- 
ley, May Mellor, Mazie Longley, Lillabelle 
Allen, Linda Seaver, Edith Washburn,Florence 
and Ethel .Sessions, May Davenport, Alice 
Pierce, Ethel Curtis, Ethel Phelps, Bertha 
Hastings, Alice Nichols and MoUie Mirick 
took part. 

The Longest Day was .Mr. C. A. Harring- 
ton, in a long linen duster and straw hat, and 
Master Daniel A. Harrington, jr., in a fur coat 
and cap, was the Shortest Day. 

For Independence Day, Masters Harris 
Burbank and Eddy Wright, blowing fishhorns, 
and cracking torpedoes, appeared, and Mr. 
Wilbur F. Boswell as Llncle .Sam and Miss 
Mary Warner as Columbia, came just after 
them. 

A company of boys attired as Knights Tem- 
plars, commanded by Mr. F. C. Harrington, 
and followed by a small colored boy as valet, 
aroused great enthusiasm. They represented 
St. John's Day. 

Miss Edith Sessions led out a splendid big 
St. Bernard dog, for " Dog Days," and wanted 
to take him down the steps to the floor, but 
" Sultan " wouldn't budge, and insisted on 
leaving the stage at the rear, like an accom- 
plished actor. 



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A little boy and girl with books and slates, 
recresented the First Day of School, and 
Miss Glennie Bigelow, wearing the Stewart 
tartan, danced a Highland fling for Hallow 
e'en. Three old maids and three younger 
ones represented St. Catherine's Day. 

The remaining days were represented as 
follows: Thanksgiving Day, Master Daniel 
A. Harrington, Jr., with a turkey on a platter; 
Forefathers Day, Mr. A. B. Southwick and 
Miss Alice Hastings, in Puritan costume; 
Christmas Eve, Miss Florence Burbank ; 
Christmas Day, Miss Josie Harrington. 

The last day was Bridal Day, with a mar- 
riage ceremony and even the Lohengrin wed- 
ding march. Mr. Frank M. Clark, Jr., was the 
grootn, his best man being Mr. S.Frank Gates. 
.Mr. Charles E. Davis was the father giving 
away ^he bride, Miss Ellie Rheutan. Attend- 
ing her were four little maids of honor. Misses 
Mabel Wicks, Ethel Drury, Nellie Start, and 
Sadie Briggs. 

It was very delightful. The ladies of Stella 
will have more admirers than ever. 



Not Very Funnv. 



What is Home without Her ? 

" We have had a sad loss at our house, " 
remarked Binke this morning to Christie. 

"Why, what's wrong.-"' inquired Christie, 
emphatically. 

" My mother-in-law died last night, " and 
the tesrs came to his eyes. 

" Pshaw !" said Christie, in a tone of relief, 
■• that's nothing. " 

'■ .A.h, but my dear fellow, you forget that 
she had a 12000-dolIar pension, and we lived 
with her." — W'asliiiigtoti Star. 

A Plausible Question. 

A little Baltimore boy, who saw Congress 
for the first time on Saturday, while the House 
was discussing Oklahoma, sat for twenty 
minutes an absorbed listener to the oratory 
and and an intent observer of the noisy scene 
in the pit below. Then, turning to his father, 
who sat by him, he asked : " Is this show go- 
ing on every day ? " — Iialtii)iore Sun. 

He Went. 

"Pa," exclaimed little Tommy Moddel- 
boy, running into the room, " I turned the 
grindstone for the hired girl this morning!" 

" You did ? " 

"Yes. And pa?" 

"Well?" 

"May I wash your buggy? It's all over 
mud. " 

" Ye-es. " 

" And may I clean tlie harness for you 
after a while ? " 

" Ye-es. " 

"And the barn a little ? It's pretty dirty. " 

" Why, yes, Tommy, my dear son. If you 
wish it, certainly. " 

" Thanks, pa. And may I, then, carry in a 
little extra wood for ma ? " 

" To be sure. " 

"And cut the kindling wood for the girl? 
She's not very strong, you know. " 

" Ye-es. " 



" And fill up the coal box ?" 

" Yes. " 

"And, then, if I get through in time, pa, 
may I go to the matinee this afternoon ? " — 
The St. Paul Eye. 

Quick Work. 

"And to think, " said he as he pressed her 
little hand, " to think tliat 1 never saw you 
before to-night. " 

"It is sudden." slic answered,'' but then " 

" Yes, he said, impulsively, "it is the old, 
old story — the old. old story of love at first 
sight." ' 

".'Xnd added to that," she gurgled, "my 
being a widow. " — Boston Courier. 

Ambiguous. 

A pianist recently spent the evening at the 
house of a lady. The company was agreea- 
ble and he staid somewhat late. As he rose 
to take his departure, the lady said: "Pray 
don't go yet, Mr. Jones ; I want you to play 
something for me." " Oh, you must excuse 
me to-night ; it is very late, and I should dis- 
turb the neighbors. " " Never mind the neigh- 
bors, " answered the young lady, quickly, 
"they poisoned our dog yesterday." — i'n- 
identified Exchange. 
Had no Gray Hairs. 

A tutor, lecturing a lad for his irregular 
conduct, added wtih great pathos : 

" The report of your bad conduct will bring 
your father's gray hairs with sorrow to the 
grave. " 

" I beg your pardon, sir, " replied the incor- 
rigible; " My father wears a wig. " — Golden 
Hours. 

Altered Ideas. 

Tempora Mutantur: She (age eighteen) — 
When I get upon the stage it shall be as a 
star. My proud spirit could never sink to the 
level of a common actress. 

Same She (age twenty-eight) — Oh, girls, 
ain't it nice? The stage manager's going to 
let me have a speaking part to-night. One of 
the pages is sick. — Lawrence American. 



CARE OF GLASS AND CHINA. 



One of the most important things is to 
season the glass and china to sudden changes 
of temperature, so that they remain sound 
after exposure to sudden heat or cold. 

This is done best by placing articles in cold 
water, which must gradually be brought to 
the boiling point, and allowed to cool very 
slowly, taking several hours to do it. The 
commoner the materials, the more care in this 
respect is required. The very best glass and 
china is always seasoned in this way, or an- 
nealed, before it is sold. 

If the wares are properly seasoned in this 
way, they may be washed in boiling water 
without fear of fracture, except in frosty 
weather, when, even with the best annealed 
wares, care must be taken not to place them 
suddenly in too hot water. 

All china that has any gilding on it should 
on no account be rubbed with a cloth of any 
kind, but merely rinsed, first in hot and after- 
wards in cold water; then leave to drain dry. 
If the gilding is very duU and requires polish- 
'ng, it may now and then be rubbed with a 



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soft wash-leather and a little dry whiting, but 
this operation must not be repeated more than 
once a year, otherwise the gold will most cer- 
tainly be rubbed off and the china spoiled. 

When the plates, etc., are put away in the 
china closet, pieces of paper should be placed 
between them, to prevent scratches on the 
glaze or painting, as the bottom of all ware 
has little particles of sand adhering to it, 
picked up in the oven wherein it was glazed. 
The china closet should \k in a dry situation, 
as a damp closet will soon tarnish the gilding 
of the best crockery. 

In a common dinner service it is a great evil 
to make the plates too hot. as it invariably 
cracks the glaze on the surface, if not the 
plate itself. We all know the result; it comes 
apart. 

"Nobody broke it.'' "It was cracked be- 
fore," or " cracked a long time ago." 

The fact is, when the glaze is injured, every 
time the " things " are washed the water the 
water gets to the interior, swells the porous 
clay and makes the whole fabric rotten. In 
this condition they will absorb grease, and 
when exposed to further heat the grease makes 
the dishes brown and discolored. 

If an old, ill-used dish be made very hot in- 
deed, fat will be seen to exude from the minute 
fissures upon its surface. These latter re- 
marks apply more particularly to common 
wares. When possible, plates and dishes 
should be heated by water or steam. 

As a rule, warm water and a soft cloth are 
all that is required to keep glass in good con- 
dition ; but water-bottles and wine-decanters, 
in order to keep them bright, must be rinsed 
out with muriatic acid, (commonly known as 
spirits of salts), which is the best agent for re- 
moving the "fur" which collects in them. 

This acid is far better than ashes, sand or 
shot, for the ashes and sand scratch the glass, 
and if any shot is left in by accident it is 
poisonous. Richly cut glass must be cleaned 
and polished with a soft brush, upon which a 
very little fine chalk or whiting is put ; by this 
means the lustre and brilliancy are preserved. 

BAG FOR CHINA CLOSET. 

Among the bridal presents at a late wed- 
ding was a bag to hang on the china closet 
door, presented by a practical friend, and 
was found to be most convenient. It was 
made of twilled gray linen, and measured 
1% yards in length, and the full width of 
the linen. Across the bottom was a bag 
eleven inches deep, feather-stitched across the 
top with red cruel, and marked "Sundries," 
in large letters in outline stitch with the 
crewel. This was for the ironing sheets and 
blankets. Four inches above this was placed 
another bag of the same size, bul divided 
into two parts by a row of feather-stitching. 
On these were marked "Silver," "Stove" 
Four inches above these were two more, nine 
inches deep, marked "Dusters," "Glass." 
Four inches above these were two more of 
the same size, marked " Dish Holders." The 
top of the foundation was turned down in a 
deep hem, and feather-stitched across. 
Across the top were sewed four small brass 
rings to hang it by, and at the top outside 
corner of each bag were sewed rings, and 
four more across the bottom ; by putting a 
tack through each ring, it was firmly fastened 
to the door. 



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Words of Others 



Single Taxation on Farms. 

No evidence exists showing or tending to 
show that agricultural land in the United 
States is capable of yielding any considerable 
amount of pubUc revenue above what it now 
yields under the tax laws of the several States. 
Evidence corroborating that cited from the 
Connecticut bureau of labor statistics has 
been supplied lately in a rapidly swelhng 
stream, especiallv in the official publications 
of the commissioners of Vermont and New 
Hampshire, where there are literally tens of 
thousands of acres of abandoned lands, which 
were once the homes of thrifty farmers, and 
which can now be had for no greater price 
than the present value of the improvements 
thereon. A remarkable letter from Judge 
Nott, of the United States Court of Claims, in 
the A'<7/M«, presents facts and reasoning there- 
on, which, whatever else may be said, show 
conclusivelv that in the fairest parts of agri- 
cultural New England there is nothing left 
for the single tax to sweep into the public 
treasury. In the presence of such facts, how 
idle is it for disputants to cull figures out of 
the census reports to show what was the value 
of farms in 1880, and what annual percentage 
they ought to yield— like measuring a man for 
clothes, at the'distance of a mile, with a theo- 
dolite ! Of the dogmas on ta.xation the single 
tax on land is the most dogmatic, and the one 
least favored by experiment, so far as experi- 
ment has been made. In India the single tax 
has been in force from the earliest times, sup- 
plemented by other taxes only after econ- 
omic rent had been exhausted. During the 
last half century British India has been well 
governed, -so that whatever blessings the single 
tax has in hiding ought there to have been dis- 
closed. That it has not abolished poverty, or 
exhibited any tendency to do so, they may be 
confidently affirmed. There are some hun- 
dreds of professors of political economy in the 
colleges and universities of the civilized world. 
They are of various schools, including that of 
state socialism. Some are conservatives, 
others progressives, still others may be called 
radicals. They are men who have somehow 
got themselves recognized as fit to instruct 
others in the principles of the science which 
deals with the production and distribution of 
wealth, with land, labor, capital, interest, taxes, 
etc. Of course, they have all had their atten- 
tion called to the single-tax doctrine. It has 
been " in the air " for ten years, and it is their 
business to know all the discoveries in their 
science, just as it is that of astronomers to 
know all the finds of new comets and satellites. 
If any one of them, cither in Europe or Amer- 
ica, has given his adhesion to the doctrine, I 
have not heard of him. All who have taken 
the trouble to give any opinion about it have 
spoken adversely. If the single tax contains 
the germ of truth, is it not a little remarkable 
that no member of the profession should have 
perceived and acknowledged it .' "'—Horace 
Waite in Popular Science Monthly. 
Sense vs. Applause. 

Applause in the middle of acts is in itself a 
nuisance to many people, and many a time has 
destroyed the effect of a great scene, but that 
is not an evil which artists or public wish 



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cured, but good taste should decree that all 
repetitions be strictly eliminated both from 
legitimate theatrical shows and from opera. 
Many a theater goer can recall the accident 
which befellthe be.st-known tenor whom Bos- 
ton ever contributed to grand opera at the 
Boston theater, one night, when, after one of 
the great scenes in "II Trovatoire," in which 
he ended his part by striking and holding a 
note at the topmost limit of his voice in a 
manner which electrified the audience and set 
them mad with enthusiasm, they insisted in a 
repetition of the air before they would allow 
the opera to proceed. The result was that the 
voice of the tenor, over-tired by a hard even- 
ing's work, broke, and the brilliant success 
was turned into a fiasco, for a public never 
remembers that there are limits to endurance, 
and holds an artist responsible for just what 
he d.oi.%.~Boston Home Journal. 



SOMETHING TO AVOID. 



Christian Progress. 

It is a recognized truth in the laws of ani- 
mal life that freedom and activity are the es- 
sential conditions of progress. All sessile ani- 
mals, as soon as they acquire the habit, begin 
to lose various functions and to sink to lower 
forms. When they limit themselves to the 
range that can be reached by their cilia, they 
tend to the uncertain territory where the ani- 
mal and vegetable kingdoms overlap. And it 
is so in the realms of thought. Those who 
swim freely in the great ocean of God's truth 
and love become symmetrical and strong and 
great. Those who fasten themselves upon one 
or two limited doctrines, are soon enveloped in 
a stony cell, and become theological and spir- 
itual protozoans. — Chicago Interior. 



Of College Men. 

College usually puts a stamp on a man 
which sticks to him all his life long. It shapes 
his tastes, and usually determines in what 
company he is to begin the serious work of 
living. It starts him. Of course, the crime of 
too much concentration upon college and col- 
lege men is the crime of the new graduate. 
But equally, of course, it is something to be 
got over as promptly as may be — something 
narrowing, exclusive, and a hinderance to use- 
fulness. When you get out of college, young 
man, get clear out. Take the world to be 
yours. Go and be a man somewhere. Don't 
be satisfied to be a mere " graduate " for all 
time. Of course you owe your ahna tnater a 
debt that you are always ready to pay, and a 
loyalty that should have no breaks in it. 
When you have grown to the size of Daniel 
Webster, and your Clarke asks you to defend 
her in court, you are going to be proud when 
you do it. That is all right. You can't do 
too much for her, or do it too well. If you 
accumulate any reputation that is worth 
having, feel honored indeed when she offers 
to share it with you, but don't be too persis- 
tently anxious to strut in her plumes to the 
disparagement, it may be, of worthy men who 
have no claim to any similar privilege. — Scrib- 
ners Magazine. 



A little personal pique, a bit of wounded 
vanity, a sudden flame of anger, often undoes 
the most substantial and faithful work, and 
nullifies the most intelligent and wise action. 
It is one of the painful things in experience 
that effort is often defeated by these small, 
purely personal, and often momentary feelings, 
which are generally unintelligent and unwise. 
Life would be freed from some of its most 
painful features if men always acted to each 
other on a basis of real justice and intelligence, 
and left their small personal feelings and preju- 
dices out of sight. A man's work ought to be 
judged by itself and for itself alone, and the 
strength of a man's position ought to rest solely 
upon what he is able to do. And yet most of us 
are constantly neutralizing the best work of 
others because it is not done in our way, and 
are constantly failing to do justice to others 
because of some small personal prejudice 
against them. The really strong, clear-sighted 
man is the man who is able to put himself 
out of the question, and to judge others by 
what they really are and do, not by their rela- 
tions to him. In this working world there is 
neither time nor strength to be always cod- 
dling our small vanities and still smaller preju- 
dices. The world does not stand in order that 
we may be pleased. It stands as a place for 
the doing of honest work in the best way, and 
if that work can be better done in some other 
way than the one we prefer, our business is to 
let it be done and rejoice in it. If you wish to 
see things clearly, and to be just what your 
fellow-men, keep clear of the fumes of vanity 
and the thick atmosphere of mere personal 
feeling. Make it a rule to see what a man is 
and does, and to value him by these things. 
A person may be very distasteful to us and 
yet be eminently useful and successful in the 
world. 



If you dip the wicks of lamps in strong, hot 
vinegar, and then dry them, it will do away 
with most of the disagreeable smell. 



THE USE OF COFFEE. 

It is asserted by men of .high professional 
ability that when the system needs stimulant 
nothing equals a cup of fresh coffee. Those 
who desire to rescue the drunkard from his 
cups will find no better substitute for spirits 
than strong, new-made coffee without milk or 
sugar. Two ounces of coffee, or one-eighth 
of a pound, to one pint of boiling water makes 
a first-class beverage, but the water must be 
boiling, not merely hot. Bitterness comes 
from boiling too long. If the coffee required 
for breakfast be put in a granitized kettle over 
night, and a pint of cold water poured over, 
it can be heated to just the boiling point and 
then set back to prevent further ebullition, 
\\\\ft\\ it will be found that, while the strength 
is extracted, its delicate aroma is preserved. 
As our country consumes nearly ten pounds 
of coffee per capita it is a pity not to have it 
made in the best manner. It is asserted by 
those who have tried it that malaria and epi- 
demics are avoided by those who drink a cup 
of hot coffee before venturing into the morn- 
ing air. Burned on hot coals it is a disin- 
fectant for a sick room. By some of our best 
physicians it is considered a specific in 
typhoid fever. 



Some Lines of Music. 



Theodore Thomas der Einzige will soon 
marry a Cliicago lady, Miss Rose Fay a sis- 
ter of the well-known pianist and littdateur. 
Amy Fay. The home of these cultured 
ladies is charming, a perfect reflex of their 
refined and thoroughly artistic natures. 

The third subscription concert of the Bos- 
ton Symphony Orchestra, at Steinway Hall, 
was as well attended as its predecessors, and 
the excellent performances of this model 
band under its model conductor were re- 
ceived with no lack of applause and enthusi- 
asm. 

Mr. Arthur Weld will give his last analyti- 
cal lecture on the Beethoven sketch books, in 
Boston, illustrating the great master's method 
of composition, on March 4, at 4 o'clock. 

Thursday evening of next week Lilli Leh- 
mann's benefit will take place at the Metro- 
politan Opera House, in which she will sing 
"Norma. " 

Mrs. W. H. .Sherwood announces two 
piano recitals to be given at her residence in 
Boston on the afternoons of March 6 and 20. 

Miss Howe's Success at Ho.me. A 
Brattleboro, Vt., dispatch to the Springfield 
"Republican " says : 

There is something quite delightful in the enthusiasm 
of Brattleboro over the "child of song," Miss Mary 
Howe, who has grown in its midst from childhood to 
womanhood, and blossomed into a beauty and a bril- 
Hant singer, without as yet losing anything of the sim- 
plicity and unpretending grace of her childhood, It has 
been a festal day in the place because of the Howe tes- 
timonial concert this evening. .\\\ the countryside 
turned out, to», and the town hall was crowded. Miss 
Howe has, as you know, spent the past year in study 
with Marchesi, of Paris, the leading voice trainer of the 
day, and the qualities which her voice exhibited in her 
appearances before her departure have been very beau- 
tifully developed. Her specialty is, of course, vocal 
pyrotechnics such as Carlotta Patti was famed by, and 
such as Clementina De Vere is exhibiting now. After 
hearing Miss Howe to-night one risks nothing in saying 
that in this line she has no rival now singing. A high 
soprano, of lovely purity and sweetness, her voice re- 
sponds unerringly and with a rounded fulness and power 
of tone, which she now shades with fine perception and 
artistic skill. She is not dramatic, and probably never 
will be, though it is hardly safe to predict what the 
changes of experience may do for a voice, and Miss 
Howe is very young. In the direction of her present 
efforts, however, she is secure to win unqualified admira- 
tion. Miss Howe's performance was generous. She 
was recalled after each of her three numbers and re- 
sponed each time. The Proch theme and variations, 
which is the crux of all high sopranos who essay vocal 
display, was the most brilliant and shining achievement 
of all, and for encore she sang a song by Eckert very 
finely. Her other encores were : To the Donizetti air, 
Alibieff's "Nightingale;" to her brace of songs, 
Schubert's " Ave Maria," in which she was accom- 
panied by C. N. Allen on the violin. 

Theresa Carreno was to give her third and 
last Berlin concert at the Sing Akademie, 
Thursday evening, when she was to be assisted 
by Mrs. Amy Shervvin, a coloratura singer 
well remembered here, and by the Berlin Pliil- 
harmonic orchestra. 

Mrs. Therese Herbert-Foerster, soprano, 
and Miss Lena Little, contralto won golden 
opinions at the recent New Orleans festival. 

Whitney Mockridge, the well-known tenor, 
is in Chicago, but has been singing in Toron- 
to and other cities with great success. He 
will also be the soloist in several spring festi- 
vals. He is the tenor in Plymouth Church, 
where his salary is 81,500. Mr. Mockridge 
is not forgotten by liis many friends East. 



L I Ci H T 

Mr. Mc.Arthur tells the following regarding 
Rubinstein's recent appearance at the St. 
Petersburg Philharmonic Society : He played 
the G major concerto of Beethoven, and played 
as even Rubinstein seldom does. Smoking 
his cigarettes after in the artists' room, when 
we were all crowding around him to kiss his 
hands, he said, " Yes, 1 have played well 
even althougli 1 don't practice, l)ut if I did 
practice what a great pianist I would be ! '' 
A statement that sent everybody into roars 
of laughter. 

NicoHni-Patti, the stepson of Adelina Patti, 
has obtained an engagement as first tenor at 
the Paris Grand Opera. He has been trained 
by the diva herself and will make his ddbut in 
a few days as " Manrico " in " Trovatore." 

Mr. Henschel will conduct a series of 
" young people's orchestral concerts," to be 
given on the afternoons of April 16, 30 and 
May 7, at St. James Hall, London, under the 
management of Mr. N. Vert. The programs 
will be chosen with a special view to interest 
the young folks. 

The Rubinstein Club concert at Chickering 
Hall, Thursday evening, was a glittering suc- 
cess both musically and socially. Of course. 
Brother Chapman was in high feather, and 
well should he be. H. Hoffman's " Song of 
the Norns " was the pi^ce de resistance of the 
evening. It is not a particularly striking one, 
neither in form nor in contents.' Carl UutH:"t 
sang some songs by Rubinstein and Neidlin- 
ger, and Victor Herbert, who was detained by 
a concert in Brooklyn, reached Chickering 
Hall just in time to see see the backs of a 
slowly retiring audience. Mr. Chapman called 
them back, and Victor played a Servais solo 
in his usual musical fashion, but he looked 
very tired. There are more pretty girls at a 
Rubinstein Club concert than in any other en- 
tertainment in town. — \. Y. Musinil Courier. 



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Words of Others. 



The Deadly Car Stove. 

In the light of the experience of the past few 
years it is impossible to class such disasters as 
accidents. They are crimes, and should be 
treated as such in rendering verdicts. If there 
was no recourse,and a stove was the only means 
of heating a passenger car, people would have 
to settle down to the alternative of risking their 
lives in trains heated by stoves, or of not trav- 
eling at all in winter. But invention has anti- 
cipated a resort to any such alternative. Cars 
can be warmed easily and at moderate expense 
by any railroad that thinks more of the lives 
of its passengers than it does of its dividends. 
—Philadelphia Press. 



Biblical Studies. 

There are many right ways of studying the 
Bible and no way is the best to the exclusion 
of all other methods. The Bible is a many 
sided book, and he who restricts his gaze to 
one side can never see it all. It tells us a 
great many things, and he who reads it 
simply in general can not know much about 
it. The title of the Bible is not " The 
Bible," for that expression means simply 
" the book." If the Bible had a title-page 
it might read : "The History of Human 
Redemption; or, History of Ciod's Purpose 



to Redeem Man, and of His Dealings with 
the Race to that End." 

\Vords, 'Words, Words. 

The accoethes scribcndi has long been 
known to be a fever and sickness of feeble 
minds (says Ouida in a recent diatribe) ; but 
never did it reach such proportions as now, 
when the cheapness of print and of paper 
all the world over, and the ever critical 
condition of the public intelligence , give it 
scope for development to an immeasurable 
degree. In the last century if memoirs 
liad not po.ssessed the excellence of a par- 
ticular style, as well as of a strong histori- 
cal interest, it would have been useless to 
publish them. But in these days style in lit- 
erature is scarcely at all understood by 
readers, is neither appreciated nor demand- 
ed, and therefore the most feeble, ungram- 
matical, or involved phrasing passes unpcr- 
ceived, or if perceived, uncondemned by 
the great majority of persons. " I have no 
pretensions to literary style" is a favorite 
opening sentence with amateur autobiog- 
raphists. It is as much as though the paint- 
er of a picture proclaimed himself color- 
blind, or the musical composer vowed his 
ignorance of one note as distinguished from 
another. In these later years of the nine- 
teenth century " every body writes : " and 
from the fashionable lady who can not spell, 
to the tight rope dancer who dictates his " Im- 
pressions from an Altitude," any one who has 
had any grain of vanity or shred of adventure 
embodies his or her ideas or recollections in 
an article for a periodical or a volume for the 
circulating libraries. Whether a sculptor has 
carved a clown ; whether a general has won a 
battle, a clergyman has been imprisoned by his 
bi.shop, or a lady been distinguished in a di- 
vorce suit, one and all of these will forthwith 
publish something, article, monograph, novel- 
ette, essay, reminiscence, or the letters of some- 
body else, without the slightest regard to 
whether they possess any literary capabilities 
for the work or not. 

Working Prisoners. 

It is right that every prisoner should be 
compelled to work, indeed, it is better that he 
should work. Were he free a certain propor- 
tion of his earnings would properly go to- 
wards his own support. As the State has taken 
him in hand and supplies his food and cloth- 
ing, it is right that out of his labor it .should 
be reimbursed to that extent. But no further. 
It has no right to take from the proceeds of 
his labor to pay for the prison administration, 
for the simple reason that beyond that por- 
tion which goes for his food and clothes it 
belongs not to him, but to his family. To his 
family, therefore, this excess, small or large, 
should be paid. It will be said that this 
would be trifling. Give a prisoner an oppor- 
tunity to work, and let him know that, beyond 
a small fi.xed sum, everything that he earns 
will go to his wife and children, unless he be 
utterly depraved, lost to all sense of decency 
and right, he will do an amount of work 
which will make the amount more than 
trifling. When he is working for himself and 
his family, when he sees that those about him 
are doing the same, has he not an incentive to 
work ? Would not the desire to succeed re- 
vive in him ? And would not this be a very 
long step towards liis \itiox\a}— Budget. 



IS 



About Bread. 



I! Y MARIA r A R L O A , 
Author of " First Principles of Household Manage- 
ment," " Miss Parloa's NewCook-Book," 
" Miss Parloa's Kitchen Com- 
panion," Etc. 



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Artificial Exteriors. 



[Copyrighted.] 



If bread be the staff of life it should be 
made so well and of such good material that 
it shall be healthful and strength-giving. 

From the first dawn of civilization to the 
present time some kind of bread has been 
made by mankind. One would think that, 
with a practice and experience of so many 
hundred years, perfection would now be 
reached and there would be no need of in- 
structing the present or future generation. 
But although bread-making has reached per- 
fection in the hands of thousands, there are 
still thousands, and there always will be. who 
mu.st have the methods of good bread-making 
made plain to them. 

Perfect bread will be light and sweet, and 
with a rich, nutty flavor of the wheat. To 
get this result good yeast and flour must be 
used : the dough, while rising, must be kept 
at a proper temperature, about 75° F., and the 
heat of the oven, when baking the dough, 
must be high enough to raise the inside of the 
loaf to about 220° F. This is necessarj' to 
cook the starch, expand the carbonic acid gas, 
air and steam, and drive off the alcohol. 

A good way to test the heat is to put in a 
piece of white paper. If it turns a dark 
brown in five minutes the oven is of the right 
temperature, but if it burns, the oven is too 
hot and must be cooled a little before the loaf 
is put in ; or, if the paper is only a light 
brown at the end of the five minutes the oven 
must be made hotter. 

When the bread is baked it should be 
cooled in such a way that the pure air shall 
circulate freely around it. The best way is to 
put the loaf across the pan, or to let it lean 
against the pan, having it rest on its edge. In 
this way.the gases, alcohol and steam pass of, 
making the loaf much sweeter and crisper 
than when it is wrapped in a cloth. The loaf 
sliould be perfectly cold before being put in 
the bread bo.x. 

When you are baking bread the heat should 
be greate.st when the loaf is first put in the 
oven: then after cooking for twenty-five min- 
utes, the heat should be reduced a little. 
White bread made with water should get the 
greater part of its browning the first half 
hour. If made with milk it will brown in 
twenty minutes, but it must be remembered 
that being brown does not mean that the 
bread is baked. 

A piece of a woollen blanket is of great 
value in making bread. Wrap it around the 
bowl in which the dough is rising, and it will 
keep the temperature even. Nothing is more 
injurious than chilling the dough before it is 
ri.sen. It docs not hurt it after it is well 
risen. 

Bread can be made with either milk or 
water: simply substitute milk where water is 
called for. The milk should be boiled and 
cooled. 



Bonnets are growing .smaller, and high hats 
or bonnets at the opera or theatre are now 
particularly passd. Thus one more apparent- 
ly solid staff on which the funny poet leans 
proves but a broken reed. 

" Skye Terrier" muffs made to match the 
dress are a novelty abroad, and it will proba- 
bly soon be reproduced on this side of the 
water. The muff is made of finely pleated 
silk, gauze or crepe lisse which falls about in 
well-arranged confusion. 

Some of the effective tea-gowns are in rich 
shades of velveteen : soft silk and lace fronts 
delicately lighthen the weighty appearance of 
these gowns, and the open-work jet bronze 
and silver cord passe-menteries are particular- 
ly effective as garnitures against the .solid 
background of the material. 

Tailor costumes in simple designs for spring 
and summer wear will be made of cheviots in 
small checks and large plaids and stripes of 
new colors. Small checks combine three or 
four colors of shades verj' effectively. Plaids 
are of great size and much broken, and will be 
made up bias throughout. 

Camel's hair serges are reported in spring 
colors and light qualities, and will be made up 
for. street dresses in combination with similar 
serge having graduated stripes, which begin 
at one selvage and cover nearly half its width. 

Spring cloaks for httle girls will be made of 
colored cloth, with three capes and a staiiding 
collar. These little garments will be half- 
fitting, with full plaits at the back. Hats to 
match will be made of the cloth, with a wide 
brim, full crown, and garnitured with a cluster 
of ribbon loops to match. 

Ladies will no doubt be glad to know that 
a successful waterproof, which does not mate- 
rially add to the weight of the clothing, may 
be made of Priestly 's black waterproof serge, 
a material rich in weave, light in weight, and 
which sheds but does not absorb rain. This 
materia! is also useful for entire costumes, 
and is especially suitable for seaside wear. 

The English fashion of wearing fur capes 
during the summer when driving, either in the 
country or at the seaside is likely to be again 
followed the coming season. They are most 
convenient, as they are easily carried when it 
is not nece.ssarj' to wear them, and there are 
many days during the cool summers we have 
had of late when the comfort obtained in 
wearing fur is most grateful. 

Fur shoulder capes will be worn all through 
the spring with wool dresses that are not pro- 
vided with outer ga'rments to match : also 
with costumes of black net and India silk. 

It is thought that a decided turn in fashion 
has come with the introduction of gobelin de- 
signs, and an eminent foreign authority affirms 
that they alone have a future. 

A garment particularly desirable for the 
street and for travelling, just now the rage in 
F.ngland. is known as the polonaise Parisienne. 
It is a long, tight fitting redingote, made of 
checked cloth, and trimmed with bands of 
ribbon velvet. 



Xovel cashmeres in delicate colors have 
scalloped borders about five inches wide, the 
scallops serving as a basis for a network 
stripe, to which is joined a heavily embroid- 
ered arabesque work in bas-relief, which de- 
sign repeats itself. 

A new departure is made in the production 
of serges with gobelin effects. An example, 
ver\- fine in quality, was of navy blue serge, 
with a woven border consisting of white 
stripes, which closely follow the gobelin pat- 
tern. The effect is ver\' artistic. 

The ever-popular sailor hats are still worn. 
For travelling they are covered with black or 
white tarpaulin, and banded with No. 16 rib- 
bon. Others are covered with English water- 
proof cashmere. 

Travelling hats for early spring wear will 
be made of the dress material on a long-shaped 
toque frame, a draper\' of velvet being placed 
along the brim and knotted in front. With 
these will be worn face veils of gauze of the 
same color, bordered, and covering the chin. 

Coral jewelrv- is being revived in England 
and France, and it is predicted that a like 
movement will take place in this country. 



About Folks. 



Messrs. Mowry A. Lapham, and Mr. Frank 
A. Leland, of Main street, will embark for 
Europe, about the first of April. They will 
be abroad about two months, visiting England, 
France and Italy. 



Mr. John W. Knibbs has engaged artist D. 
W. Smith to paint a large picture of his trot- 
ting stallion, "Gov. Benton. "' 



Dr. Daniel W. Niles has removed his office 
to No. 49 Pleasant Street. 



He was a western young man. Perhaps he 
came from Denver, from Kansas City, from 
Omaha, or from any of these inhabited oases 
of the western wilds. He was president of a 
bank ; he owed the building, a big building 
too, so high that one changed elevators three 
times to get to the top, — a half way lunch 
room midships. He walked into the First Na- 
tional Bank. The usual smile played around 
the smile-built face of Cashier Waite. As 
moths are attracted toward the light, he was 
attracted thereward. The cashier received 
him with the same consistent grace in regular 
stock for everybody, be they large depositors 
or small. 

Said the western banker. I want to buy 
a bank. Have you any for sale ?" 

The cashier's smile began to solidify into 
solid dignity; his twinkling eyes grew stern, 
as he said quietly, 

'• How many banks did you say. sir?" 

"One," replied the astonished westerner. 

The cashier turned his head, and in a clear, 
calm voice, called. 

" Charlie, show tliis man to the retail 
counter. " 



Mr. Lincoln Holland, of Holland & Have- 
ner, has cycled some hundred miles since 
the first of January. 



Worcester's Mavor. 



A self-made man, who does not worship 
himself, but who believes that liis success is 
due to hard work, straight methods, business 
honesty, and social geniality. 

Light gives to him the first page of its first 
paper, believing him to be a man of men, 
rather than of party, a man who is working 
for the general broad good will of Worcester. 
Mayor Harrington is a New Englander, a 
Worcesterite by birth and inclination, who 
loves his town as much as his town loves him. 
who believes in Worcester first, the balance 
of the world afterward. He is not a man who 
was born upon the quarter-deck of wealth. 
He worked before the mast, and, step by step 
went up the ladder of business to success, to 
be honored by his citizens with the highest 
distinction which is within their gift. Mayor 
Harrington's words are as few as they are 
strong. He does not pretend to be what he is 
not, and he is more than he pretends to be. 
He is a modest man, because he cannot help 
himself and doesn't want to. He loves his 
friends whether they be rich or poor, old or 
young, and he respects his enemies. He is 
always courteous, with some brief word of 
welcome ever ready and always said oppor- 
tunely. 

Mavor Harrington's family tree sprang 
from hardy seed, and has been well cultivated. 
His grandfather was Francis Harrington, and 
his maternal grandfather Gray was a member 
of that patriotic band, who, under the guise of 
Indians, mixed tea in Boston Harbor. His 
father was Daniel Harrington, a captain of a 
militia company, a member of the Common 
Council and of the Board of .Aldermen. 

Mayor Harrington was born Nov. 17th, 
1S46, — a young man still, — at most only middle 
aged. He began, with our first families, a 
tiller of the soil. The public schools added to 
his education, and the Worcester Academy 
and a business college, completed his schola.s- 
tic book-learning. When about a quarter of 
a century old the mayor entered the livery 
business, and to-day is a proprietor in one of 
the largest livery stables in the state. 

Mayor Harrington's official career began in 
1 886, when he was elected to the Board of 
Aldermen, and, during his three years in that 
office, was a member of committees on claims, 
sewers, military, charities, and sewer assess- 
ments. 

Mayor Harrington has. from natural ability 
and practical experience, a knowledge of 
Worcester's official business, and the needs of 
her citizens, perhaps unpossessed by any other 
political citizen. 

Mayor Harrington has said, and no man 
has been able to disprove his statement, that 
he never drank a drop of liquor in his life. 
He is a church member, and believes that 
true religious action outside of the church is 
more religious than that done within tlie sacred 
circle. 

Mayor Harrington is prominent in .Masonic 
circle,s, and has held many of the higher ofiices 
in the order. He has been at the head of the 
local Grange, where he and Mrs. Harrington 
have won the respect and love of all who 
work, or are interested in. the fundamental 
industry. 

In a word. Mayor Harrington is a man. 



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Worcester's Stars. 



.Some one has been ungallant enougli to 
discover that only male angels are mentioned 
in the Scriptures, but they who have been 
fortunate enough to sec Miss Grace i). Ham- 
ilton as •• IClectra " in the Greek play of that 
name, may be pardoned for adhering to the 
popular idea that the winged hosts of Para- 
dise are of the feminine gender. 

In a recent interview with Miss Hamilton 
she remarked that from a child it had been 
her ambition to become an actress. While 
very young she was a pupil of Mrs. Alia 
Woodford, the well-known elocutionist, of this 
city, and the culture which she gave her in 
that line won her conspicuous mention among 
local people. 

Her first public appearance was as a parti- 
cipant in the graduating exercises of her 
class at Foster's Business College, where she 
rendered the beautiful po.:m, " .Sister and 1,'' 
in a delightful manner. A little later, upon 
another occasion, she gained the first prize for 
her rendition of " The Polish Boy." About two 
years ago she went to New York to commence 
study for the stage in earnest. She was ex- 
amined by Boucicault and admitted to his 
school, but not feeling satisfied she made ap- 
plication to the Lyceum School of Acting, 
where out of over seven hundred applicants 
twenty-five only were admitted, she being 
among the fortunate number. 

Upon the morning after the initial perform- 
ance of ■■ Eleclra," given by the pupils of the 
school, in which play she essayed the title role 
and won the first prize, she awoke to find her- 
self famous. Since that memorable evening 
her popularity has steadily increased, and as 
Rachel, in " Held by the Enemy " her magni- 
ficent stage presence, her beauty and the per- 
fect conception of her part gained her hosts 
of admirers. The following from the Boston 
He/-a/d spszk^ for itself: 

•■ The honors of the performance fell to 
Miss Hamilton, a handsome girl in whom the 
stage will gain a valuable recruit for heavy 
tragedy characters. She made such a superb 
picture, as Electra appeared at the doors of 
the palace under a drapery of royal purple, 
that the audience burst into applause. Judg- 
ing from to-day. .Miss Hamilton would make a 
better Lady .Macbeth than has been seen for 
years." 

Miss Hamilton has never appeared in drama 
Ijefore a Worcester audience. -She was 
booked to appear here, but through a misun- 
derstanding the date was cancelled, and 
Rochester, N. Y.. substituted to the disap- 
pointment of her many friends. 

In appearance Miss Hamilton is decidedly 
of the brunette type. She has a beautiful and 
intelligent face, and a manner that is not fas- 
cinating, as that implies conscious effort, but 
very charming" and attractive. 

In reply to a question. Miss Hamilton said 
that she had several very flattering offers 
under consideration for the balance of the 
present season, and would probably accept 
one of the number. She is a cultured, refined 
and highly-accomplished young lady, a very 
fine violinist, and has a well-trained contralto 
voice of much power and sweetness. 



H 

Considering her youth (she has not yet at- 
tained her majority) her attainments arc truly 
wonderful. 

A very popular actress who claims Worce.s- 
ler as her residence is Mrs. Edith Harrington 
n6e Walsh. She is a singing soubrette, vei7 
versatile, and capable of playing leading busi- 
ness in soubrette roles. .She makes a specialty 
of whistling and banjo solos. Mrs. Harring- 
ton is a very quick study, and has 
been useful to local managers this 
season in supplying at short notice. Her 
first public appearance as an actress was with 
the Bennett and Moulton Opera Co., although 
she had previously sang in concerts to a con- 
siderable extent. She usually plays reper- 
toire, and has just returned from an extended 
tour. She will probably not go out again 
this season, but will play a summer engage- 
ment at Peak's Island. She is the wife of 
.Alfred Harrington, the w'ell-known actor. 

Miss Effie C.Walsh, sister of .Mrs. Harring- 
ton, is a most promising amateur actress. She 
scored a decided success as Esthey Eci'/cs in 
the recent production of " Caste," by the 
Chapin Club of the First I'niversalist Church. 
She has had several advantageous offers from 
managers but will probably never appear 
upon the professional stage. 

.Miss Bertha J. Brewer is one of the best 
known artistes upon the amateur stage in 
Worcester. One of her favorite parts, in 
which she has appeared many times, is Mary 
Melrose in '■ Our Boys." She has much talent 
in the soubrette line, and is noted for her dis- 
tinct enunciation. .She has acquired more than 
a local reputation as an elocutionist of rare 
merits. Miss Brewer recently fulfilled a suc- 
cessful professional engagement, and is to as- 
sume the leading role in the melo-drama 
■• Michael Earle," which is to be produced 
.March 21st. at Horticultural Hall, under the 
auspices of the Odd Fellows. Miss Brewer 
was for a considerable time under the tuition 
of the Sumners at the Worcester County Music 
School, and is a fine pianist. She has filled 
the position of musical directoress for several 
traveling organizations. 

Probably the most popular lady of 
Worcester, who has won fame and fortune 
upon the operatic stage is Mrs. Agnes Stone- 
Pyne. She is professionally known as Miss 
.Agnes Stone, and is a sister of Mrs. Marie 
Stone-McDonald, the well-known star of the 
•' Bostonians." Miss Stone has made a suc- 
cess of comic opera, and has been the recip- 
ient of much praise for her gracefulness and 
charming stage manners. She is at present 
visiting friends at Chicago, and will not ap- 
pear upon the stage this season. 

Mrs. Helen Pevey-Gould was one of the 
most cliarming of Filametta's in "La Mas- 
cotte." and did full justice to the part of Gei-- 
iiuiiiie in the " Chimes of Normandy." At 
the commencement of the present season, Mrs. 
Gould was offered an engagement in Francis 
Wilson's company, as understudy for Marie 
Jansen's part in the " Oolah," but declined. 
She is at present continuing her study at .New- 
York City. 

Hkri'.kkt H. Tavi.or. 



The Hay State BitVLle Club has nearly 
sixty members, and expect to make it an even 
hundred before the coming season is over. 



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Musical Worcester. 



BY CHARLES A. WILLIAMS. 



We are a music loving community. That 
this favored city, literally the heart of the 
Commouwcalth, contains many contradictory 
facts, is a subject which I can assure my read- 
ers, has been deeply and carefully studied, not 
only by many public spirited citizens of Wor- 
cester, but by outside managers of wide expe- 
rience. 

The most common remark, and always the 
first after meeting a stranger and saying that 
you live in Worcester, is : " Oh, that's the 
very musical city," and we are musical and it 
is a musical city ; but then the accusation that 
we are behind the times comes from those 
who are best informed. Perhaps the recent 
symphony concert causes the question with 
.some inward qualms. Are we behind the 
times ? The self-same orchestra and soloist 
in Boston on the ne.xt afternoon had to turn 
away some six to eight hundred people anxious 
for only standing room, while we, — well, there 
were many vacant chairs in Mechanics Hall 
OT the evening of February 20th, yet the or- 
chestra was in admirable form, Joseffy as 
peerless as only Joseffy can be. the concert 
admitted one of the finest ever given here, and 
in a city of 85.000 people. 

Within the past ten years, no musical enter- 
tainment has filled Mechanics Hall, always 
excepting the annual festivals. People say, 
and managers as well, " Your festivals kill all 
other music in Worcester." This statement 
is absurd. If it be true, it is all the more so. 
Festivals are great educators, they set the 
standard, create a demand for new music, 
create a demand for first-class talent, and are 
beneficial. It is well known that the Worces- 
ter festival has been for a series of years the 
most successful financially of any festival in 
the country. In its programs its advances 
have been tremendous. It is criticised. Good, 
it should be, and its managers are glad to be 
criticised when done in the proper spirit, and 
in a dignified manner. That they do not pro- 
duce every novelty suggested to them is their 
own affair, for very truly they can say, " The 
public respond to our programs much more 
freely than anything else offered them here." 
Our festival gives Worcester a prestige in the 
outside world which has a double effect. 
Artists are always anxious to be heard in 
Worcester where success is a sure passport to 
engagements, but 1 have yet to hear a profes- 
sional musician speak of Worcester without 
adding : " The most critical city in New Eng- 
land." Setting the standard therefor at the 
very highest point, no miscellaneous or orches- 
tral concert during the winter season, meets 
with a response, proportionate to the expense 
incurred. 

The management of the festival arranged, 
some three years ago, a series of four sym- 
phony concerts. No expense was spared. The 
best artists in the country were secured, yet 
the net lo.ss to the Association reached into 
the thousands. 

A symphony concert was given here last 
April, at the end of a season in which almost 
no music had been heard except by local 
talent. The total receipts did not meet half 
the expen.se. This year's Criterion Course 



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has lost money, yet it appears to have been 
more than satisfactory to its patrons. We 
need a course of fine concerts every winter to 
carry on the good work commenced by the 
festival of the early fall. I am frequently 
told that we are too near Boston for symphony 
concerts to ever pay here, it is so pleasant and 
convenient to go to Boston on Fridays ; but 
how many students, piano teachers and sing- 
ers can spare the time, or wish to spend either 
the time or money to go to Boston to hear a 
concert. To hear Patti, Von Buelow, D'Al- 
bert, or Rubinstein, if he again visits this 
country, it will no doubt be necessary to go to 
Boston, but as a matter of pride alone, we 
should support a series of symphony concerts 
here every season. 

Of organized musical bodies the list is very 
small. One choral club, one double quartet 
of mixed voices, one Masonic quartet, (male), 
one club of ladies, completes the catalogue of 
active musical bodies. An older choral soci- 
ety than the present Festival Association 
chorus still retains its charter, but does no 
work ; an orchestral club which used occasion- 
ally to be heard in public, has become lost to 
eye and ear alike. Amateur efforts in quartet 
and trio playing meet with but little favor, 
and, although encouraged by various elements, 
are not demanded by the public at large. In 
the string line banjo and guitar clubs thrive 
and flourish, and serve perhaps to please many 
who would not otherwise hear any music. 

I should not feel that justice had been 
done even in a small degree to this 
wide subject without touching on church 
music. The church music of Worcester is 
considered, and with good cause, far above 
the average. So well are the churches 
attended, and so much interest is centered in 
the music, that congregations have become 
familiar with the best grades of music, not 
only church music proper, but arrangements 
from the most classic sources which have 
served to educate and interest people, until, 
from this, much good criticism and some poor, 
fellows ; all of which, however, serves to set a 
good standard of criticism. 

Music in the pubic schools of Worcester is 
well and thoroughly taught by conscientious, 
accomplished musicians. After the public 
schools, and various private schools, then the 
teachers, representing a large body of active, 
bright and cultured people. It certainly is 
unnecessary to tell the esteem they are held 
in, or how much the popularizing of the better 
class of music is due to them. We do not 
admit it possible, however, for anything like 
the following, cut from an article of Louis C. 
Elson's on the " Humors of a Music Store " 
to happen in Worcester : 

Lady to Clerk — " Have you anything new 
by Mendelssohn ?" The clerk was slightly 
confused, and said he thought not. With a 
gentle sigh the lady said : '' Well, he used 
to have the best travelling quintette club I 
ever heard." The above, it is claimed, actu- 
ally happened in Boston. 

I wish to ask indulgence from all who read 
the first number of Light for omitting much 
of interest, and writing much which may not 
be of interest. I have not tried to write a 
thoroughly comprehensive article on music in 
Worcester, realizing that such is far beyond 
my powers, but to place a few facts in an un- 
biased way for future consideration. 



Educational Worcester. 



BY AUTOCHTHON. 



The schools and higher educational institu- 
tions of Worcester long since made the city 
famous throughout the land. The fact that 
this was the shire town of a large county made 
it, at the outset, the chosen home of able mem- 
bers of the legal profession ; and good fortune 
brought also cultivated clergymen and doc- 
tors, all combining to give a high tone to the 
society of the place. That educated parents 
should desire to have their children well edu- 
cated was a matter of course. The numerous 
histories of Worcester give, in detail, an ac- 
count of what was done to establish and sus- 
tain the schools in the early days. The town 
was the pioneer, in 1823, in taking the exclu- 
sive management of the schools from the 
selectmen, and creating a co-ordinate board or 
•• committee " who should have the principal 
management. Three years later this system 
was engrafted upon the laws of the state. 

While the public schools, carefully fostered, 
have attained the very high position which 
they occupy to-day, other schools, academies, 
colleges, and, to cap the whole structure, — a 
great university, — established from time to 
time, now combine to make this one of the 
chief centres of education in the world. This 
is strong language, but it is justified by the 
facts. The High School, the State Normal 
School, and the newly recreated Worcester 
Academy, are each models of their kind. The 
Highland Military School gives a valuable 
combination of intellectual and physical train- 
ing. The Polytechnic Institute sends its 
skilled graduates in every direction, to reflect 
credit upon the institute, and the city which is 
its home. The College of the Holy Cross has 
for more than forty years given the highest 
instruction in its own chosen field. And final- 
ly, Clark University has sprung into life, bet- 
ter known and appreciated to-day perhaps in 
Europe than in America ; but we are fast 
coming to a recognition of the greatness of the 
institution which a private citizen has planted 
here, — a boon to the world ; and for him- 
self— 

" Monunientum sre perennius 
Regalique situ pyramidum altius." 

For the rest, Worcester is supplied to-day, 
as .she has always been, with private schools 
of the highest character. 

The cities of Cambridge and Oxford in 
England are famed as seats of learning, while 
Birmingham and Manchester are everywhere 
known as great centres of manufacture. It is 
the unique peculiarity of Worcester that here 
learning and the mechanic arts flourish, side 
bv side, and both to the highest degree. 



The city of Worcester has a larger number 
of social, beneficial, and secret organizations, 
than has any other city of its size in America. 
A goodly proportion of the strength of Wor- 
cester is in her association rooms, in many of 
which women and men act together in the 
good old play of social fraternity. 



With a new City Hall and a renovated com- 
mon, Worcester will cut another notch in the 
pole of metropolitism. 



Is Consumption Hereditary ? 



HV J. P. KANIJ, M. D., OF WORCESTER. 



Ten years ago the man who would seriously 
have asked the above questions would have 
been set down as wanting in common sense 
and ordinary observation. Of course it was 
hereditary. Who could doubt it.'' Did not 
children of consumptive parents develop the 
same disease and die before maturity.' Did 
not even nursing infants do the same ? What 
could controvert such weight of circumstan- 
tial evidence? Nothing. And until April 
loth, 1882, the matter was never questioned. 
It was then, (and the reader will do well to 
hold the date in mind for the discovery of 
the cause of consumption is of more univer- 
sal interest than any other event recorded in 
history) that Dr. Robert Koch of Berlinfirst 
published to the world that the cause of con- 
sumption, — and by consumption, I mean that 
wasting malady attended by the formation of 
tubercles in various parts of the body — was a 
parasite, which he had demonstrated to be 
present in all its forms. This parasite is ex- 
ceedingly minute, being only 1-50,000 of an 
inch in diameter and from three to seven 
times that fraction in length. It can not be 
seen unless stained and even then not with- 
out the aid of a powerful glass. For this 
parasite he proposed the name "bacillus tu- 
berculosis," and inasmuch as it was invaria- 
bly found in this disease and in no other, 
and inasmuch as its introduction into the tis- 
sues of healthy animals invariably produced 
consumption and death, and inasmuch as in- 
oculation from these diseased tissues again 
and again produced the same result, he proved 
to the world beyond controversy that con- 
sumption was contagious, not hereditary, 
and that the bacilli were its direct and only 
cause. 

I have not space to explain the fascinating 
process of staining and searching for these 
bacterai with the microscope. I need not 
tell you that the evidence furnished by their 
presence is of more diagnostic value than the 
most careful physical examination. It is an 
established fact ; consumption may be recog- 
nized from the expectoration alone without 
even seeing the patient. 

So much for the origin of consumption. 
What can be said of its termination.'' Is it 
true as is currently believed that no case re- 
covers? Emphatically, no. The results of 
post-mortem examinations show that about 
fifty per cent, of all cases have at some time 
in life been more or less effected by the dis- 
ease. Not more than twenty per cent, die 
from it. Thus proving directly that the bal- 
ance of thirty per cent, recover from it to die 
of something else. 

Consumption then is a curable disease. 
The results of autopsies prove this. But the 
man to cure his cases must take them before 
every old woman in the town knows, just as 
well as he does, what is the matter with them. 
Think how badly a lung must be crippled to 
show signs of consolidation through a rigid 
chest wall. These are but the cruder means 
of diagnosis, the destructive work of the 
bacilli. The temperature of the body is an 
earlier and more accurate test. The hopeful 



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cases, and the experience of many will con- 
firm what I say, have been tlie unrecognized 
cases of former times, and without the 
aid of the microscope are likely to be the 
unrecognized cases of the future. 

A correct knowledge of any malady is nec- 
essary to its succe.ssful treatment. Our 
fathers believed that "Itch" was a constitu- 
tional disease, but the microscope descried 
the little vermin that produced it and declared 
in the face of an incredulous public : " The 
itch is not a disease but an insect. Destroy 
the insect and the disease is gone." With 
equal significance come the investigations of 
Dr. Koch : Consumption is not a disease but 
a condition. The lungs of the afflicted patient 
are the home of billions upon billions of bac- 
teria, so small that the strongest glass can 
hardly detect them ; so numerous that figures 
will hardly enumerate them and so prolific 
that science is at loss to destroy them. The 
sputum from a consumptive's lungs is per- 
meated through and through with these liv- 
ing germs, "which, " says an eminent author- 
ity, " will tolerate a temperature close on to 
the boiling point ; will retain infecting quali- 
ties in a dried state for at least six months 
and in decomposing sputum will be effective 
for fully six weeks. " 

The moral of such observations is evident. 
We do not inherit these germs: We are not 
born with them any more than we are born 
with lice. But many of us do inherit a con- 
stitutional susceptibility to their iufluence 
and about one seventh of us all die as a re- 
sult Under such circumstances what is the 
rational procedure? Destroy the matter con- 
taining these germs thus doing away witli the 
means of contagion, and seek to maintain a 
high standard of physical strength to enable 
us to resist infection, remembering always 
that "an ounce of prevention is worth 
much. " 



THE WAY IT IS DONE. 

The steamer for Liverpool was about leav- 
ing the New York dock. The friends of the 
passengers were bidding a last farewell. A 
brisk, elderly gentleman, evidently a merchant, 
hastily embraced a lady on deck and hurriedly 
left the ship. In the crowd on the wharf was 
a working man, who was leaning against a 
post, looking at the steamer. 

"Do you see that lady in black on deck?" 

"Yes, I see her." 

"All right; that's my wife, and she expects 
me to stay here 20 minutes and shake my 
handkerchief until the steamer is out of 
sight." 

"Does she ?" 

"Yes. This is the busy season, and I've no 
time to waste. My wife is a little short- 
sighted, so she will be none the wiser if you 
wave the handkerchief. I'll pay you a quar- 
ter." 

"But suppose she gets a spy-glass?" 

"In that case you bury your face in the 
handkerchief and appear to weep. You might 
shake convulsively and perhaps shed a tear or 
so. A quarter is a great deal of money these 
hard times." 

"I'll have to have an extra dime." 

"All right; but I think you ought to kiss 
your hand to her a few times for the extra 
dime." Then the merchant looked at his 
w'atch and disappeared. — Texas Siftings. 



21 

Quester and Answerer. 

[Cdmiiiunicatinns to tliii departniuiit arc solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Kditor, I.uniT, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



Tvi'K Wkitten Letter.s.— A West Side 
gentleman asks: "Is it considered good form to 
send a type-written letter to a lady?" If the 
letter is of business purport, yes; if of a per- 
sonal nature, decidedly, no. 

\\\VA\ TowEKS.— A Westboro gentleman 
asks: "Kindly name the highest towers or 
buildings in the world." The Eiffel Tower, 
Paris, 994 feet ; the Washington Monument, 
555 feet; the City Hall, Philadelphia, 535 feet; 
the spire of Cologne Cathedral, 511 feet; the 
St. Stephen's Church, Vienna, 470 feet ; the 
St. Rollox chimney, Glasgow, 460 feet. 

Mason and Dixon's Line.— Everett W. 
asks for the location of the Mason and Dix- 
on's Line. Mason and Dixon's Line is the 
name given to the southern boundary line of 
Free State of Pensylvania which formerly 
separated it from the Slave States of Mary- 
land' and Virginia. Save 22 miles, it was run, 
between Nov. 15, 1763, and Dec. 26, 1767, by 
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two 
English surveyors. 

Animal Life.— A school-boy asks: "What 
animals are the longest lived ?" The whale is 
supposed to live close onto 100 years ; the ele- 
phant, 400 ; the swan, 300 ; and the camel, 
raven, eagle, and tortoise, 100 each. 

"Afternoon Teas." — Maud asks: "Please 
give me the best form of afternoon tea cards." 
The invitations to really formal "teas" should 
be engraved upon square cards, the centre of 
the card being occupied by the hostess's name, 
followed by the words : "Tea at — o'clock." 
The common custom is, however, to use the 
visiting card, either engraved or written, with 
the announcement written in the lower left- 
hand corner. 

The Tuileries of Paris. — A transatlantic 
Worcester lady asks : " What is the meaning 
of the word ' Tuileries. ' " Tuileries is de- 
rived from the term tuile, meaning a tile, and 
was given to the ground where the palace now 
stands because tiles were formerly made there. 
The building was begun, in 1564, by Cather- 
ine de Medici, and was completed by Louis 
XIV. in 1654. Lenotre, the great gardener, 
originally laid out the grounds and gardens. 

Potato vs.' Knife. — Florence inquires if 
it is ever proper to empty a potato with the 
knife. The iron-clad rule of fashionable soci- 
ety forbids the use of the knife for this pur- 
pose ; but sensible men and women very often 
use the instrument which will get the potato 
out the quickest. 

The First Book. — A young lady asks: 
" Who made the first book ?" The earliest 
books are supposed to be the Pentateuch of 
Moses, and the proems of Homer and Hesiod. 

Ocean Waves. — A land] sailor wishes to 
know the height of ocean waves. Ocean 
waves rise from 20 to 22 feet in extreme 
height, at which attitude there are 3 in a mile 
and 4 per minute. The popular notion that 
they sometimes exceed an hundred feet is not 
substantiated by the best measurement. 



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She Slipped to Conquer. 



bV MISS WORCESTER. 



He is a Worcester young man ; he is 
good looking, liglit hair, rather childishly faced, 
and he has brains, not exactly intellectual 
brains in the sense of Emersonian intellectu- 
ality, for the grey matter of his cranium was 
built for business, and by a chain of financial 
ner\-es he is unable to scent a dollar a day's 
journey away from him. 

He is proprietor of his business : his store 
is on Main street, between Lincoln Square and 
.New Worcester. 

The young man is rich, not wealthy, 
perhaps, for there are people in Worcester 
who count their wealth on the upper side of 
six numerals. His tailor, who let him run a bill 
for clothes, confidentially told everybody that 
the young man had one twentieth of a million 
in good bank stock and other securities nearly 
as safe. He didn't earn this fifty thousand dol- 
lars ; — few men of thirty reach beyond a nine 
and zeroes without a pretty big boost from 
papa or somebody else. No, John W. Black, 
which, by the way, isn't his correct name, had 
the bulk of his property left him by an ac- 
commodating individual, who, by the immuta- 
ble law of nature, left it behind. Black ac- 
cepted the property with manifested gratitude 
beyond the expected. There are still in 
Worcester several young men who would 
have done likewise, and, like Black, have 
really felt regret that the taking away of the 
lieneficiary was necessary to the birth of 
that title. Queer, isn't it, that some rich folks 
prefer to leave instead of giving. 

Black didn't squander the money, he kept 
part of it where it was, and put the balance 
into his business, which grew as business 
generally does when sprinkled with gold dust. 
Black was unmarried, — a Worcester man of 
thirty, with fifty thousand dollars in his pocket, 
so to speak, without wife or prospect of get- 
ting one, seldom has occurred and may not 
occur again. 

Was Black too good for the five thousand 
pretty Worcester girls? Certainly not. 
Were the five thousand girls unwilling to tol- 
erate negotiation ? Only one was not, and she 
was a freak in the Front street Museum. 
Then why this lack of reciprocation ? Oh, but 
Black is engaged now ; it occurred last week. 
'Twas all done in a day shyne.ss, irresolu- 
tion, court.ship, settlement, and knot-tying too 
would have climaxed the evening had Black 
been able to have had his way. From busi- 
ness principles lilack never put off for the 
morrow what he could do to-day- 
She came into his office. She was pretty, 
fine figure, sparkling eyes, rosy lips, smart 
looking. She came on business. Black hap- 
pened to be near the door. She slipped on 
some providential banana peel, and had not 
Black's protecting arm caught her as she fell, 
she very likely woiddn't have injured herself 
falling, for Worcester girls of nineteen are as 
springy as willow branches. .She was grate- 
ful. I'erhaps the manly figure and handsome 
face of Black had the effect of liberally 
measuring the measure of her gratitude. She 
transacted her business and retired. 

At precisely 7.45 o'clock that evening. Black, 
with his boots blacked, his best coat on, a 



fresh necktie and a clean shave, rang the bell 
of one of those pillared castles of the West 
Side. 

"Is Miss White at home?" he inquired of 
the red-faced graduate of the intelligence em- 
porium who condescended to open the door. 

■' She are, " answered the lady-in-red. 

Black entered the pinky atmosphere of the 
lamp-shaded sitting-room. He had been there 
before; Miss White and he were well ac- 
quainted, and the families were intimate. 

Miss White entered the room. 

Black rose, grasped in a business-like way 
the little hand extended to him, and held to it, 
as he would have held to a stock certificate ; — 
too long to suit the owner of it, and not half 
long enough to satisfy the grasper. 

'• 1 called to enquire if your accident has 
left any painful impression," said Black, who 
in saying it told an unintentional falsehood. 

" Not at all, thanks to my protector," re- 
plied Bessie White, sweetly. 

'• Protector," repeated Black, more to him- 
self than to the now blushing maiden, while 
the chills galloped along his back. 

"Why, certainly," returned Bessie," you pro- 
tected me from accident." 

" Black looked silly, and he never came 
nearer making a fool of himself without 
quite doing it, when he said : 

'• I assure you. Miss Bessie, it gave me great 
pleasure to act as your protector. You know 
we bachelors are not exactly ladies" men, and 
really, — I, — you understand, — I feel, — that 
is, I feel, — you know, — I, — "' 

'• But I don't, " said Bessie. " What's the 
matter with you, Mr. Black ? You are white, 
and you seem to be trembling. Do you feel 
sick ? I assure you that I shan't attempt to 
catch you if you fall." 

" Yes, -^ No, — wliy, of course not. Miss 
Bessie; — I guess I had better not detain 
you, — you may have an engagement." 

" But I have no engagement, Mr. Black. " 

" Indeed, " said Black, as he put his foot into 
it again." 

Bessie's rosy cheeks grew rosier. 

" What do you mean ?" asked she. 

" I didn't mean anything," stammered the 
idiot. 

" Then why did you say it ?" retorted the 
practical Bessie. 

Black by this time began to realize that he 
was making a fool of himself. He pulled 
himself together. 

" Miss Bessie," said he, " I humbly ask 
your pardon. I called to tell you something 
which has been on my mind all the afternoon." 

'• .So long," interrupted Bessie. 

" Yes, longer," replied the more courageous 
Black, " but I did'nt realize it until this noon. 
I shall always love bananas." 

"What for?" innocently inquired Bessie. 

" For their peel," answered Black, if it had 
not been for that peel, I should have never 
known you as — as — as I do now. I should 
never have held you in my arms, never felt your 
sweet breath warming my cheek ; never known 
that way down under my jacket 1 had a heart 
which was mine no longer." 

l'"or a practical business man of Worcester, 
Black was doing finely. 

Be.ssie White was embarrassed. She 
blushed, and she looked prettier in doing it. 
ISlack may have been dazed, but no twilight 



of overheated sentiment can entirely absorb 
the beauty of a scarlet blush. Black dimly 
beheld the rosy sun set. His heart fluttered 
again and repeated the flutter. He braced 
himself with the stimulant of desperation. 

" Bessie," said he, as courage poured into 
his overtaxed brain to regulate his disobedi- 
ent heart, "Bessie, my darling,'' — he had 
never used the word before and it nearly 
choked him, — "I am a plain blunt business 
man. I never before knew the meaning of 
love. My friends have given me over to the 
seclusion of perpetual bachelorhood. We 
have been friends since we played together. 
Perhaps I have loved you for years uncon- 
sciously. So strong a sentiment must be of 
time. As I held your dear form in my arms 
this morning, to the winds of Lake Quinsiga- 
mond went my life of bachelorhood, and in 
its place came something hitherto unknown 
to me. Excuse me if I come to the point at 
once. Will you be my wife ?" 

Bessie's eyes were on the floor. Perhaps 
she was studying the exquisite design of the 
large Turkish rug at her feet ; if she was she 
didn't know it. Bessie's active brain was 
weighing life's affirmatives and negatives in 
the balance of the mind. The ayes had it; 
she looked up ; the eyes of both met, and their 
vision looked into their utmost souls, — and 
there we leave them till the social columns of 
Light chronicle the formal announcement of 
another happy partnership. 

Words of Others. 

Flowers and Extravagance. 

The extravagance in the use of flowers has 
led to a revolt among sensible people, and 
flowers are filling their proper place in the 
decorative scheme — subordinated to the 
whole effect instead of obtruding on the 
senses; display has given place to decoration, 
and while the flowers used may be most 
costly, they are so used as to bring out their 
beauty, not suggest the florist's bill. Large 
bouquets as accessories to the toilet are not 
now used, and there is a tendency to use flow- 
ers in garniture on the dresses, but it will not 
be a popular fancy, because they wilt so 
quickly. The artificial flowers are so artistic, 
so true to nature, that they will enter into the 
trimming of evening dresses largely next sea- 
son is the prophecy of this. — Christian Union. 



Literary Purity, 

To stem the flood of impure fiction, we 
need international copyright ; a higher stand- 
ard of decency in the daily press ; 
greater liberty for American novelists of 
accredited ability, in presenting the prob- 
lems of life in a serious way ; and much less 
liberty than is now permitted to foolish young 
women to saturate themselves with morbid 
notions and to unload their crude and un- 
pleasant imaginings upon the public. — Tlie 
Epoch. 

Executive Powers in Cities. 

Tlie tendency of the times is toward concen- 
trating executive authority in fewer hands. 
The recent revisions of city charters have 
resulted in greatly strengthening the power of 
the mayor, in making him much more directly 
responsible for the conduct of municipal af- 
fairs. — Canihriiige Tribune. 



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Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1890. 



No. 2. 



LlOHT is happy. It expected little and re- 
ceived much. A new paper, witli Shakes- 
peare for its editor and Julius Ca;sar for its 
publisher, would start at the bottom side of 
the hill. Light was new, and new things 
seldom have round edges. All the delays in- 
cident to freshness piled themselves in regu- 
lar heaps, but Light entered the hurdle race, 
and was out on time. The elements drew a 
curtain over Light ; the gentle rain waxed 
bigger; the streets were deserted; 'twas a dis- 
mal day for Light. Then the good people of 
Worcester put on their rubbers, and Light 
was in every house in Worcester. Light is 
encouraged ; it is two weeks old, yet it feels as 
much a part of Worcester as do the hills upon 
which rests the city. Light is in Worcester, 
and for Worcester ; "for men may come and 
men may go, but Light will live forever." 
The effervescent Telegiarn put out both hands 
in welcome; the grand old ^py blessed Light 
in six lines; the dignified Gazette is still 
weighing Light in the balance of itself, sup- 
pressing its coming benediction. By the by, 
isn't it opportune to say that Li(;ht is not, 
will not be, and cannot be, an opposition 
paper. Light believes in everything which 
has made and developed Worcester. What- 
ever may be said for or against the papers of 
Worcester, — nothing good exists without criti- 
cism, the Bible itself is criticised, — 
they have generously contributed many of the 
spokes of the local wheel of progress. 



If Solomon had lived in Worcester he never 
would have perpetrated the idiom of "There's 
no new thing under the sun." There are more 
new things in Worcester to the square inch, 
than some of the inhabitants believe were ever 
created to the square foot. Worcester may 
have old-fashioned people within her boundary 
lines ; there never was a city or town that ex- 
isted without them. Old-fashionedism is, and 
has been, the balance wheel of civilized pro- 
gress; there can be too much of it, but it is 
just as well to have too much of it as it is not 
to have enough of it. Old-fashioniedism built 
the foundation of Worcester, and no matter 
what may be said against it, no foundation can 
be made of better material, and there is 
enough still remaining in Worcester to make a 
smooth surface, over which may roll with safety 
the wheels of enterprise and progress,which for 
the last 12 years have lifted Worcester out 
of the conventional into an era of modern 
prosperity. 

There are cranks even in Worcester. A 
town without cranks would be as motionless 
as a water wheel without water. There are 
as many kinds of cranks as there are kinds of 
men. A perfectly balanced man never was 
born in Worcester, or in the remainder of the 
world, and never will be born to live this side 
of the millennial line. Bless the cranks ; if it 
wasn't for them the wheels of progress would 
become clogged in the mire of sluggish meth- 
od and conventional plagiarism. The man 



who does as others have done, never 
makes an enemy, never commits an error of 
commission, seldom has firm friends of char- 
acter, and is of no particular use save to keep 
up the volume of population. The man who 
has an idea, poor as it may be, has within 
himself the gem of progress, and to him is 
due not only the starting of the cycle of pro- 
gression, but the generation of power which 
keeps it moving, and makes this land of ours 
worth living in. To him is credit seldom 
given; the drone and the fool can criticise, and 
do, and the grand-looking-forward brain is 
often turned to dust before the people of its 
bounty honor it with encyclopedic mention, 
which a kind prosterity find cheaper to bestow 
than bread and coal to the hungry and shiver- 
ing children. 

Perhaps there is no help for it, but it cer- 
tainly doesn't look well to see the doorways of 
Main street lined with loafers, all day, 
pleasant Sundays. From Lincoln square to 
tlie other side of Knowles building, there are, 
frequently by actual count, one hundred and 
thirty-seven distinct groups of young men, 
with tlieir boots blacked, red neckties, and 
plug hats. Some of them are smoking, and 
all of them have on their Sunday smile for all 
and any young woman who may be obliged to 
pass by their observation standing ground. 
The men are decent in their actions, and prob- 
aljly none of them come within the reach of 
the law. Their remarks to passing girls are 
more common than vulgar, and are generally 
addressed to acquaintances who promenade 
the streets ostentatiously for exercise, but in 
reality to absorb the masculine smiles and the 
soft words of nothings that are shot out from 
every other doorway. Main street, on pleasant 
Sundays, is certainly not the place for girls 
without escort. Not that they would be in- 
sulted; not that any remark which would 
merit chastisement would be addressed to 
them, but girls who go out there for fun are 
simply educating themselves in the primary 
school of nominal looseness. Worcester has 
a hundred streets pleasanter to walk upon, 
more airy, and with better views than are 
possessed by Main street, and it is suggested 
that while it might not be well for parents to 
iron-clad their rules of discipline, it might be 
well for them to keep their girls and boys, who 
expect sometime to be gentlemen and ladies, 
from loafing on the street of loafers. 



Although the brain is about 85 per cent, 
water, it is a part of the animal body as much 
as the hands or legs, and its development re- 
quires somewhat of a similar treatment. It is 
suggested that while the pedagogues are filling 
the craniums with the learning of others, that 
the fathers and mothers might engage in that 
rather original work of developing the physical 
bodv, by teaching the young to walk well, to 
sit well, and to stand well, — hygienic accom- 
plishments which not one young person out of 
twenty have, or seem to give attention to. 



Some Worcester people do two tilings which 
they ought not to do ; perhaps tliey do more 
than two things which they ought not to do, 
but these two things they do, and persist in do- 
ing, not any more than do some peopL of Bos- 
ton, of Chelsea, of Cambridge, of Chicago, or of 
Shrewsbury, for the failing is as universal as the 
postage stamp. They are frequently late to 
entertainments, and irrespective of car catch- 
ing, and even without any car to catch, they 
begin to crowd their feet into rubbers, stretch 
themselves into overcoats, and then summon- 
ing all their energies, make a mad rush for the 
door, crowding the suffering people to right 
and left, making such a racket that f^w can 
hear the spoken lines or music. No entertain- 
ment can be enjoyed without a comfortable 
seeing of it from start to finish ; at the opjning 
to get the plan of movement, at the closing to 
watch the climaxed unravelling of the plot, or 
the last note of a musical finish. The person 
who is late not only cheats himself out of the 
opportunity for full enjoyment, but is a posi- 
tive nuisance to those seated near to him, in 
particular, and to the whole audience in gen- 
eral ; and the man who goes out before the 
final number loses the dessert of the courses, 
and spoils the flavor of it for his unfortunate 
neighbors. 

If it was not for Worcester's main artery, in 
which circulates the business blood of this grand 
old town, the West Side, the South Side,and the 
New Side, might concentrate themselves into 
clusters of feudal castles, railed in with barbed 
wire. Noble Main street, with its historical 
backing, fine buildings, and connecting Mocks, 
is the socialistic geni which has made Worces- 
ter what she is : — the biggest country city in 
Christendom. 



Byron wasn't far out of the way when he e.x- 
claimed : "Indeed 'tis pleasant to see oneself 
in print; a book's a book thoujh there's noth- 
ing in it." The Publisher's li'eek/y has 
printed a tabul.Tted statement of the number 
of books issued in this country during the last 
two years, which shows a decrease of 617 in 
the latter year as compared with the former. 
The figures of '88 are 4631; those for "89 
4014. A decrease in hook making in these 
days of romantic trrsh rrd urdcr-l rkfd slum 
is to be hailed with praises. Decrease in 
book making fortunately doesn't effect the 
writing of those books which deserve the right 
of publishment. 

It speaks volumes for the religious side of 
Worcester that she has expended in church 
and other buildings devoted to religious work, 
exceeding s;3co.cco of solid hard cash since 
the beginning of three years ago. Riligious 
Worcester backs its rdigion with money: — 
even religion will run smoother touciied with 
silver dollars. 

La Grippe has done what so many Worces- 
ter journalists have signally failed to do: — 
settled the Indian question. 




' / y7l^C£STER.A\A5S. 



A Journal of Social Worcester and her 
Neighbors. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 

tsff^ Advertising rates upon application. 



NATH'L C. FOWLER, Jr., ) Editors and 
FRED E. COLBURN, ( Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 



Entered at the Post-Oifice, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

WoKCESTER. .S.\Tl'Rn-\V, M.^RCH S, 1S9O. 

About Folks. 

The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people. 

March 8: Sun rises at 6.08 a. m.; sets at 5.43 
p. M. Length of day, 11 hours, 35 minutes. 
Moon, last quarter, 13th., 11 hours, 5 minutes, 
evening, 

•'Model Anthems" is the title of a new work 
for quartets and chorus choirs, by Mr. C. C. 
Stearns, and although only recently published, 
it is already meeting with a most substantial 
recognition by some of the best choirs in this 
city, as well as those in many of the country 
towns. Choir masters and singers are much 
interested in the music, which is adapted to 
the wants and capacities of the most culti- 
vated choirs, and also to those of average 
ability. Mr. Stearns has also recently pub- 
lished his Easter cantata for Sunday schools, 
a worthy companion to his Christmas cantata. 
His masses in D and F, vespers in B flat and 
G, two masses for children's voices, entitled, 
"Mass of the Angel Guardian" and "Chil- 
dren's Festival Mass," are standard works in 
Catholic churches throughout the country, 
and two choice vocal duets, "Is Life Worth 
Living," and "Hope Abides Forever," for con- 
cert or church purposes, together with a trio, 
"Father in Heaven," have tnet with a cordial 
reception from singers who are on the lookout 
for something new and interesting. Mr. 
Stearns's profession as a teacher of the piano 
and organ has led him to write some available 
compositions for these instruments and "Glad 
Hours" and "Loving Hearts' Gavotte" are 
among the most popular piano pieces. For 
the organ he has written two excellent books 
which organ students appreciate, also an 
illu.stration for the organ, "Contemplation," 
founded on the motto : ".-Xn ever-pervading 
mystery broods over the universe and the soul 
of man, at times weird and solemn and again 
calm and reposeful, full of tender memories 
like a benediction of peace." All of Mr. 
Steams' compositions are published by the 
White, Smith Music company, of Boston, and 
the above named are a few of the most promi- 
nent ones. 



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Mr. J. E. Hudson bade farewell to Worces- 
ter last Monday, and last Saturday evening, 
by way of testifying to their regard for him, 
the members of the reception committee of 
the Young Men's Christian association, of 
which Mr. Hudson was chairman, tendered 
him a banquet at Curtis hall. There were 
present Messrs. John E. Thomas, Fred E. 
Kelley, George H. Steele, Charles L. Pierce, 
Oliver S. Fairbanks, Will E. Higgins, Clinton 

A. Bancroft, Oscar V. Sibley, Albert H. In- 
man, Will E. Lewis and Herbert E. Richard- 
son, of the reception committee, and Secre- 
taries Samuel G. McConaughy, W. D. B. 
Mead and George H. Robbins. Secretar>' 
McConaughy presided at the table, with Mr. 
Hudson on his left and Mr. Thomas, the new 
chairman, at his right. At the foot sat the 
assistant chairman, Mr. Inman, and to his 
right and left Assistant Secretaries Mead and 
Robbins. After the table was cleared, the 
party adjourned to the parlor downstairs, 
where speeches were made by Secretary Mc- 
Conaughy for the association, Messrs. Kelley, 
Higgins and Lewis, for the committee, Mr. 
Thomas, the new chairman, and Mr. Mead, 
and Mr. Hudson closed with a farewell 
speech. Music followed, after which the 
party broke up. 

Rev. L J. Lansing addressed a temperance 
mass meeting at Grafton, Sunday evening, 
and the ne.xt day had the satisfaction of hear- 
ing that the town had voted no-license. Rev. 

B. A. Robie, of Grafton, occupied Mr. Lan- 
sing's pulpit on the evening referred to. 

The Salem Street Church Choral society, 
under the direction of Mr. B. D. Allen, is re- 
hearsing choruses from the "Golden Legend" 
music both of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Dudley 
Buck. A public concert will be given in the 
spring, with readings from Longfellow's poem, 
upon which the music is based, by Rev. L J. 
Lansing;. 



The Greendale Dramatic club had a supper 
and entertainment last evening, the affair tak- 
ing on the form of a necktie and apron party, 
and the special feature was a wood-sawing 
contest by the young ladies. 



Greendale lodge L O. G. T., will visit 
Shrewsbury lodge, at the latter's invitation, 
Monday. 

Mr. Alfred D. W.irrcn is on a business trip 
to Maine. 



Mr. William Warren of Westfield was the 
guest of Mr. A. D. Warren a day or two ago. 



A quiet church wedding at St. John's, on 
Lincoln street, occurred last Monday. The 
parties were Mr. Charles Willard Knight and 
Miss Edith Gertrude Van Hoosear, and Rev. 
Francis G. Burgess, rector of St. John's, per- 
formed the ceremony at 7 o'clock. Mr. and 
Mrs. Knight received from 8 to 10, at 55 Lincoln 
street, where they are to reside. The maids of 
honor were Misses Lucille Van Hoosear, Em- 
ma W. Pratt and Anna Kennedy, and the 
ushers, Messrs. Charles S. Knight, Jr., Ed- 
ward L. Knight, Carl Bildt, R. Sundin, Alfred 
H. Maynard and George Learned. The 
house was decorated with palms and flowers 
by Florist C. D. Thayer, and Caterer Rebboli 



served the refreshments. The bride wore a 
light blue cashmere, cut en traine, corsage 
decollete, elaborately trimmed with Spanish 
lace, and wore a corsage bouquet of Mar^chal 
Neil roses. The gifts included a handsome 
silver tea service from Mr. Knight's associates 
in Washburn & Moen's counting-room. 
Among those present were Rev. Francis G. 
Burgess, Mr. Joseph A. Shaw and the Messrs. 
Phelps and Clapp, cadets, of the Highland 
Military academy, Mr. and Mrs. John H. 
Jewett, Miss Shiela Mackenzie Jewett, 
Mr. Philip W. Moen, Mr. and Mrs. 
August Setterwall, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Knight, 
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. 
(icorge Day, Mr. Edward Bates, Mr. Harry 
W. Van Hoosear, Mr. C. S. Knight, Jr., Miss 
Mary Earle, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamilton of 
Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph French of 
Providence, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Gross of 
.Springfield. 

Chadwick Square mission, an offshoot or 
prot^g^ of St. John's Episcopal church, is 
a remarkably healthy infant, and under Rev. 
Francis G. Burgess's direction is becoming 
more and more of a success. An executive 
committee for the mission has been appointed, 
including the rector, ex-ofiicio, Messrs. Ste- 
phen C. Earle and Edmund M. Barton, Miss 
Charlotte J. Hill and Mrs. Charles C. Chew. 
Mr. Barton was also elected treasurer of the 
building fund. 

Light believes in advertising, and that 
novel methods are advantageous. After con- 
siderable wire pulling that little corporation, 
the Boston & Albany Railroad, has been sub- 
sidized. Beginning next week, the brakemen 
on all passenger trains entering Worcester 
will call : "Lightville ! change for the Burnside 
building!"' 

Mr. Frank P. Knowles has returned from 
Winter Park, Florida. 



Mr. J. H. Moore, who has taught many 
Worcester people the steps of the waltz and 
lanciers in the past, and is, in fact, the vete- 
ran dancing-master of this section of the coun- 
try, paid Worcester a visit this week. He is 
now living in Hartford. 



E.x-.Alderman William H. Sawyer and Mrs. 
Sawyer are writing home enthusiastic praises 
of Pasadena, Cal., and its climate. They will 
not turn eastward for a week or two to come. 



This week has been one of wedding anni- 
versaries, and Mr. and .Mrs. John N. Prouty 
were among those remembered. Friends 
called at their home, 17 Leicester street, Tues- 
day evening, and left several gifts in the way 
of souvenirs of their fifth anniversary. 



The Worcester Light Infantry boys get 
$704.56 as the profits of the Di.xie Minstrels 
entertainment, and the money will be used in 
fitting up the company room in the new ar- 
mory. 

Wednesday was rhetorical day at the High 
school, this week, and the onlv platform exer- 
cise in the hall was an admirably rendered 
recitation of a passage from the ^neid, 
describing the meeting of /Eneas and his 
mother, which was given by Miss Alice J. 
Hastings, '90. 



Miss Hannah Hemenway, a pleasant, cheer- 
ful old lady who has occupied her little home 
at 79 May street, almost since the present gen- 
eration's first remembrance, celebrated an 
anniversary last Sunday. It is her custom 
to attend morning worship at the First 
Baptist church, once every year, on the anniver- 
sary of her joining; the church. "Aunt Han- 
nah," as she is known, is now 96 years old, so 
that ordinarily she docs not get out to church, 
but on this anniversary date a carriage is al- 
ways sent for her and she attends. Last Sun- 
day was the 77th anniversary of her joining 
the church, and following the usual custom. 
Deacon Charles F. Rugg sent a carriage for 
her. "Aunt Hannah" went and enjoyed the 
service throughout. Despite her great age she 
sees and hears well, and sits in her old place in 
church as much at home as ever. The people 
of the church have come to look for her 
annual visit with a great deal of interest and 
she is always the recipient of many warm 
greetings on these occasions. 



The Solon Bryant company has sold out its 
department of fancy notions to Davis and 
Wheeler, and will hereafter do a corset mak- 
ing business exclusively. Mr. Solon Bryant 
established the business over 20 years ago and 
has built it up to be one of Worcester's most 
successful commercial enterprises. The new 
firm, which has bought out the notions depart- 
ment, and is styled Da\-is and Wheeler, in- 
cludes Mr. Walter H. Davis, who has been 
employed by Mr. Bryant for 17 years past, and 
Mr. James M.Wheeler, who has been similarly 
employed for two years. Mr. Bryant recently 
bought out a large corset-making plant in New 
Haven and has transferred the machinery and 
■siock to his building in the city. The Solon 
Bryant corsets have acquired a national repu- 
tation, and the company does a large business 
in all parts of the United States. The business 
will be continued at SS Front street, Messrs. 
Davis and Wheeler occupying an upper floor. 



Miss Lulu Diemar gave a whist party at her 
home, No. 11 Ripley street, Tuesday evening, 
and four tables were occupied, those present 
being, beside Miss Diemar, Misses A. L. and 
Lilla Diemar, Nellie Sargent, Annie Spragiie, 
Annie R. Volkmar, Eva L. Smith and Maud 
Pierce, Messrs. Arthur P. Shaffer, M. W. 
Brigham, Everett J. Lake, Loring N. Farnum, 
Fred A. Morse, George E. Miller, George 
Riggs and William R. Thompson. Mr. Mil- 
ler and Miss Lilla Diemar won first prizes, 
and Mr. Brigham and Miss Volkmar won 
booby prizes, for ladies and gentlemen, respec- 
tively. After the whist there was a social 
dance and general good time. 



Mr. Frederic Howard sang three solos at 
the annual M arch festival and concert of the 
First Congregational church in Upton, Tues 
day evening. 

The good sleighing of Tuesday evening 
presented too good an opportunity to be lost, 
and several parties were organized somewhat 
hurriedly, for evening sleighrides. One party 
included several Plymouth church young 
people, and the ride was planned by Mr. Wal- 
ter L. Mellen, who secured a four-seated sleigh 
of Partridge's for conveyance. The party 
found the sleighing fair for the greater part of 



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the way, and excellent from North (Irafton to 
Westboro. In Wcstboro they stopped at the 
Whitney house, had a first-class supper and a 
social dance, and returned home shortly be- 
fore 3 o'clock. There were 15 young people 
in the party, as follows: Mr. Walter L. Mel- 
len, Miss Mabel Tucker, Mr. Sumner A. Kins- 
ley, Miss May C. Pierce, Mr. Fred E. 
Wheeler, Miss Flora B. Chamberlain, Mr. 
George K. Mellor, Miss Alice C. Brown, Mr. 
Charles H. Jenness, Miss May I. Wood, Mr. 
Frank E. Stimpson, Miss Emily G. Whitte- 
more, Mr. George A. Lackey, Miss Althea 
Bigelow, Miss Lizzie Walton. 



Another sleighing party went from the 
Pleasant Street Baptist church, and while the 
elders were having their regular sociable, the 
younger people were dashing over the snow. 
The party did not start until after having sup- 
per at the church, and then they climbed 
aboard one of F. W. Flagg's 'busses and 
started for Millbury. No stop was made 
when they reached the town and they returned 
home about 10 o'clock. Those who made up 
the party were as follows: Misses IVL F. 
Goddard, S. Bessie Goddard, Gertrude 
Cheney, Emma E. Greene, Effie Nelson, 
Belle Gage, Nettie Lamoine, Belle Everett, 
Fannie Maynard, Fannie Hapgood, Alice 
Foster, Lena Roberts, Clara Converse, Miss 
Cameron, Messrs, Charles Edgerton, Joseph 
Knight, Harry Wheeler, Frank Cheney, A. 
Ferrier, Albert Straw, George Taft, David 
White and Allie Kimball. 



Miss Alice J. Hildreth is visiting friends in 
Brooklyn. 

Lawyers H. Spencer Haskell and Charles 
J. O'Hara, with Henry Thompson of Web- 
ster, are "doing" New York city. 



Mr. O. H. Smith gave a private dinner in 
honor of his mother's attainment of the age of 
86 years, at his residence, 145 Grafton street, 
Tuesday. Messrs. E. T. and Jesse Smith are 
also sons of Mrs. Smith. Only family friends 
were present. 

The most talked about business change of 
the week has been the selling out of J. T. Roche 
& Co., to Edward L. Smith & Co., of their 
business in Walker building. Mr. Roche is 
to retire from business and is to take a long 
vacation. Mr. Smith has been interested in 
the local dry goods trade for iS years and is a 
son-in-law of Mr. W. A. Denholm. 



Mr. and Mrs. S. Avery Grosvenor's friends 
called at their home, 17 Hollywood street, 
Tuesday evening, and helped them celebrate 
their 15th wedding anniversary. Rev. John 
Galbraith spoke for the company assembled 
and presented Mr. and Mrs. Grosvenor with a 
dinner set and easy chairs. 



In place of the ordinary monthly members' 
meeting of the Young Men's Christian asso- 
ciation, there will be, next Tuesday evening, 
a union meeting of the committees of the asso 
elation and the active members. President 
Rugg will preside and papers will be read by 
the heads of the various departments on the 
ideal work of each. Discussion will follow. 
The ladies committee will furnish supper as 
usual. 



Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Evans have joined 
the Worcesterites in Florida. They are at 
present in Jacksonville. 



Mrs. A. O. Stevens, formerly of Worcester 
and now residing in New York City, is visit- 
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Albee. 



A Worcester young lady, who very modest- 
ly withholds her name, altliough it may be said 
that she is one of the most promising artists 
belonging to the Art Students' club, has the 
honor of having painted for one of the 
crowned heads of the American court — that is 
to say, for Postmaster-General Wanamaker's 
daughter. Something more than a year ago 
the young lady referred to sent a friend Pales- 
tine, Tex., several articles which she had 
painted to be sold at a church fair which was 
to be held there. Among them was a delicate 
blue silk apron, on which she had painted a 
border of pink honeysuckles. A few days ago 
a letter came from a friend in Texas inform- 
ing the artist that the apron she painted is 
now in Washington, and was worn by Miss 
Wanamaker at her first tea. The apron has 
really quite a history. The silk was sent to 
Worcester from Texas, to begin with ; and after 
it had been painted, it was sent back to the 
Lone Star state and became one of the arti- 
cles offered for sale at the fair referred to. 
Here it was purchased by Postmaster-General 
Wanamaker's sister, who is the wife of a 
clergyman who occupies the pulpit of the 
church in Palestine where the fair was held. 
This lady sent it to her neice. Miss Wana- 
maker, and the latter evidently fell in love 
with it at once, since she wore it at her first 
tea, as stated. It shows what good work 
Worcester can produce, even in art, and it is 
worth while to mention that four other fancy 
articles now in the Wanamaker family, were 
painted by this young lady, who is one of the 
newer members of the Art Students' club and 
has contributed some excellent work to its 
exhibitions. 

There was a very pleasant little entertain- 
ment at Green hall, Sargent street, under the 
auspices of the Piedmont Branch Sunday 
school, Tuesday evening. The program in- 
cluded piano solos by Misses Ina E. Lyon 
and Alice M. Laird, violin solos by Mr. E. 
Harry Rockwell, songs by Mrs. Fred Wheeler, 
readings by Miss Lena Warfield, a banjo solo 
by Miss Josephine Whittier, a song by Mr. 
Rhys Llewellyn and a duet by Messrs. Llew- 
ellyn and Horace M. Chase. The concert 
was very enjoyable, and there were several 
recalls. 



New Worcester Ma, (shouting down 
stairs): — Quinsigamond, where are you .' 

Miss Quinsigamond : — In the parlor, ma. 

New Worcester Ma : — Come to bed at 
once ! 

Miss Quinsigamond: — Please let me have 
a few minutes more with Bob. 

New Worcester Ma:— Jumping mouse, 
Quiny, have you a man down there ? 

Miss QuiNSiGAMO.VD : — .^ man, ma! The 
idea! I'm reading Browning. 



It might be incidentally remarked that 
Light came to stay, and is going to. 



Wagner's Music. 



How often one hears some lover (?) of music 
exclaim, "I cannot understand Wagner." 
The remark is so often made,that it seems fast 
becoming what our English cousins delight to 
call, "an Americanism." It is to a great ex- 
tent, an affected fashion to offset po.ssibly the 
effect of what a f;w years ago was called the 
"Wagner Craze." Such a remark implies 
that the speaker can comprehend Bee- 
thoven's "Fidelio," Berlioz' "Bennevenuto Cel- 
lini," Gounod's "Faust," or Flotow's "Martha," 
when probably such is not the case. He may 
prefer the get-at-able airs, duetts, choruses and 
marches of these masters ; but his musical un- 
derstanding cannot grasp these mathematically 
constructed numbers, nor can they convey to 
him the meaning that the music of modern 
masters will if he will only listen thought- 
fully. In the so-called Wagnerian school, 
from the beginning to the end of an opera, 
the music plot, aimed at our various passions, 
rouses or subdues them as it follows so closely 
the ideas of the story. There are no waltz 
accompaniments to florid arias having nothing 
to do with theme or thought in any of Wagner's 
works, save perhaps in "The Fairies," his 
earliest opera. He felt that music should be 
a part of and not a meaningless accompani- 
ment to the story worthy a musical 
setting, and to this end of completeness he 
wrote, or at least arranged, his own librettos. If 
one listens thoughtfully to the music dramas 
composing the Nibelungen Ring, so complete 
both musically and dramatically, one cannot 
fail to hear and feel how much more strongly 
Wagner appeals to one's senses than do the 
older masters. They expressed passions by 
rule ; and though their love and rage passages 
are perfection in themselves, they were "prob- 
lems" before they were frame works to scenes 
of love making and murder. Wagner makes 
his instruments and characters breathe and 
portray what they are living before us so 
naturally that we take part in their joys and 
sorrows. Who that has ever heard the tink- 
ling sounds in "Rhinegold" had to be told 
that the Nibelungen were hammering away on 
their anvils, or that the music of the Rhine 
maidens as they swam in and out among the 
rocks was any thing but the flowing and ed- 
dying of that river of poetry? In the Wal- 
kiirie, too, Brunhilde and her sister warriors 
give vent to harmonious shrieks that show us 
immediately their natures. Then again in the 
last scene of this unique work, where the no- 
blj heroine falls asleep in the midst of guarding 
flames, the quieting, soothing sL'ep music is 
made to unite with, and finally overcome the 
shimmering tongues of fire, letting the curtain 
fall before an audience, quieted into almost 
perfect peace,that a moment before was nearly 
on fire with excitement. In "Siegfried," after 
the hero's forge song, so full of manly 
strength, perhaps the completest bit is during 
the scene in which he learns to understand the 
singing of a bird. The warblings and trillings 
come to us first from a tree top in a shady 
nook during a warm summer day. Away in 
the distance we hear Siegfried's horn; in a few 
moments he joins us, and he, too, hears the 
bird, he even imitates her notes upon an alder 



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whistle that he fashions before us. Presently 
he tnrows himself down at the foot of a huge 
linden, and, overcome by his noon-day tramp, 
falls asleep. He dreams, and during his rest 
is made to understand the bird notes, 
so, when he follows their miraculous coun- 
selling, we are not a bit surprised to find his 
troubles at an end for the present. In the 
Dusk of the Gods, the last of this series, we 
hear constantly the musical portraits of the 
characters in the preceding works. The dif- 
ferent motives that prompted them in the 
lives that they had lived before us, are all 
completed in the various climaxes occurring 
from time to time in the greatest of all the 
ring. The sepulchrally impressive funeral 
music ending in Siegfried's death march, is 
undoubtedly the finest bit of music of this 
class ever written. Then, too, the almost 
celestially beautiful chords to the accompani- 
ment of which the gods enter Walhalla, and 
the final flooding of the legend land by the 
Rhine water music, are perhaps the most de- 
scriptive parts in this great masterpiece. 
Some say that Wagner's tone paintings need 
scenic effects to be appreciable. Surround- 
ings always enhance or detract from our en- 
joyments in a measure, and it surely is more 
satisfactory to see as well as hear the great 
master's creations, as some of us had the 
opportunity of doing in New York and Bos- 
ton last winter, and as we may have again 
this season; but if we cannot have the jewels 
in fitting settings, we who stay at home may 
occasionally have glimpses of some of the 
gems exhibited to us by the Boston Sym- 
phony orchestra, and our own Musical asso- 
ciation. 



Words of Others. 



The Population Drifting Cityward. 

There are 350 cities in the United States, 
and by estimate about 16,000,000 people 
are living in these cities, or something more 
than one-fourth of the population of the en- 
tire country. The proportion of urban pop- 
ulation is constantly increasing. There are 
various causes for this centralization in cities. 
In the first place, the number of occupations 
has been greatly increased of late years. 
Half a century ago nearly all the manufact- 
uring was done in the country. Water-power 
was thought to be an indispensable condition 
of economical work. The cotton mill was on 
the banks of a river or brook. The new mills 
in many instances are not at all dependent 
upon water as a motor. But not only has 
steam increased the number of occupations in 
the city, but electricity has been introduced 
and is working wonders. Both steam and 
electricity are sold as regularly in the city as 
dry goods or provisions. If there were not 
increased means of living in cities, population 
would not drift there in such great numbers. 
People must earn the means of subsistence. 
There are thousands of operatives earning a 
living in cities where hundreds of the same 
class could not a quarter of a century ago. 

Another reason for this strong drift toward 
cities is that in most instances the educational 
advantages are better, or at least thought to 
be better, in the town than in the country. 
The ungraded public school in the country 



which is open hardly more than half the year 
does not meet all the educational needs. The 
result is that those cities which have the best 
schools are constantly making large drafts on 
the population of the country. Cities are con- 
stantly drawing upon the best population of 
the country. The men who have furnished 
the most conspicuous examples of success, 
according to the published biographies, were 
once country boys. The instances of failure 
from the same source are rarely noted. But 
there is no good ground for the theory that the 
cities are deplet'ng the country. Population 
is continually drawn to centers where there 
are supposed to be the greatest advantages. 
But there are outgoing currents as well. 
Thousands who have tried life in cities have 
gone to the country and are better satisfied 
with the latter, by reason of that urban ex- 
perience. Three-fourths of the entire popula- 
tion of the country are outside the limits of 
incorporated cities. It is a rural population, 
rather than an urban one. It is not all en- 
gaged in agriculture. But as long as there are 
vast areas to be occupied, mines to be opened, 
rivers to be navigated, forests and quarries to 
be converted into building material and dwell- 
ings erected, roads and bridges to be con- 
structed, there is no danger that cities will 
absorb the life of the whole country. — San 
Francisco Bulletin. 



Cultured Opera Goers. 

The rendering of grand opera by the leading 
vocalists of the day is necessarily so expen- 
sive that it can only flourish in opulent 
capitals. Singers like Mme. Patti cannot afford 
to strain their voices by singing more than 
three or four times a week. There are so few 
of them in the world that they can practically 
command their own price. Thus the im- 
presario who engages them is put to an ex- 
pense far greater than an ordinary manager 
would venture to incur, and to live they must 
charge prices of admission far in e.xcess of those 
which are paid at theatres generally. The 
difiiculty is overcome in Europe by govern- 
ment subsidies. At Paris, Vienna, Rome, 
Madrid and other metropolitan cities of con- 
tinental Europe, the opera house receives a 
regular subsidy, which enables it to pay the 
high salaries commanded by the stars of song 
without raising the cost of opera tickets above 
the reach of the public. At the present time 
opera must be sustained by the voluntary con- 
tributions of the people, and the degree of 
support which it receives is a just measure of 
the refinement and liberality of the com- 
munity. — San Francisco Call. 



Big Words. 

Big words are great tavontes with small 
ideas and weak conceptions. They are some- 
times employed by men of mind, when they 
wish to use language that may the best con- 
ceal their thoughts. With few exceptions, 
however, illiterate and half-educated persons 
use more "big words " than people of thor- 
ough education. It is a very common but 
egregious mistake to suppose that the long 
words are more genteel than the short ones^ 
just as the same sort of people imagine that 
high colors and flashy figures improve the 
style of dress. — .5"/. Louis Spectator. 



Artitlci al Ex teriors. 

The Lenten season gives leisure in which to 
complete the spring and summer wardrobe 
which wise women will improve, for nothing is 
more irksome than to have the bulk of spring 
or summer dress-making heaped upon one just 
as the pleasant days of spring shall come. 
The models, if not all out, are quite enough in 
number to indicate in which way the fashions 
point and to give a general idea of what their 
principal features will be. 

Half-high bodices are now prettily trimmed 
about the neck, each side the jacket-shaped 
front and around the bottom of the waist with 
marabout and ostrich feather trimming of 
medium width. 

The idea of jewelled and embroidered 
gloves seems to be meeting with some favor 
abroad. Among the treasures at the French 
exhibition, says Woman's U 'or/if, were long 
gloves jewelled at the back. Three rows of 
diamonds are so arranged that they can be 
sewn and transferred to other gloves, but 
when on they prove most becoming to the 
liand, and nowhere could gems be more f>i 
evidence. Embroidered gloves have rarely 
made much way in modern days, though cen- 
turies ago most of the best gloves showed 
evidences of the embroiderer's art. Fine 
work is displayed on some of these long ones, 
as well as jewels. 

Spring jackets of cloth are long and fit 
closely over the hips, with moderately full 
sleeves set high on the shoulders, and a high 
collar. 

Coats of light tan cloths, with shoulder 
capes, will be much worn by young ladies 
during the spring months. Such coats are 
close-fitting in the back, straight and double- 
breasted in front, and some have revers at the 
top similar to those of a gentleman's morning 
coat. The capes are in triple layers, short 
and round, and notched on the edges like saw 
teeth. Sometimes there is but one cape, 
which is set on very full below the collar in a 
point in front and back. Stitched edges and 
pearl buttons give the required finish. 

Shoulder capes of light cloth will be worn 
as general-purpose wraps the coming spring, 
and will also be made up in very dressy 
fashion to complete spring suits. 

Some of the newest shoulder capes of Paris 
make consist of a deep frill which forms the 
garment, at the top of which is a puff of cloth 
and a standing frill, giving a full, broad- 
shouldered effect. 

Dressv long coats for spring wear are made 
of camel's hair, wrought all over with small 
p°a dots or with large polka dots done in 
silk. The backs are shirred at the waist-line, 
and the fronts are loose and lap somewhat in 
the fashion of a Russian coat. Around the 
shoulders is a very full cape of soft bengaline. 

Summer dusters will be in the form of large, 
round cloaks, enveloping the entire figure- 
The materials to be used are lustrous mo- 
hairs, pongees, twilled silks and striped and 
changeable glorias. 

New ulstei"s for travelling are of striped or 
checked cloth, and are made with straight, 
double-breasted fronts, redingote backs, large 
sleeves and shoulder cap°s, the latter in plain 
triple layers or a single large frill. 

A novel garniture to border summer benga- 



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lines, surahs and cashmeres is white embroi<l- 
ery, like open-netted lace, inserted in tlie 
midst of colored embroidery. 

Brussels nets for day and evening summer 
toilets are in very fine meshes, with small 
Mechlin patterns in dots or sprigs, also in 
large polka dots, branching designs, thick 
palm branches, for instance, or conventional- 
ized roses with long stems. 

Black hats and bonnets bid fair to predomi- 
nate during the spring, and will be rivalled 
only by those of ecru, cream and Tuscan yel- 
low braids. Gray, blue, brown and green 
straws, although shown, are decidedly in the 
minority. 

Mixtures of black and gold in nets and laces 
are likely to be popular the coming summer, 
also silver or gold embroidery with white net. 
Red net is also wrought with gold. 

Among the gayer trimmings for the ap- 
proaching spring season we note bullion work 
showing the colors of Scotch plaids. The 
colors of the illuminated fountains at the re- 
cent Paris exposition are also copied in metal- 
lic threads, the fashionable Edison blue pre- 
dominating. 

Blue promises to be one of the most popular 
colors, the gobelin shade more particularly. 
These are in a variety of light and darker 
shades. The Princess of Wales last season 
set the seal of her approval on these latter 
shades, adopting them for several of her nota- 
ble costumes, which were marvels of good 
taste and simplicity, as are her costumes 
always. Perhaps it is for this reason that she 
has so deservedly earned the reputation of 
being the best dressed woman in England, 
and sets the fashion for England's fashionable 
women. 

Nothing is more attractive than a combina- 
tion of three colors, if they be combined with 
skill and taste. A lovely Paris model comes 
to us this spring, with a lovely demonstration 
of the possibilities of such a combination. A 
lovely cloth of light sage green has panels and 
other trimmings of pink and black. The pink 
is in larger and more definite amount than the 
black, which is rather a suggestion or outlin- 
ing of the pink. 

Jackets for spring wear are gay with a gar- 
niture of metal braids and buttons and in 
charmingly natty shapes. Waistcoats are 
seen on most of the stylish jackets, and double 
lapels are considered very stylish. A small 
soft silk sash is worn with the short jacket. 

Velvet in narrow width will trim light spring 
costumes for young girls. The more rows the 
prettier is the effect. Sometimes a novel ar- 
rangement is attempted in setting several 
shades of the same color of velvet, the darker 
below the lighter. 

Velvet petticoats are seen among the leading 
models for spring costumes for street wear. 
Pinked out cloth is slightly draped over them. 

The shirt waists of last season proved so 
acceptable they will undoubtedly be worn 
again the coming season. English ladies 
adopted them very generally, and they thought 
well of them. They are made as nearly as 
may be like the masculine article of the same 
name. 



Rev. Calvin Stebbins exchanged pulpits 
with Mrs. Mary T. Whitney of Millbury, last 
Sunday. 



Abo ut Fo lks. 

KL-ligious Worcester is no meaninghss 
name, and the people who come here from 
otlier places and either laugh or express sur- 
prise because we even go so far as to have 
the street cars remove their bells on Sundays, 
would appreciate it if theycouli follow closely 
the work of the local churches throughout the 
year. There were 73 admissions to local 
churches last Sunday, and possibly there are 
others which have not been reported. The 
Congregational churches report 59 out of the 
entire number, and Rev. Edward G. Fuller- 
ton, the new pastor of Park church, certainly 
had reason to feel pl;ascd at having 18 
admissions. The number is divided as follows: 

Central — On profession of faith, 1 ; by let- 
ter, I ; total, 2. 

Church of the Covenant— On profession of 
faith, 2 ; by letter, i ; total, 3. 

Old South — On profession of faith, 2 ; by 
letter, 5 ; total, 7. 

Park — On profession of faith, 3 ; by letter, 
15 ; total, 18. 

Piedmont — On profession of faith, 4 ; by 
letter, i ; total, 5. 

Plymouth — On profession of faith, i ; by 
letter, 4; total, 5. 

Salem Street — On profession of faith, i ; by 
letter, 3 ; total, 4. 

Union — On profession of faith, 7 ; by letter, 
2 ; total, g. 

Other admissions were as follows : Lincoln 
Square Baptist, five by baptism; Pleasant 
Street Baptist, three by letter; Main Street 
Baptist, one by letter; First Baptist, one by 
letter; First Universalist, two on profession of 
faith ; Church of Christ, one on profession of 
faith. 

Rev. Gorham Easterbrook of Southbridge 
has been called to the pastorate of the South 
Baptist church, the salary offered him being 
S1200 per year. Mr. Easterbrook is pastor of 
the Central Baptist church in Southbridge, 
whose pulpit he has occupied for several 
years. He is about 40 years of age and has 
been an influential citizen in the town where 
he lives. 

Mr. G. Walter Hubbard, who has been for 
a year past the manager of circulation of the 
Daily Telegram, and was, for three years pre- 
vious to his connection with that paper, con- 
nected with the post-office news room, has 
accepted a position with Gi-orge D. Webb, 
the graniti contractor at 44 Front street, and 
will s;ver his newspaper connection to-day, to 
begin his new work next Monday. Mr. Hub- 
bard is a bright young man with a level head 
for business, and deserves unlimited success. 



Miss Grace M. Bigelow, who has been at 
home recovering from a recent illness, returned 
a day or two ago to Pittsfi -l-i, where she at- 
tends Miss Salisbury's school. 

Capt. J. B. Knox gave his inter"stingtalk on 
the "Signal Service in the War of the Reb'd- 
lion" to the boys at Pilgrim church, Monday 
evening, it being one of the practical and in- 
structive talks which they have on Monday 
evenings. 

Messrs. Otis E. Putnam and Tosiah W. 
Brown are enjoying a glimps; at life in the 
Capital among Tom Reed's "children." 



Temperate Worcester. 



BY ALFRED S. ROE. 



Twice this city has placed herself on record, 
the largest municipality in the country to vote 
for the unqualified restriction of the liquor 
traffic. When on November 25th, 1885, the city 
of Atlanta voted no license, Georgia possessed 
the banner city of the nation ; but when on 
the 15th of the following December, Worces- 
ter cast her decisive vote, the laurels of the 
famous gate city were lost. Again last Decem- 
ber the same verdict was had and we now 
await the issue. 

As to the nominal year of prohibition. What 
were the obstacles in the way of a strict en- 
forcement of the law, for no law enforces it- 
self. First, there was on the statute book a 
three per cent provision, allowing men to sell 
drinks containing that amount of alcohol, thus 
permitting them to keep open shop and under 
this cloak to sell much harder stuff. Secondly, 
as the city, in the ne.xt election, reversed the 
result of the preceding year, proclaiming its 
intention to license the sale of into.xicants, the 
first of May, the spirited enforcement of the 
law ceased thereafter. Thus the city had only 
about seven months of actual prohibition. 
While the law was operative, those who 
earnestly desired law and order, had very 
little to complain of. To be sure there were 
all sorts of schemes to evade the law; that was 
to be expected, but of the genuine good to the 
families of the city, there could be very little 
doubt. Said a provision dealer, "1 don't pre- 
tend to know much about the politics of this 
business, but I do know that during the prohi- 
bition spell, there were men having money to 
buy meat here who never had any before or 
since." A prominent manufacturer bore this 
testimony, "One of my men who had uniformly 
spent all his earnings at the bar to the sad 
condition of his family turned short about and 
not only took care of his wife and children, 
but he began a savings bank account." The 
only people who did not prosper were those 
who had followed the business of rum selling. 

Before us there is another year of prohi- 
bition. What will the harvest be? Before 
looking to the future, however, let us see who 
or what were the agencies that gave to this 
city another chance to be total abstinate. The 
most radical prohibitionist in Worcester would 
not claim that all who voted "No" at the late 
election agreed with him in all respects. Com- 
ing so soon after the unqualified rejection of 
the constitutional amendment, our recent 
action is entitled to a more than passing con- 
sideration. 1 doubt if any considerable por- 
tion of those opposed to license by their votes 
had any desire or expectation to say what any 
man or woman should eat or drink. The 
largest liberty is demanded and granted in this 
matter, but there was a thorough agreement 
in this thought that the saloon is here and 
everywhere an unmitigated evil, and that it 
must go. Men voted for this consummation 
who are themselves patrons of the institution, 
claiming that so long as it exists they have no 
power to withstand its temptations. Others 
cast a "No" vote who may use wine and other 
beverages in their homes, yet would not think 
of entering a saloon any more than they would 
go into a pest house. Then there was the 



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very large element that is opposed to the traffic 
first, last and always, and who may be depend- 
ed upon to bruise the serpent's head wherever 
visible. In this enumeration 1 must not forget 
the no inconsiderable number of disaffected or 
jealous ones who voted "No" to get even with 
some luckier than themselves. In this latter 
case, it may be said that God made the wrath 
of man to praise him. 

The problem confronting those in authority 
during the coming year is no ordinary one. We 
will assume that those who brought about the 
result are anxious to see the law's enforcement. 
It would be no credit to this community to 
vote one way and set its face against what it 
has distinctly asked for. On certain holidays, 
even in license years, the saloon can be closed. 
I do not believe that the loudest claimant for 
the saloon really believes himself when he 
says that the same cannot be closed. Worces- 
ter has the opportunity of doing what many 
claim to be an impossibility. Her record in 
other matters, involving principles, is unex- 
celled. She has expressed herself as to the 
proper condition of the saloon. What will tem- 
perate Worcester do during the coming years ? 
There are many men who seek the saloon, not 
for the drink there afforded, but for the chance 
to see and hear their friends. There is little 
doubt that one of the outcomes of this tem- 
perance legislation will be more facilities for 
the congregating of men in an innocent man- 
ner. Of course, I would much prefer to have 
every man at his home in the evening, but for 
those whose homes are only apologies or 
worse, there must be some provision made. 
The Y. M.C. A. building does not entirely fill 
the bill. These places for conference and 
diversion should be as frequent as the rum 
shop of to-day and just as pleasant. When 
these can be thus afforded our city and all 
other places having them will be vastly more 
temperate than they are now and that too 
without reference to law. 

The population of Worcester has been re- 
peatedly alluded to, and the many advantages 
that she presents have been duly and eloquent- 
ly set forth. She has manufactures beyond 
the power of pen to adequately describe ; she 
has educational facilities far in advance of 
many places much larger; she has elegant 
churches and eloquent clergymen, along with 
a population that appreciates the good upon 
which it has fallen. Not least among the 
enumerated blessings of the community, for 
the coming year, will be this, that every boy in 
our midst will be safer, every family will have 
more food and more clothing, and the out- 
look for the Heart of the Commonwealth 
will be brighter than ever before. Said a cer- 
tain rear admiral of the U. S. navy, "There 
is no place on the coast of the United States 
that I like to touch at so well as Portland, Me., 
for there I am sure of having my men sober if 
tliey are allowed to go ashore." Worcester, 
with this additional defence thrown around her 
youth, is to be an excellent place for the man 
in search of a home to touch at. The city is 
to throw a safeguard around his children, 
making it safer for them to be out of his sight. 
Our numbers have already been enlarged 
through this consideration, and there is very- 
little doubt that coming years will still further 
show the good coming to us through there being 
a thoroughly temperate Worcester. 



About Br ead a nd Yeast. 

BY MARIA PARLOA, 

:hor of " First Principles of Household Man; 
ment," "Miss Parloa's New Cook-Book," 
" Miss Parloa's Kitchen Com- 
panion," Etc. 



[Copyrighted.] 
Hop Yeast. 

Put a tablespoonful of hops in one quart of 
cold water and place on the fire. Now pare 
and grate into a tin pan three large uncooked 
potatoes. When the hops and water begin to 
boil, strain the boiling water on the grated po- 
tatoes. Place the pan with the potatoes and 
hop-water on the stove, and stir until the mix- 
ture boils up. Take from the fire, and add 
one tablespoonful of salt and two of granu- 
lated sugar. Let this mixture stand until it is 
blood warm ; then add half a cupful of liquid 
yeast or half a cake of compressed yeast dis- 
solved in one-fourth of a cupful of water. 
Pour the mixture into a large earthern bowl 
which has been thoroughly heated. Cover, 
and set in a warm place for six hours. In that 
time the yeast should be so well risen that it is 
foamy all through. Now pour this into a stone 
jar, or into two preserve jars (the jars should 
not be more than half full), and put in a cold 
place, but not where the yeast will freeze. 
This yeast will keep three or four weeks. 
Made in this way it is called liquid yeast. 

Liquid, compressed, or dry yeast will all, if 
sweet and good, make excellent bread. In 
ver)' hot countries the dry yeast is by far the 
best unless one has an ice chest to keep the 
liquid yeast in. As the method of making 
bread with the dry yeast is different from that 
of making with liquid yeast, a separate rule 
may be valuable. 
Bread Made with Dry Yeast. 

For three small loaves there will be required 
two quarts of flour, one pint and a gill of 
blood-warm water, one yeast cake, one table- 
spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter 
or lard, and one teaspoonful of salt. 

Sift the flour in the bread pan. Break up 
the yeast cake and put it in a quart bowl ; 
then add a gill of the water, and mash with a 
spoon until the yeast and water are well 
mixed. Beat in one gill of the flour. Cover 
the bowl and set in a warm place for two 
hours. At the end of that time the batter 
should be a perfect sponge. Add to the 
sponge the pint of warm water, half the butter 
or lard, and the salt and sugar. Stir this mix- 
ture into the flour and mix well with a spoon. 
Sprinkle the moulding board thickly with 
flour, and turning the dough upon it knead for 
20 minutes, using as little flour as possible. 
At the end of this time the ball of dough 
should be soft, smooth and elastic. Place the 
dough in the bowl and rub the second spoon- 
ful of butter or lard over it. Cover with a 
clean towel and then with a tin or wood cover. 
Set the bowl in a warm place and let it rise 
over night. In the morning the dough will 
have increased to three times its original 
volume and will be a perfect sponge. Knead 
it in the bowl for five minutes — do not use 
flour — and then shape into three small loaves. 
Put these in deep pans, and with a sharp 
knife cut lengthwise through the centre of 
each loaf. Put the pans in a warm place and 
cover with clean towels. Let the loaves rise to 
twice their size, and then bake in a moderately 
hot oven for 50 minutes. 



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The Tower at Lake Park. 



Set upon a rock even more solid than itself, 
and builded not for this generation, nor for 
the next, but for ages to come, the Tower at 
Lake Park inspires something of awe as well 
as of admiration. 

The Tow'er has not yet become a familiar 
object to Worcester people. It was completed 
in the latter part of last summer, and with the 
coming of the busy days of fall, people began 
to think more of affairs in town than of out- 
ings at the Lake. It will not be long, how- 
ever, before the season for Lake pleasurings 
will be at hand, and the Tower is to be hence- 
forth one of the chief points of interest on 
Worcester's holiday ground. It is easy of ac- 
cess, through charming drives or pathways, 
and will have daily visitors as the season ad- 
vances. 

It is quite possible to go to the Lake with- 
out seeing the Tower, and many people have 
done so. For those to whom Lincoln Park 
and the region below the Causeway are the 
only familiar grounds about Quinsigamond, 
Lake Park offers the advantages of a new and 
unexplored territory, delightful in its wild 
beauties, still retained, and unve.xed by spade 
of gardener or vicious clip of lawn mower. In 
this little territory, the Tower occupies a 
prominent place. 

It is the gift of one man — a generous offer- 
ing to the people, from a citizen who, when he 
is found absorbed in thought, is generally sure 
to be thinking about others rather than about 
himself. The people of Worcester have good 
reason to know the generous public spirit of 
Hon. Edward L. Davis. This is only one of 
many benefactions, which have come from his 
hand in past years, but this one is for the 
whole people ; it is something that will benefit 
all and give every inhabitant of Worcester a 
feeling of proprietary interest in it. 

It is interesting to know how this splendid 
piece of work came to be planned and e.xe- 
cuted. 

It had been suggested that a tower of some 
sort should be erected to serve as a pedestal 
for the figure of the Pioneer, which was offered 
by Mr. H. H. Bigelow, as an adornment for 
Lake Park, and a quantity of stone was gath- 
ered and a foundation put in, in the fall of 
1887. The spot selected was the old cellar- 
hole, now filled up, supposed to be the site of 
the first house built in this region, away back 
in the days when the country about Lake 
Quinsigamond was a hunting ground for the 
red man. 

But before anything more had been done, 
Mr. Davis, then a new member of the Parks 
Commission, conceived the idea of erecting, 
at his own expense, a tower which should be 
altogether more substantial and more pleasing 
than that before suggested. In the summer 
of '88, Mr. Davis had partly matured his plan, 
and on the 3d of July he made a visit to Lake 
Park, accompanied by Mr. Stephen C. Earle, 
the architect, whom he had requested to pre- 
pare plans for the proposed structure. Mr. 
Davis's plan thus far contemplated the erection 
of the Tower on the site at first selected, but 
in the spring of 1S89, before building was com- 
menced, it was decided to choose a new site. 
The place chosen, where the Tower stands, is 
tlie highest point of land in Lake Park, and 



commands the finest view of the Lake which 
can be obtained from its shores. 

In April, Mr. Davis sailed for Europe, but 
a contract h.id been signed with Norcross 
Brothers for the building of the Tower, and 
while Mr. Davis was absent, the work pro- 
gressed rapidly. The contract'stipul.ated that 
work should not be commenced until the sea- 
.son had advanced sufficiently to make the at- 
mospheric conditions as favorable as could be 
secured, and work was begun about the first 
of May. Three months sufficed for the build- 
ing, and on the 5th of August the work was 
complete. 

The Tower is a handsome structure, and 
the faithful representation of it on the first 
page of this issue of Light serves to 
show how massive and substantial it is in 
every detail, and yet not without graceful and 
attractive lines. 

The Tower stands on the ledge of rock from 
which a portion juts out in the foreground of 
the picture, and strikes boldly against the sky. 
It suggests at once the Old Mill at Newport, 
both because of its substantial form and be- 
cause of the thought that it is to be looked upon 
by many future generations with admiration, 
and, perhaps, curiosity. Unlike the Old Mill at 
Newport, its story will never be shrouded in 
mystery. Gutenberg changed all that more 
than 400 years ago. 

The Tower is built of the rough field stone 
picked up in Lake Park, set in cement, and 
the trimmings are of Milford and Brandford 
granite. When the visitor has climbed the 
broad stairway to the top, and rests his hand 
upon tlie parapet, he is 42 feet above the ledge 
on which the Tower stands. The Tower, in 
shape, may be described as an oblong, rectan- 
gular at the south end and semi-circular at the 
north end. The southerly part contains the 
entrance. Archways open from e<ist and west 
upon the vestibule, whence the staircase be- 
gins its ascent. With the three steps on 
the outside, there are 27 steps to be 
taken before reaching the first landing, and 
here, if the visitor desire, he has an oppor- 
tunity to go out upon the observatory platform 
above the entrance,the Tower here being carried 
up to a height of 22 feet. Continuing on the main 
staircase, he mounts the remaining 30 steps, 
peering through the three narrow windows pro- 
vided on the north side to light the staircase, 
and finally reaches the main platform, not at 
all fatigued, for the spiral staircase is easy of 
ascent. The platform is made up of magni- 
ficent great slabs of granite, which give one a 
sense of security for his feet that carries an 
indescribably pleasurable feeling with it, as of 
all the earth being beneath, and all the free 
air and the heaven above. 

It may be readily imagined that the outlook 
from the Tower is something delightful. If 
the visitor turns toward the Lake, as is most 
natural, he looks down upon the woods along 
the shore and then the eye reaches out over the 
blue waters of the "Long Pond" of which W'or- 
cester has been so proud ever since it was 
enough of a burgh to be proud of anything. 
The view includes nearly the entire length of 
the Lake, and the surrounding country is 
spread out in a beautiful framework of green 
hills and smiling valleys about the central pic- 
ture of blue waters. In summer time, Wor- 
cester may well believe that there is no more 



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beautiful lake country in New England. 

Passengers in the trains of the Boston and 
Albany railroad liave doubtless wondered many 
times, what the Tower was. It is in plain 
view of passing trains, and on the other hand, 
spectators standing on the Tower platform 
can watch the progress of the trains for a 
long distance. But though the buildings of the 
Worcester Lunatic Hospital and some scatter- 
ing houses come into view, the city is hidden 
by the intervening hills, and it is restful to the 
eye, tired of brick walls and chimneys and 
steeples, to rest for a while on the green wil- 
derness and forget for a time the city and its 
busy ways. No one can appreciate the beauty 
of the picture until he looks upon it. 

When the visitor stands on the ground be- 
low and looks up at the Tower, he sees a 
broad stone set in the Tower, about 20 feet 
above him, on which is the inscription : — 
ANNO DOMINI 

MDCCCLXX.XIX. 

There it is, cut in the stone, and nothing but 
an earthquake will be apt to dislodge it. There 
is no name about the Tower — no stone to call 
attention to the fact that it is the "Davis 
Tower." But because of his modesty, so 
thoroughly characteristic of his daily life and 
all his intercourse with his fellow-citizens, Mr. 
Davis's name is not to be forgotten. The city 
fathers have placed in the municipal archives 
resolutions expressing the gratitude of the 
people for Mr. Davis's gift. To build at per- 
sonal expense, at a cost of about $Sooo, a struc- 
ture designed wholly for the pleasure of the 
people, is not an every-day act among even the 
most public-spirited of citizens. Mr. Davis 
need not fear that his gift is unappreciated. 
Light, appreciating the gift and recognizing 
its influence for broadening the minds of the 
people and teaching them a lesson of unsel- 
fishness and zeal for the public good, gives to 
Worcester as handsome a souvenir of the 
Tower as could be obtained. 

When Balder brings back springtime once 
more, and it is time to turn lakeward, there is 
likely to be a large number of visitors to Lake 
park. If the idler has a Bucephalus to har- 
ness, he can find a number of pleasant drives 
about Lake park, and he will be interested in 
the big boulders scattered along the way. The 
nearest way is to drive down Belmont street to 
Coburn avenue and thence the route is very 
plain. For the less favored visitor, if he pro- 
poses to make a pedestrian tour, he should 
make his way to Lake \'iew and follow Coburn 
avenue. Lake park once reached, a region of 
natural beauty is opened up before him which 
will cause his footsteps to linger many times, 
and he will turn aside into alluring thickets 
and groves. No work of human hands could 
have been more fittingly or more pleasingly 
added to the beauties of Lake park than the 
Tower. It is well worth a visit. 



The First Presbyterian church, at a meeting 
held Wednesday evening, voted to call to tlie 
pastorate of the church Rev. Thomas Atkin- 
son, who is at present in charge of one of the 
missions connected with Dr. John Hall's 
church on Fifth avenue. New York city. The 
salary offered is $1200. The church has been 
looking for a pastor since Rev. Joseph H. 
Ralston resigned, and is satisfied that Rev. 
Mr. Atkinson is just the man needed for the 
place. 



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The Polytechnic histitute. 



The catalogue of the Worcester Polytechnic 
Institute for 1S90 is due to appear to-day from 
the press of Sanford & Davis. In general 
form and makeup it will be similar to the cata- 
logue of a year ago. Perhaps the most im- 
portant change to be noted in" the new cata- 
logue is a proposition to establish a new course 
in physical and political science, should a 
sufficient number of candidates express their 
desire for it. 

The page devoted to the faculty has 22 names, 
this year, against 17 last year, the name of 
Otis A. Freeman being added as an instructor 
in language, with several assistants in various 
departments. The following is the list :— 

Homer T. Fuller, Ph. D., President and 
Professor of Geolog>- and Mineralogj-; Geo. 
I. Alden, S. B., Professor of Theoretical and 
Applied Mechanics ; George E. Gladwin, Pro- 
fessor of Drawing; Milton P. Higgins, S. B., 
Superintendent of Washburn Shops ; John E. 
Sinclair, Ph. D., Professor of Higher Mathe- 
matics; Alonzo S. Kimball, Ph. D., Professor 
of Physics ; Edward P. Smith, Ph. D. Profes- 
sor of Modern Languages and Political Sci- 
ence ; Thomas E. N. Eaton, Ph. D., Junior 
Professor of Mathematics ; U. Waldo Cutler, 
S. B., Assistant Professor of Modern Lan- 
guages ; Leonard P. Kinnicutt, S. D., Profes- 
sor of Chemistrj- ; George H. White, S. B., 
Professor of Civil Engineering; Robert C. 
Sweetser, S. B., Instructor in Inorganic Chem- 
istry ; George H. Haynes, .•X. B., Instructor in 
Language; Otis A. Freeman, Instructor in 
Language; William W. Bird, S. B., Instructor 
in ivfechanical Drawing and Steam Engineer- 
ing : Joseph O. Phelon, S. B., Instructor in 
Physics; George D. Moore, Ph. D., Instructor 
in Organic Chemistr>- ; Arthur J. Bean, S. B., 
Assistant in Mechanical Laboratory ; Ernest 
W. Desper, S. B., Assistant in Chemistry; 
Albert P. Allen, S. B., Assistant in Physics ; 
James A. Baylis, S. B., Assistant in Physics ; 
Albert B. Kimball, S. B., Assistant in Physics. 
In the list of students, 171 names appear, a 
gain of 3 over last year. The apprentice class 
is larger by 9 students than it has ever been 
before, and all but 7 pay tuition. The sum- 
mary is as follows : — 

Electrical Engineering. 3 

Chem. Civ. Eng. Mech. Eng. Total. 
Seniors, 8 10 21 39 

Middlers, 6 9 2j 39 

Juniors, 5 I4 25 47 

Apprentices, 4' 

Special, _^ 

Totals, 20 33 73 '7> 

Last year the classes were divided : Seniors, 
35; middlers, 43; juniors, 58; apprentices, 
32 ; total, 168. 

Of the 171 pupils, 80 claim Worcester as 
their place of residence, the division being : 
Electrical engineering, i ; seniors, 15 ; mid- 
dlers, 18; juniors, 25; apprentices, 20; spec- 
ial, I ; total, 80. 

The catalogue presents fully this year the 
scheme of the course in electrical engineering. 
It is a four and one-half years' course. For 
three and one-half years the course is identical 
with that pursued by the students in the me- 
chanical engineering department. The last 
year of the course is devoted entirely 
to electrical work, according to the following 
plan: — 



First Term — Mathematical theory of 
electricity : Dynamo electric machinery ; Ap- 
plication of electricity : Signals, telegraph and 
telephone system, etc.; Laboraton,- work: 
Electrical measurements, determination of 
constants, and construction of apparatus; 
reading and reports. 

Second Term— Application of Electric- 
ity: Illumination, transmission of power, etc. ; 
Electrical engineering: Design of dynamo, 
electric machiner>-, stations, etc. ; Laboratory 
work: Magnetic measurements, efficiency 
tests of dynamos, motors, batteries and lamps ; 
reading and reports. 

It is to be noted, also, that chemists are not 
now required to take steam engineering or any 
of the studies of the middle year which the 
civil or mechanical engineers have, except 
metallurg>', geology and English. 

It is proposed, says the catalogue, in Sep- 
tember, 1 89 1, to begin a course of instruction 
in a "Department of Physical and Political 
Science," provided that before January, 1891, 
a sufficient number of candidates indicate a 
desire to enter this department. The purpose 
of this course is to make provision for an in- 
creasing class of students who desire a general 
scientific education, but who do not aim to be- 
come chemists or engineers. These look for- 
ward to teaching in our high schools, acade- 
mies and higher institutions of learning, or to 
engaging in some branch of commerce or 
other business enterprises. Such a depart- 
ment, while embracing a major part of the 
studies common to the present departments, 
would be somewhat less restricted in its 
range of studies, though by no means less ex- 
acting and thorough in its requirements or in- 
ferior in its educational discipline. For a part 
of the higher mathematics and practice time 
in other departments, there would be substi- 
tuted a wider work in natural science, includ- 
ing, in physics, a course in general physics, 
together with laboratory work ; in chemistry, 
in addition to the regular course, a thorough 
laboratory course, with lectures in analytical 
and sanitary chemistrj- ; and in geology and 
botany, special courses, and also a larger 
amount of study in history, literature and 
economics than is possible with the require- 
ments of the other departments. 

Especial mention is made of the arrange- 
ments for special studies. Special students, 
not candidates for a degree, are allowed to 
take up the work of such departments as they 
may be qualified for, provided it does not im- 
pair the efficiency of the work of the candi- 
dates for a degree. Students who find the 
three years' course too onerous may make 
special arrangements to do the work in four 
years. 

The Institute acknowledges some valuable 
gifts received during the year, among which 
are: From Messrs. G. Henry Whitcomb and 
Stephen Salisburj', $12,840 for repairs on 
Boynton hall; from Nathaniel Thayer, of 
Lancaster, $s°°°' fo"" endowment; from 
Messrs. William H. Sawyer, H. T. Marshall 
and H. T. Fuller, $150 each, for current ex- 
penses; from Hon. Edward L. Davis, $200; 
J ared Whitman, $100; John M. Russell, S50; 
M. J. Whittall, 536; John B. Goodell, $25; 
from Fred H. Daniels, J.25 for books for the 
library ; from Hon. P. Emory Aldrich, the Cen- 
tury Dictionarv. 



The summary of graduates shows that 19 
classes have been graduated, the average age 
being 22 years. Of these, 90 per cent, are 
now engaged in occupations for which their 
training at the Institute specially prepared 
them. The occupations of graduates are given 
as follows : Partners in business firms, 66 ; 
superintendents, 60 ; chief engineers, 5 ; assist- 
ant and division engineers, 30 ; civil engineers, 
25 ; draughtsmen, 61 ; mechanical engineers, 
15; foremen, 8; teachers, 44 ; chemists, 23; 
electrical work, 20; advanced students, 10; 
designers, 5 ; other occupations, 42 ; total, 414; 
deceased, 26 ; total,!44o. This shows that the 
number of graduates in business for them- 
selves has increased over last year from 51 to 
66, while the number of teachers has increased 
from 28 to 44. 

With the new Salisbury laboratories now in 
use, the Institute is one of the best equipped 
institutions of its kind in the country and is 
doing work more efficient and successful, per- 
haps, than ever before. 

There is considerable interest among the 
students regarding the coming change in the 
editorial management of the W. P. I. The 
present editor-in-chief, Mr. Elmer C. Rice, '90, 
retires with the March number, and it is not 
yet known who his successor will be. The 
position involves no little personal sacrifice and 
a good deal of hard work, and the aspirants 
are consequently [fewer than they might be un- 
der other circumstances. Several names have 
been mentioned in connection with the posi- 
tion, including Messrs. Harry L. Dadmun, 
Sumner A. Kinsley and C. H. Dunbar, but it 
is understood that Mr. Dadmun positively re- 
fuses to accept the place, while neither Mr. 
Kinsley nor Mr. Dunbar is anxious for it. 
Mr. Dunbar will probably be elected business, 
manager. It is not because there is a dearth 
of brains at the Institute, for there are a lot of 
bright young men there, but the requirements 
of the regular courses use up about all the 
time that students get for outside work. 

W. F. Burleigh, '92, and W. N. Stark, '93, 
were elected to membership on the editorial 
board of the W. P. I., at a meeting of the 
board held last Monday. 

The executive committee of the New Eng- 
land Intercollegiate Atliletic association 
is to be held at the Quincy house, 
Boston, to-day, and Mr. Harry L. Dad- 
mun, who is a member of the committee, 
representing the Institute, will attend. Among 
other things to be brought up will be the dis- 
puted records in the 220 yard hurdle race and 
220 yard dash, made over a short course at the 
park, last May. In response to the request of 
President Sparhawk of Dartmouth, the clerk 
of the course, Mr. Myron J. Bigelow, has for- 
warded a statement concerning the matter, 
which will be presented at the meeting, and 
Mr. Dadmun will also explain the circum- 
circumstances to the committee. The com- 
mittee will also fix the order of events for the 
coming sports, appoint committees, etc., and 
the Manhattan Athletic club will undoubtedly 
be asked to furnish officers for the field day. 

Mr. Sibley H. Keyes, who has been for 
some time employed at the Institute, leaves 
to-day to accept a position with the Nonatuck 



Silk company, at Leeds. Mr. Sibley has had 
charge of the toolroom in the Was'iburn 
shop, and has made it a model of its kind. 
The students speak highly in praise of Mr. 
Sibley's management. 



The semi-annual meeting of the Polytechnic 
Institute Athletic Association will be held 
Friday, March 14. 



Lent, 17th Day to the 226. Day. 



AT ALL SAINTS. 



March. 

9. Third Sunday in Lent. — Holy communion, 
7.30 a. m.; morning prayer and sermon, 10.30 a. 
m., offertory for parish expenses ; Sunday 
school and bible classes, 3 p. m.; evening 
prayer 7.30 p. m., sermon by the rector. 

10. Monday.— Morning prayer, 9 a. m.; evening 
prayer, 5 p. m.; vestment committee, bible class, 
4 p. m.; church temperance society, Sp. m. 

11. Tuesday.— Morning prayer, 9 a. m.; evening 
prayer, address, 5 p. m. 

12. Wednesday.— Litany, 8.30 a. ra.; evening 
prayer, 7.30 p. m.. sermon by Rev, William 
Laurence, Dean Theological school, Cam- 
bridge ; kitchen garden, 2.30 p.m.; parish library 
open,l4 to 5 p. m.; depository open, 3 to 5 p. m.; 
rehearsal of voluntary choirs after evening ser- 
vice. 

13. Thursday.— Holy communion, 7 a. m.; morn- 
ing prayer, 9 a. m.; evening prayer, 5 p.m., 
address to the children of the church ; wonlen's 
meeting. 7.30 p. m., address by Rev. E. S. 
Middleton. 

14. Friday. — Morning prayer and Utany, 10.30 a. 
m.; address by Rev. E. S. Middleton ; society 
of the Wilhng Mind. 

15. S.\turd.ay.— Morning prayer, 9 a. ra.; evening 
prayer, 5 p. m.;; sewing school, 2.30 p. m.; 
parish library open, 3 to 5 p. m. 



at ST. JOHN S, LINCOLN STREET. 



March. 

9. Third Sunday in Lent.— Holy communion, 
9.30 a. m.; morning prayer, Utany and sermon, 
10.30 a. m.; Sunday school and bible classes, 
noon ; evening prayer and sermon, 7.30 p. m. 

12. Wednesday.— Evening prayer, and sermon by 
Rev. Langdon C. Stewardson, 7.20 p. m. 

13. Thursday.— Every evening prayer and ad- 
dress, 4.30 p. m.; evening prayer and address at 
the Chadwick Square Mission, 7.30 p. m. 

14. Friday.— Evening prayer, litany and address, 
7.30 p. m. 

15. Saturday.— Free sewing school, 2.30 p. m. 



at ST. M.A.RKS 



Tuesday afternoons in Lent, evening prayer, 

4 p. m. 
Thursday evenings in Lent, evening prayer and 

sermon, 7.30 p. m. 
Preachers at the Thursday evening services : — 
March 

6. Rev. J. Eldred Brown, Church of the Recon- 
ciliation, Webster. 
13. Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, All Saints, Wor- 
cester. 
20. Rev. Francis G. Burgess, St. John's Worcester- 
27. Rev. John Gregson, St. John's church, Wilkin- 
sonville. 
April 

3. Rev. Henry Hague. St. Matthews, Worcester. 

Farm For Sale. 

A farm of 310 acres, pleasantly situated on the Boston 
& Keene Pike, one and a half miles west of Jaffrey, N. 
H.. within three miles of Mt. Monadnock, It contains 
2000 cords of thrifty wood and timber a 'me Rock Maple 
orchard, also orchards of apples, apric ^ pears, plums, 
and cherries of the most desirable sorts. .\ convenient 
and pleasant house of eight rooms, locate i i, ar the iron 
spring. Several tons of hay, and plenty cf orv wood. 
Land easy to cultivate. Possession given innvliately. 
Price low, terms easy. For sale by EDW.AI D S. 
TONES, 99 Park street, Worcester, Mass. 



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Pine Tree People. 

There was a breath of pine in the air at As- 
sociation hall, Thursday evening, and a dreamy 
murmur of Casco bay and the Androscoggin, 
for the Natives of Maine were holding their 
ninth annual reunion. It is only once a year 
that they let Maine come to the fore, to the ex- 
clusion of Massachusetts, and then they pay a 
fitting tribute to their native commonwealth. 

The party assembled Thurday evening, at 
about seven o'clock, in Association hall, and 
shortly afterward President George W. Hub- 
bard, escorting Col. F. S. Hesseltine, of the 
Pine Tree Club of Boston, led the way to 
Curtis hall, where the banquet tables were 
ready for the feasters. While all were stand- 
ing, President Hubbard asked Rev. Charles E. 
Simmons to invoke the divine blessing, and 
then the company attended for a time strictly 
to the eatables. 

Those present included guests from other 
State associations, including, from the Empire 
State society, Mr. Alfred W. Rose, president; 
Rev. Charles E. Simmons, Mrs. Charles E. 
Simmons, secretary; Mr. Charles H. Bliss, 
treasurer; Mrs. Charles H. Bliss, Mr. Elmer 
H. French, Mrs. French, vice-president, Mr. 
and Mrs. George T. Aitchison, Mr. and Mrs. 
Corwin M. Thayer ; from the Sons and 
Daughters of New Hampshire, Dr. J. K. 
Warren, Miss Bertha Warren, John W. Had- 
ley, vice-president, Mrs. Hadley, Mr. W. K. 
Lindsey; from the Sons and Daughters of 
Vermont, Mr. Fordis O. Bushnell, president, 
Mr. H. J. Adams, vice-president, Mr. Wilson 
Tyler, Mrs. Wilson Tyler, vice-president, Mr. 
George Pritchard, secretary, Miss M. Addie 
Pritchard. Mayor Harrington and Mr. Chas. 
F. Washburn were also guests of the evening. 
The Maine people present included Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph K. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. George 
S. Clough, Ur. William T. Souther, Dr. E. H. 
Trowbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Dodge, 
Miss Florence M. Dodge, Mrs. George W. 
Hubbard, Misses Lottie and Addie Hubbard, 
Messrs. Franklin B. Towle, Fred W. Perkins, 
T. J. Hastings, and others. 

The clock hands had safely sounded the 
eight o'clock point, when the company arose 
from the table, and returned to Association 
hall, where an entertainment was given. 

The president, Mr. Hubbard, presided in 
a most graceful manner and made a brief 
opening address. 

A quartet including Messrs. W. F. Merrill, 
J. A. Brennan, George L. Sanborn and D. E. 
Spencer, sang "Welcome To-night," and for 
an encore, "1 Long for Thee." 

President Hubbard first introduced Mayor 
Harrington, who spoke pleasantly of the rela- 
tions between Massachusetts and Maine. Dr. 
W. T. Souther made an amusing speech, and 
Col. F. S. Hesseltine, from the Pine Tree club, 
made an interesting speech. Mes.srs. Charles 
F. Washburn and Joseph K. Greene followed. 

So much speaking of course needed intervals 
of lighter entertainment, though, for that mat- 
ter, all the speaking was bright and breezy. 
Miss Daisy Hoyt, of Boston, who was par- 
ticularly charming in a gown of pale lavender, 
gave a song-reading, "The Minuet," and 
"The Old Kitchen clock," following later with 
"Sue's Wedding" and "Rock me to Sleep." 



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Miss Luella Flagg, contralto, and .Mrs. H. 
W. Johnson, soprano, both of whom are local 
favorites, sang solos and one duett, the quartet 
also sang again, and the entertainment was 
made complete by Mr. Walter G. Ingall's 
satisfactory accompaniments. 



About Folks. 



The Methodist Social union will me et a 
Grace church, Monday evening, and in the al> 
sence of the president. Dr. Emerson Warner, 
the presiding officer will be one of the vice-pres- 
idents. There will be a brief entertainment, 
but special stress will be laid upon the social 
side of the meeting. Dr. Warner, by the way, 
is taking a sea voyage with Mrs. Warner, to 
the Azores. He will not return for several 
weeks. 

The Main street home of Mr. and Mrs. R. 
C. Taylor presented a holiday appearance, 
Wednesday afternoon and evening, the occa- 
sion being the tenth anniversarj' of their wed- 
ding day. The friends and relatives of the 
liappy pair assembled at about 3 o'clock, and 
inaugurated the festivities by a "family" 
sleigh ride over Park avenue. At seven o'clock 
the recreators returned breezy with the snowy 
breezes, and the fun began, the hungr>- com- 
pany immediately partaking of one of Caterer 
Rebboli's banquets. The parlors were artis- 
tically decorated with flowers and greens, and 
by each guest was a handsome bouquet. 
Among those present were Hon. and Mrs. 
Charles B. Pratt, and Frank P. Goulding, Mr. 
and Mrs. W. A. Gile, Mrs. E. W. Vaill, Mr. 
and Mrs. D. H. Fanning, Mr. and Mrs. R. 
James Tatman, Mr. Charles T. Tatman, Miss 
May Tatman, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hill, Mr. 
and Mrs. W. S.- Jourdan. Dr. and Mrs. W. T. 
Gilman, Mr. R. F. Taylor and family, Mr. and 
Mrs. M. E. Shattuck, Mrs. W. L. Shepherd, 
Mr. and Miss Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest W. 
Taylor and Misses Emma and .^gnes Taylor 
and Mrs. Gilman. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt and 
Mr. and Mrs. Tatman were present at the 
initial wedding ten years ago. 



Col. E. J. Russell, warden of the Charles- 
town prison, and Mrs. Russell, are on a south- 
ern pleasure trip. 

The Young Women's Christian a.s.sociation 
rejoices in a large and handsome bible for use 
at religious services, which is the gift of Mrs. 
Charles E. Stevens. 



Our clergymen have been paying visits out- 
side, this week. On Monday, Rev. Langdon 
C. Stewardson attended a meeting of the New 
England Episcopal club at Phillips 
Brooks's, Boston; on Thursday Rev. M. H. 
Harris gave an address on "Woman's work in 
the Church," at a public meeting of the Wo- 
man's Universalist society of Massachusetts, 
at Maiden; and on Thursday evening the 
Lowell Unitarian club numbered among its 
guests Rev. Austin S. Garver. 

The Worcester Dental Society met at the 
Y. M. C. A. building, Tuesday evening and 
listened to a paper on "Obtundents," read by 
Dr. George Buttler. A general discussion fol- 
lowed. The society will hold its annual meet- 
ing, Tuesday, .A.pril i. 



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About Folks. 



The next meeting of the Worcester Con- 
gregational club will be held at Association 
hall, Monday evening, March 17. The sub- 
ject for discussion will be : -'Is the Multiplica- 
tion of Organizations Detrimental to the Spir- 
itual Growth of our Churches ?" Rev. Gra- 
ham Taylor, D. D., of the Hartford Theologi- 
cal Seminary, will open the subject with an 
address. 



A party of ladies and gentlemen have been 
meeting on Friday evenings of late for private 
whist parties, and last night met with Miss 
Alice Hammond, at her home. No. 9 Clare- 
mont street. The party includes Misses Alice 
Hammond, Jessie Morse, Mabel G., Helen 
and Alice Merrill, Alice Watson, Cora Good- 
win and Elizabeth Parmalee, Messrs. Frank 
B. Hall, Fred A. Bigelow, Henry J. Kettell, 
Curtis A. Tucker, Lawrence P. Greenman, 
Frank E. Buxton and P. Foster Goodwin. 



The Art Students club had its monthly ex- 
hibition of pictures and social tea at the rooms, 
last Saturday evening. Col. E. B. Glasgow 
and Mr. Samuel S. Green, of the Worcester 
Art society, were present, and there was a dis- 
cussion on such matters as both societies are 
interested in. The pictures shown included 
some 40 small water colors, painted by Miss 
Mary Davis, Mr. J. H. Greenwood and Mr. 
William T. Hunt, which are to be sent to 
honorary members as invitations to the annual 
exhibition. 



At the gj-mnasium entertainment to be given 
in Pilgrim hall, on the evening of the i8th 
inst., has been secured, in addition to the e.x- 
hibition and bayonet drill of the Worcester 
City Guards, and the fan drill by young ladies 
of Salem Street church, the following talent; — 

The Surprise Banjo Club— Messrs. W. K. Bedford, 
J. E. Upton, VV. J. Clarke and C. E. ChamberUn. 
Selection— '*The Jolly Horseman's Gallop." 
Mrs. Charles A. Richardson, Readings — "Rispah, or 
The Lullaby of the .\ngels." 
"Uncles Reuben's Baptism."— By request. 
Duet,— Charles .S. Stoughton and James H. Cafferty, 
"The Petrels Cry." 
Song— Mrs. John H. Howell, "He was a Prince." 
Song— Mr. James H. Cafferty, "The Viking" 
Duet— Mr. Thomas H. Callahan and Miss M. A. 
Hayward, "Greeting." 
Song — Mr. Charles S. Stoughton, "Golden Love." 
Mrs. Charles S. Stoughton, accompanist. 
Elberon Orchestral club, Mr. E. W. Marshall conduc- 
tor, Mr. H. B. Wentworth. violin ; Mr. J. M. O'Con- 
nell, clarionet ; Mr. F. \V. Chaffin, cornet ; Mr. Everett 
Woodhead, trombone ; Mrs. Cox, piano. Their selec- 
tions are : Overture, "Mignonette," given by the club; 
Violin Solo, "Tanhauser,'' by Mr. E. W. Marshall; Ga- 
votte, "Lover's Dream," by the club. 

The club will also furnish music for the en- 
trance of the Worcester City Guards. 



This has been a great week for the calling of 
new pastors, if last Friday be counted in. On 
Monday night the First Universalist people 
met and very regretfully accepted the resigna- 
tion of Rev. M. H. Harris, who has accepted 
a call from the Church of the Redeemer in 
Chicago, and voted to call to the pastorate of 
the church, Rev. Almon Gunnison, D. D., of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., the pastor of All Souls church 



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in that city. It is expected that Dr. Gunnison 
will accept, and his answer is looked for within 
a few days. 

The last quarterly conference of Grace M. 
E. Church voted unanimously in favor of re- 
taining Rev. John Galbraith as pastor. Rev. 
Mr. Galbraith has done splendid work for the 
church, and it is appreciated. 

Some of Mr. Ben T.Hammond's older pupils 
appearedat his 33d pupils' recital, which was 
given at his rooms, last Wednesday evening, 
and the recital took on the form of a very- 
pleasing concert. The program was as fol- 
lows : — 

QU.\RTETTE. "Wedding Bells." Reay 

Miss Houghton, Miss Knowlton. 

Mr. Fuller and Mr. White. 

SONG. "The Journey is Long." Coombs 

Miss Agnes B. Gallagher. 
SONG. "Dream of Yore." Loge 

Miss Mary E. Cody. 
SONG. "My Boys." Pinsuti 

MissLillaB. Houghton. 
SONG. "My Lady's Bower." Temple 

Mr. Lucius W. White. 
DUETT. "Land of the Swallows." Masini 

Miss Knowlton »nd Mr. Fuller. 
SONG. "The Gypsey Queen." Payre 

Miss Cody. 
SONG, "The Lamps of Hope." Roeche 

Miss Maud A. Knowlton. 
SONG. "The Soldier's Dream." Rodney 

White. 
SONG. "Robin .\dair." Scotch 

Miss Gallagher. 
MELODIA. "Conte." Denza 

Miss Houghton. 
C.WATINA, "0 luce di quest anima." 

("Linda.'*) Donizetti 

Miss Renna May Ingraham. 
SONG. "I Think of Thee." Denza 

Mr. Dell k. Hamilton. 

QUARTETTE. "Oh Hush Thee, My Baby." Sullivan 

Miss Houghton, Miss Knowlton. 

Mr. Fuller and Mr. White. 

Mr. Hammond's 34th recital will be given at 
his rooms on the 19th. 



The pupils of the Worcester County Music 
school gave an entertainment at Tatnuck Town 
hall, Wednesday evening, the following taking 
part: Misses Hattie L. White, soprano, Mary 
Convery, alto, Mr. Benjamin Whitmore, tenor, 
Mr. Charles Hitchcock, bass. Miss Nellie F. 
Tucker, pianist. Master Ernest L. Smith, viol- 
inist. Miss Anna Calhoun assisted as reader, 
and the entertainment was successful in every 
particular. 

The .second of the series of recitals by the 
pupils of the Worcester County Music school 
took place Thursday evening, the following pu- 
pils taking part: Misses Annie O'Day, Norma 
Andrus, Clara Willis, Lizzie Calhoun, Miriam 
Skinner, Messrs. Nathan Green, Conrad R. 
Bartlett and Benjamin Whitmore, jr. On ac- 
count of the severe storm, Mrs. Nellie F. Dick- 
inson, Miss Edith Kinney, Master Ernest L. 
Smith and Miss Bessie Pelton, pupils who 
were to have taken part, were absent. 



The Eureka Whist club met with Miss 
Grace Peacock, 49 Portland street, Wednes- 
day evening, and the following were present : 
Messrs. Frank Purinton, George H. Salie, 
Frank Norton, William M. Reidl and Mr. Mil- 
ler, Misses Clara Norton, Grace Peacock, Grace 
Greene, Ida Bickford and Emma Buck. After 
a short play at whist, college songs were sung 
and a general .social time was|enjoyed. 



Mr. Roger F. Upham will lead the Sunday 
morning meeting at the Young Men's Chris- 
tian association. 

Cashier Albert H. Waite enjoyed the "fra- 
grance" of a dozen crocuses which sprang up 
in his frozen garden at No. 16 Cedar street, 
last Tuesday. "Beautiful Spring" is probably 
coming. 

Prof. VV. W. Green is to give a reception 
and ball to his dancing class at Horticultural 
hall, Wednesday evening, March 26. Messrs. 
E. H. Robinson and Arthur P. Shaffer have 
the tickets, and all past members are espec- 
ially invited. 

The Anchor Literary club connected with 
Anchor Literary club Sons of Temperance, 
will present George M. Baker's 3-act drama, 
entitled "My Brother's Keeper," at Grand 
Army hall on the 25th inst., for the benefit of 
the division. The following is the cast of 
characters : — 

Abel Benton, a Merchant, H.J. Whiting. 

Matthew .Allen,, ) Geo. W. Pierce. 

Richard Carnes, > His Clerks. Burt Montagne. 
Charley Benton, ) A. H. Boswell. 

Job Layton-Scraps, a Rag-picker, F. M. Parker. 
Grace Benton, .Abel's Daughter, Pauline Mankin. 
Rachel Allen, Matthew's Sister, Emily Worth. 
Betsy Benton, .Abel's Sister, Mrs. M. J. Montague. 



A concert of more than ordinary merit was 
given as the last entertainment of the Old 
South course, Thursday evening, the artists 
being Mrs. H. W. Johnson, soprano, Miss 
Florence I. King, contralto, Mr. William F. 
Little, tenor, and Mr.John H.Howell,bass,with 
Mr. Charles H. Grout, pianist. Abt, Liszt and 
Mendelssohn were represented in the program, 
and Mrs. Johnson sang three favorite songs of 
Miss Mary Howe, "Snowflakes," "Thy Re- 
- mbrance" "and Love me if 1 Live," by F. 
H. Cowen. The audience responded appre- 
ciatively to the efforts of the artists. 



Five young ladies of the January class of 
State Normal school graduates have already 
secured positions as teachers. 

Miss Sybil M. Gray, the general secretary 
of the Young Women's Christian association, 
has been ill this week, but will be at the rooms 
again Monday. 

A gymnastic e.\hibition by members of the 
the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium will be given in 
Association hall, March 27, and Mr. Paul 
Plummer, the physical director, will read a 
paper on physical culture. 

The "Center Deestrick Skewl" will open 
its doors in Grand Army hall next Friday 
evening for a public examination. Mistress 
Jerushy Krani (Mrs. S. F. Babbitt), will be 
pleased to exhibit her bright boys and girls, 
who will illustrate the Kram method of teach- 
ing. Messrs. T. Hey wood Blood, George W. 
Ward and others will compete for the prize 
medal, the committee men, Parson Wayback 
(Capt. A. M. Parker), and Squire Sharp (Col. 
W. L. Robinson), acting as judges and critics 
of the "Skewl." 



The last concert in the Belmont church 
course, to be given Tuesday evening, by local 
talent, promises to be an unusually entertain- 
ing one. 



"Sermons in Stones." 



BV E. H. F. 



Spring is close at hand. In a few weeks at 
most the earth will be replete with bursting 
buds, growing leaves and springing grass. 
Even now there are a few song-sparrows and 
Idue-birds in the meadows and orchards. 
Black ducks are on the lake. .Soon the host 
of migrating birds will be here. Countle.ss in- 
.sects will spring from the earth as if by 
magic, in the '-good time coming" — the great 
spring awakening. The lover of nature who 
walks atield will again find "books in the run- 
ning, brooks" and whole liliraries in the ponds 
and swamps. 

You .should encourage your children, Wor- 
cester parents, to go out into the woods and 
fields in the season of the early flowers. Teach 
them to see the wonderful things that are go- 
ing on from day to day as the leaves unfold, 
as the butterflies appear and the birds begin 
to build their nests. All young children can 
be interested in the animals or plants which 
grow about your doors. If their minds are 
early turned in this direction, how greatly the 
powers of observation increase and develop. 
How much the cultivation of these powers 
will do toward fitting them for any work in 
life. It i» an undoubted fact that these 
powers remain in a measure undeveloped in 
the minds of a great majority of our people. 
What an advantage a keen-sighted, observing 
man has over those who have failed to culti- 
vate this faculty. And it can be fostered best 
at an early age. 

Hon. Joseph H. Walker, speaking at Natu- 
ral History hall, some years since, said, that 
on visiting the State Normal school in this 
city, he was shown by the principal of th 
school some objects of natural history which 
the students there had collected, and among 
them were same galls from the oak tree. 

"How is it," Mr. Walker inquired, "that 
your pupils see these things ?" 

"Well," said Mr. Russell, "they are, many 
of them, interested in our local Natural His- 
tory society" and are cultivating their powers 
of observation." 

"That explains it, then," said Mr. Walker, 
"for, were it not for this society they would 
hardly have seen these things had they been 
as big as pumpkins." Though the statement 
may seem exaggerated, it is true, neverthe- 
less, and experiments made by the writer fur- 
nish abundant proof of its truth. 

President Andrews of Brown university, in 
his address at the dedication of the new build- 
ing of Worcester academy, said : "We are 
coming to realize the terrible and needless loss 
suffered by neglecting studies like botany, 
mineralogy, physiology and the elements of 
physics, till the pupil has passed the age of 
special observational power. The best schools 
now treat these as early as at the age of lo or 
13. Their pupils come to college prepared to 
learn something, possessing not only the 
requisite rudimentary knowledge, but also the 
feeling for the work— that feeling, which, if 
not awakened till iS or 20, never comes at all. 
Here is an evil which colleges cannot remedy 
alone, for the reform is not the work of those 
preparatory years which colleges can reach. 
It must begin lower down. Not only the 



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times but the methods of teaching these 
branches are changing for the better. The 
laboratory, the demonstration, the notebook 
field-work, prepared specimens — these are dis- 
placing the dry-a.s-dust old text-book and 
bringing with them what is always .so welcome 
— first hand knowledge and the ability to be 
an investigator. This splendid reform should 
be carried through." 

No study can do more to enlarge tlie pcr- 
perceptive faculties of the young than a study 
of some department of natural history. Nor 
is any study more attractive to the ordinary 
boy or girl. In these pursuits the youthful 
mind is led from observation to comparison 
and thence to reasoning, thus exercising in an 
agreeable and absorbing manner the three 
greatest powers of the human mind. The out- 
door studies of the spring and summer give 
scope to the bodily activities, and are entirely 
free from the objectionable elements often ac- 
companying outdoor sport. 

But parents may say, "All this is excellent, 
no doubt, but we have not the requisite knowl- 
edge or the time to accompany the children 
and direct them." Here is just where the lo- 
cal Natural History society conies in, and here- 
in lies a part of its field of usefulness. The pur- 
pose of our Natural History society is, first of 
all perhaps, to make and keep on exhibition, 
for the public use, a complete collection of pre- 
pared specimens representing the natural his- 
tory of Worcester county, and to give instruc- 
tion in the natural sciences. The latter is 
of course the ultimate object of the society's 
existence, and is comprehensive enough to in- 
clude the former. Its museum is freely open 
during each week of the year to the whole 
public. It organizes and conducts classes, 
which are open to all, in botany, mineralogy, 
anatomy, biology and other natural .sciences. 
It interests the best teachers, who, appreciat- 
ing the value of the work, and the necessity 
for it, freely give their services. In the last 
ten years, young ladies and gentlemen who 
have availed themselves of these advantages 
have joined the ranks of the teachers. The 
society also assists by every means in its 
power such of its students as desire to pursue 
original investigation. With this end in view, 
laboratories have recently been fitted up, 
where they may work to advantage. 

During the past year a certain cohesion has 
obtained among the members of the society 
who are engaged in special studies of mutual 
interest. This has been properly directed, un- 
til it has crystallized in the formation of 
smaller as.sociations within the parent one. 
The members of each one of these scientific 
clubs engage to follow out a certain line of 
work. There are now six of these clubs, each 
with a membership of from 15 to 50. One 
club studies birds, another prepares them for 
the museum, another studies botany, another 
mineralogy, and so on. The older members, 
or those who have had most experience, as- 
sume leading parts and all help each other. 
These clubs continue their studies throughout 
the season, and thus working together, form 
classes which carry on the work that^was be- 
gun by the.teachers of the original__class. 

The Natural History Society invites Wor- 
cester people to join hands with its workers in 
this great field. To parents it says : Do not 
allow your children to miss these golden op- 



n 

portunities. What would not some of us give 
could we have had them in our youth .' Classes 
inbotany will .soon be organized at the museum 
on Foster street, and .Mrs. J, C. I.yford will 
teach a class of girls on Wednesday afternoons, 
while Mr. Lyford will take a Monday evening 
class of both sexes in April. Everybody is 
welcome. Field meetings will be held by the 
l)ird clubs and the botanical cluljs as soon as 
springs opens. Come in, boys and girls, and 
join them in their work; and your ways shall 
be the ways of pleasantness and your paths 
the paths of peace. 



Of Coming Tilings. 

Saturday, March 8. 

Hall of thk .Art Students' Club.— Worcester 
.Art .Society's Course of Lectures ; fourth lecture : "Pro- 
gress in .American Architecture, by Mr. William Henry 
Goodyear, of N. V. 8 v. M. 

Monday, March 10. 

Pilgrim Hall.— Course of practical talks to the 
boys; Mr. Frank H. liall on ".Saad Moulding." 7.J0 
p. M. 

Old .South Chai'EL.— Lecture course of the A. E. 
associates; Mr. J. Chaunccy Lyford on "Egypt." S 
p. M. 

Trinttv Church.— "Cantata of the Stars," by the 
Girls Mission band. 8 p. M. 

Grace Church.— Methodist Social union; supper 
and entertainment. 7 p. m. 

Tuesday, March II. 

.At Miss E. A. Kimb/ 1 l's, ;8 Woodland Street 
—Piedmont Church Ilti.evolent Union. Sewing and 
supper. .Afternoon and evening. 

Salem Street Church.— March sociable and sup- 
per, with entertainment. Evening. 

Y. W. C. A., 352 Main Street.— Practical talk on 
nursing by Miss p'lorence Weston. 

At Mr. Frel W. Hoppin's 144 Beacon Street.— 
South End Prcgiessive Whist club. 8 P. M. 

Curtis Hali —Union meeting of committees and 
active members, V. M. C. A. Supper served. 7.45 p.m 

Belmont CacRt h. — Last concert of the course. 7.45 
p. M. 

Thursday, March 13. 

Ai .Mrs. A. Geor(;e Bullock's, 48 Elm Street. 

— Woicester .Art Society's Course of Lectures: fifth 

lecture (special); "Modern .Art as Illustrated in the 

Barbizon School," by Mrs. Daniel Merriman. 8 P. M. 

Friday, March 14. 

Grand Armv 11 all.— "Center Deestrict Skewl." ,S 

p. M. 

Wednesday, March 19. 
Grace Church. — Worcester County South W. C. 
T. U. Convention. 10 A. M., and throughout the day. 

Pupils Recital.— At Mr. P)en. T. Hammond'^ 
music rooms, 452 Main street. S p. m. 
Friday, March 21. 
Horticultural Hall.— The drama of "Michael 
Earle, " under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. 

Second Parish Club.— Subject : " Theodore Par- 
ker ;" paper by Mr. George .A. Stearns, Jr 
Tuesday, March 25. 
Grand .Armv Hall.— .Anchor Literary Club in 
Bahem's drama of "My Brother's Keeper." 7.45 P. m. 
Wednesdav, March 26. 
Horticultural Hall.— Prof. W. W. Green's re- 
ception to his dancing class. 8 p. m. 



A meeting of the young people of Belmont 
church was held last Monday evening, and of- 
ficers elected as follows ; President, Mr. Ed- 
ward S. Jones; vice-president. Miss Rhoda 
Smith: secretary and treasurer. Miss Winnie 
Holliday. The prayer meeting committee con- 
sists of the.se officers. 

Miss Sadie A. Hetherington goes to Boston 
to-day for a two weeks" visit to friends. 



Working the Wire. 

A private telegraph wire is a luxur)' which 
is supposed to come within the province 
of bloated bond-holders only, but there is 
a local association of 17 modest young 
men who have for their special diversion a 
private wire covering considerable territory 
and affording them a large amount of fun as 
as well as practical benefit. The public gen- 
erally has never had an opportunity to learn 
what the association is, although it is a matter 
of considerable interest. 

The affair had its beginning something like 
four years ago, but not until March 19, 1888, 
was a meeting held for organization. A little 
later a constitution was adopted and the name 
was made the "West Side Telegraph associa- 
tion." From time to time new members have 
joined, and a little more than a month ago the 
name was changed to Worcester Telegraph 
association. The association now has 16 
members, as follows : — 

Edward C. Falter, 21 Merrick street and 334 Main 
street. 
Arthur H. Evans, 163 Austin street. 
Albert L. Bennett, John Stetson company, 410 Main 
street. 
Charles E. Green, 9 Shepard street. 
J. Alfred Corriveau, Electric Power Co., Mechanic 
street. 

J. Walter Flagg, 39S Main street and 4 Piedmont 
street. 

William E. W. Felt. 392 Main street. 
John E. Thomas, 62S Main street. 
John C. Thomas, 56 Jaques avenue. 
A. H. Parker, 6 Blossom street. 

George B. Pierce, Fitchburg Railroad ticket office, 
396 Main street. 

Beside the above, the following have been 
recently elected to membership, but have not 
yet connected with the line : R. A. Waite, 
Frank P. Fosgate, Alton Beers, Theodore 
Marsden, A. B. Southwick and Edward E. 
Johnson. 

The officers of the association are as fol- 
lows : President, J. Walter Flagg ; vice pres- 
ident, W. E. W. Felt ; secretary, Edward C. 
Fuller ; treasurer, John E. Thomas ; electri- 
cian, A. H.Evans; directors, A. H. Parker, 
A. L. Bennett, J. A. Corriveau. 

Of course, a telegraph association without a 
wire is equivalent to an electric street railway 
without a current. But the association has a 
very re.spectable stretch of wire. The first 
section of the wire was erected by three young 
men. about four years ago, and since that time, 
by constant additions, the wire has been ex- 
tended until it has reached a length of three 
and a half miles, and has the 16 members 
whose names are given above. The line starts 
on Elm street, near Park avenue, runs through 
Blossom, Hudson and Pleasant streets to 
Austin, then to Merrick, Piedmont and Chan- 
dler to Queen, through Queen to Woodland, 
then Kingsbury and .Shepard, then a loop to 
Piedmont .street, then back upon the Oread 
street poles, down Beacon to Madison, across 
Main .street and down along Main street, in 
the rear, to the .store of Ira G. Blake & Son, 
334 Main street, where Edward C. Fuller is 
located. The wire is run partly on poles set 
by the members and partly on poles of the 
New England Telephone company. In some 
instances tlie wire is run over Ijuildings. The 
line is intended for operators who have had 
one or two years of experience, and any such 



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wishing to become members can obtain appli- 
cation blanks and all needed information of 
the president. 

The members do most of their talking in the 
evening, though occasionally the wire "works" 
in the daytime. It affords a pleasant pastime, 
and as some of the members are expert tele- 
graphers, there is no little practical benefit to 
be derived from it. 



Inside the House. 



If you examine a lobster that was alive 
when thrown into the boiler you will find that 
the tail is curled up to the body, while one 
that was dead has the tail extended. In buy- 
ing lobsters this is a good thing to bear in 
mind. 

To starch collars, make some gum water of 
clean gum arable ; keep it in a bottle, and 
when wished work a little of it and a trifle of 
common soda into the ordinary starch. It 
adds both gloss and stiffness to the collars. 

Paint splashes may be removed from win- 
dow panes by a very hot solution of soda, 
using a soft flannel. 

Mildewed linen may be restored by soaping 
the spots, and while wet covering them with 
powdered chalk. 

To extract paint from clothing: Saturate 
the spots with spirits of turpentine, let it re- 
main several hours, then rub it and it will drop 
off. 

It is- a common occurrence for children to 
get beans, grains of corn and other foreign 
substances up their noses. This simple reme- 
dy is worth remembering : Get the child to 
open its mouth, apply your mouth over it and 
blow hard. The offending substance will be 
expelled from its nose. 

If any housekeeper finds it imperative to 
clean windows on an icy cold day, she can ac- 
complish it safely by using a cloth dampened 
with alcohol, which never freezes. 

Scratches in varnish are removed if a co.irse 
cloth well saturated with linseed oil is laid 
over them. 

Carbolic acid has become so generally used 
in households for' antiseptic purposes, and so 
many serious results have followed its acciden- 
tal internal use, that it is well to know that 
soap is considered to be the best antidote. It 
should be taken at once and freely. 

To clean coats : Take of ammonia two 
ounces, soap one ounce, soft water one quart, 
and a teaspoonful of saltpetre ; shake well, 
and let the mixture stand a few days. Pour 
enough on a coat to cover the grease spots ; 
rub well ; wash off with clean cold water. 

Marks on tables caused by hot dishes may 
be removed by kerosene rubbed in well with 
a soft cloth, finishing with a little cologne 
water, rubbed dry with another cloth. 

All fancy hosiery should be put into a strong 
solution of salt and cold water before wearing, 
well saturated, and dried without wringing, 
either in the shade or in a warm room. 

Here is a receipt recently published in Eng- 
land by a recognized authority for the preven- 
tion of wrinkles, especially under the eyes : 
"Draw the mouth hard into the semblance of 
a smile. Do this before the glass, and next 
place the index and third and fourth fingers of 
each hand on the small mounds formed at the 



top of the cheeks, and press lightly down- 
ward with the tips. Then relax the face at 
once ; again draw up into a smile, then relax 
do this with increasing rapidity over and over 
until the muscles are tired, always maintain 
ing the downward pressure with the finger 
tips, not so hard but that the contraction of 
the muscles in the smile will raise them each 
time." 

Success or failure in the growing of house- 
plants is largely due to the care and attention 
paid to watering. When plants require water, 
give it unsparingly. The system to adopt is 
to be thorough, rather than regular. Many 
persons water their plants as regularly as they 
wash their faces, which will not do. A plant 
should not be watered unless it needs it, and 
it does not need it so long as the soil contains 
sufficient moisture for the plants use: more 
than that is an injury. Water should never 
be given until the plants show by the drooping 
of the leaves that they need it. Then give 
with a liberal hand, not simply a surface-wet- 
ting, but give until every particle of soil in the 
pot is wet: let it go to the bottom. Many 
plants have been so long potted that 
the ball of roots and earth is almost 
impervious to water. Water applied to 
such, 10 times per day, will do but little 
good ; the pots should be put in a tub of 
water occasionally, and left there for 24 hours, 
the pot all under water, then they will get a 
wetting that is useful and lasting. 

New iron should be gradually heated at 
first ; it will not be so likely to crack. 

The French method of administering castor 
oil to children is to pour the oil into a pan over 
a moderate fire, break an egg into it and stir 
up ; when it is done flavor with a little salt or 
sugar or currant jelly. 

Lamp burners that have become dim and 
sticky can be renovated by boiling them in 
strong soda water, using a tin tomato can for 
this purpose ; then scour the burners with sa- 
polio and they will be as good as new. 

A granite iron kettle may be made bright 
inside by boiling a small quantity of borax in 
it. 

The basket in which the spoons and forks 
are kept should be lined with flannel. 

When troubled with the griddle smoking, 
try greasing with fresh lard as a preventive. 

The kitchen window is the best of all win- 
dows for plants ; the steam from the boilers 
and kettles keeps the air moist. 

Knitted underclothing should never be 
ironed, but stretched to the proper shape and 
pinned on a bed or other firm, clean surface 
until entirely dry. 

To make a good liquid glue, put one ounce 
of borax into a pint of boiling water, add two 
ounces of shellac and boil until the shellac is 
dissolved, and bottle for use. 



West Side Business Man:^Du Softy, my 

dear fellow, you must stop smoking cigarets. 

They effect the brain. 

Du Softy: — Doon't say! (puff!) 

West Side Business Man: — All the doc 

tors say it paralyses the brain. 
Du Softy :— Really ! (puff ! puff !) 
West Side Business Man: — Mr. Ward 

McAllister has given it up entirely. 
Du Softy : — Gracious ! (throws away cigar- 

et). 



Good Chorus Work. 



Mr. Francis Fischer Powers, in addition to 
singing several very pleasing solos at the 
Gounod club's concert, Tuesday evening, gave 
convincing proof that he is a gentleman of dis- 
cernment and appreciation, by remarking that 
he Gounod club gave evidence of a high order 
of ability. Worcester is pleased to have Mr. 
Powers coincide in the general opinion. The 
decidedly musical audience which attended 
the concert was unwontedly cordial in its 
praise, and there seemed to be no grumblers, 
t would be hard to find a better pleased audi- 
ence or an audience that had more to be 
pleased with, than the audience at the concert, 
Tuesday evening. It was not an unusually 
arge audience ; that is, the hall was not 
crowded, but the audience was distinctively 
musical in its make-up. 

The club really merits a great deal more 
praise than it ever gets. The careless public 
does not half appreciate the difficulties which 
lie in the way of bringing such an organiza- 
tion up to the high standard which must be at- 
tained if it is to do really good work. These 
difficulties have been overcome, in the present 
instance, only by the most faithful and devoted 
work on the part of chorus and conductor 
alike. Mr. Anderson is a true musician; he 
does his immense amount of work for the 
Gounod club because he loves his art and is 
anxious to make the club such a success that 
public must appreciate and support it. Whether 
it will some day be what he evidently desires 
to make of it, and what it is possible to make 
of it, remains to be seen. 

Mr. Anderson received appropriate recogni- 
tion when he stepped upon the conductor's 
stand, Tuesday evening, and a moment later 
the chorus took up the first notes of "Spohr's 
Hymn to St. Cecelia." This was its first per- 
formance in Worcester. The "Hymn" has 
not the elements calculated to make it sudden- 
ly or extremely popular, but it has certain 
passages especially favorable for the sopranos 
and a bright soprano solo, which was sung by 
Mrs. H. W. Johnson. 

The unaccompanied "Skylark" song (Bava- 
rian) was the first number for the ladies voices. 

Mr. Francis Fischer Powers, the soloist of 
the evening, came in early on the program and 
sang Henrion's " Le Muletier de Tarragone ;" a 
song that was found in the old French, brought 
to this country and especially translated for 
him. Mr. Powers has a splendid baritone 
voice and appears to use it with equal success 
in the upper and lower registers, the high 
notes having a tenor quality which was espe- 
cially effective later on, when he sang the 
"Slumber Song." Mr. Powers has not been 
in Worcester for three years, but he was re- 
membered and very kindly welcomed when 
he came forward, Tuesday evening, and after 
he had sung, he was applauded not for past 
performances, but for the present. Mr. Powers 
sang easily and with intelligent phrasing 
which made his performance more agreeable 
than is often the case. 

Mr. Anderson received a decidedly gratify- 
ing tribute when two songs of his own compo- 
sition, "The Morning Wanderers" and "At 
Eventide," were sung by the full chorus. 
Light found occasion, last week, to speak of 
the great success which Mr. Anderson's writ- 



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ings have met in the large cities of the coun- 
try, and it was pleasant to think, Tuesday 
evening, tliat Worcester honors a prophet even 
in his own country. The second song, "At 
Eventide," was especially pleasing, thanks no 
less to Mr. Anderson's careful shading than to 
the ready response of the voices, and it was 
fixed in the minds of the listeners as one of 
the most thoroughly delightful things on the 
program. After a long-continued call Mr. An- 
derson responded, and the chorus repeated the 
concluding stanza. 

"The Lass o' Gowrie," an old Scotch song, 
arranged by Diirrner for male voices, and 
Jiingst's brief chorus, "Spin, Spin," made up 
the only number presenting the gentlemen 
alone. In the former, which was sung with 
excellent taste, Messrs. W. F. Little, Thomas 
B. Hamilton, Charles J. Marshall and Ar- 
thur W. Parmalee sang the quartet. 
The Jiingst song was notable for the excellent 
tempo, but it has rather a lugubrious, or, per- 
haps, even monotonous tendency, and lacked 
spirit. 

Mr. Arthur J. Bassett could have had no 
longer any doubt as to the feeling toward him 
existing among Worcester musical people, 
after he had come forward to play his piano 
solo. He was very heartily welcomed, per- 
haps the more so because the people present 
were anxious to express to Mr. Bassett their 
gratification at his recovery from the severe 
illness which recently prostrated him. Wor- 
cester has reason to feel proud of Mr. Bassett, 
because of the giant strides he has been mak- 
ing as a pianist, although he has made them 
so quietly and so modestly that only his inti- 
mate friends realize the extent of his 
success. His number Tuesday evening was 
the Liszt polonaise in E major, which he 
played in an excellent manner, and he was re- 
called. 

Macfarren's version of "The Three 
Fishers," was rendered appreciatively by the 
mixed' voices, and the ladies sang Smart's 
"Twenty-Third Psalm" and Rubinstein's 
"Song of the Birds." 

Mr. Powers for his second number sang, 
first, Meyer-Helniund's ".My Bride," and then 
Gerrit Smith's "Slumber Song." In the latter 
his execution in the upper register was nota- 
bly fine, and he was recalled and repeated the 
last stanza. This would not do, however, and 
as the audience was persistent, he sang South- 
wick's "At Night." 

Nothing that the club presented was more 
satisfactory than Faning's "The Song of 
the Vikings," with which the program was 
brought to a close. In the brilliant chorus, the 
dash and spirit thrown into it came with a 
confidence that spoke well for the training of 
the club, and the strong, even tones had a 
better balance all around than in any other 
four-part song of the program. 

The chorus work throughout the evening 
was of such a character as to call for the 
most generous praise. It is true that the tenor 
sometimes had a tone not altogether pleasing, 
and the soprano, which was very good, knew 
a good thing at sight, or hearing, rather. 
Nevertheless, the general work was excellent, 
and, except in one instance, the attack was 
sharp, while the flexibility of the chorus was 
unfailing. Mr. Anderson's always delightful 
manner was not absent. 



15 

tlreat opportunities are open before the 
Gounod club. Could it be doubled, and have 
the a.ssistance of orchestral accompaniment, it 
would be easy to predict for it a rank among 
the first choral clubs of the country. Mean- 
while the splendid work that has been done 
deserves more generous recognition. Enthu- 
siasm will burn for a long time, but the flame 
must be fed some time, or it will mingle with 
the darkness. 



Arlington Fantastics. 

Horticultural hall never looked better, yet 
the staid old walls had nothing to do with the 
appearance ; it was the private hop-sociable of 
the Ariington club. 'Twas a brilliant com- 
pany, with youth predominant ; the gray and 
the bald were conspicuous for their absence. 
On dit that the Arlington club draws the line 
of years at 35 for gentlemen, and at— well, 18 
for ladies. At 8.15 o'clock 50 "knights" in 
full dress flanked by as many "sisters and 
cousins" entered the grand march, led by 
Mr. William T. Sibley and Miss Julia Daven- 
port. Then followed the enjoyment of the 16 
numbers on the order of dances. The com- 
mittee of arrangements, acting as floor direc- 
tors, were Messrs. H. P. Hopkins, chairman ; 
F. D. Freeman, F. D. Sibley, F. A. Clark, W. 

E. Fairbanks and W. T. Sibley. 
Among those present were : — 

Messrs. John Grover, Lucius W. White, 
William Munn, W. H. Willard, George E. 
Bridges, Frank Waite, H. A. Colvin, Edward 
W. Dodge, A. V. Chase, Harry L. Dadmun, 
William E. Fairbanks, F. A. Clark, Her- 
bert P. Hopkins, Frank D. Freeman, Fred D. 
Sibley, William T. Sibley, Dr. F. A. Hatch, 
Clarence R. Macomber, George Macomber, 
Frank Smith, Charles M. Harrington, George 
A. Park, H. Ward Bates, Frank S. Fay, 
Frank Tracy, Charles C. Bosher, William 
Heald, William W. Sargent, Odell Boynton, 
Arthur K. Ross, Edward F. Capron, William 

F. Robinson, Frank A. Richardson, A. J. 
Daniels, George Waldo, John A. Lake, Fred- 
erick S. Dickie, John Kennedy, Harry S. 
Goulding, Arthur Savage. 

Miss Bruce, Miss Swan, Miss Davis, Miss 
Wells, Miss Clark, Miss Davenport, Miss 
Fay, Miss Goulding, Miss Spring, Miss Gray, 
Miss Hager, Miss Quimby, Miss Wells, Miss 
Moore, Miss Healey, Miss Gates, Miss Ross. 

Miss Coleman, of Fall River, Miss Conant, 
of Belmont, Me., Miss Barker of Belmont, 
Me., Miss Dresser, of Southboro. 

Mrs. Boynton, Mrs. George Macomber, 
Mrs. Clarence Macomber, Mrs. Gower, Mrs. 
Colvin, Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Dickie, Mrs. Dodge, 
Mrs. Tracy, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Munn, 
Mrs. Smith. 

The gentlemen were all in evening dress, 
and the costumes of the ladies were pretty, 
artistic and sensible, the spirit of the Arling- 
tons tattooing any attempt at overdressing. 
Riedl's orchestra, with Mr. J. Miller as 
prompter, furnished the music. 



Park church Sunday-school has increased in 
the past two months from 90 or 100 to 164. A 
class of 10 Armenians meets every Sunday,and 
an Armenian night school is being held three 
evenings in the week, at the church. 



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In the Old Red School-House. 

Master Sandy McAllister had a trying 
time with the pupils of the 'Stogy Hollow 
Deestrict Skewl," at Piedmont vestry, Monday 
evening. Their answers reflected so seriously 
on their training that, with the committe man 
and Squire Dodge both present, Master Mc- 
Allister might have been excused for feeling 
the inward perturbation which he tried to con- 
ceal under a calm manner and a large white 

wig. . 

School began about half-past seven o olock, 
and Master McAllister, who happened to be 
Mr. James Wilson in disguise, in white knick- 
erbockers that fitted very suddenly, and a 
swallow-tail coat, with wig and spectacles, 
climbed up to a high bench upon a high stool 
before an equally high desk. 

His pupils had been falling in over them- 
selves and the benches, and when he pounded 
for order they sorted themselves out, girls from 
boys, and presented a spectacle that caused 
their friends in the audience many smiles and 
tears. The scholars who answered "present" 
were as follows : 

Obadiah Silvernail, Mr. Walter A. Sweet. 

'Kiah Snodgrass, Mr. P. A. T. Thompson. 

Jeremy Snooks, Mr. Horatio L. Miller. 

George Washington T. Jefferson 

Clay, Mr. Eugene Van de Mark. 

Jonah Whittaker, Mr. John Knight. 

Patsy Iloolihan. Mr. George E. Miller, 

llezekiah Simple Simkins, Mr. Arthur K. Haven. 

Jimmy Pettibone, Mr. Leo. C. Farnsworth. 

Silas Slocomb, Mr. Thomas Hamilton. 

Sally Larkin, Miss Annie Faulkner. 

Matilda Corncob, Mrs. L. N. Gates. 

Gloriana Pettingill, Mrs. Leo C. Farnsworth. 

Susanna Sears, Mrs. Benjamin Whitmore. 

Clementina Sobieski Spoopendyke, 

Miss Jessie M. D. Hamilton. 
Mehitabel Jerusha Simpkins, Miss Florence N. Gates. 
Polly Pettibone, Miss AUceJ. Hildreth- 

Patty Fowler, Mrs. B. W. Eames 

Nancy Hawkins. Mrs. J. A. Ware. 

Eupisidia Ketura Hemrod. Mrs. O. M. Lawrence. 

Betty Silvernail, Miss Cora B. Eaton. 

Jemima Smith, Miss Susie A. Partridge. 

Prudence Tabitha Crabtree, Mrs. P. A. Thompson. 

The scholars wore some remarkable cos- 
tumes. Miss Hildreth, in a blue checked "tier," 
and Mr. George Miller, with a carrotty wig 
and unlimited freckles, being especially at- 
tractive on the front seats. 

School began with roll-call, and presently 
Mr. Fred N. Cooke came in, attired in a long- 
.sleeved "tier" and carrying his rag baby. He 
announced that he was "Jimmy Dodge, the 
new boy, and my ma 's comin' down bimeby to 
see 'bout my goin' to school." 

Sure enough, there presently appeared Mr. 
Henry H. Mecorney and Mrs. C. B. Eaton, as 
Hon. Zechariah Dodge and his wife. Mrs. 
Eaton's costume was an especially good one. 
She wore a genuine old green silk, with a white 
cape, and a huge bonnet with a black lace veil. 
She carried, also, a turkey-tail fan. Mr. Me- 
corney wore a high choker and carried a crutch 
cane. There was another visitor, also, "the 
committeeman," who was represented by Mr. 
J. H. Gleason. 

The schoolmaster called up first, the A. 13. 
C. class, which included Jemima Smith, Polly 
Pettibone, Matilda Corncob, Hez. Simpkins, 
the incorrigible Patsy Hoolihan and little 
Jimmy Dodge. He had them speak their 
little pieces, except Jimmy, who "did'n' wanter 
speak now," and was excused until later. 



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Then came the reading class, which strug- 
gled through a piece entitled "Little Dare" 
with more or less of tribulation, which greatly 
amused the audience, and the class in arith- 
metic, which was equally proficient. 

A program designed to specially entertain 
the honorable visitors brought out Susanna 
Sears with a composition on "Spring," a reci- 
tation, "The African Slave's Lament," re- 
markable for its suppressed feeling, by Jeremy 
Snooks, and a song, "Mary's Little Lamb," by 
'Kiah Snodgrass. Little Jimmy Dodge 
achieved the success of the evening by reciting 
his little piece, "The Patter of the Shingle." 

Recess gave the children an opportunity to 
investigate the contents of their dinner pails, 
and when school was called to order 
again, they sang "Billy Boy," which, Hon. 
Mr. Dodge thought, had too much levity, so 
they tried "Old Grimes," and the committee- 
man addressed them in regard to that good old 
man. 

The class in geography and "general infor- 
mation" made the most fun for the audience. 
Jimmy Dodge described an islund as a place 
at the lake where you can get beer on Sundays, 
and also said a mountain was a big church 
debt. One profound answer was that "arith- 
metic is a book." Jemima Smith was asked to 
tell what verse in the Bible she liked best and 
said that ma told her she must like 'em all, but 
being pressed to name a particular one, she 
said she liked "Behold the bridegroom cometh" 
pretty well. 

The committee man and Hon. Mr. Dodge 
made remarks and the school sang, "O come, 
come away" by way of closing. 

After school was dismissed, the young ladies 
served ice-cream and cake in the gentlemen's 
parlor. 

The audience crowded the vestry and among 
those present were several prominent people 
from other churches, including Mr. and Mrs. 
George H. Mellen and Mr. J. H. Bancroft 
from Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Mann 
from Union, and people from the Main Street 
Baptist and First Universalist churches. The 
Benevolent Union received a substantial 
benefit from the entertainment, amounting to 
$116. 

Not Very Funny. 

Fall of the Poet. 

"Mr. Penny," said the editor, gently, but 
firmly, "I fear the time has come to sever the 
relations which have so long existed between 
us. I have allowed you to rhyme 'pain' with 
'again' and 'door' with 'moor,' but when you 
go so far as to make a rhyme of 'peaches' and 
'he aches' you are several chips over the limit. 
You will find your check in the counting-room. 
— Tenc Haute Express. 

The Kind She Wanted. 

Book Agent : — Yes, madame, this is what 
is termed an encyclopaedia. It is filled with 
information, and will tell you anything you 
want to know. 

Victim: — Anything I want to know, eh?" 

Book Agent; — Yes, madame. 

Victim; — Well, just make it tell where my 
husband was until half-past three o'clock 
this morning, and I'll buy it. — Rochester Jury. 



Fresh Fish. 
Guest : — I wish I had come here a week ago. 
Hotel Proprietor ; — Ah. that's very flat- 
tering to my establishment. 

Guest ; — I don't know about that. What I 
mean is that I should have preferred to eat 
this fish then instead of novi.— Dramatic 
Monthly. 
Quite Naturally. 

Mabel: — Did you hear that Bessie Willis 
was married yesterday to Tom Guzzler 1 

Maude: — Really? I thought she would be 
the last person to marry him. 

Mabel: — Well, she was, wasn't she ? — Har- 
vard Lampoon. 
He Helped. 

Minister: — So you saw some boys fishing 
on the Sabbath, my young man. Did you do 
anything to discourage them ? 

Small Boy :— Yes, sir. I stole their bait. — 
jVew York Sun. 
Not a Clarke's. 

Father Locke: — My son, what rank do 
you take in college ? 

Yale LocKE(proudly):— Third in the batting 
average and first in fielding. — Milford News. 
Poor Ma. 

"That baby's always meddling with things. 
I never saw such a child?" said Mrs. Young- 
husband. 

"Takes after your mother, I guess," quoth 
Mr. X. And then the fun began. — Harper s 
Bazar. 

A Female Strategist. 
Jones : — That Brown grrl is a smart one. 
Smith ; — What is she up to now ? 
Jones: — You know whenever she goes out 
she has her pug with her. 
Smith : — Y'es, 1 understand. 
Jones : — Well she has trained that dog to 
trot along about 10 feet behind her. 
Smith :— Well, what of that ? 
Jones : — What of that ? Don't you see she 
can look back at the man under the pretense 
of looking after the dog — Texas Sif tings. 
The Fatal 13. 

Dora: — No, Alfred, I'm not superstitious ; 
but I don't care to sit down with 13 at 
the dinner-table. 

Alfred: — Well, I «;« superstitious; but ! 
wouldn't mind that. 

Dora: — Mercy! why not? 
Alfred ; — Because if I sat down with 13 
teen at a table there would be 14 all told. 
— Harper s Bazar. 
On the Stage. 

Tragedian : — I am to be led to execution, 
you say, and not allowed to say one word 
at the injustice of the act, andyo?/, YOU, who 
have partaken of my bounty on former state 
occasions, prove recreant now, and carry a 
hear-r-t as false as hell itself. 

SuPE : — {hisjirst appearance) : Y'er a liar 
if yer say so ! Yer told me to do this yerself 
only zo minutes ago ! 



If the business men haven't miscalculated, 
if the financial writers haven't over-prophec- 
ized, if the winds of trade haven't been over- 
blowing, the spring season just opening upon 
Worcester will gladden the hearts and swell 
many drawers of local trade. 



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Aunt Jerusha in Worcester. 



Be thet you, Marthy? I declare I'm dref- 
ful glad to see ye, fur I never should a-knowed 
I'd got here, ef 'twarnt fur your smilin' face. 
Who'd a-believed a body could hev' arriv' to 
Worcester from way down east in two days 
time! Why, tain't forty year sence it tuck 
me mor'n a week to go from here to our new 
farm down east. 

Must hurry off the train, did ye say? 
Why massy me, ain't this Worcester? Does 
the cars go any further ? I should think the 
folks would all be tired, and glad enough to 
git out here, ef it's as purty a place as it used 
ter be. And the engineer— I know he's 
tired a-drivin' of the train so fast. Do tell 
him what a good hotel the old Exchange is. 
Mr. Stockwell used ter keep it. Ef he's there 
now, I can warrant 'em all a good supper, 
an' clean beds ; so'st they can start off all 
freshened up in the mornin'. Why, George 
Washington himself stopped there onct, an' 
like enough one of 'em could hev' his bed. 

Mr. Stockwell dead, did ye say? Why, he 
couldn't a-come to the prime o' life ! I don't 
know as he was older'n me, an' I ain't eighty 
yit, shan't be till the 'leventh o' next month. 

Laws, how ye do hurry a body! An' I've 
no idee whether ye've got all my duds or not. 
Land sakes, where are we? Hev' they 
roofed in all out-doors ? —The depot, is't ?— 
What could they a-ben thinkin' on to make it 
so big ! Wanted to make themsel's a name, I 
s'pose, like the folks in Scripter did, thet 
built the high tower. But I should a-thought 
they'd a-took warnin,' an' feared thet the 
Lord would a-scattered 'em. 

Many's the time I've ben to the Foster 
street depot to watch the cars come in on 
the fust Boston an' Worcester road. Used 
to skeer me drefful to cross the track. An' 
one day I thought I hed an awful narrer es- 
cape. I hedn't ben across mor'n five min- 
utes, when the cars come along. Never 
thought then as I should one day be a-ridin' 
in 'em. * * * * 

Good-mornin,' Marthy! Yes, I slep' purty 
well, considerin,' but I'm terrible an,xious to 
git through breakfast, an' git the chores done 
up; for seems so I couldn't be easy in my 
mind till I can git down Mechanic street an' 
hev' a look at the old home where John an' 
me was married. I want ter see ef they've 
kep' up the garding good, and ef the mornin'- 
glories climb up the winders as they used ter 
and ef the yaller rose-bush is budded yit. 

Think I wouldn't know the place ? Oh, 
yes ; 1 ain't a-Iosin' of my mind yit, ef I be 
most eighty. I remember just how it looked, 
even to the slat that was broken outer the 
winder-blind in the back chamber. An' there 
was the Hovey place next door ! Oh, I kin 
jest see it all in my mind, how they look. 

You needn't try to hender me. I don't keer 
ef the place is run down. I'm a-goin' there, 
and to the Gateses farm, ef I don't do another 
thing while I'm here. I used ter be reel inti- 
mate with the Gateses, and I hain't come all 
the way from down east to set still an' see 
nothin'. 

Massy on me, where is the garding? An' I 
do believe that the house hain't hed a mite o' 



cleanin' sence 1 done it myself, most forty 
year ago. Ain't house-cleanin' fashionable 
now-a-days? I'm goin' right in ter give 'em 
my receipt fer soft soap, an' ask ef they 
won't jest let me look inter the room where 
John an' me stood up and was married. 
You don't say ? The folks are furriners ? 
I told ye so ! I b'lieve it's thet gret depot 
as done it. I most knowed the Lord wouldn't 
let 'em finish buildin' sech a huge structer', 
with a gret high tower onto it, witliout 
changin' their languages or suthin'. 

An' the amount o' liquor 'round! Don't 
they hev' pro'bition here? Why, it kinder 
seems as ef the evil one hed got the best o't in 
this neighborhood, same's he did in the gar- 
ding of Eden; fur all the neighbors's gar- 
dings is lost, same's Eden was. An' the corn- 
fields are gone, an' the mowins are all kiv- 
ered up with those gret houses. Many's the 
time I've stood here in the door-way a-watchin' 
fur the children to turn around the corner from 
Main street, a-bringin' o' the cows home from 
paster. I declare, it makes me feel most as 
bad as 'twould to see my grave tore open. 

Well, let's go out to the Gateses farm. They 
ain't kivered that all over with buildin's, I 
reckon, fur it's an awful lonely road to git 
there. Warn't but three houses atween the 
Town hall and the Gateses farm-house in my 
day. Though like enough they've put in a 
few more now. 

Take the horse-cars ! Why, do folks keep 
goin' out there reg'lar? The Gateses never 
used ter hev' any gret sight o' comp'ny, bar- 
rin' Thanksgivin' and a few sech times. An' 
the' warn't no other farms nowhere 'round, 
'ceptin the Heywardses. 

Cars go to New Worcester! Land sakes, 
child, I should think it was new enough here ! 
Ain't a blessed thing I should know I ever sot 
eyes on afore, savin' the Town hall; and 
that's all kivered over with red paint, and has 
got a chimley on top, with a clock onto it. But 
why the Lord ever let the hosts o' Satan pull 
down the Old South meetin'-house, is past my 
understandin'. True enough. His ways be 
past findin' out. 

What a sight o' folks does live out this 
way! Be they some more furriners scattered 
from building the gret depot ? 

An" what makes ye git out here ? Might as 
well ride on till we get to the Gateses. I 
hain't seen as we passed the Cap'in Fitch 
house yit, nor the Cap'in Moore house neither. 
Laws, ye don't say that this is Deacon 
Gateses. an' that they've kivered up all his 
fields with buildin's, same's they have my gar- 
ding ? "Gates street!" Ef thet ain't in- 
sultin' ! Why, the whole kentry this side o' 
Main street allers belonged to Deacon Gates; 
an' they'd hev' you think 'twas just one 
street! "Richards street! " Why, thet must 
mean his uncle Richards. But it don't belong 
to him any more. He willed the hull farm to 
his nephew, Simon Gates, when he died. 

But Where's the farm-house ? They hain't 
gone and tared that down, like they did the 
Old South meetin'-house, hev' they? The 
children allers sot gret store by that house. It 
hed a lot o' closets in it, closets atween ev'ry 
two rooms, an' the doors opened inter both 
rooms, so'st the children could run from one 
room through the closet to the next room, and 
through another closet agin, round and round 



the hull house. A gret place for -tag" and "l 
spy." 

Why, it must a-stood here, on the corner o 
Uncle Richards's street, jest back o' them gret 
trees, where the big, brown house is. Only 
there was suttinly more trees. There was a 
long line o' tliem each side o' the front walk ; 
and the road was further off than it is now. I 
b'lieve tliey've moved the road up into the 
door-yard a piece. 

The old farm-house is round on Richards 
street, did you say ? Ef they hain't a-painted 
it over ! An' it used ter be the purtiest bright 
green color you ever see, the only house o' 
thet color in town. An' stan'in' there, way 
back from the road, under the shadder o' the 
big trees, with the wood-bine growin' up over 
the porch, 'twas reel cozy and home-like 
lookin'. I don't wonder Deacon Gates died 
ef he'd any present'ment of what was a- 
comin' to his place. An' they've run the 
street right up through the middle of the barn- 
yard, an' where the barn used ter be, most on 
top o' the knoll, there's nothin' but houses. 

Deary, deary me! Thet 1 should a-lived 
to see this day! 

Guess we'll go hum, Marthy, 1 feel kinder 
queer and upsot. 

Call on some o' your friends, and see their 
purty houses? Well, sometime, maybe. I 
should like to see ef they're as diffrunt lookin' 
inside as they be out. An' I should like ter 
see the inside o' those big stun meetin- 
houses and school-houses; but I'm clean tuck- 
ered out now, an' want to go back hum and 

rest a sp ell. 

NE'W MUSIC. 
The following new music has been received 
by Messrs. C. L. Gorham & Co. Vocal; 
"The Journey is Long," Eb & C Coombs ; 
"The Jackdaw of Rheims," F. & G.Edith 
Cooke; "Cradle Song," "Milkmaids," 
Nevin; "April," G & E; "River Dream," 
A Goring Thomas, "June Song," Eb & C 
Carmichael; "Hey Ho, the Daffodils," 
Brackett; " Serenade;" Neidlinger; "Lord 
my Pasture," Campbell; "Berceuse;" "Twi- 
light Thoughts;" "Violets;" Strelezki; 
" Night of Nights, " Bb & G, Van de Water. 
Instrumental: Star of the Sea Reverie, 
Amanda Kennedy; Waltz from Margitta, 
Meyer Helmund; La. Mondsine Valse Bril- 
liant, Bachmann; Serenade D' Arlequin, 
Frances Thorne ; Maiden Meditation, Idyl, 
Gustav H. Luebert; Joyful Spring, Idyl, Du- 
rand; By the Sea, Nocturne, C. H. Luebert; 
Mia Bella, Waltz, Otto Roeder; Brigands, 
Fanciers, Tobani ; Hearts Idol, Gavotte, 
Gustave Lindh ; Triumph of Love, Gavotte, 
Edward Hoist ; Meditation, Homer Bardett ; 
Love Song, Homer Bartlett ; Gipsy Serenade, 
Behr; Berlin, A. L. Ryser; Repose of Love, 
Romance, L. Major; Gondolier \Valtzes, 
Suppe; Reigning Beauty, Waltz, Tobani; 
Russian Army, Grand March, D. L. White ; 
.Military Schottische, (new) Goodrich ; Dance 
of Fairies, Meacham; "Fear Not," G & D; 
"Rosebush," F cS: D; "Thy heart should 
like" "Daisy," "Baby Dear," " Sprmg 
Song," with violin, Lynes; "Fiddle and I, 
Bb & A, Goodue; "Friends," D, C& Bb ; 
Lohr each with violin obbligato; " Wynken & 
Blynken, " A, G & F, Jordan; " Fear not ye 
O Israel," A & G, Dudley Buck, "Forge 
Brahms. 



IS 

A Storv of Green and Brown. 



IIV MISS WORCESIER. 



John Green was the head clerk, head sales- 
man, and chief of employees in the semi-city- 
fied dry-goods establishment of Gooddry & 
Counter. (;reen"s introduction into the busi- 
ness treadmill, and his connection with the 
firm of Gooddry & Counter were simulta- 
neous. At the age of ten he presided over the 
broom and dustpan ; at eleven he was elevated 
to the dignity of " cash " ; at thirteen he was 
seen daily laboring with bundles often as big 
as himself; at fifteen came his first important 
advancement, that of assistant book-keeper in 
name and of copyist and letter-filer in reality. 
Fortunately he had the good sense to use his 
spare time in familiarizing himself with the 
goods which composed the stock in trade, a 
proficiency which promoted him to a place be- 
hind the counter some four years before he 
attained his majority ; and from that stable 
position, he, in half a dozen years, became the 
highest among the rather limited company of 
ordinary young men whose names appear upon 
the firm's pay-roll. 

John Green was pre-eminently a clerk in all 
that make up the necessary qualities which a 
clerk possesses or ought to possess. Outside of 
the routine of his daily work the world was 
to him more or less limited. He recognized 
literature, art and music, but the recognition 
was not intimate. To his mind Mozart and 
Watts had occupied similar positions ; and if 
he was positive of their decease, he was not 
sure of the thereabouts of the epoch which be- 
held their birth and burial. He loved the songs 
of the fireside party, and was not ashamed to 
enjoy those simple, homely melodies which 
many greater than he loved to hear, and which 
often touched a deeper chord than the rattle 
and classicality of that music which owes 
its popular success more to its name than to 
any intelligent understanding or appreciation 
on the part of the fashionable audience which 
outwardly is in rapture but inwardly is bored. 
John Green was by no means ignorant of 
the ordinary doings of this active world. He 
read the daily papers with habitual conscien- 
tiousness. He was not entirely unfamiliar 
with the names and characters in the literature 
of the day, and of the days gone by. He rev- 
erenced Shakespeare, Scott, Dickens, and the 
other great minds whose works live and will 
live ; but he admired their writings more be- 
cause well-informed people admired them, 
than from any intimate acquaintance with the 
authors themselves. His good sense would not 
allow him to enjoy the impossibilities of the 
sensational novel, and his lack of desire and 
cultivation would not permit his mind to ap- 
preciate the depth of the words of the really 
talented writers. He compromised between 
the impossibilities of the former and the prob- 
abilities of the latter, by reading about the 
possible heroes of the stories in the partially 
literary publications, and the ready-made 
sketches on the inside pages of the country 
new.spapers. John Green loved his home, and 
his church, of which he was an active and 
worthy member. He was honest and faithful 
in the little things of life, and would have 
been as faithful in the greater things, had cir- 
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limit of his scope. John Green understood 
trade of his livelihood to a nicety. He might 
be master of little, as the world goes, but in 
that little he was thoroughly proficient. John 
Green was decidedly an ordinary young man, 
and as he lived and moved among ordinary 
people, he shone as a star of average magni- 
tude in the local galaxy. 

And now a word about the town in which 
lived the actors who play the leading roles in 
this local story. 

Greenville is a genuine New England coun- 
try centre. Within its boundary lines, a vari- 
able diameter of some six miles, is unevenly 
distributed, a population one-seventli as 
large as that of Worcester. Greenville is un- 
unfortunate ; it is too big for a town and too 
small for a city. The possibilities of the one 
are curbed by the conditions of the other. What 
it is, what it might be. and what it really wants 
to be, are vexed problems, whose solutions 
perhaps exist in time to come. 

Greenville has two principal streets, or rather 
four, for the town fathers cut the roads in 
two at the line of crossing, and honored the 
compass with a complete set of namesakes. 
Near this dividing point is situated a business 
basis. The spot has, at first sight, quite a 
metropolitan aspect, but the view is shameful- 
ly deceptive, for it gives the stranger an im- 
pression of extended wealth and enterpr se ; 
when in reality the mercantile limiting line 
runs close upon the back doors of the two 
facing roads of blocks, forcing metropolitan- 
ism to end as abruptly as it began. 

If the spirit of trade finds unfertile soil for 
the best realization of its dictates, nature has 
utilized the land for the exhibition of her 
highest powers. Greenville is beautiful — beau- 
tiful with man and beautiful without him. The 
people made few additions to Greenville's 
natural attractiveness ; they erected houses ; 
gave the landscape a homelike appearance ; 
and by building their homes in Greenville, 
they made Greenville seem to give a cordial 
welcome to the visitor ; and to the prospective 
settler the welcon;e was indeed genuine and 
hearty, — if he had money. 

On South street, a few feet from the corners, 
stands a building, noted for nothing, and in- 
teresting principally to the owner. 

Some little distance from the store of Good- 
dry & Counter is the office of the Weekly 
Panne>\ the biggest, most enterprising, and 
largely circulated newspaper in Inland coun- 
ty. A dangerous mounting of two flights of 
uneven, dimly-lighted stairs, a stumbling walk 
through an uncertain entry, and one could 
knock at the door of, or enter without knock- 
ing, the sanctum of Walter St. George, the 
proprietor, publisher, editor and reporter of the 
Banner. St. George is a graduate of Yale, 
and has been admitted to the bar. Before a 
struggling practice had begun to consolidate, 
St. George found himself the heir of a de- 
ceased uncle, and the possessor of a few thou- 
sand dollars. St. George had always had a 
taste for scribbling, a talent he had not inher- 
ited, for both of his parents were the descend- 
ants of tradesmen, people who had but one 
prominent cranial bump, and that bump de- 
voted its contents almost solely to the getting 
of money through the regulated channels of 
legitimate trade. When St. George found 
himself fairlv well-to-do. he sacrificed the as- 



pirations for the bench to the drudgery 
of a country editor's life ; a change, per- 
haps, for the better, for neither profession 
now-a-days is an " Open Sesame " to wealth 
or unusual prominence, and a village editor is 
undoubtedly more of a leading character in 
local matters than the average lawyer of the 
city or of the country town. St. George real- 
ly had talent, and although his field was lim- 
ited to the people of Greenville and their 
neighbors, he had gained a county reputation, 
which in years to come might extend sufficient- 
ly to give him more than local prominence. 
St. George was a man of striking character, 
smart, quick, original, and intelligent. He 
was good-natured, witty and generous. Every- 
body liked him, and even his political enemies 
could hardly screw up hatred enough to really 
dislike the genial St. George, who stood al- 
ways ready to do a favor by word, action, or 
printer's ink. 

John Green and Walter St. George were in- 
separable friends. They loved each other 
with the broadest love, for neither possessed 
the characteristics of the other, except that 
both were men of high principle and Christian 
character. John Green knew as little and 
cared as little about the things that delighted 
Walter St. George, as Walter St. George 
knew or cared about business in general and 
the drv-goods business in particular. 

Walter St. George was not in love ; John 
Green was most intensely under the spell of 
the irrepressible Cupid; and St. George took al- 
most as much interest in the happiness of the 
lovers as though he was on the stage instead 
of being only a spectator. The world of love to 
John Green seemed to begin and end in the 
nearest vicinity. The rosy path of his happi- 
ness was the sidewalk which marked a terres- 
tial bee-line from the home of his parents, 
where he boarded, to the house where lived 
what he magnified into believing to be the best 
and handsomest maiden in Greenville. 

Mary Brown was certainly worthy of any 
man's respect. She was small in statue, and 
more than ordinary in physical beauty, with a 
heart pure, simple and devoted ; a character 
above reproach ; an intelligence of good pro- 
portions ; all together a woman one could ad- 
mire and respect more than he could the aver- 
age woman to be found in any ccmmunity ; 
although Mary Brown was probably no better 
than many who lived in Greenville, and the 
thousands of worthy women who honor civili- 
zation and help to make life sweeter and 
nobler. 

Every other sun-set found John Green at 
the lady's side, and the steeple clock in strik- 
ing the noon-day hour often drowned the 
scuffling footsteps of an accommodating office- 
boy, as he trudged along, bearing some sub- 
stantial or perishable product of John Green's 
devotion. 

Mary Brown's parents had died when she 
was a child of a few summers. A mother's 
care and a father's advice had never blessed 
her young life. She had matured with the 
memory of what she believed her father and 
mother were ; and imitating those pure quali- 
ties which her own mind had partially created, 
she had become one of those who can scorn 
the title of lady in the deserving of the grand 
old name of woman. Mary Brown was rich, 
but her property was held in trust by one 



Amos Witherell ; and although she had con 
siderably passed her 21st birthday, she 
was dependent largely upon his desires, or 
rather whims. 

Amos Witherell was simply an existing 
money-bag. He saw a cent tlirough the little 
hole of a spy-glass, and a good deed througli 
the other end. He was 65 years old, 
and lie more than looked his age. He was a 
grocer once, and in an arithmetical way, an 
honest one. A short weight and an over- 
weight never came out of his store. He was 
legally just for the simple reason that he never 
was known to be legally unjust — a sort of prin- 
ciple which keeps some men out of jail. His 
questionable doings were beyond the reach of 
human law, which must punish and forgive 
by rule. The few ideas which probably 
abided in the torpid substance of his spinal 
marrow, were gained in his youth ; every year 
brought them closer together, and forced them 
deeper into him, until they became to him a.v- 
ioms — a part of his structure. He had had a 
wife; she died years ago; but lived long 
enough to mould for him a feminine model. 
Mrs. Sarah Witherell was the only woman he 
ever knew, and the only woman he ever 
wanted to know. What she had done, he be- 
lieved was wliat every woman ought to do ; 
what she had thought, so far as she had ex- 
pressed herself to him, he felt that every 
woman must think. As he judged men by 
himself, so he judged women by what he be- 
lieved his wife had been. 

Amos Witherell was rich, not wealthy per- 
haps, but his natural shrewdness and his sys- 
tematic savings had amassed for him a sub- 
stantial share of this world's goods. He had 
retired from active trade some years ago, not 
because he thought himself old enough or 
rich enough to admit of such a course, but 
younger and popular men were seriously cut- 
ting into him in trade, and he wisely sold out 
his stock of goods, and gave himself up to the 
profession of a money lender, for valuable 
considerations. By one of those strange, in- 
e.xplicable reasons Mary's father, feeling the 
tightening grip of the dark angel, had volun- 
tarily signed the legal document which made 
Amos Witherell the perpetual trustee of his 
daughter's inheritance. 

Mary Brown had, since the death of her pa- 
rents, lived at the house of her guardian. She 
had never enjoyed the blessedness of a home 
as far as her remembrance could extend ; she 
had a roof to shelter her ; she had learned life's 
affirmatives by experiencing life's negatives. 
She was a stranger to her guardian as he was 
to her ; they were acquaintances only, simply 
legal acquaintances. 

As boy and girl, Mary Brown and John 
Green had been constantly together, and with 
the first realization of love that found its way 
into their childish hearts, came the knowledge 
that they loved each other. As naturally as 
came the passion, as naturally did maturer 
years give the steady increase, which consti- 
tutes the certainty of a blessed future, be 
worldly circumstances of prosperity or of dis- 
aster. John Green had never formally offered 
his hand to Mary Brown, nor can either of 
them definitely locate the precise date which 
marked a general acceptance that sooner or 
later they would meet life together as husband 
and wife. They had reached the age when 



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both would be unquestionably benefited by 
the closest relations'iip. The day had been 
decided upon, and it only wanted six weeks 
before a C|uiet ceremony would make two 
happy hearts happier. 

Jolin Green was standing behind the coun- 
ter one sunny June morning patiently display- 
ing a shelf-full of dress goods to a lady, wlio 
he knew would not be suited, because she had 
not the slightest idea of purchasing; when 
Jim, Amos Witherell's boy-of-all-work, stepped 
up and handed him a yellow-colored envelope, 
addressed to him, and marked ' I'rivate." John 
Careen broke the .seal, and read tliis sliurt 
message : — 
"John Green, Esq. : 

Dear Sir : — You are re(|ueste(l to call at 
once. 

Respectfully, 

Amos Witherki.i,." 

John Green was somewhat startled, but like 
a sensible man, he did not stop to conjecture 
the wherefor of the only note he had ever re- 
ceived from .'\mos Witherell; he put on his 
hat, and was soon walking rapidly along the 
familiar road which lead to the Witherell 
homestead. 

Mary's guardian lived some half a mile from 
the centre, in an old and always out of repair 
dwelling. It was a stately mansion in the 
days of Witherell senior, but long exposure to 
the rugged climate had given a checkered ap- 
pearance of paint and bare boards to the out- 
side walls, and the seven gables looked as 
though they leaked in seven places. It was a 
wreck of what it was, and a ruin of what it 
might have been. 

John Green entered the gate, walked up the 
grass-grown path which led to the front door, 
raised the tarnished knocker, and Amos With- 
erell personally responded to the metallic 
call. He bowed stiffly, but as Amos Wither- 
ell never bowed in any other way, that action 
could hardly be construed to be a forerunner 
of unusual unpleasantness. He lead the way 
into the sitting-room; John Green followed; 
he didn't offer Green a seat, .so Green took 
one uninvited. Amos Witherell remained 
standing; sent for Mary Brown ; Green crossed 
his legs, knowing that something out of the 
usual course of things was coming, yet con- 
tent to wait for the events to present tliem- 
selves in voluntary order. 

Mary entered; John arose to meet her, and 
ki.ssed a welcome, despite her guardian's pres- 
ence. John and Mary seated themselves upon 
the sofa. 

"Young man," Amos Witherell began. 

John bowed. 

"I understand that you and my ward pro- 
pose to get married." 

"We do," replied John ; " and we so in- 
formed you nearly a year ago." 

"Ahem, yes ; and what did I say .''" Amos 
Witherell asked. 

"Nothing whatever, sir. You immediately 
went into your office, and since that time the 
matter has never been referred to in your 
presence," John replied. 

"You and Mary have been hanging round 
together considerably since then," he re- 
marked. 

"Rather," was John's concise reply. 

"You intend to marry Mary," he said. 

"1 do," emphatically replied John. 



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"Young man," said Amos Witherell ab- 
ruptly, and in a tone which positively showed 
that lie meant every word he w.is saying, "I 
forbid this marriage." 

"Oh, Mr. Witherell," cried Mary, springing 
to her feet : but John caught her by the arm, 
and gently forced her back into her seat. 

"Let me do the talking, please, darling," 
said he: and Mary, pale and trembling, waited 
breathlessly for the result. 

"Your reason, sir, if you please," asked 
John in the same quiet, gentlemanly manner 
which he used beliind the counter, and not in 
in tlie least showing the intense agitation 
wliich he must have felt inwardly. 

.Vinos Witherell knew enough to see that 
John c;reen was calm, and a suspicion entered 
his mind that he was not dealing with the 
boy he had expected to find cowed before 
him. John (ireen was talking as though it 
was simply business, and for once a business 
style did not suit Amos Witherell. 

"My reason, young man," he snapped out, 
"is my reason. I do not intend to gratify your 
curiosity by saying anything more. You shall 
not marry Mary, and 1 shall take strong 
means to prevent you from getting her, if you 
persist. If you care at all about .Mary's wel- 
fare, you will leave quietly.'' 

John (Jreen knew that it was utterly useless 
to argue the matter with such a man as Amos 
Witherell. His coolness, however, did not de- 
sert him, and to gain time to plan a campaign, 
he meekly said : — 

".May 1 see .Mary alone before I go?" 

A smile, or rather a peculiar twitching of the 
facial muscles, for he could not sustain a de- 
cent smile, passed over Amos Witherell's face. 

"Yes," he replied, step into my office, both 
of you. I'll give you an hour to say good-bye. 
When the hour's up, young man, you leave." 

John and Mary entered the office and closed 
the door. Amos Witherell did not object. He 
was well aware that escape was impossible, 
for the window of the office was strongly 
barred, a precaution absolutely useless, for 
.■\nios Witherell never kept any considerable 
amount of money in the house, and the legal 
papers which filled the dusty pigeon holes 
were of no value except to the rightful owners. 
But Amos Witherell desired that iron bars 
barricade the office-window, and his wish was 
gratified. 

Mary was overcome, and had a strikingly 
apparent means of access out of their predica- 
ment presented itself, it is doubtful if she 
would have had the power to grasp it. John 
was perplexed, but not sufficiently to block 
his reasoning and operating facilities. He re- 
alized that he was in a scrape, and he was 
puzzled as to the way out of it. 

".Mary," said he, " Mr. Witherell means 
business. Legally he can do nothing; practi- 
cally he can do much to annoy us both. His 
course is shameful — contemptible; but it is 
useless to trouble ourselves with complaints. 
Neither of us expected anything more than 
the cheapest decency from him, and we ought 
not to be much surprised at any action that he 
may take. We are engaged, (he would have 
pressed her closer to him had such a thing 
been possible), and we intend to be married. 
Do we not, darling ?" 

A blushing smile overspread her face. They 
looked into each other's eyes, and involunta- 



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rily renewed the long lease of love, — a con- 
tract against which Amos Witherell and the 
balance of the world could not so much as 
make the appearance of an impression. 

"But, Mary," John continued, "we must 
look things squarely in the face. We are in a 
tight place : we can't get out of this room 
without confronting Mr. Witherell; and at 
present it is perhaps best not to use force to 
take you with me. I see but one way, and — 
"hallo, there's St. George," cried he. "If I 
can but draw his attention, without arousing 
your despicable guardian, perhaps he can 
help us." 

Down the hill came Walter St. George, his 
legs over the handle-bar of his bicycle, and 
the slender steed gliding along as silently 
as a rubber-soled waiter, — the only moving 
thing about Greenville which did not raise 
•a dust. Just as the bicycle and St. 
George were passing the window, John 
Green hailed him, taking care not to 
shout loud enough to attract the attention 
of Amos Witherell. who was undoubtedly at 
his post in the adjoining room. Down came 
the legs from across the handle bar, and as 
quickly as possible, St. George brought the 
anxious steed to a moderate speed. Turning 
he pedalled back to the spot opposite the win- 
dow. 
"What's up," he shouted. 
A warning sign silenced him. 
"Walter," said John Green, "lean your ma- 
chine up against the fence, and come close to 
the window." 

St. George obeyed the order, and rapidly 
was informed of the exact state of affairs. An 
impressible " whew "' relieved him of his sur- 
prise, and he was ready to talk and act. 

"John," said he, "I must admit that old 
Witherell has just now got the upper hand of 
you both. He's a disgrace to Greenville, but 
we won't discu.ss that. If you have decided to 
get married, the quicker you do it the better." 
But we can't just yet," replied John, as he 
playfully tapped the iron bars; "and Mr. 
Witherefl is outside watching like a sentinel." 
"You might wait here while 1 go for a license 
and a minister, and let him marry you through 
the bars," suggested St. George ; "but time 
is precious, and there is small chance of get- 
ting a minister here, provided I can get one at 
all to come, before old Witherell makes his 
appearance" 

Just then St. George's quick eye caught the 
telephone hanging on the wall. A thought 
came to him, and half audiblv he said to him- 
self : 

"Why not ? it's half legal anyway. " 
"John," he said, "would you get married to- 
day if it were possible ?" 

"Certainly," replied John Green instantly. 
"And you, Mary ?" 

Mary blushed, and in the brief space of 
time she allotted to herself in which to answer 
the momentous and unexpected question, the 
thought of trou.sscau or lack of trousseau 
forced itself through her feminine mind. 
"Yes," she answered simply. 
"How much time have you left.'" asked St. 
(ieorge. 

John Green glanced at the clock. 
Forty-two minutes," replied he. 
"Now listen," said St. (jeorge. "Take off 
the little gongs on the telephone box, so that 



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when I signal you the bells won't ring. You 
can watch the striker, and when it moves, you 
pay strict attention. I shall go at once to 
Henry Bowker's office ; get out a marriage 
license for you ; call you up; and Henry will 
perform the ceremony. With the certificate 
of marriage in my pocket, I shall return at 
breakneck speed, and hand you the document 
through the bars. You will then be Mary's 
husband, and can begin to protect her right 
away. If old Witherell interferes then, show 
him the marriage certificate first, and knock 
him over if he doesn't get out of the way. 
Now mind what I've said.'' 

Away went St. George. Never had he ped- 
alled at such a furious rate. 

Heno' Bowker was town clerk and justice 
of the peace, a friend of both John Green and 
Walter St. George, and a friendly admirer of 
Mary Brown. He was always ready to do a 
favor, and when St. George explained to him 
the plot, and assured him not only of the prob- 
able legality of the operation, but of the al- 
most impossibility of any court imposing a 
fine for such action, Henry Bowker became 
not only willing, but enthusiastically anxious 
to help carry out the scheme. 

John Green quietly removed the little gongs, 
and both he and Marj- patiently watched the 
little hammer, which would pound the air when 
St. George signalled from Henry Bowker's of- 
fice. 

Amos Witherell was a director in the Green- 
ville District Telephone company. By dint 
of wire-pulling, he had succeeded in having a 
vote passed which gave each officer the 
free use of one of these wonderful little instru- 
ments. Consequently, a telephone hung in 
his shabby office. It was of no use to him 
whatever, for he never used it, nor knew how 
to respectably ; but it cost nothing, and to him 
its presence was a source of considerable grat- 
ification. 

John and Mary said little: both were wait- 
ing anxiously. Suddenly the hammer moved. 
John jumped to the telephone, and distinctly, 
but in a low tone of voice, said the unavoid- 
able "hallo." 

"Is that John Green?" came in a voice, 
which was unmistakably that of Henry Bow- 
ker. 

"It is." replied John. 

"Give Miss Brown the telephone." called 
Bowker. 

John did so. 

"Are you Mary Brown ?" asked Bowker. 

"! am,'' replied Mary. 

"Give the telephone to Mr. Green," came 
the order. 

John then took his stand at the wire. 

"John Green, take Mary Brown by the 
hand," ordered Bowker. 

John obeyed. 

"John Green," came over the wire, "do you 
take Mary, whom you hold by the hand, to be 
your lawful wife ?" 

"I do," replied John. 

"Ciive the telephone to Miss Brown," said 
Bowker. 

Mary put herself in position. 

"Have you got hold of liands?" inquired 
Bowker. 

"We have," replied Mary. 

"Mary Brown," said the voice, "do you take 
John, whom you hold by the hand, to be your 



lawful husband ?" 

"I do," replied Mary firmly. 

"I pronounce you husband and wife" said 
Bowker. "Give the telephone to Mr. Green." 

"John Green," said Bowker, when John had 
responded to the call, "I pronounce you hus- 
band and wife. Good bye." 

Walter St. George was best man ; he had 
sustained the prominent outside character in 
ceremony. Seizing the certificate, he glanced 
at his watch, rushed out of doors, and repeated 
his rapid wheel. Out of breath, he reached 
the spot opposite the window, vaulted the 
fence, and handed John Black the certificate 
through the bars. 

"Put it into your pocket," said he, as soon 
as in condition to speak, "and use it when nec- 
essary. Don't let old Witherell know how you 
were married. Show the certificate ; that'll 
settle him. I'll be within hearing distance of 
the house, till you come out. Call me if you 
need help. Mrs. Green, I salute you;" and 
putting his face between the bars, he implanted 
a hearty kiss upon the rather pale lips of the 
just made bride. The allotted time had near- 
ly passed; but John and Mary were now as 
anxious for the hour to close, as a few mo- 
ments before they were fearful of its rapid 
passing away. Amos Witherell did not knock 
to inform the lovers that the given time was 
over ; he threw open the door, and said : — 

"Time's up." 

"I think you are correct, sir," replied John 
politely; "and Mary and I may as well pre- 
pare to depart." 

"What," ejaculated Witherell, as much taken 
back by the coolness of John Green as he 
was by the import of the words just spoken. 

"As you seem to object to me," continued 
John Green, "1 certainly do not desire to 
longer remain as your guest; and as Mary is 
hardly willing to be deprived of my society, I 
may as well take her to a place where we can 
fully enjoy each other's company. Get your 
things on Mary." 

"Y'ou dare not take Mary away," almost 
shouted Amos Witherell. "Young man let me 
inform you that Mary Brown is my ward, 
and that the law gives me power over her." 

"You are mistaken, sir," replied John Green. 
"The law has unfortunately given you certain 
rights over her property, but over her body 
you have no power whatever." 

"Haven't I," yelled Amos Witherell, now 
aroused to a fever heat. "We will see." 

He rushed up to Mary, and seizing the 
trembling girl by the arm, attempted to force 
her from the room. 

"John, John," cried Mary. 
"Stop, sir," said John Green, excitedly. 
"Dare you lay your hand upon my wife ?" and 
without waiting for a reply, he grabbed Amos 
Witherell by the collar, and by a sudden, 
powerful jerk, flung him across the room. 

Amos Witherell was not simply surprised, 
he was utterly astounded. He had met his 
match for once, and the meeting was not 
agreeable to him. Gathering himself up, he set 
in motion a flow of words which would make a 
black spot on black paper. He did not at- 
tempt to chastise John Green, not because be 
did not want to, but the suddenness of the at- 
tack, and the energy displayed by the young 
man, had filled him with an unwillingly ad- 
mitted respect for John Green's powers. 



"Your wife," shouted he, "Mary Brown 
isn't your wife." 

"Mary Green, if you please, sir," said John 
Green as pleasantly as though he was intro- 
ducing his bride to an acquaintance. "We 
are married, and if you will kindly glance over 
this document, you will see that tlic knot was 
legally tied ; and if you know the law sir," he 
was speaking sternly now, "you will not dare" 
again interfere between a man and his wife." 

Amos Witherell read enough of the paper 
to see what it appeared to represent. A scru- 
tiny of the plain, bold signature of Henry 
Bowker at the bottom, a signature his busi- 
ness made him familiar with, and the truth of 
John (Green's statement forced itself upon 
him. Amos Witherell did the only real de- 
cent thing he ever was known to do, — he sunk 
into a chair and said not a word. John and 
Mary Green had conquered ; he knew it and 
felt it ; and his small bump of common sense 
was this time suflicient to keep him still, for a 
while at least. John and Mary stood for a 
few minutes looking at the shrunken figure of 
the man who but a few minutes ago was strong 
in his own conceit. 

John Green stepped to the office window 
and called to Walter St. George, who was 
leisurely riding back and forth along the 
smooth road, within hearing distance. St. 
George came up to the window. By a hurried, 
wltispered conversation, he was made aware 
of what had just transpired. 

"Old Witherell may be overcome now," said 
he, "but it won't last. If you take my advice 
gou will get Mary's duds packed up right off, 
and cart 'em away. The old fellow '11 wake 
up soon enough and there'll be a row ; and it's 
easier to get her things away now, than it may 
be a few hours hence. Besides you are mar- 
ried, and may as well begin to live together in 
ship-shape style first as last. I'll go for a car- 
riage. " 

Mary was informed. .Although she had in- 
tended to go with John, the thought of at once 
making a permanent evacuation with bag and 
baggage came upon her with all the force of 
desperate reality. But she wavered only for 
a moment. 

"It's best, John," she said simply. 

St. George mounted his 'wheel,' and for the 
second time made the run to town. 

Things were hurried into trunks and bo.xes, 
with more respect for rapidity than to the 
science of packing. By the time Walter St. 
George and the carriage arrived, Mary's nec- 
essary worldly goods were in a more or less 
readiness for removal. 

Amos Witherell still remained where he 
ad thrown himself. John Green, Walter St. 
' ieorge and the hackman proceeded to carry 
things to the carriage. Amos Witherell began 
to arouse himself. A realization of what was 
going on, and that he had been weak and had 
made a fool of himself, came upon him with 
double force. He attempted to forcibly inter- 
vre ; but Walter St. George in a few emphat- 
' ally said words, convinced him that if he re- 
lused to allow Mary's personal goods to be 
removed, legal steps would be immediately 
taken ; and .^mos Witherell, who had a whole- 
some fear of the law, did not deem it advisable 
to interfere further than to continue an on- 
slaught of words, which passed over the heads 
of the busy party. 



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John Green and his wife drove to the house 
of his parents, where Mary was received, as 
she ought to have been, with open arms. 

Amos Witherell tried to make trouble, but 
without any material success, although he 
caused both John and Mary more or less an- 
noyance. In a year he died. 

By the terms of the trusteeship, Mary be- 
came, at his decease, the mistress of her inher- 
itance. Her late guardian, it must be admit- 
ted, had been honest in the care of the estate, 
which under his judicious business manage- 
ment had very considerably increased in 
value. Amos Witherell had done one thing 
well. 

John Green and Walter St. George continue 
the firmest friends. St. George is unmarried, 
with no immediate prospect of matrimonial 
alliance. John (^reen is married, that is 
enough for him at present, for he enjoys 
Mary's company almost as much as does her 
husband ; in fact, he has given up his bachelor 
quarters at the hotel, and now boards at tlie 
cosy cottage of Mr. and Mrs. John Green. 

"John," said Walter St. George one evening, 
while the three were sitting in the twilight, 
conversing generally; "it's just a year ago to- 
day since we were married.'' 

"JfV, you rascal," shouted John Green. 

"Yes, we." replied Walter St. George 
laughingly. "Didn't I play an important part 
in the operation; and doesn't Mary think 
about as much of me as of you, you ungrate- 
ful scamp." 

"She does, does she,'' exclaimed John Green 
good-naturedly. "I'm beginning to believe 
she does, and am getting jealous. A wronged 
husband is a dangerous customer to deal with, 
you'd better look out, old fellow," and he gave 
his friend a hearty slap upon the back. 

Just then the telephone bell rang. Walter 
St. George stepped up to the instrument. 

"John," said he, after he had finished talking 
over the wire, "why do you persist in paying 
for this thing, when you don't use it once a 
week ? The expense honestly belongs to me." 

"My dear fellow," replied John Green, "we 
can't tell what will happen ; it may come in 
handy some day ; we may have a daughter, 

and . ' Here a soft, white hand closed 

gently over his mouth, and a sweet voice 
said : — 

"There, tliere, John, hadn't you better go 
after the kerosene before it's dark?" 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Coninuinic-itions to this departmunt are solicited. 
'I liey should be addressed to Qirester Editor, Lu.lir, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



Heavy Air. — A NewWorcestercouplea.sk 
Light to sen-e as referee: One claims that 
the atmosphere is heavy when smoke is seen 
to sink; the other claims otherwise. The lat 
ter is correct. The falling of smoke invari- 
ably denotes a light atmosphere. 

English Land Holders.— .Mr. W. T. 
asks: "How is the land in Great Britain divided 
in ownership .■"' Twenty-five land holders in 
Great Britain own 5,113,500 acres, an average 
of 204,540 acres each : and 47 land 
holders own 3.220,554 acres, an average of 
68,522 acres each. 

.-\boi' r Prniu ATioN.s. — W. T. W. in- 



2 1 

quires the number of publications printed in 
the principal countries of the world. .Amer- 
ica prints nearly 13,000 newspapers, 
Canad:i aljout 700, and Australia 
the same, (Germany about 5500, Eng- 
land prints about 3000 and about the 
same number are printed in France 
and .'\sia, nearly 1500 are printed in 
Japan, about 200 in Africa and Egypt, 
and the Argentine Republic publishes 
about 60 newspapers. 

Pensions. — A Main street lady asks : 
".About how mucli money has the United 
States government paid out in pensions since 
the beginning of tlie Civil war.'" In round 
numbers, about a thousand millions of dollars. 

Wek;htof Men'. — A fat man asks the aver- 
age weight of men in America. About 142 
pounds for men, and 125 pounds for ladies. 

Bank Check.s. — .A business man asks : 
■■.Must checks or drafts be presented for pay- 
ment within any specific time ? " A check or 
draft should be presented without unreason- 
able delay, say within 30 days, but a check 
or draft presented within the limit of outlaw, is 
good, the same way that a note is good, but 
no law would hold that a depositor would be 
obliged to protect his check in a bank for an 
indefinite period of years. 

Introductions by Hands. — A New 
Worcester young lady asks : "On being intro- 
duced to a gentleman, should a lady extend 
her hand in greeting?" It is perfectly proper 
to do so, and it is as proper to acknowledge 
the introduction by a bow ; extending the 
hand being simply a matter of preference. 
The rule of etiquette states that a gentleman 
should never extend his hand to a lady, partic- 
ularly upon being introduced to her, unless the 
lady extends her hand to him ; yet, there are 
hundreds of perfect gentlemen who do this, 
and no lady would refuse to shake hands with 
a gentlemen because he does not happen to 
be up to the rules of strict etiquette. 

Apologize, of Course. — Bessie W. says : 
"The other day I said something to a gentle- 
man friend which I know now to be unkind 
and unladylike. I respect the gentleman 
highly. What shall I do?" .Apologize to 
him, immediately, verbally if you can see him 
alone, by mail if otherwise. It lowers no one 
to apologize when in the wrong; in fact, a 
handsome frank apology is a sign of good 
breeding, and there never was an instance 
where a gentleman or lady thought less of 
anybody for making an honest apology. 

Trade Winds:— H. H. M. asks: What 
are the trade winds? 

Our correspondent should seek a cyclop;edia 
for an extended answer. In brief, the constant 
winds towards the equator arise from the ex- 
treme heat in that region, making the air from 
north and south set steadily and strongly in 
that direction. Were the earth at rest these 
winds would be N. and S. winds respectively, 
but as the globe turns from west to east and 
its surface moves much more rapidly at the 
equator than N. or S. of it. the direction of the 
winds must be effected. One force draws the 
air from the north southward, the other would 
carry it westward. Consequently it follows 
the resultant of the forces and blows steadily 
from N. E. to S. W. From the soutli tlie 
wind comes in just the contrary direction, viz., 
S. E. and N. W. 



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About Folks. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Easton, and Mr. and 
Mrs. Blakie of Boston made up a party of 
four which left, last Monday afternoon, for 
Hot Springs, Arkansas, where they are to test 
the benefits of the much vaunted climate. 



Mr. James T. Bryant, formerly the 
Worcester agent of the Adams Expre.ss 
company, a position which he occupied 
for several years, has accepted tlie 
agency of the State Mutual Life Assur- 
ance company for Cincinnati, O., and 
will soon leave for that place. Mr. Bryant 
was obliged to give up his place with the Ex- 
press company after several years of valuable 
ser\'ice, and will undoubtedly find his new 
work congenial and profitable. 



.Mr. William Henrj- Goodyear's lecture on 
"Progress in American Architecture," before 
the Worcester Art society, this evening, will 
be illustrated by lantern slides and will un- 
doubtedly be as entertaining as Mr. Good- 
year's lectures in the past. Beside the five lec- 
tures originajly planned in the present course, 
another has been arranged for Thursday eve- 
ning, .March 13. when Mrs. Daniel Merriman 
will read a paper on "Modern Art as Illus- 
trated in the Barbizon School," the school, by 
the way, of which Millet is the chief represen- 
tative. Mrs. A. George Bullock has kindly 
offered the society the use of her parlors for 
the evening. The remaining lectures will be 
by Prof. Edward S. Morse, who will speak on 
•"Japanese Art Hand-work," April 8, and by 
Mr. John G. Heywood, who will speak on 
".Some Eminent Caricaturists," May 6. Mr. 
Heywood has some valuable slides which he 
will show in connection with his lecture, and 
it promises to be one of special interest. 



Misses .Annie and Margaret Lovell gave a 
"little neighbors," candy pull at their home, 
No. I DLx .Street, .Monday afternoon. 



It is almost too bad that the Quinsiganiond 
Boat club isn't to try the boards of the new 
theatre this year. Memories of "The Tali.s- 
nian" arise to cry for "more," but the club 
voted some time ago not to give an entertain- 
ment this vear. 

There was a Worcester clergyman, not 
long ago,who believed that congregational sing- 
ing was the only kind that a church ought to 
employ in ser\-ices of worship. He had an 
animated discussion with some of the mem- 
bers of the church, and among other things 
said he didn't believe in anthems or solos. 

"But," said a musical lady in the church, 
who was discussing the matter with him, 
"you believe that when you get to heaven the 
angels will sing, don't you ?" 

He expected they would. 

"Well," said the lady, "Jenny Lind will be 
there, and she'll sing a solo," and the remain- 
der of the discussion was left to the future. 



An effort is being made to establish a Wor- 
cester lodge of the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks. There are about 150 lodges in 
the whole country. 



Scribner's for March. 

IM TOP CAATDDHrrC AC rniDIPC TIIMR By Dr. Benjamin Ellis Martin, (with frontispiece" portrait. 
In Int rUUlrnlfllo Ur InflKLLO LAMd. and illustrations by John Fulleylove and Herbert Railton. 

A forgotten' REMMNT. 



ove and Herbert ] 

. .....^....,.,1. .<K».n.nni. Kirk MonroB wfites of the picturcsque Seminole Indians of Florfda. lUus- 

fl rUKuU 1 1 ha Rlilnnfln I . tratea by drawings by Kenyon Cox. J. D. Woodward, Perard, and others. 
inHN PRir^^flN THF FNPINFFR Concluding article by Col. W. C. Church. With many illustrations. 
THP HinriFN '^FI P "> Wliam James. A study of the phenomena of hypnotism and the trance state. 
THE BLACK FELLOW AND HIS BOOMERANG, "^^ "°-'^'=.Mer,.=>n expert in the art of boomerang 



"Expiation," Part 111. 

.Serial, by Harold Frede 

Hibbard. 



By Horace Baker. 3 
throwing. With illustrations. 

_ rhanefs novelette, lUustrated by .\. B. Frost ;" In the Valley," 

Uustrated by Howard Pyle; "A Deedless Drama," a short story, by George 

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the convenience of the people in and about "The Heart of the 
Commonwealth," where is carried on file the time-tables of rail- 
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tels, descriptive matter concerning summer and winter resorts, 
transportation lines, excursions, and of the leading hotels. 
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WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 



1S90. 



Worcester's librarian and Worcester's public 
school board, two great educational factors of 
Worcester, do not seem to agree in the matter 
of library books in schools. A squabble of 
any kind, particularly where tlie education of 
youth is concerned, has as many points of 
view as a kaleidoscope, and each one presents 
a vision sure to attract admiration. That the 
public schools and the library. should work in 
harmony is an a.\iom. That the school teacher 
can be of great benefit to the library is an 
established fact. That the library can be of 
inestimable benefit to the scholar is answered 
by civilization in the affirmative. The free 
use of book.s, without a guiding hand in the 
selection of them, can be productive of evil or 
of too much learning, but no sane man or wo- 
man dares affirm that the discriminate use of 
the books upon the shelves of any well-selected 
library can be otherwise than of the greatest 
benefit to the public at large, and especially to 
the young who.se minds are easily turned in 
the right direction or in the wrong. 



The woman who so dresses that one can sel- 
dom remember exactly what she had on, is 
probably appropriately costumed. Cheap finery 
is only worn by the cheapest of the cheap. A 
well-dressed woman combines in her dresses 
comfort, fitness, neatness, with good taste over 
all. A mistress can be told from her servants 
by the simplicity of clothing. The woman of 
a dollar may have an unpaid fortune on 
her back, while the woman of thousands sel- 
dom over or under dresses. 



Ask any Congregationalist if he believes 
that a Methodist stands as good a chance of 
entering Heaven as himself, and the an.swer 
"yes" will invariably be given. Repeat the 
question to a Baptist, or an Episcopalian, or a 
Presbyterian, or to any other Christian denom- 
inationist, and with lightning regularity will be 
flashed back an affirmative. Modern theology 
and denominational preference makes the de- 
nominational church at the present day a 
necessity. All denominations, at least the 
intelligent part of them, are looking forward 
to the great coming days of unsectarian union. 
The movement to establish .Sunday evening 
services, thoroughly undenominational in char- 
acter and free to the people, deserves the sup- 
port of every class of citizens in Worcester. 
Union services have been held in many 
larger cities with marked success, and there is 
no reason why Worcester should not have a 
union house of refuge for those people who 
believe in God so much that they have no 
time for denominational worship, and for 
those people who believe in God so little that 
they can't bear to feel the slightest pressure of 
the weakening cord of theology. 



It occurred once in Worcester, never any- 
where else, and probably never will again : — 
an amateur entertainment where none of the 
artists attempted to do what they couldn't. 



Mr. Choate, in his speech in behalf of free 
circulating libraries, remarked: "That fiction 
is the best reading for tired people," adding, 
"that all the people in New York are tired." 
Light hardly feels big enough to criticise .so 
eminent an authority as is Mr. Choate, yet it 
will venture the suggestion that some of the 
fiction inflicted upon the guileless public has a 
tendency to make people tired. Worse than 
tired must be the condition of the morbid 
brain which can absorb such dry rot as the 
Ross novels, or the frothy sensationalism of 
the authoress of "The Witness of the Sun." 
Whatever may be said against the immorality 
of the modern stage, the evening lamp of the 
reading room forces into light 10 times the 
varnished slum that all the footlights in the 
world can illuminate. 



Money counts ; there is no question about 
it ; ready money will accomplish what nothing 
else can approach, and invested money will 
establish a credit which even ready money 
fails in doing. A man who has money has 
power ; a man with a million, and a question- 
able character added to it, may not be loved by 
his fellow men, may not be respected, but his 
chances of recognition are sometimes ten 
times as great as those of some poor fellow 
who lived for others more than for himself, 
covering his good deeds with the cloak of 
genuine modesty. The man who gives a 
thousand dollars generally gives less than he 
can afford; the man who gives a dollar fre- 
quently gives as much as he ouglit to give, 
still there is no reason why the thousand 
dollar giver should not be respected, nor is 
there any reason why the newspapers should 
not herald his charity. The more thousand 
dollar givers there are the better is it for Wor- 
cester, and the more dollar givers there are, so 
much the better is it for our city. Light 
would not for a moment cast its feeble shadow 
over the grand good deeds which wealthy 
Worcester has done for general Worcester. 
Most of the wealthy men have been genuine 
philanthropists and their names will go down 
to posterity, accompanied with wreaths of love 
and admiration. What they, and their money, 
have done cannot be forgotten. Still the 
strength of Worcester is vested in that great 
middle class of people who own her stores, 
keep her books, and engineer her factories.Ten 
business men, with an income of three thou- 
sand dollars apiece, will do more to build 
up general Worcester than any one man with 
an income of thirty thousand dollars. 
Circulation of money is what tells and makes 
business. A man may not give away a dollar 
and yet be a public benefactor, but a man who 
loves his fellow men will give away his dollars. 
The old-fashioned proverb of "live and let 
live," with the let live more prominent than the 
live, makes competition friendly, and collect 
ively builds our school-houses and fills them 
with happy children, gives to Worcester its 
ten thousand firesides, where its ten thousand 
families are living, and growing,— -giving to the 



pre.sent, prosperity, and to the coming genera- 
tion, more common sense and ability to cope 
with difficulties than can hoarded wealth or 
families stocked only with pedigree. Worces- 
ter is a city of homes ; her people own their 
houses, her children play on unrented ground ; 
her people are hardy, and have brought up a 
race that is sure to make of Worcester more 
than she has been, or is, and extend her repu- 
tation of being the greatest family city of the 
union. 



Twenty-five years ago liclle Hoyd was doing 
all she could to have Worcester men shot 
down on the field of battle, by rebels. Next 
Tuesday evening she will ask Worcester peo- 
ple to contribute their halves, or quarters, or 
whatever the price may be, to hear her lecture 
at Horticultural hall. Lkmit docs not expect 
to be there. 



.Strange, isn't it, what inconsistent mortals 
some men are. Many a man will, with alacrity, 
spring out of bed, at midnight, to tramp a mile, 
in the coldest weather, to gaze upon a fire set 
by another, who cannot be induced to rise at 
seven, in summer, to start one in the kitchen 
stove. 



Light believes that there is a place 
for all good things, and that all forms of 
innocent amusement should be encouraged by 
providing a proper place in which to enjoy 
them. Good or bad as it may be, the theatre 
has come to stay, and is as much a pillar of 
modernism as is the bank or eating-house. If 
it is an evil it should be regulated ; if it is 
otherwise it should be supported. There are 
bad plays and bad actors, but the argument 
against theatrical shows in general, because 
some of them are below the line of respecta- 
bility, is as unfair as would be a general ab- 
stinence from book reading because three- 
quarters of the books are immoral. 

There is no objection to a flat ; the small fam- 
ily in a flat is as cosy as a chicken in a glass 
hen-coop; but the family which is unfashion- 
able enough to have six or seven children 
finds that a common entry and general front 
door disagreeable to itself, and a nuisance to 
the other occupants. With the unoccupied 
hills of Worcester there is room for little set- 
tlements of prolific humanity, — a house and lot 
for each family. 

Considering that it's Lent, the Worcester 
people are having a pretty good time. 

An ounce of New England common sense 
is worth a pound of know-it-all, in any market. 



The high hat at entertainments must go, or 
rather the woman with a high hat will not be 
allowed to go to entertainments. 



Chicago feels as big at the upper end as she 
does at the lower. Poor Chicago, she docsn"t 
know what to do with it now .she has got it. 



L I (i HT 




'^ yy/SffrnjESTERJAA^S. 



A Journal of Social Worcester and her 
Neighbors. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 

^P" Advertising rates upon application. 



NATH'L C. FOWLER, Jr., 1 Editors and 
FRED E. COLBURN, ( Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 



Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
econd-class mail matter. 



W0KCE.STER, Saturday, March 15, 1890. 



About Folks. 

The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people. 

March 15: Sun rises at 5.56 a. m.; sets at 5.51 
p. M. Length of day, 11 hours, 55 minutes. 
New moon, 20th., 4 hours, i minute, evening. 



Mr. Edward W. Dodge has received from 
the secretary of the Amateur Athletic union 
notification of his reinstatement to amateur 
standing. A year ago last winter Mr. Dodge 
unwittingly participated in a bowling contest 
which made him a professional. He desired 
simply to avoid being ranked as such, as he of 
course gives his attention to his business and 
is in no sense a professional athlete. 



The Greendale Dramatic club's bean supper 
and apron and necktie party, a week ago last 
night, was attended by some 60 or 70 people. 
Mr. H. L. Whitcomb got the silk tie voted to 
the most popular young. man, and Miss Lillian 
Gilmore the white apron for the most popular 
young lady. Four young ladies had a wood- 
sawing contest, and Miss Gilmore won the 
first prize, while Mi.ss Luta Lincoln got the 
booby. After the supper there was a social 
dance. 

The choir of Pilgrim church is rehearsing 
Sir John Stainer's "Crucifixion," a descrip- 
tion of the passion of the Holy Redeemer, 
which is to be given at the church Sunday 
evening, March 23. 



Col. Fred W. Wellington and Mrs. Welling- 
ton have been in quiet and pleasant retire- 
ment at the Commodore club establishment, 
at Moose Pond, .Me. 



Mr. J. Brace Chittenden, a graduate of the 
Polytechnic Institute, '88, and now at Harvard, 
where he is president of the Graduates' club, 
was in town early in the week. Mr. Albert T. 
Mar.shall, '89, who was the champion pole 
vaulter of the institute, has also been in Wor- 
cester this week. He is travelling for his 
father's firm, H. T. Marshall & Co., boot and 
shoe manufacturers, of Brockton. 



The Sabbath school of Piedmont church 
began last Sunday the rehearsal of Emma 
Pitt's "Chimes of Victory," a pretty Easter 
service, which is to be given at the church, 
.Sunday evening, April 6. 



About 25 members of Greendale Lodge, In- 
dependent Order of Good Templars, visited 
Nellie H. Green Lodge, at Shrewsbury, Mon- 
day night, it being the fifth anniversary of the 
Shrewsbur)^ lodge. The party went down in 
one of Spooner's si.\-horse busses and had a 
breakdown on the road, which made a lively 
time for a few minutes. Home was reached 
about four o'clock in the morning. 

Mr. Aaron G. Estabrook has leased his 
residence at the comer of May and Woodland 
streets to Miss E. A. Kimball, who will take 
possession next September. Miss Kimball is 
to transfer her "Home School" from her pres- 
ent quarters at 58 Woodland street to the 
new place, and it will be remodelled and 
handsomely fitted up. Mr. Estabrook will re- 
move his stable building in the rear of the 
house and build for himself a handsome new 
residence, fronting on Woodland street. Miss 
Kimball's Home school has been meeting 
with great success and has won the entire con- 
fidence of all who have watched its progress. 
In new quarters it will have an opportunit>- for 
further growth and improvement. The loca- 
tion is a fine one and Mr. Estabrook's house is 
a large, commodius dwelling, well adapted for 
the purposes of such a school. Miss Kimball 
is to take possession September i, and has a 
lease for five years. 

An attractive oil painting of roses, done by 
Miss Madeline A. Childs, a pupil of Mrs. J. A. 
Bell, has been on exhibition at Cumner & 
Bell's during a week past. 



for Dr. Paxton's church in New York. Mile. 
Clementina de Vere, who sang at the Worces- 
ter Festival last year, is to have the soprano 
position at a salary of S4500; Mme. Anderson, 
the contralto, gets $1200 ; the tenor has $1400 ; 
and Mr. Eric Bushnell, the bass, will have 
$1500. They all get three months' vacation. 
A total of $8600 for singers looks large to 
music committees hereabout. Mile, de X'ere's 
salarj-, by the way, is the largest ever paid to 
a single choir singer. 

There was an amusing scene on a Main 
street horse-car, last Tuesday. A passenger 
who was in a hurry to get off gathered in the 
bell-rope, as he supposed, and tried to play a 
solo on the chimes. When he had rung in 
five fares, he discovered that he was working 
the annunciator, and the conductor wouldn't 
let him get off until he had settled for the five 
fares, much to the amusement of the passen- 
gers. If he hadn't pulled but once, he could 
have bought his e.xperience for a nickel, but 
he knew a good thing when he saw it. 



Mrs. Lillie Wilkinson has been coaching the 
St. Aloysius society of Spencer during the 
winter, and the society is to present at Spencer 
Town hall, March 17, "The Colleen Bawn," 
under her personal supervision. 



Mr. William A. Howland, a son of Dr. A. 
A. Howland, and in the past a prominent par- 
ticipant in doings of Plymouth church young 
people, has been for some time studying music 
with Prof. F. E. Bristol of New York, former- 
ly the teacher of Mr. Francis Fischer Powers, 
who sang at the last Gounod concert. Mr. How- 
land has a splendid voice, and gives promise 
of becoming one of the best of the younger 
bassos now singing. Gerrit Smith, the compo- 
ser, among others, has spoken highly of his 
abilities. Mr. Howland's merits are evidently 
appreciated, for he has just been engaged as 
bass soloist at the Church of the Intercession, 
(Episcopal) in New York city. The standard 
of singing is high, and Mr. Howland's engage- 
ment is pleasant news to his friends in this 
city. He begins May i. Mr. Howland is 
living with his brother, Mr. John G. Howland, 
in Bridgeport, Conn., and goes to New York 
each day. Incidentally, he does some concert 
singing in Bridgeport. Both the Bridgeport 
Morning A'l'U's and the Sta?ida>(i s^fak high- 
ly of recent performances of Mr. Howland, 
and there can be no doubt that the praise is 
deserved. Worcester people would like to 
have Mr. Howland come back and sing at 
home, but they will be no less gratified at his 
receiving so notable an engagement in New 
York. 

A Worcester gentleman, now in New York, 
writes home concerning musical matters, and 
in speaking of choirs, refers to that engaged 



Mr. Alfred S. Roe has prepared an anno- 
tated edition of Sir Roger de Coverley, from 
the Spccta/oi; making a book of 200 pages. 
It is to be issued next week by Leach, Shew- 
ell & Sanborn, Boston and New York. 

Mr. Henry Hay, formerly the proprietor of 
the Waverley House, but lately of the Massa- 
soit house, Spencer, has leased the Dresser 
house at Southbridge, and will take possession 
April I. 

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Macomber gave a 
private whist party, complimentary to Miss 
Annie Coleman of Fall River, at their resi- 
dence, 26 Merrick street, Friday evening, 
March 7. Those present included Mr. and 
Mrs. C. R. Macomber, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. 
Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Fisher, Miss Kit- 
tie Conant and Miss Maud Barker of Belfast, 
Me., Messrs. Frank D. Freeman, .•\rthur K. 
Ross, Fred M. Clark, Jr., H. Ward Bates, 
Misses Maud Clark and May Eddy. After 
leaving the tables, refreshments were served 
and music and dancing ended the evening's 
entertainment. 

One of the prettiest events of the social sea- 
son was the german given at Association hall, 
last Monday evening, under the management 
of Messrs. Foster H. Goodwin and Henry J. 
Gross, it being a third of the series of small 
germans which have been held this season, in 
a private way. The patronesses were Mrs. L. 
L. Brigham and Mrs. E. B. Harding. Bick- 
nell's orchestra furnished music and Rebboli 
served refreshments. The cotillion began at 
9.30, and Mr. Goodwin led the first half and 
Mr. Gross the second. The favors provided 
were especially pretty and valuable. The 
gentlemen present were as follows: Messrs. 
Foster H. Goodwin, Henry J. Gross, Francis 
W. Treadway, Charles F. Treadway, Fred D. 
Sibley, Will W. Carter, Fred E. Wheeler, 
Harrv B. Fairbanks, William R. Heald, Clar- 



ence G. Davenport, Charles F. Lancaster, 
Harry D. Yates, Fred A. Bigelow, Henry J. 
KcttcU, Herbert F. Blood, ^Will T. Sibley, 
Lucius W. White, Charles M. Harrington, 
Isaac L. Rheutan, Dr. Roscoe W. Swan, 
Frank M. Savage, J. Brace Chittenden and 
C.corge Nicola of Harvard college. Mr. Gould 
of Amherst, Mr. Harry Allen of Millbury, 
Mr. E. ^L Harding of Boston. The ladies 
were: Misses Clara L. Brigham, Cora J. 
Goodwin, Ellie Rheutan, Alice Rheutan, Jen- 
nie McCready, Julia Davenport, Grace L. 
Crawford, Helen Merrill, Mabel G. Mer- 
rill, Molly W. Waite, Jennie L. Ross, 
Mamie Goodwin, Alice Welch, Gertie Ever- 
ett, Lizzie Prentice, Mollie E. Taft, Anna 
Taft, }5ertha J. Brewer, Carrie Smith, Annie 
Buzzell, Gertie Smith, Bertha Bigelow, Olive 
Marble, Lucy White, Mamie Green, Kather- 
ine Harding of Boston, Elise Warren of 
Millbury, Jessie Whitney of Whitney. 



The elaborate program prepared for the 
entertainment to be given at Pilgrim hall, for 
the benefit of the Pilgrim gymnasium, Tues- 
day evening, has such unusual attractions as a 
drill by the City Guards, a fan drill by the 
"Ladies of Queen Anne's Court," under Prof. 
L. C. Havener's direction, instrumental music 
by the Elberon orchestral club and the Sur- 
prise Banjo club, vocal numbers by Messrs. 
Thomas A. Callahan, Charles S. Stoughton, 
James H. Cafferty, Mrs. John H. Howell and 
Miss M. A. Hayward and Mrs. Charles A. 
Richardson, reader. 

Mr. George M. Bassetthas been elected to 
membership in the Commonwealth club. 

"Two hundred and seventy-nine dollars in 
the treasury," is the handwriting on the wall 
which the members of the Lakeside Boat club 
are asking their friends to read just now. It 
is a good showing. 

The engagement of Miss Annabelle Clark, 
of Boston, to take the soprano place in Ply- 
mouth church choir, left vacant by the sudden 
withdrawal of Mrs. Louise Baldwin Powers, 
seems to be giving general satisfaction among 
the people of the church. The quartet will 
still be a strong one, including Mrs. H. A. 
Hancox, alto, Mr. Frank H. Mason, tenor, 
and Mr. Charles E. Tinney, of the New Eng- 
land conservatory of music, bass and director. 
Mr. George E. Brown of course remains as 
organist.. 



Mr. Frederick L. Coes has been elected a 
member of the Worcester Art society. 

Mr. G. Henry Whitcomb, A. M., of the 
board of trustees of the Worcester Polytech- 
nic Institute, entertamed the other trustees 
and the members of the faculty at dinner, last 
Saturday afternoon. 

Secretary Samuel G. McConaughy of the 
local Y. M. C. A., is chairman of the commit- 
tee of arrangements for the si.xth annual con- 
ference of the New England general secre- 
taries, which is to be held at Norwich, Conn., 
for four days, beginning ne.xt Thursday, 
March 20. At the morning session of Satur- 
day, Mr. Paul Plummer, the physical director 
of the Worcester association, will speak on 
the topic, "Physical Department," regarding 



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"Indoor Work." 

Mr. Fred A. Brooks, whose connection with 
the firm of Mason & Brooks, and his later con- 
nection with the Worcester Chemical Fire 
Pail company, are well known, has entered 
the employ of the Employers' Liability Assur- 
ance Corporation of London, his headquar- 
ters being at Boston. 



The l'"pworth League of Laurel Street 
church is arranging for a concert to Ije given 
in the cliurch, Tuesday, April i. 



Capt. J. 15. Knox's lecture on "Tlie Signal 
Service in the Late War," seems to improve 
with age, and is becoming more and more 
popular. Tuesday evening Capt. Knox gave 
his talk at Summer Street church and Thurs- 
day evening at Hougton Street chapel, this 
making the fifth time that it has been given in 
this city. 

As Others See the Light. 

Worcester's new home and social paper. 
Light, is of 24 pages, bound and trimmed, set 
in new type made especially for it, and is 
by all odds the handsomest local paper ever 
published. Its editorials are bright, its social 
news complete, its several departments cover 
everything that is interesting to men and wo- 
men, and there is not a line in it of even mid- 
dle tone. Its editor, Mr. Nathaniel C. Fowler, 
Jr., is a journalist of great originality and ex- 
perience, a man with a clean record of steady 
success. Mr. Fred E. Colburn, the business 
manager, is a young business man, a mem- 
ber of an old New England family of 
shrewd business men. Advices from re- 
liable sources state that Light, although 
a new paper, has a bona-fide circulation 
equal to that of any of the Boston society 
papers. Light occupies splendidly fitted 
apartments in the Burnside building, owns its 
own outfit, and its composing-room is one of the 
most complete for its size in the country. The 
appearance of Light, and the good reputation 
of its owners, assure the people of the per- 
manancy of the paper, of which every good 
citizen has reason to be proud. Worcester is 
to be congratulated. — The Journalist, N. Y. 

Light bears the impress of a well edited 
and well managed periodical. In its columns 
are found departments devoted to news, so- 
ciety, business, personals, music, drama, liter- 
ature, art and other features interesting to the 
man and woman who desire to be well in- 
formed upon all subjects that touch the social 
circle. The "talk about folks" will always be 
cheerful and welcome matter for the reading 
room. Judging from the sketchy stories con- 
tained in its columns, there are some bright 
romancers upon the staff of the paper. Wor- 
cester should be proud of the effulgence that 
may be shed over her by the new Light that 
has been set in her journahstic firmament. It 
is a bright Light, and its brainy articles indi- 
cated it to be ciuite a head-LlGHT.— /?tfjV()« 
Herald. 

Light comes in from Worcester and shines 
from every column. It is a bright and read- 
alile paper of course ; a credit to its editors 
and to Worcester. — Boston Record. 



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It is filled with bright news, society chat, 
crisp comment, etc. It is briglit from end to 
end, and if merit is a warrant of success, it 
will succeed. It is an exceedingly entertain- 
ing iieriodical. — Pitlsfietd F.a^le. 



LH.irr has the m.uk of success upon it 
fnmi tlie iii^n.^Pilts/nirff Call. 



Briglit and newsy, always pure in tone. — 
J/o/iie Journal. 



What Shall I Call My Love? 



liV WILSON K. WELSH. 



If there be truth in ancient saws, 

It surely would be meet 
That I should call my love "Revenge"— 

They say Revenge is sweet. 

Or I might name her "Conscience," who 

Makes cowards of us all ; 
Or her that teaches more than books 

"Experience" I might call. 

"Economy" is wealth, they say — 

She's wealth enough for me ; 
"Consistency's" a jewel, and 

K jewel, too. is she. 

Or "Knowledge'' would be apt and true. 

For that is power, I wish ; 
Vet might I dub her "Ignorance," 

For Ignorance is bhss. 

And yet again, she drives me mad. 

So "Learning" would be it ; 
.\nd she'd do grace to "Brevity," 

For she's the soul of wit. 

But when before her virgin charms 

My suppliant knee is bent, 
I'd hke to call her "Silence," for 

'Tis silence gives consent. 

And if in these triumphant arms 

I hold the winsome elf, 
I'd call her "History," in the hope 

That slieU repeat herself. 

A (JUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. 



I cannot see, said E. F. T., 

How this thing can be so. 
The honorable member— he 

Will grant I'm right, I know ; 
For if you spell alike, sir, how 

Can you pronounce "enough,'' 
.^nd then contend it's "Mr. Clough," 

Instead of "Mr. Clough." 

Sunday School Maiijen :— No, I don't be- 
lieve in kissing, but for charity's sake I'll com- 
promise. If you will buy that big bouquet 
over there on the flower table, I'll let you on 
the way home. 

Cautious Main Street Clerk :— What 
is the price of that bouquet ? 

Sunday School Maiden -.—Only five dol- 
lars. 

Cautious Main Street Clerk: — Real- 
ly, Miss Girl, I'm so sorry, but ma insists 
upon my seeing her home this evening. 

Miss S. Side:— How much Miss Knowitall 
knows ! 

Miss HoRSESENSE :— What makes you 
think so ? 

Miss S. Side :— Why, not half of her big 
words can be found in the English dictionary. 



The historic lime tree at Munchenwyler, in 
Freiburg, under which the Swiss Federals as- 
sembled before the battle of Murten, in 1476, 
has been uprooted by a storm. 



A Queen's Prescription. 



BY W. T. R. 



"What is the matter, Alice ?" asked Mrs. 
Temple. "Your face is flushed and you seem 
to have no appetite." 

"There is nothing the matter with me, 
mother," replied Alice, somewhat petulantly. 
"I don't feel well, that's all." 

"If you don't feel well, you must feel ill,'' 
persisted the mother, "and I insist on your 
seeing Dr. Campus." 

"I think Alice ought to see the Queen of 
Sweden's doctor," remarked Aunt Ellen, who 
was making a tidy in her big arm chair. 

"Who is the Queen of Sweden's doctor ?" 
asked Alice in surprise. "Does he live here ?" 

"He lives in Sweden, I believe," answered 
Aunt Ellen, with one of her queersmiles, "and 
his name is Metzger." 

Alice looked at her aunt in a puzzled way 
for a moment, and then broke into a laugh. 

"Is it a story you want to tell ?" she asked, 
interested at once. 

Aunt Ellen, 60 years old, but with a face 
and figure of 40, was the life of the Temple 
household, and always had some quaint and 
interesting anecdote to relate. 

"It is a story," she replied, "but it is true. 
The Queen of Sweden," she went on, "is, as 
you must know, a very rich woman. If any 
woman could be healthy, she could. She had 
the finest rooms in the fine palace, the very 
best of food and drink, and the best of medi- 
cal attendance when she was ill. Strange to 
say she was frequently ill, and the court phy- 
sician tried in vain to cure her. They tried all 
their old medicines and many new ones ; 
tempted her appetite with new dishes and bade 
her take daily rides ; but the Queen of Sweden 
kept getting worse. She was so neiyous. Her 
rest was broken at night with horrid dreams, 
her temper became irritable and life became a 
burden." 

"I don't know whether Alice is that bad," 
said Mrs. Temple with a sigh; "but she isn't 
far from it." 

Alice looked irritated at this remark and said 
nothing. 

"Well," continued Aunt Ellen, with another 
smile, "the King of Sweden became very much 
alarmed and sent for Dr. Metzger, who had 
been doctoring the Empress of Austria. He 
came, had a long talk with the queen and gave 
her a prescription. It was not in Latin, but in 
plain Swedish, and it read, 'No more carriage 
or horseback riding except on state occa- 
sions ; if you want to go anywhere you must 
walk.' " 

"Oh, dear !" exclaimed Alice. "I always 
thought carriage driving and horseback riding 
were verj' healtliful. I am sure I would hate 
to give them up." 

"So did the Queen of Sweden, but having 
placed herself in the doctor's hands, she took 
the prescription like a sensible woman. But 
that was only a beginning; the next prescrip- 
tion was much more trying. The doctor laid 
out a space in the royal garden about a hun- 
dred feet square, and ordered the queen to 
prepare it for planting vegetables." 

"Dig it up with a spade !" cried Alice, in 
amazement ; "how could she do that?"' 

"She thought she couldn't,"ansvvered Aunt 



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Ellen, quietly ; "but Dr. Metzger was firm, and 
the queen set to work in short skirts, bare 
arms and thick-soled shoes. The first day's 
digging, she said, nearly killed her ; the second 
was not much better, and on the third she 
finished the job, and ate a large breakfast with 
a wonderful appetite. The next day the doc- 
tor told her that she must dust and put in 
order her suite of rooms — five or six — every 
morning, and when that was done, he would 
find some other household work for her to do." 

"A queen doing housework ?" asked Mrs. 
Temple incredulously. "Everybody would 
laugh at her." 

"Nobody laughs at queens in Europe — at 
least not openly," replied Aunt Ellen, smiling- 
ly ; "and I presume very few people saw her 
engaged in these unusual occupations. 

"The queen did not laugh at first ; in fact, 
she cried many times, but she soon began to 
smile. Day by day her back and limbs grew 
stronger. She could walk miles without fa- 
tigue, she slept well, and had a healthful ap- 
petite for healthful food." 

"And she is cured ?" asked Alice. 

"Not entirely. At any rate she is still taking 
Dr. Metzger's prescriptions, but she is getting 
better every day." 

Alice was silent for a moment, and then she 
said, thoughtfully : — 

"I suppose this story is aimed at me .'" 

"At you and girls like you," answered Aunt 
Ellen, frankly. "My dear, I never took five 
cents' worth of medicine since I was five years 
old, and your doctor's bill is always a hundred 
dollars a year. I always walk in preference to 
riding. I insist upon keeping my own room in 
order, and when I am in the country I work in 
the garden every day. I think I saw you yes- 
terday looking on while John set out the gera- 
niums and verbenas in the yard." 

"I'll do it myself next time," said Alice re- 
morsefully ; "and I'll begin Dr. Metzger's pre- 
scription this very day by walking to and from 
the normal school." 

"If you do," said Aunt Ellen, "you need not 
see Dr. Campus ; and it will be quite unnec- 
essary. Earn a right to be healthy with hard 
work, and happiness will come in its train." — 
Hair s Journal of Health. 

Words of Others. 



Government Ownership of Railroads. 

A genuine surprise is contained in the an- 
nual report of the Chicago and Alton railroad, 
in which the president of the road reviews the 
existing railroad situation as effected by 
measures of government regulation. He says 
that the actual value of railroad investments 
has been reduced during the last five years 
nearly $1,000,000,000, and is now being re- 
duced by the state and federal governments 
at the rate of nearly j!i,ooo,ooo a day. If this 
course is to be continued, he says, in less than 
10 years there will be only a very few rail- 
road shares in the United States that will have 
any value. As a remedy for this state of af- 
fairs he suggests the ownerships of railroads 
engaged in interstate traffic by the national 
government, and the organization of a corps of 
railroad operators who shall rernain in the ser- 
vice during good behavior and be in no greater 
degree under the influence of politicians or 
political parties than the army. He further 



suggests that a board of national railroad 
directors be appointed to control the operation 
ot the government roads, with power to fix 
rates on interstate trafiic and to approve, re- 
ject, or amend rates fixed by state authorities 
on trafiic within state lines. The proposal for 
government ownership of railroads is not a 
new or strange one, but it is calculated to e.x- 
cite unmixed surprise when made by the presi- 
dent of such a road as the Chicago and Alton. 
— Bradstreet^s. 
Agricultural Prices. 

United States Senator Teller, in a recent de- 
bate,contended that the agricultural depression 
is not confined to the United States. It prevails 
in all the countries of the world except France. 
A recent parliamentary inquiry has shown that 
the British farmers have within 12 years 
sunk more than half their capital. The trou- 
ble is neither free trade nor protection. Since 
the United States resumed specie payment in 
1S79, there has been a continuous drop in the 
prices of farm produce. The wheat crop of 
this year, with only a difference of 8,000,000 
bushels in quantity, was $180,000,000 in value 
less than the wheat crop of 1S80. The corn 
crop of this year was 500,000,000 bushels more 
than that of 1882, but it brought the farmers 
less. Evidently the American depression, 
great as it is, is far less than the European de- 
pression, whatever the cause of the depression 
may be. — Milling World. 
Co-operative Building. 

Building associations, managed on strictly 
co-operative principles, are excellent institu- 
tions. The plan of these associations is for a 
number of men to set aside a small sum of 
money weekly, the aggregate of which, under 
certain restrictions, is loaned to men who wish 
to buy or build homes of their own. These 
loans are paid in weekly installments with a 
fair rate of interest and secured by a mortgage 
upon these homes. There is nothing peculiar 
about this operation. It is the essence of all 
co-operative enterprises. It is simple, safe, and 
of benefit, both to the men who borrow the money 
and to the men who contribute it. It is the 
means by which small sums can be invested in 
safe securities at a low rate of interest. This 
is to the benefit of the men who do not borrow. 
It furnishes to the borrowers means of secur- 
ing at a reasonable rate of interest something 
with which to build a home, the payment of 
which is made easy, and, with industry and 
frugality, certain. This is all that there is in a 
building association, and all that there can be 
safely. — Louisville Cou?-ier-Journal. 
The Distribution of Money. 

What would have been a large "foundation" 
in Bacon's day would be very small in ours. 
No limit can be drawn except that which 
arises out of the amount of good to be accom- 
plished, but whatever the endowment may be, 
it is well to keep within the limit rather than 
overstep. An institution with a surplus of 
revenue attracts vultures ; an institution barely 
able to continue its work invites helpers to 
join it. Thus the distribution of acquired 
riches demands thoughtful consideration on 
moral grounds, as well as because upon the 
right determination of the question depends 
the good that may be accomplished by the aid 
of great wealth. — Baltimore Sun. 



Recent Library Additions. 



The latest list of additions of books to tlie 
Free Public library includes the following : 
By Mrs. J. G. Austin, "Standish of Standish, 
a story of the Pilgrims," 31,590; by Mrs. A. E. 
H. Barr, "Feet of Clay, 31,592 ; by Miss Bry- 
ant, "Celtic Ireland," 31,838; by B.C. Burt, 
"A Brief History of Greek Philosophy," 
31,595 ; by Inspector Thomas Byrnes, "Ser- 
geant Von, or, a Long Chase," 31,614; by 
Geoffrey Chaucer, "Canterbury Tales," an- 
notated and accented, with illustrations of 
English life in Chaucer's time, by J. Saun- 
ders, 31,599; by Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Le- 
gend of good Women," edited by Prof. W. 
W. Skeat, 31,840; by S. M. Colli.s, "A Wo- 
man's War Record, 1S61-5," 31,602 ; by G. M. 
Craik, "A Daughter of the People," 31,766 ; 
Works of Dryden, with life by J. Mitford, 
2 vols., 31,741-2 ; by R. Dunlop, "Life of Hen- 
ry Grattan," 31,841 ; by T. F. T. Dyer, "Great 
Men at Play," 2 vols., 31,842-3 ; by H. S. Ed- 
wards, "The Case of Reuben Malachi," 31,845 ; 
by L. C. Elson, "History of German Song, with 
Sketches of the Lives of Leading German 
Composers," 31,371 ; by G. M. Fenn, "The 
Haute Noblesse," a novel, 31,607 ; by Charles 
A. Fosdick, "True to His Colors," 31,695 ; by 
H. Frith, "The Cruise of the Wasp : a Ro 
mance of the North Atlantic," 31,611 ; by F. 
Grovett, "The Painsof Life; reply to Sir John 
Lubbock's Pleasures of Life," 31,848; Select 
Poems of Thomas Gray, edited by Edmund 
Gosse, 31,849; by D. Hannay, "Life of Fred- 
erick Marryat," 31,851 ; by G. A. Henty, "By 
Pike and Dyke ; a tale of the Dutch Repub- 
lic," 31,615; by the same, "One of the 28th, a 
Tale of Waterloo," 31,616; by T. R. E. 
Holmes, "Four Famous Soldiers; Sir Charles 
Nap'er, Hodson of Hodson's Horse, Sir Wil- 
liam Napier, Sir Herbert Edwardes," 31,852 ; 
by Rear Admiral H. E. W. Ingram, "Hearts of 
Oak, an Autobiography," 31,855 ; by H. E. H. 
Jerningham, "Diane de Breteuille," 31,796 ; by 
H. M. Kimball, Poems, 31,833; by M. E. Le 
Clerc, "Mistress Beatrice Cope, or. Passages 
in the Life of Jacobite's Daughter," 31,467 ; 
by Lady Lindsay, "About Robins, Songs, 
Facts and Legends," 31,622 ; by Justin Mc- 
Carthy, "Roland Oliver, a Novel," 31,470; by 
F. T. McCray, "Life-work of the Author of 
Uncle Tom's Cabin," 31,624 ; by G. J. Man- 
son, "Ready for Business, or Choosing an Oc- 
cupation ; Practical Papers for Boys," 31,625 ; 
by E. T. Mason, "Songs of Fairy Land," 31,- 
806; "Metzerott, Shoemaker," 31,654 ; by M. 
L. S. Molesworth, "The Rectory Children," 
31,702 ; by I. Montagu, "Wanderings of a 
War Artist," 31,864; by H. Morley, "Early 
Prose Romances," 31,476 ; by Kirk Munroe, 
"Dorymates, a Story of the Fishing Banks," 
31,705 ; by Mme. P. de Nanteuil, tr. by L. En- 
sor, "Captain," 31,478; by L. D. Nichols, 
"Lotus Bay : a Summer on Cape Cod," 31, - 
751 ; by G. Norway, "The Loss of John 
Humble: What Led to It and What Came of 
It," 31,809; by W. H. P. Phyfe, "Seven 
Thousand Words Often Mispronounced," 31,- 
483; by Sir Lyon Playfair, "Subjects of Social 
Welfare," 31,875; by St. George Rathbone, 
"Paddling in Florida, or, The Canoe Cruises 
of the Gulf," 31,487 ; by B. C. Robinson, 
"Bench and Bar : Reminisences of One of the 



LI<J H T 

Last of An Ancient Race," 31,876 ; by F. VV. 
Robinson, "In Bad Hands, and Other Talcs," 
31,813; by J. Ross, "The Land of Manfred: 
Rambles in Remote Parts of Southern Italy," 
31,878; "The Sermon Bible: Genesis to Song 
of Solomon," 3 vols., 31,381-3; by E. R. Sill, 
"Tlie Hermitage, and Later Poems," 31,818 ; by 
M. P. W. Smith, "Their Canoe Trip," 31,637 ; 
by C. H. Spurgcon, "The Salt-cellars : Collec- 
tion of Proverbs with Homely Notes There- 
on," 31,489; by William O. Stoddard, "Lives 
of the Presidents, R. B. Hayes, J. A. Garfield, 
C. A. Arthur," 31,816; by Sophie Swett, 
"Captain Polly," 31,817 ; Tales from lU.u k- 
wood, vols. 1-2, 31,887-8; by John T. Trow- 
bridge, "The Adventures of David Vane and 
David Crane," 31,643; by G. Vase, "Through 
Love to Life," 31,496; by S. F. Walker, 
"Electricity in Our Homes and Workshops," 
31.645; by H. P. Wells, "City Boys in the 
Woods, or, a Trapping Venture in Maine," 
31,503 ; by W. Wentworth, "Kibboo Ganey, or. 
The Lost Chief of the Copper Mountain," 31,- 
706; Gems from Walt Whitman, selected liy 
E. P.Gould, 31,821 ; by K. D.Wiggin, "A Sum- 
mer in a Caiion, a California Story," 31,648 ; by 
A. 15. Williams, "Rolf and His Friends," 31,- 
649; by K. T. Woods, "A Fair Maid of 
Marblehead," 31,651; by M. L. Woods, "A 
Village Tragedy," 31,884; by Susan Cool- 
idge, "A Few More Verses," 31,652; by the 
author of "Lady Bluebeard," "Zit and Zoe," 
31,754; by J. H. D. Zschokke, "Tales," 31,- 
50S. 

Not Very Funny. 

Experience Tells. 

He (somewhat suspiciously) : — You say you 
never loved anybody but me ? Ha ! is tliat 
true, i\Iaud ? 

She: — Harry, your looks terrify me ! Have 
— have I been too bold in letting you kiss me 
so much this evening .' 

He ; — No, Maud, but you kiss like an old 
hand. — C/i/camt Tiibiinc. 



About Business. 

Young Dr. Pille :— I attended Mrs. Lan- 
guish to-day, father, but I can't see for the life 
of me that anything is the matter with her. 

Old Dr. Pille (gasping): — But, for heav- 
en's sake, my boy, I hope you didn't say any- 
thing of the kind to her ! 

Young Dr. Pille: — No, father." 

Old Dr. Pille : — Good ! You know, a 
healthy patient lasts a long time, Mortimer! — 
Life. 



A Hard, Hard World. 

Tramp : — It is needless to ask you the ques- 
tion, madam. You know what I want. 

L.'iDV : — Yes, I know what you want badly, 
but I've one bar of soap in the liouse, and the 
servant is using it. Come again some other 
time. — A'e^t/ i'ork Smi. 



Why Not Shoot Him ? 

Husr..\ND (kindly): — My dear, you have 
nothing decent to wear, have you ? 

Wife (with alacrity) : — No, indeed, I haven't; 
not a thing. I'd be ashamed to be seen any- 
where. My very newest party dress has been 
worn three times already. 



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Hi'siiAND:— Yes, that's what I told Blif- 
kiiis when he offered me two tickets for the 
opera to-night. I knew if I took them they'd 
be wasted, so I just got one. You won't mind 
it if 1 hurry oti ?~/.e/M/re //oi/rs. 



A Business Woman. 

FoM) Mother:— How do you like your 
new governess, Jolmnie ? 

JoiiNME :— Oil, I like her ever .so much. 

Mother :— I'm so glad my little boy has a 
nice teacher at last. 

Johnnie : — Oh, she's awful nice. She says 
.she ilocsn't care whether I learn anything or 
not, as long as papa pays her salary.— £".i-- 
e/iini(re. 

She Wanted to be Fashionable. 

Grocer :— What kind of tea did you ask 
for, madam ? 

Cu.STOMER :— Five o'clock tea, please. I 
hear that's tlie most stylish now. — Munscfs 
Weekly. 



Colors Watered. 

First Fair Maid : — Yes, I just love water- 
colors ! They're far nicer tlian oils. The 
smell of oil-paints alioays gives me a head- 
ache. 

Second Fair Maid :— I'm awfully fond of 
painting ! 1 took lessons, you know, in Mr. 
Sucre's class. He's awfully nice; he said I'd 
surely be an artist, I had the temperament, 
and all I needed was practice. 

F'iRST Fair Maid: — Oh, why didn't you 
keep on 1 

Second Fair Maid: — Well, the year after 
all the girls were taking lessons on the mando- 
lin, and 1 had not time for both, you know ! — 
Pi(ek. 



No Risks Run. 

Pretty Girl: — I called in reference 'to 
your advertisement for a type-writer. 

CAUT10U.S Bachelor : — I advertised for a 
young man. 

"Yes, I know, but I was in hopes I might 
do." 

"H'm ! Can you cook !"' 

"Cook ? Why, yes." 

"Good housekeeper.?" 

"Oil, yes." 

"Fond of society ?" 

"No, I seldom go out unless obliged to." 

"Take that desk there, please." — New York 
Weekly. 



Evidence to the Contrary. 

PASSKNfiER (to street-car driver) : — That 
man who just got off the carls Professor Vast- 
head. He's a wonderful man ; he knows as 
much as any one in this country. 

Street-Car Driver (incredulously) : — Ah, 
come off ! He jumped off the car on his two 
feet. — Puek. 



A Startling Announcement. 

Butler (at a fancy-dress ball — who has been 
told to announce people by the characters they 
represent— to new arrivals) :— What character.? 

Ladies ; — Oh, no particular character. 

Butler (at the top of his voice): — Two 
ladies of no character in particular. — Harpcr''s 
Bazar. 



A School-liouse Set on a Hill. 

There is nothing that the average Worcester 
man, if he be cultured and public spirited, likes 
to talk about more when he is away from 
home, than the educational institutions of 
Worcester. It is a justifiable pride which 
suggests such a theme of conversation, and 
there is nothing vainglorious in it. People 
come here from all over the countrj* and from 
across the water, and tell us that we have such 
educational forces at work here as there are in 
few cities of similar size in the whole world. 
Light believes in Worcester's schools as it 
believes in her manufactures, and it purposes 
having more or less to say about them as the 
weeks go by. There is a magnificent system 
of public schools, with a crowning glorj' in the 
High school, to start with ; and there are also 
various institutions which are doing good 
work in their own peculiar lines. All of them 
are worthy of Worcester, and Worcester re- 
joices in them. 

But Worcester has within its borders one 
educational institution which is not wholl)- her 
own and regarding which she must be content 
to divide her pride with the remaining small 
fraction of the state. The State Normal 
school is an institution belonging to the Com- 
monwealth, which was established in M'orces- 
ter because so populous a region seemed to 
urge that "public convenience and necessitj'" 
required it. But although it is a state school 
and governed by the State Board of Educa- 
tion, Worcester takes as much pride in the 
school as though it were entirely a local insti- 
tution, and the work which the school does is 
as carefully watched and commented upon as 
if the city instead of the state held the respon- 
sibilit)'. This is not without its special rea- 
son, however. Worcester contributes a large 
percentage of pupils to the school. Many 
j^ung ladies go to the Normal school everj' 
year, from the High school, and other Worces- 
ter pupils, not high school pupils, are fre- 
quently numbered among those receiving the 
advantages of the institution. 

Massachusetts has six normal schools, in- 
cluding the Normal Art school at Boston. 
Framingham claims the oldest of the six, and 
the others are located at Westfield, Salem, 
Worcester and Bridgewater. The Normal 
Art School at Boston teaches drawing only. 
The largest school is at Salem, but Worcester 
would be verj- meek and humble indeed if it 
did not claim that the Worcester school is the 
best They are all doing a good work, as far 
as that is concerned. 

The school is 16 years old. The General 
Court in June. 1S71, authorized the Board of 
Education to esLiblish a Normal school in 
Worcester, and the trustees of the Worcester 
Lunatic hospital were required to convey to 
the Board of Education a suitable tract of 
land. The governor and his council located 
the tract, September 2, 1871, and a fortnight 
later the land where the school now stands 
was properly convej-ed by the Hospital trus- 
tees to the Board. The appropriation made 
was $60,000, tl\is being upon condition that the 
city of Worcester should pay to the Board of 
Education $15,000, which the city promptly 
did. 

It took three years to make the necessary 
preparations and erect a suitable building on 



LICiHT 

the site selected, but on Friday, September 11, 
1874, the dedicator)- exercises were held, and 
on the following Tuesday the school was 
opened to pupils. The school has been a 
regular XI II. club in itself, for its progress 
and success during the 16 years of its exis- 
tence set at nought the old superstition about 
Friday as an unlucky day. 

Having established the school, it became 
necessan,- to select a principal, and the Board 
of Education cast about them for the right 
man. It is a matter of histor\- that they 
found him. Professor E. Harlow Russell was 
at that time the principal of Leroy academy, 
in Leroy, New York, and when he accepted 
the principal's chair in the Worcester Nor- 
mal school, there was a feeling on the part of 
the committee that the most difficult problem 
was solved. They have never had reason to 
think otherwise. 

The school began with a class of 69 pupils 
and a corps of four instructors. Since that 
time, 26 classes have been graduated and 
the corps of instructors has been doubled. 

It is hard to give briefly a fair idea of the 
work of this school, or of what it has accom- 
plished. In its 16 years, however, it has grad- 
uated 476 pupils. About one-half the number 
of pupils who enter the school go upon the 
roll of graduates. They fall by the wayside, 
from various causes. The standard of the 
school is high, and strict attention to the work 
in hand is something that everj' pupil must 
give in order to succeed. Two classes are 
graduated ever)- year, one in June and one in 
Januar)-, and at once enter the field of teach- 
ing. Each candidate for admission to the 
school is required to e.\press in wTiting an in- 
tention to teach in the schools of tlie Common- 
wealth after graduation, and more than 95 per 
cent of the graduates do become teachers. 
The graduates of the school have become 
teachers in ungraded countr)- schools, in the 
graded schools of the large towns and cities, in 
high schools, academies and seminaries, and 
in normal schools. They go out into the world 
■\rith a self-confidence and womanly self-pos- 
session — for most of the pupils are, naturally, 
ladies — wliich stands them well in stead. Sen- 
ator Hoar said to the members of the 24th and 
25th classes, on graduation day, that they were 
about to become officers of the Common- 
wealth, and laid great stress upon the impor- 
tance of the work they were to do for the 
state, in return for what the state had done for 
them, in moulding the minds of the children. 
It is the most forcible point tliat has ever 
been presented in connection with normal 
school work. 

While the curriculum of the Worcester 
school is substantially the same as that of the 
other normal schools of tlie state, tlie school 
has one or two features which are unique and 
as yet unimitated in similar institutions. One 
of these is the apprentice system. Briefly, it 
may be explained by sa)-ing that each pupil of 
the school, while not required to become an 
apprentice,is allowed and advised, after haWng 
been a year and a half at the school, to enter 
the public schools of Worcester for six montlis 
as an assistant teacher. The student then re- 
turns to tlie school and completes the course 
in another six montlis. The object is to give 
the pupil the benefit of practical experience. 
It is to the embryo teacher what the work in 



tlie Washburn shop, done by the students of 
Pol)'technic Institute, is to the coming engi- 
neer. 

The other feature of the normal school work 
which no other institution of its kind has. is a 
systematic observation of children, it being 
part of the work in psychology. The pupils 
have blanks on which they prepare statements 
of the doings and sa)-ings of children, either as 
noted by themselves or as obtained on reliable 
authority. Since the plan was adopted, about 
11,000 of these records have been secured, and 
tliey are soon to be arranged and edited for 
publication. The funny men of the newspa- 
pers will undoubtedly find in them a veritable 
bonanza. 

Since tlie handsome building which caps the 
summit of Normal hill was erected, it has un- 
dergone little change. There has been, how- 
ever, a metamorphosis of the grounds. For 
several years after the building was erected, 
they were unfenced and comparatively un- 
kempt and unshorn. But more or less garden- 
ing has been done ; trees have been planted 
and tlie lawn mowed ; the pupils have made 
much of their spring and autuni "arbor davs," 
and nature has responded in smiles of gratifi- 
cation. Moreover, about three years ago it 
was decided to build a wall about the grounds, 
giving them a neat finish which they had much 
needed, and the work was completed a year 
ago, at an expense of about $10,000. 

The building is a handsome one. Millstone 
hill furnished the stone, and the trimmings are 
of granite. The interior arrangements are ad- 
mirable. On the second floor is the main hall 
or schoolroom, which is intended to furnish 
desk room for 2 1 2 pupils. There are at pres- 
ent but 160 pupils in the school, so that tliere 
is no overcrowding. The walls of the room 
are embellished with busts and engravings, 
gifts of graduating classes and friends of the 
school, and librar)' shelves, well filled, also 
lend attractiveness. 

There are some 20 class rooms, with a large 
drawing-room, and elaborate arrangements are 
made for the comfort of the pupils. Among 
other tilings is a large "hot closet," where the 
luncheons of the pupils may be warmed for 
the noon hour. It is an important feature ex- 
isting at none of the other schools. 

The school moves along with an entire ab- 
sence of friction, something remarkable in an 
institution of its size. The pupils do their 
work promptly and cheerfully ; there are few 
rules ; self-government is Principal Russell's 
watchword. 

The school has always had warm friends in 
the Board of Education. Judge Chapin was 
the chairman of the first board of \-isitors, 
and at his death, several years ago, Col. E. B. 
Stoddard succeeded to his place. To Col. 
Stoddard the school owes much. He has been 
a most active and efficient member of the 
Board of Education, and has made the Normal 
school tlie object of his continuous solicitude. 

The class of graduates of the school is the 
highest The supply is never equal to the 
demand, and the school has never sent a grad- 
uate to any of the so-called "teachers' agen- 
cies." A ver)- few have voluntarily placed 
their names on the rolls of such concerns. 

Of the four instructors who began witli the 
school in 1S74. three still remain. Prof. Russell, 
Mr. Charles F. Adams and Miss Rebecca 



T. T H T 



Jones. The present corps includes, beside 
these, Miss Juliet Porter, Mr. Henry W. Brown, 
Miss Helen F. Marsh, Miss Ellen M. Haskell 
and Miss Arabella H. Tucker. 

It is now proposed to erect on tlie grounds a 
principal's residence, not to exceed $10,000 in 
cost, and also, at some future time, a dormi- 
tory. 

Principal Russell has reason to feel proud of 
the work he has done for the state. The 
state may feel an unbounded satisfaction in 
having so faithful and efficient a man at the 
head of one of its most important institutions. 

Light's picture of the Normal school is 
made from a photograph taken by Rice, a few 
weeks ago, and is the best one ever produced. 
If the lover of magnificent prospects will 
climb the hill and stand on those stone steps, 
he will have spread before him one of the finest 
views of Worcester that can be obtained ; and 
then he can enter the building and study the 
workings of a mode! school. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to tliis department are solicited. 
They sliould tie addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

To the Editor of Light : — I admired the 
first number of Light, but I am going to try 
and correct you with regard to the height of 
waves at sea. The following is from London 
Tit Bit :— 

"Eminent hydrographers have insisted that 
the storm waves were usually not more than 10 
feet high, and rarely over 20, when the con- 
ditions of the sea were most favorable for 
wave development. Many a traveller, reclin- 
ing on a cabin transom, has looked up through 
the skylight to see the waves tearing their 
frothy crests, and wondered how even a twenty- 
footer could show so high above the great 
ship's deck. Many a sailor dowsed by an 
up-driving wave while lying out on a top- 
gallant yard has, doubtless, shaken his head 
increduously, when told that the highest waves 
were not above 20 feet, the rest being "hed" of 
ship and dip of yard. Now, however, comes 
expert testimony to prove that storm waves 
are often 40 feet and sometimes from 60 to 70 
feet in height. In the recent British scientific 
expedition some instructive data were gathered 
by a sensitive aneroid barometer capable of 
recording its extreme rise and fall by an 
automatic register. With a sea not subject to 
an atmosphere of unusual violence, it indicated 
an elevation of 40 feet from the wave's base to 
crest. Admiral Fitzroy, after a long series of 
careful measurements from the maintop of his 
ship, came to a similar conclusion." 

H. E. L. 

Nevertheless, Light sees no reason for 
revising its statement in No. i. Whatever ex- 
ceptional instance may be given, the rule still 
holds. We do not know what mechanical 
agencies may have influenced the apparent re- 
cord of the barometer. The laws of physics 
are not the result of one nor one hundred ob- 
servations ; but have been deduced from long 
years of study and comparison. Says Arnott, 
than whom there is no better authority: "The 
excited imagination pictures the waves of the 
ocean as loftier than they really are. Few, if 
any, waves rise at their crest more than 15 feet 



above the ordinary sea level, which gives 30 
feet for the whole height, from trough to crest. 
This is easily verified by observing at what 
heiglit in a slvip's rigging the horizon remains 
always in sight over the top of the near waves, 
allowance being made for accidental inclina- 
tion of the vessel, and for her sinking con- 
siderably below her water line, when she 
reaches the bottom of the hollow l)etween two 
waves. As for the spray which is driven 
along by the wind, that may be forced even 
above the loftiest light house; but it must not 
be confounded witli the wave which is simply 
undulatory motion. The water itself is as 
stationary as is the carpet whose waves rusli 
rapidly from one strong pair of arms to another 
in the process of shaking, or in producing 
mimic waves in a theatre." 



FuTURK Proi!ATIon. — W. B. B. asks the 
name of the author of the most exhaustive 
work on future probation. "The Extinction 
of Evil," by Rev. Dr. Petavel, of Geneva, 
Switzerland, for sale by C. H. Woodman, 
Boston. 

POI'UL.^TIOX OF THE WORLD. — Mrs. K. W. 

asks the population of the world. It is esti- 
mated at 1,500.000,000. 

The Oldest House. — Mrs. M. W. S. 
asks the Answerer to locate the oldest house 
in Worcester. The so-called Eaton or Bald- 
win house at the foot of George street, now 
the residence of Dr. Rebecca Barnard, has 
the reputation of being the oldest house in the 
city. Caleb Wall, in his reminiscences of 
Worcester, says it was owned and occupied as 
early as 1760 by Nathan Baldwin. After his 
death in 1784, it was held by his son-in-law, 
Nathaniel Coolidge. After him came William 
Eaton. If there be candidates for greater 
antiquity. Light awaits nominations. 

Niagara River.— A South Side traveller 
asks the depth of Niagara river under the 
railroad bridge. The depth of Niagara river 
at this point, is estimated at 250 feet, with a 
velocity of 20 miles an hour. The quantity of 
water passing through the gorge is supposed 
to be 1,500,000,000 cubic feet a minute. 

Begin or Commence.— Mrs. H. C. H. 
says : "We have some discussion as to which 
is the better word to use, it-g-i/i or commence. 
For instance : "The entertainment com- 
mences at 2 o'clock," or "begins at 2 o'clock." 
"It began to rain yesterday, or, "It com- 
menced to rain yesterday ?" In the last case 
use "began." The distinction between these 
words is very fine. In general, use commence 
with persons. Begin may be used with per- 
sons and things. Always study Cralib's Syn- 
onyms. 

The Old Canal.— Harry L. C. asks: "Can 
you tell me when the old Worcester canal 
was abandoned or any other fact about it.'" 
Opened October 7, 1828. Last toll collected 
November 9, 1848. Locks, boats and water 
rights were advertised for sale April 25, 1849. 
Killed by the Providence & Worcester rail- 
road. Read History of Blackstone Canal by 
Col. I. Plummer in ist volume of Proceedings 
of Worcester Society of Antiquity. 

Photography : — An amateur asks: — "Is 
there a dictionary or text book in photography?" 
A Dictionary of Photography, For the Profes- 
sional or Amateur Photographer, by E. J. 



Wall, 237 pp. $1.50. I'ublished by The Sco- 
vlU & Adams company. New V'ork city. 

The Funeral of Mrs. Metcalf. 

There took place at Central church Monday 
afternoon, at three o'clock, the funeral of a 
much esteemed lady, tlie wife of Mr. C. B. 
Metcalf, for many years principal and pro- 
prietor of the Highland Military academy. 
Mr. Metcalf is one of the oldest instructors 
of youth now living in the city, having 
been principal of the old Thomas Street 
school in i84(). For many years followingthis 
first employment in this city, he was, as stated, 
the proprietor and principal of the Military 
academy for boys, which he founded in 1856, 
and carried to a high success. This has 
brought him and his hou.sehold into a very close 
and intimate connection with a multitude of 
lives and interests in this city and throughout 
the county at large, and explains the especial 
features that gave impressiveness to the 
funeral occasion on Monday afternoon ; a very 
large assembly of friends coming from far and 
near to mingle their sorrows with his and pay 
the last tributes of respect and affection to his 
companion for nearly 50 years, a lady among 
the foremost in esteem in this city. 

Mrs. Metcalf was adorned with beauty of 
person and with qualities of head and heart 
that made such possession striking and notable 
in no common degree. She shone a queen in 
her circle, and sphere of influence, not by as- 
sertion but by conceded right. She had the 
ornament of a meek gentleness that enhanced 
the charm of her life, and left its impress 
upon all who knew her. When such a woman 
was called from earth there could but be many 
mourners. Mrs. Metcalf was the sister of the 
late A. S. Barnes, the New York publisher. A 
niece is the wife of Nathaniel Paine of this 
city. Numerous family relatives were in attend- 
ance. 

After a prayer by Rev. L. D. Bliss at the 
present residence of Mr. Metcalf, the remains 
were taken to Central church, which mean- 
while was being filled with one of the largest 
and most representative gatherings ever assem- 
bled in this city on a like occasion of mourn- 
ing. One of the most striking features was 
the attendance of the soldierly Highland 
Military Academy cadets, in a body, filling 12 
or 14 pews, representing the cadets of former 
years, to whom the graceful lady, now no more, 
had been an object of love and veneration, 
these same sentiments being more closely repre- 
sented by a corps of e.x-cadets, now our solid 
business men, including Messrs. Frank A. Le- 
land, Frank R. MacuUar, William Bliss and 
others, who contributed floral tributes. 

The exercises of the occasion were deeply 
impressive. The entire congregation rose as 
the remains were borne up the main aisle. 
The fine quartet gave during the ceremony, 
"Lead Kindly Light," and "O Paradise." Rev. 
Daniel Merriman, D. D., read appropriate 
selections of scripture and offered prayer. 
Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D., made deeply im- 
pressive remarks, and the remains were borne 
to Rural cemetery. 

There is loneliness in a single heart which is 
inexpressible in its depth, but a sense of loss 
and bereavement is a wide possession, and 
this reference is made because its genuine- 
ness is so well known. 



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A Model College Paper. 



There is a great deal of "college journal- 
ism" that is a very poor sort of stuff. Almost 
every educational institution of any import- 
ance has come to have its printed organ, and 
it must be said that a large majority of them 
are managed in shockingly bad fashion. 
There are exceptions, of course, and Worces- 
ter, along with many other features of its edu- 
cational institutions of which it may be 
proud, rejoices it what may be fairly termed a 
model college paper. Perhaps it is because 
the young men at the Worcester Polytechnic 
Itstitute are used to "boning down" to solid 
hard work from the beginning to the end of 
their Tech course, that they know how to work 
at other things in the right fashion. Certainly 
their monthly paper, or magazine, represents 
them most creditably. 

The March number of the W P I, which 
is issued today, is the tenth and last of the 
fifth volume, and before another is issued the 
editorial management will have undergone a 
change. 

The present volume of the paper is by a 
large majority the best yet published and re- 
flects no slight credit on the young men who 
have conducted it. With the present number 
is included a neat title page and index, suit- 
able for binding with the volume, and on the 
title page appear the names of the editors, El- 
mer C. Rice, '90, editor-in-chief ; Loring N. 
Farnum, '90, business manager; John W. 
Burke, '87, Edward H. Rockwell, '90, Alton 
L. Smith, "90, Harry L. Dadmun, '91 (resigned 
December i, 18S9), Charles H. Dunbar, '91, 
Sumner A. Kinsley, '91, William F. Burleigh, 
'92 (elected March i, 1S90), Frank M. Savage, 
'92, William N. Stark, '93 (elected March i, 
1890.) 

The number issued to-day presents a most 
interesting review of the work of the year. 
Previous volumes having had too frequent 
resort to the scissors and paste-pot, the W P 
I says : "Whatever might be said of volume 
five of the paper, it was determined to make it 
a monument to hard work." The determina- 
tion seems to have been faithfully adhered to. 
The W P I has printed during the past year 
and including the March issue, 419 columns of 
reading matter. Only 46 columns have been 
contributed from outside, and 10 columns — 
a remarkably small number — have been filled 
with clippings. With publishers' notices taken 
out, there have been 352 columns of original 
matter printed. Somebody had to write mat- 
ter for these columns, and a close inspection 
of the volume shows that somebody has done 
some very creditable work, Here is where 
the brilliant work of the editor-in-chief, Mr. 
Rice, has appeared, Mr. Rice has the genu- 
ine newspaper instinct and a vigorous style. 
He also has a capacity for work, that would 
bring blushes out on the cylinder-head of a 
Corliss engine. The 'sub-editors, it appear, 
have furnished 45 per cent, only of the office- 
written matter, and Mr. Rice has turned off 
the remaining 55 per cent. During all this 
time he has maintained a higli rank in his 
class, has been prominent in base ball and foot 
ball doings, and has filled various offices to 
which he has been elected. Mr. Rice's suc- 
cess is due largely to his enterprise and his 



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fertility of ideas. He has conducted the paper 
on a regular newspaper assignment system, 
and has always made a bright paper, printing 
all the news in readable form and exercising 
rare good judgment in making up each issue. 

In the current issue of the paper there ap- 
pear articles on "Tech Fields of Sport," "Base 
Ball Prospects," "Technicalities" in abun- 
dance, and several interesting letters from 
graduates. Louis W. Southgate, '85, now at 
the patent office in Washington, writes about 
the patent office, J. Brace Chittenden, '88, a 
former editor, writes about the alumni and 
their relation to the W P I, Fred W. Spiers, 
"88, has a letter about advanced work, and 
there are communications from members of 
the school regarding various matters. "Junior" 
thinks there ought to be some arrangement 
whereby the Techs should not have to study 
Monday's lessons on Sunday, and says that 
Saturday afternoon is a short holiday at best. 

The 10 numbers of the paper make a valu- 
able volume. 

Mr. Rice has certainly made the paper "a 
monument to hard work," and deserves praise 
for making the best college paper that Wor- 
cester has ever had. The members of the 
staff who have helped to carry on the work 
may feel rewarded in seeing their names 
placed at the beginning of so successful a vol- 
ume, and the appearance of the business pages 
ought to make the business manager satisfied. 
The paper is on a good basis. It will be nec- 
essarj' to choose a new editor-in-chief and a 
new business manager, as the senior class 
members of the board retire with this num- 
ber, and "the coming man" appears to have 
lost his train. He may get along on the ac- 
commodation. The Tech boys are looking for 
him. 



The senior class of the Worcester Polytech- 
nic Institute held a meeting Wednesday noon 
to choose a valedictorian. The choosing of a 
valedictorian involves considerable prelimi- 
nary arrangement. The faculty make up a list 
of eight students who are eligible for the place, 
and the students make up a list of eight whom 
they most favor. Those whose names appear 
on both lists become candidates for the place. 
The students' list in this case included Frank 
A. Gardner, J. H. Devlin, Stanley H. Rood, 
A. B. Larchar, Everett J. Lake, A. B. Smith, 
G. H. Nutt, and Francis W. Treadway. 
Messrs. Treadway and Lake withdrew, and 
the class then proceeded to vote on the re- 
maining six names. Thirteen ballots were nec- 
essary to obtain a choice. In the beginning 
Messrs. Smith, Devlin and Rood ran fairly to- 
gether, but on the eleventh ballot, the result 
was : Votes cast, 30 ; necessary for a choice, 
16 ; Mr. Devlin had i ; Mr. Rood had 8 ; Mr. 
Smith had 21, and was declared elected vale- 
dictorian. Mr. Harry P. Davis presented his 
resignation from the position of class historian, 
his reason being tlxat he expects to go abroad 
early in June and will not be present at com- 
mencement. Mr. Davis's resignation was ac- 
cepted, and Mr. G. H. Nutt was elected class 
historian in his place. Nothing was done in 
regard to the class poet, competition being 
left open until May i. A final committee to 
take charge of issuing the class book or sou- 
venir was appointed, including Messrs. Clar- 
ence K. Prince, Elmer C. Rice and Paul B. 



Morgan. The list of class appointments, as 
now made up, includes : Francis W. Tread- 
way, president; Everett J. Lake, vice-presi- 
dent ; Elmer C. Rice, orator ; J. H. Devlin, ivy 
orator ; Clarence K. Prince, statistician ; G. 
H. Nutt, historian; A. L. Smith, valedicto- 
rian. The class day exercises occur Wednes- 
day, June 25. 

We expect that many English commercial 
men, temporarily resident in America, will be 
willing to come forward and deny our state- 
ment — of course you know that no girl in 
London society achieves distinction without 
the approval of the Prince of Wales, signal- 
ized by as many overt acts of attention and 
admiration as propriety will permit. It mat- 
ters not who she is, or what her rank. If she 
wants distinction — ;. c, notoriety (by some 
called fame), she must first get "Tommy" 
to give her the proper send-off. We are quite 
aware that there are scores, aye, hundreds, 
of English girls, of the highest rank, who do 
not seek and whose parents would not desire 
them to receive, and who do not receive, any 
notice from the prince. Beautiful, accom- 
plished, high-bred, striking-looking girls they 
are, but they never become distinguished. 
Their rank and high station and their family 
name give them an unquestioned, assured po- 
sition in society, and carry them through their 
first and several more seasons very satisfac- 
torily. But it is not either their beauty, ac- 
complishments, high-breeding, or striking looks 
which does this. It is their rank only. Their 
father's rank,really. — San FranciscoArgonaut. 
A marked sign of the times is the general 
tendency to change private firms into corpora- 
tions. The process is found to be going on 
wherever inquiry is directed, and the causes 
are not difficult to discover. The laws of 
nearly all the states of the union are favorable 
to the conduct of business upon the corporate 
basis, and while some of the states are lenient 
to corporations, almost to laxity, the abuses 
which defective laws made not only possible 
but easy, a short time since, have in a large de- 
gree been removed by judicious, restrictive and 
supervisory legislation. The result is that in 
almost all parts of the country corporations at 
the present time have a respectability that 
they did not have at all a short time since. 
Further, with a large increase of business en- 
terprises conducted by companies most of 
them having in their management men of ster- 
ling integrity, the credit rating of corporations 
of ordinary dimensions has become much 
better than formerly. The time was, and it is 
not so long ago either, that to speak of a com- 
pany was to insinuate something against the 
standing of the enterprise they owned and con- 
trolled. Now, even with laws unaltered in 
many cases, corporations are scanned as private 
firms are examined, very largely with respect 
to the business ability and private character of 
the men in them. Of course trickery and 
fraud are still possible in companies, but so 
they are in private firms and by individuals. 
The business community seems to have settled 
down to the conviction, however, that honesty 
is the best policy, and that in the long run fair 
dealing will make larger profits than the op- 
posite course. The opinion has its effect in 
companies as well as in firms, and the business 
community at large is the gainer thereof. — 7/ie 
Office. 



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It's Business, You Know. 

The worst kind of men to deal with are 
those who will never give or receive a definite 
proposition looking toward compensation. On 
the one hand is the man who will say : "That 
will be all right. I guess we won't have any 
trouble about that part of it." And just assure 
as fate you will have trouble with "that part of 
it," for some men, and this very kind, par- 
ticularly, don't ever seem to be able to make 
an actual estimate of their services even in 
their own minds. On the other hand, you 
will find the other kind, who will always put a 
man off like this: "You'll not lose anything 
by this, I'll see that it is all right." When 
two men like this sort get together, there will 
alwaj's be a misunderstanding, and the end 
will be mutual dissatisfaction, and possibly 
estrangement, if services are of such a nature 
that to determine their exact value at the 
time of their inception is impossible. Yet 
there can be no case in which a probable 
value cannot be got at ; if you consider mat- 
ters as a complete affair and estimate the 
value of results as you plan them to happen, 
you can never be far wrong. If you cannot 
do that, he has no business to undertake to 
make contracts at all. 

It may be that there are times that a man 
can go into a business engagement without a 
definite idea of what his pay is to be, and 
there may be men who will settle satisfactori- 
ly. But one is never safe to make engage- 
ments in such a lax way. Every debating 
society that ever existed, at one time or other 
in the course of its existence, has discussed, 
"Is anticipation or possession productive of 
the greater amount of pleasure?" And the 
vast majority of decisions has been in favor of 
anticipation. There is reason for it, too, and 
it's the reason that makes everyone reach out 
for what he has not, and regard what he has 
not as better than what he has. The same 
rule applies to business matters. A result to 
be obtained always appeals more powerfully 
to the man who wishes that result than the 
memor>' of a thousand triumphs dead and 
gone, or than the possession of this result will 
after it has been obtained. 

False modesty always stands in the way of 
sensible business arrangements. But it has 
no place in business. As an old merchant 
said once to the writer, "We are friends, and I 
trust will always remain so. Perhaps it is 
against my interest to tell you so, but when 
you are making an arrangement for the pur- 
chase and delivery of goods, don't think of 
your feelings toward each other at all. Buy 
of me as you would of a stranger ; consider 
your own needs and profits, and don't hesitate 
to buy where you can do the best." It .should 
be exactly this way in making arrangements 
for employment. Treat the matter simply as 
business pure and simple. You can't afford 
to do business without making proper arrange- 
ments for all points. 

Elm Street Lady : — Poor fellow, is your 
solemn looking face caused by your inability to 
get work ? 

N. H. Traveller : — No, my dear madam, 
it's the liability of getting work offered me 
that causes my countenance to assume that 
pensive and cast-down appearance. 



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Of Coming Things. 

Monday, March 17. 

Association Hall.— Worcester Congregational 
Club. Subject for discussion : "Is the Multiplication of 
Organizations Detrimental to the Spiritual Growth of 
Our Churches ?" opened byiRev. Graham Taylor, D. D., 
of Hartford Theological .Seminary. 6 p. M. 

Pilgrim Hall.— Course of practical talks to the 
boys ; Mr. W. A. Denholm on "Buying and Selling." 

7.30 p. M. 

First Universalist Chucrh.— Adjourned parish 
meeting. 8 p. m. 

Odd Fellows Hall.— Concert \mder Royal Ar- 
canum auspices. S P. M. 

Old South Church.— Course of the A. E. Associates; 
talk on "Looms," by Mr. Henry H. Merriam. 
Tuesday, March 18. 

Pilgrim Hali.— Second entertainment for benefit of 
Pilgrim gymnasium. 7.45 P. m. 

\A^ednesday, March 19. 

Grace Church.— Worcester County South W. C. 
T. U. Convention. 10 A. M., and throughout the day. 

Pupils Recital.— .^it Mr. Ben. T. Hammond's 
music rooms, 452 Main street. 8 p. m. 

Thursday, March 20. 

Curtis Hall.— First Presbyterian church entertain- 
ment, including the Peak sisters. 7.30 p. M. 
Friday, March 21. 

Horticultural Hall.— The drama of "Michael 
Earle, " under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. 

Second Parish Club.— Subject : " Theodore Par- 
ker ;" paper by Mr. George A. Steams, Jr 

Mechanics Hall.— Annual reunion of the Worces- 
ter County Mechanics association. 8 P. M. 

Continental Hall.— Private domino party; Mrs. 
George E. Fairbanks and Miss Kittie Black. 8 p. m. 
Monday, March 24. 

Mechanics Hall.— Concert; Miss Mary Howe. S 
p. m. 

Tuesday, March 25. 

Piedmont Church.— Supper and Sociable. 7 p- »'■ 

Horticultural Hall.— Mr. Walter Scott Ken- 
nedy's concert. 8 p. m. 

Lecture Room Young Men's Christian Association 
building.— Annual meeting and dinner of Amherst 
Alumni association. Evening. 

Thursday, March 27. 

Horticultural Hall.— Business Men's jubilee ; 
by pupils of Becker's Business college. 8 p. m. 

Insurance Hall. Winter Whist club masquerade. S 
p. M. 

Association Hall.— Gymnasium exhibition by Y. M. C. 
A. men. Evening. 



Friday, March 28. 
Horticultural Hall.— Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mat- 
toon's reception to her dancing classes. 8 p. M. 
Tuesdav, April i. 
Laurei Street Church.— Concert under Epworth 
League auspices. 8 p. m. 

First Universalist Church.— Bazaar and en- 
tertainment. Evening. 

Fast Day, Thursday, April 3. 
Mechanics Hall.— Richard Golden, in "OH Jed 
Prouty." 2 and 7.4; p. M. 

Associa'ion Hall.— Amherst College Glee club con- 
cert. 8 P.M. 

Monday, April 7. 

First Baptist Church.— Union meeting of Young 

People's societies of Christain Endeavor. 7.30 p. m. 

Sunday, April 13. 

Mechanics Hall.— Union Services, non-sectarian. 

Evening. 

^Wednesdav, April i6. 

Mechanics Hall.— Concerts by P. S. Gilmore'sband. 
2 and 7.45 P. M. 

Sunday, May 4. 

First Universalist Church.— Rev. Almon Gun- 
nison, D. D., preaches his first sermon as pastor of the 
church. IC.30 a. m. 

Monday, May 5. 
New Theatre.— Opening night. "The Shenan- 
doah." 7.45 P. M. 

Tuesday, May, 13. 
Association liall.— Third and last concert of the Gou- 
nod club. 8 P. M. 

Extracts from "Griffith's .-Xunals of Balti- 
more," published in 1829: "In the fall of 17S9 
and spring of 1790 there raged tliroughoutthe 
country, commencing at the south, an epidem- 
ic called influenza. The summer of the for- 
mer year had been uncommonly warm, the 
mean temperature at Philadelphia for Septem- 
ber being 75°, and for October 63°, with great 
drought, and that, like the yellow fever which 
followed it, was contagious in the atmosphere. 
It was called by some an epidemic putrid 
cold, and was said to be produced by sudden 
vegetable putrefaction." 

An idea that seems to have permeated 
thoroughly througk the masculine world is 
that women are vainer than men. Now there 
is not a word of truth in this. No woman ever 
lingered with such loving delight before a 
looking-glass as well as a man with the least 
pretension to beauty.— ,A'. ! '. St/». 



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About Folks. 

Mrs. George E. Fairbanks and Miss Kittie 
Black are arranging a private domino party to 
be given at Continental hall, Friday evening, 
March 21. 

Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mattoon is to give her 
fourth annual reception to her dancing classes, 
at Horticultural hall, Friday evening, March 
28. 

Rev. Almon Gunnison, D. D., pastor of All 
Soul's church, Brooklyn, has accepted the call 
to the pastorate of the First Universalist 
church, and his letter is in the hands of Mr. 
Edward I. Comins, chairman of the parish 
committee. He will begin his work here Sun- 
day, May 4. 

A Masonic presentation to which more than 
ordinary interest attached, occurred at a meet- 
ing of Athelstan Lodge, F. and A. M., Wed- 
nesday evening. After regular work, Hon. A. 
S. Pinkerton, master of the lodge, called up 
ex-mayor Winslow, who, speaking for the 
lodge, presented Mayor Harrington with a 
past master's jewel. Both the ex-mayor and 
and his successor made pleasant remarks and 
were heartily applauded. The jewel is of 
splendid workmanship, in the usual design. 
After the lodge work, a banquet was served, 
and Past Master James E. Dennis, Rev. M.H. 
Harris and Past Master Henry Goddard, the 
first master of Athelstan lodge, made speeches. 
Rev. Mr. Harris alluded to his approaching 
departure from the city, and spoke with regret 
of the Masonic ties which he must sever here. 



The South Unitarian church peoole are ar- 
ranging for an Easter sale to be held early in 
April. 

A concert is to be given at Holden Congre- 
gational church, about May i, under the di- 
rection of Mr. George N. Morse. 



West Side Woman: — Did any one call? 

Cook Laoy : — Yes'm ; August Claudian 
Pommermann was here. 

West Side Woman : — I don't recall the 
name. 

Cook Lady : — 'Taint likely you do, ma'am. 
He called to see me socially and exclusively, 
and objected to being introduced to you. 



Mr. Alfred Clifford has been in New York, 
on a visit to his son, Mr. Alfred S. Clifford, 
who is still doing orchestral work with the 
'cello. 

Mr. Thomas Talbot has been at his place 
in City hall since Monday, having recovered 
from his quite severe illness. 



The old lady from out of town had priced 
nearly everything on the counter of a Main 
street variety store and the salesman became 
somewhat weary. At length she reached for a 
bunch of wire tea strainers, and asked : — 

"Land ! What's them fer ?" 

"Those are muzzles for Worcester canines, 
ma'am," answered the polite clerk, while the 
cat on the counter smiled in its sleep. 



"I tell you," remarked a New Worcester 
man, as he was comfortably resting on the 
seat of a Lincoln square horse-car, "some 



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folks are born great, other folks obtains great- 
ness, and others still"— and a lurch of the car 
threw a big washerwoman into his lap— "have," 
he gasped, "greatness fired at 'em." 

The senior class of the High school held its 
first meeting last Wednesday noon, and an ad- 
journed meeting on Thursday, electing class 
officers as follows : President, Mr. Charies C. 
Milton; vice-president. Miss Alice E. Denny, 
secretary. Miss Lisette Draper; treasurer, 
Wells Ellinwood; executive committee, the 
officers, and Judson B. Witherby, chairman, 
Sartuel L. Durkee, James Daley, Miss Mary 
Lewis, Miss M. McGrath, Miss M. Toole. The 
historian and class motto will be chosen next 
Monday. 

Miss Mary Howe, who needs no introduc 
tion, is to give a concert at Mechanics hall, as 
Light announced last week, and the date has 
been fixed for Monday evening, March 24. 
Miss Howe has been giving concerts in several 
cities during the past few weeks and has met 
with enthusiastic receptions in all of them, but 
Light believes that Worcester is reserving the 
warmest welcome of all. Miss Howe will 
make three appearances, singing numbers not 
before included in her repertoire. The first 
will be the aria, "Una Voce," from Rossini's 
"Barber of Seville;" the second will be a 
group of English songs not yet selected ; and 
for the third she will sing Benedict's "Carnival 
of Venice." Mr. Lucien Howe will play Miss 
Howe's accompaniments. The assisting 
artists will be Mons. Alfred de S^ve, the 
violinist, whose accompaniment will be played 
by Mme. de Sfeve, Mr. Herbert O. Johnson, 
tenor, and Dr. H. R. Clark, basso. The Rug- 
gles Street Church quartet is also to be 
counted upon for a very enjoyable part of the 
entertainment. The concert is to be eminently 
of a "popular" nature and the seats are to be 
sold at popular prices. The result will un- 
doubtedly be a crowding of Mechanics hall to 
the doors. The sale of seats will open at 
Gorham's next Tuesday, at 9 a. m., and there 
is likely to be a rush for tickets. A large at- 
tendance of people from outlying towns is 
expected, and the indications are that all Wor- 
cester county will give Miss Howe a royal 
reception. 

Mr. E. C. A. Becker is arranging for a 
"business men's jubilee," something in the 
nature of a trades carnival, to be given at Hor- 
ticultural hall, Tuesday evening, March 27. 
The pupils of Mr. Becker's school are to as- 
sume the parts. The firms already en- 
gaged to be represented are C. L. 
Gorham & Co., Denholm & McKay, 
Ware Pratt Co., Adams Home Furnishing 
house, George E. Kirby, George A. Under- 
wood, F. E. Marshall, Edward Moulton, 
Stockwell & Pratt, M. L. Fay, Holland & 
Havener, Clifford & Johnson, E. K. Tolman, 
Kate Simmonds, Sanford & Co., C. E. Steere, 
W. E. Howe and Henry A. Maynard. 

Miss E. Cassandra Nason is to sail early in 
May for England, and after a few months in 
London and thereabout, will probably go for 
a short stay on the continent. 



"Mrs. Scrimp," said the facetious professor 
at our boarding house table, the other morn- 
ing, "I noticed ori one of Luther Goddard's 



blotters, the other day, an advertisement that 
reminded me of our boarding house." 

"Indeed," returned the landlady, in a crisp, 
caustic tone, intended to remind the professor 
that he owed for three weeks board, "how may 
that be ?" 

"Why," said the professor, "the Worcester 
Malleable Iron company advertises to furnish 
'chilled rolls, retorts, etc' " 

And the landlady went out for another plate 
of hot biscuits without saying a word. 

Rev. Graham Taylor, D. D., of Hartford, 
will preach at Plymouth church, tomorrow. 

Mr. E. A. Goodnow has presented the Young 
Women's Christian Association with S5000, 
making the totality of his gifts to this worthy 
object $15,000. 

Mr. W. H. Hamilton, formerly the proprie- 
tor of Hotel Pleasant, has been for some time 
past running a family hotel in New Y'ork city. 
Since he went away Mr. Dell A. Hamilton, 
his son, has managed the "Hotel Hamilton," 
in Harrison S. Prentice's new building at 625 
Main street. Mr. Hamilton, however, has de- 
cided to give up his Worcester business entirely, 
and his family will remove to New York next 
week, except Mr. Dell Hamilton, who will re- 
main in Worcester for a time. Mr. William 
Hamilton, another son of Mr. W. H. HamiL 
ton, will remove with the rest, and on Tues- 
day evening, a party of his friends, including 
a large number of Chatham Athletic club 
members, gave him a complimentary dinner at 
the Lincoln house. Mr. Arthur G. Cook pre- 
sided, and called upon several of those present 
for speeches, and the Messrs. Hamilton both 
made speeches of farewell. The party in- 
cluded Messrs. Rufus O. Allen, C. Fred God- 
dard, James C. Mellor, Eli J. Peck, Albert 
L. Bennett, Edward L. Searle, Harry N. 
Sawyer, William A. McAleer, Benjamin H. 
Beaumont, Arthur M. Brownell, Arthur C. 
Scott, Arthur G. Cook, Harry T. Banfield, 
Frank F. Pierce, J. Herbert Adams, Dell A. 
Hamilton, Samuel Perry, Harry A. Adams, 
Clarence R. Goddard, 1. M. Burdette, Cari 
Bonney, Henry Wheelock, Stanley C. Bren- 
nan and G. Stewart Dickinson. 



The Winter Whist club is arranging for a 
masquerade at Insurance hall, March 27. 



The South End Whist club met with Mr. 
Fred W. Hoppin, 144 Beacon street, Tuesday 
evening, and played until after midnight. Dr. 
Arthur Y. Greene and Miss Clara Norton won 
first prizes for ladies and gentlemen, respective- 
ly, and Mr. Fred W. Hoppin and Miss A. T. 
Bickford won the booby prizes. 

The third of the Worcester County Music 
School's series of recitals was held Thurs- 
day evening, and the following program was 
successfully given : Duet, "The Pilot," Messrs. 
W. S. Cook and W. H. Bixby; violin solo. 
Master Ernest L. Smith; piano solo. Miss 
Kinney; song, "The Winegauger," Mr. Bix- 
by ; songs, "Allah," "May Song," Miss Flor- 
ence Wood; piano solo. Miss Bessie Pelton ; 
song, "Tell Her I Love Her So," Mr. Cook; 
songs, "Dream Stars" and "Thou Art All 
to Me," Miss Sadie C. Hooker; piano solo 
Miss Mabel B. Jennison; violin solo, Master 
Smith; songs, "All Soul's Day, "Serenade," 
Mrs. Nellie F. Dickinson. 



A remarkable specimen of carving was 
placed on exhibition in one of Bigelow 
& Longley's north windows, yesterday. It is 
a miniature speaker's stand, cut from a single 
block of white-wood by Mr. E. R. lirigham, 
whose patience and skill must be something 
unusual. The object is 9>^ inches in height, 
and the block from which it was cut was, 
when the work was begun, a single block of 
white-wood, 3x4 inches in dimensions. On 
the top of the stand is a miniature pitcher, 
which is a part of the block, and two goblets, 
which, with four small eyes to which chains 
are fastened, are the only parts of the work 
made of separate pieces and attached. The 
elaborate work on the pedestal of the stand 
must be seen to be appreciated. There are 
several little cages in which are balls, all cut 
out, it should be remembered, from the solid 
piece, and in all there are 17 of them. There are 
two pendants, having bf lis in cages; on each 
of two sides of the stand are two crossed 
chains, the links of which are uniform and 
perfect. At the bottom of the stand is a disc 
from which depend four balls, and the disc 
may be made to revolve. It seems almost in- 
credible that this work could be done without 
taking it apart and putting it together again, 
but such is the care. A similar piece of 
work was exhibited a short time since by 
Mr. Brigham, in Stockwell cS; Pratt's window. 
On this last piece he worked for about six 
weeks, as he had leisure. 



A Good Beginning. 

It hardly seems as though the time to think 
about spring flowers had arrived, but the 
Worcester Horticultural society's calendar 
gives very satisfactory proof that it has, and 
the society's first exhibition, last Thursday, 
showed that the florists had not mistaken the 
time. 

The exhibition, which marks the beginning 
of a new year, was a good one. The notable 
feature was the showing made of hyacinths. 
In the vegetable department, there was a large 
display, with several excellent exhibits. 

The hyacinths occupied the post of honor 
and attracted the most attention. This is 
the right season for them, and now, if ever, 
they ought to show up well. Mr. H. F. A. 
Lange, who was the chief exhibitor, showed 
92 plants, with at least 50 distinct varieties, 
some of them rare and new. The plants were 
noticeable for the clean, bright foliage, no less 
than for the much to be desired heavy flow- 
ering of the spike. The call for hyacinths 
had divisions, one being for single plants and 
the other for collections of six. For a single 
plant Mr. Lange showed a specimen of the 
Penniman, blue in color, unusually large 
flowered and well grown. His collection of 
six included specimens of Anna, white, Ida, 
yellow. Rubra Maxima, pale rose. Grand 
Ulaitre, blue. Gen. Pelisfier, crimson, and 
Morino, rose. All were of remarkably good 
growth. In his general display, Mr. Lange 
had some new varieties, a pale sa ffron being 
particularly noticeable. Mr. Fred H. Wesson 
and the State Lunatic hospital also exhibited 
hyacinths. 

The exhibits of primula sinensis were not 
especially attractive. It is a little late for 
jhe flower, and the plants shown had too few 



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blooms. The primula obconica was shown in 
one or two exhibits. 

The State Lunatic hospital was the only 
exhibitor of cineraria, the four plants shown 
being fair specimens. 

Cyclamen was not shown at all, and the 
agalea did not show up very largely. 

The call for cut flowers brought out displays 
from the State Lunatic hospital, H. F. A. 
Lange and F. H. Wes.son. Mr. Lange's ex- 
hibits included some beautiful orchids, as 
well as roses, hyacinths and lilies. The hos- 
pital display was made up largely of roses. 

As to roses, they are an interesting subject 
just now, with Easter coming soon. There is not 
much likelihood that they will be worth more 
at Easter than they are now. Tea roses are 
bringing from $1 to $4 a dozen. 

The call for arum (richardia) brought out 
only three pots, but Mr. Wesson's exhibit 
was disqualified, leaving only two plants, 
which were fair specimens, all things con- 
sidered. 

Hand bouquets not more than nine inches 
in diameter do not give the florists much 
latitude for display, but there were several 
shown. Mr. Lange, who won first prize for 
bouquets, also put in, by way of a side 
issue, a vase of splendidly grown mignonette. 

The first department had only two calls, 
pears and apples, with gratuities offered for 
each. Mr. Luther R. Eames showed seven 
plates of apples, some of them excellent, par- 
ticularly a plate of golden russets. There 
was one lonesome little plate of pears, four 
specimens of Duchesse de Bordeaux, shown 
by Mr. F. M. Marble. 

From the cellar, also, the kitchen garden- 
ers brought out some good vegetables. The 
cabbages showed up well, though the exhibits 
were uneven, varying in quality considerably. 
The celery did not make an elaborate display. 
For any ordinary season, it would have been 
very poor indeed. The stalks were tarnished 
somewhat and the tender green leaves seemed 
tired of the fickle weather. Considering 
the season, however, the celery was better 
than could be expected. There was a general 
bringing in of squashes, and the turnips also 
appeared in fairly good order. The lettuce 
was good. Mr. F. J. Kinney showed two 
pretty little bunches of French Breakfast 
radishes and a half peck of spinach. Mr. 
Alden Rice's display of onions, which, were 
not called for, deserves especial notice. He 
had two plates, one of Red GloI)e and the 
other of Yellow Danvers, both having 
smooth, closely-drawn skins and color for an 
artist. 

Altogether, it was a most satisfactory exhi- 
bition to begin the year with. 

The premiums were awarded as follows: — 
Flowers iji Bloom. 

Hyaii>it/i.—Six plants— ist, H. F. A. Lange, $3; 2nd, 
Fred H. Wesson, $2 ; 3d, State Lunatic hospital, f 1 : 
4th, no award. One plant— ist, H. F". A. Lange, $1 : 
2d, F. H . Wesson, 50 cents. 

Priitiula Sinensis. — Four plants— ist, Fred W. 
Wesson, S3; 2d, Mrs. C. E. Brooks, $2. One plant— 
ist, Fred H. Wesson, $1 ; 2d, Mrs. C. E. Brooks, 50 
cents. For any other variety— ist, F. H. Wesson, 53 ; 
2d, A. H. Lange, %z. 

Cineraria.— 1st, State Lunatic hospital. Jj. 

Cyclamen. — No exhibit. 

Arum {.Richardia^— Vtftst collection, grown in a pot— 
2d, H. B. Watts, $2 ; 4th, Mrs. H. A. Jones. 50 cents. 



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One bloom— ist, Fred H. Wesson, Ji ; 2d, Mrs. C. E. 
Hrnoks, 50 cents. 

.-tzalca /ko'/Vo. —Three plants— ist, State Lunatic 
hospital, $5; one plant— 2d, Mrs. C. F,. Brooks, 5:2. 

Cut Flowers.— -isi. State Lunatic Hospital, $3; 2d, II. 
F. A. Lange, J2 ; 3d, Fred 11. Wesson, 50 cents. 

Bcjui/ite/s.—ist, II. F. A. Lange, f3; 2d, Fred H. 
Wesson, $z'; 3d, H. B. Watts, $1 ; 4th, Mrs. Thomas 
Ward, 50 cents. 

(7>(7/«///fi.— Display of hyacinths, H. F. A. Lange, 
Sj ; potted plants, F. H. Wesson, $1 ; cut flowers, Mrs. 
H. M. Chase, 50 cents. 

Fruits. 

.-;///«.— flratuity, display, L, K. Eames, f3. 
Vegetables. 

OMn^-c— Brunswick— ist, S. E. Fisher, $1.50 ; 2d, 
F. J. Kinney, $1 ; 3d, John Vanchoukoski, 50 cents. 
Savoy— ist, S. E. Fisher, $1.50; 2d, F.J. Kinney, $t. 
Red Dutch— 1st, S. E. Fisher, $1.50; 2d, John Vanchou- 
koski, Ji ; 3d, F. J. Kinney, 50 cents. 

Ce/ery.—jst, H. T. Reynolds, $1.50. 

&/(«!.(/;«.- Marblehead— ist, W. J. Wheeler, j;i.5o; 
Hubbard— ist, L. R. Eames; Ji.so; 2nd, Mrs. M. E. 
Woodward, $1. 

7"«rH;/j.— Swede— ist, F. J. Kinney, $1.50 ;2d, S. E. 
Fisher, $ ; 3d, Elliott Moore, 50 cents. White swede— 
ist, F. J. Kinney, $1.50; 2a, Elliott Moore, Jii ; 3d, S. 
Fisher, 50 cents. White egg— ist, F. J. Kinney J1.80; 
2d, S. E. Fisher, $1 ; 3d, J. W. Powers, 50 cents. 

iJtY'/.-Turnip-ist, Alden Rice, fi.50; 2d, F. J. Kin- 
ney, $1 ; 3d, L. R. Eames, 50 cents. 

Crt/ro/.— Intermediate — ist. F. J. Kinney, Si. 50. 

Letfine.— ist, E. A. Bartlett, Si. 50; 2d, S. H. Record. 
Si : 3d, John Vanchoukoski, 20 cents. 

Gratui/ies. —Disp\ny of squashes, F. J. Kinney, Si ; 
display of onions, Alden Rice. 50 cents. 



Lent, 23d Day to the 28th Day. 



AT Al.I. SALSTS. 



Fdukth SunijAV in Lent.— Holy communion, 
7.30 a. ni.; morning prayer and holy commu- 
nion, 10.30 a. m., sermon by Rev. W. S. Lang- 
ford, D. D., general secretary of the Domestic 
and Foreign Missionary society, offertory for 
diocesan board of missions ; Sunday school 
and Bible classes, 3 p. m.; evening prayer, 7.30 
p. ni., sermon by the rector. 
2. Monday, Tuesday and Saturday— Morn- 
ing prayer, 9 a. m.; evening prayer, 5 p. m. 

Wednesday.- Litany, 8.30 a. m.; evening 
prayer, 7.30 p. m.; sermon by Rev. Philip M. 
Washburn, rector of St. John's church. North- 
anii>ton. 

TllLKSDAV.- Holy communion, 7 a. m.; morn- 
ing prayer, 9 a. m.; evening prayer, 5 p. m., ad- 
dress to the children of the church ; women's 
meeting, 7.30 p. m., address by Rev. E. S. 
Middleton. 

Friday.— Morning prayer and litany, 10.30 a. 
m., address by Rev. E. S. Middleton; instruc- 
tion preparatory to first communion, 7.30 p. m., 
by the rector. 



AT ST. MARKS. 

20. Thursday.- Evening prayer and sermon, by 
Rev. Francis G. Burgess. 7.30 p. m. 

Tliat gigantic financial institution, author- 
ized by the state of Louisiana, the Louisiana 
lottery, takes in $25,000,000 a year, pays out 
$S,ooo,ooo for expenses, $8,000,000 for prizes, 
and SS,ooo.ooo for profits. That is it absorbs 
$25,000,000 of the people's money, and returns 
to them 33'/j per cent. And yet the alleged- 
to-be-intelligent people of the North pay in 
half the cash necessary to support this illegiti- 
mate enterprise. 

If somebody doesn't build more houses for 
incoming Worcester, the elastic sofa-bureaii 
mantle-bedstead will have to play the addi- 
tional characters of cooking stove, baby- 
cradle, dining-table, and refrigerator. 



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About Folks. 



A novel and intensely interesting members" 
monthly meeting of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association, which took the form of a con- 
ference of the directors, committeemen and 
active members in general, was held last Tues- 
day evening in Curtis hall. President Charles 
F. Rugg presided, and after the regular re- 
ports of committees, there w^as a short inter- 
mission, during which music and refreshments 
were the principal attractions. Papers were 
read by the chairmen of the various commit- 
tees on the ideal work of those committees, as 
follows : Boarding house and employment. 
Assistant Secretary- Will D. B. Mead; mem- 
bership, Mr. William H. Kinnicutt ; gymna- 
sium reception, Mr. George H. Steele; invita- 
tion, Mr. Edwin E. Tubbs or Forrest Wesson ; 
religious meetings, Mr. C. Clarkson Kenyon ; 
reception, Mr. Albert H. Inman. After each 
paper, the chairman reading answered ques 
tions regarding the work treated of. The 
discussions proved very interesting, and if the 
same thing were to be repeated, it would be 
safe to predict that Curtis hall would be too 
small a place to accommodate the members. 
After the discussions. Rev. William S. Kelsey 
and Rev. Leon D. Bliss, both of whom are ac- 
tive and valuable Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation workers, made remarks of encour- 
agement and inspiration, and the evening 
closed with prayer by Rev. Mr. Bliss. 

Miss E. A. Kimball invited the Piedmont 
Benevolent union to meet with her at the 
Home school, 58 Woodland street, Tuesday, 
and both branches accepted the invitation. In 
the afternoon the ladies decided to send a 
barrel of clothing and other useful articles to 
Rev. A. A. Myers, at Jellico, Tennessee. Rev. 
Mr. Myers recently visited Worcester and pre- 
sented the needs of the mountaineers of East- 
ern Tennessee in a most graceful way. It is 
one of the most interesting and deserving 
benevolences now being brought forward. In 
the evening the gentlemen came and at seven 
o'clock supper was served. There was a 
large number of young people present, and 
after a time they had a promenade, following 
which came social games and music. Some of 
the young ladies went about with mysterious 
looking little bo.xes, inviting their friends to 
'■drop a penny in the slot." No tutti frutti 
came out, however, and the collectors, after 
various explanations of the box scheme, gave 
out that it was desired to purchase a sewing 
machine for the junior branch of the union. 
Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., the pastor, and Mrs. 
Mears, were present during the evening. Miss 
Kimball and the young ladies of the school 
entertained the guests very pleasantiy indeed 
and made it one of the most enjoyable social 
events of the church this year. 

The concluding entertainment of the Bel- 
mont church course was a concert given under 
the direction of Mr. Benjamin A. Barker, 
Tuesday evening. The Arlington quintet 
rendered valuable assistance, and there were 
vocal solos by Mr. Thomas B. Hamilton, tenor, 
and Miss Alice B. Hammond, contralto. Miss 
Mabel Hammond, pianist, and Mr. Barker, 
baritone, with a duet by Miss Hammond and 
Mr. Hamilton and a trio for the closing num- 
ber. 



Mr. Stephen C. Earle, who was recently se- 
lected as the architect for the new Pleasant 
Street Baptist church, is at work on the plans 
for the building and will have them ready to 
submit to the church building committee some 
time next week. Mr. Earle has drawn the 
plans for some of the handsomest churches in 
the city. All Saints was designed by Earle 
& Fuller, and since Mr. Earle has been alone, 
he has drawn the plans for Central, Pilgrim, 
Saint Marks. Saint Johns, Church of Christ, 
Lincoln Square Baptist and three Swedish 
churches. The new Pleasant Street Baptist 
church is to be one of Romanesque style of 
architecture, the material being brick, with 
sandstone trimmings, and it is to cost about 
$20,000. 

P. S. Gilmore and his famous band, num- 
bering 40 musicians, and three first-class so- 
loists, will give two concerts, at Mechanics 
hall, in the afternoon and evening of April 
i6th. The occasion will be of the na- 
ture of a jubilee celebration, commem- 
orating the great Gilmore peace jubilee 
of 20 years ago. The young ladies and 
gentlemen of the High school have been in- 
vited to assist in the chorus, and meet Mr. 
Gilmore on the platform. Cannon will be 
fired from the front of the hall to give effect 
to the anvil chorus, and the great master of 
popular music, Mr. P. S. Gilmore, will lead 
the band in person. 



The Salem Street church people had their 
March sociable and supper Tuesday evening, 
and the dampness did not keep a jolly crowd 
away. The Commonwealth Banjo club gave 
selections, Misses Jennie Hair and Mattie 
Howell sang a duet, Mr. F. F. French sang a 
solo, Mr. D. C. Turner gave a reading, and the 
Salem Glee club sang several selections. 



An entertainment in which military songs 
were introduced was a pleasant feature of the 
social of the All Souls church people, Tues- 
day evening. Miss Edith Lemoine played a 
piano solo. Miss Sadie Sutton and Mrs. John 
Allen gave readings, Messrs. M. M. Mowry 
and Andrew Gibson sang solos, and there 
were duets, trios and quartets, making a very 
enjoyable musical program. 



Shrewsbury had its 18th annual ball at the 
Town hall, Wednesday evening, and among 
those present was quite a number of Worces- 
ter people. They went down in 'busses and 
private carriages and enjoyed themselves un- 
til morning. The Worcester people who par- 
ticipated included Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hig- 
gins, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. F^airbanks, Mrs. 
Whittemore, Misses Mills, Fish, Stone, Ewell, 
Holmes, Harding and Carpenter, and Messrs. 
James H. Cafferty, F. A. Clark, William E. 
Fairbanks, G. H. Carr, F. S. Pierce, Stanley 
C. Brennan, W. Henry Towne, J. Herbert 
Adams, Frank W. Washburn, P'red Whitte- 
more, Harry T. Banfield, Arthur P. Shaffer, E. 
H. Robinson, G. Stewart Dickinson, Horace 
Holmes, N. E. McCauley, George O. Bridges, 
Fred E. Wheeler and Arthur Knight. 



Worcester Council, No. 12, Royal Arcanum, 
is to have its third "ladies' night" at Odd Fel- 
lows' hall, Monday evening, and a concert has 
been arranged which will be of a high order of 



merit. The vocalists will include a male quar- 
tet, Messrs. Charles S. Stoughton, James A. 
Brennan, John H. Howell and J. A. Rice, and 
a ladies' quartet, Mrs. C. A. Merrill, Mrs. J. 
A. Rice, Mrs. J. H. Howell and Mrs. H. A. 
Hancox. Mr. Fred W. White and Mrs. Car- 
rie King-Hunt will be the accompanists. 
There will be quartets, solos by Mr. Brennan 
and Mrs. Howell, a duet by Mrs. Merrill and 
Mrs. Rice, and for the final number, the 
double quartet will sing Eaton Faning's 
"Song of the Vikings," which was so delight- 
fully rendered at the last Gounod concert. 
There are also to be instnimental numbers 
and readings. 

Mr. Fred L. Ward arranged a sleighride to 
Leicester, last Saturday evening, and a very 
jolly party went up over the hills to Leicester 
hotel, where they enjoyed dancing to music 
furnished by Mr. J. N. Truda, violinist, and 
Mrs. Truda, pianist. Cutler's large barge. 
Empress, with six horses, was none too large 
for the party, which included Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred L. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. 
Green, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Orr, Misses 
Henrietta M. Ager, Nellie Stimpson, Ida 
Peacock, Clara Meggett, Ina Sanborn, Lizzie 
Batchelor, Messrs. John H. Orr, Herbert L. 
Green, F. M. Clark, Jr., H. Ward Bates, Wal- 
ter H. Davis, Frank E. Stimpson, iVIisses 
Katherine Conant and Maud Barker of Bel- 
fast, Maine. 

The Millbury Choral society, whose director 
is Mr. Charles L Rice, gave a successful con- 
cert at Grafton, Tuesday evening, The soci- 
ety is planning to give a cantata some time in 
June. 

Mr. and Mrs. George B. Hill's friends gave 
them a "house warming" at their new residence, 
No. 3 Gushing street, Tuesday evening. There 
were several handsome gifts for Mr. and Mrs. 
Hill, and Miss Belle Hill, Rev. John Gal- 
braith making a graceful speech of presenta- 
tion. 

iVIr. and Mrs. George W. Harlow had a 
genuine surprise Monday evening. Probably 
they remembered that it was their 25th wed- 
ding anniversary, but their memory didn't be- 
gin to compare with that of their friends. Mr. 
Harlow was so oblivious to the possibilities of 
the occasion that he went out for a call that 
evening, and when about 200 friends besieged 
the house, he had to be sent for. He came 
and got as much of a surprise as Mrs. Harlow 
had received a short time before. There was 
a long period of hand-shaking and greetings, 
and finally, Rev. C. H. Pendleton, pastor of 
the Main Street Baptist church, presented Mr. 
and Mrs. Harlow with a tray containing 25 
silver dollars and I25 in gold, and also a pack- 
age which was found to contain a fishing rod. 
Rev. Mr. Pendleton spoke in happy vein for 
the assembled friends, and Mr. and Mrs. Har- 
low responded. Mr. Harlow's fishing-rod is 
one of the finest combination rods in this city. 
It is made of split bamboo and can be ad- 
justed for seven, nine or lo-ounce weight, as 
desired for different kinds of fishing. It has 
ebony handles. It was made by Mr. O. A. 
Benoit. Mr. and Mrs. Harlow, despite their 
surprise, knew how to entertain their friends in 
a most graceful manner and the evening passed 
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people made up a considcraljle portion of the 
gathering and among the 200 present were :— 
Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Pendleton, Prof, and 
Mrs. D.W. Abercrombie, Mrs. Ezra Churchill, 
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bean, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
L. Durkee, Mr. and Mrs. W. li. Gage, Mr. 
and Mrs. J. VV. Gray, Mrs. J. K. Brown, Miss 
Clara Kincaid, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Recby, 
Mr.s. C. A. Strecter, Miss Mabel C. Strecter, 
Miss Anna B. Collier, Mi.ss May Upham, 
Misses Florence and Fannie Churchill, Miss 
Ruth E. Bean, Mr. .-Vrthur J. Bean, Mr. and 
Mrs. E. P. Guild, Mr. and Mrs. Asa J. Smith, 
Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. 
A. C. Sheffield, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Robin- 
son, .Mr. W. F. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. T. 
D. Gard, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Burbank, Miss 
Page, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson H. Davis, Mr. and 
Mrs. George Davis, Dr. Charles K. Pevey, Dr. 
Almond F. Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. 
Benoit, Mr. and Mr.s. \V. F. Merrill, Mr. Geo. 
H. Burtis, Mrs. F. E. Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. 
A. W. Ingraham, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Put- 
nam, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Crawford, Mr. 
Samuel L. Durkee, Mr. Arthur Bingham, Mr. 
William P. Goodwin, Mr. E. Clifford Johnson, 
Miss Marion Kno.x, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. .Mun- 
roe. Miss May Munroe, Mrs. Willard Ward, 
Miss Martha Ward, Miss Ella Drury, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. L. Amsden, Dr. C. E. H. Higgins, 
Misses Ida and Florence Peacock, Mrs. Harry 
Morse, Miss Josie Allen, Mrs. G. I. Temple, 
Mrs. A. J. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
H. Kinney, Miss Grace Solomon, Mr. and 
Mrs. Theodore C. Carey; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 
F. Pease, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Parsons, and 
Miss Lilla Parsons, Springfield; Miss Ella 
Crawford, New London, Conn. Among 
those who sent congratulations and regrets 
were Congressman Joseph H. Walker and 
wife. 

.Mrs. J. H. Cutter, of the school of English 
speech, is arranging for a course of readings 
from the work of Henrik Ibsen, by Mrs. 
Er\ang Winslow, to be given at Curtis hall 
some time during May, with another, follow- 
ing,«in June. 

Mr. C. Ellis Fisher, who not long ago re- 
moved to Minneapolis, called on some of his 
friends here last Wednesday. 



The Woman's club had an unusually large 
attendance Wednesday, and the parlor of the 
Y. M. C. A. building was opened, as well as 
the lecture room, for the occasion. Socialistic 
topics were discussed, and Mrs. J. H. Cutter 
read a review of Henry George's "Progress and 
Poverty," Mrs. O. F. Harris similarly treated 
Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," Mrs. 
Theo. Brown read a paper on "Christian 
Socialism," and Mrs. Henry S. Pratt discussed 
"Profit Sharing." 



This is an era of church building and all the 
denominations seem to be putting forth special 
endeavor to gather into houses of their own 
the congregations of their missions. The 
Baptist City mission voted this week to pur- 
chase land and build chapels for the Greendale 
and French missions. The Greendale house 
will be built near the school-house, where 
Rev. D. W. Hoyt now conducts the services. 
The French mis.sion will probably be built in 
the vicinity of Hammond or Oread street. 



Rev. (iideon .-\ubin now conducts the services 
at 554 Main street. The committee in charge 
of the plans, which will report April 8, includes 
Rev. D. W. Hoyt, George C. Whitney, Frank 
L. Durkee, Orrin H. Weston and B. Edwin 
Guy. 

Hon. .Samuel Winslow has made arrange- 
ments for the European trip whicli he has 
been contemplating for some time, and will 
sail from New York on the Etruria, of the 
Cunard line, Saturday, April 26. He will be 
absent for three or four months, making it a 
pleasuring tour. Dr. Roscoe W. .Swan will 
sail on the Etruria with .May or Winslow, and 
will remain abroad a year for study. 



The Chapin club's social at the First 
Universalist church parlors, Tuesday evening, 
was a pronounced success. The program in- 
cluded recitations by Arthur E. Longley and 
Harry Hosley, songs by Messrs. George W. 
Ward and James H. Cafferty, and a mock de- 
bate on the question, "Shall our mothers 
vote?" Messrs. Arthur C. Comins, Harry 
Robinson, Will Robinson, David T. Jenkins, 
Arthur Merrill, Walter Knowlton, Arthur 
Longley, Leon Burr, Harry Hosley and D. J. 
Waite participated. A ''conundrum lunch," 
served after the entertainment, created a great 
deal of fun. The committee who prepared the 
evening's entertainment included Mr. George 
W. Ward, Misses Cora Barnes, C. H. Bemis. 
.■Xlice L. Critcherson, Maud A. Knowlton and 
Mrs. H. H. Gabeler. 



Messrs. Eben White and Thomas Durham, 
of Kansas City, Mo., were the guests of Mr. 
James E. Dennis, during the early part of the 
week. 



The Gounod club's friends are already look- 
ing forward to May 13, when the club will give 
its third and last concert of the season. Re- 
hearsals are in progress, and the program is 
partly arranged. Mendelssohn's "Thirteenth 
Psalm" is to be the principal work. It is a 
comparatively unknown work of the composer 
and has never been given in Worcester. There 
will also be part songs by Rheinberger Mar- 
zials, and Cowen and an "Ave Maria" of St. 
Saens, for ladies voices. 



The .Arlington Banjo quintet is booked for 
several out of town concerts to be given in the 
near future. On Wednesday, the 26th, they 
play at Webster, with Mr. Frederic Howard 
and Prof. L. C. Havener assisting; on Fast 
Day, April 3, they give two concerts, afternoon 
and evening, one at Mariboro and theotherat 
Milford; and on the following day they give 
concerts in New London and Williamantic, 
Conn. 



Miss Edith L. Smith, who has read with 
great success to local audiences, is to give 
readings at Athol, Wednesday, Abril 2. 

The Amherst Glee club has for two years 
given a concert in Worcester at the time of the 
field meeting at the New England Inter- 
collegiate Athletic association, but this year 
the Williams Glee club secured the date. The 
Amherst boys will sing at Association hall. 
Fast Day evening, however, and they have 
enough friends in town to crowd the hall to its 
fullest capacity. 



Mr. Harry L. Dadmun, the Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute member of the executive 
committee of the New England Intercollegiate 
Athletic association, found it impossible to at- 
tend the meeting of the committee held at 
Boston last Saturday, and Mr. Edward A. 
Taylor attended as a sulistitute. The com- 
mittee decided to secure Manhattan Athletic 
club members for field day officers, as has 
been done in three years past, but objection 
was made to having Mr. A. F. Copland serve 
as judge of walking, and the objection was 
sustained, through efforts made by Amherst. 
The position of grand marshal was given to 
Mr. T. A. Conover, of Trinity college. Last 
year the position was filled by a Williams man. 
Mr. Herbert A. Warren, '90, of the Polytech- 
nic Institute, was elected clerk of the course. 
The matter of the records braken on a short 
course came up and Dartmouth vigorously op- 
posed any change, but the matter was finally 
referred to Mr. C. C. Hughe.s, the referee of 
last year. Mr. Elmer C. Rice of Worcester 
was appointed chairman of the printing com- 
mittee 

Mes.srs. Albert H. Lange, S. Frank Gates 
and Lewis A. Colvin have been elected to 
membership in the Arlington club. 

The Central Church choirs, which number 
50 voices, are now being reorganized, and 
there are a few vacancies which will be filled 
at once. These choirs furnish a valuable 
schooling in style, phrasing, expressive and 
reading of music. Applications for admission 
to these choirs should be made to the director, 
Mr. E. N. Anderson, at his music-rooms, 377 
Main street. 

The Amherst Alumni association will hold 
its annual meeting and dinner at the Y. M. C. 
A. building, Tuesday evening, March 26. 

There was a quiet wedding on Burncoat 
street, Tuesday afternoon, at the new residence 
of Mr. Walter B. Barnard, the parties being 
Mr. Barnard and Miss Alice C. Holden, a 
daughter of Mrs. C. A. Holden. The house 
was beautifully decorated for the occasion, 
and Rebboli served an elaborate wedding sup- 
per. Rev. Francis A. Gray of -All Soul's 
church performed the ceremony. The friends 
of the bride and groom sent numerous gifts of 
silverware, bric-h-brac, etc. Mr. Barnard is en 
gaged in the slate roofing busine.ss with his 
father, Mr. George A. Barnard. Only the 
members of the families interested and a few 
immediate friends were present, these being 
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Barnard, Mr. 
and Mrs. George F. Barnard, Mrs. 
John Barnard, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bar- 
nard, Miss Barnard, Misses Mary 
and Helen Barnard. .Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 
J. Barnard, Misses Ruth and Anna Barnard, 
Dr. and Mrs. Charies H. Davis, Miss Davis, 
Miss Ethel Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. 
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Midgley, Rev. and Mrs. 
Austin S. Garver, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin P. 
Curtis, and Miss Mary F. Bigelow. 

The First Universalist church people are 
arranging for a bazar to be held at the church, 
Tuesday, April i, at which the articles made 
by the children of the Saturday afternoon 
sewing school will be offered for sale. An en- 
tertainment will be given in connection with 
the affair. 



16 



Literary. 



The manuscript of the laureate's first book, 
the "Poems of Two Brothers," written by him 
and Charles Tennyson, has been carefully pre- 
served, and is estimated to be worth $5000. 
Alfred and Charles Tennyson received $100 
for it. Some of the pages, says Mr. Walters, 
who saw it lately, are "backed," and others 
disfigured by rude school-boy sketches ; there 
are many clumsy erasures, and a few of the 
verses are written cross-wise and downward. 
The printer's directions are written in red ink. 
.Some day, of course, it will be put up for sale, 
and doubtless it will fetch a big price. 

Wilkie Collins, who was Charles Dickens's 
dear and close friend, made some interesting 
memoranda in his copy of Forster's "Life" of 
Dickens. Concerning "Oliver Twist," Col- 
lins writes that "the one defect in that wonder- 
ful book is the hopelessly bad construction of 
the story. The character of Nancy is the 
finest thing he ever did." As for "Barnaby 
Kudge," Collins calls it the weakest book 
Dickens ever wrote. 

The next story to appear in the Riverside 
Paper series is "The Lady of the Aroostook," 
which is on the whole one of the most delight- 
ful things Mr. Howells has ever written. 

Ernest Kenan's "The Future of Science" 
will be brought out by Roberts Brothers this 
spring, and is expected to arouse even greater 
interest than his "History of the People of 
Israel," recently published. 

Bret Harte has always been a careful, even 
fastidious worker, says the March Book 
Buyer. This trait has appeared in every- 
thing tjjat he has done. Calling on a friend at 
his San Francisco oflice and finding him ab- 
sent, Harte wrote a very brief note on an un- 
important matter and left it on the desk. His 
friend, coming in afterward, and noticing that 
his waste-basket, which should have been 
empty, was well littered, had the curiosity to 
examine the scraps, and found that Harte had 
written four notes before he was satisfied with 
his work. At another time, while visiting 
with his family some friends in the country, 
Mrs. Harte came late to the breakfa.st table, 
and, being asked for her spouse, explained 
that she left him trying to match a cravat with 
the stockings he had decided to wear for the 
day. 

Lucy Larcom has written a volume of 
poems called "Easter Gleams," which is in 
preparation by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. As 
the title suggests, these poems are of a re- 
ligious character, and are especially suitable 
for publication about Easter. There are 20 
or more poems, none of which has appeared in 
her other volumes. 

Henry M. Stanley writes to his London pub- 
lisher that he believes his new work will be in 
two volumes of from 400 to 500 pages each. 
"There is matter enough," he says, "but I 
would wish to deal very lightly with the 
whole, from Zanzibar to Yanbuya, that the 
book may be of as high interest as the main 
theme. If curtailed of the Lower Congo e.\- 
periences, I can not as yet feel assured that it 
will extend to two volumes. I have six note- 
books loaded with matter extremely interest- 
ing. Three long chapters are already written. 
I have a number of most interesting photo- 
graphs of scenery, sketches of incidents, etc.. 



L la H T 

and maps will be a prominent feature. I 
hope it will be ready in May. Of course I 
cannot entertain any proposition to lecture 
anywhere, whatever may be the price offered. 
It. is absolutely impossible this season, at 
least." 

Boston is represented as bitterly disap- 
pointed at New York's indifference to Ibsen. 
In revenge, the Boston papers indulge in 
snubs and sneers, such as attributing New 
York's indifference to preoccupation with the 
question, "Who was Browning i'" 

Evidently a sense of the humorous is not 
confined, in this country at least, to the pro- 
fessional humorists. Witness the following 
from the wise and witty Critic : 

"I suppose Browning's latest volume of 
poems has been read with great care and at- 
tention by the critics, to say nothing of per- 
sons of less penetration ; and yet there is but 
one individual, so far as I know, who has dis- 
covered in it a distinct reference to our great 
American humorist. When I add that the 
individual referred to is Mr. T. B. Aldrich, 
there will be less wonder that he is alone in 
the discovery, and the fact that the subject of 
it is his friend, Mark Twain, gives a peculiar 
felicity to this literary 'find.' The reference in 
'Asolando' is on page 62 of Houghton, Mifflin 
& Co.'s edition. 

'Tito and Titian, to pronounce again— 

Ask Jier who linows more, I or tiie great Twain, 

Our colorist and drauglitsman !' 

Mr. Aldrich has written to Mark Twain about 
thiscomplimentary reference to him by Brown- 
ing, and it will be interesting to learn what 
sort of an impression it has made on the sus- 
ceptible nature of the author of 'The Inno- 
cents Abroad.' " 

The same writer remarks anent the munici- 
pal purchase of a letter of Columbus for the 
public library for $2900, that it cannot be 
called extravagance, there being no chance to 
get further Latin or other letters from the 
same author, and no later ones being fraught 
with the interest of that discovery which is so 
superlatively interesting to us. 



About Exercise. 



Every one, young and old, should take some 
kind of light calisthenic exercise in his room, 
in the morning before he dresses, and again at 
night after the cumbersome trappings of the 
day have been laid aside. Among these, full 
expansion of the lungs, repeated 10 or 12 
times, with the arms extended, is of paramount 
importance. Then various movements, made 
with vigor and precision, intended to strengthen 
the muscles of the chest, waist, back, arms, 
and legs, and give firmness, roundness, and a 
fine poise to the whole body, should be em- 
ployed. A well-carried head set above an 
erect, springy figure, straight, supple, and just- 
ly proportioned, is enough to make any one 
attractive and distinguished looking, and goes 
much further toward making him appear good- 
looking than anything else. The question is 
often asked, "Is it a good thing for folks to take 
gymnastic exercise ?" The reply involves 
more than a monosyllable yes or no. To be- 
gin with, the previous training and habits of 
activity of the person will have much to do 
with determining his present fitness for any- 
thing but the lightest gymnastic exercises. It 



is most unwise to encourage or allow a person 
who has not been inurod to any severe p'lysi- 
cal effort to undertake the heavier work of a 
gymnasium, until his ability to do so has been 
proved by long and careful attention to the 
lighter forms of prescribed exercise. That 
most people who have no organic defects, are 
capable of finally reaching a standard of phy- 
sical excellence which will render the severest 
tests of the gymnasium not only devoid of 
danger, but beneficial, we have ample proof. 
This condition, however, must be achieved 
gradually, and through the most painstaking 
and persistent effort. 

Women's gymnasiums are now doing more 
towards keeping our women young than any 
other one cause, and the countless good they 
do besides is sufficient reason for their patron- 
age by all intelligeiTt women who lead seden- 
tary lives. Few women have a harmonious 
exercise of their muscles every day and for 
this the gymnasium is most important as well 
as for the digestion, the circulation, and to 
keep the functions of the body in their normal 
condition. Walking is not enough, for it is 
considered elegant for a lady to keep her arms 
at her side or her hands in a muff or anywhere 
but swinging with the natural movement of her 
body. Hence, where is her chest exercise, 
where her chance to strenghten the muscles of 
the upper part of her body ? Does the grow- 
ing girl not need as much physical training as 
the young boy ? Women need not complain 
that they look old before their time when they 
sit passively at home and never go about any 
sort of healthful exercise. Better far is it for 
them to take some of the housework upon their 
shoulders as a duty to their health, than to 
lead perfectly impassive lives as far as their 
muscles are concerned. The nervous system 
in our American women who live such exciting 
lives requires a harmonious development of 
the muscles. 

The following compliment, though deliv- 
ered in plain prose, must have been highly 
acceptable to the brave soldier to whom it was 
addressed. When Frederick the Great of 
Prussia dined with the Emperor of Germany 
on the occasion of their meeting at Neiss, 
Gen. Landohn, who with other oflicers had 
been invited to join the party, was about to 
place himself on the side of the table opposite 
the king ; but Frederick prevented his doing 
so, and pointing to a seat beside himself, ex- 
claimed: "Come and sit here, general, for I 
have always wished to see you at my side, 
rather than facing me." 



Some kings have died in mean fashion. 
Did not a dish of lampreys kill Henry I.? 
and was not overeating fatal to George I. ? 
"Pallid death pressing upon him," as Thack- 
eray says ; "in his travelling chariot on the 
Hanover road. What position can outride that 
pale horseman ?" Both Frederick III., Em- 
peror of Germany, and his son, Maximilian I., 
died through excessive indulgence in melons ; 
Baldwin IV., King of Jerusalem, died of lepro- 
sy ; Philip 111. of Spain, of the etiquette which 
left him to be roasted before a flaming brazier 
because the official could not be found whose 
special function it was to remove it, and Stan- 
islas Leczinski, King of Poland, of the terrible 
burns he received through his dressing-gown 
accidentally taking fire. 



L I Ci H T 



Celtic River-Names. 



BY R. B. CLARK. 



In glancing over the map of the British 
Isles, one's attention, perhaps, is attracted by 
the heterogeneous character of the local 
names. The geographical nomenclature is as 
varied as the face of the country. The reason 
of this is obvious. It might be expected that 
the various people who have lived there, even 
from pr;c-historic times, would have a varied 
speech, and would leave the evidence thereof 
upon the face of nature. As far as we know, 
all people have been wont to attach appella- 
tions to localities by which to designate them. 
And it was more common long ago than at 
present :— it is always more common among 
the unlettered than among the learned, that 
these designations have a meaning, which may 
be understood, and is, in a measure, descrip- 
tive. Notice that almost every snow-capped 
mountain on the globe has a name, meaning 
"white" or "snow" in the language of the 
name-givers. 

It is well known, how that in times long 
past, wave after wave of population has swept 
from' the mysterious depths of the east, over 
Europe, driving on people after people from 
the lowlands to the fastnesses of the moun- 
tains, or into the Western sea. No more 
surely has the tidal flow of that primeval ocean 
left its ripple-marks on the sandstone of the 
valley, than have Ga;lic, Cymric, Roman, 
Saxon, Anglian, Frisian, Norwegian, Danish, 
Norman and Flemish peoples left their stamps 
on the once shifting, but now indurated sands 
of language. The student reads that 
language to-day. it opens to him the win- 
dows of the past. Through those windows he 
gets glimpses into the prs-historic world. In 
the darkness of that primeval sky twinkle a 
myriad of local names from languages no longer 
spoken. They tell us of vanished nations,— of 
peoples that have left no other records :— not 
pyramids, nor temples, nor tombs, nor science, 
nor myths, nor hieroglyphcis, nor characters 
cuneiform. The staccato names they affixed 
to the rivers and mountains and prominent 
natural features are alone their deathless 
literature. How easy to imagine that the 
winds in those mountains to-day, or in the 
winter midnight, moan and lament for the 
memory of the past ! How easy to conceive 
that those rivers, and down-flowing streams, 
murmur still, on^summer evenings, the voices of 
denationalized or e.xtirpated nations ! 

Yes, time will not efface their record alto- 
gether. 

"Linked with tliese names those streams will be, 

Most faithful to their memory ; 
And till Time's latest breath is spent, 
Will stand their lasting monument." 

It is noticeable that throughout England, 
Ireland and Scotland almost every river name 
is Celtic. River-names are always the oldest of 
local names, and indicate the first dwellers in 
any region. (When we can go no further, we 
put a period by saying that the aboriginals 
were autochthonous, or indigenous, or born 
of Adam.) If we are right, then, the Celts are 
the oldest race in the British Isles, but though 
Celtic names are scattered all over the islands 
indicating that once the Celts were dominant, 
and their language prevailed throughout the 



country, — both tlie Gadhelic branch in tlie 
north and west, and the Cymric farther south ; 
yet to-day the Celtic speech survives only in 
the extreme west. 

It has been stated above that names applied 
by a primitive people have always each a 
meaning, which the language of the name- 
giver explains. Let us proceed. In those 
early ages, when there was no knowledge of 
geography, scarcely any intercommunication, 
no maps or outlines of country, people had 
little knowledge of the worid beyond the sight 
of home. Whole tribes then might have no 
acquaintance with only one considerable river. 
This they would call "The Water;" or "The 
River" — as people to-day, living near the Con- 
necticut would speak of going over "The 
River;" or near Boston, would speak of going 
to "The City," or as a large family of children 
would all say "Mamma," using a common and 
not a proper name, and none of them thinking 
of only one river, or city, or mother. Precisely 
so, throughout the country of which we speak, 
and largely throughout Europe, and 
probably throughout the worid, have 
rivers been named. Now in the Celtic 
language there are five chief words for "water" 
or "river." From these with their dialectic 
changes has almost every important river of the 
British Isles been named, and the statement 
may be extended very largely to include con- 
tinental Europe. 

To illustrate, let us take one example. "Esk" 
is one of the words in the Gaelic and Erse 
dialects which mean "water" or "river." 

Let us examine Bradley's Atlas. We find 
an Esk in Donegal County, Ireland; also, 
one in Dumfries, Scotland. In Devonshire, 
there is an Esk, but changed through the Ro- 
man Isca to Exe. This river names localities 
Ex-mouth, (Saxon, mut/i, mouth)— "river- 
mouth." Ex-eter, (Norse, seter, settlement)— 
"river-settlement." Ex-moor, (Saxon, moor, 
marsh)— "river-mansh." Ex-ton, (Saxon, tun or 
ton, town, originally, "a place surrounded by 
palisades," an inclosure")— "rivertown." Ex. 
minster, (Saxon, minster, monastery)— "river- 
monastery." There is an Esk in Yorkshire, 
which gives name to Eg-ton (Esk-tnn, town)— 
"river-town." An Esk is found in Cumber- 
land. There are two Esks in Edinburgh 
county. There are also two Esks in Farfar 
county, one of which gives name to Glen Esk, 
(Gaelic, ^/£-«, glen) "river-glen;" also, to Esk- 
mount (Saxon, iiiunt, mount,)— "river-mount," 
(on elevated ground.) 

Again we find Easky (a dialectic variation) 
in Sligo, Ireland, an Esker in Kings county. 
There is an Usk (Welsh for Esk) in Breck- 
nock, Wales, upon whose left bank is located a 
town, Usk. 

An Eskle is found in Herefordshire. Es- 
thwaite, (Norse, thwaite—z. forest clearing, a 
glade)— "river-glade,) and Ease-dale, (North- 
umbrian, dale, valley)— "river-valley," are also 
found. The Is-hnxn (Gaelic, burn, stream)— 
"river-stream," is a tributary of the Stratford 
Avon; also Ease-burn, (same meaning) a 
tributary of the Esk in Yorkshire. This word 
is found in Thames (tam-ese) (Sanscrit ? tam- 
broad)— "broad-river." 

In Middlesex we find the form Ux, and Ux- 
bridge (a significant name) located by it. In 
Somerset we find it Axe, and Axbridge is by it. 
Farther south, at East Devonshire one finds an 



^r 



Axe, upon which is situated .Xxniinsler (river- 
monastery.) Also, Hann-ock-burn, (Gaelic, 
ban, white, Celtic, ock for esk. Gaelic, burn, 
stream) — "white-river stream," in Sliding, 
famous in Scottish history, is situated on a 
rivulet of the same name. (Properly, like 
proeliuin ad Trebiain, the battle at the Ban- 
nockburn. 

And so one might go on with river-names 
indefinitely. Only one has been taken for illus- 
tration, and that by no means carried out. 
The Welsh afon, Celtic, avon, would unfold a 
similar list; or the WeLsh i^/wr, Gadhelic, /tv, 
or the Welsh gwy or wy, or the Gaelic, rhe or 
rhin, or the Gadhelic don (all meaning water), 
which last will enlighten the student, in a de- 
gree, on some interesting primeval myths — 
(themselves fruitful subjects for study.) which 
Hesiod has transmitted to us in his "History of 
the Origin of the World." 



Words of Others. 

New Nationalism. 

The substance of this new nationalism is 
only an old idea in a slightly new form and 
may be put in two propositions ; — First, "the 
union of the masses for the benefit of the 
masses," and, second, the "eventual national- 
ization of industry and the placing of the live- 
lihood of the people under the national 
guarantee." Are we not plainly pushing the 
application of these principles farther and 
farther in our legislative and administrative 
practices.' Are we not looking to the govern- 
ment more and more every year to guarantee 
us our livelihood.' We may not realize the 
tendency. If it is not quite true to say that 
we look to the government for the absolute 
guarantee of a livelihood, it is certainly true 
that we look to it to give us all the fitness and 
ability to earn a livelihood. Our sy.stem of 
training children has been greatly modified 
from the original idea of the free public school, 
and always in the direction of putting more of 
the responsibility of education upon the gov- 
ernment and less upon the parents. The 
nationalistic tendency in this respect is to be 
seen not alone in the notion of national educa- 
tion, which, despite the failure of Blair's par- 
ticular scheme, is still widely favored. It is to 
be seen in changes, effected or asked for, in 
the local school system. The government has 
not only taken the burden of training children 
off the shoulders of parents, but in some in- 
stances it has undertaken to furnish all pupils 
with free text-books, and in one city it is now 
proposed to furnish them with free luncheons. 
The steps are not many between that and the 
entire care and bringing up of all the children 
of the country by the government, somewhat 
after the manner of chickens in an incubator. 
— Providence Journal. 
Business Electricity. 

It is difficult to find an industry for which, 
where power is used under a system of dis- 
tribution, the electric motor is not eminently 
qualified. A striking instance of its versatil- 
ity has just been recorded in Minneapolis, 
where the motor not only runs the sewing- 
machines in an overalls factory, but does all 
the cutting. More than this, the current 
wamisthe irons that do the pressing on the 
gooAs.— Electrical U 'or I J. 



15 



A Natural Mistake. 



BV MARIA I. JOHNSTON. 



"I'll see your sister safely home, captain," 
said Mr. Wheeler, "you can remain in the de- 
pot and wait for your friend." 

Gracious, what a lucky chance ! After 
watching and waiting for weeks my opportun- 
ity had arrived. The train would not reach 
our station for an hour, and all that time I 
was to be tete-k-tete with Mr. Wheeler. He 
was a well-to-do bachelor of 45, and I a 
maiden lady of — but what use can there be in 
writing it, no one would suppose so ! Why 
should I tell on myself? 

I had not been a guest in my brother's 
house two days, when my sister-in-law said in 
my hearing: "It is a shame that Mr. Wheeler 
don't get married. He has a respectable in- 
come, and a home that might be made beauti- 
ful by a proper e.xercise of taste." 

I don't know what came over me, I never 
felt such an interest in a man in my life. 
"Has he ever been married ?" I asked. 
"No," answered Georgiana, "and I don't be- 
lieve he ever will be. He was in a foreign 
country for many years, and coming home 
everything seemed strange to him. He said 
one day, that he had put it off too long. I 
dare say he has some very disagreeable pecu- 
liarities. Men of his age generally do have if 
they remain unmarried." 

"Would not a devoted wife adapt herself to 
them ?" I asked (I've always thought a woman 
should be like the ivy — very clinging, but easy 
to train). 

"I wonder what Paul would have been if he 
hadn't met me ?" said Georgiana, talking at ran- 
dom, and ignoring my question. "Quite un- 
pleasant. Just as peculiar as Mr. Wheeler. 
No, no ! men had better marry early or not at 
all. I can't imagine what sort of a woman 
would suit Mr. Wheeler. 

My sister-in-law was not a discerning woman. 
She was seldom struck with the fitness of 
things. I said nothing more but walked 
down the lane and looked over the fence at 
the premises of the gentleman we had just 
been discussing. Ah me ! How plain the 
want of woman's care ! The vines needed 
training, the rose bushes pruning, the curtains 
looping. I turned away sick at heart. 

Two weeks after that, I was introduced to 
Mr. Wheeler at a picnic. He was a tall, hand- 
some man, with iron grey hair, and oh such a 
smile ! He was acting as escort to young 
Ella McCabe. She dragged him off, though I 
felt certain he was bored. At lunch we sat 
side by side. There was something so pointed 
in the way he offered me a sandwich I was 
afraid it would attract attention, and 1 blushed 
crimson. I hoped his sensitive nature was 
not pained when I declined. Georgiana in- 
sisted on spreading mustard on those sand- 
wiches and I knew eating one would impart an 
unbecoming red to my nose. A lady who 
sees she has made an impression on a gentle- 
man, and that his happiness is involved, 
shoud certainly look pale. 

In the afternoon I withdrew from the com- 
pany, and sat down beside a tree to reflect. 
Two thoughtless girls joined me and began a 
light, rambling conversation. "I believe you 
are struck with old Wheeler," said a saucy- 



looking piece to Ella McCabe, "pray how 
much money has he ?" 

"Hardly enough to pay me for marrying 
him," said Ella, "besides, if I sell myself, 
it shall be to an older man, who won't 
be so long in getting out of the way." 
It was thus that these unfeeling girls ex- 
changed sentiments. By and by they wan- 
dered off, and soon afterwards I saw ap- 
proaching me Mr. Wheeler. Was he not 
wrong to make me so conspicuous in such a 
crowd ? I felt terribly embarrassed when he 
said : — 

"Miss Forbes, your brother thinks you will 
not mind lending your bay horse to my friend, 
Mr. Sutton, and taking a place in my carriage 
when we start home. Will you oblige me so 
far as to do so ?" 

I murmured "yes," and then fearing he 
might speak further, rose and led the way to 
our family group. The presence of not only a 
third but a fourth party kept us apart during 
our drive. I was afraid Mr. Wheeler would 
lose patience, I put all my soul in my eyes and 
looked beseechingly at him. He feigned not 
to understand me, and asked me if I felt like 
having a chill. 

For days everything went against us. I 
had one of my sick headaches, brought on 
by the execrable quality of Georgiana's tea, 
and made a thousand times worse by the cry- 
ing of her baby. Mr. Wheeler no doubt 
called, but they were all unfeeling and did not 
inform me. After I recovered it rained. 
Everything conspired to keep us apart. 

Things stood just this way, on the after- 
noon when Mr. Wheeler took me from my 
brother's side, and handed me into the car. I 
should have chosen the mossy bank, or the 
vine-clad harbor for our interview, but fate 
had decided differently, and 1 must submit. 

I need not repeat his opening remarks 
about the state of the weather, and the prob- 
able yield of the fields. I imagined he was as 
impatient of conventionalities as myself, and 
was not unprepared when he said : — 

"1 was at your brother's some time since. 
Miss Forbes, and hoped to meet you. To be 
frank with you, I had a special reason for de- 
siring a few moments' conversation." 

I said the days had seemed very long since 
we parted. He said certainly, of course, day 
after to-morrow would be the longest in the 
year. 

"Are you going away ?" I asked in alarm. 

"No, indeed," he answered in some sur- 
prise. 

How could I have so misunderstood him? 
of course he was not going, without I drove 
him off by positive cruelty. He resumed : — 

"I have a proposal to make to you, Miss 
Forbes?" 

My heart stood still. I could make some 
allowance for his impatience, but this was 
really very abrupt. I expected soft words and 
gentle glances, and slight pressures of the 
hand, and here he had omitted all and come 
directly to the point. I should have answered, 
but I did not. He continued: — 

"Perhaps I should have spoken to your 
brother first." 

What high-bred consideration ? Perhaps he 
should have done so, but I would not torture 
him with unnecessary delay. I said in a chok- 
ing voice : — 



"Speak, Mr. Wheeler. Tell me all." 

"Do you feel unwell? Shall I open a win- 
dow? You must have fatigued yourself." 

"Speak, Mr. Wheeler," I said, "I will con- 
trol myself." 

"I know," he said, "that it takes a lady 
some time to make up her mind." 

"I will nerve myself. I will decide at once." 
I spoke with energy. 

"Then my proposal is just this. I've taken 
an uncommon fancy to your bay horse, and if 
you'll trade her for my roan, I'll give you $2^ 
to boot." 

I did feel sick, I did request Mr. Wheeler to 
open a window. 

It was all for the best, my maltese cat 
never would have learned to agree with his 
Newfoundland dog. 



About Folks. 



Mr. E. T. Kirschbaum, of North Grafton, 
who published some time ago a paper-covered 
edition of his poetical efforts, has been good 
enough to send Light a more elaborate edi- 
tion, recently issued from the press of John B. 
Alden, New York, under the title "Herr 
Cherrytree's Prose and Poetry." A portrait of 
the author appears as frontispiece. The gall- 
ing bonds of rhyme and meter have hampered 
"Herr Cherrytree" somewhat, but his ideas 
are good and there are occasional lines in these 
verses which a more pretentious poet might 
not be ashamed to own. There is a homely, 
manly touch to "Peg! Peg! Peg!" and the 
verses in memory of Dr. Felix Matthes bring 
out two lines worth reprinting : — 

"Though many pains thou hast deceived. 
The Great Physician knew thy cure." 

There are something like 50 pieces in this 
little book, and 3s the modest author is a 
working man, who depends upon his hands 
for fighting the battles of life, making his lit- 
erary efforts his pastime only, his unambitious 
work is much more enjoyable than it could be 
if swamped in the self-satisfaction with which 
more pretentious volumes are sometimes put 
forth. 

The statistical report of the Young Men's 
Christian association for February contains 
some interesting figures of attendance, which 
are subjoined : — 

SPIRITUAL. 

No. Average. Total. 

Evening prayers, 11 11 133 

Sunday meeting, A. m., 4 21 84 

Sunday meeting, p. m., 4 244 974 

Workers training class, 48 31 

Requests for prayer, 4 

Professed conversions, 2 

INTELLECTUAL. 

No. Average. Total. 
Penmanship class, 4 12 48 

Book-keeping, 5 7 36 

Shorthand. 41 4 

Reading room. 209 

The attendance at the gymnasium was 278, 
against 299 for the same month last year. The 
attendance at the building was 591 against 696 
for February, i8go. 

It is announced that the new theatre will 
positively open on Monday, May 5. Work is 
being pushed to the utmost, and there have 
been no delays of importance. The attrac- 
tion for the opening night is not yet definitely 
decided upon, but that it will be one of the 
best is assured. 



Notes by a Non-Combatant. 



liV OI-DMAN. 



Light was diffused over Worcester in a 
thoroughly dazzling manner last Saturday. No 
less than 40 newsboys accosted me with 
"Light, sir? Light, sir? — just out! — only 
five cents!" during the course of the day. Hut I 
liad secured one of the first copies printed, 
long before they had put in an appearance on 
the streets, and after a perusal had tucked it 
obscurely away in the nether comer of my 
ulster pocket. When the clamor of the boys, 
whose "name was legion," in their eagerness 
to sell me a copy at every dozen steps or so, 
finally became monotonous, I conceived the 
idea of folding up the one in my possession, 
allowing the word "Light" to loom up from 
the top of my pocket, and the enteiprising little 
fellows then steered clear of me as a ship 
steers clear of a rock-bound coast, having 
sighted the beacon-light. 



I went to church a week ago Sunday night, in 
spite of the blustering weather. The congre- 
gation was composed of just 13 souls, and 
during all of the week, (although I have en- 
deavored to persuade myself that I am not 
superstitious,) every time I have chanced to 
pass an insurance office, it was with halting 
steps and an almost irresistible impulse to go 
in and take out a larger policy than the one I 
already liave in possession. 

Despite the meagre attendance, the service 
was one of the most notable it has ever been 
my lot to enjoy. Although it lasted scarcely 
half an hour, no less than four sermons were 
delivered within that time — four beautiful little 
poems — each one pregnant with religious sen- 
timent. The song service was also very im- 
pressive, and the singers lent themselves to it 
with much fervor. The empty pews reverber- 
ated a sweet concourse of sacred melody, 
which to the handful of listeners was soul- 
stirring and will be for a long time memorable. 



My friend B has a very sagacious dog. 

He is an English setter, I believe. The canine 
has been taught by his master to perform 
several neat tricks, and the intelligence evinced 
by him in one of these feats is especially 
quaint and amusing. When he wants to be let 
into the house, he confidently stalks up the 
steps to the side door, where there is an an- 
nunciator, and raising himself upon his hind 
legs, with one of his front paws presses upon 
the button. He then drops again upon all 
fours, and calmly waits until his summons is 
answered. 

While standing on the front platform of a 
horse-car, the other day, a passenger, who like 
myself, was finishing an after dinner cigar, 
casually said to the driver, "How's business ?" 
"Driving, sir ; driving," nonchalantly re- 
sponded that individual. I did not even smile, 
for I had read this same joke somewhere 
"long, long, ago." 

It will be interesting to note whether ama. 
teur theatricals will be as much in vogue after 
the new theatre opens as they are at present. 
A number of my young friends have been in- 
terested in the histrionic art this winter, and 
•the few performances I have witnessed were 



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not without merit, and in one or two instances 
the roles sustained were creations worthy the 
"sterner stuff" of the professional player. 



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It is some time now since I attended a dr.a- 
matic performance here in Worcester — a pro- 
fessional performance — and though I do not 
patronize the play over much anyhow, still 1 
eagerly await the opening of the new edifice, 
which, judging from appearances, will be an 
exceedingly beautiful and comfortable place 
of amusement. 



Interior Satisfaction. 

Appetizing Menus That Offer Wide Variety. 
liKKAKFAST. 

Fruit 

Wheat Granules .Sugar and Cream 

Hamburg Steaks Brown Sauce 

French Fried Potatoes 

Cerealine Griddle Cakes Coffee 

LUN'CH. 

Ham Croquettes, from Cold Ham 

Tomato -Sauce 

Cold Slaw 

Canned Fruit Sponge Cake 

Tea 

DINNER. 

Bouillon 
liroiled .Steak Tomato -Sauce 

Mashed Potatoes Kale 

Turnip sprouts French Dressing 

Wafers Cheese 

Moravian Apple Pie 

Coffee 

No. 2. 

BREAKFAST. 

Fruit 

Hominy Sugar and Cream 

Hash on Toast Stewed Potatoes 

Corn Gems Coffee 

LUNCH. 

Chicken Soup (from bones) 

Breast of Veal, roasted 

Stewed Tomatoes Mashed Potatoes 

Lettuce Salad, French Dressing 

Wafers Cheese 

Chocolate Parfait 

Coffee 

No. 3. 

BREAKFAST. 

Fruit 

Wlieat Granules Sugar and Cream 

Breaded Chops, Tomato Sauce 

Fried Potatoes 

Rice Muffins Coffee 

LUNCH. 

Rice Croquettes Cream Sauce 

Salad of Oyster Crabs 

Wafers Cream Cheese 

Chocolate 

DINNER. 

Cream of Pea Soup 

Braised Sheep's Tongues, 

Brown Sauce 

Potato Croquettes String Beans 

Pickled Carrots 

Corn Salad, French Dressing 

Wafers Cheese 

Peach Food Sponge Food 

Coffee 



More About Bread. 



THIKU I'AI'ER. 



H V MARIA P A K I, O A , 

.\uthor of " First Principles of Household Matiane- 
nient," " Miss I'arloa's New Cook-Hook," 
" Miss Parloa's Kitchen Com- 
panion," Etc. 



[rol'YRlCIlTED.] 

Potato Bread. 

For three small loaves of bread u.se two 
quarts of flour, about a pint and half a gill of 
water, a heaping teaspoonful of salt, a table- 
spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of but- 
ter or lard, half a pint of sliced potatoes and 
lialf a cupful of liquid yeast, or half a cake of 
compressed yeast. 

After paring and slicing the potatoes put 
them in a stewpan and on the fire. Cover 
with boiling water and cook 12 minutes. Pour 
off the water and mash the potatoes fine and 
light. Now pour a pint and a gill of boiling 
water on the mashed potatoes. Add also the 
salt, sugar, and half the butter or lard. Let 
this stand until blood warm, and then add the 
yeast. If compressed yeast be used, dissolve 
in one-fourth of a cupful of water. Sift the 
two quarts of flour into a warm bowl and stir 
this mixture into it. Mix well in the bowl, 
and then turn out on a floured moulding-board 
and knead for 20 minutes, using as little flour 
as possible. Return the dough to the bowl 
and spread the second tablespoonful of butter 
or lard over it. Cover with a clean towel and 
then with a tin or wooden cover, and set in a 
warm place to rise. If the dough be set at 
eight o'clock in the morning it will be risen by 
half-past one. When it is risen to three times 
its original volume, work it in the bowl or on 
the board for five minutes, and then shape in- 
to loaves and let it rise to twice its original 
size. Bake in a moderately hot oven for 50 
minutes. 
Plain White Bread. 

For three small loaves use two quarts of 
flour, a pint and a gill of water, one table- 
spoonful of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of but- 
ter or lard, half a tablespoonful of salt, half a 
cupful of liqid yeast or half a cake of com- 
pressed yeast. 

Sift the flour into a warm bowl and take out 
a cupful to use in kneading ; then add to the 
flour the salt and sugar. Dissolve the butter 
and lard in a gill of hot water and add a pint 
of slightly warmed water (the whole mixture 
should be about blood warm). Add the yeast 
to this ; if compressed yeast be used, dissolve 
it in a quarter of a cupful of water. Stir this 
mixture into the flour in the bowl and work 
into a dough. Sprinkle the board with flour 
and turn the dough out on it. Knead for 20 
minutes. Return the dough to the bowl and 
spread the remaining spoonful of butter or lard 
over it. Cover, and proceed as for bread 
made with dry yeast cake. 

The present standing army of Great Britain 
may be said to date from the reign of King 
Charles II., although some few of the older 
regiments claim, and with justice, to date back 
to the previous century. Cromwell's army, 
which was disbanded at the Restoration, was 
certainly the best, most disciplined, most sober 
and most highly trained army England ever 
had. 



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Artificial Exteriors. 



Among the many revivals of old styles and 
fabrics, that of the old-fashioned "iron grena- 
dine" will be warmly welcomed by many ladies 
who know its durability. It may be had plain, 
or with alternating stripes of plain satin or 
broad stripes of brocaded satin. It should be 
elaborately trimmed. 

With a black toilet, even if remodelled, a red 
jacket, red slippers, red stockings and a red 
sash or girdle are considered haute iiouz'eaut6. 

Leather is growing in favor for trimmings of a 
certain sort, vests, cuffs and revers being hand- 
somely made of it, in bronze, tan and many 
other shades. 

The present bonnet is an abomination, leav- 
ing face, eyes and most of the head exposed to 
sharp winds. Why does not some sensible 
leader of fashion bring about a headcovering 
that will shield the face? 

English styles are set and severe; French 
modes are graceful, long and clinging. The 
Parisienne dressmaker cuts her skirt to touch 
in front and sweep the street in the back. For 
house a demi-train is madeof the back breadth, 
and the robes of state are as long as wedding 
gowns. 

Nothwith.standing the fight of the dressmak 
ers against buttons, they are slowly but 
surely returning to favor. 

Mistletoe has been adopted by the milliners, 
and it is certainly very pretty. A piquant, be- 
witching face, surmounted by a spray of this 
parasite, would be suggestive of considerable 
raillery, if nothing more. 

There is considerable demand for the Rose- 
bery woollens, which are self-colored, with 
diagonal stripes of Persian designs, so that the 
material may be cut straight, and yet have the 
effect now so fashionable of being made up in 
bias form. 

Tasteful bonnets are made of what is known 
as "Cairo gold," the only garnitures a full bow 
of velvet and short velvet strings cut cross- 
wise, of any preferred color. The new pink 
called Glaieal combines effectively with the 
gold work mentioned above. 

Fashionable bonnet strings are of velvet rib- 
bon, an inch and a half wide. 

The ginghams are in many choice patterns, 
and the prices of the fancy ginghams are lower 
than last year. Some that are extremely 
pretty may be had even as low as 25 
cents, but although said to be fast colors, it is 
not safe to count on washing them, as they are 
pretty sure to shrink. There are many varie- 
ties of checks and plaids with a glossy silk 
finish that are very neat and pretty. 

Black is undoubtedly more in favor than it 
was last year. Black surahs and mohairs are 
being extensively purchased, as well as the 
China or India silks and satines with black 
ground work and white figures. A plain black 
dress is always simple and a most useful pos- 
session. Every woman needs one at least in 
her wardrobe, but it is to be hoped we shall 
never return to the somber fashion which pre- 
vailed, not so many years ago, when it was al- 
most the exception to see anything but black 
on the streets or at an ordinary dress occasion. 

Every-day frocks for little girls are made of 
the inexpensive "outing flannels" in stripes of 
gray, blue and tan with white, and made up 
with gathered or plaited skirts and sailor 



blouses. The blouses have deep collars of 
cashmere the color of the stripe, braided with 
white and tied low on the chest with colored 
ribbons. 

Many beautiful gowns are made on the sim- 
ple dress forms which take all the weight off 
the hips and render a cloth dress something 
else than an absolute burden. It is far better 
than any suspenders or braces, for it hangs 
newly from a perfectly fitted under dress 
which takes the place of extra under clothing, 
and at the same time it supports the form. 
These forms are so graceful and of such good 
proportions that no oddity is apparent in a 
gown made over one. For teachers, or any 
woman who is much on her feet, as well as for 
those who walk much, the dress form is a bless- 
ing to be dwelt upon by those who have 
the welfare of women at heart. It is so easy 
to accomplish vital reforms if only one would 
not set up bugbears for oneself. Here in our 
very midst we have had most valuable im- 
provements made for women's underwear in 
which health and comfort are considered scien- 
tifically, but all women of intelligence who 
need first such help do not even take the trou- 
ble to look into the matter, much less adopt 
these improvements. When tired backs 
and aching limbs bring the necessity to mind, 
then do women look to hygienic clothing. 
How much better the ounce of prevention in 
this case ? 

Beautiful jerseys are imported in jacket 
form with a fancy or plaid waistcoat, which 
are more eloquent and dressy than anything 
seen here before. The Directoire and Empire 
jacket model is followed often, with the wide 
double lapels and a very becoming jersey does 
it make. Gold braid is set quite on the edge 
giving a pretty finish. 

Various beautiful embroidery trimmings for 
spring and summer wear have metal work on 
lace grounds. These present most elegant 
and sumptuous effects and will be among the 
handsomest garnitures for the summer cos- 
tumes of silk. The wrought work is too heavy 
for any except a rather substantial foundation 
and it should not be used too lavishly to look 
well. Very lovely floral designs are to be seen 
in this lovely trimming. Gold, silver and tin- 
sel in color are used to simulate the true color- 
ing of these various designs. Fancy passe- 
menteries in sets are also favoritetrimmings. 

Silken fabrics have the right of way this sea- 
son for all sorts and conditions of costumes. 
As so many old-fashioned, quaint, dark effects 
are seen in the foulards and India silks there 
will be no dilificulty in finding what is suitable 
and pretty as well. Palm leaf designs and 
bordered silks in India weaves makes most at- 
tractive gowns and are never very expensive or 
difficult to make as simplicity above all things 
is the thing to consider and they are self 
trimmed always. Rose Rouge. 



Light Science. 

Some of the conclusions of science would 
indeed be appalling but for their practical 
harmlessness. Thus, the geologists assert 
that if the continents and the bottom of the 
ocean were graded down to a uniform level, 
the whole world would be covered with water 
a mile deep, so much greater is the depression 
of the ocean bed tlian the elevation of the 



existing land. 

The highest velocity that has been imparted 
to shot is given as 1626 feet per second, being 
equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds. The velocity 
of the earth at the equator, due to rotation on 
its axis, is 1000 miles per hour, or a mile in 3.6 
seconds ; and thus, if a cannon ball were fired 
due west, and could maintain its initial velocity, 
it would beat the sun in its apparent journey 
round the earth. 

The fast fishes, according to Prof. G. B. 
Goode, are of pointed build with close-lying 
fins, and are frequently predacious. Food 
fishes, on the other hand, are often slow and 
easily caught, but are correspondingly prolific. 
The actual speed of fishes is not as yet well 
known ; but as dolphins have been observed to 
swim round and round a steamer going at full 
speed, their pace is estimated at 20 miles an 
hour or more. 

Night or morning fogs, or in winter per- 
sistent fogs, often signify a calm and settled 
condition of the air and the prevalence of fair 
weather. Heavy dews, especially in the 
autumn, likewise portend fine weather, but 
usually of shorter duration. Fags appear 
usually in one of two conditions — either the 
air is nearly saturated up to a considerable 
height, or else is unusually dry, except in a 
stratum immediately above the ground. 

In German experiments during the last two 
seasons copperas increased the yield of vines 
and protected the vineyards against parasites, 
increased the yield of clover and lucerne from 
-S t" 33 P^i" cent., increased the yield of pota- 
toes, and tended to suppress potato disease 
when applied to the young plants, and gave 
good results with grain. 

The discovery of gold in a recent meteoric 
stone suggests some very interesting queries. 
It is commonly believed that meteors are frag- 
ments of other worlds accidently thrown out- 
side their usual orbit into that of the earth. 
The question is whether this gold where it 
originated was the cause of as much strife and 
contention as it has for ages been on this 
planet. 

A very reliable sign of stormy weather is 
when the sun rises clear and shortly goes into 
a cloud. This indicates the presence of 
rapidly condensing moisture in the atmosphere, 
which is likely to soon fall as rain. A lurid 
color of the sky at sunrise, halos aroand the 
sun and moon, "a rainbow in the morning," 
and the "sun drawing water" are due to the 
same cause, and are all omens of stormy 
weather. 

The atmosphere is at all times charged with 
dust particles to a degree which it is difficult 
to realize. The purest air tested by Mr. 
Aitken, previous to his measurements on the 
top of Ben Neqis, contained about 34,000 dust 
particles to the cubic inch. This was on the 
Ayrshire coast. In every cubic foot there 
would be 35,232,000 particles, and in a 
horizontal column of 1000 feet 35,232,000,000 
particles. It is manifest that a condensation 
upon a small proportion of these, or an agglom- 
eration of a small proportion into larger groups, 
or a momentary adhesion by electric attraction, 
would suffice to produce optical effects. 

That part of the Tower of London where 
the two princes were confined a nd murdered 
is no longer shown to visitors. 



Oratorio in London. 



Good Friday fell upon Primrose day, last 
year, making the sacred day doubly so to the 
consen-ative churchmen. The Lenten course 
of oratorio came to a glorious ending in the 
Albert hall, that evening, with a presentation 
of the "Messiah" before an audience filling 
near every seat in the immense amphitheatre. 
Every one, from " 'Arry and 'Arriet," paying 
all they could for cheap stalls, to royalty, pay- 
ing nothing for comfortable bo.xes, was there. 

The soloists were Mmes. Nordica and Cole, 
Messrs. Cooke and Watkyn-Mills. The men 
sung their parts very well, but no better than 
that. Mrs. Cole has gained a refinement in 
singing and stage presence since she appeared 
here, and now that Mmes. Patey and Sterling 
are giving up a good deal of work, Mrs. Cole 
is taking first place among the London con- 
traltos. Too much cannot be said of Mme. 
Nordica's conscientious work. With the true 
artistic spirit she felt each word and number, 
connecting and delivering all with a fervor 
supposed to belong only to Albani — the suc- 
cessor in oratorio to Parepa and Tietiens. In 
the ensemble singing her voice was always dis- 
tinguishable, but never forced into promi- 
nence. Her pronunciation was distinct, her 
phrasing natural. When she rose to sing, "I 
know that my Redeemer liveth,'' her classic 
gown, setting off her beautiful face and bear- 
ing, made her the ideal to pronounce the 
assuring words. The first line of the inspired 
aria was given out in a way almost startling. 
There was not a doubt but that she "knew," 
and did not imagine the possibility, of the 
truth she was uttering, in the way so many 
sopranos present it to us. Her combining of 
words, music, manner and feeling was so im- 
pressive that instead of the noise of approval, 
silent assent could be felt uniting the vast 
audience. 

The chorus work was performed in a fin- 
ished manner by Mr. Barnby's choir of looo 
voices. Even with this vast number they did 
not surpass our association, save in the tenor 
parts, and here the lack of nasal quality so 
common in American tenor voices, was pleas- 
antly noticeable. The climate, however, has 
much to do with this, for voices harsh or 
stxident in America, become generally agree- 
able in England. 

The band was inferior to that of Mr. Ni- 
kisch, but the powerful organ formed a tre- 
mendously noble foundation of tone, and the 
peculiar combinations made some of the reci- 
t.itives new creations. 

On Saturday afternoon, June 22, a festival 
production of "Elijah," was given at the Crys- 
tal palace. Before that time only Handel's 
works had been done on this immense scale at 
the palace, so it was with fear that "Elijah" 
was given, but the success of the undertaking 
proved that Mendelssohn's masterpiece was as 
dear to the people's taste as was their "own" 
(adopted !) composer. At precisely 3 o'clock, 
Albani, Patey, Lloyd and Foli took their 
seats amidst cheers that must have been in- 
spiring to the famous artists. The band of 
500, under Mr. Mann's direction, gravely an- 
nounced, with the four powerful chords, "Eli- 
jah." Foli gave tlie "decree" powerfully, and 



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set a high standard for the performance to 
follow. From this until the last number the 
tnan who has interpreted all classes of music 
to London concert-goers for 30 seasons, por- 
trayed "Elijah" in a manner that caused one 
to forget his age. Mme. Patey's numbers 
were beautifully given, lacking at times the 
abandon one enjoys, but ever showing a true 
insight of theme and music, as well as of her 
own .strong and weak points. Her arias, "Woe 
unto them," and "Oh! Rest in the Lord," 
were thoroughly finished and in a hall like 
ours would have been successes never to have 
been forgotten— though she had the good 
taste to use the score throughout. Lloyd's 
pure, sweet and resonant voice was perfect in 
"If with all your hearts," the quiet, assuring 
music and words just suiting his style. Al- 
though probably the greatest living tenor for 
oratorio, he occasionally forces his voice. 
This, of course, tires him and his audience. 
In his last number, "Then shall the righteous 
shine," his voice showed the effects of his 
hard work in the earlier parts, but neverthe- 
less he acquitted himself in such a way that 
the applause interruped the music for the sev- 
eral moments consumed by his bows. 

Of Albani what can one say.? 

She is beyond criticism and almost above 
praise. Her perfect voice production shows 
Lamperti's pure Italian training. Think of 
the wonderful control over breath and muscle 
one must have to sing as freshly in the final 
quartet of this long oratorio as in the first 
solo. Her voice reached without the least 
apparent exertion every ear in the audience of 
20,000 gathered in the great un-walled concert 
room! In the duet with "Elijah" she sang 
with great feeling, the tones of wonder in the 
first part giving way to those of full belief and 
joy in the later measures in an inde.scribalile 
way. The youth's music she delivered inno- 
cently, sometimes using half voice, but rising 
to the height of boyish excitement when she 
exclaimed in her full clearly-ringing "A" above 
the staff, "The storm rusheth louder and 
louder." The pity and anguish depicted by 
her voice in the noble "Hear ye, Israel," in 
such heart-broken and heart-wringing tones, 
can never be forgotten when one has heard 
her. Of course the vowel "e" was the only 
one sounded, and the crisp "r" at the end of 
the word was touched just enough to round 
out the searching tone. Though tlie second 
part of the aria was as finished as the first, 
the da capo ending left the effect of the in- 
junction to "Hear !" impressed upon us all. 

of the chorus and band only good can be 
said. The volume of tone from 3000 voices 
cannot be expressed in words. Their fine 
work was noticeable in the early chorus, 
"Blessed are the men who fear Him." In the 
"Baal we cry to thee," they reached almost the 
perfection of soloists, while with the full organ 
and band in the "Thanks be to God," nothing 
could be desired. Walls of water like those 
from broken reservoirs came pouring down 
upon the audience from the stage, so deep 
and strong that we were forced to stand up to 
applaud. The last chorus was of the same 
gigantic power and so roused the audience 
that when they joined in "God save the 
Queen," (instead of God bless Mendelssohn.) it 
was dealt with as though the "fine auld leddy" 
herself was responsible for all we'd heard. 



21 

Think of it! Albani, Nordica, Whitacre, 
Sterling, Cole, Glenn— all of London's singers 
are Americans, yet we must listen to them 
there to hear them at their best, and try to 
satisfy ourselves when at home, with singers 
only fit for "at homes." Most of these song- 
birds are visiting us now, others arc coming. 
Can't we capture one or two for September? 

Words of Others. 

The Grip and the Doctors. 

Now tliat the epidemic of influenza is over, 
we trust that the poor tired doctors will have 
a rest. It is really too bad to learn 
that "our doctor made 140 visits yes- 
terday," also, "our doctor is very busy, and 
has not .slept for 14 nights." Too busy 
by far. How do our patients find out all tliis 't 
But .seriously, if the grip had lasted much 
longer, it might have killed off all our best 
men. We hope this good man who owes him- 
self 14 nights' sleep will soon catch up, 
that tlie poor man who "has not had his 
clothes oft" for a week" has had a bath, 
and that the 140 daily patients 
of the other unfortunate overworked man are 
still alive to appreciate his herculean labors. 
Take care, doctor ! Either a pillar of salt or 
an obituary is in waiting. — Medical Record. 
Common Sense. 

Common sense is only aliigh tide of thought- 
fulness rushing in upon the homes and streets 
of the people. Common sense is not always an 
exact information, but it is always the most 
rational view of a given case; it implies the 
thoughtfulness of the public ; it stands for a 
new and vast amount of reflection over causes 
and results and principles. What, then, is to 
hinder this sort of sense from becoming really 
common and pressing to their happy issue all 
the great reforms that are going, and some 
others, it may be, which have hardly yet begun 
to be touched by the high tide of a popular 
thoughtfulness? It is not common sense to 
build schools with one hand and saloons with 
the other. It is not common sense in the 
local management of public schools to change 
teachers every term. It is not common sense 
for churches and ministers to "swap horses" 
in the midst of every stream they come to. It 
is not good common sense for those who know 
the go.speI of the salvation through Christ, 
which the world infinitely needs, to be slow in 
heeding the Savior's command, to make it 
known to all the nations. .Should this kind of 
high tide of common sense rush in upon all of 
our schools and colleges, how vast and valuable 
the conseiiuences.— /'/v^i-f.iw- Si^'iiif;. in the 
Advance. 

The feast of Ash Wednesday was instituted 
bv Pope Felix III., A. IX 487. 



James K. Polk is the only man wlio ever 
held the speakership who reached the presi- 
dencv. 



4 TO LET-^ 



A very pleasant, sunny tenement of five rooms 
aud bath room (up one flight), plenty of yard- 
room, lawn, etc., at ccrner Downing street and 
Park avenue. Call at house, or 511 Main 
street. C.F. .MARSH. 



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Inside the House. 



The light in sleeping-rooms should never fall 
directly on the eyes, nor should the rooms be 
either too dark or too light. 

Nothing so quickly restores tone to ex- 
hausted nerves and strength to a weary body 
as a bath containing an ounce of aqua-am- 
monia to each pailful of water. It makes the 
flesh firm and smooth as marble, and renders 
the body pure and free from all odors. 

A round piece cut from worn-out cashmere 
hose, and cat-stitched to the wrong side of the 
knee of children's hose with strong cotton, will 
strengthen them greatly. 

The mending of kid gloves shows far less if 
done with cotton thread than it does if done 
with silk. 

A most excellent recipe for beef tea is to take 
one pound of beef, chopped ; pour over it a 
pint of rich, fresh milk. Boil in a farina kettle 
for three hours ; strain, and season with salt 
and red pepper. Taken hot it is more palata- 
ble than cold. 

Ammonia will frequently restore colors that 
have been spoiled by acids. 

Water should only come to the boiling point 
for making tea or coffee, and not be allowed to 
boil for even five minutes. If you are a 
doubter, try it and convince yourself of the 
difference in flavor. 

A very good shade can be made by taking a 
sheet of cardboard about 14x11 inches in size, 
and cutting out the inside, so as to leave a 
frame half an inch wide, then paste a sheet of 
white tissue paper over it and punch a small 
hole in the two upper corners of the cardboard 
frame, and from each attach a piece of wire 
io>2 inches long, bent at the ends in the shape 
of a hook, so that they can be caught to the 
lamp shade. This softens the light as it falls 
upon the book or paper, and the eyes can be 
used much longer without becoming tired. 

There are two rules of sleeping which every- 
body may adopt without hesitation :— I. Never 
let yourself be awakened by anybody else, but 
wait until you have slept out your sleep. 2. 
Get up as soon as you are awake. If you fol- 
low these two rules the hours of sleep will very 
soon regulate themselves. 

Dr. Mundd says that to the imprudent act 
of getting out of bed without protecting the 
feet, one so commonly committed by women 
without thought of the consequences, may be 
traced many an attack of cellulitis, brought on 
by the sudden though momentary exposure of 
the feet to cold. It has caused more diseases to 
women previously healtliy than could result 
from any other single act of imprudence. 

The linen for the tea table admits of more 
variety and ornamentation. Old guipure lace 
forms a rich finish for the tea table cloth, and 
the napkins, considerably smaller than those 
for the dinner table, are likewise trimmed. 
The regulation doily is just six inches square, 
including fringe or hem. 

Fashion decrees that the three-legged, plush- 
cushioned, long-time piano stool must depart. 
In its place is to be installed the music-chair. 
It is a far more pretentious piece of furniture, 
modelled in old mahogany. The back is 
straight and narrow ; it is cushioned either in 
S&vres blue, old pink or golden brown, and 
fastened to one corner is a bag of either bal- 
sam-buds or orris. 



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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1890. 



No. 4. 



The youth who doesn't find his home at- 
tractive, will as naturally go elsewhere as steel 
will follow the magnet. The gin mills of 
Worcester are not all filled with beats and 
bums. Many of their best customers are 
from the homes of moneyed comfort. So long 
as the lighted saloon is more attractive than 
the fireside, so long will young men go down 
to shame unconsciously boosted into vice by 
those who are bound to save them. Prayer 
alone will not save the boy, but prayer, backed 
by earnest love and work, will do it. There is 
no objection to praying for the wayward boy 
or girl. Christian prayers have worked won- 
ders. Few people over pray ; but the mother 
who expects the Almighty will step in, for her 
sake, to do her work, finds that God is no re- 
specter of laziness. 



Theodore Roosevelt, in his recent speech at 
Harvard college, made some pretty good 
points. Here is one of them : "A man must 
have the capacity of enthusiasm to be of any 
account for anything — whether public or 
private life." Roosevelt is right. One en- 
thusiastic man or woman will accomplish more 
in a day than will two indifferent men or 
women in double the time. Nine-tenths of the 
important doings of life were born of en- 
thusiasm, nursed by enthusiasm, and crystal- 
ized into establishment by plentiful sprinkling 
of the sparkling dew of enthusiasm. An un- 
enthusiastic man is dead whether he knows it 
or not. Nothing really worth doing was ever 
done wholly without enthusiasm, from nomi- 
nating a candidate to launching an iron-clad. 
When the shouts of men were not sufficient 
to wake the echos, men hired a canon to do it 
for them. 

If all of the churches were as cordial as are 
some of the bar-room loafers, the church par- 
lor would materially lessen the majority of the 
saloon population. Strangers will go where 
they are made to feel at home, and the cold 
stereotyped welcome meeted out by some re- 
ligious societies has pushed many a young 
man downward. The sign of "Welcome," 
posted in the hall way, is valueless un- 
less verified by recognizable fact. Light is 
not penning these lines for criticism. Light 
believes in the church, and believes in it so 
much that it writes these lines stimulated by 
knowledge of an actual case, as sad as it is 
true. If some of the churches, and some of the 
firesides, do not furnish the healthy glow of 
generous welcome, what is the poor young 
man to do ? Fortunately there are few of 
these churches, but the stranger in his ignor- 
ance is as likely to pay an initial visit to the 
house of worship where only cold spiritual 
viands are served as he is enter the fifty other 
churches of Christian hospitality. 

The father and mother who cannot gain and 
hold the respect and love of the boy and girl, 
had better apply the whip to themselves than 
to the unfortunate being they are physically 
responsible for. 



The London Society of Authors is at- 
tempting to suppress the amateur novelist. 
"Mr. Kesant recently told the society that if 
the incompetent had one book published he 
was thereby encouraged to go on and utter 
others ;" and "if the society could stop them 
at the beginning it would be a very good thing 
for themselves and a very good thing for liter- 
ature." Blessings upon your head, Mr. 
Besant. Fight it on that line, if it takes a life- 
time. Trouble is the successful novelist often 
wins his success by building a book founded 
upon the unreal, unreally written and 
unworthy altogether. Real, pure literature, 
nowadays, often has to force the market to ob- 
tain quotation. 



Once in a while one sees in Worcester one 
of those pitiable objects : — a fashionably 
dressed child, — an exteriorized object, as awk- 
ward as it is uncomfortable. Some foolish 
mother, backed with a fat pocket-book, has 
placed its misplaced love around the 
suffering infantile body in the shape of clothes 
which fit it as neatly as a shirt fits a manikin. 
It cannot move, it simply wiggles, and in wig- 
gles pass away the life and happiness of child- 
hood. If the poor thing is unfortunate 
enough to live, it becomes a dude, and there 
is nothing in animal life so utterly empty as 
that Darwinian specimen of humanity. 



When a man is a mighty small fellow they 
call him plain Jones ; when he gets to be fairly 
decent, owns a house and wife, and has credit 
at the corner grocery, they speak of him as 
Mr. Jones ; when he gets to be president of 
the United States, they return to first prin- 
ciples and let history repeat itself, by leaving 
off the mister, and he is unplain Jones for- 
ever. How strange it would seem to speak of 
Mr. Shakespeare, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Milton, 
Mr. Adam ! There is one thing that Light 
notices particularly in Worcester ; a man owns 
a big store, has been a member of the Board 
of Aldermen and of the Legislature, may even 
have been president of a bank ; he walks 
down Main street, and half the people who 
know him say : "Hello, Charlie !" "Good 
morning, Charlie !" and the other half may 
possibly add his other name, and say, "Hello, 
Charlie Jones !" "Good morning, Charlie 
Jones!" Judging from the Main street talk 
there are more Charlies, and Johnnies, and 
Jimmies, and Georges, and Tommies in Wor- 
cester than in all the rest of the world put to 
gether. The old-fashioned idea of giving each 
man a title undoulitedly carried the matter to 
disagreeable extreme, and made the task of 
the directory greater than publishing an ency- 
clopoedia, but that extreme is not much worse 
than the one which, if carried much further, 
will annihilate the names of father and mother, 
and give the same term of respect to the 
tip cart driver as is given to the man whose 
white hairs show him to be a respectable vet- 
eran, and one of the early framers of local 
progress. 



It is an era of good taste. The stars of 
society are setting the simplicity of fashion. 
Youth comes in maidenly array so charmingly 
simple, that one is surprised at the power of 
neatness over gorgeousness. The spring bon- 
net is pretty, and towers not loftily, the hat is 
as tasty, and its feathers are not extended ; the 
cloak is plain, and fits; tlie dress is simple in 
its drapery; and better than all, the good- 
looking woman is becoming aware that ostenta- 
tious finery doesn't make a good frame to set 
a pretty face in. 

Worcester's majority for no license, which 
places the city as a testing pivot of public 
opinion, is being repeated in the towns around 
the circle. No license is or will be almost 
universal throughout the county. ■ The eyes 
of prohibitory America are turned Worcester- 
ward. The central county of the state has 
voluntary taken up the heaviest burden of 
civilization. If it carries it on to success it will 
cut many notches in the staff of temperance ; 
if it fails it would be better for temperance if 
it had not been. Worcester cannot over 
estimate her responsibility. She must lead, 
not follow. Her methods of movement must 
be original, earnest, and thorough, and backed 
with reason and common sense, for hot-head 
edness never won, and never will, be the goal 
of the race worthy or otherwise. 

An order is before the Boston school board 
providing that teachers of nine years' constant 
service shall be allowed a vacation of a year 
at half pay. Every family man and woman 
believes that the teacher of their children 
sways over them an influence greater than any 
other outside of the family circle. The 
teacher, to do her duty, must not only be well 
read and intelligent, but she must be physically 
capacitated to stand the strain that comes upon 
her. The clerk may be worn out, the book- 
keeper may be tired, but their infirmities in- 
jure only themselves and tliose connected with 
them, while the tired school teacher injures 
posterity. The young of to-day are the old of 
to-morrow, and soon Worcester will be all of 
new Worcester. The children who are being 
educated to-day, are the ones who will pay the 
expenses of Worcester to-morrow. It makes 
little difference what is done to the tree after 
it becomes old, but it makes a great deal of 
difference how the tree is cared for when it is 
a sapling. The teacher is the paid gardener 
of youth, what she is and what she does, are 
planted firmly in the minds of her scholars 
never to be erased, and if there be any one 
class of laborers who need all the encourage- 
ment that good pay, liberal treatment, and 
good health can give, it is the people who are 
interested in the education of youth. It is a 
pity that many of the present women school- 
teach, waiting for the coming man. The 
teacher should enter her work to stay, but no 
reasonable person can ask any man or woman 
to throw himself or herself into the convent of 
education without paying him or her, a value 
rece'ved or to be received. 




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A Journal of Social 'Worcester and her 
Neighbors. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
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N.\THL C. FOWLER, Jr., 1 Editors and 
FRED E. COLBLRN. ) Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Bumside Building. 

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About Folks. 



The public is cordially incited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people. 



TO OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. 



Light believes in the rising generation : it 
knows that the young folks have minds, sen- 
sible thoughts, and latent originality. It fur- 
ther believes that they should be respected 
and encouraged to develop the stuff that's in 
them. 

Light therefore offers a prize of five dollars 
in gold to the boy or girl who will write the 
best article on "Newspaper Reading for 
Young People.'' 

The conditions of this contest are as fol- 
lows : — 

First : — The writer must be a regular at- 
tendant of some public or private school in 
Worcester or Worcester count)'. 

Second: — The writer or some member of 
the writer's family must be a regvilar subscriber 
to Light. 

Third : — The article must not be less than 
of Soo nor more than ijoo words. 

Fourth : — The article must be written on 
only one side of the paper. 

Fifth : — The article must be presented on or 
before April 28, 1S90. the earlier the better. 

Si.\-th : — The article must be accompanied by 
the name and address of the writer. 

The successful article will be printed in 
Light of May 3d. The next two best articles 
will also be printed, if worthy of publication. 

Please address your articles to Editor of 
Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass. 

Readers of Light will be interested to 
know that at the end of each volume of six 
months, will be printed a complete index of 
principal contents with a title page. Light 
is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book, — afuU record of 
local happenings, as convenient to handle as 
an encyclopedia. 

March 22 : Sun rises at 544 a. m. : sets at 
5.59 P. M. Length of day, 12 hours, 15 minutes. 
Moon, first quarter, 38th., 4 hours, 33 minutes, 
morning, w. 



L I (i H T 

There was quite a commotion in Y. M. C. 
A. circles, last week, when Light's wicked 
printers made it say that there was a brilliant 
german at Association hall on the preceding 
Monday. If it had been Frohsinn hall, the 
error might have passed. Insurance hall was 
meant, of course. 



Nathan Taylor & Co. have issued a 
handsomely gotten up card of annoimcement 
of spring designs. 



Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D.. is to 
preach at the First L^nitarian church, to- 
morrow morning, and at 4 o'clock in the after- 
noon will preach to the South L'nitarian 
society at Pilgrim hall. 



Mr. Will T. Sibley, who is well known in 
social circles, has resigned his position with 
C. B. Eaton & Co., the stationers, where he 
has been for four years past, and left last 
Tuesday for Boston, where he has accepted a 
position with Stone & Forsythe, 26S Devon- 
shire street. Mr. Sibley is to have charge of 
the department of paper boxes and printed 
paper. 



A pleasant musical was given at the resi- 
dence of Mrs. C. yi. Cleveland, on Lincoln 
street, last Saturday aftenroon. Among those 
taking part were Misses Ruth and Florence 
Brewer, violinists. The guests were charm- 
ingly entertained by Mrs. Cleveland and her 
sister, Miss Emily Clapp. 



Miss Carrie M. Sweetzer is \-isiting her 
brother in New York city, and is studying 
china painting at the Osgood Art school. 



Captain George H. Hill, an instructor at 
the New York Military academy, at Comwall- 
on-the-Hudson, was at home early in the week 
on business, and returned after a short stay. 



Mrs. Charles D. Tucker \Tsited relatives in 
Mittineague last week. 



Miss May Montgomery gave a pri\'ate 
whist party for a few friends, Monday night, at 
her home, 19 Sycamore street, those present 
being Dr. Arthur Y. Greene, Messrs. George 
E. Miller, Will W. Lewis and Charles B. 
Sanford: Miss Bertha Fay, Miss Addie 
Goulding and Miss May Fuller, beside Miss 
Montgomer)-. Mr. Sanford won first prize 
and Mr. Miller the booby, for gentlemen ; and 
for ladies. Miss Fuller won first and Miss Fay 
the booby. 



Mr. Rufus M. Taft, the evangelist, has been 
holding meetings at Houghton Street chapel 
three evenings this week and today he goes 
down on Cape Cod, to Barnstable, for a 10 
days' stay. His work is showing good results 
in all parts of the state. 



West Side Fouxderroy : — Oh, we'll play 
house-keeping! I'm to be mother. 

South Side Cl.wdaixe : — Me'U be 
father. 

New Worcester Rob Roy : — I'm cook ! 

West Side axd South Side (m one solid 
phalanx of yells) : — You mean thing ; I won't 
play ; you want to be boss of everything, don't 
vou. 



Mr. George W. Armstrong, the proprietor of 
the railroad dining and news-rooms, writes 
Light as follows: "Have just looked over 
Light. It is handsome, reads well, and I 
predict for it success. Shall give it a place on 
mv counter in the station in Boston." 



Mr. and Mrs. Addison Palmer were among 
the silver wedding celebrants last week, and 
on Friday evening quite a party of relatives 
and intimate friends called on them at their 
home, 25 William street, and made merry 
throughout the evening. There was mtisic and 
general jollity, Mr. Herbert .A. Kimball singing 
solos, while two grandchildren. Master Robbie 
\'aughan and Miss Gertie Palmer, gave a 
violin and piano duet The assembled friends 
had brought \^^th them some substantial re- 
minders of their good-wiU, and these were 
gracefully presented by Capt J. B. Kno.x. A 
French clock from Old South church people, 
a silver cake basket and t«-o easy chairs were 
among the gifts, and a pretty feature of the 
occasion was the presentation to the groom of 
a handsome bouquet by his four-year-old 
grandson. Master Charlie Palmer. Those 
present included several grandchildren and 
three brothers of Mr. Palmer, Mr. Heiuy 
Palmer of this city. Rev. C. M. Palmer of 
Westminster and Dr. H. O. Palmer of Hub- 
bardston. During the evening, Mrs. C. M. 
Palmer read an appropriate poem. Local 
friends present were Capt. and Mrs. J. B. 
Knox, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cundall, Mr. and 
Mrs. Herbert A. Kimball, Mr. and .Mrs. 
Parker G. Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. 
Palmer, Mr. Charles A. \'aughan, Mr. and 
Mrs. E. -A.. Fawcett, Mrs.Abbie W. Hubbard, 
Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Strat- 
ton, and others. 

Itwas ajolly party, — the young, and old, and 
middle aged sons and daughters of New 
Hampshire, at Horticultural hall, Tuesday 
evening. Lucky is the man or woman for- 
tunate enough to bask within its sacred circle^ 
Many a man has married into it, and many 
have been the women who proposed to the 
New Hampshire lads. It was the executive 
committee's reception to the president Dr. J. 
K. Warren, — a sort of surprise party, where 
evervbody brought their lunch. Everybody 
made a speech or paid a forfeit and no forfeits 
changed hands. Then to the high supper in 
the upper hall : — cold tiu-key. cold ham, cold 
cake, cold ice-cream, hot coffee. Dr. J. P. 
Rand temporally presided, and presented 
Dr. Warren with a beautifully arranged 
bouquet of flowers. The presenter rhj-med 
his words in telling verse, with fine effect The 
presentee responded mth feeling. Mr. Daniel 
Seagrave and Mr. G. H. Newhall speechified, 
and Mrs. John L. Allen gave several recita- 
tions which were greatly appreciated and 
heartily encored. Among those present were : 
Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Warren, Miss .Alice War- 
ren, Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Rand, Mr. and Mrs. 
H. O. Shepard and daughter, Mr. and Mr- !! 
N. Goddard, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Lin > 
Mr. W. H. .Andrews, .Mr. and .Mrs. G. R 
land, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. .Abbott and dan. 
Dr. and .Mrs. .A. C. HuU, .Mr. and .Mrs. ( . 
Newhall and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. 
Fellows, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Morrison, Mr. 
and Mrs. J. C. Converse, Mr. and Mrs. 



Daniel Scagrave. Mr. J. E. Fales, Mrs. F. S. 
Phetteplace, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Allen. Mrs. 
TourteUott. Mrs. Nellie Tucker, Miss Bruce. 
Mr. Frank R. Hood, .Mr. Clarence Goddard, 
Mr. C. E. Brooks. 

Several local pulpits were supplied by 
clergymen other than their regular pastors, 
last Sunday, as follows : — At the Old South. 
Rev. George H. Gould, D. D. : at Plymouth, 
Rev. Graham Taylor, D. D., of Hartford : at 
the South Baptist, Rev. C. H. Covell : at the 
First Presbyterian, Rev. Thomas Atkinson, 
New York. 

Worcester people who read Z//c', the famous 
New York humorous weekly, will be interested 
to know that its former editor, Mr. Frank 
Marshall WTiite, has relatives in Worcester, 
and resided here for a time. Mr. White is a 
Buffalo man, but he is a cousin of Mr. David 
Manning, Jr., or rather Mrs. Manning, and 
a relative of Mr. George A. Bigelow. Several 
years ago, when he was a young man just be- 
ginning to take a turn toward literarj- work, 
he was a clerk for Coombs and Bigelow. the 
wool men, on Front street. Afterward, he be- 
came a newspaper man, and when John Ken- 
drick Bangs was captured from Life by the 
Harpers, to run their "funny" departments, 
Mr. White became the editor of Life. Some 
time since he resigned to accept a position at 
the head of the New York Sun's correspon- 
dence bureau in London. The present editor 
of Life is Mr. James S. Metcalfe. 



The Worcester PoK-technic Institute athlet- 
ic association has elected officers as foUows : 
President, Loring N. Famum, "go : ^^ce-presi- 
dent, Edward A. Taylor, 'gi : secretary, C. A. 
Needham, '92 : treasurer, Herbert A. Warren, 
'91 ; directors, Everett J. Lake, Windsor T. 
White, "go: C. H. Dunbar. E. A. Taylor, "gi : 
C. A. Needham, E. H. Fish, "92 : Charles O. 
Rogers, "g3 ; foot-ball manager, Fred A. Bige- 
low, 'gi. The new president, Mr. Famum, is 
one of the most wideawake men in the insti- 
tute, and will undoubtedly work up the ath- 
letic interest to the extent of his ability. He 
has an able corps of assistants. 



Mr. Charles A. Chase, who is one of the 
proprietors of the Gazette, was interested in 
newspapers when he was a small boy, and he 
has the credit of ha\-ing published the first 
"amateur" paper ever issued in Worcester. 
! It was "The Humble Bee," published weekly, 
the size of the pages being about 3x4)4 
inches. 

Captain F. L. Child and Lieutenant Harry 
r B. Fairbanks of the Worcester Light Infantry-, 
s are to act as judges at a prize drill to be given 

at the ball of Co. K., 2d Regt., of Southbridge, 

on Fast Day. 

j Mr. Louie E. Ware, of Cornell university, 
i '92, will arrive home to-day for a vacation of a 
week or more. 



Max of thz Hill : — Hello, down there '. 

'•L\x OF THE Flats : — HeUo, up there ! 

-Max of the Hill: — How"s the fog this 
morning? 

Max of the Fl.ats : — How's your wind ? 

And they both went their way. neither satis- 
fied with the other, and each satisfied with him- 
selL 



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The Ladies' Faith and .Aid socictv of the 
Park Congregational church, met, Tuesday 
afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. Bowker, 
corner of Elm and Russell streets. Sewing oc- 
cupied the daylight hours, and at 7 o'clock the 
"laborers,"" re-enforced by the gentlemen, did 
full justice to a well-ser\ed supper. During 
the evening games were played, interspersed 
by singing by the church choir, a .solo by Mrs. 
E. Sagendorph, several selections by .Misses 
Grace and Annie Smith, and whistling solos 
by Miss Grace Smith. Master Harry Bow- 
ker entertained the company with an e.xhibi- 
tion of stereopticon views. The evening was 
one of informal pleasure. 



The snow-blooming crocus is smiling in the 
frozen Har\-ard street gardensof Judge Dewey 
and the Misses Smith. 



Colonel Greeley, backed by "General 
Prob," announced to innocent New England, 
last Wednesday, that "for New England, 
slightly cooler, fair, followed by showers by 
Thursday morning, westerly ^\-inds."' .A.nd the 
irreverent Boston Globe, as accomplice after 
the "fact," says that "the weather of Boston 
and vicinity, Wednesday, will be partly cloudy 
to cloudy, and local rains may occur : no de- 
cided change in temperature, variable winds. 
The Blue Hill "professors" proclaim that "in- 
dications for Wednesday are fair weather; 
stationery followed by higher temperature."' 
Hereafter the weather indications will be 
printed in Light's funny column, and the 
office boy \\'ill shake dice for changes. 



Mr. Harry W. Waterman, formerly of the 
class of "go, Worcester High school, and now 
at Greenwich academy, Greenwich, R. I., paid 
a visit to friends here a few days ago. 



Mr. Fred L. Dickie, lately with John D. 
Chollar, has accepted a position in the fur- 
niture house of B. A. Atkinson & Co., Boston. 



Talk about getting out blazers and tennis 
sets and lawn dresses so as to be ready for 
summer. That"s nothing I The Pilgrim church 
people have engaged Ouinsigamond park for a 
picnic, Tuesday, July i. 

Sir John Stainer"s "Crucifixion" is to be pre- 
sented at Pilgrim church, tomorrow evening, 
by the choir, and the solo parts wiU be taken 
by Mrs. George A. Bigelow, soprano: Mr. 
George L. Buder, tenor, and Mr. John H. 
Howell, bass. 



Mr. Charles Baker, Jr., has been elected 
class historian by the senior class of the High 
school, and Miss Minnie Jones has been 
elected a member of the executive committee, 
to fill a vacancy caused by resignation. 



Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bums have been 
in Washington for several days. 



LixcoLX Squ.are M.\x : — Shovelled snow 
this morning. 

New Worcester Max : — Don't say ! .Must 
be cold up your way. This morning my little 
girl picked roses in the front yard. There "s 
nothing like li\ing in the south in winter. 



Col. T. S. Johnson, who lias for some time 
resided at No. i Har\ard street, has pur- 
chased of .Mr. George Sumner his estate at 
the junction of Chestnut and Bowdoin streets, 
and will take possession of it as soon as Mr. 
Sumner vacates and enters his handsome new 
brick house adjoining. 



Mr. Henry H. Merriam, secretary of the 
Knowles Loom work.s, gave an interesting lec- 
ture on "Looms and the Art of Weaving," in 
the course of the .\. E. associates, at the Old 
.South church, last .Monday evening. 



Words of Others. 



Food and Health. 

The tendency of the age is toward greater 
refinement in food as in other departments of 
living. In a lecture lately delivered at the 
Smithsonian Institution, on "Food and 
Health."' Professor Atwater, of the Wesley an 
university at Middletown, Conn., treated 
specially of this trend of our habits toward 
greater luxury in living, and his remarks were 
full of suggestions and warnings for the con- 
stantly growing army of epicures of the world. 
Prof. Atwater quoted from Sir Henry Thomp- 
son as follows : "I have come to the conclu- 
sion that more than half the disease which em- 
bitters the middle and latter part of life is due 
to avoidable errors in diet, and that more mis- 
chief in the form of actual disease, of im- 
paired vigor, and of shortened life accrues to 
civilized man in England and throughout cen- 
tral Europe from erroneous habits of eating 
than from the habitual use of alcoholic drink, 
considerable as I know that evU to be."' Pro- 
fessor Atwater holds that this evil of over eat- 
ing, be it great or small, is confined practically 
to the classes to whom generous fortune, un- 
checked by reasonable restraint, allows it. 
"There are,"" he saj-s, "countless sufferers from 
dietary habits into which self indulgence has 
not tempted, but relentless fate has forced 
upon them. The over fed only pay for pleas- 
ure the penalty of pain,"' .Another great cause 
of stomachic troubles in this country has al- 
ways been the haste with which food is liter- 
ally "bolted"" by men of nearly all classes. 
They could not or would not take the time 
necessary to the proper eating of a meal, prefer- 
ring to rob themselves of health than to rob their 
business of a few minutes" personal attention. 
But we are growing away, slowly, from this 
bad habit, and the time is approaching when 
Americans will have good digestions to wait 
upon appetite. — Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele- 
graph. 
About Lent. 

.Many good Catholics fail to turn the annual 
season of Lent to a .spiritual profit because 
they undertake to do suddenly and in a month 
or six weeks' work which a life-time must be 
spent in perfecting. The flesh, to say nothing 
of the world and the devil, retains its weak- 
ness even to the grave. How shall the world- 
ling, almost totally inexperienced in the science 
of holiness, hope to turn back suddenly upon 
even-thing litde. paltry, dazzling, and absorb- 
ing, and become by a single effort of the weak 
and flabby will an ascetic .^ Better take Lent 
moderately and succeed than undertake it ex- 
cessively and wholly i3.\\.— Catholic Review. 



A Mad Engine. 



BY CHARLES W. LINNELL. 



One Saturday evening a few weeks ago 
I was waiting at the Putnam station for 
the evening train to Worcester. The lamps 
were adding their smoke to that from my cigar 
and the pipe of a drowsy brakeman who was 
lounging on the wooden settee under the clock. 

I had an hour to wait before my train was 
due, and not being able to read by the dim 
light overhead, I was passing the time in anti- 
cipating the surprise my coming that night 
would be to my family. 

I had been away from my home in Worces- 
ter for six weeks on a business trip, and had 
written that I should not reach home for sev- 
eral days. 

I pictured to myself the delight in my wife's 
brown eyes when she opened the door in answer 
to my ring, expecting to see some ordinary eve- 
ning caller, and my daughter Nellie springing 
from her low chair by the reading lamp to 
hasten to give me a welcoming kiss and hug. 

How quickly the time will pass when ab- 
sorbed in such fancies every absent husband 
and father can testify, but I was surprised 
when a whistle down the track, and the faint 
ringing of the frosty rails outcide the door an- 
nounced the coming of my train. 

Glancing up at the clock to see if the time 
had indeed passed so rapidly, I grasped my 
handbag and stepped out upon the platform. 

The engineer was leaning out of the cab 
window as the train approached the station. 
He was an old schoolmate of mine, and gave 
me a friendly nod as the engine rolled slowly 
by. 

Throwing away the end of my cigar I 
stepped into a car, and was soon on the way 
towards home. 

In order that Worcester people may under- 
stand the remarkable events which were soon 
to occur they should remember that the pres- 
ent skating rink on Foster street was for many 
years the terminus of the railroads centering 
in Worcester except one, the Providence. 

The train on which I was a passenger on 
that memorable evening sped along at the 
usual rate I suppose, but to me, anxious as I 
was to reach home, it seemed to move at a 
remarkably slow speed. 

At last the twinkling points of light seen 
from the car windows began to arrange them- 
selves in regular lines, and looking out I saw 
that we were just crossing Cambridge street. 
In a few minutes the train stopped at the junc- 
tion, but as there were only a few passengers 
to get off, a wave of the conductor's lantern 
soon set the train in motion again. 

I threw my coat over my arm and was reach- 
ing for my satchel so as to be ready to jump 
the instant the train ran into the station, when 
a sharp whistle for brakes from the engine and 
the rattling noise made by the car wheels in 
crossing other tracks warned me that some- 
thing was wrong. 

A glance from the window showed me that 
we were running into the switch yard instead 
of on our proper track, and that a misplaced 
switch was the probable cause of the trouble. 

Well, I thought, we shall have to back out, 
and the sooner the better, but to my surprise 
and alarm our speed seemed to increase in- 



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stead of slackening, although I could see the 
brakeman at each end of the car grinding 
down the brakes. What did it mean ! Had 
the engineer, becoming frightened at his ina- 
bility to stop the train, jumped off and aban- 
doned us to our fate .' 

No ! Bob Johnson would never do that, 
something must be wrong with the engine. 

How fast we were going ! We must be al- 
most at tlie end of the yard, and there stood 
the new brick freight house perhaps right in 
our way. As the thought came into my mind 
I sprang to my feet intending to escape from 
the doomed train by a desperate leap, but was 
instantly thrown back into my seat by a ter- 
rible crash that shook the car from end to end. 

I was dazed for a moment, but conscious- 
ness was soon restored by a knowledge of 
what had happened. 

We had fortunately avoided the freight- 
house, but had run down two empty freight 
cars that had been standing on the track near 
Madison street, and which, when our engine 
struck them, had been impartially distributed 
over the adjoining territory. 

The speed of the train had been checked by 
the concussfcn, but we were still moving, and 
by the strong glare of electric light that filled 
the car I could see that we had crossed Madi- 
son street, and were fast approaching South- 
bridge street. I could see frightened horses 
plunging and rearing and people running away 
for dear life in every direction. 

Ahead of us a board fence separated the 
street from an open lot that was formerly the 
old road-bed of the railroad, and as I looked 
tjie engine struck the fence and it went down 
as though built of lathes instead of inch 
boards, and gathering headway the iron mon- 
ster moved on toward Park street. Could it 
be possible that the engine finding itself on its 
old track had determined to go on until it 
reached its former stopping-place, making a 
thoroughfare for itself as it did so .' 

The lines of a poem I had seen somewhere 
rang in my brain : "you build a thing of iron 
and brass, and say it has no soul." 

This particular engine might not have a 
soul but it certainly had either a remarkably 
strong will power or a disordered vacuum 
brake. 

While I was indulging in these speculations 
we had been rolling along through the open 
lot between Myrtle and Park streets. Another 
strong fence strengthened by a sign forbidding 
trespass opposed our passage. Its strength 
and sign were alike disregarded, and crossing 
Park street, with one revolution of its great 
driving wheels, the engine sped along the 
gravelled walk of the Common. 

The gravel flung up by the wheels as they 
ploughed along rattled against the cars and 
stung my face like hail as I leaned out to see 
what was to happen next. 

I was so bewildered by the startling experi- 
ence through which I was passing that I 
seemed to have lost all fear for myself, but 
only to have a curious impersonal anxiety as 
to what the ultimate fate of the train would 
be. 

Across Front street directly in our way 
loomed up the magnificent Chase building. 

Should our engine in its mad career infringe 
upon one of the partition walls of that enor- 
mous structure there could be but one result — 



instant annihilation for the train and the death 
of all on board. 

But the mechanical demon that had us in its 
power seemed to realize its danger and sheered 
a tritie from the direct course it was pursuing 
and headed for the brilliantly lighted front of 
a crockery store, that was located a little west 
of the Chase building. 

An unfortunate horse car, unable to escape 
us through the frantic terror of its rearing 
horses, was shattered in an instant, and the 
cries of suffering from its mangled passengers 
filled my ears as the engine crashed through 
the double doors of the store. 

My only recollection of our passage through 
is one long, blinding, deafening crash. 

I do not believe a single whole piece of 
china or glassware was left out of the large 
stock that filled the shelves and counters be- 
fore we entered. Fortunately the rear exit of 
the store was on a line with the front door, and 
though guarded by heavy doors of two-inch 
plank, fastened by massive iron bolts, our en- 
gine rolled through them as though they were 
tissue paper, and with angry hiss of steam bat- 
tered in the rear wall of a liquor store and 
continued on its work of destruction. And 
then ensued a scene that would have delighted 
the hearts of our friends the prohibitionists. 

Piled in stately rows the great casks of 
wine, gin and brandy offered almost no resist- 
ance to our onward progress. 

A touch from the iron monster and in went 
the heads and staves and out poured the gen 
erous liquors, making such an unlimited quan- 
tity of punch as the most inveterate toper 
never dreamed of. 

Quick as we reached the front door the lib- 
erated element was before us and went spark- 
ling along over the rough pavement of the 
street as if it were plain, everyday water in- 
stead of prisoned sunshine from the corn fields 
of Kentucky or the vineyards of France. 

As we emerged from the last theatre of de- 
struction there loomed up before us the lighted 
windows of the skating rink. A band was 
playing inside, and I knew at that hour the 
building would be thronged with skaters. 

Pray heaven the engine may slacken speed 
before it rushes into that unwarned assem- 
blage of young pleasure-seekers ! Yes, it 
does ! For the first time I feel the vacuum 
brakes applied to the car wheels and our speed 
sensibly lessens, but we still approach the 
building. 

The engine reaches it — a moment of anxious 
expectancy on my part and then a section of 
the wall falls inward, and in we roll, across 
the waxed and shining floor, among the startled 
shrieking crowd, and stop at last. 

There was not much time lost in getting out 
of the splintered cars by any of the passengers 
who remained uninjured. 

I was one of the first to step out, and my 
attention was at once attracted by the pros- 
trate figure of a young girl that lay under 
a fallen timber. There was something 
strangely familiar about her dress, and with a 
horrible dread clutching at my heart I sprang 
forward and raised her unconscious form in 
my arms. Then I turned her blood-stained 
face towards me and my heart seemed to stop 
its beating as with a throb of agony I recog- 
nized my own daughter Nellie. Heavens ! 
Had I only come home to bring death to those 



I loved, for this cruel shock would surely kill 
her mother too. 

"Say, you, what do you mean by howling 
like this, eh ? This ain't no place for the jim 
jams. Will you be quiet now, or shall I have 
to put you out." I woke up. I was in the 
Putnam station, and the brakeman had me by 
the collar. I looked up at the clock. The 
hands pointed to half past si.\. I had slept 
ten minutes. 



In Fashion's Court. 

sleeves remain very full at the top, narrow- 
ing down toward the wrist. 

Ribbons have not lost in popularity, but are 
spoken of with as great confidence as ever as 
a garniture for summer gowns. 

Velvet in narrow width will trim light spring 
costumes for young girls. The more rows 
the prettier is the effect. Sometimes a novel 
arrangement is attempted in setting several 
shades of the same color of velvet, the darker 
below the lighter. 

The shirt waists of last season proved so ac- 
ceptable they will undoubtedly be worn again 
the coming season. English ladies adopted 
them very generally, and they thought well of 
them. They are made as nearly as may be 
like the masculine article of the same name. 

Fashionable dressmakers have decreed that 
street dresses must be slightly lengthened from 
the prevailing style. There are hints that this 
decision is to be followed by other departures 
in the same direction, until the old street trains 
■ — dirty, filthy, nasty, horrid, uncomfortable — 
are brought back. 

The prevalence of plaids and checks in the 
spring goods would seem to denote that they 
will be more popular than last year. The 
plaid ginghams made up with a few yards of 
plain, which is used for collar, cuffs, sash, and 
sometimes a wide band around the skirt, make 
quite a tastetul home dress. Spots, too, will 
be very fashionable, either on plain ground or 
thrown on stripes. 

There are many charming house-waists this 
season made in surah, in blouse form, like 
those of last year, but instead of being laid in 
fine tucks entirely across the front and back, 
the middle of the back and front are fitted to 
the figure by large side pleats and the collar 
is curved at the corners in front. These waists 
are shown in violets, aubugine, red, black and 
white surah and India silks, and in the wash 
tussore silks, which may be laundried like 
linen. 

The summer girl is going to look like one of 
Watteau's young ladies, when, in a frock of 
white challie that has a rosebud here and there 
upon it, with a broad rose-colored sash about 
her waist and a great lace hat laden with rose- 
buds upon it, she holds over herself a parasol 
made of plaitings of point d' esprit, and having 
a handle of ivory, in the ball of which is set a 
tiny watch that warns her that if the summer 
days are long, still they are going, and that 
she must gather her rosebuds while she may. 
One of the new things in the home of a 
young woman with artistic ambitions is a pho- 
tograph screen as tall as herself. It stands in 
three folds, and inserted irregularly in each 
fold are cabinet and imperial photographs of 



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her best looking friends. The framework of 
the screen is old oak, and the folds are silk. 
One of the folds is salmon in color, the second 
a light blue, and the third copper brown. 
Upon these colors for a background, the black 
and white of the photographs stand out with 
striking effect. A visitor tried to get up a 
screen like this, but she inserted her photo- 
graphs with .so much regularity, and used silks 
of such peculiar color, that her screen looked 
very much like an advertisement. — New York 
Sun. 

Instead of the long, slender lace pins which 
have had so long a run, brooches in the shapes 
of flowers will be more generally worn. Or- 
chids, pansies and daisies are favorite pat- 
terns, and the colors of the blossoms are some- 
times carried out in stones of the proper hue. 
The fancy for Greek drapery has brought cam- 
eos into fashion for clasps, confining folds or 
pleats at the waist and shoulders, or worn as 
necklaces. 

There is no decided change in gloves. Those 
gloves in four and si.\ button lengths are still 
preferred for ordinary shopping and general 
wear, while the mousquetaire is by strict eti- 
quette reserved for afternoon receptions 
and dress wear. Many ladies refuse to be 
bound down by any such rule and wear which- 
ever style of glove is most suited to them. 
Soft wood browns running into tans, in sub- 
dued colors, old-time straw colors and the pale 
English shades of wild primrose are the fash- 
ionable brown and yellow colors, which prom- 
ise to remain popular, as the glove is still worn 
to contrast with the costume. There are also 
tawny shades of brown and slate-colors, from 
the darkest possible shade up to a delicate 
pearl tint. 

There is a tendency, as there has been for 
some time, to fit a bodice of some striped 
goods to the figure plainly and drape it across 
one side diagonally with plain wool or silk. 
The outlines of the figure are thrown in strong 
relief by the drapery, and it appears slighter. 
The large sleeves are heightened by a tiny pad 
when they are made of soft materials which 
could not be held in place without support. 
Velvet is used on cheviot gowns for cuffs and 
collars, and on challies and other house-gowns 
trimmed with velvet ribbons. 

Handsome ruffled petticoats are made to 
wear with the soft summer silks and with fab- 
rics which are not intended to be limpy and 
slim and Grecian. Some fabrics and forms 
cannot support such severe simplicity, and 
the beautiful skirt is designed to 
go with light toilets of soft silk, 
grenadines, crepes, mulls, etc. The rufHes 
about the bottom are pinked on the edges, and 
a cord or fine wire can be run through the 
hems at the back. Plain silk of any kind is 
available, and remnants of lace and embroid- 
ery can be utilized to garnish the front. The 
French dress skirt has inside the silk lining 
rows of plaited muslin and lace that give a 
dainty air to the skirt and assist in keeping it 
in place. 

Show is less a part of entertaining than for- 
merly, and if things are in good taste they 
need hardly be extravagant ; but it should al- 
ways be borne in mind that good taste consists 
in paying as much attention to the lesser as 
to the greater details, so as to have everything 
run smoothly. With some women of natural 



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gift at entertaining no effort on their part is 
ever visible, and hence the enjoyment of their 
guests, who feel immediately the atmo.sphere 
of their hostess. The women to whom enter- 
taining is merely a burdensome duty is never 
able to conceal tliis fact, unless she be uncom- 
monly clever, and even then she never seems 
to enjoy the hospitality she is bestowing. 

The redingote is the chiefest model in cos- 
tumes this season, particularly for street wear 
in the early spring. That nio.st convenient lit- 
tle garment, the fur shoulder cape or pelerine 
is to i)e worn. The redingote lends itself very 
prettily to this outer wrap and for calling is a 
most convenient mode, for it is so easily 
slipped off, and the redingote looks much more 
dressy than a jacket. The plain, straight sides 
and back over the petticoat, which shows only 
in front, is the prettiest model and the one 
generally adopted. 

Spring being several weeks in advance of 
the usual season, it behooves the wise virgins 
to have their lamps trimmed in time, that they 
may not find their wardrobes destitute of suit- 
able clothing for the first enervating days of 
spring, when a heavy winter costume will 
seem a burden too heavy to be borne. When 
the crocuses are already lifting their sweet 
heads to the warm sunlight of these March 
days, we may be sure that Easter will witness 
the christening of bright fresh costumes. 



PROTECTION FROM MOTHS. 



Reaumur, more than 150 years ago, made 
quite e.xtensive researches on clothes-moths ; 
and, observing that they never attacked the 
wool and hair on living animals, he inferred 
that the natural odor of the wool, or of the 
oily matter in it, was distasteful to them. He 
therefore rubbed various garments with the 
wool of fresh pelts, and also wet other gar- 
ments with the water in which wool has been 
washed, and found that they were never at- 
tacked by moths. He also e.xperimented with 
tobacco smoke and the odors of spirits of tur- 
pentine, and found that both of these were de- 
structive to the moth, but it was necessary to 
close the rooms very tightly, and keep the 
fumes very dense in them for 24 hours, to ob- 
tain very satisfactory results. Mr. C. H. Fer- 
nald, of the Hatch experiment station of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural college, has al- 
ways found that any material subject to the 
attacks of moths may be preserved trom them 
if packed away with sprigs of cedar between 
the folds. 

The odor of cedar is so disagreeable to them 
that they will not deposit their eggs where this 
odor is at all strong. Chests of cedar, or 
closets finished in the same wood, will protect 
clothing from moths as long as the odor is 
strong ; but this is lost with age, and then they 
are no protection. It must be remembered 
that the odor of cedar, camphor, etc., only pre- 
vents the moth from laying her eggs on the 
fabrics : but if the eggs are laid before the 
garments are packed away with cedar, etc., 
the odor will not prevent the hatching of the 
eggs nor the destructive work of the \ax\x 
afterwards, nothing may also be protected 
from moths by packing it in bags made of 
either stout paper or cotton cloth, if made per- 
fectly tight, but this must be done before the 
motlis appear on the wing in the spring.— 
Stu'iife. 



Afternoo n Sym phonies. 

To the Editor of Light .-—In the first num- 
ber of your paper was an article by Mr. C. A. 
Williams, upon "jMusical Worcester," with 
(am I right ?) special reforence to the Boston 
Symphony orchestra, and a possible course or 
series of concerts next season. 

If I have read "between the lines'" correctly, 
may I offer a suggestion? If such a course 
is, or is to be, projected, would it not be well 
to consider, and seriously, the desirability of 
giving one or two afternoon concerts, when 
our suburban neighbors from Clinton, Grafton, 
Leicester, Millbury and many other adjacent 
towns might be able to enjoy them with us? 
Attendance at an evening concert, if not en- 
tirely impossible, involves many inconveniences 
and late hours, while an afternoon concert 
would afford our neighbors an opportunity to 
enjoy this orchestra and enable them to return 
by trains at reasonable hours. And again, in 
our own city I think it would be regarded with 
favor by many "music-loving" ladies who 
would enjoy these concerts, because they could 
attend them without the necessity of the escort 
of "tired" (be it mentally, physically, or 
slangily) men. On the other hand, the "music- 
loving" man would find it possible to attend 
them, if he had the strong desire to do so. 

Then again,could not better "terms" be made 
with the management for afternoon than for 
evening concerts, for I believe the latter in- 
volve special trains to return the orchestra to 
Boston? CoxATUS. 

March 15, 1S90. 

The above communication from "Conatus" 
voices in public what many people have from 
time to time remarked in private. It does seem 
unfortunate that the musical people in sur- 
rounding towns have no better opportunities 
for attending concerts in Worcester. But it 
seems to be the misfortune of location. Wor- 
cester has no system of suburban trains like 
that which people living in the environs of the 
Hub enjoy. There is no 11 o'clock accommo- 
dation train to Paxton nor a concert special to 
Shrewsbury. People from those populous 
towns who attend late entertainments in town 
must either patronize a hotel or be equipped 
with a team, unless they desire to walk. 
Seriously, however, there are many people in 
Leicester, Gardner, Spencer and other towns 
who would like to attend such concerts and 
cannot do so. Light is sorry to say that there 
seems to be no help for it. 

The point is that afternoon symphony con- 
certs wouldn't pay one per cent, on the invest- 
ment, if they paid anything, which is very 
doubtful. Do Conatus and others who have 
made the inquiry that he makes, realize that it 
costs $1000 to bring the Boston symphony 
orchestra to Worcester for a single concert? 
This price, to be sure, includes the cost of a 
.special train, as Conatus intimates, but even 
without it, the figure would be a large one. So 
much for expense. Now the Symphony 
orchestra will not come here and play two con- 
certs in a day. If we had the afternoon con- 
cert, we couldn't have that of evening. Prob- 
ably Conatus doesn't need to be told that an 
afternoon concert audience which would pay 
for the orchestra is one of the Utopian 
dreams which no local manager, at any rate, 
could be induced to indulge in. Light is 



L KS M T 

sorry for Conatus and his out of town friends, 
and would rejoice as much as he in a state of 
affairs which should make such concerts as he 
desires, possible; but it is forced to acknowl- 
edge that it is not likely to be brought about 
at present. 



About Business. 



A marked sign of the times is the general 
tendency to change private firms into corpora- 
tions. This process is found to be going on 
wherever inquiry is directed, and the causes 
are not difficult to discover. The laws of near- 
ly all the states in the Union are favorable to 
the conduct of business upon the corporate 
basis, and while some of the states are lenient 
to corporations, almost to laxity, the abuses 
which defective laws made not only possible 
but easy, a short time since, have in a large 
degree been removed by judicious, restrictive 
and supervisory legislation. The result is that 
in almost all parts of the country corporations 
at the present time have a respectability that 
they did not have at all a short time since. 
Further, with the large increase of business 
enterprises conducted by companies, most of 
them having in their management men of ster- 
ling integrity, the credit rating of corporations 
of ordinary dimensions has become much bet- 
ter than formerly. The time was, and it is not 
so long ago either, that to speak of a company 
was to insinuate something against the stand- 
ing of the enterprise they owned and con- 
trolled. Now, even with laws unaltered in 
many cases, corporations are scanned as pri- 
vate firms are examined, very largely with re- 
spect to the business ability and private char- 
acter of the men in them. Of course trickery 
and fraud are still possible in companies, but 
so they are in private firms and by individuals. 
The business community seems to have settled 
down to the conviction, however, that honesty 
is the best policy, and that in the long run fair 
dealing will make larger profits than the op- 
posite course. This opinion has its effect in 
companies as well as in firms, and the business 
community at large is the gainer thereby. 



Corporate forms of business offer many ad- 
vantages over private firms. Indeed there are 
many kinds of business which it would be im- 
possible to conduct satisfactorily upon any 
other basis than that of a joint stock company. 
When we inquire into railroads, banking insti- 
tutions, ocean steamship lines, insurance en- 
terprises, telegraphs and telephones, we find 
that companies are the general rule. E.xtend- 
ing our inquiry a little further, we find mines 
and the leading manufacturing enterprises of 
the country in the same class. All this has 
been the rule for a long time past, but the sign of 
the times that we have noted is the still fur- 
ther extension of this practice. Small firms 
as well as large almost everywhere are chang- 
ing their form. It is especially manifest in 
manufacturing interests. Mercantile institu- 
tions seem to be the last to follow in the path 
first trod by banks and railways and insurance 
enterprises, but even they are of late falling 
into line. A company basis avoids many of 
the unpleasant things which arise in business 
life, among which may be mentioned disputes 
between partners and the settlement of a de- 
ceased partner's estate. Stock votes and a 



majority of shares controls the elections of di- 
rectors. When differences have progressed 
to such a point that a separation of partners 
is unavoidable, there is no need of the tedious 
work of appraisement with which many of our 
readers are familiar, or of long dispute over 
small details, the consideration of which is ab- 
solutely necessary upon the partnership plan. 
There are simply so many shares of stock in 
the hands of the disputants. It has a market 
value, and the question of "buy or sell" is 
quickly determined without any interruption 
or disturbance of the active business. It is 
all settled in the private office without gossip 
or the interference of well-meaning but mis- 
guided friends. The same advantages follow 
in adjusting the interest of a deceased partner. 
He held so many shares of the stock. These 
the estate may continue to hold, or the execu- 
tors may sell them at the market value as they 
elect. In either case the business is not dis- 
turbed in the least. It runs right along. — 
The Office. 



LENT, 29TH DAY TO THE 34TH DAY. 



AT ALL SAINT.S. 



March. 

23 Fifth Sunday in Lent.— /'mwoh Sunday. 
— Holy communion, 7.30 a. m.; morning prayer 
and sermon, 10.30 a. m., offertory for parish ex- 
penses; Sunday school and Bible classes, 3 p. 
m.; evening prayer, 7.30 p. m., sermon by Rev. 
A. H. Vinton. 

24 Monday. — Morning prayer, 9 a.m.; evening 
prayer, 5 p. m. 

25 Tuesday'. — Holy communion, 9 a. m. An- 
nunciation before the Virgin Mary. Evening 
prayer, address, 5 p. m. 

26 Wednesday.— Litany, 8.30 a. m.; evening 
prayer, 7.30 p. m.; sermon by Rev. C. T. Whit- 
temore, rector of All Saints church, Dorchester. 

27 Thursday.— Holy communion, 7a. m.; morn- 
ing prayer, 9 a. m.; evening prayer, 5 p. m., ad- 
dress to the children of the church; women's 
meeting, 7.30 p. m., address by Rev. E. S. 
Middleton. 

28 Friday.— Morning prayer and litany, 10.30 a. 
m., address by Rev. E. S. Middleton ; instruc- 
tion preparatory to first communion, 7.30 p. m., 
by the rector. 

29 Saturday.— Morning prayer, 9 a. m.; even- 
ing prayer, 5 p. m. 



AT ST. JOHNS, LINCOLN STREET. 
23 Fifth Sunday in Lent.— Holy communion, 
9.30 a. m.; morning prayer, litany and sermon, 
10.30 a. m.; Sunday school and Bible classes, 
noon ; evening prayer and sermon, 7.30 p. m. 

26 Wednesday.— Evening prayer, with sermon 
by Rev. Langdon C. Stewardson, 7.30 p. m. 

27 Thursday.— Evening prayer, with address, 
4.30 p. m. At Chadwick Square mission, even- 
ing prayer, with address, 7.30 p. m. 

28 Friday.— Evening prayer, litany and address, 
7.30 p. m. 

29 Saturday.— Free sewing school, 7.30 p. m. 



AT ST. MARKS. 



23 Tuesday".- Evening prayer, 4 p. m. 

27 Thursd.\y.— Evening prayer, and sermon by 

Rev. John Gregson, of St.Johns church, Wilkin- 

sonville, 7.30 p. m. 

Wonder if the man-in-the-moon, who smiles 
so generously over Worcester, misses the 
reciprocal smile, which Lenten Worcester can 
not consistently give? It is quite possible 
that his lunar majesty hasn't yet realized that 
there is such a thing as Lent. 



About Folks. 

Miss Phcebe Sykes, a daughter of Rev. S. 
Sykes, pastor of the CongTegational church in 
Economy, N. S., is at school in Worcester. 

The ladies and gentlemen of Pearl Lo(li;e, 
No. 123, Knights and Ladies of Honor, will 
hold a social gathering at the house of Mr. 
Charles H. Smith, Cr>'stal street, next Thurs- 
day evening. Refreshments will be served. 



Pilgrim church observed its fifth anniver- 
sary, last Sunday, though without calling the 
attention of the public to the fact in any special 
announcement. There was, however, an un- 
usually attractive floral display, and all the 
thoughts of the day were intended to empha- 
size the special significance of the occasion. 
The pastor. Rev. C. M. Southgate, preached 
for his morning sermon from the text. Luke 
xix., 13, "Occupy till I Come." It is found in 
the parable of the pounds, and Rev. Mr. 
Southgate's leading idea was that all we have 
here are only trust funds and we are the 
stewards. He did not give any lengthy 
statistics, but nevertheless there are some 
points which are worth remembering. The 
church was organized March 19, 18S5. On 
the second anniversary the first start was made 
toward raising the money for the new church. 
From the humble beginning of the Sunday 
school held in Woodland street school-house, 
there has grown the present active church or- 
ganization, now owning property valued at 
Suo,ooo. No church in the city has more or 
better adjuncts to its work. There is the 
gymnasium, the printing office, the reading 
room and the sewing school, and the latter 
comes into special prominence. It is non- 
sectarian and last year eight nationalities and 
15 churches were represented in it. Mrs. W. 
C. Gale is in charge and Miss Sanford, who 
has had a wide experience in similar work 
elsewhere, conducts the "kitchen garden" de- 
partment. There are 140 pupils. Pilgrim 
church has prospered in its five years, and con- 
tinues to grow. One thing it deserves to have 
said of it : the stranger always finds a warm 
welcome within its doors. 



A series of attractive Sunday evening ser- 
vices is being held at Pilgrim church, of which 
"The Crucifixion," mentioned elsewhere in 
this issue, is one. A week from to-morrow 
there will be a fellowship meeting in which the 
Old South and Piedmont churches will unite ; 
April 5, there will be an Easter concert at five 
P. M.; April 13 the subject will be "Christian 
Faith" and on April 20, "Christian Endeavor." 
The last two belong to what is termed the 
"Brookfield series." They were arranged by 
Rev. Erastus Blakeslee of Spencer, and are 
adapted to short Sunday evening services. 



The program for Mr. Walter Scott Ken- 
nedy's soirde musicale to be given at Horticul- 
tural hall, Tuesday evening, presents some 
very attractive numbers. The pupils who will 
assist are Mrs. Louise Baldwin Powers, Misses 
Alice R. Wolf and Elinor Teear, Messrs. 
Frederic Howard, John A. Butler and H. 
Hanford Chilson. Mr. J. N. Truda will play 
violin obligatos. This will be Mrs. Powers's 
last appearance in Worcester previous to her 
going west. 



T. T Cr TI 1' 

Miss Flora Mclver, now residing in New 
York city, has been visiting relatives in tlie 
city during several days past. 



Thursday afternoon Patti sang to Sooo 
people, the largest audience which ever at- 
tended a lioston operatic performance. 



Matters at the Young Womens Christian 
association, just now, are going along at a 
lively rate and future plans are also being 
made. The classes which have been in session 
for 20 weeks, close next week. The teachers 
are planning a social reunion to be held early 
in April, at which an exhibition of the various 
branches taught will be given. Prof. James 
Murdoch is to give an evening of miscellane- 
ous readings before the association and 
friends April 8. He will read the "Chariot 
Race" from Ben Hur. The proceeds of tlie 
entertainment will go to swell the fund for the 
proposed Home. Mrs. S. E. Hildreth and 
friends have given the association a much 
needed clock. It has been placed in the read- 
ing room, and makes a handsome and useful 
addition to the room. The lunch room grows 
in favor both with our own residents and out 
of town shoppers. Home cooked food and a 
quiet and restful waiting room are attractive 
features to tired shoppers and saleswomen. 
The following books have been added to the 
library : "Standish of Standish," by J. G. 
Austin ; "Widow Goldsmith's Daughter," by 
J. P. Smith ; "Looking Backward," by Ed- 
ward Bellamy ; "The Autobiography of a 
Slander,'' by Edna Lyall; "Castle Daly," by 
Annie Kearney ; "Somebody's Neighbors," 
by Rose Terry Cooke. 



Mr. George K. Robinson, of this city, is 
having a very successful season with the Ad- 
ams Stock Dramatic company, which is now 
playing, along the Hudson, to large houses. 
This is Mr. Robinson's second season with the 
company, and he is now playing leading heavy. 
Last year he played juvenile. Mr. Robinson 
is the leading baritone of quartet, which 
was organized in the company through his ef- 
fcrts, and he is now writing a half-hour act for 
a specialty. Mr. Robinson has had several 
advantageous offers for next season, including 
one with the "Hands Across the Sea" com- 
pany, and another with Edwin Arden, but as 
yet he has made no engagement. I\lr. Robin- 
son's engagement ends July i. 



Notwithstanding Lieutenant Greely, and the 
weather forecasts of the daily press, spring is 
coming, and with it must come the things of 
spring. Mrs. K. Simmonds, as is her wont, 
anticipates the glorious days to come. A 
week ago her Main street store was turned in- 
side out, that it might be turned right side in. 
As one enters it she almost inhales the imagi- 
native perfume of unperfumed flowers. From 
floor to ceiling stretch the vines of flowers. 
Every color, every tint, every combination of 
color and tint, are represented, and copies of 
every floral zone add to the general effect. 
And feathers, too ; feathers natural and col- 
ored, feathers large and small, feathers costly 
and cheap. And so in many "loves of a bon- 
net," all shapes, all sizes, all designs, to fit 
anybody and become her too. The store is a 
genuine exhibition emporium ; everything of 
its kind arranged for convenient seeing. 



More Light of Others. 

The Pride of Worcester. 

Worcester ouglit to be proud of her new 
home and social paper, Li(;iiT. Bright, newsy 
and full of editorial snap in all its depart- 
ments, it deserves the popularity which it has 
at once gained. It already has a circulation 
equal to any paper in its class in the state, 
and in the able and experienced hands of Edi- 
tor Natlianiel C. Fowler Jr., and Fred E. Col- 
burn, its I)usiness manager, a prosperous career 
is assured for it. — Bosfmi (ilobe. 



A Bright New Paper. 

Mr. N. C. Fowler, Jr., the well-known Bos- 
ton journalist, in company witli Mr. Fred E. 
Colburn, has established in Worcester a bright 
and handsome social weekly, called Lk;ht. 
Three numbers have thus far been issued, and 
we do not remember to have ever seen a new 
local paper which started off with so much of 
Ijrilliancy, beauty and vivacity. Worcester is 
to be congratulated on this addition to its jour- 
nalistic wealth, and the publishers of Light 
are entitled to congratulations on having cast 
their lot in one of the most charming cities in 
New England. — Cambridge Tribune. 



A Welcome from Gardner. 

We have received a copy of LifiHT, Worces- 
ter's new weekly social paper. Judging from 
the number before us Light has a bright fu- 
ture before it. The publishers have our best 
wishes for success in their journalistic venture, 
find we have no doubt they will attain it. — 
Gardner Journal. 



LIGHT. 



BV CORNELLS W. BOYDEN. 



When Phoebus rules the heavens by day. 
And floods the earth with warmth and light, 

All undisputed is his sway. 
And lesser monarchs yield theirmight. 

But when at dusk his work is o'er, 
With gracious mien he sinks to rest. 

And from Olympus' distant shore, 
We see Diana's silver crest. 

.And o'er the heaven's vast expanse. 
The twinkling stars, their myriad lights 

Sparkling with radiance, look askance, 
.■Assist their queen, nor claim her rights. 

But these are heaven's gifts to man, 
And all supreme their wond'rous power ; 

No mortal guile could quench nor fan 
Their glorious lights, earth's rightful dower. 

But poor humanity is weak, 

.■\nd shuts her eyes, and will not soar. 
But from the darkness fain would seek 

Some new-born light, to ope its door. 

And when it comes we greet its light, 
With smiles of welcome, glad and free. 

And pray that all may gain their sight, 
Who in their blindness will not see. 



IF. 



,Ma 



Dear old Boston,— the home of Emerson 
and Sullivan,— the Looking Backward Athens 
of the world,— the cradle of science, of art, of 
music, of everything undone and overdone, — 
grand old town of ages,— the city of the Bos- 
ton Art Museum, which can't get enough 
money to support it. Pity, isn't it, that Boston 
is too far removed to be a ward of Worcester.' 



10 



About Folks. 



Mr. Edwin A. Sumner, of Lincoln street, sails 
for France, from New York, to-day. He will 
spend a couple of months travelling over the 
continent. His son accompanies him. Mr. 
Sumner will return about the first of June. 



General Secretary Samuel G. McConaughy, 
Assistant Secretar>- Will D. B. Mead and Phy- 
sical Director Paul Plummer, of the Young 
Men's Christian association, are attending the 
sixth annual conference of the New England 
general secretaries at Norwich, Conn., having 
been there since Thursday afternoon. They 
will return on Monday. Mr. Plummer is to 
read a paper on "Indoor Work" this morning. 
In the absence of the other secretaries, Mem- 
bership Secretary George H. Robbins is in 
charge of the association office. To supply 
Instructor Plummer's place, Mr. Harry H. Sib- 
ley took charge of the Thursday and Friday 
afternoon classes. Dr. Henry P. Cooke taking 
the evening class, and Mr. W. D. Berry is to 
conduct all the classes to-day. 



The people in the crowd at Pilgrim hall, last 
Tuesday night, reminded one of chickens — 
they stood first on one foot and then on the 
other. It was very funny ; but then it had a 
serious side. The entertainment was one likely 
to attract a large audience, and it seemed a pity 
that it couldn't have been given in a down 
town hall. However, it wasn't ; and as the 
people wanted to go just the same, there was 
a crush. It was necessary to reserve the cen- 
ter of the floor for the drills, and consequently 
the people were obliged to crowd back. There 
were so many standing that seats counted for 
nothing, and those who had them folded them 
up — fortunately, they were of the shut-up vari- 
ety — and wore out their rubbers in shifting 
from one pedal to the other. It was a crowd 
that would have delighted Barnum. Short 
people fared hardly. The large man with 
broad shoulders was there — in front, and last 
fall's Eiffel tower bonnets were in the same 
rank. Some of the boys enjoyed preferred 
positions — on the radiator ; and some of the 
older people, who had a chance to spread their 
chairs in corners, stood up on them. They 
furnished a fruitful source of amusement, for 
occasionally there was a crash and down 
went somebody in a heap. It made an inter- 
esting side-show. Mr. Fred Knight, who acted 
as general manager for the occasion, was 
equal to a host for making things run along 
smoothly in spite of the crush, and he kept 
the crowd good-natured with admirable tact- 
The entertainment itself was charming. The 
Elberon Orchestral club, including Mr. Ernest 
W. Marshall, conductor, Messrs. H. B. Went- 
worth, J. M. O'Connell, F. W. Chafiin and 
Everett Woodhead and Mrs. R. E. Co.xe, was 
prepared to give several selections, but the 
piano wasn't feeling well that evening, and 
the orchestra had a hard time of it. It should 
be said that the orchestra is a good one, and 
can play good music. The prettiest event of 
the evening was the fan drill by the "Ladies 
of Queen Anne's Court." There were i6 
beautiful young ladies, dressed in beautiful 
costumes with long trains, wearing powdered 
hair, done up high, court plaster patches, and 
carrying fans. They drilled under the direc- 



tion of Prof. L. C. Havener, who was likewise 
gorgeously costumed in a blue satin doublet 
and a frilled front, with knickerbockers, of 
course. As they marched in, two by two, the 
ladies were : Misses Florence E. Scott and 
Fannie A. Hair, Misses Winifred C. Quimby 
and Lulu F. Keyes, Misses Alice C. Brown 
and Mabel S. Chamberlain, Misses Emma S. 
Barrett and Anna G. Moore, Misses Clara L. 
Brown and Mattie R. Howell, Misses Jennie 
B. Brown and Annie L. Otis, Misses Mabel 
R. Lawrence and Laura E. Wright, Misses A. 
Edith Hathaway and Goldie A. Curtis. Miss 
Flora B. Chamberlain was the pianist, and had 
for an attendant Master Walter Dadmun, 
who was prettily attired as a page. The drill 
itself, indescribably pretty, was greeted with 
loud applause. Capt. William A. Condy then 
marched in 24 of his men from the Worcester 
City Guards, and they gave a pleasing drill, 
following which a squad of eight men gave a 
bayonet drill. The men were, of course, badly 
cramped for room, and when they marched 
about, it looked a good deal like a merry-go- 
round. One young lady, perched on a chair, 
remarked, "They'll be wound up pretty soon." 
When the drilling was finally over, the crowd 
surged in upon the vacant space and the chairs 
were adjusted. Mrs. Charles A. Richardson 
gave a reading ; Mr. James H. Cafferty sang 
"The Vikings;" Mrs. John H. Howell sang 
very pleasingly Lyal's song, "He was a Prince." 
Mr. Ernest Marshall played a violin solo, the 
Surprise Banjo club, including Messrs. W. K. 
Bedford, J. E. Upton, W. J. Clarke and C. E. 
Chamberlain, played a selection ; Mr. Thomas 
A. Callahan and Miss M. A. Hayward sang a 
duet ; and Mr. Charles S. Stoughton sang a 
concluding number. The entertainment was 
given for the benefit of the gymnasium and 
netted a handsome sum. Despite the incon- 
veniences of the occasion, the entertainment 
was a most enjoyable one. 



There was a very pleasant gathering at the 
residence of Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., 
pastor of Trinity church, 30 Chatham street, 
last Monday evening. It was a reception to 
the Sunday school classes of Miss Kate E. 
Smith and Mr. Charles W. Wood, the former 
being composed of ladies and the latter of 
gentlemen. About 40 were present, in all, and 
Dr. Thomas played the part of host most 
agreeably. The evening was spent in a social 
way. 

The Arlington Banjo quintet and Mr. 
Frederic Howard, baritone, are to give a con- 
cert at Webster Town hall, ne.\t Wednesday 
evening. Prof. L. C. Havener will give an ex- 
hibition of club swinging, and Willie Windle 
is to do some fancy bicycle riding. 



The Practical Mechanic, of Worcester, 
says : — "Worcester claims a population of 90,- 
000 and has $20,000,000 capital invested in 
manufacturing, with an annual product of I38,- 
000,000. In 1880 her capital invested was 
5i 1,378,000, and her product $27,292,000, again 
appro.ximately of $9,000,000 and $11,000,000 in 
10 years." 



The Winslow Skate company has increased 
its already extensive plant by purchasing the 
stock and tools of Messrs. Sise, Gibson & Co., 
of Ansonia, Conn. 



Worcester manufacturers are much inter- 
ested in the seventeenth exhibition of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics associa- 
tion, at Boston, in the coming fall. The asso- 
ciation will give considerable attention to the 
exhibition of the modern appliances of elec- 
tricity. 

Worcester Lodge, Knights of Honor, will 
initiate three candidates at its next meeting. 



Floridian Worcesterites are turning home- 
vard. 



Mr. Harry A. Cook, who has for six years 
been employed with Mr. George C. Whitney, 
has resigned his position there and accepted a 
place of responsibility in the office of Edward 
L. Smith & Co., successors to J. T. Roche & 
Co. Mr. Cook has had charge of the invoices 
and payroll, at Mr. Whitney's, and thoroughly 
understands the business. He is very popular 
among his associates and has many friends 
who hope and believe he will meet with unlim- 
ited success. 

Senator Hoar has purchased a considerable 
tract of land on Asnebumskit hill, one of the 
most notable "landmarks" of this section of 
the country. The senator's purchase includes 
about 10 acres on the summit. It is a pretty 
breezy place in winter, but in summer time 
offers a delightful outlook, and perhaps a 
score of towns can be seen on a clear day. 
Hundreds of Worcester's staid business men, 
deacons and poets, have in their youth 
climbed old "Bumskit" and they know what it 
is like. When one gets to the top of "Bum- 
skit, he is about as near to the upper stratum 
of ozone as he can get, hereabout, except on 
Wachusett. It has long been one of Senator 
Hoar's favorite spots. 



Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Knowles enter- 
tained the presidential party now pleasuring in 
the south, this week, at Winter Park, Florida. 
The guests included Mrs. Harrison, the presi- 
dent's wife, Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Harri- 
son, Mrs. Wanamaker and Miss Wanamaker, 
and two or three others. 



Mr. Stephen Salisbury has added $1000 to 
his previous contribution of $500 to the Natu- 
ral History society. Hon. Edward L. Davis, 
Mr. H. H. Bigelow, Hon. Samuel E. Hildreth 
and Mr. W. E. Rice are also generous sup- 
porters. 

Mr. Rufus S. Woodward, who is a member 
of Amherst college athletic board on the part 
of the alumni, is to be one of the judges at the 
college gymnasium exhibition next Wednes- 
day. 

The Young People's society of Christian 
Endeavor, of Hope church, is to hold a tem- 
perance entertainment, and present Yankee 
Doodle, Columbia and Mother Goose and her 
family, at the church, next Thursday evening, 
March 27. 



Miss Mabel Thomas, a daughter of Rev. W. 
H. Thomas, D. D., who is now in the junior 
class at Boston university, contributes to the 
March number of the University Beaco?t, the 
college paper, a charmingly written little story, 
entitled "His Temptation." 



Dr. P. H. Keefe has been presented by his 
friends with a handsome steel engraving, en- 
titled "Cheik Arabe en Voyage." 



The building committee of the Pleasant Street 
Baptist church has accepted the plans for the 
new church edifice drawn by Mr. Stephen C. 
Earle, and a contract for building will soon be 
let. As before stated, the building is to be of 
brick, with sandstone trimmings, and the cost 
will be $20,000. The plans call for a Roman- 
esque structure, and provide for a graceful 
tower at the Pleasant and Ashland streets cor- 
; ner. The church will face Pleasant street and 
I there will be three entrances, one at the cor- 
ner of Pleasant and Ashland streets, in the 
tower, another on Ashland street, to the north, 
and a third on Pleasant street, to the west. 
The pulpit will be at the north end and the 
organ and choir gallery will be behind the pul- 
pit. There will be a gallery at the south end 
only, nearest Pleasant street. 

The people in Worcester's art circles will be 
\ interested to know that negotiations have been 
' entered into the purchase of the site of Delphi, 
one of the most important places in Greece, 
outside of Athens ; and the Archi-ological in- 
titute of America has offered $5000 a year for 
i five years towards defraying the expenses of 
I' excavation, provided the necessary amount is 
raised for the purchase of the site, and the re- 
moval of the village now upon it. 



Quite a number of Worcester gentlemen are 
numbered among the subscribers to the $15,- 
000 fund asked for by the Boston Museum of 
Fine Arts to help defray current expenses. 
The building has been e.xtended and the col- 
lections have been added to, during the past 
year, and the expense has been large. The 
trustees are still receiving ten-dollar subscrip- 
tions, and each subscriber receives a trans- 
ferable ticket admitting four persons to the 
museum on every day of the year when it is 
open, up to April i, 1891. 



There was a pleasing little entertainment at 
Green hall, on Southbridge street, Tuesday 
evening, given in aid of the Piedmont branch 
Sunday school, by a band of the King's 
Daughters. The program included a piano 
duet by Misses Fannie and Lucy M. Day; a 
chorus, "There's Music in the Air," a reading, 
"The Whistling Regiment," by Miss Edna R. 
Thayer; a violin duet, by Misses Florence M. 
Sears and Lucy M. Day; a reading, "A Tar 
on Bachelors," by Miss Eva Townsend; a 
chorus, a reading, "The Wonderful Jack," by 
Miss Annie M. Russell; a song, "The De- 
voted Apple," by Miss Mary E. Whipple; a 
violin duet by Misses Sears and Day; a read- 
ing, "How Tom Sawyer Got His Aunt Polly's 
Fence White-washed," by Miss Russell, and a 
chorus, "Good-night." The entertainment was 
a success in all respects. 



A Worcester gentleman, well known as a 
leader in local musical matters, thusly .speaks 
his impressions of the Patti revivals at Bos- 
ton; I happened to hear Patti last Tuesday 
evening, in Boston, and was doubly surprised : 
first, at the enormous audience which crowded 
every part of the immense barn-like structure 
in which the series of opera has been given, 
and second, at the lack of enthusiasm. One 



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almost fancied he was in the midst of a 
Worcester audience. It must be admitted as 
a fact which has passed into history, that 
Italian opera no longer moves the public. 
The great themes, the broad orchestral effects 
of German music-drama have so clianged tlie 
public, that the other style falls on compara- 
tively uninterested ears. The opera was badly 
cut, and badly staged, with a poor orchestra and 
poorer support, but the attraction was Patti, 
and "La Diva" is still worthy of her title. The 
drawing powers of this artist are something 
wonderful, and the freedom with which she 
sings is remarkable for a woman 47 years of 
age, and one who has been constantly before 
the public for over 30 years. Among the 
Worcester people I noticed in the audience, 
many of whom have season tickets, were Mr. 
and Mrs. A. H. Hammond, and the Misses 
Hammond, Mrs. F. N. Houghton, Mrs. C. H. 
Hutchins, Mrs. S. R. Leland, Mr. and Mrs. F. 
A. Leland, Mr. Stephen M. Gates, Mr. Fred- 
eric Howard, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Russell, Mr. 
Dwight Smith, Mr. J. M. Bassett, Mr. A. J. 
Bassett, Mrs. Ida Johnson, Miss LuellaFlagg, 
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Woodward, Mr. and 
Mrs. F. L. Gorham, Mr. E. F. Biscoe, Mr. 
George H. Corbett, Mr. C. M. Harrington, 
Mrs. M. O. Kennedy, Miss Grace Barnes, Mr. 
Walter S. Kennedy, Mr. Charles A. Williams. 
Miss Mary Howe and Mr. Lucien Howe were 
also in the audience. 



Among the Worcester people who have 
heard Patti sing at Boston, this week, beside 
those mentioned above; are Eben Francis 
Thompson, Esq., Mr. George N. Morse, Col. 
and Mrs. W. A. Williams, Miss Edith L. 
Smith, Mr. William B. Scofield, and others. 



Miss Mary Howe and her brother, Mr. 
Lucien Howe, were in the city Wednesday, 
the guests of Mr. Jerome Marble. They left 
on Thursday for Washington, accompanied 
by Miss Nella Marble, Miss Howe having an 
engagement to sing with the Boston Sym- 
phony orchestra, at Washington, last night. 
During her recent visit to Worcester, she 
sang, privately, for Mr. Ellis, the orchestra 
manager, and he was as delighted with her 
singing as others have been. His apprecia- 
tion of her abilities is shown by the fact of his 
securing her as the only soloist for the Wash- 
ington concert. Miss Howe will return to 
Worcester tonight and remain here over Sun- 
day and Monday. Monday night she will 
know how completely she has won the Heart 
of the Commonwealth. 



Light elsewhere speaks at length of the 
Worcester bar, and it regrets that in the same 
issue must be chronicled the death of one of the 
oldest and most respected members of it— J. 
Henry Hill. Lacking opportunity for an ex- 
tended reference to this man's life and works. 
Light feels that it can write for him an 
honorable epitaph in the words : "He was all 
that is comprehended by the term, 'A good 
citizen.' " 



The young people of Plymouth church are 
to hold a "Pan-Mundus carnival" in the ves- 
try, Tuesday evening. April i, and will doubt- 
less make it as elaborate an affair as those of 
the pa.st have been. They expect that "all the 
world" will be there. 



11 

The farmers scored a victory over the oleo 
men in the legislature, last week, the vote be- 
ing 142 to 22, and 24 pairs. Two members 
from Worcester county voted with the oleo 
men. It is said that the friends of oleo will 
make their strong fight in the Senate. — Gard- 
ner Journal. 



The March number of i\\t P radical Mech- 
anic, of Worcester, shows a marked improve- 
ment. Worcester is to be congratulated upon 
having the best mechanical paper published 
outside of the four largest cities. 



Mr. Ben T. Hammond's 34th pupils recital, 
whicli was to have been given last Wednes- 
day, was postponed because of the storm, and 
will occur next Wednesday evening. The 
pupils who are to take part are Misses Agnes 
Mannix, Lizzie M. Urban, Catherine M. Plum- 
er, Eva M. Martin and Kenna May Ingraham, 
Messrs. Harry C. Robinson and Harry C. 
Mullett. 



Rev. F. A.Warfield of Brockton is to preach 
at Plymouth church to-morrow, and next Sun- 
day, the 30th, Rev. C. D. Hartranst, O. !)., of 
Hartford, Conn., will preach. 



The choir arrangement at tlie Pleasant- 
street Baptist church, for the coming year, has 
been settled, and there will be no change. 
The quartet includes Mrs. Webster Thayer, 
soprano; Miss Ann P'oskett, alto; Mr. Her- 
bert A. Kimball, tenor; and Mr. W. J. Flagg, 
bass. Mr. C. C. Stearns is the organist. 



Mr. George L. Sanford will lead the morn- 
ing meeting at the Y. M. C. A. to-morrow, 
and at the four o'clock meeting, Rev. Henry 
Dorr will speak. This will be his first 
address at any of the meetings, and it is sure 
to be of interest. Mr. E. M. Temple will sing 
a tenor solo, Mr. A. H. Brooks playing his ac- 
companiment. 



A delightful "ladies' night" entertainment 
was given for Worcester Council, Royal Arca- 
num, at Odd Fellows' hall, last Monday night. 
The musical talent represented the best in the 
city, and the entire program was a pleasing 
one. An overture for cornet, violin and piano, 
by Mr. F. E. Barnard, Mr. S. C. Parsons and 
Miss Sadie Parsons, was followed by a song, 
"The Jolly Old Crow," by a male quartet, in- 
cluding Messrs. John H. Howell, first bass, 
J. A. Rice, second bass, James A. Brennan, 
first tenor, and Charles S. Stoughton, second 
tenor. Miss Page gave a reading, and a la- 
dies quartet, including Mrs. J. A. Rice, Mrs. 
.\. W. Ingraham, Mrs. J. H. Howell and Mrs. 
H. A. Hancox,sang "Blue Bells of Scotland"; 
Mr. Brennan sang "Two Roses," Miss Par- 
sons gave a reading ; the male quartet sang a 
"Serenade" ; Mrs. Howell sang, "Were I a 
Bird of Air" and "Dreams"; Miss Weir gave 
a reading ; the ladies quartet sang, "The 
Wagon"; Messrs. Brennan and Howell ren- 
dered "The Burial at Sea" ; Mr. J. B. Crocker 
o-ave a very clever impersonation of "The 
Travelling Troubadour," and the entertain- 
ment closed with Eaton Faning's stirring 
"Song of the Vikings," rendered by the com- 
bined quartets. Mr. Fred W. White and Mrs. 
Carrie King-Hunt played the accompaniments. 



IZ 



The Proudest Name. 



[The following lines, dedicated to Miss 
Man- Howe, were written by a Worcester ad- 
mirer after the festival of '88 and just previ- 
ous to her departure for Europe. They were 
published in a local paper, and are now re- 
produced by request.] 

O sweet young song tress of the north, 

Thy native hills have heard 
No voice so pure, so sweet, burst forth 

From any native bird. 
It breathes the music of the rills 

That in thy mountains purl, 

To welcome to her native hills* 

A sweet New Englai.d girl. 

Far over sea they spoke her praise 

In a strange foreign tongue ; 
She came and charmed us with her ways, 

And loud our plaudits rung; 
Yet still she kept, with all her fame, 

That set two lands a-whirl, 
The simple manner that became 

A sweet New England girl. 

She leaves again her native shore ; 

Be calm, ye seas that foam ! 
And when she comes, our hearts once more 

Will bid her welcome home! 
And if she win, across the sea. 

The praise of lord and earl, 
Let her remember still to be 

A sweet New England girl. 

What stranger ever came and stirred 

Our hearts as she has done? 
What Old World singer ever heard 

Such praises as she won ? 
Europe may seek through cot and hall, 

And bring her rarest pearl, 
But she is what is more than all,— 

A sweet New England girl ! 



A New England Nightingale. 

Adelina Patti, famous in two hemispheres, 
has been singing to the Bostonians, and, inci- 
dentally, to a considerable number of Worces- 
ter people, during the present week ; and on 
Monday night the young singer whom Direc- 
tor Engel of Berlin said was likely to be Patti's 
successor, is to sing at Mechanics hall. The 
mere announcement that Miss Mary Howe 
was to give a concert in Worcester was suffi- 
cient to set the town afire with a desire to see 
and hear the gifted young singer. \'ery little 
paper the managers needed to print and post 
to bring about that great desire of the mana- 
gerial heart— a crowded house. There are 
hundreds of people in Worcester who have 
been eagerly waiting for an opportunity like the 
present. During Miss Howe's recent visit to 
Worcester, there were a favored few who had 
an opportunity to meet her and hear her sing, 
in a private way ; and the public, reading of it 
in the daily prints, was an.xious for a similar 
chance. The people will have a chance to 
testify to their appreciation of Miss Howe's 
talents, next Monday evening. 

Light is emphatically a Worcester paper 
and the occasion will come rarely, indeed, 
when it will make the most prominent feature 
of any issue a souvenir of any person or place 
outside of Worcester ; but Lkjht gives to 
Miss Howe not only its first page, but its very 
cordial greeting and its assurance of Worces- 
ter's regard, because Worcester has an in- 
terest in her career and a sympathy with her 
purposes, such as it has never manifested for 
any other singer who has come within its 
borders. 

Since Miss Howe sang at the Worcester 



IvICiHT 

Festival, in 1888, she has gained much in finish 
and power of voice. But before speaking 
of her recent work, the people who are so 
anxiously waiting for Monday night will be 
desirous of knowing something of Miss Howe's 
past. 

Miss Mary Howe is a New England girl. 
She was born in Brattleboro, Vt., 21 years ago, 
and during all her lifetime has resided in her 
native place. She is a member of one of the 
oldest and best known families of the state, 
and her father, Mr. C. L. Howe, who is a pho- 
tographer, is a man who impresses any one 
meeting him with the straightforwardness and 
simplicity of his character. These traits he 
has handed down to his daughter. 

Miss Howe comes of a musical family, too. 
Her father, a good tenor singer, formerly con- 
ducted "singing schools" of the old style, and 
imparted to his children an early love for 
music, and her mother was a singer as well. 
Miss Howe and her elder brother, Mr. Lucien 
Howe, have found in musical study a perma- 
nent occupation. Two brothers, not with- 
out the musical idea, have devoted themselves 
to business. 

Miss Howe began to sing in such manner as 
to attract attention, when she was only nine 
years of age. When she was ten, she entered 
tbe operatic field as "Josephine" in an amateur 
performance of "Pinafore," which was just 
then being performed everywhere. Miss 
Howe's brother directed her musical studies, 
and at the age of 16, she went with him to 
Boston and received voice lessons from Mr. 
Charles R. Adams. Later, she went to Phila- 
delphia, and studied under Prof. Behrens. It 
should not be forgotten that at the age of 14 
Miss Howe was singing for a salary in the 
church choir at home. 

Her first notable singing was done at New 
Fane, Vt., in 1S86. New Fane is not a great 
way from Brattleboro, and Miss Howe hap- 
pened to be there. She met Mrs. E. Aline Os- 
good, who was delighted with her voice and in- 
troduced her at a concert given in New Fane. 
She also gave Miss Howe voice lessons for 
some time. 

Naturally, Miss Howe's friends awoke to 
the fact that she possessed a gift of song which 
with proper training would make her famous. 
The same season — in 18S6 — went to Europe 
and became a pupil of the Dresden Opera 
school, where she could have the best instruc- 
tion that Germany afforded. 

Miss Howe was a faithful and conscientious 
student. She wrote home that she was hard 
at work and the result left no doubt of it in the 
minds of her friends. 

The German critics had much to say in 
praise of Miss Howe, and she was accorded by 
the public an enthusiastic reception. Her 
study in Dresden completed, she was beset by 
managers from various parts of Europe who 
desired to introduce the charming young 
American. She refused, however, all offers 
save one, and went to KroU's Opera house 
in Berlin, where she sang in "Lucia." "The 
Barber of Seville" and "La Somnambula" 
with immense success. This was in May, 
1888. Her engagement was extended from 
one month to two months; and the papers were 
full of the record of her triumphs. 

In the summer of 1888, Miss Howe returned 
to America, She went quietly to her home in 



Brattleboro, where her delighted towns-people 
gave her a reception such as no daughter of 
the town had ever had. 

The management of the Worcester County 
Musical association had heard of Miss Howe, 
and opened negotiations for her appearance at 
the annual festival in the fall. The engage- 
ment was soon completed. 

Miss Howe gave her towns-people the first 
opportunity to hear her sing, but after con- 
certs in Brattleboro, Burlington and Rutland, 
she sang no more in public until the festival 
of '88. 

When she came to Worcester, a great deal 
of interest was manifested in her. She was 
young; she was an American and a New 
Englander; she had come from foreign fields 
of triumph, and this was to be her d^but be- 
fore the American public. It is not difficult to 
recall the enthusiasm w-ith which she was re- 
ceived here. Her first appearance was on 
Thursday evening, when she sang the "Indian 
Bell Song" of Ddlibes, and the Alabieff 
"Nightingale Song" which has been a favorite 
number with her. She sang, also, on Friday 
afternoon, and on both occasions was ap- 
plauded to the echo. Worcester was charmed 
with the young singer. The interest in her 
did not die out with the close of the festival, 
and she was one of the most discussed 
strangers who had ever visited the city. 

It was announced that Miss Howe had 
made plans for further study in Europe, and, 
despite tempting offers from managers, to sing 
in the south and west, she adhered to her pur- 
pose. There was, however, too strong a call 
from Worcester to be refused, and she gave 
one concert here, in October, and another dur- 
ing the same week at Springfield. About the 
first of November she sailed for Europe and 
went at once to Paris, where she placed her- 
self under the instruction of Mme. Marchesi. 
She continued her study until last January, 
when she returned home. 

Miss Howe's plans are to concertize during 
the present year and she expects at some time 
to enter the field of opera. Her recent visit to 
friends in Worcester, of course, made oppor- I 
tunity for her to sing to a select circle. H 

Miss Howe has improved her style per- w 
ceptibly. She has a remarkable voice. That 
was evident two years ago, when she sang 
here, and even before that Director Engel, in 
Berlin, said : "At 19 years of age she shows 
more signs of being a second Patti than any 
woman in the world. I do not say she is now a 
second Patti, but I do assert that she will be 
a formidable rival in a few years." 

Miss Howe's voice is remarkable for its 
strength and purity in the upper register, and 
she takes the extreme upper notes with an ease 
that is wonderful. Since she was here at the 
"88 Festival, Miss Howe has gained much in 
finish and what may be called the inner per- 
ception. 

As she has been growing, musically, she has 
also changed somewhat in appearance. When 
she came to Worcester before. Miss Howe 
was a very beautiful girl ; when she came here 
last month, she had become a very beau- 
tiful woman. Miss Howe is fitted to shine in 
social as well as musical circles, for she is a 
charming conversationalist, and no one who 
meets her can fail to be impressed with her 
modesty and simplicity of manneri 



In appearance, Miss Howe is very beautiful, 
having a wealth of blonde hair and large dark 
eyes which are at all times expressive. She 
dresses with perfect taste and in everything is 
a modest, lovely young woman. She believes 
in New England first of all, and there is no 
doubt that New England believes in her. 
Worcester believes in Miss Howe's future and 
will give her a cordial greeting on Monday 
night. 

The Worcester Bar. 



BY (;. H. M. 



The foremost man in Worcester is George 
F. Hoar. A patriotic citizen, a brilliant and 
successful advocate before the courts, a learned 
counsellor in all the varied and intricate de- 
partments of law, a wise and practical legis- 
lator, a consummate orator, he stands among 
us without a peer. Justly honored as he has 
been by receiving so many exalted offices, he 
still declares the proudest title he possesses is 
that of lawyer, and that he would not exchange 
his position as member of the Worcester bar 
for any diadem on earth. What better testi- 
mony could be adduced to prove the noble 
character of the profession or the place in our 
regard which the Worcester bar deserves to 
occupy. 

It is not of our purpose to treat of the historic 
Worcester bar. "The past at least is secure." 
In this sketch we shall devote our attention 
wholly to the present, and to those lawyers 
who are, or have been, recently practicing in 
the city of Worcester. 

The superior quality of the Worcester bar 
of this generation is evidenced by the fact of 
its furnishing so many judges for courts. 
Judge Thomas L. Nelson of the United States 
District court. Associate Justice Charles 
Devensof the Massachusetts Supreme Judi- 
cial court. Judges P. Emory Aldrich and 
Hamilton B. Staples of the Superior court and 
Judge Samuel Utley of the Central District 
court are all Worcester lawyers. They laid 
down the burden of active practice to assume 
the judicial ermine. 

We have just cause to feel proud not only 
of the number of these judges, but also of 
their character and ability. It is no exaggera- 
tion to say that in their respective courts no 
judges rank higher in learning, in judicial tem- 
per and in all the qualities of successful 
judgeship than those who have been elevated 
from our midst. 

There are ninety lawyers in Worcester. 
Most of them are general practitioners. Few 
pursue specialties, as many lawyers in larger 
cities do. Practice in the criminal courts 
however, is confined to a comparatively small 
number who make special study of criminal 
law. Patent law, also, is practiced by a few 
who attempt no other branch. The dockets of 
our courts show that the great bulk of business 
is confined to a limited number of lawyers or 
law firms. Of the active members of the 
Worcester bar who have a large docket of 
cases at every term of court, two seem es- 
pecially worthy of mention on account of the 
position they occupy among their fellows and 
in the eyes of the public. They are Frank P. 
Goulding and W. S. B. Hopkins. They stand 
in the very front rank as lawyers and are 



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eminently successful practitioners. They are 
often opposed to each other in the trial of 
causes before jurors, and as when "Greek 
joins Greek, there is a tug of war." No point 
of vantage escapes the notice of either. The 
evidence is carefully put in and nothing which 
can possibly influence the minds of the panel 
is omitted. The arguments follow. In these, 
the manner of the two men is strongly con- 
trasted. Mr. Goulding is cyclonic in his 
eloquence. He deals in irony and sarcasm. 
He delights in quotations, especially from his 
beloved Shakespeare. He carries the jury 
with him by the very rush and flow of his 
oratory. To change the figure, his speech is 
the Excalibar of Arthur wielded by a master 
hand. Col. Hopkins is more quiet in his 
style. He strives for simplicity. He impresses 
the jury with the candor of his statements and 
his fairness to his opponents. His logic is 
keen and penetrating, — a Damascus blade in 
in the hands of a Saladin. We ask nothing 
better in the way of entertainment or instruc- 
tion than to hear these men try an interesting 
case against each other. 

It would be invidious to select others of the 
Worcester bar for special mention. It is sufii- 
cient to say that we have many who are suc- 
cessful, even brilliant, jury lawyers. We have 
it on the authority of one of the judges of the 
Superior court who goes all over the common- 
wealth that in Worcester cases are as carefully 
prepared and as well tried as in any part of 
the state. 

The practice of the younger lawyers is 
mostly confined to the Central District court. 
Here they train their powers of logic and of 
oratory, at times doubtless at the expense of 
the good nature of the judge, and perhaps at 
the expense of their luckless clients. Still it 
is only fair to say that most of the lawyers who 
practice in this, as well as the other courts are 
honest in their purpose, and honorable and up- 
right in their methods. 

Law is a natural stepping stone to politics. 
Hence we see most of the members of the 
Worcester bar turn their faces ofliceward at 
some time during their professional career. It 
is a common experience with some to climb to 
the Pisgah top of expectation, but an unap- 
preciative public will never allow them to cross 
the Jordan of an election into the promised land 
of office-holding. 

At present our bar is represented in the gen- 
eral court of Massachusetts by Senators Henry 
L. Parker and Alfred S. Pinkerton, and by E. 
B. Glasgow and William B. Sprout in the 
House. Two of our number, — Francis Plun- 
kett and Webster Thayer — are in the board of 
aldermen of our city government, and there 
are seven lawyers in the common council. 
Many of the lesser offices are filled with legal 
talent. We venture to assert that there are no 
more intelligent and patriotic members of their 
respective bodies than these same lawyers. 

All shades of political belief are entertained 
by members of the Worcester bar, from the 
typical democracy of John R. Thayer and the 
intense republicanism of David .Manning, Jr., 
to the hmit of extreme prohibition in James 
H. Bancroft. 

Lawyers are sometimes accus,>d of being 
atheistic or infidel in their belief. But there 
are at least iz lawyers in Worcester, who are 
members of Evangelical Protestant churches 



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and many others are regular attendants at 
religious worship. We have also numerous 
Catholic members who are devoted to their 
faith and live in accordance with its best 
teaching. 

Such in brief is the Worcester bar; imper- 
perfect like all things human, but striving to 
fill its place in the community with honor 
and fidelity to duty. 



Of Coming Things. 

Sunday, March 23. 
I'l.VMouril Cmtki 11.— Kev. F. A. Warfield, of 
IJrockton. preaches. 10.30 A. M., and 7 r. m. 

KiKST Unitarian Church.— Kev. Edward Everett 
Hale. 1). n., of Boston, preaches, 1030 A. m. Also, at 
South Unitarian, Pilgrim hall, 4 i*. M. 

I'lLCRlM Chc-RCM.— Sir John Stainer's "Crucifix- 
ion," 7. I'. M. 

Monday, March 24. 
Mk(Han-hs Hall.— Mary Howe concert. 8 !■. M. 
OLii SoiTH Church.— Adjourned parish meeting. 
7.30 1'. H. 

Piedmont Church.— Mrs. F. E. Rand, a mission- 
ary from M icronesia, speaks to the ladies of the Congre- 
gational churches of the city. 3 r. M. 

Trinity Church.— Last quarterly conference tiefore 
New England conference. 7.30 p. m. 

Tuesday, March 25. 
Piedmont Church.— Supper and Sociable. 7 p. m. 
Horticultural Hall.— Mr. Wa'lter Scott Ken- 
nedy's concert. 8 !■. M. 
Evening. 

PiLi.KlM Hail.— V. P. S. C. E. entertainment. 7.45 
y. M. 

AWednesday, March 26. 
Horticultural HALL.-Prof. W. W. Greene's re- 
ception to his dancing class. 8 P. m. 

Pupils Recital.— .M Ben T. Hammond's music 
rooms, 452 Main street. 8 P. M. (Postponed from March 
19). 

Thursday, March 27. 
Horticultural HALL.-Business Men's jubilee ; 
by pupils of Becker's Business college. S P. M. 

Insurance Hall. -Winter Whist club masquer- 
ade. Evening. 

Association Hall.— Gymnasium e-xhibition by Y. 
M. C. men. Evening. 

Old South Chapel.— A httle folks entertainment. 
7.45 p. M. 

Friday, March 28. 
Horticultural HALL.-Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mat- 
toon's reception to her dancing classes. 8 p. M. 
Monday, March 31. 
HoRTicui TURAL H ALL.— Prohibitionists banquet. 
Evening. 

Tuesdav, April i. 
PLYMOUTH CiiuRCH.-Pan-Muudus carnival by the 
young people. 7.45 r. M- 

Tuesday, April 8. 

XssociATioN Hall.— Readings under Y. W. C. A. 

auspices, by Prof. James E. Murdock. 8 p. m. 

Monday, April 7. 

Main Street Baptist Church.— Union meeting 

of the Young Peoples Societies of Christian Endeavor. 

6 P. M. 

Pih;rim HALL.-South Unitarian society. Easter 
sale. Evening. 

Wednesday, April 2. 

At Miss Clara E. Noktons, 104 Chandler 

Street. -Eureka Whist club. S p. m. 

Wednesday, April 9. 

INSUR/NCE HALL.-Private dance party. Evening. 

Tuesday, May 6. 
Pilgrim Hall.— Last entertainment in gymnasium 
benefit course, S p. m. 



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Irish Music. 



BY EUGENE A. o'CONNOR. 



In a limited article on a broad and fruitful 
subject, it must follow that much of import- 
ance will necessarily be either entirely omitted 
or but briefly referred to. 

Truly is this a fact in relation to the subject 
of Irish music. It has been well said by a 
writer on the subject: "No enemy speaks 
lightly of the music of Ireland, and no friend 
need fear to boast of it." It is probably with- 
out a rival. 

Was ever warrior's bravery quickened to 
greater deeds of valor than when keeping 
time to a soul-stirring, recklessly quick Irish 
march ? Was ever babe calmed to more 
peaceful slumber than under the sweet influ- 
ence of a real old Irish lullaby, as hummed by 
an Irish mother .' 

In native music Ireland is rich, and it is un- 
mistakably national and characteristic. Among 
the Milesians music formed part of a good 
education. Everyone was desirous of know- 
ing how to sing or play on some musical in- 
strument ; and while Ireland was known as 
the home of piety, chivalry and learning, an- 
other of the most ancient, and not the least 
glorious of her titles, was "The Island of 
Song,"' her national emblem being then as it is 
today, that beautifully significant harp em- 
blazoned upon the green. The Arabians are 
said to have introduced rhyme into Europe, 
but it is a well-known fact that rhyme was em- 
ployed in Ireland in the days of .Saint Pat- 
rick, four centuries previously ; in fact, it may 
be said further, that Ireland was not behind 
any European nation in ancient minstrelsy, 
Greece and Rome e-xcepted. Music, as well 
as poetry and literature, was a characteristic 
of the country in those ancient days when the 
students of Europe crowded to her schools. 
Well might the learned Dr. Johnson refer to 
her as, "The school of the west, the quiet 
habitation of sanctity and literature." 

But fate would not allow that music should 
remain unaffected by the dismal sorrows and 
lamentations and defeats so conspicuous in the 
history of that country. It received its share 
of the depressing influence and it is not surpris- 
ing, therefore, that a melancholy amounting 
often to despair, characterizes Irish songs and 
music — a feature which would seem to be at 
variance with the rollicking, witty, impulsive, 
many-sided nature that the Irish are popularly 
held to possess. 

The reason for this lies in Irish history. 
Irish music only echoes the tale of Irish 
wrongs and sorrows. The early bards and 
minstrels and later the pipers and harpers, 
wandered from house to house among the 
people, keeping alive the memory of their 
wrongs, celebrating the glory and valor of 
their patriots and chiefs and sounding the 
praises and virtues of their beautiful women. 
We are told that by the statutes of Kilkenny 
it was even made penal to entertain an Irish 
bard, minstrel or story-teller, lest he "pervert 
the imagination by his romantic tales." 

Very aptly has Ireland been called the 
"Cinderella of nations." She had si.sters who 
enjoyed all the luxuries of education while she 
was jealously excluded from participation in 
such favors. She was abused and scourged 



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alternately, and if her beautiful voice burst 
forth in song in imitation of her sisters, she 
was forthwith gagged. 

And yet law could no more put down the 
native music of Ireland than, as expressed in 
that once seditious song, "The Wearing of 
the Green," it could "stop the blades of grass 
from growing as they grow." No, it lived and 
continued with the native tongue to be the joy 
and hope and consolation of the Irish people 
and their descendants ; and were it not for the 
loving memories of that people, we of today 
would unquestionably be without that treasure 
which it is our fortune to possess in the bal- 
lads of Ireland. 

As time wore on and the native tongue 
ceased to prevail, another class of song- 
writers arose whose verses were in English, 
and while many are still prized as valuable, 
they, as a whole, lack the true Irish spirit. 
For a considerable period the songs were of 
two general classes, namely, those of the 
Catholics and those of the Protestants, the 
singing of which often proved the signal for 
deadly strife. 

Such was the state of lri.sh music when 
Thomas Moore appeared as the great song- 
writer of Ireland, and did for his country what 
Burns did for Scotland. He associated the 
beautiful music of Ireland with the literature 
of England and at once raised Irish song into 
a world-wide popularity. There were not only 
combined in him poetic feeling and lyric 
power, but a technical knowledge of music — a 
rare combination of gifts which he used with 
such telling effect in his "Irish Melodies." He 
caught the true spirit of the old airs and was 
thus able to echo it in the verses he wrote. 
It is, perhaps, not too much to say, that he 
was the greatest writer of songs in the English 
language that the world has yet seen. As 
Lover, another justly celebrated writer of Irish 
songs, has said : "If Ireland never produced 
nor should ever produce another lyric poet, 
sufficient for her glory is the name of Thomas 
Moore." 

But although Moore is held up in Ireland as 
a patriot, and justly so, he himself did not de- 
sire to be confounded with the popular song- 
writers who wrote for the masses. His ambi- 
tion aspired rather to the drawing-room than 
to the hut or highway, and because of his 
great talents and fascinating traits of person- 
ality, he found no difficulty in humoring his in- 
chnation in that direction. His songs touched 
chords that were native on both sides of the 
channel, and for this reason there are produc- 
tions by other writers which are more full of 
real Irish spirit than many of his. Notwith- 
standing that, however, there is no denying 
the great depth of Moore's true patriotic 
spirit as is amply illustrated in the best of his 
"Irish Melodies." In spite of his drawing- 
room tendencies he could by no means forget 
the past of his country, nor refrain from feel- 
ing as an Irishman and writing as one, for had 
he done so, what could have inspired that 
noble production, "The Harp that Once Thro' 
Tara's Halls," or that exquisite song to the air 
of "The Coulin," "Tho' the Last Glimpse of 
Erin in Sorrow I See ?" 

It is thought that his "Blame Not the Bard" 
was written as a reply to those who thought 
the publication of his Melodies was a 
"vehicle to dangerous politics." However 



that may be, the song clearly and satisfactori- 
ly explains his reasons for believing it unwise 
to "appeal to the passions of an angry multi- 
tude," but rather to "those who could afford to 
have their national zeal a little stimulated 
without exciting much dread of the excess into 
which it might hurry them," as said by him- 
self in his appendix to the illustrated edition 
of his Afelodies. 

Among the names of others who have con- 
tributed to the merited fame of Irish music is 
that of .Samuel Lover, previously referred to, 
whose "Molly Bawn," "Rory O'More," 
"Angel's Whisper" and "True Love Can Ne'er 
Forget," will always be held in favor by all 
who admire the best Irish music ; and for Rev. 
Francis Mahoney's "Bells of Shandon," 
adapted to the air of "Groves of Blarney," a 
music-loving people will ever be grateful. The 
words and music are so fitted to each other in 
this song that the listener almost fancies that 
he hears the tolling of the bells, so wonderful 
and striking is the combination. 

But in a brief article, as already stated, it 
would not be possible to make reference to the 
many names which so brightly illumine the 
pages of Ireland's musical history, or to speak 
of the large number of priceless bits of melody 
and sentiment marked by collectors as 
"Anonymous," but Caloran, the greatest of all 
Irish musicians and characterized as the "last 
of the Irish bards," Thomas Davis, Gerald 
Griffin, Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Darcy 
M'Gee, together with the host of others, all 
find their worshippers, and not without good 
cause. 

It is said of the great Handel that he de- 
clared he would rather be the composer of 
"Eileen Aroon," than the most exquisite of his 
compositions. The air is very old and un- 
mistakably Irish, though frequently claimed 
by the Scotch in connection with "Robin 
Adair," the hero of which song was also Jrish, 
being born not far from the birth-place of 
Goldsmith, in the county Longford. The 
words are supposed to have been written by 
Lady Caroline Keppel, with whom Adair was 
associated in a romantic love affair, she set- 
ting the words to "Eileen Aroon," which she 
heard him sing. 

So, too, with Moore's enchanting song of 
"The Last Rose of Summer," there are those 
who without investigation imagine that be- 
cause Flotow thought it worthy of introduc- 
tion into his opera of "Martha" that he is to be 
credited with composing that long famous 
music, whereas the fact is that Moore adapted 
his verses to the old Irish melody, "The 
Groves of Blarney." 

Music, to be of worth, should have a tluuiglit 
in it, the graceful expression of which con- 
stitutes the charm of success. 

In this respect do Irish songs especially 
excel, and therein lies the secret of their faci- 
nating influence, for their simple eloquence, 
both in words and music, rarely fails to touch 
the head or the heart of the listener. This is 
particularly true when the singer, either by 
birth or tendency, is able to sympathize and 
share in the feeling of the poet or composer, and 
while it can be but a source of pride and ad- 
miration that the songs of Ireland com- 
mend themselves to singers of other nations, 
still, in order that the tlunigitt may be ex- 
pressed — that the story be told as it should be 



told — it requires for a singer eitiier an Irisli 
man or Irish woman, or if not, one at least of 
Irish blood and Irish sympathies. 

It is to be regretted that in this free land 
and age, when the sons and daughters of 
Irishmen are no longer limited in the full exer- 
cise of their talents and capaliilities, that a 
false and evil style of so-called Irish music 
sliould be written simply to tickle the idle, 
fleeting fancy, for it can have no higher aim 
The contemptible street ballad, or whatever 
else it may be called, will bear no comparison 
with the racy, vigorous minstrelsy of old. 
There are few people more easily swayed or 
more susceptible to the influence of song than 
the Irish. Why, then, will they permit or en- 
courage or indulge in the worse than common- 
place — the coarse and vulgar? 

As their eloquence has never been sur- 
passed, so, too, is the fountain of their song as 
deep and inexhaustible as the ocean. 

"Moore's Melodies" are said to have assisted 
powerfully in achieving Catholic emancipa- 
tion by creating a sympathy for Ireland's 
wrongs wherever they penetrated. Let us, 
who cherish the good name and the success of 
the race from which we've sprung, see to it 
that our efforts in this particular field, as well 
as in all others, will have an influence in an 
equally laudable and praiseworthy direction. 



Correspondence. 

"About Folks." 

Dear Light : — I like that caption of yours. 
It is a good and a durable one. Your theme 
will never wear out. I trust and believe that 
having arrived, "Light" has come to stay as 
long as there are folks, and folks to be talked 
about and who need talking to. Said a^ 
gushing young maiden of 45, or thereabouts, 
referring to her sire, a bright old boy of 90, 
"Pa always did like folks, and 'pears to me he 
likes them this year better than ever." Prob- 
ably at his time of life the nonagenarian had 
concluded to waive all distinctions and take 
"folks" just as they come. I don't think this 
will do for Light, nor for me. There are 
folks and folks, and some folks are only to be 
catalogued as "warious." 

I want to talk about one class of folks who 
annoy me greatly, and what is worse, have no 
consciousness of annoying me at all, and when 
I say me I mean all of us, for we are all alike 
and know when cold freezes and fire burns. I 
want sturdily to deprecate a class who will be 
astonished to learn how wretched is the 
sympathy they give ; for they call it sympathy 
and pride themselves on it I doubt not. Let 
me illustrate. One long an invalid just regaining 
convalescence appears in the street cars. How 
important that everything in the fresh contact 
of open air and friendly intercourse shall tell 
in the direction of health and full recovery. 
Why cannot every word from friends be in the 
pull for encouragement. "You are better, I see 
you are. It is good to be abroad. Why you 
look stronger. I am sure you do." 

Not thus, one of the folks I have in mind, but 
instead, this. "Why how wretchedly you 
do look. Scarcely able to be out, aren't 
you? I never saw you look so pale. Have 
you tried Flummery's Squill Balsam." Or 
this "Why I never saw you look so dreadfully. 
I should not think you would dare to be out 



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L)o go right home. I know you ought not to be 
out." And the poor convalescent with the .slowly 
recovering pulse turned to faintness loses all 
they came out to gain. I once had suflicicnt 
interest in one invalid thus assailed, to make 
me glad to turn upon the assailant with, "1 
saw your husband yesterday, how wrctcliedly 
he does look (Mem. He never had a sick day 
in his life and he could bolt and digest a sole 
leather cutlet.) I wondered if he ought not to 
take something— liolus Hitter Halm is excellent 
for the system." She was kept so busy de- 
fending her husband's state of health that she 
let my invalid alone. Hut the recourse will do 
to remember. Try it yourself on one of 
these owls; and they are not all of the male 
persuasion. 

Now I despair of reaching a tithe of these 
offenders through the medium of Light, but 
if some one can find the fault amended, and 
will teach others in the way, and those otlier 
some, we shall have the miracle of "Ten times 
one are ten." But alas, I fear that not one in 
ten who has the odious habit of gabble to the 
invalid thus manifesting itself can be cured. 
More Anon. 

Intercollegiate Athletics. 

Willi. \M.s Colle(;e, Willi.\.msto\v.\. 

To the Editor of Light : — A statement to 
tlie effect that Person, '91, of Williams college, 
had recently made a record in the pole vault 
of 9 ft. S^i in. recently appeared in the press. 
For the information of the Tech men who may 
be disheartened at such news, allow me to say 
that such statement was based upon false in- 
formation. The record refered to was only 
8 ft. g)i in. This has since been broken. 

Williams. 

The above information comes from one of 
Light's friends at Williams and is undoubt- 
edly authentic ; but it is not surprising that 
the statement referred to was widely used, as 
it was sent over the Associated Press wire and 
appeared in the Boston Herald and Globe and 
other papers. The Tech men will be glad to 
know that it is not true. If the information 
did not come direct from the college, however, it 
would be one of those things which must be 
taken with the usual grain of salt. The season 
for the colleges to put up their annual game of 
"bluff" has now arrived and each one will try 
to depreciate its own prowess. It is the 
regular thing. But in the present case there 
appears to be no room to doubt that the exist- 
ing statement of record was wrong. 



Church Choirs in England. 



Throughout England, nearly every church 
has either an orphanage, or some sort of 
charity school, in a way dependent upon it, and 
from these schools the church generally forms 
it's choirs. The musical material from them 
is of the very best order, for the children's 
voices and tastes have been cultivated and im- 
proved from the time of their entrance to the 
institutions. Boy choirs are the most numer- 
ous, of course, but at Saint Marylebone, the 
fine surpliced choir is assisted at all services by 
the "charity girls," who have been made 
familiar to us by means of their much copied 
photograph. These demure little maids are 
in dark green dresses, white kerchiefs and 



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caps, the only bit of color to set off their modest 
cuteness being their long yellow mitts. Last 
Easter these united choirs rendered parts of 
the Messi.ih and Redemption with great merit. 
The .soloists were remarkably fine, the boys 
being full and true to the pitch. 

This choir seemed to be just wliat church 
music should be. The voices were in the 
training and under the leadership of musicians 
and no power could in any way gratify per- 
sonal ends or ambitions by turning this or that 
one "out." These choirs are ready for regular 
or special services at all times, for they re- 
liear.se daily, an hour at a time. When a boy's 
voice changes, he is promoted to either a tenor 
or bass vacancy, or should his voice fail him, 
there are offices in the church that his educa- 
tion in it enables him to fill. 

Some of our finest singers have come from 
the choirs of English churches. Maas, whom 
we all remember so well as the noblest voiced 
tenor ever at a Worcester Festival, as well as 
Lloyd and Shakespeare, are from the ranks of 
the choir boys. 

The choir at St. Paul's,— behind the screen 
that is causing so much controversy between 
high and low church men in London — is lis- 
tened to every afternoon at four by crowds. 
Sir John Stainer, so long organist and direc- 
tor, gave this choir a wonderful insight into 
his composition, and it is worth a long journey 
several times a week in order to hear, only 
once, possibly, his "Seven-fold Amen." The 
present choir-master keeps up the high stand- 
ard, yet the leader who gave the choir its repu- 
tation is greatly missed. The choir at West- 
minster Abbey is wonderfully trained, too, the 
soprano and alto of the boys' voices being as 
full and vibrant as the female voice. Delight- 
ful services, too, are those at some of the 
larger schools. To hear the voices of 800 
boys at Eton join with the choir in 
anthems and sentences, as well as in the fine 
old hymns, is peculiarly impressive. 

A climb to the little church at Harrow-on- 
the-Hill is amply repaid by the music there. 
Byron at one time was choir boy at Harrow 
and so reminiscence and music make .Sunday 
afternoon there charming. A large flat tomb- 
stone, upon which he scratched his name, is 
shown as the seat and desk upon which he 
wrote Childe Harold. The view from the 
church yard is one of the most beautiful in all 
England. Away off in the horizon rises 
Windsor Castle, and at its left are Burnham 
woods, and between them and us lie the rich 
juicy green meadows, crossed here and there 
by hedges and dotted with occasional trees. 
.\ow and then a flock of sheep or herd of 
cattle gives a bit of life to the landscape, and 
along the white road, as we look, may be com- 
ing a spanking four-in-hand, the "tally ho !" of 
the post boy and the tolling of church bells 
being the only sounds we will hear in the quiet 
and beautiful spot. 

Bay State Lodge, Non-Secret Endowment 
Order, No. 10. held its business meeting, at 
the Burnside building, Thursday evening. Mr. 
C. A. Hapgood presided. Songs were ren- 
dered by Mr. Charles H. Smith and Mr. 
Frank T. Patch. Mr. E. H. Franklin gave 
selected readings. Remarks were made by 
Dr. W. T. Souther, Dr. E. H. Trowbridge and 
Mr. E. W. Coffin. 



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About Folks. 



Mr. Charles E. Stevens has been for some 
time preparing a book which is to be unique in 
its character and something which in years to 
come will be one of the most valued treasures 
in any Worcester library. Mr. Stevens's book 
is entitled "Worcester Churches," and it gives 
the ecclesiastical history of the city from the 
foundation of the First church (Old South) in 
17 19, down to the present day. The history is 
absolutely accurate. Mr. Stevens has spent a 
great deal of time and energy in collating his 
material and has now a perfect record. The 
work is comprehensive, including all denomina- 
tions, and it will be illustrated by 16 plates, 
process pictures of various church buildings. 
This book is a labor of love on Mr. Stevens's 
part, and he is to sell it at a price which will 
simply pay expenses. Only 100 copies have 
been printed, and it will be an edition tie luxe, 
each copy being signed and numbered. Mr. 
Lucius P. Goddard has done the mechanical 
work in handsome style, the book being printed 
on heavy cream laid paper, in old style type, and 
each page is provided with marginal column for 
notes which the owner may desire to make, 
thus enhancing its value to himself and who- 
ever may receive the book after him. Mr. 
Stevens's venture is entirely private, and the 
book has been subscribed for by prominent 
citizens who appreciate the worth of such a 
volume. The book has not yet been issued, 
as it has not come from the binder's hands. 



The Philadelphia Literary society was or- 
ganized in 1875. It was a flourishing society 
until 1882, and was the leading debating soci- 
ety in the city. Frequently public debates and 
literary exercises were given in Mechanics 
and Washburn halls, always to crowded 
houses. No admission was ever charged to 
any of the entertainments except course enter- 
tainments, at which leading musical ar- 
tists and lecturers of the country were heard. 
The society recently met, and decided to hold 
a reunion of the Bay State house, on the even- 
ing of April 8th, and elected Hon. A. S. Pink- 
erton, A. A. McLaughlin, Mr. W. H. Stod- 
dard, Mr. H. Wesby, and Mr. George S. 
Hatch a committee to perfect all arrangements. 
Hon. A. S. Pinkerton was chosen toast- 
master. The banquet will be one of the finest 
ever served at the Bay State house, and the 
post-prandial exercises promise to be rich and 
glowing with reminiscences of the old society. 
Every member is expected to be present. 
Supper tickets have been placed in the hands 
of the committee. It is expected that plates 
will be laid for fully 75. 

The Wheelock Engine Company is com- 
fortably settled in its new quarters on South- 
gate street. The new building was constructed 
from plans drawn by President E. K. Hill 
and Treasurer E. F. Tolman. The factory 
is 152.X90 feet, with monitor roof, and wide 
central span. It is of brick and has windows 
10 feet high, eight feet wide, and with only two 
foot spaces apiece between them. The struc- 
ture is but one story high, and the principal 
weight of the building is sustained by the 
beams and girders so joined together that only 
tlie outer roof rests on the brick piers between 
side windows. The main, or tool room, con- 



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tains a ten ton travelling crane, its tracks sup- 
ported by the turret beams. This monster 
crane is to be equipped with electric motors. 
The boiler room of the new factory contains a 
Hazelton boiler, the first of this description to 
be set up in Worcester. In all the firm has 
two acres of land, clear and level in itself. 
The company are about to set up the first of a 
set of six engines of 500 horse-power to run a 
Thomson-Houston plant at Indianapolis, Ind. 



Messrs. C. Leslie Chamberlain, Herbert F. 
Blood and George O. Bridges are arranging 
for a fancy dance party, to be given at Insur- 
ance and Ideal halls, Wednesday evening, 
April 9. The party is entirely a private affair. 



Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., preached at 
Wellesley college, Sunday, Feb. 16, and a day 
or two ago he received from one of the young 
ladies a letter, written in behalf of her class- 
mates, expressing their great interest in the 
sermon, and a desire to preserve it in perman- 
ent form. The writer requested permission to 
use Dr. Thomas's manuscript in obtaining 
copies for the large number who desired to 
preserve the sermon. Dr. Thomas will com- 
ply with the request. 



As yet the amount of proceeds from the 
Pilgrim gymnasium entertainment has not 
been fully ascertained. Mr. Fred Knight de- 
sires to obtain all returns from those selling 
tickets before making the announcement, and 
feels confident that the results will go far to- 
ward liquidation of the debt resting upon 
the gymnasium. On the 6th of May, it 
is proposed to present the final entertainment 
of this season, which promises to be an attrac- 
tive and novel affair. The platform is to be 
enlarged, and the seating capacity developed, 
so that no inconvenience to the audience can 
occur, as the entire exhibition is to be given 
from the platform. Mr. Knight and Mr. 
Havener are already arranging for the event, 
which is certain to prove an enjoyable one. 



Miss Ada M. Bickford entertained the 
Eureka Whist club at her home, 122 Chandler 
street, Wednesday evening, those present be- 
ing Messrs. E. D. Miller, George H. Salie, 
Fred W. Hoppin, and Mr. Fish, Will M. Riedl, 
Frank Norton, Misses Sadie A. Hetherington, 
Clara E. Norton, Emma Buck, Grace Green, 
and Grace Peacock. Miss Hetherington won 
first prize for ladies, and the booby went to 
Miss Norton. Mr. Salie won first prize for 
gentlemen and Mr. Miller the booby. The 
club meets next with Miss Norton, April 2. 



What was planned as a sleighing party, but, 
owing to the condition of the roads, was 
changed to a wheeling party, left William 
street, Thursday night, for Paxton. The mem- 
bers of the party were the guests of Mr. and 
Mrs. E. M. Merrill of this city, who kindly 
opened their summer residence for their enter- 
tainment. 



The Young People's Society of Christian 
Endeavor, of Pilgrim church, will give an 
entertainment at Pilgrim hall, Tuesday even- 
ing. The numbers will include songs, read- 
ings and banjo duets. Tickets have been 
placed at a dime. 



K. SiMMONDS, 

FINE MILLINERY GOODS, 

294 Main Street. 



The ladies of Worcester and vicinity are cordially in- 
vited to inspect my stock of Spring Millinery at my 
opening, -which continues Monday, Tuesday and 
Wednesday, March 24, 25 and 26. Ladies desiring to 
purchase an Easter hat or bonnet should do so now and 
avoid the Easter rush. 



K. 5innoNb5, 

294 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 



San Miguel Gold Placers Co. 

of colorado, 
gen'l benj. f. butler, president. 
c. e. parker, vice-president, 
james gilfillan, treas., ex-treas. of u. s. 
joseph torrey, secretary. 

Boston, Mar. 20, 1890. 
Publishers of Light, 
Gentlemen: 

We have advertised in 
Worcester County more or less 
for the past eight months. We 
have advertised regularly there 
for the past three months, and we 
note with surprise that since the 
first appearance of our advertise- 
ment in Light we have received 
nearly twice as many letters as 
during the previous three months, 
We think it but just to you to 
state the fact, which is of great 
interest to advertisers. 
Yours truly, 

C. E. Parker. 

VISITING CARDS-HAND WORK. 

Also Wedding Cards, Menus, Invitations, Etc., printed 
in the very best manner with pen by hand. Makes a 
much handsomer effect than job work or engraving. 
Prices less than ordinary job work. Prompt delivery. 
Send address on postal, and receive free samples of card 
and invitation work. Box 653, Westboro, Mass. 



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Literary. 



Miss Grace Livingston, whose new book, "A 
Little Sen-ant," has found instant favor with 
Sunday-school teachers and scholars, is one of 
the brightest and most trusted lieutenants of 
that favorite writer and editor, "Pansy." Mrs. 
Alden herself strongly commends "A Little 
Servant" as helpful, tender and pure. 

The success of Mrs. M. E. W. .Sherwood's 
charming story, "Sweet-brier," shows that 
girls and mothers alike are ready to welcome 
so delightful a chaperon through the intrica- 
cies of modern society as Mrs. Sherwood, and 
so excellent a code of social ethics told in 
story form as the events in "Sweet-brier." 

Sallie Joy White's second and concluding 
article on "Newspaper Workers," in the busi- 
ness series for girls, is in our April Wide 
Awake. Mrs. White, as president of the New 
England Woman's Press association, writes 
from large experience. 

One of the most charming stories that W. 
D. Howells has ever vrritten is "The Lady of 
.\roostook," which has passed through many 
editions in its more expensive form, and has 
never lost its hold upon the affections of the 
lovers of the best class of novels. It is es- 
pecially delightful in its pictures of New Eng- 
land characters, in its delicate portrayal of 
the sea voyage in which simplicity and gentle- 
manly honor neutralize compromising situa- 
tions, and in its graphic scenes of old world 
customs and social usages. 

The Ceiifury for April will contain two full- 
page engravings, by Timothy Cole, the en- 
graver, each subject being a "Madonna and 
Child," by Giovanni Bellini ; namely, the 
famous altar-pieces in the church of S. Zac- 
caria and the church of the Frari in Venice. 
The conductors of the Century claim that 
modern wood engraving has never been put to 
such valuable and permanent use as in this 
series of engravings made by Cole in the very- 
presence of the greatest pictures. The origi- 
nal relations of tone which are so sadly con- 
fused in the photographs, especially in those 
of the Venetian school, are retained in all the 
accuracy possible to black-and-white. Burne- 
Jones has declared that nothing so good has 
ever been done of the Italian masters, and 
that the photographs are not to be compared 
to them, Hifbert says that he had no concep- 
tion that wood engraving could be made to do 
such excellent work. Mr. Stillman's articles 
in themselves form a little history of Italian 
art, and the series has now- reached the paint- 
ers in which there is the broadest popular in- 
terest. 

Miss Agnes Maule Machar, who has a most 
appreciative sonnet on Browning in the March 
Century, is the author of a new book just pub- 
lished by the D. Loth'rop company, "Stories of 
New France," a romance of Canadian his- 
tory. The book has received the approval of 
Canadian critics, readers and educators, and 
has already been twice ordered to binding by 
the publishers to meet the growing demand. 

The complete novel in the April number of 
Lippincott's magazine will be contributed bv 
the famous novelist. Christian Reid, and will 
be entitled "A Cast for Fortune." 

"Athletics and Manly Sports," by John 
Boyle O'Reilly, has reached a second edition, 
which is issued by the Pilot Publishing com- 



LI(i HT 

pany in a greatly enlarged form. To it is 
added an accoimt of the exploration of the 
Great Dismal Swamp, a number of illustra- 
tions from photographs accompanying the 
text. 

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., pulilish in pa- 
per covers a second edition of "Five Hundred 
Dollars, and Other Stories of New England 
Life," by Heman W. Chaplin; a volume .so 
good that one can but profoundly regret that 
its author devoted his talents to law rather 
than to fiction. 

All lovers of natural history will be pleased 
to learn that the Cassell Publishing company 
is about to issue a life of the late I^v. J. <;. 
Wood, clergyman, author, and lecturer upon 
natural history. Mr. Wood has entertained 
many readers with his own writings, and now 
its story of his life will entertain, let us hope, 
as many more. The book is agreeably written 
and abounds in incident and adventure. 



Not Very Funny. 

Some Interviews by Puck. 

Interviewer: — Mr. Harrison, what do 
you think of our immediate outlook ? 

The President:— Rather squally. The 
baby has suffered a great deal from the colic } 

Interviewer: — Good morning, General 
Boulanger. 

The General: — Good morning, sir. 

Interviewer : — You are looking well, sir. 

The General: — Really? So glad to hear 
it. It's so long since I've seen or heard of 
myself that I was beginning to feel that I was 
not visible to the naked eye. 

Interviewer: — Is it true, general, that you 
are under the weather? 

General Greeley : — Quite the reverse, 
sir. The weather is under me. 

Interviewer: — Your majesty is looking 
happy and well-fed this moring. You must tip 
the scales at a very pretty figure. 

Queen Victoria : — Sir, go to ! My figure 
has ne'er been called pretty; except by cour- 
tiers; and as for my waist, it is nothing when 
compared to that of my son, Albert Edward 
George Henry James H. Peter John Saxe- 
Coburg, Esq., Prince of Wales. 



The Evolution of the Love Letter. 

IN THE TI.ME of THE PHARAOHS. 

Daughter of the Lotos, whose smile is so 
like unto the rising of the three suns, and 
whose eyes are brighter than the golden she- 
kels of thy father, the money-changer, etc., 
etc. 

IN herrick's tlme. 

To Mistresse Dorinda Sweetleigh — Beaute- 
ous Mayde — Howe canne i Make attempte 
with thisse vile & Unworthie Penne to dy- 
scribe thy Manie Charmynge perfections, etc., 
etc. 

IN pk.\ctical 1S90. 

Dear Miss Murryhill: I admire you e.x- 
tremely. Which is it — yes or no ? The mes- 
senger will wait for an answer. 

Yours faithfully, 
John Williams. 
Dictated to stenographer. 

—ruck. 



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clique. At closing, #j,ooo,oou asked, $15,000 
bid. 

Itai.ias Princes:— The market has been 
entirely ruined by overproduction, (ioodsthat 
once went off readily at 8400,000 to 8500,000 
are now a mere drug, and sell slowly at two for 
five cents. 

Enci.ish Peers:- This is still gilt-edged 
stock, and even the heavily bonded Lssues are 
above par. Prime dukes are firm at high fig- 
ures ; middling earls are a little easier, while 
rommon baronets show a slight further de- 
cline. 

Austrian ARciiurKKs :— Dull and de- 
pressed, and regarded with suspicion by in- 
vestors. There is some talk of a syndicate in 
these goods, but no influential names are men- 
tioned in connection with the movement. 

German Counts:- Cable advices from 
Hamburg report light shipmenLs, and the de- 
mand is very sluggish. This class of stock 
still finds a certain degree of favor in the west, 
and a prominent Chicago tea .store is giving 
them instead of chromos with every pound of 
tea.— J/;/«j<7'j- Weekly. 



The Market of Tone. 

French Dukes : — Weak, not having re- 
covered from the bear attacks of the Caldwell 



Protested. 

A Cliicago salesman recently sold a bill of 
shoes to the keeper of a general store in one 
of the Lfpper Peninsula coundes. The buyer 
asked for time, and, as the man owned a 
house and a farm, the jobber agreed to take 
a note on four months. It was to be made 
payable at a bank in a neighboring city. The 
salesman was instructed to impress on the 
storekeeper the importance of taking up the 
paper when due. A blank note was sent on 
for signature. 

"Now, Mr. ," said the salesman, "you 

must be at the bank the day this note is due, 
with the money to pay it, or it will be pro- 
tested." 

"What will happen then ?" 

"Why, you will have to pay the cost of the 
protest, in addition to the amount of the 
note." 

"Oh, well, just add tlie cost of the prote.st 
now, and I will give a note for the w-hole 
\.\\\n^.— The Jeweler. 



Requisites For a Theatre Party. 

He: — Let's go to the theatre to-night, and 
ask the Bragdon-lvers to go w-ith us. Do you 
think I'd better get a box? 

The Bride. — Oh, no, don't get a box. 
What's the use of it? The Bragdon-lvers are 
not very talkative, you know, and I am so 
hoarse I can't talk above a whisper myself. — 

Life. 

What Could He Say? 

Husb.AND: — Now-, dear, you must admit 
that you often talk too much. 

Wife : — I never spoke but one word too 
many in my life. 

Husband : — And when was that, pray ? 

Wife : — When I said "yes" when you a.sked 
me if I would marry you. 



All Right, Nevertheless. 

Marie : — Did the marriage ceremony come 
off all right? 

Louise : — Yes ; still it can't be said that 
there wasn't a hitch in the proceedings.— 
Munsey''s Weekly. 



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L I (i M T 



A Woman of E xpedients. 

BY KATE M. CLEARV. 



"Everything in ?" 

Mr. Pierce gave his brown leather travelling 
bag an interrogatory shake as he took it up. 
"Certainly, Dave." 

"Well, good-bye then ! I'll be back on Wed- 
nesday. I hope you and Myrtle won't be ner- 
vous." 

"Oh, no !" replied Mrs. Pierce. "We'll 
fasten all the doors and windows securely." 

She was a little, wiry, energetic, brown- 
skinned woman of about 35. She had snap- 
ping black eyes, a good deal of gold filling in 
her teeth, and was evidently possessed of the 
most complete self-confidence. 

"But the kitchen window wont't fasten, Mi- 
randa. What is worse, it won't even close. I 
pushed it up this evening, to throw a lump of 
coal after that dog of Bruce's, that was in our 
back yard, and it stuck fast. I tugged my 
best, but couldn't get it down. We will have 
a carpenter fix it. Be sure you send for one 
to-morrow. But to-night — " 

"Now don't you worry, Dave," advised Mrs. 
Pierce, briskly. I'll fi.\ that window. You 
know I am a woman of expedients." 
"Well, good-bye, Miranda !" 
He bobbed his sandy head and gave her the 
brief, business-like kiss which ' expresses as 
much affection as a dig in the ribs. 
"Good-bye, Myrtle!" 
"Good-bye, pa !" said Myrtle. 
She was an angular child of 12, with a pale, 
hatchet face, a pair of round, watery blue eyes, 
and an air of alert timidity. 

"And now," said Mrs. Pierce, bristling with 
expedients, "we will see to that window." 

She was locking the door after her liege 
lord. 
"How, ma?" 

"Come and help !" was the terse and indi- 
rect reply. 

The house was a frame dwelling, which 
stood in the meagre grounds allotted to the 
majority of even those city houses which are 
not rigidly "blocked." 

The kitchen window looked out on a narrow 
strip of back yard, which ran directly to the 
alley in the rear. 

Airs. Pierce lit the gas, revealing myriads of 
water bugs scutding around the room. 
"Oh, ma !" 
"Well .'" 

She was exerting all her strength to put 
down the perverse window. 

"I'm so afraid of the bugs. Let's go up- 
stairs !" 

"It's burglars, not bugs, you'll have to be 
afraid of if we don't get this window fixed," 
gasped Mrs. Pierce with grim emphasis, as 
she realized her efforts to persuade the obdu- 
rate frame were futile as her husband's had 
been. 

"We'll have to go down stairs and bring up 
a couple of washtubs," she added. 

Her particular ability was beginning to e.x- 
hibit itself. 

When they had brought the tubs upstairs 
and placed them before the window, they filled 
them from the kitchen faucet. 

Between them she placed a chair, and there- 
on balanced frying pans, bread pans, gem 
pans, jelly cake pans and pie pans. 



Then she produced a hammer, a string and 
a couple of double pointed tacks. 

The tacks she drove in lightly at each side 
of the window casing and ran the string 
through. One end of it .she tied to the handle 
of the dinner bell and the other around the 
neck of a bottle of ammonia. 

Direcdy in front of the sill she placed a 
large mustard can, with the lid very lightly laid 
on. 

It did not contain anything so mild as mus- 
tard, though. It was filled to the brim with 
cayenne pepper — Natal cayenne at that. 

"Now," declared Mrs. Pierce, stepping back 
to view the result of her labor, "if any burglar 
gets in there without our hearing him, it's a 
queer story. He's certain to flounder into the 
water, knock down the tins, ring the bell, 
break the bottle of ammonia and get the red 
pepper into his eyes into the bargain. And 
serve him right, too,'' in aggrieved anticipation 
of a possible intruder. 

Myrtle's round eyes were rounder than ever. 
"Oh, ma, it's worse than dynamite, ain't it ? 
Oh, ma, you're an awful smart woman. Ain't 
you, ma ?" 

Miranda Pierce smiled the smile of appre- 
ciated supremacy. But she only answered 
modestly : — 
"I have a genius for expedients. Myrtle." 
When, after having made a final reviewing 
round of the house they went upstairs to bed, 
the spouse of David Pierce produced a re- 
volver, which she tucked under her pillow. 

"Now if we hear the crash in the kitchen. 
Myrtle, I'll just open the window, fire off the 
revolver, and yell, 'Police !' " 

Myrtle shuddered reverentially at such a he- 
roic resolution. 

"Oh, ma, you're awful brave !" she whis- 
pered, as she got into bed and covered her 
head up tightly in the clothes. 

The night wore on — a warm, moist, dark 
August night. Mrs. Pierce, profoundly confi- 
dent of the success of her barricade, should 
an entrance be attempted — or rather assured 
in such a case she would be aroused, and 
brimful of other equally clever e.\pedients — 
went placidly to sleep. But wide awake, half 
suffocated, shaking with terror. Myrtle cow- 
ered by her side. 
Eleven ! 

How could her mother sleep when those 
terrible burglars might even now be creeping 
up the back yard ? Another hour of agony 
dragged by. 
Twelve ! 

There was the clink of a bell as it clattered 
to the floor, an appalling rattle of falling tins, 
and then a series of yells and growns and 
howls. 

"Oh, ma !" quavered Myrtle, as a tremen- 
dous sneeze from the floor below terminated in 
? bellow of pain. 

"It's the pepper getting in its work, my 
dear !" explained Mrs. Pierce, as she 
grabbed her weapon and sprang out of bed. 

Across the room she rushed, flung up the 
window, fired off the revolver as she had re- 
solved, and shouted, "Police ! burglars ! pa- 
trol 1" at the very top of her shrill, sharp 
voice. 

From the houses on either side heads popped 
out. 

"What is it ?" cried the neighbors. 



They were still rather dazed by their rude 
awakening. 

"It's burglars, burglars, burglars !" screamed 
Mrs. Pierce. 

A half garbed male figure went flying down 
the steps of the adjoining house, andr an rap- 
idly toward the patrol box at the corner. 

And still the floundering, noisy, sneezing 
stampede in the kitchen continued. 

"We never would have caught the scoundrel 
— never!" cried Miranda Pierce, her black 
eyes glittering w'ith exultation, "if I had not 
happened to be a woman of expediments !" 

The neighbors were flocking up the steps 
now. 

Mrs. Pierce was not reckless, if extraordi- 
narily prompt in emergencies. She did not 
rush down to meet them. She threw the door 
key out of the window, and told them to open 
the door. 

When she did so, she slipped a wrapper over 
her night gown, and joined them. 

Behind her, holding to the tail of her gown, 
slunk poor little Myrtle, her teeth chattering 
like castanets, and the great big frightened 
lumps in her throat almost choking her. 
"Where is he ?" 
"Oh, the rascal !" 
"Is Mr. Pierce out of town ?" 
"What keeps the patrol ?" 
"Can he have escaped?" 
"No, I hear him." 
"Just listen to that !" 

"That" was a perfect fusillade of groans, 
kicks, oaths, sneezes. 

Despite the excited chatter going on around 

her, Mrs. Pierce was cool, Mrs. Pierce was 

collected. Indeed, she was actually beaming. 

What did men do, who, unlike Dave, had 

incapable and brainless wives ? 

Her burglar alarm had been effective. The 
scamp was most likely so blinded by the red 
pepper he could not find his way out. 

Who was it said a woman had no inventive 
genius ? 

She would be praised for her brilliant pru- 
dence. Perhaps — ecstatic thought! — she 
might even be written up in the papers un- 
der the caption of "Heroic Mrs. Pierce," or 
"A Brave, Brainy Woman." 

"Hark !" some one said ; here is the patrol 
wagon !" 

And there it was, to be sure, dashing up to 
the door with a great flourish. 

The officers leaped out — entered the Pierce 
residence. 

All the crowding, half-clad individuals in the 
front hall commenced proffering clamorous 
explanations. 

"Which is the lady of the house ?" de- 
manded an officer. 

"I am," modestly proclaimed Miranda; "and 
if it were not that I am a woman of expedients, 
this contemptible law breaker would not be so 
neatly trapped." 

And she positively grew as she uttered her 
laudatory remark. 

"Oh, come on !" growled the officer. 
Hurt but uncrushed by his brusqueness, she 
held the kerosene night lamp over her head, 
and followed by Myrtle, the policemen and the 
ever increasing group of neighbors led the 
way. 

"There he is I" she cried, as she flung open 
the kitchen door. 



Myrtle gave a howl of terror. 

"Yes, there he is !" corroborated the neigh- 
bors. 

The officers advanced ; so did Mrs. Pierce; 
so did those following. 

And this they saw : A room littered with 
scattered tins and broken glass — a room 
flooded with water — the air unbearably pug- 
nant with the odor of ammonia and floating 
particles of cayenne pepper ; and in the midst 
of all, seated on one of the overturned tubs, 
his elbows on his knees, his head held in his 
hands, groaning and moaning at an agonizing 
rate — the intruder! 

"The bloodthirsty wretch !" exclaimed Mrs. 
Pierce. 

"Hush up; he might shoot!" murmured a 
cautious neighbor. 

"Officers, do your duty !" loftily commanded 
the young man who was studying tragic reci- 
tations. 

But they all were now sneezing in such a 
conclusive manner that an attempt to secure 
the midnight marauder was necessarily spas- 
modic. 

"Come ! (a-chew !) You are under arrest ! 
(t-t-chew!) Help here, boys ! Confound that 
pepper !"' 

The man on the tub raised his head. He 
looked around. 

Mrs. Pierce gave a shriek of dismay. 

"Oh, pa!" yelled Myrtle. 

The officers fell back. Those of the neigh- 
bors who could speak between sneezing began 
to question and explain. 

The man they had come to capture rose — 
spoke. 

"I missed the train (t-chu-u !) I went to the 
lodge for a couple of hours. I thought my 
wife might have failed (a-tchew — oo-oo !) to fix 
this window, and I — ah" 

He went off in another paroxysm. 

A ludicrous and yet pitiful appearance he 
presented. 

He was dripping from a tumble in the tub, 
dirty from a stumbling collision with the coal 
hod, cut by the battering shower of pots and 
pans, perfumed with ammonia, and evidencing 
every symptom of a most aggravated case of 
hay fever. 

"Why didn't you use your latch key, Dave ?" 
asked Miranda. 

"Because I left 't behind in the pocket of my 
old (chu-hu-ooo !) suit !" with an angry glare. 

"Or — or !" more faintly, "ring the bell ?" 

"When the bell is broken?" he inquired, 
with crushing sarcasm. 

"Oh!" murmured Miranda. 

She quite wilted. 

Never again did she dare refer to herself as 
a woman of expedients. 



Words of Others. 

Sale of Objectionable Books. 

The fact can not be ignored that there are 
classes of books unfitted, by their essential 
or incidental character, for popular circulation 
in our day, some of which have a historic or 
literary interest which makes their sale legiti- 
mate within certain limitations, and others of 
which have no real right of being. One of the 
most serious problems before the book trade is 
as to how far censorship should be tolerated in 



L I Ci H T 

regard to literature of this kind and what is 
the duty of the trade in regard to the sale of 
these classes of works. As a matter of fact, 
the que.stion is usually treated in a most un- 
fortunate way. For instance, one of the New 
York dailies some time since printed a severe 
criticism of a book of poems, singling out and 
publishing passages which it considered the 
most objectionable. The book was, as a 
matter of fact, of high poetic quality, and 
would in itself have commanded the attention 
of a limited class of buyers, who would care, 
more for the essential poetry than for the 
incidental features which the criticism was so 
careful to bring out. Whether this kind of 
review, which really panders to the lower ap- 
petites while aiming to promote virtue by 
severe criticism, was in this case a piece of 
hypocrisy or earnestness, it is not our business 
at the moment to inquire. The result was, 
however, a wide sale for the book and the pub- 
lication of a second edition, including "poems 
previously excluded by the advice of publishers 
and friends," which would sell probably on the 
strength, not of the poetry, but of the notoriety 
caused by the incidental features of the book. 
Everything that exploits a book as particularly 
bad is pretty sure to increase the badness by 
giving it wider promulgation. — Piiblisliei's 
Weekly. 
Temperate Temperance. 

The experience of the world has been that the 
greatest success attends temperance wars that 
are fought temperately. Intemperance in laws 
or in the application of temperate laws works 
more injury than good. We believe that one 
good woman can do more for the cause of 
temperance by her words and influence as a 
womanly woman than can a dozen women with 
hatchets breaking in the heads of whisky bar- 
rels.— .S"(z// Lake Herald. 
Methods of Teaching. 

Imperfect education fosters delusion. 
Education can have no more important aim 
than to equip pupils with the best known 
methods for the recognition of truth. The old 
studies of our schools do nothing toward train- 
ing the young in examining evidence and 
forming judgments. Science should have an 
important place in every school program; 
it should be introduced in the lowest grades, in 
order to give the child's unfolding faculties the 
proper bent; and it should be continued 
throughout the school course in order to save 
the half-formed habit of intelligent inquiry 
from being lost by an interruption of its exer- 
cise. Our children could well afford to grow 
up in ignorance of the height of Mount 
Chuquibamba and the length of the Brahma- 
pootra ; they might dispense with a smat- 
tering of French, or do without the Latin 
declensions and conjugations, if the time thus 
saved enabled them to gain some facility 
in sifting truth from falsehood. An encour- 
aging improvement in our educational ideas has 
been shown of late, and it seems as if the time 
could not be far distant when all who have any 
voice in the training of the young will see 
clearly what knowledge and what acquirements 
are of most worth. — Poptdar Seience Monthly. 
The Rights of Competition. 

When two men are manufacturing for the 
public one kind of merchandise the law of 
competition requires that the conditions under 



W 

which they carry on business shall be equal. 
Tlie aim and purpose of all labor organiza- 
tions should be to establish and preserve this 
equality. If one pays lower wages than the 
other the forces of the organization should be 
brought to bear upon the one who pays least, 
or in any way requires more work for a given 
amount of money. The one who is disposed 
to be just and liberal with his employes should 
be let alone and influence brought to make his 
competitor do the same. If wages, generally 
speaking, are too low, they should be raised at 
the lowest point. To require the most liberal 
employer to increase wages while his com- 
petitor employs at the lowest possible rate is to 
hand the business over to the employer of 
cheap labor. National labor organizations 
should survey the whole field of industrial en- 
terprise. When they find the employers of 
one locality trying to beat labor down, they 
should bring their influence to bear to 
raise wages at that point. If we al- 
ways take care of the lowest point the 
higher ones will take care of themselves. The 
law of competition which holds between in- 
dividuals or firms of one locality will also hold 
between localities. In this country there is 
absolute free trade between the states, con- 
sequently the rates of wages should be the 
same, in all the states. It is the business of 
labor organizations to see that this equality is 
maintained. The great industrial centers pro- 
duce for the same market. The cost of 
transportation is all that can give one an ad- 
vantage over the other. For example, firms or 
companies in Chicago and San Francisco are 
engaged in producing a certain article in com- 
mon use in both places. So far as the home 
market is concerned, each city has an advan- 
tage over its competitor in the other city to 
the extent of the cost of placing that com- 
petitor's product in the other city. With the 
protection thus afforded the manufacturer of 
one city may pay a little higher wages than his 
competitor in the other, but he must not let the 
cost of his product rise above the cost of his 
competitor's product in his own home market. 
This law of competition is so plain that it 
seems hardly worth while to state it. But if it 
was more closely observed labor organizations 
would be of vastly more benefit to wage-earners 
than they are now. — San Francisco Call. 
Cooked Air. 

At this season of the year a good deal is 
heard of the injurious nature of the "burned 
air" which is given off from the furnaces used 
in heating our houses. It is impossible to 
"burn" air, and there is no chemical change 
whatever caused in it by being heated in a fur- 
nace. If the furnace is gas-tight, and does not 
heat the air to too high a temperature, it is a 
perfectly safe and healthful means of warm- 
ing buildings. The disadvantages of a fur- 
nace are due to other causes than from its 
"burning" the air. — Popular Science N^ews. 

In the Atlantic Monthly Miss Agnes Rep- 
plier has put forth a pitiful plea for humor; 
and if it be true, as she asserts, that humor is 
dying out among us, it behooves us younger 
writers to look into the matter before it be too 
late, to secure, if possible, from those humor- 
ists who are still living the secret of their 
art, that it may not die with them, and the 
worid be deprived of all laughing matter.— 
Marie Co^zalt/i, in the ITriter. 



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Inside the House. 



When your pies with upper crusts are ready 
to put in the oven to bake, take a little sweet 
milk in a cup, and, with a bit of clean cloth, 
wet the upper crusts and rim. When baked 
it will present a shiny su^ace and will not 
flake off. 

Marion Harland advises those who use what 
grocers catalogue as canned goods to always 
open the cans some hours before cooking the 
contents, and empty into an open bowl set in a 
cool place. This removes the close, airless, 
smoky taste. Drain the liquor from peas and 
beans, cover with fresh, cold water, and let 
them soak for two hours. It freshens them 
wonderfully. 

Coffee and teapots will become very much 
discolored inside in a very short time. To 
prevent this about every two weeks put into 
them a teaspoonful of soda — common baking 
soda — and fill them about two-thirds full of 
water and let boil two hours. Wash and rinse 
well before using. In this way they will al- 
ways be sweet and clean. 

Dr. H. Rhodes has demonstrated that the 
use of cooking utensils made of nickel is with- 
out danger. Nevertheless he does not think it 
advisable that eatables should be kept for any 
length of time in such vessels. 

Pour a teaspoonful of kerosene into each 
quart of boiled starch, for a gloss ; this will 
also prevent irons sticking to thin goods. 

Tight shoes are always a mistake, as they 
ruin the feet they are supposed to improve ; 
but quite as frequently mistakes are made in 
the opposite direction. It is not a new idea 
that shoes which fit so loosely that the feet 
move about in them with every step produce 
as bad results as tight ones : and it is even as- 
serted, on good authority, that people who sys- 
tematically wear tight shoes never have corns. 
A change from tight shoes to very loose ones 
is sure to be followed by these torments. 

Eggs are said to become unwholesome when 
kept in refrigerators ; a fungus forms in them, 
which is easily found by the microscope, al- 
though it is not noticeable to the taste. This 
fungus constitutes a danger when we consider 
how many eggs are consumed by all classes of 
society, and people of delicate constitutions 
ought to be particularly careful that they eat 
fresh and not kept eggs. 

To cleanse ribbon, place it on a flat surface 
and with a small brush apply tepid soapy water 
to both sides. When thoroughly cleansed 
rinse with the brush. Dry it with a towel. 
Don't rub or iron. In this way your ribbon 
will look nice and new. This is especially 
excellent for satin fabric. 

A tablespoonful of kerosene in a boiler of 
clothes will greatly facilitate the rubbing. 

Experiments made by Dr. Vasilieff of St. 
Petersburg show that the boiling of milk is not 
without its disadvantages. The experiments 
were conducted on six young men, three of 
whom received boiled and three natural milk. 
Dr. Vasilieff's conclusion was that, as regards 
nutritiousness, boiled milk represents a deci- 
dedly inferior dietetic article as compared with 
raw milk. 

In mixing the mustard, care should be taken 
that the water has been boiled and allowed to 



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cool. Hot water destroys the flavor, and cold 
water is liable to cause the mustard to fer- 
ment. In mi.xing mustard for the table, only a 
little at a time should be made ; stir well until 
the mass becomes smooth and oily. A little 
salt and sugar should be added. 

More About Bread. 

FOURTH PAPER. 



BY MARIA PARLOA, 

.Author of " First Principles of Household Manage- 
ment." " Miss Parloa's New Cook-Book," 
•' Miss Parloa's Kitchen Com- 
panion," Etc. 



[copyrighted.] 



Graham Bread. 

For two loaves, use a pint and a 
half of warm water, one quart of graham, 
one quart of flour, one gill of molasses, 
one tablespoonful of butter, one level 
tablespoonful of salt, half a cupful of 
liquid yeast or half a cake of compressed 
yeast dissolved in one-third of a cupful of 
water. 

Sift the quart of flour into a warm bowl. 
Have the water blood warm, and add the yeast 
to it. Pour this on the flour and beat vigor- 
ously. This makes a thick batter. Cover the 
bowl and set it in a warm place to rise. In 
the morning add the salt, molasses, and the 
butter softened. Beat well, and then gradually 
beat in the quart of graham. Knead in the 
bowl, dipping the hands frequently in warm 
water, to prevent the dough from sticking to 
them. When the dough is smooth and elastic, 
shape it into two loaves and put them in the 
baking pans. Cover, and set in a warm place 
to rise. When they have risen to double their 
original size, bake for an hour and a half. Have 
the oven moderately hot the first three-quarters 
of an hour, and then reduce the heat for the 
remainder of the time of baking. The loaf 
should not brown after the first three-quarters 
of an hour. 

The graham must always be sifted to make 
it light, but the bran must be returned to it, as 
the bread would not be coarse enough if the 
bran were entirely removed. 

If one prefer, all the ingredients can be 
mixed at once and the kneading and beating 
done at night, the same as for plain white 
bread ; then in the morning it will only be 
necessary to work the risen dough for five 
minutes, shape the loaves, raise and bake 
them. 

This bread is always called "graham" in 
New England, but outside of New Eng- 
land it is known as brown bread, and what is 
known as brown bread in New England is 
known elsewhere as Boston brown bread. 
Rye Bread. — Coarse. 

Make the same as graham, substituting rye 
meal, not flour, for the graham. 
Rye Bread. — Fine. 

Rye bread, when made with the r>'e flour, is 
made the same as the plain white bread, substi- 
tuting rye flour for wheat flour ; or it may be 
made with half rye and half flour. The dough 
should be made as soft as it can be handled, 
and must be kneaded thouroughly. It is a 
very different bread from that made with the 
rye meal. 



About Folks. 



Says Mr. A. S. Roe, in the IVorcester 
Methodist:— 

"Light. 'Light, more light,' was the dy- 
ing utterance of Goethe. We of this city 
are to be illumined not by gas nor by electricity-, 
but by the refulgenceof luminous brains, whose 
present location is the Bumside building. 
The Worcester Methodist extends cordial 
greetings, and wishes for "Light" a wide and 
extended section, which may be made brighter 
and better by its piercing rays. May it have 
the lantern-like minuteness of Diogenes' quest, 
as it looks for opportunities to investigate hid- 
den corners, and, again, may it prove a verita- 
ble LiGHT-house as it darts its beams afar, 
over, perhaps, wild waves of corruption, warn- 
ing the civil mariner and making safer the 
voyage of the ship of state. A well chosen 
name; we can wish it nothing better than that 
it should be what that name implies." 



The following answers to questions were 
given by the scholars in the room presided 
over by Miss Mary F. Harrington, at the Ox- 
ford street school : — 

Teacher : — What connects the Mediterra- 
nean sea with the Red sea ? Why was it 
made .' 

Pupil: — The Atlantic ocean connects the 
Mediterranean sea with the Red sea. It 
was made for the children of Israel to pass 
into Canaan with. 

Teacher : — Name the largest state in the 
Union ? • Give its capital ? 

First Answer : — London is the largest 
state in the Union. Massachusetts is the cap- 
ital. 

Second Answer : — London is the largest 
state in the Union. Paris is the capital. 

Third Answer : — Washington is the largest 
state in the Union. It's capital is Bogota. 

Teacher: — Which is warmer, London or 
Boston ? Why ? 

First Pupil. — London is warmer than Bos- 
ton, because there is more going on there than 
there is in Boston. 

Second Pupil : — London is the warmer 
because the sun strik more ihear than in Bos- 
ton. 

Teacher : — State the five facts about the 
country you have been most interested in this 
year. 

First Pupil: — Worcester; very warm ; it 
rains in Worcester very much : Worcester has 
a fine climate ; Worcester has a fertile soil ; 
there are many sloons there. 

Third Pupil : — Germany ; the emperor of 
Germany is dead ; his son is emperor now ; 
he is the enemy of France; Germany is a 
great brewery ; it's rulers are all dying. 

Fourth Pupil: — Paris; it is the capital of 
Spain ; it is noted for its fine arts of gallery. 



Among the miscellaneous notices in a daily 
paper, last Saturday, was one which said : 
"St. Patrick's night there will be a dance at 
St. George's hall. Tickets, 50 cents, with sup- 
per, including lady." What Light wants to 
know is whether the cannibals had their lady 
boiled or fried. 



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Dr. Taylor's Talk. 



The Worcester Congregational cluli was es- 
pecially fortunate in entertaining as a guest, 
last Monday evening, Rev. Prof. Graham Tay- 
iar, D. D., of Hartford, Conn., who opened 
the subject of the evening's discussion with 
an address as remarkable for its brilliance as 
it was for the unconventional manner of its 
delivery. 

The club's gzd regular meeting was one of 
those set apart for ladies' nights as well, and 
the Young Men's Christian association build- 
ing presented a pleasant scene on the evening 
referred to. The social below stairs, and then 
the banquet in Association hall, had the usual 
pleasures. Rebboli served the supper at 7 
o'clock. Four long tables, beside that for the 
officers, were set, and at the head sat tlie 
president, Mr. Arthur M. .Stone. 

Rev. George S. Dodge of Rutland invoked 
the divine blessing, and the supper Wfas then 
disposed of. Following supper, the members 
sang to the tnne of Pleyel's Hymn, an original 
hymn, written by Rev. William T. Sleeper, as 
follows : — 

PRAYER OF THE WAITI.NG CHURCH. 

Haste thee, Pentecostal hour, 
Holy Ghost, display thy power, 
Mortals, speak with tongues ol flame. 
Wrought be wonders in Christ's name ! 

Israel, for your bhndness, grieve, 
Thousands in a day, believe, 
Pris'ners, break your chains and sing, 
Jesus reign, thou glorious king ! 

Kings and princes, own your Lord, 
Gentiles, bow before His word, 
.Adam's guilty race draw near, 
Earth, now Love's evangel hear ! 

Darkness, flee before the light. 
Demons, speed your swiftest flight, 
Death, from his dread throne be hurled. 
Church of Jesus, t^ll the world ! 

Rev. W. V. W. Davis offered prayer. There 
was a brief business meeting, and the presi- 
dent, Mr. Stone, and the first vice-president. 
Rev. I. J. Lansing, were elected delegates to 
the annual fellowship meeting of the Congre- 
gational clubs of the state, to be held at Fitch- 
burg in June. President Stone announced the 
subject for di.scussion : "Is the multiplication 
of organizations in our churches a hindrance to 
church growth, or to spiritual life ?" He 
gracefully introduced Rev. Prof. Graham Tay- 
lor, D. D., one of the most brilliant men of 
the Congregational church, who opened the 
discussion. Dr. Taylor is pastor of the Fourth 
Congregational church in Hartford, and a 
professor in Hartford Theological seminary. 
A cut and dried report of what he said could 
give no adequate idea of the force and charm 
of his address. He had no manuscript, and 
talked simply and straiglitforw^ardly, as if he 
had something to say, without troubling him- 
self to burn red light about every paragraph, 
or let off a flight of rockets when he reached a 
clima.\. Dr. Taylor began with a jocular allu- 
sion to St. Patrick's day. Taking up the sub- 
ject itself, he kept before the minds of his 
hearers three important ideas, "hfe," "organ- 
ization" and "growth." He considered the 
question of department organization thorough- 
ly and carefully, and his admirable sequence of 



ideas could not but be noticed by every listen- 
er ; and there were no inattentive ones. Here 
are a few of the good things that Dr. Taylor 
said ; — 

"Life is known only through its organisms. 
The mysterious, illusive, germinate, divinely- 
pulsating thing veils itself and the invisilile 
God from the mortal sight in the organic forms 
in wliich alone we find it, as far above and be- 
yond us as revelation discloses its existence." 

-In nothing does Christianity show its di- 
vinely creative life more than in its capacity to 
a.ssimilate and power to subordinate its human 
surroundings. The river of the water of life 
lines its banks with something from every 
country, literature and life through whicli it 
sweeps." 

"If organization is an outgrowth from with- 
in, it is necessary to life. If superimposed 
from without, it is the very tomb of life." 

"Through all the history of the development 
of the church, the history of its organization 
and polity has been in accordance with the 
law that it can put forth more than enough to 
meet the demand." 

"If organization is the outgrowth of life it is 
divine — it is a part of that life." 

"What is our idea of the church ? Is tlie 
church the Father's home, or does it belong to 
the membership of the churcli ? Is the churcli 
of God a church of one man called the pastor, 
or is it a whole nation or a whole people ex- 
ercising the prerogatives of the priesthood of 
the people ? The new Testament tells us that 
it is 'the ministering body of the Lord Jesus 
Christ.' That is what it should be — a mini.s- 
tering body." 

"Our need of tlie present day is a church 
that shall have Christ's soul in it, and a per- 
sonality in it so great that it won't be yours or 
mine, but a great corporate personality in 
which all our hearts shall be put in one great 
beating heart, all our hands shall be as one, 
all our eyes as one. If we do the work of ( lOd. 
we must have that kind of a church." 

"When it conies to organizations, which one 
had better be given up ? The Sunday-school 
has a grander grip on its constituency than 
the church has on its constituency." 

"As to the Young Men's Christian associa- 
tion, the organization that has got the physical 
culture of the young man has got the young 
men of America." 

"We must have a thorough co-operation of 
the priesthood and the laity." 

Dr. Taylor instanced the growth and value 
of the organizations of his churcli in Hartford 
as illustrating the need which each one sup- 
plies. 

When the suliject was thrown op^n for di.s- 
cussion. Dr. Homer T. Fuller took tlie floor. 
He agreed with the speaker that organization 
must be the outgrowth of spiritual life. The 
church may have as many arms as an octopus 
and as many heads as a hydra ; if it has one 
heart, it is going to succeed. 

Rev. A. E. P. Perkins, D. D., endorsed the 
Young Men's Christian association, and Rev. 
W. V. W. Davis, Mr. E. H. Baker of Ware, 
Rev. Daniel .Merriman, D. D., and Rev. George 
H. Gould, D. D., also spoke. The meeting ad- 
journed at 10 o'clock. 

There were present during the evening 
about 200 people, many of the members bring- 
ing ladies, and some of them brought gentle- 



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men as gue.sts. The following is a complete 
list:— 

CLKKtiV. 



Rev. A.F..P.Perkins,D.D., 
Kev. D. Merriman, D. D., 
Kev, William G. Tattle, 
Kev. W. V. W. Davis, 
Kev. \\-. W. Sleeper, 



Hon. Samuel I'., llildretli, 

Kdward Whitney, 

S. C. Willis, Jr., 

L. E. Colton, 

(ieorge M. I'ierce, 

A. W. Lincoln, 

Dr. A. A. llowland, 

(i. Henry Whitcomb, 

Dr. W. T. Souther, 

A. C. Munroe, 

A. H. Knight, 

W. O. liement, 

Klmer G. Tucker, 

Horace Hobbs, 

C. li. Cjreene, 

(ieorge K. Bliss, 

Arthur E. Gray, 

Prof. Edward P. Sn 

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Kev. Geo. H. Gould, D. D., 
Kev. Chas. M. Southgate, 
Kev. Albert Bryant, 
Kev. W. T. Sleeper. 
Kev. E. G. Eullerton. 



Dr. 11. T. Pull 



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M. P. Higgins, 

Solon Bryant, 

Kufus M. Taft, 

J. O. Adams, 

W. A. Denholm, 

P. G. Kent, 

.■\. M. Stone, 

Dr. Wesley Davis, 

Dr. Frank H. Howland, 

Cieorge H. Estabrook, 

Prof. George E. (iladwin, 

E. E. Kimball, 

Justin A. Ware, 

Lucius P. Goddard, 

11. B. Lincoln, 

Charles E. .Stevens, 

(ieorge L. Newton, 

L. E. Eldred, 

Philip W. Moen, 

Samuel K. Heyw'ood, 

C. H. Stearns, 

A. W. Edson, 

Dr. J. W. Gould. 

Prof. George 1. Alden. 

T. P. I'"05S, 

Prof. H. D. Foster, 
Marvin M. Taylor, 
C. A. Lincoln, 
Edward L. Smith, 
A. C. Buttrick, 
W. .M. Spaulding. 
1 OP TOWN. 



Edwin Eldied, 
Horatio L. Miller, 
Jonah H. Uigelow, 
.■^imeon Newton, 
l-ranklin Whipple, 
W. H. Crawford, 
Lewis C. Muzzy, 
Benjamin Brierly, 
Dr. H. S. Knight, 
Frank P.' Knowles, 
(ien. R. 11. Chamlwrlain, 
Sanuiel A. Pratt, 
John M. Russell, 
A. Harry SU)ne, 

FRO.M UV 

Barre, Estes Hawes, Kev. J. F. (jaylord ; Boston, 
Kev. E. H. Byington; Shrewsbury, HoUis W. Cobb; 
North Brookfield, Dr. A. G. Blodgett, Rev. Charles S. 
Mills, E. B. Lvnde, Charles Duncan, H. J. Lawrence, 
James Miller, E. D. Batcheller, W. H. Montague; Mill- 
bury, Hon. L. L. Whitney, A. Armsby, Kev. J. L. 
Ewell, Royal Thayer ; Spencer, C. N. Prouty, G. P. 
Prouty, Kev. Erastus Blakeslee ; Rutland, Rev. George 
S. Dodge; Leicester. H. .\. White; Oakham, M. O. 
.■\yres; New Braintree, George K. Tufts; Ware, E. H. 
Baker ; Webster, Josiah Perry. 

Mr. Edgar M. Bond, the treasurer of the 
club, is superintending liis ice cutting work in 
New Hampshire, and Mr. William Woodward 
filled his place for the occasion. 

The subject for the ne.xt meeting, .April 21, 
will lie "Free Pews." 

QUALITY, NOT PRICE. 

-We never talk price, but always quality," 
said the leading retail merchant in a city of 
over 700,000 inhabitants, and who sells goods 
only for cash on delivery, to the Dry Goods 
Kepo)tc->"s pencil-pusher. This man is getting 
rich fast, his trade is steadily increasing, and 
these facts add to the significance of his 
remark. (Quality is what, after all, makes or 
loses a customer. Price has nothing to do with 
a consumer's palate. We are all. more or less, 
slaves to appetite, and know no other law than 
self-gratification. The pleased palate is wedded 
to the source of its gratification, and does not 
stop to compare prices. If an article is offered 
cheaper by some competitor, the pleased cus- 
tomer says it is because the service is in- 
efficient, or that a low price in one artfcle is only 
an excuse for an extravagant price on another, 
and therefore he becomes the steady patron of 
the store where quality is the first ronsidera- 
tion, and where a fair price is the rule. 



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Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1890. 



No. q 



The lecture course is a thing of the past. 
True, there are lectures and lecturers, but the 
course of lectures has been annihilated by 
the course of entertainments, where the lec- 
ture has been dovetailed in to fill up, and the 
concert singer is the attraction which sells the 
tickets. Light would not depreciate music, 
there ought to be more musical courses in- 
stead of less, but Worcester's learning, and 
Worcester's desire for knowledge, should make 
it possible for a first-class course of lectures, 
on particular or general subjects, to be sup- 
ported with the hearty interest and dollars of 
her best people. 



Along the streets of Worcester walks a man ; 
Light does not know him ; Light is not 
aware of his existence in literal fact, but this 
figurative man must live in the real, differing 
from the unseen only in slight detail. His 
broad forehead is shaded with locks of white, 
his broad-cloth suit is clean and shiny ; he is a 
man who lives in his past because the present 
does not fully know him. As he walks along, 
people bow to him, and the salutes of the hour 
are cordial and earnest. Folks speak of him as 
the was, not as of the is. His bank account is 
low, if he has a bank account; his cottage is 
on a side street, if he has a cottage ; his family 
are scattered, if there is a family ; he is one of 
those men who laid the foundation of Worces- 
ter ; he is one of those men who rushed in the 
unhustling times of the past. Mis- 
fortune came upon him, he failed, 
but his failure was honorable, for he paid all 
he could, and men honored him then. His 
name has appeared upon business petitions, 
but now they honor him only generally. His 
name is forgotten except in name. There are 
perhaps a hundred of these men in Worcester, 
whose hairs have whitened in the grand old 
work of building the bottom that the present 
top may not totter. 

Life is New York's brightest paper. It is 
independent, generally clean, and always 
saucy. A recent number printed a burlesque 
on the conventional religious paper. While 
Light believes that Life carried its fun too 
far in this direction, it must admit that the 
somewhat sacrilegious parody was justified by 
apparent fact. The religious press of the day 
is editorially pure, and its reading columns are 
based upon the foundations of honest religion 
and earnest morality. Its editors are mostly 
men of God, and men of character ; its cor- 
respondents are leaders in theological and 
moralistic lines, and contribute things worthy 
of reading and worthy of following. Most of 
the editors are owners, either of the whole 
paper or of a part of it, frequently supple- 
menting themselves with business partners. 
The business methods of religious journalism 
are practically like the business methods of 
secular journalism, except that a religious 
paper will not print a direct rum advertise- 
ment, nor will it take an advertisement which 
is impure upon the face of it. Yet some of 



them will, and do, take advertisements of the 
worst kinds of patent medicines ; medicines 
that are thoroughly unreliable, utterly useless, 
and positively injurious. There is many a reli- 
gious paper with the conventional catarrh 
cure, and every sensible man and woman 
knows that chronic catarrh cannot be cured by 
the application of any one remedy, if it can be 
cured at all. There is the cure for consump- 
tion, a villanous compound ; there is the cure 
for drunkenness, in which one finds as much 
alcohol as in pure gin. Light is not a religious 
newspaper, and does'not pretend to travel upon 
the gilt-edged road of consistency, yet in Mass- 
achusetts' leading religious paper, the , 

there appear 12 advertisements which Light 
would not take under any consideration, and 

in the there are 15. Somehow LifiHT 

cannot account for the high moral tone of the 
religious press, partly supported by spreading 
the evil tidings of what Light considers 
illegitimate compounds. Do not understand 
that Light would like to be put upon record 
as saying that a majority of the religious 
papers print advertisements which it considers 
unworthy of publication. Such papers as the 
Sunday Se/iooi /'/;;/ t',r,the CJiristian Union, and 
the Independent, are particularly free from ob- 
jectionable advertisements. Their advertising 
columns appear to be as carefully cared for as 
their editorial and news departments. Some 
patent medicines contain drugs of value, but 
no layman can intelligently regulate the taking 
of them. The physicians in one solid phalanx 
vote down the proprietory compound. The 
vending of patent medicines affects their pro- 
fession only in extending it. The hundred 
thousand practicing physicians of America are 
not all fools. Most of them are skillful and 
educated men, who have given their lives to 
the cause of aiding suffering humanity. 
It is senseless to assert the unmedicinal citizen 
knows his pliysical self as thoroughly as does 
the man who has made a life's study of the 
entire alphabet of medical practice. The 
argument that many of the patent medicines 
are at worse harmless will not hold intelligent 
water. In one of Worcester's cold and barren 
upper rooms is seated a wretched over-worked 
sewing girl, exemplifying the reality of that ter- 
rible "Song of the Shirt." An aching back, a 
hard dry cough tell the pitiful story of over- 
work and under feed. Her swollen eyes rest 
iipon the carefully performed announcement of 
some patent compound in the columns of her 
only luxury, the religious paper. She reads 
the symptoms of her trouble in the printed 
lines. It makes little difference which adver- 
tisement she studies ;— they all ingeniously hit 
her case. She spends one of her hard-earned 
dollars for a bottle ; perhaps she buys a dozen 
bottles for ten dollars— the proprietory medicine 
maker does not always have a conscience. 
Perhaps, with the help of a vivid imagination 
she improves in health. Generally she 
doesn't. The money is gone, and the delay 
has caused irrevocable failure. Half of the 
money paid to a registered physician could 



have done her no harm, and might have re- 
paired her shattered health. There is room 
here for earnest Christian work. 



The true inward sentiment of a people can 
be judged by their interpretation of real art. 
A man can be an artist who never painted a 
picture or chiseled a statue. 



A more representative audience of Worces- 
ter as she is in majority never gathered 
together than that which welcomed Mary 
Howe at Mechanics Hall. It was not a 
typical musical audience, it was not an un- 
musical audience, it was not a moneyed 
audience, nor a poverty party. It was represen- 
tative in its boundless cosmopolitism. In it 
were mixed as plentifully as salts in the ocean 
every character within the range of respect- 
ability. The classical student ; and there arc 
a few of these in Worcester, — applauded 
through the window of his eyes, the homespun 
cityite crushed the air between his echoing 
palms; the dignified dignities condescendingly 
tolerated the hand clapping; while the vast 
majority looked pleased at the upper classical 
tones, and felt happy at the simpler members. 
General Worcester paid a generous tribute to 
American musicians. 



There are many amateurs in Worcester, and 
there are a good many amateurs elsewhere. 
There are singers who never sing songs they 
can sing. Many a young singer, after her first 
lesson, rushes into the music store and buys a 
Patti warble and tries to warble it. Many a 
young lady has dramatic aspirations. She 
studies elocution and graduates from some 
dramatic school. Admiring friends hire a hall 
for her, pay dressmakers and decorators, and 
a subsidized audience applauds her. She 
trips upon the stage: she is Pauline; she is 
Mary, (2iieen of Scots ; she is Juliet ; she is 
Portia. Of course she makes a failure ; there 
are not six actre.sses in America who can play 
one of these parts. A young lady learns to 
read, and she reads well. Poor old Curfe-io .' 
she makes it ring to the merry tinkle of the 
chestnut bell every chance a suffering audi- 
ence refuses to retaliate. She paints her face, 
she paints her arms, she puts on gypsy stock- 
ings, gypsy skirts, and a gypsy waist, but 
never gypsy slippers. She tears the air, she 
tears her hair, and then the audience tear 
theirs. Nine-tenths of the amateur readers 
can read simple home pieces well ; nine-tenths 
of the amateur singers can sing the popular 
songs so that the people will appreciate them ; 
and nine-tentlis of the amateur actresses could 
act nine times better if they did not act at all. 
There is only one Patti, and the chances are 
there is only one Mary Howe. If Mary Smith 
will not try to be Mary Howe, but will try to 
be Mary Smith, it will be a mighty good thing 
for Mary Smith and a mighty good thing for 
Mary Smith's husband, if she has one. 



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The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people. 



Readers of Light will be interested to 
know that at the end of each volume of six 
months, will be printed a complete index of 
principal contents with a title page. Light 
is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book, — a full record of 
local happenings, as convenient to handle as 
an encyclopaedia. 

March 29: Sun rises at 5.32 a.m.; sets at 
6.07 P. M. Length of day, 12 hours, 35 minutes. 
F"ull moon, Aprill 5th., 4 hours, 24 minutes, 
morning, w. March 30, Palm Sunday. 



"Little Lord Fauntleroy" will be placed at 
the new theatre during the week of May 12th. 
The "Shenandoah" will hold the stage during 
the previous week. 



Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., and Rev. Edward 
G. Fullerton exchanged pulpits la.st Sunday 
morning ; Rev. F. A. Warfield of Brockton 
preached at Plymouth church ; Rev. Edward 
Everett Hale, D. D., preached at the First 
Unitarian church in the morning, and at Pil- 
grim hall, where the South Unitarian society 
meets,at 4 in the afternoon. Rev. C. H. Covell 
preached again for the South Baptists. 



A letter received from Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam H. Dexter, last Monday, says that they 
are still in Los Angeles, Cal., where they are 
the guests of Mr. Joseph Curtis at "The 
Palms." Mr. Curtis was formerly well known 
here and was Mr. Dexter's partner in busi- 
ness. Mr. and Mrs. Dexter will linger in Cal- 
ifornia for a month or more and then, after 
going north, through Oregon and Washing- 
ton, they will return home by the Northern 
Pacific route. 

Mrs. E. A. Goodnow's daughters, Mrs. 
Young and Miss Fanny West, sail on La 
Champagne, to-day, for France. Miss West is 
to spend the summer with her sister at her 
home in Paris. 



The rising sun stove polish hat has been 
shot at in Main street. 



Mr. Caleb A. Wall, whose delvings into the 
history of old Worcester have been so fruit- 
ful, has in mind for the future several histori- 
cal meetings similar to those which he has 
held in the past. As soon as the season fairly 
opens, one of these will be held at one of the 
old homesteads in the northeast part of the 
city. Mr. Wall has also discovered, on Hey- 
wood street, the place where the first white 
child born in Worcester saw the light. Mr. 
Wall recently issued in a neat pamphlet his 
address at Mr. A. S. Lowell's house, on 
"North Worcester: Its First Settlers and Old 
Farms," which, with his more general essay 
on "The Puritans and the Quakers," are well 
worth the having. Mr. Wall is now preparing 
to issue in similar form his address given at 
Lake park, last June, and later he will publish 
others. This series he contemplates making a 
sort of sequel to his "Reminiscences of Wor- 
cester." The Genealogical Journal and other 
papers have recognized the value of Mr. 
Wall's work, and the Youth'' s Companion re- 
cently quoted at some length from his "Rem- 
iniscences of Worcester." 



Mr. Louis E. A. Lamson sang very accept- 
ably, at Piedmont church, last Sunday even- 
ing, in the place of Mr. John H. Howell, who 
sang that evening at Pilgrim church. 



The Quinsigamond Boat club has elected as 
officers for 1890, President, George F. Blake, 
Jr.; vice-president, Waldo Lincoln ; clerk, Ern- 
est L. Thayer; treasurer, Samuel H. Clary; 
executive committee, James P. Hamilton, 
Charles H. Bowker; captain, George A. 
Stearns, Jr. 

The "pan mundus" carnival at Plymouth 
church, Tuesday evening, is likely to be 
worthy of the young people who have ar- 
ranged so many successful affairs in the past. 
The Elberon orchestra is to play a concert 
program, and there will be a grand march, 
with music by the Tech banjo club and read- 
ings by Miss Maud Gabriel, later. Eatables 
of course figure among the attractions. 

The Arlington banjoists played at the grad- 
uating e.xercises of the Sutton High school, 
last Monday evening. 



A new star in the theatrical firmament is 
arisen this week in the person of Miss Lillie 
Gilbert, of this city. Miss Gilbert made her 
professional ddbut, Monday, at Providence, as 
"Leah," in the well known drama of "Leah, the 
Forsaken," and scored a great success 
from the start, receiving from two to four cur- 
tain calls nightly. The Providence Journal 
characterizes her portrayal of the character as 
an unusually strong one, and says, "She 
evinces a power that could not be obtained 
without much natural talent. In personal ap- 
pearance, too, she was an ideal Leah, needing 
no makeup." Miss Gilbert, or Lillian Nortoni 
as her stage name reads, will continue her en- 
gagement another week, playing "Parthenia," 
after which she will return to this city and 
prepare for a more ambitious attempt next 
fall, a prominent manager having offered to 
back her with unlimited capital. 



Mr. James Cox, who has been the agent of 
the Adams Express company at Webster, for 
12 years past, is to be transferred to the Wor- 
cester office, April I. 



Councilman Daniel W. Prouty, of Ward i, 
and Mrs. Prouty, have returned from their 
southern trip. 



The Polytechnic seniors are making ar- 
rangements for class day and commencement 
in good season, and have elected committees, 
on class supper, Windsor T. White, Ernest 
W. Lazell, J. H.- Clancy; on music, W. L. 
Smith, E. H. Rockwell and Stanley H. Rood. 
Mr. E. C. Rice, who was chairman of the 
class-book committee, has resigned, and Mr. 
E. H. Rockwell has been elected in his place. 
Mr. Paul B. Morgan has been elected toast- 
master for the class supper. 



The Polytechnic boys are just now inter- 
ested in the problem of continuing their school 
paper with a new force of editors. It is the 
custom for the senior members of the staff to 
retire with the March number of the year,-and 
since Messrs. E. C. Rice and Loring N. Far- 
num, the editor-in-chief and business manager, 
respectively, of the W P I, left the sanctum, 
there has been some lively hustling to find 
men to fill the gaps. Mr. Charles H. Dunbar, 
'91, has been elected business manager, so that 
end of the matter has been disposed of. Mr. 
Daniel F. O'Regan, '91, has been elected a 
member of the staff, and the others, who con- 
tinue, are Messrs. Sumner A. Kinsley, '91, F. 
M. Savage, 92, and Jolin W. Burke, '87. 
Messrs. E. H. Rockwell and A. L. Smith, 90, 
retire. Two more members of the staff will 
be chosen, but the choosing of an editor-in- 
chief appears to be what is perplexing the 
boys. Mr. O'Regan has been mentioned as 
Mr. Rice's successor. He has done some 
work on the Gazette and is said to know some- 
thing of newspaper work. It is understood, 
however, that the April number will be gotten 
out on a sort of co-operative plan, with all the 
senior members of the staff acting as editors. 
The boys are not apt to find this plan a great 
success, however, for a recognized head is al- 
ways needed in a newspaper otifice. It will 
probably end with the election of Mr. Kinsley 
or Mr. O'Regan as editor-in-chief, and though 
the former does not want the position, he has 
the necessary qualifications, like Mr. O'Re- 
gan. 

The preliminary gardeners have begun work' 
on Elm park, where the birds which sing in 
the spring warble the accompaniment to 
sounds of the hoe and pick-axe. 



The work of putting in the engines at the 
new electric light station is going forward rap- 
idly just now, and Superintendent Coughlin 
has a lot of visitors. The Tech boys and their 
professors invade the premises pretty regularly 
and are studying those engines for all they are 
worth. The engines are Corliss cross-com- 
pound engines, one of 350 horse power, the 
other of 550 horse power, giving a combined 
horse power of 900. Twenty dynamos will be 
put in, at the beginning, though the station is 
calculated to accomodate 60, should they ever 
be needed. 



Worcester veterans are always in demand 
when the call comes for Decoration day ora- 
tors. Capt. A. A. White is to deliver two ad- 
dresses on that day, one at Princeton, in the 
afternoon, and the other before George A. 
Custer post of Millbury, in the evening. Mr. 
William H. liartlett is to be the orator for Wil- 
liam H. Freeman post, of Blackstone. 



The junior branch of the Benevolent Union 
of Piedmont church held a supper and 
sociable at the vestry, Tuesday evening, and a 
large number of people attended. Ten of the 
young ladies, with Messrs. Benjamin F. Cur- 
tis and E. H. Robinson, were dressed in the 
costume of the days of wigs and knicker- 
bockers, and waited upon the tables. The 
young ladies, with dresses of the fancy-figured 
stuffs which our grandmothers wore, and 
wearing wide lace collars, presented a pretty 
picture which was made even more attractive 
by the effect of "hair done up high" and pow- 
dered. Messrs. Robinson and Curtis wore 
white wigs and knickerbockers and were 
dressed in a style in keeping with the ladies. 
The supper, which was remarkable for its 
varied and valuable assortment of beans, was 
served early, and then, when the company 
gathered in the larger room. Dr. Mears 
made pleasant remarks and introduced Mr. B. 
F. Curtis, who presided during the entertain- 
ment. Miss Annie Lawrence played a piano 
solo, Mr. Louis E. A. Lamson sang "In Old 
Madri(J" and was encored. Miss Lena War- 
field gave a very pleasant reading, Mrs. Ho- 
ratio L. Miller sang a solo, which was received 
with a warm e.\pression of approval and was 
encored, Mr. Frank Normand played a cornet 
solo, Mr. Charles Normand playing the ac- 
companiment, and Mr. E. H. Robinson played 
a banjo solo. After the entertainment, the 
young people played games. The affair was 
managed by Miss Jessie Upson and Mrs. B. 
F. Curtis, and proved a great success. April 
15, the gentlemen are to give a supper and 
entertainment, managing the entire affair 
themselves. The ladies will be their guests 
for the occasion. 

Dancing with a somebody whom you do not 
recognize beneath a veiling of mask and 
gown, and waiting for the time to unm.ask, in 
order to learn whom your companion may be, 
is a tantalizing sort of amusement, if you are 
not a good guesser, and have no unobtrusive 
little knot of ribbon or special clasp of the 
fingers to serve as a cipher alphabet; but it is 
invariably productive of more than an ordi- 
nary amount of fun. The-merry party that 
danced at Continental hall, on Friday evening 
of last week, certainly thought so. The affair 
was a private domino party given by Mrs. 
George E. Fairbanks and Miss Kittie Black, 
and proved one of the pleasantest events of 
the social season. The dominos were made 
of plain stuff, the ladies wearing for the most 
part, bright colors, while the gentlemen wore 
black, and the usual mask completed the cos- 
tume. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Fairbanks led 
the grand march, and dancing began about half- 
past eight. The gentlemen selected promising 
looking dominos and danced with the occu- 
pants thereof through five or six dance.s, and 
along toward 10 o'clock the signal to unmask 
was given. There was a great deal of sport 
when the mysteries of the occasion were 



T. T Cj N T 

solved, but the dancers were quite reaily for 
the unveiling, for a domino on a sultry night 
is equal to a comforter, when you dance in it. 
The music for the occasion was served by 
Bicknell's orchestra and Caterer Rebboli pro- 
vided refreshments. The floor managers were 
Messrs. George E. Fairbanks, Charles E. 
Black, G. H. Harlow and Charles 
A. Waite. Mrs. George E. Fair- 
banks and Mrs. Charles E. Black were the 
patronesses. Those present included: Mr. 
and Mrs. George E. Fairbanks, Miss .\ellie 
Fairbanks, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Mansfield, Mr. 
and Mrs. Willard F. Pond, Dr. and Mrs. W. 
F. Gilman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Dodge, 
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Willard, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles H. Pinkham, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. 
Brigham, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. John E. Bradley, 
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kendrick, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charies A. Waite, Miss Molly W. Waite, Mr. 
and Mrs. Clarence R. Macomber, Mr. and 
Mrs. George W. Macomber, Mr. William E. 
Fairbanks, Miss Villroy Goulding, Mr. F. M. 
Clark, Jr., Miss Maud Clark, Mr. and Mrs. G. 
Herbert Harlow, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Black, 
Miss Kittie Black, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gar- 
land, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Watson, Mr. and 
Mrs. C. Henry Colvin, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. 
Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sargent, Mr. 
and Mrs. Samuel A. Willis, Mr. Henry J. 
Kettell, Miss Bertha Bigelow, Mr. Fred A. 
Bigelow, Miss Gertrude Smith, Mr. Foster H. 
Goodwin, Miss Clara Brigham, Mr. George E. 
Ryan, Miss Ethel Phelps, Mr. Walter B. 
Brooks, Mr. Fred E. Wheeler, Miss Flora 
B. Chamberlain, Mr. Henry J. Gross, 
Miss Cora J. Goodwin, Mr. George 
B. Cutting, Miss Wilkinson, Mr. Her- 
bert F. Blood, Mr. Frank D. Freeman, Mr. C. 
Leslie Chamberlain, Miss Elizabeth W. Den- 
nis, Mr. J. Edward Fuller, Jr., Miss Grace 
L. Crawford, Mr. William F. Burleigh, Mr. 
William C. Stark, Miss Mabel Jenkins, Miss 
Lilla Roy, Mr. E. H. Burnap, Mr. George W. 
Eddy, Miss May Eddy, Mr. Harry B. Fair- 
banks, Miss Jennie McCready, Mr. H. L. 
Keyes, Miss L'pton, Mr. and Mrs. Coridon C. 
Whitcomb. 

Mr. Charles W. Knight, one of the well- 
known and popular young men of the city, has 
been secured by Messrs. Rich, Harris and 
Rock, the lessees of the new Worcester thea- 
tre, as head usher, and will also have general 
supervision over the auditorium and the foyers 
during performances. The patrons of this new 
and elegant opera house will most certainly ap- 
preciate the management's move in this direc- 
tion, as they are assured every courtesy and 
attention at the hands of Mr. Knight, who has 
an extensive acquaintance and has had experi- 
ence in similar capacities in some of the most 
fashionable circles, always displaying excel- 
lent tact in securing comfort and enjoyment 
for the people. Mr. Knight has engaged a 
large and eflScient corps of ushers, who will 
be handsomely and appropriately uniformed. 



The Amherst Alumni association, which 
was to have had its annual dinner last Tues- 
day evening, was obliged to abandon that date 
and make arrangements for holding it later. 
The dinner will probably be held at the Young 
Men's Christian association building, Tuesday 
evening, April S. 



Mr. Ben. T. Hammond's 34th recital, post- 
poned from the 19th, was given at his rooms 
last Wednesday evening. The singers were 
among the Hammond's older pupils and gave 
an enjoyable concert. The program was as 
follows:— 
I'lANU SOI.O. " Tendresse." Puchcr 

Miss .'VK'ies Mannix. 
.SONG. " After the Dattle." liucahss: 

Mr. }Iarry C. Kobiiison. 
SONG. " Hopes and Kears." Walsoii 

Miss Lizzie M. Urban. 
•SONc;, ■■ Douglas Gordon." AV///V 

Miss Catherine M. Phimer. 
SO.NG. "The Mighty Deep." /»</<• 

Mr. Harry C. Mullet. 
ARIA. ".Should he Upbraid." /Sh/iof 

Miss I'-.va M. Martin. 
ARIA. " Kidonami la calnia." Tosti 

Miss .Agnes Mannix. 
SONGS, {a) " I.a Bella Giulietta." ItaUan Folk Songs 
(/') " La Venezina" 
(■) " Dimmi, o Bella." 

Miss Lizzie M. Urban. 
AKI.\. " Bid me Discourse." Bishop 

Miss Renna May Ingraham. 
SACRED SONG. "Invocation." H. C. Mullet 

Mr. Harry C. Mullet. 
SONG. " I remember my Mother's Sweet Face." Uolst 

Miss .Agnes Mannix. 
ROMANCE. "The Moorish Maiden." Parker 

Miss Catherine M. Plumer. 
SONG. " Bonnie Sweet Bessie." Gilbert 

Miss Eva M. Martin. 
SONG. " Father's Boat." Pontet 

Mr. Harry C. Robinson. 
DUETTS, (a) " La Rondinella d aniore." 
{b) " Gli Spasimi del cuore." 

Italian Folk Songs 
Miss Ingraham and Miss Urban. 



Dr. Helen L. Webster of Lynn, who has 
been recently called to fill a vacancy in the 
English department at Vassar, is one of the 
three women who have received the degree of 
doctor of philosophy from the University at 
Zurich, siiiiDiia ciiin laude. The two other 
women who have gained this distinction are 
Miss Thomas, the dean of Bryn Mawr, and 
Mrs. Mary Noyes Colvin, the principal of the 
Roman Bryn Mawr Preparatory school at Bal- 
timore. The reference to Mrs. Colvin, in this 
connection has an especial interest for Wor- 
cester people, from the fact that she was a 
highly appreciated teacher in the Worcester 
High school from January, 1878, to the end of 
the school year of 1S80, teaching, chiefly, 
French and Latin. 



Mr. George H. Mellen took a "flying trip" 
on business, to Portsmouth, N. H., Monday. 

Mrs. A. D. Norcross, who has sang the 
soprano part at the Union church during the 
past two years, will sing there for the last time 
to-morrow. Two years ago Mrs. Norcross 
was offered the soprano part at the First Con- 
gregational church, of Boston, at a large sal- 
ary. Her Worcester engagement prevented 
her acceptance, and Mrs. Humphrey-Allen 
was given the position. The position was re- 
offered to Mrs. Norcross under terms too lib- 
eral to be refused, and she has accepted, and 
will sing in Boston, beginning April 6th. 



Mr. Walter Waters of Newton visited Mr. 
Charles A. Moore's people a day or two ago. 



Mr. Arthur E. Davis made the photograph 
from which Light'.s very satisfactory picture 
of Rev. M. H. Harris was obtained, and was 
especially courteous in furnishing a print from 
which the engravers could work. 



Notes by a Non-Combatant. 



BY OLDMAN. 



There is consolation in tlie fact that although 
Worcester may not be able to hit upon a suit- 
able location for a post-office site, she still has 
a post-office. 

The other day I happened down at Lincoln 
square, and in turning the rather abrupt corner 
just opposite the Antiquarian society building, 
I had the misfortune to come into terrific col- 
lision with a good looking Swedish woman. I 
apologized in appropriate, but rather awkward 
terms, and to dissipate my uneasiness the 
lady, in a pretty Swedish accent, said : "Oh, 
det ist alle right, mister ; you'm velgome." 
Tliis remark, on its well-meaning, was duly ap- 
preciated, but the peculiar inappropriateness 
of its concluding clause evoked within me an 
almost irresistible desire to laugh outright, 
and it was only out of sheer politeness that I 
restrained my mirth until I left her presence. 



It is interesting to note the pride which 
some of the Swedish young men in our midst 
take in being able to converse in our language. 
A few evenings ago, while standing on a street 
corner, I overheard a part of an animated con- 
versation, in which several of these foreigners, 
together with some young American men, 
were engaged, and I was very much amused 
by the peremptory way in which one of the 
Swedes was silenced by one of his country- 
men, who seemed to be a sort of spokesman 
among them, for inadvertently interrupting the 
discussion by speaking in his mother-tongue. 

"Bah !" said the would-be mentor, in a tone 
of profound disgust, "kip still ; for why 
you spiken not United States ?" 



The Armenian priest, who is often seen on 
the streets here in Worcester, clad in the pic- 
turesque purple robe and the peculiarly-shaped 
velvet head-dress of the same color, which is, 
I am told, the sacerdotal investiture of the 
Armenian church, seemed somewhat out or 
his element, no doubt, to those who may have 
seen him during the past few weeks in the 
habiliments common to ordinary citizens. The 
flock over which this oriental minister pre- 
sides is composed almost, if not wholly, of 
men, for there are but three or four Armenian 
women here who might come under his spirit- 
ual guidance. 

There is a young man from Armenia engaged 
in business in Worcester, who is in this coun- 
try in voluntary exile. Some three or four 
years ago he left his native land, much against 
the wishes of his father, who is said to be a 
wealthy merchant in one of the principal cities 
of Armenia. The young fellow set out for 
America with only a rudimentary knowledge 
of the English language, and a purse scarcely 
adequate to defray the expenses of the long 
journey before him, and his father no doubt 
con.soled himself with the thought that his son 
would seek pecuniary assistance at his hands 
in order to return home from his peregrina- 
tions, soon after his arrival in America. Al- 
though his sojourn in this country for the first 
year or two was fraught with many hard 
struggles and no little privation, he is now es- 
tablished in a paying business, and owns real 



estate in this city. He says when he goes 
back to Armenia it will be only on a visit, and 
declares that he would rather be a compara- 
tively poor Armenian citizen than a rich one 
in his native land. 



Among Germans and the French there are 
many who find it exceedingly difficult to use 
grammatical and idiomatic English, and the 
mistakes made by them are often ridiculous 
and amusing. The following anecdote, which 
I heard not long ago, illustrates one of the 
most common faults to which the latter nation- 
ality are addicted in this respect, viz. : the in- 
discriminate use of pronouns. A French-Ca- 
nadian went to the house of an English-speak- 
ing neighbor on a matter of business, and his 
knock at the door was answered by a little 
girl. 

"You fodder ish 'ome ?" asked the French- 
man. 

"My father is home .'" repeated the child, 
not quite comprehending that the utterance 
was in the form of a question. 

"Yes, you fodder ish 'ome ?" said the man 
again. 

"Yes," said the girl, "my father is home ; I 
know it !" to which the Frenchman, now 
thoroughly exaspera.ted, responded : "Well, 
tell her come 'ere, I want to see it !" 



When I walked into the barber-shop, one 
afternoon this week, for my customary mid- 
week "shave," two of the chairs were occu- 
pied — one by a young fellow, and the other by 
a middle-aged man. The former was endeav- 
oring to interest the barber shaving him by a 
recital of a "funny story," and his remarks 
were well interspersed with profanity, and the 
latter, in whom I recognized a well-known 
clergyman of this city, who, like myself, found 
the foul-mouthed young man's story without 
wit and disgusting. Before leaving the minis- 
ter handed his card to the youth, and repri- 
manded him in these words : "Young man, 
you probably are aware that stories such as 
you have recited, and the profane language 
you use are displeasing to God ; but aside 
from that you should remember that there are 
persons who are exceedingly annoyed by them 
and to whom they are quite uninteresting." 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Uniteb States Statistics. — Mrs. W. 
R. N. asks : — "Can you give me the greatest 
length of the United States, east and west, 
and breadth north and south, also length of 
coast lines .'" Greatest length, east to west, 
2800 miles. Greatest breadth, north to south, 
1600 miles. Average breadth, north to south, 
1200 miles. Length of Atlantic line, 2349 
miles; Pacific coast line, 1 810 miles (indenta- 
tions not included). Gulf coast line, 1556 
miles. Great lakes shore line, 3450 miles. 

Engine Power. — H. H. H. asks about the 
developing power of engines reckoned on the 
consumption of coal. The best engines and 
boilers develop a horse-power per hour by the 
consumption of two pounds of coal. But this is 
better than the average; and three pounds of coal 



per horse-power, per hour, is a more common 
result. 

Oral Agreement. — D. H. T. asks if an 
oral agreement is always good. An oral agree- 
ment must be proved by evidence. A written 
agreement proves itself. 

Ocean Depths. — Miss F. W. asks : "How 
deep is the deepest place in the ocean ?" The 
greatest known depth of the ocean is 5 J4^ miles, 
or 25,720 feet, or 4,620 fathoms. 

Outside or Inside. — Miss Jennie inquires 
if it is proper for a gentleman, walking with a 
lady, to take the inside of the sidewalk. The 
gentleman should make a slight attempt to be 
on the outside, but in Worcester, with the 
many turnings, a gentleman would have to 
keep his wits about him to be always on the 
outside, and nothing looks worse than to see 
a gentleman continually running around a 
lady to walk on the right side of her. Either 
side is proper, the outside preferable. 

A Possessive Case. — A school teacher 
asks : — "In contracting possessive names how 
should the points be placed? For instance, 
which of the following is in the best form ? 

Smith, Jones & Co.'s flour. 

Smith, Jones & Cos', flour. 

Smith, Jones & Go's flour. 

Smith, Jones & Go's, flour. 

The second and the last forms are bad. The 
first is preferable. 

Go Dentistward. — Charles K. asks the 
Answerer how to cure the toothache. Go to a 
dentist, young man. 

Doesn't ExiST.^Mrs. O. F. T. asks for 
the best cosmetic for the complexion. There 
isn't any. 

Wants the Earth. — W. H. H. asks for 
the area of the land and water in square 
miles : Eastern continent, 33,369,000 ; western 
continent, 15,896,000,000; Oceanica, 3,425,000 ; 
total land surface, 51,590,000; Pacific ocean, 
72,000; Atlantic ocean, 35,000,000; Indian 
ocean, 28,000,000 ; Antarctic ocean, 8,500,000 ; 
Arctic ocean, 4,000,500 ; total water surface, 
148,000,000 ; total surface, 199,590,000. 

The First School.— W. R. R. T. asks :— 
I like Light, and am particularly interested in 
the quester column. Can you tell me when 
the first school was established in Worcester, 
and who established it .'' April 4, 1726, Maj. 
Jonas Rice, the first permanent settler, was 
appointed school-teacher, by the selectmen of 
that year. Deacon Nathaniel Moore, Deacon 
Daniel Heywood, James Taylor, Moses Leon- 
ard and Benjamin Flagg, Jr. 

Little Rhody. — A. H. L. says: — "How 
does it happen that so small a state as Rhode 
Island should have two capitals?" The state, 
though small, is made up of two colonies, 
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 
whose original capitals, in the consolidation, 
were retained, though for many years the seat 
of government seemed to be on wheels, stop- 
ping in turn at Providence, New York, Bristol, 
East Greenock and South Kingstown. Gov. 
Ladd, in his recent message set forth, at 
length, the need of a new capitol in Provi- 
dence. When this is built, doubtless the state 
will unite on a single edifice and that in the 
largest city in the state, the second in New 
England. 



Fashioner and Fasliionee. 

[srKCIAI. CUKKKSl'ONDENCE TO I.UfHT.] 

Nkw York, March 26, iSgo. 

During the past four weeks New Yorkers 
have been treated to that infinite variety of 
weather that custom has not as yet stated. 

One week of the merry jingle of sleigh bells 
in the park, where the sunny slopes, now 
mantled in snow, but yesterday showed last 
year's verdure that age had not withered. 

The next week, summer came to take a look 
at the premises, compelling the removal of 
even the jaunty fur capes, so warm it was. 
The verdict has gone forth that small furs 
will be retained into summer, for cool days 
and driving. 

Again arrives a small Arctic winter. All 
the rumble and roar is softened, the unsightly 
objects covered, and strawberries have been 
selling in the streets for the past six weeks. 

At present Easter bonnets seem a delusion, 
and dainty Parisian costumes a snare for the 
acquiring of bronchitis to the unwary. But 
apropos of clothes, that all important factor 
in our urbane lives — even the lilies and roses 
of to-day must toil and spin in their respective 
spheres to fulfill the possibilities expected of 
them in the way of growth and beauty — even 
so must the human flowers give much thought 
to the complex adornments that are yearly 
trending towards more artistic and sumptuous 
effects. 

The fusion of fashion with practical com- 
mon sense in modern habits, both of body 
and mind, is becoming more and more evident 
in the happy results obtained. 

As a case in point I have it on good author- 
ity that the prediction that street dresses will 
sweep the paving stones, may be safely re- 
garded as a trade fiction, told to excite sus- 
picion and inquiry. 

There has been a revolution in public taste 
in the last 20 years, since long dresses were 
worn on the promenade. The street is no 
longer regarded by refined women as the 
proper place to display elaborate toilet. It is 
as impossible to revolutionize public opinion 
on this point as it would be to introduce musk 
again as a fashionable perfume. 

House dresses will lie on the floor and car- 
riage dresses are always long, but the street 
gown will remain the same length it has been, 
just clearing the ground. If seen, it will not 
be on Fifth avenue, but in regions akin to 
Thompson street. 

Surely men as well as women would depre- 
ciate the return to the old custom — unless it 
might be that high and mighty functionary 
who presided over the street cleaning depart 
ment in New York, he might be found to be 
an exception to mankind in general. The 
problem before him seems to be too much be- 
neath his notice — in more senses than one. 



One of the latest fads in society in the way 
of "dove luncheons," is what may be called the 
"historical character" luncheon. Two of re- 
cent date revived the first empire and Louis 
XVI. period. The former was given in honor 
of Mrs. G. B. McClellan and daughter. The 
hostess, a prominent woman in social life, is 
thought by many to resemble portraits of the 
Empress Josephine. The affair was decidedly 
Napoleonic. This lady possesses some valu 



L I (iH T 

able mementoes of the great French warrior, 
among them a lock of his hair, his death 
mask, medals and coins once in his posses- 
sion, documents of historic value and books of 
annotations in Napoleon's handwriting. Be- 
sides these, she owns many rare engravings of 
the men identified with him and of incidents in 
his career, some of which were given to her 
guests as souvenirs. Purple violets, the em- 
peror's favorite flower, decorated the table. 

Another well-known society woman, said to 
bear a striking reseml)lance to the pictures of 
Marie Antoinette, took this fact as a sugges- 
tion for a unique luncheon. The hostess was 
dressed in a gown that faithfully reproduced 
one of the unfortunate queen's, each of the 
guests copied other famous women of that 
time, both in costume and coiffure. The 
adorning of the table and the service of the 
luncheon were made as consonant as possible 
with the rest of the affair, and the topic 
chosen for conversation was the women of the 
French revolution. 

There must have been an amount of histori- 
cal reading done before these dates that is in- 
teresting to contemplate. 



I heard recently a good story about Mr. Os- 
car Wilde, illustrating his readiness and sang- 
froid in extricating himself from an awkward 
dilemma, which, to some men, would have 
been a most difficult situation. At one of 
those society crushes in London, the apostle 
of art was chatting with one of those ladies so 
common in society, whose better halfs are 
vague nonentities, usually known as Mrs. 

's husband. Suddenly up comes a 

small man, and slapping Mr. Wilde affection- 
ately on the back, exclaimed : "Halloa, Os- 
car, d'you know, every time I see you, you get 
fatter and fatter." "I don't know who you 
are," returned the hero of jestheticism, look- 
ing down from his advantage of several 
inches, "but every time I see you, you get 
ruder and ruder." 

Needless to say, upon receiving such a snub- 
bing, the too friendly acquaintance vanished 
abashed with the crowd. 

"Can you tell me," asked Oscar, turning to 
his friend, "who is that dreadful little cad?" 
"That, Mr. Wilde," returned the lady, with a 
frigid glance and haughty manner, "is my hus- 
band." 

"Is it, indeed," replied he, with an agreeable 
smile and holding his ground, "then what a 
pity you don't teach him better manners." 

A large contingent of New Yorkers have 
already sailed for the other side, and more are 
yet to go. 

Florida has more than it's usual quota, and 
appears to be but a transplanted Tuxedo. I 
have heard of several cases of belated though 
none the less severe attacks of "la grippe." 

The winter has been an unusually gay one 
— what with the various "functions" and 
"routs" — the former term signifies anything 
from an afternoon tea to a funeral ; the latter 
term means more especially a gay ball, dinner- 
dances, theatre parties, the assemblies, Patri- 
archs and a host of affairs at "Sherry's," the 
new favorite place for entertaining on Fifth 
avenue, and so on throughout a long list of 
ways and means to amuse that society devised 
for her chosen elect — no longer exclusively the 
"four hundred." It is conceded that there are 



more persons in New York who arc cju.iIiUed 
to enter the "swim" occasionally. 

An incident has just been related to me that 
has its funny side, though really ending in a 
tragedy. 

1 1 occurred in Arizona,where the recent heavy 
floods washed away the large dam of a water 
storage company. The particulars have Ijcen 
published. The disaster was a terrible one, 
causing a large loss not only of property and 
valuable mining apparatus, but of precious 
human life. The president of the company, a 
New York man of wealth, had recently gone 
down there, with his daugliter. neice and .ser- 
vants and had established his household in 
the Hassyampa valley. The house was in the 
pathway of the mighty torrent. Fortunately 
tlie president and his daughter had gone to a 
di.stant town. In the early morning hours, 
about 2 A. M.,the quick warning came, the niece 
jumped from bed as she was, and in bare feet 
ran for the hillside, calling an old family ser- 
vant to follow. The latter protested that she 
could not face the rude gaze of men in such 
scanty attire. The young lady stopped in her 
flight, partly returned, shouting to the over- 
scrupulous domestic to hasten. But no, pro- 
priety before safety at all costs. She re- 
mained to clothe herself in all decency, and 
staid the one fatal moment too long. Down 
rushed and thundered the awful force of 
waters, sweeping the house and maid into the 
swirling sea of destruction. One needless vic- 
tim to excessive modesty. Who will deny the 
all-important influence of clothes over the 
feminine mind? 

It is now quite determined that the late 
John Jacob Astor's son, Mr. William Wal- 
dorf Astor, is the recognized head of the 
house. On dit that his cards bear the simple, 
common sense, but significant legend, Mr. As- 
tor, which, by the way, is a fashion that ob- 
tains in many cases where there are two or 
more brothers. Fashions in outward forms 
we have always with us. It is coming to be 
that each year brings its own distinctive 
modes of speech and of phrase. Certain it is 
that the nomenclature of special things to-day 
would read but as Coptic or Choctaw to our 
grandmothers. 

The modern giri when receiving you gives 
your hand the new peculiar clasp, which needs 
to be seen to be thoroughly appreciated. It is 
given with the hand extended very^ high. I have 
seen young men make it most impressively. 
Also it is, "good morning" and "good even- 
ing" and "good-bye," never "good afternoon." 
With her "functions," "routs," fads and fal- 
lals generally the girl of the present in New 
York is withal a charming and piquant crea- 
ture. Just now she is devout and demure, 
as becomes the Lenten season, though by no 
means leading the life of a recluse, for there 
are Browning and Greek art and no end of 
reading classes to cultivate her mind, and 
heart as well, for it is during these semi-quiet 
days of Lent that Don Cupid arranges to 
make most mischief. While Badminton, 
bowling, riding and theatre parties, with pri- 
vate theatricals, speed the hours on golden 
wing.s, bringing nearer the Easter gaieties that 
bid fair this year to crowd the week with a 
surfeit of weddings, and the many distrac 
tions in pleasure's train. E. H. S. 



Brown Bread and Rolls. 



FIFTH PAPER. 



BY MARIA PARLOA, 
Author of " First Principles of Household Manage- 
ment," " Miss Parloa's NewCook-Book," 
" Miss Parloa's Kitchen Com- 
panion," Etc. 
[copyrighted.] 

Brown Bread. 

This bread is made with rye and Indian 
meals. When it is not possible to get the rje 
meal, and this is the case in many parts of the 
country, graham may be substituted for it. 

For a loaf of this bread use three gills — a 
cupful — of rj-e meal, three gills of flour, a pint 
and one gill of sweet milk, a generous gill of 
molasses, half a teaspoonf ul of salt and a level 
teaspoonful of soda. 

Mix the meals and salt together. Dissolve 
the soda in one tablespoonful of water and stir 
it into the milk and molasses. Mi,\ these in- 
gredients thoroughly and pour upon the meals. 
Beat well for lo minutes, and then pour into a 
well-buttered brown bread tin. Steam for five 
hours. The water in the kettle under the 
steamer should be boiling rapidly when the 
bread is put on, and there should be enough to 
last at least two hours. Always replenish with 
boiling water. 
White Rolls. 

J'or about two dozen rolls use three gener- 
ous pints of flour, a pint of milk, a scant half 
cupful of liquid yeast or one-third of a yeast 
cake dissolved in one-fourth of a cupful of 
water, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoon- 
ful of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of butter or 
lard, and the white of one egg. 

If the rolls are for a si.\ o'clock tea, begin 
the work in the morning, about nine or half- 
past. Boil the milk and then add the 
butter to it. Sift the flour into a warm bowl 
and mix the salt and sugar with it. Beat the 
white of the egg until light. When the milk 
and butter are blood warm, add the yeast and 
white of the egg to them. Stir this mixture 
into the flour and beat well with a spoon. 
.Sprinkle a board with flour, and turn the 
dough out upon it. Knead for 20 minutes ; 
then return to the bowl, cover, and set in a 
warm place to rise. In four or five hours it 
will have risen to three times the original size- 
Work it down, and let it rise for two hours 
longer. Now take pieces of dough about as 
large as an egg of medium size and shape into 
balls ; then roll between the palms of the 
hands until you get a roll about four inches 
long. A good deal of pressure must be used. 
Place these rolls close together in a shallow 
pan. Cover, and let them rise in a warm place 
for an hour and a half. They should be a little 
more than double the original size. Bake in a 
moderately hot oven for half an hour. Or, the 
rolls may be made a little larger and placed in 
a French roll-pan or a gem pan and allowed to 
rise to a little more than double their first 
size. Bake for 25 minutes. 

In shaping rolls, if you wish for a very ten- 
der crust, butter the hands and never use flour. 

These rolls can be put to rise at half-past 
eight at night, if desired for breakfast. Of 
course they will have but two risings, and 
therefore the texture will not be so fine 
and delicate as if risen in the daytime, 
when they can be worked down. 



LICi HT 

Rolls may be made with any of the bread 
doughs given. When the dough is risen it 
may be shaped into rolls, raised and baked as 
already directed ; or three pints of the dough 
may be put into a bowl, and three tablespoon- 
fuls of soft lard or butter, one tablespoonful of 
sugar and the white of one egg be added. 
Work this well, then cover the bowl and set in 
a warm place. When the dough has risen 
shape into rolls and raise and bake as already 
directed. 

If the rolls are for breakfast, after the but- 
ter, etc., has been added, the dough must be 
set in a place where the temperature is not 
over 60 degrees. Having so many hours to 
stand, it will be risen and ready for shaping 
into rolls in the morning. 



Not Very Funny. 

Was it Light .' 

Mother : — I'm afraid your husband is go- 
ing to be ill. How did he look this morning at 
breakfast .' 

Young Wife: I didn't see him. He was 
reading the paper. — Life. 
So Economical. 

"No, Hiram," said the young girl, sadly, I 
can not be your wife. We are too compatible." 
"Compatible !" he exclaimed; isn't that the ver>- 

reason why '' "Not in your case. I should 

probably insist from motives of economy on 
dispensing with a servant and in doing my own 
housework, and you would probably do it, 
Hiram." — Chicago Tribune. 
A Pugilistic Dude. 

"Has that yellow-haired dude been around 
hereto-night?" "Not yet. Why, papa, what 
in the world is the matter? Did you miss your 

footing on the train ? or " "No, I didn't 

miss my footing on the train. I undertook to 
gently remind that dude of yours that he 
wasn't wanted here, and this is the result. 
When he comes to-night, tell him he can have 
you,and he can't have you any too quick to suit 
me. A man who can use his hands like that 
fellow is protection enough for a dozen women. 
If he asks for me, tell him I've gone to Africa 
or Camden and won't be back until the mar- 
riage has blown over." — Philadelphia En- 
quirer. 
Rough on Rats. 

Young Wife:— Oh.John, the rats have eaten 
all my angel-cake ! 

Husband— What! All of it? 

Young Wife:— Every piece. 1 feel like 
crying. 

HusBjV'-d: — Oh, pshaw ! Don't cry over a 
few rats. — Life. 
Off With His Head. 

Mrs. Byrnes (at a variety show) — Phwhat'll 
that one do, John ? 

Mr. Byrnes:— He's a Jappynese jugular, 
me dear, an' in a minute he'll cut off his head 
an' pit it on again. 

Mrs. Byrnes :— He will ? Well, av Oi had 
a head loike thot aff me, troth Old lave it aff. 
—fudge. 
Palace Car Elevators. 

Railroad President:— I am delighted to 
hear that you took a trip on our Great West- 
ern Limited-Palace-Car-Hotel-Barber-Shop- 
Library-Bathroom-PuUman 'Xpress. Nothing 
lacking, was there ?" 



Old Friend (who had an upper berth)— 
Yes; elevators. — Cincinnati Chic. 
That Satisfied Him. 

"Last Monday morning," he began in a 
solemn voice, "last Monday morning I stopped 
here and ordered a large list of groceries. Tor 
day is Thursday, and they have not come up 
yet!" 

"They havn't ! Oh, yes, I remember now," 
replied the grocer. 

"What's the excuse?" 

"You are owing us 540 and we can fill no 
further order until that is paid." 

"Is that it.?" 

"It is." 

"Then it is all right. I didn't know but one 
of your horses was sick — a wagon smashed up — 
forgetful clerk, or something of that sort. That 
makes it all right." — Clinton Courant. 
Livelihood Assured. 

Indignant Father : — My son, your educa- 
tion has cost me j(2o,ooo. I have spent all I 
have, and you must now go right to work and 
earn a living at something you understand. 

Finished Son (Harvard "89)- Well, father 
which would you rather have me be, a base- 
ball pitcher or a billiard-marker ? — New York 
Weekly. 
The Poor Printer. 

"I wish to say to the congregation," said the 
minister, "that the pulpit is not responsible for 
the error of the printer on the tickets for the 
concert in the Sunday-school room. The con- 
cert is for the benefit of the arch fund, not 
arch fiend. We will now sing hymn six, 'To 
err is human, to forgive divine.' " — New York 
Sun. 

A HOOP-SKIRT OF 1890. 

It is rumored that we are again to wear 
hoop-skirts. Indeed, it is more than a rumor, 
for I have seen the first crinoline imported to 
distend the petticoats of unhappy woman- 
kind, says an adventurous reporter. It is 
not of the ancient bird-cage variety, but to do 
it justice, much less dangerous to the hapless 
man who always puts his foot in it, literally 
and metaphorically. The hoop-skirt which 
was exhibited to me as the latest fashionable 
novelty, was a little, checked silk petticoat, in 
cardinal and black, with two or three pink ruf- 
fles flaunting themselves about the bottom. It 
struck me, as modern underwear always 
strikes an outside barbarian, that it must take 
a long time to get it on, for it was made to fit 
snugly over the hips by being shirred several 
inches below the waist line and having some- 
thing like a dozen drawing strings of narrow 
black and cardinal ribbon, every one of which 
must be tied separately, run in. Below the 
shirring some fullness was given it by four or 
five steels which went all the way round, set- 
ting out the dress equally in front and behind. 
It was a very modest and moderate sort of 
hoop-skirt, but portentous as an omen of mon- 
strosities yet in store. Those who pretend to 
be informed say it means an advance from the 
fashions of the empire to those of 1S30-35. 
This advance specimen was imported to the 
order of — but no, it would be unfair to give 
her name ; too many objurgations are in store 
for the society leader who shall be known to 
stand as sponsor for the re-birth of the crino- 
line. — American Storekeeper. 



Preacher and Citizen. 



When a clergyman has all the qualities of a 
brilliant, faithful, hard-working pastor and 
unites with them the qualities of an active, 
earnest, public-spirited citizen, he is apt to be 
one of the most popular men in the com- 
munity of which he is a part. Such men are 
rare. It is not every man in the ministerial 
profession who allies himself with the munici- 
pal progress which may be going on about 
him, nor do all the solid public men choose 
for themselves the pulpit rather than some 
other sphere of work. 

Worcester is fortunate in having had among 
its clergymen, for lo years, a man strong and 
successful in his own church and yet so 
catholic in spirit that his good works have 
known no denominational barriers, and a man 
whose citizenship is of the highest type, hav- 
ing for its object the ultimate establishment of 
the universal brotherhood of man. 

When Rev. M. H. Harris came to Worces- 
ter, ten years ago, he was a stranger to the 
people of the city and the people were 
strangers to him. Now, as he is about to leave 
Worcester for a new field of labor, there is 
not a citizen, of whatever shade of religious 
thought or belief he may be, who does not 
recognize the impress which he has left 
upon the city, or fails to see what part he has 
had in the progress of a decade. "Welcome 
the coming, speed the parting guest!" reads 
the old saw. It may be right, but it is hard to 
say good-bye to Rev. Mr. Harris. It is not a 
farewell in which the people of the First 
Universalist church alone have a part. 
Greatly as they esteem their pastor, that 
esteem is shared by many who have, perhaps, 
never heard him preach a sermon. 

Mr. Harris is still a young man, but he is to- 
day one of the most prominent men of his 
denomination, and though his present pastorate 
is only his second, he has done a work here 
which will long be remembered. 

Moses Henry Harris has enjoyed 45 years 
of a life which has known hard work and a 
large measure of success. He was born in 
Greene, Me., coming of good old New Eng- 
land stock. His father. Captain A.J. Harris, 
who tills an extensive farm, came from the 
Judge Storey line, and his mother was a 
Greenwood, descended from Rev. Dr. Green- 
wood who was once the pastor of King's 
chapel. 

Until he w'as 19 years of age, he devoted 
himself to the pursuit of knowledge in the 
schools of the town, including the High 
school, and then fitted for college in what was 
then the Edward Little Institute in Auburn. 
When he was ready to enter college, however, 
he was solicited to enter into the clothing 
business *in Lewiston, and, having, perhaps, 
more of a bent for business than for college, 
he accepted the position and found it con- 
genial. In the course of two or three years 
he had built up a large custom trade, and w-as 
devoting himself assiduously to business. 
But one day the thought came to him that he 
wanted to do something broader for humanity. 
Mr. Harris had been brought up in the 
Baptist church, that is, he had attended, with 
his people, the Baptist church at home, and 
even now, when he visits the old place, he is 
always invited to preacli from its pulpit. His 



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friends say that he was a boy of a rather 
serious and contemplative turn of mind. 
When in Lewiston, he had attended MethodLst 
revivals in which he took much interest, and 
at one time thought of uniting with the 
Methodist church. Something held him back. 
l!ut while in Lewiston, also, he had attended 
services at the Universalist church, led by a 
desire to hear the singing, and from that time 
on he leaned toward Universalism. The 
result was that he decided to unite with the 
L'niversalist church, but so strong an impress 
had the Baptist teaching of his early years 
made upon him, that he preferred to be bap- 
tized by immersion, and he was baptized in 
the Androscoggin river, in the presence of 1500 
people, assembled to witness the first Llniver- 
salist baptism by immersion in Lewiston. 

Mr. Harris entered into intimate relations 
with the pastor of the Universalist church, 
Rev. M. J. Steere, and while in the latter's 
study, one day, he picked up a copy of what 
was then the Univeisalist. His eye caught a 
notice which said that "all young men de- 
sirous of entering Saint Lawrence University 
should report to Dr. Fisher before the 25th of 
September." 

That seems to have been the pivotal point 
of Mr. Harris's life. Here was what he 
wanted — an opportunity to work for humanity. 
He quietly returned to the store and announced 
his intention to leave, and then, going home 
told his parents of his determination. His 
father was astonished. His son had always 
been a timid boy. He did not believe the 
young man was equal to the work. In a word^ 
he discouraged the plan, but finding his son 
determined, he acquiesced, and offered to help 
in any way that might be desired. "No," said 
the young man, "I will go and educate my- 
self, and take care of myself at the same 
time." And he did. He entered Saint 
Lawrence University, at Canton, N. Y., and 
worked his way through, preaching during 
vacations. Save for this, his college career was 
uneventful, and on the 2Sth of June, 1S70, he 
was graduated from the University. 

A pastorate was already waiting for him. 
He accepted a call to the church in Brattle- 
boro, Vt. His success as a pastor and 
preacher was immediate. At the end of the 
year the church had to be enlarged, and every 
one of the 500 sittings was taken. When he 
went to the church his salary was Si 200; at 
the end of a year it was voluntarily raised to 
S1500, the third year to $1800, the fourth year 
to $2000, and the fifth year to ^2300. His 
success was of his own making. When Mr. 
Harris went to Brattleboro, there was no 
Universalist preacher nearer than Orange, on 
the east, and Wilmington, Vt., 20 miles away, 
on the west. Mr. Harris did not make him- 
self comfortable in Brattleboro and forget the 
outside world. He saw a splendid oppor- 
tunity for mission work, and he improved it. 
He established missions and made it possible 
to organize churches, so that when he retired 
from his pastorate, in the wide field which 
had been barren of Lfniversalist work when 
he entered it, he left six or eight clergymen, 
with churches at Williamsville, Hinsdale, 
Vernon, Guildford, Putney and Bellows Falls. 
This was not all. Mr. Harris took an active 
part in the Universalist State convention of 
\'ermont, and thoroughly revolutionized its 



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methods. He was for eight years secretary of 
the convention and a member of the execu- 
tive board. 

Mr. Harris presided over the destinies of 
the church in Brattleboro for more than nine 
years. He preached his first sermon July 3, 
1870, and his farewell on the closing Sunday 
of September, 1879. During this period of 
nine years and three months, he Ijaptised into 
the church of Ciod, 337 people, men and 
women. 

Naturally, Mr. Harris's work had not re- 
mained unnoticed. Other churches of the 
denomination envied the Brattleboro people 
their brilliant and popular pastor. In 1875, 
without having been approached by any of 
its people, he received a unanimous call to the 
Liberal church in New Orleans, for 30 years 
the scene of the labors of the famous 
Theodore Clapp. He was offered S3000 for 
the first year, and S4000 for the second ; but 
he thought less of the salary than of his op- 
portunities for doing further good in New 
England, and the call was declined. Another 
call came to him from the church in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., and this also was declined, 
while several attempts at opening negotiations, 
on the part of other churches, shared a 
similar fate. 

When a student at St. Lawrence University, 
Mr. Harris had met the lady who was 
later to become his wife, and Septem- 
ber 6, 1 87 1, they were married. The lady was 
Miss Zelia E. Wilson, a daughter of Ambrose 
Wilson of Canton, N. Y. She was a graduate 
of the College of Letters and Science, and 
afterwards, a graduate of the French school 
in iVIontreal. To her valuable education she 
added those common-sense qualities of head 
and heart which have made her an equal in 
popularity with her husband. 

In 1869, Mr. Harris came to Worcester, 
on a visit to Judge Williams, a rela- 
tive of Mr. Harris. He spent Sunday in 
the city, going in the morning to hear Rev. 
T. E. St. John preach, at the First Universalist 
church, and in the evening to hear Rev. 
Ebeneezer Cutler, D. D., at Union church. 
This was the only time Mr. Harris 
visited Worcester previous to the call which 
he received from the First Universalist church. 
That call came in 1S79, and although the 
salary offered him was smaller than that 
which he was receiving at Brattleboro, he felt 
that he ought to accept it. He did so, and 
coming to Worcester, preached his first 
sermon here on the first Sunday of October, 
1S79. 

Of Mr. Harris's work during the past ten 
years there can be little said which is not 
already known to his fellow-citizens. He came 
here and found that he had a church with a 
comparatively small congregation, and bur- 
dened with a debt of $25,000. The people 
were getting disheartened. There was cer- 
tainly a call for somebody to step into the 
breach. Mr. Harris stepped in. He went to 
work in earnest to build up the church and he 
has been building it up ever since. In the 
ten years of his work here, the church has 
received 160 members. The Sunday school is 
prosperous, with 600 members on the roll. 
The parish has connected with it some 500 
families. The notable event of Mr. Harris's 
pastorate was the lilting of the church debt. 



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On the 2oth of February, iSSi, $28,000, more 
than enough to pay the debt, was raised in an 
hour and a half, and before the close of the 
year 1882, the money had all been paid in. 
For seven years the church has had no debt, 
and it is the second largest Universalist 
parish in the country, Dr. Pullman's church at 
Lynn being the only one superior to it in 
point of numbers. Every year, for the past 
10 years, the parish has raised and paid out 
511,000 for expenses, missionary work, etc. 

One Sunday in November, 1883, three gen- 
tlemen who were trustees of the church of 
the Redeemer in Newark, N. J., came to Wor- 
cester and heard Mr. Harris preach, and two 
weeks later he received a call to the pastorate 
of that church, the salary offered him being 
$4000. Again Mr. Harris put away his oppor- 
tunity for a larger salary, and elected to 
remain in Worcester. 

In 18S4 he took a four months vacation and 
travelled extensively in the west. During this 
year, also, All Souls church was organized and 
its chapel on Kilby street was built. 

A little more than a month ago, he was 
called to the pastorate of the Church of the 
Redeemer in Chicago, and his acceptance of 
the call to the extreme regret of his people, 
has already been announced. 

Mr. Harris is known throughout the country 
as one of the ablest men of the Universalist 
church, and he has been prominent in all 
of its work. From 1871 to 1S81 he served 
as a director of the Universalist Publishing 
house of Boston, and for eight years he has 
been a member of the executive board of the 
Massachusetts convention, being chairman of 
the mission committee. Mr. Harris has been 
for eight years one of the trustees of Dean 
Academy, Franklin, and for as long a time 
one of the board of visitors of the Tufts 
College Divinity school. In June, 1880, St. 
Lawrence University conferred upon him the 
degree of Master of Arts. 

In his social relations, Mr. Harris has 
always been universally esteemed, and as a 
citizen, likewise, he has been honored. In 1883 
he was elected chaplain of the Worcester 
Continentals and has always been an active 
member of the company, participating in its 
parades and excursions with unfailing regu- 
larity. He has many friends in Athelstan 
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of which he has been 
a member since he removed here, taking his 
card from Columbia Lodge in Brattleboro, 
where he became a mason. Mr. Harris is also 
a member of Eureka Royal Arch chapter, of 
Worcester council, Royal Arcanum, and of 
Wantastiquet, Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Brattle- 
boro. 

In 1887, Mr, Harris was elected a member 
of the board of directors of the Free Public 
library. 

His work for humanity, which he planned 
for himself when still a young man, has taken 
definite form. It comes to the surface in such 
facts as that he is one of the trustees of the 
Worcester Indian association, and Mr. 
Harris's intimate friends know that since he 
has been in Worcester he has furnished four 
young men with the means necessary to go 
through college. "I think it is doing God's 
work", he says, simply. The Associated 
Charities, which has just been successfully 
organized, is a work in which Mr. Harris was 



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a prime mover, and he has labored long and 
earnestly to start it upon the road to success. 
Mr. Harris is to be in Worcester but a little 
time longer. His first sermon in the Church 
of the Redeemer is to be preached on the 
first Sunday of May, and he goes to a pleasant 
field of work. It is no light regard that his 
fellow-citizens feel in bidding him farewell. 
But Mr. Harris has been heard to say, at 
times, that he thinks ten years is as long a 
term as any pastor should spend in a church, 
and doubtless he feels that he can do more 
good elsewhere. His popularity in Worcester 
is not denominational. That was evident 
when he was complimented with a tenth anni- 
versary reception and banquet, last October ; 
and the clergymen of several other deno- 
minations were present and expressed them- 
selves as holding the warmest feeling of 
fraternity and good will toward Mr. Harris. 
Mr. Harris has enjoyed the respect of all who 
have met him. Probably no clergyman ever 
had more pleasant relations with the press, 
and it is partly due to the fact that his abun- 
dant kindness is extended to the humblest 
reporter as freely it would be to the managing 
editor. The newspaper men of Worcester 
feel for Mr. Harris a regard which in their 
hurried, disillusioned lives, is seldom felt for 
anyone met merely in the routine of work. 
Not only among his own people, then, but in 
all denominations and among all kinds of 
people, Mr. Harris is loved and respected. 
Nor may the gracious lady who has been his 
companion in his ministry be forgotten. She, 
also, has won the warm regard of the people 
with whom she had been thrown in contract. 
"Don't forget Mrs. Harris," said a gentleman, 
the other day, when Mr. Harris's work was 
referred to, "she has been half of that team, 
you know." 

Possessing, then, the esteem of his fellow- 
citizens, both in and out of the circles of the 
church, and followed by the heartiest good 
wishes of all who have known him during a 
decade of faithful, earnest labor in a com- 
munity which so values the organized and 
visible church that it has come to be called 
New England's "city of churches," Rev. 
Mr. Harris goes to his work in the west, in the 
prime of life, full of zeal and having an 
eminent fitness for his calling. 

Light may speak for Worcester when it 
holds out a hand to Mr. Harris and bids him 
God-speed. 

From Fellow-Clergymen. 

Light has asked several of Worcester's 
prominent clergymen to join with it in saying 
publicly a word of farewell to Rev. Mr. 
Harris. The responses have been prompt 
and hearty, and the letters printed below show 
how fraternal a feeling for Mr. Harris exists 
among his fellow-citizens. Denominational 
lines are here forgotten and good will alone 
exists. What Worcester's whole-souled and 
broad-minded clergymen say below is what 
their various congregations would also be glad 
to say. 

Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D. 

Worcester, March 26th, 1S90. 

Editor Light: — What Worcester will be 
without the Rev. Mr. Harris I can not yet 
imagine. While he has been an earnest advo- 



cate of his own denominational convictions, 
he has not forgotten the charity that recog- 
nizes Christianity as greater than any mere 
denomination. The best wishes of the chris- 
tian public will go with him to his new field. 

By the way, if he must leave Worcester in 
response to so loud a " call," I am glad he is 
going to Chicago. Even if divorces are fre- 
quent there, he believes so thoroughly in 
marrying people, and has been so eminently 
successful in that line, that homes will multiply 
faster than the courts can break them down.— 
Very respectfully, 

D. O. Mears. 



Rev. W. H. Thomas, D.D. 

Parsonage, Trinity M. E. Church, 
Worcester, Mass., March 26, 1890. 

To the Editor of Light : — Worcester, in 
saying farewell to Rev. M. H. Harris, will 
feel a more than ordinary regret. His genial, 
cordial nature, and the pleasant relations he 
has sustained to his brethren in the ministry 
in this city will cause them to miss him 
greatly. 

As for myself, the earnest work and kind 
broad spirit which he has manifested in all 
my intercourse with him, and especially in the 
difficult and delicate work of beginning " the 
Associated Charities," have commanded my 
respect and affection, which will follow him 
with best wishes to his new field. Yours, 

W. H. Thomas. 
Rev. Alexander H. Vinton. 

All Saints' Rectory, Worcester. 
To the Editor of Light : 

Dear Sir: — Although I have already taken 
occasion to express in writing as well as orally 
to Mr. Harris, my regret that we are to lose 
him, it affords me pleasure to comply with 
your request. 

The pastor of the First Universalist church 
was one of the first to call upon me — and 
extend a fraternal greeting— after my coming 
to Worcester; it is natural, therefore, that I 
should remember with pleasurable distinct- 
ness his cordial manner and friendly dispos- 
ition. .Since that day the relations between us 
have been of the most agreeable nature. 

What Mr. Harris did in my case I have no 
doubt he has done to every new-comer — ex- 
tended a hearty welcome, given a smiling hand- 
shake — and expressed a genial God-speed. 

It is the warm-hearted human interest in his 
fellows that has won the hearts of the many 
who delight to call that man friend who 
could leave his books and business at all times 
to speak the word of cheer, or do the kindly 
deed. 

It is on this account that Mr. Harris has 
ministered with generous charity to all sorts 
and conditions of men, and he will take with 
him the affectionate wishes of a host of Wor- 
cester friends who do not number themselves 
in his congregation. — Believe me, very sin- 
cerely yours, 

Alex. H. Vinton. 
Feast Annunciation., B. V. Af., 1890. 



Rev. C. H. Pendleton. 
To the Editor of Light : — I gladly avail my- 
self of the opportunity generously given me by 
Light to add my tribute to the kindly words 
of parting to the Rev. Mr. Harris. 



Though my acquaintance with himhasbeen 
short, still as I came to learn his genial 
and kindly nature in a somewhat intimate re- 
lation with him on the committee of Associated 
Charities, I feel all the more to regret his de 
parture from Worcester. Mr. Harris has- 
those kindly and manly qualities that are al- 
ways greater than creed, that cause all men of 
all communions and of no communion to 
claim him for friend and brother. As I have 
come to feel the throb of his warm and gener- 
ous heart I can say with all sincerity I am 
sorry he is going away from Worcester and 
may God's blessing be with him in his new 
field of labor. Very respectfully, 

C. H. Pendleton. 

City, March 26, '90. 



Rev. W. V. W. Davis. 

Union Church Manse, 

9 Ashland Street: March 27, '90. 

Editor of Light : — I thank you for an op- 
portunity to publicly acknowledge my deep 
sense of regret because of the departure of the 
Rev. Mr. Harris. 

To me, it is always a cause for gratitude 
when I can find a man who can agree to dis- 
agree with me in fraternal charity, and can 
recognize that the unity of our human brother- 
hood is larger and deeper than any divergency 
of opinion. Such a man Mr. Harris has 
emphatically proved himself, and I am grate- 
ful to have been his associate in the pulpit of 
Worcester through these years. 

Because of inheritance and education, the 
sincerest man has to be conscious of his lim- 
itations, and that it is impossible for equally 
sincere men to see as he does. But we are all 
learning, I think, not to repine at these limita- 
tions, rather to accept them thankfully. We 
are quite sure the absolute truth will some day 
emerge from the strife of passing opinion, and 
ju.st because of the strife. Hence we will each 
stand up bravely for what we think is right, 
but caring more that truth shall finally prevail 
than our finite opinions. In the midst of such 
a strife, we can at all times recognize our- 
selves as brethren, and as being true co- 
laborers in a common work. 

With this spirit, Mr. Harris has labored 
among us, and many of us have been glad to 
keep him fraternal company. 

We shall miss his genial influence and wise 
counsel much from our ministerial circle. He 
has always been ready to stand with us in 
every good cause and to take burdens. That 
he may exert as pervasive an influence for the 
kingdom of Christ, and win as loyal a circle of 
friends in Chicago, as he has done in Worces- 
ter, is my sincerest wish. 

Very cordially yours, 

Wm. V. W. Davis. 



Rev C. M. Southgate. 

Worcester, March 26. 

To the Editor of Light :— 

Busy city pastors see little of others outside 
their own denomination, but one quickly 
learned to know Mr. Harris as one of the 
friendly men and an indefatigable pastor. It 
was the easier to shake hands with him over a 
denominational fence because the spirit and 
method of his work appeared constructive 
rather than destructive. 1 never knew of his 



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trying to build up his church by pulling down 
others, or to establish his own convictions of 
truth by sneers and attacks upon others. 
He seemed to feel that positive and divine 
truth was better .spiritual food than a travestied 
orthodoxy garnished with ridicule, ^■ours 
sincerely. 

C. M. South<;ate. 



Of Coming Things. 

Sunday, March 30. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. C. D. Il;irti:uift, D. D., 
of Hartford, preaches. 10.30 and 7. 

South B.'^ptist Chukih,— Rev. R. V. .'<liervvood, (>f 
Abington, preaches. 10.30 a. ni. 

Monday, March 31. 

HORTICUITURAI. HALL.— Prohibitionists banquet. 
Evening. 

Gr.\nu Army Hall.— Dramatic entertainment, by 
\\'orcester Grange, P. of H. 8 p. m. 

Tuesdav, April i. 

Plymouth Church.— Pan-Mundus carnival by the 
young people. 7.45 i'. M. 

Laurel Street Church.— Concert under Epwoith 
League auspices. 8 p. m. 

First Universalist Church.— Bazar and enter- 
tainment, Evening. 

V. W, C. A., 352 Main Street.— Class members so- 
cial. 7 to 9 p. m. 

\Wednesday, April 2. 

At Miss Clara E. Norton's, 104 Chandler 
Street.— Eureka Whist club. 8 p. m. 

Fast Day, Thursday, April 3. 

Assdi lAiioN Hall.— Amherst Glee Club Concert. 
8 p. m. 

Good Friday, April 4. 

Y. M. C. .A. Building.— Worcester Tennis Club; 
first meeting of the season. S p. ni. 

Coral Street Church.— Social and entertainment 
given by the young men. Evening. 

Wednesday, April 9. 
fiKAND Army Hall.— Encampment ot Woman's Re- 
lief Corps No. II. 2.30 and 7.30 p. m. 

Thursday, April 10. 

PiLtiRiM Hall. — Annual apron sale, 3 p. m., and en- 
tertainment, evening. 

S.\iNT Matthews Hall. — St Mattliews Ladies Par- 
ish .Md society ; entertainment. 8 p. m. 

Thursday, April 17. 

V. W. C. A., 352 Main Street. Class exhibition. 
Evening. 

'Wednesday, April 23. 

Mechanics Hall.— John Boyle O'Reilly. lecture 
on "Irish Music and Poetry." 8 p. m. 

Monday, May 26. 

Theatre.— Washington Minstrels. 8 p. m. 



LENT, 35TH DAY TO THE 40TH DAY. 



Holy Week. 



Marc 
30 



AT ALL saints. 
H. 

Palm Sunday.— Holy communion, 7.30 a. 
m.; morning prayer and sermon, 10.30 a. m., 
offertory for parish expenses ; Sunday school and 
Bible classes, 3 p. m.; evening prayer, 7.30 p. m., 
sermon by the rector. 

Monday in Holy Week.— Holy com- 
munion, 9 a. m., offertory for rector's charity 
fund; evening prayer, 5 p. m., address by Rev. 
Henry Hague, of St. Matthew's church. 

Tuesday in Holy Week.— Holy com- 
munion, 9 a. m., offertory for rector's charity 
fund ; evening prayer, 5 p. m., address by Rev. 
Francis G. Burgess, of St. John's church. 



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2 Wednesday in Holy Week.— Holy com- 
munion, 9 a. m., offertory for rector's charity 
fund ; evening prayer, 7.30 p. m., address by Rev. 
Langdon C. Stewardson, of St. Mark's churcli. 

3 Maunday-Thursdav. — Holy communion, 
9 a. m., offertory for rector's charity fund ; eve- 
ning prayer, 5 p. m., address by Rev. George E. 
-Allen, of St. Matthew's church; special service 
of devotion, preparatory to Easter communion, 
7.30 p. m. 

4 Good Friday.- Holy communion, 9 ;i. m., 
offertory for rector's charity fund ; morning 
prayer and sermon, 10.30 a. m., offertory for 
missions to the Jews ; litany and meditations on 
the Passion, 2 to 3 p. m.; evening prayer and 
sermon, 7.30 p. m. 

5 Easter Even.— Holy communion, 9 a. m.; 
evening prayer (chapel) 5 p. m. 



at ST. JOHNS, LINCOLN STREET. 

Sunday Before Easter.— Holy com- 
munion, 9.30 a. m.; morning prayer and sermon, 
10.30 a. m.; Sunday school and Bible classes, 
noon ; evening prayer and sermon, 7.30 p. m. 
2 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.— 
Evening prayer and address, 7.30 p. m. 

Thursday'.— I. itany and lu>ly communion, 
with address, 7.30 p. m.; (also) evening prayer 
and address at Chadwick Square mission, 7.30 
p. m. 

Good Friday.— Morning prayer and address, 
9.30 a. m.; litany and address, 12 m.; evening 
prayer and sermon, 7.30 p. m. 

Easter Even.— Evening prayer and bap- 
tism, 5 p. m. 



at ST. MARKS. 



I Tuesday.— Evening prayer, 4 p. m. 

3 Thursday.- Evening prayer, with address, Ijy 

Rev. Henry Hague, of St. Matthews' church. 

The Winter Whist club's masquerade party, 
at Insurance and Ideal halls, Thursday even- 
ing, was a full hand of trunip.s — that is to say, 
it was a notable success. The costumes were 
in all cases very attractive and represented no 
small amount of forethought. The grand 
march, at 8 o'clock, was led by Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles T. Buckman, and then for an hour 
and a half there was dancing. At 9.30 the 
unmasking came, and merriment reigned 
thereafter. The floor director was Mr. E. E. 
Johnson, and for aids, he had Messrs. A. C. 
Lorion, James Staples, G. H. Clarke, C. B. 
S artel and C. T. Buckman. The scene was a 
brilliant one and to describe any particular 
costume without giving all would be to dis- 
criminate where there could be no fair disj 
crimination. Among those present were: 
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. 
lohn P. Grover, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. 
Bo.xworth, Mr. and Mr. Sidney P. Harding, 
.Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Weixler, Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward E. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lorion, 
Miss Maria F. Bosworth, Miss Maude S. Bos- 
worth, Miss Fannie Churchill, Miss Florence 
Churchill, Mr. Eben H. Robinson, Mr. 
Melzar W. Brigham, Miss Esther Harding, 
Miss Effie C. Walch, Mr. Henry A. Gross, 
Mr. Fred L. Averill, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. 
Woodcock, Mr. W. J. Flagg, Miss Nellie 
Chandler, Mrs. H. R. Cummings, Miss Lillie 
Guertin, Mr. Alvah Walker, Mr. Henry 
Staples, Mr. Fred Conklin, Mr. Walter 
Cummings, Miss Mary Lorion, Miss Edith 
Hager, Mr. Arthur Knight, Miss Gertrude 
Odie, Mr. Robert Moore, Mrs. E. F. Capron. 
There were several out-of-town guests. 



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About Folks. 



The Polytechnic Institute Athletic associa- 
tion has voted to hold its opening field day at 
Agricultural park, Saturday, May lo. An 
appropriation of gio for hare and hounds runs 
means that the sport is to be revived as soon 
as the season opens. 



Manager Fred Knight and Professor L. C. 
Havener, who had charge of the successful- 
under-difficulties entertainment, recently given 
at Pilgrim hall, are making arrangements for 
a similar entertainment to be given shortly at 
Mechanics hall. The entire entertainment 
will take place upon the platform, which will 
be extended so as to occupy a space of 24 by 
44 feet. The fan drill, by 16 beau.tiful 
young ladies in costume, will be repeated, and 
the Worcester City Guards will give the bayo- 
net drill, while Professor Havener in a new 
and gorgeous costume, will swing the clubs of 
all nations. There will be many other at- 
tractions not yet ready for announcement. 
Many of them will be new, and all of them 
entertaining. The entertainment is given, 
partly on account of the disappointment 
caused by lack of room at Pilgrim hall and 
partly for benevolent purposes. 



Worcester was well represented, in Web- 
ster, last Wednesday evening, when the 
Arlington Banjo Quintet, Mr. Frederic Howard 
and Prof. Havener delighted the Websterians. 
The Arlington Quintet was encored almost 
before the first number was finished, and Mr. 
Howard had reason to be proud of his recep- 
tion, while Prof. Havener's club swinging 
pleased the ladies as well as the boys, and the 
galleries would have bent under the applause, 
had there been a gallery. Mr. Windle was 
there and kept the breath of the audience in 
abeyance while he performed his difficult bi- 
cycle feats. 

On Friday evening, Feb. 14, the former 
pupils of Mr. Elbridge Smith, for nearly 
25 years principal of the Dorchester High 
school, gave him an enthusiastic recep- 
tion and presented to him an elegant hall 
clock, colonial style, suitably inscribed. 
Worcester interest in this matter rests on the 
fact that Mr. Smith was the first principal of 
our High school. He super\'ised the building 
of the present Walnut street house, and from 
August, '45, till the summer of "47, when he 
went to Cambridge to inaugurate the High 
school of that city, he guided young Worcester. 
Thence he went to Norwich, Conn., to per- 
form a like office,and from there to Dorchester, 
where he has been on duty many years. In 
June, last, he resigned, having reached an age 
when the duties of his position had become 
irksome. At the first annual meeting of the 
Worcester High school association, in Feb- 
ruary, 1887, he was the guest of the evening. 

Mr. Walter J. Henshaw, who has been one 
of Norcross Brothers' draughtsmen for some 
time, goes to Epping, N. H., Monday, to enter 
their new office there. Norcross brothers have 
joined a stock company for working slate 
quarries in Maine, and brick yards at Epping, 
and it is to the Epping office that Mr. 
Henshaw goes, 



LIGHT 

The next regular monthly members' meeting 
of the Young Men's Christian association will 
be held Tuesday evening, April 8, and the 
work of three departments will be discussed. 
The religious meetings committee, Mr. C. C. 
Kenyon, chairman, the invitation committee, 
Mr. Forrest Wesson, chairman, and the recep- 
tion committee, Mr. John E. Thomas, chair- 
man, will present their ideals of work in their 
various departments. The ladies committee 
will sen,'e the regular refreshments. 



Mr. Alfred Clifford, who has been prominent 
in Worcester musical circles, especially in 
relation to the churches, for a long time, has 
accepted a position as manager of the New 
England Y. M. C. A. concert and entertain- 
ment, bureau, the headquarters of which are 
at Boston. The bureau was organized so that 
the Young Men's Christian associations of 
New England could obtain suitable people for 
their entertainment courses, and it has the 
patronage of all the associations. Mr. 
Clifford succeeds Mr. Frank Eaton as 
manager. He will continue his residence in 
Worcester, making daily trips to Boston, and 
will begin his new work April i. Mr. Clifford's 
new engagement will necessitate his giving up 
his work as director of the Grace church 
choir, but he will continue to direct the music 
at the Y. M. C. A. Numerous friends wish 
Mr. Clifford abundant success in his new 
position, and his local experience in the 
management of concerts and entertainments 
will undoubtedly stand him well in stead. 



Not only Union church people, but many 
friends in other churches, are glad to know 
that Rev. W. V. W. Davis has declined his 
call to Minneapolis. 



A " Maiden's Fair" will be held by the fair 
maidens of the Old .South church in their 
chapel on the evenings of April 10 and 11, and 
on the afternoon of the nth. Tables, laden 
with useful and fancy articles, will be tended 
by the maidens in costume. Works of art 
will not be found wanting. Flowers, home- 
made candies and a children's table will be 
among the attractions. A mysterious tent will 
prove attractive to those curiously inclined. 
There will be an interesting and varied pro- 
gram each evening. Cake and ice-cream 
will be served each evening. 



Hezekiah Butterworth, the author, and editor 
of the VdhZ/i's Companion, in a personal letter 
to Light, says : " 1 am much pleased with 
Light. It is ably edited. The editor has the 
editorial instinct." 



Messrs. Charles E. Hildreth, Walter H. 
Hildreth and Hoskison Gates of this city, are 
members of the Amherst Glee club, whose 
concert is to be given at Association hall Fast 
day evening. 



The ladies of Pilgrim church are to have 
their annual apron sale, Thursday afternoon 
April loth, with an entertainment in the 
evening. 



Miss Lillian E. Brown, of Providence, R. I., 
is at present the guest of Mrs, E. R. Ware. 



With Fun and Business. 



'Twas novel, unique, new, fresh, original, 
entertaining, interesting and amusing. 'Twas 
business, so plentifully permeated with social 
fun, that few realized that the affair wasn't 
a series of amusement cycles, with nothing of 
real business back of it. It was the Business 
Men's Jubilee, at Horticultural Hall, Thurs- 
day evening, originated by Mr. Edward C. A. 
Becker, for a grand good business sociable for 
his students of the three tenses. 

Now, here's the program in full : 

P.-IRT I. 

Orchestra selection; Boston Store, Etta 
Doran; Ware-Pratt Co., Harry Young; Star 
Restaurant, Edith Sawin; Moulton, jeweler, 
Katie Ryan; Barnard Bros., W. L. Haskell; 
Uuderwood, photographer, Alice Power ; San- 
ford & Co., Etta Wood; Fred W. Welling- 
ton, T. Wheatley and E. Harrington ; Stark, 
baker, Mamie Connell; "Telegram," F. 
Faucher; Mrs. Boutwell, Alice Dorsey; 
Adams Home Furnishing Co., Laura Becker 
and Sadie Warren. 



Vocal Solo, Staccato Polka, Mrs. Ida 
Johnson. In an encore Mrs. Johnson sang 
".■\nnie Laurie," accompanying herself at the 
piano. 

Zither Solo, Miss Alice Seibert. 

Piano Solo, Miss Emily Whittemore. 

C. L. Gorham & Co., Misses Avis and 
Ellen Day, with song, "Freddie and I," by 
Miss Avis Day; Boston Store, Mabel Wil- 
liamson; K. Simmonds, Grace Underwood; 
Ware-Pratt Co., F..H. Davidson; Marshall's 
Restaurant, F. C. Howe ; E. Tolman, Jennie 
Adams; Light, Minnie Schofield; Mrs. 
Boutwell, Eva Becker ; Geo. Underwood, 
Georgie Sutton; Houghton & Whittemore, 
Maggie McGovern; H. A. Maynard, Emma 
Winn; C. E. Steele, H. Roper; Geo. Fair- 
banks, Glasheen and Mahoney. 

PART III. 

Piano .Solo, Miss Emily Whittemore. 

Reading, "The Boat Race," Miss Minnie 
Bigelow. 

Vocal Solo, "Bonnie Sweet Bessie," Mrs. 
Ida Johnson. 

Kirby, whips, Herbert Knox; Keycs, florist, 
Gertrude Pender; Jones & Davis, Walter 
Hen.shaw; W. E. Howe, Grace Allison; 
Eben Hoxie, Viola Crooker ; W. E. Bowen, 
Gertie Robbins ; Ware-Pratt Co., Charles 
Poland; Marsh & Royce, Nellie Sargent; 
Boston Store, Nellie Whitney; Holland & 
Havener, Torrence and Salter; Post Office, 
M. C. Whitney, Charles Rose, Jr., and others ; 
Exhibition Drill, Prof. L. C. Havener. 

All were amateurs, some had never before 
appeared in public, and several had not the 
time for rehearsal until the day of the per- 
formance. No one made a failure, and the 
majority did well. The costumes were 
appropriate, and several showed much origin- 
ality. The "words of business" were bright 
and pointed. 

Then came dancing. The grand march 
was led by Mr. C. L. Mahoney and Miss 
Nellie Whitney, an4 Mr. and Mrs. Becker, 



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• WniTMCT'S ' LIMCN • JTORE - 



CARD. 



It is, we think, generally well known that in our old store, on Tremont street, we were larc-e dealers 
in Lace Curtains. On moving to our present quarters we were (on account of adding new departments,) 
unable to make room for the Draperies — much to our regret. We have finally, by storing our surplus 
stock of general merchandise outside our premises, made ample room in our basement for the resumino- of 
this department. March 31st will be our opening day. 



1-75 
2.00 



APRIL 1. 

We offer the public 1000 Damask 
Lunch Cloths, colored borders: — 
2 yards square, 
2x2 1-2 yards, 
2.\3 yards, 2.25 

Former prices $2.50, #3 and $3.50. 
These cloths have all the new and 
delicate shades, and the fringes 
are knotted. 




APRIL I. 

Notice carefully the bargains we 
offer below: — 

Colored I^ordered Lunch -Sets 
(Cloth and one dozen D'Oyleys), 
$4.75 per set, formerly sold for 
#7-50. 

The cloths are all 2 1-2 yards in 
length. 

White Damask Hem Stitched 
sets, $8.75, formerly $15. 

White Damask Hem .Stitched 
sets, Hand Open-worked, $14, for- 
meriy $25. 



At great expense we have secured the services of Miss S. R. Hall to take charge of our new art 
parior April 15. This lady is so well known to our fine class of trade, that we think further comments 
are needless. 



ALL MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WOR(]ESTER * 



Temple Place, Boston. 



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Miss Ho we's Concert. 

If Miss Mary Howe has gone away from 
Worcester broken hearted because the critics 
have been whetting their "butcher l4nives"and 
using them with an artistic hand to the man- 
ner born, she is not the very sensible young 
woman that Light believes her to be. It is 
pleasing to know that she is still enjoying good 
health and spirits with no immediate prospect 
of quitting this very wicked and very delight- 
ful world. 

The concert of last Monday evening has 
been the chief topic of conversation in social 
circles of all diameters, during the past week. 
Quite naturally. Mechanics hall hasn't had 
such an audience since the Walker-Hopkins 
tariff debate. Floor, galleries and platform 
had occupants for every seat, and the side 
aisles and ante-rooms were crowded with a 
mass of people who preferred to be uncom- 
fortable in body rather than lose that edifica- 
tion of soul for which they had bartered the 
coin of the realm. 

It was a remarkable audience. It could not 
really be called a musical audience, although 
most all the musical people of the city were 
there. It was an audience of the people. 

Nothing could be funnier than the diversity 
of opinion e.xisting among the people attend- 
ing the concert as to its merits. Some think it 
was splendid and others think the reverse. 

Light does not intend to deny that it was 
disappointed in some respects; but it still has 
abundant faith in Miss Howe. The program 
arrangement was not what it should have 
been. Miss Howe was down for tliree per 
formances, and she sang seven selections, 
which was doing too much. Not that Miss 
Howe gave evidence of fatigue ; but, on gen- 
eral principles, it was singing a good deal for 
the star of the evening. Her first number was 
the "Regnava nel Silenzio" cavatina from 
Donizetti's "Lucia." Now, why did Miss 
Howe start off with the "Regnava.'" .She was 
singing to an audience to which "Lucia" 
would not appeal, as a general thing. How- 
ever, she sang what the program indicated. 

When Miss Howe came upon the platform, 
she was confronted by some 2000 pairs of 
coolly critical eyes which were so lost in ad- 
miration that their owners almost forgot to 
give her the welcome she deserved. There 
was an awakening, after a time, and Miss 
Howe had a hearty round of applause. She 
was not less beautiful than she has been pic- 
tured. Miss Howe needs none of the stage 
artist's tricks to win her the admiration that 
men pay to beauty. That clear coniple.\ion, 
those lustrous eyes and that wealth of hair, 
leave no reasonable excuse for a "make-up." 
She wore a becoming costume of pale pink, 
with a court train. A diamond ornamented 
dagger glittered in the fastening of her cor- 
sage and in the Psyche knot into which her 
hair was bound was another jeweled pin. 

The "Regnava" was not just what the audi- 
ence wanted. Miss Howe sang it to Mr. 
Ellis, of the Symphony orchestra, when she 
was here in February, and sang it then better 
than she sang it on Monday night. When she 
faced that tremendous audience she was 
a trifle nervous; she showed that; but 
slie showed, also, the splendid spirit 
that a New England girl ought to have, 



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after the first encounter with those glaring 
orbs in the audience, she was quite herself. 
The -encore came as a matter of course, 
and Miss Howe sang Alabieff's "Nightingale 
song." Speaking very gently and consider- 
ately. Light hopes Miss Howe will not sing 
that song when she comes here next time. 
The " Nightingale" is played out. Miss Howe 
sings it because it gives her an opportunity to 
take those extreme high notes which attracted 
so much attention when she sang at the 
festival of iSSS ; and that is all very well in its 
way, but Miss Howe has sung it every time 
she has been in Worcester. There is nothing 
very wrong about the " Nightingale," save 
that it is getting to be a very old bird. 

Later, Miss Howe sang three songs by F. 
H. Cowen, " The Night has a thousand eyes," 
" Snowflakes," and " Love me if I live." The 
second was very prettily done, and it is a 
charming fancy in itself. In the concluding 
song of the group, the singer seemed aroused 
to the bold, stirring spirit of the music, and 
striking the higher notes fearlessly, sang with 
an animation that was infectious, while the 
phrasing, notwithstanding the demands of the 
tempo, was perfect. 

For her last number, only two removes 
from the group of English songs. Miss Howe 
choose Benedict's " Carnival of Venice." It is 
old, almost as old as Venice itself, one might 
think, and it has been the innocent object of 
" variations" to suit all tastes, but the trip of 
the " carnival" remains, and say what you 
will, it sets all the good blood in a man astir. 
If he sits in the chair of the stoic critic, this 
does not apply, because then all the blood in 
his veins has turned to ice-water. Light 
wished Monday evening that Miss Howe 
had sung the " Carnival," first, because then 
she would have put herself at once in touch 
with her audience. Eckert's " Echo song" 
was her encore selection and it was a true and 
artistic performance. The fine, clear notes, 
sounding in imitation of the echo, could not 
have been better rendered. 

As to Miss Howe's general success, a great 
deal might be said. The " I am nothing if 
not critical" people have had their say. They 
want us to believe that Miss Howe is a failure, 
but they are seeking on barren ground for 
sympathy of that sort. She has a beautiful 
voice and if she lacks knowledge of the best 
methods of using it, she has time enough to 
gain it. But the attempt to belittle her mani- 
fest success is a very cheap sort of criticism. 

Miss Howe may rejoice in having for an 
accompanist one who is as perfect in that work 
as her brother, Mr. Lucien Howe. The highest 
intelligence and good judgement were manifest 
in his performance. 

There is not a great deal to be said about 
the rest of the concert, though Light would 
like to know what imp of incongruity con- 
nived at putting into the program any such 
stuff as the " Cat and Mouse'' affair. The 
Ruggles Street quartet sang well, of course, 
but they ought to dispense with anything of 
the " Felis et Mus" genus. "Annie Laurie" 
vras very pretty indeed, and " Rock of Ages" 
was well sung. 

Mr. H. O. Johnson, the tenor of the quartet, 
sang Henry Carey's " Sally in our Alley" in a 
most satisfactory way. As Henry Carey 
wrote it ;— 



" Of all the girls that I do know 
There's none like pretty Sally ; 
She is the darling of my heart, 
And he lives ^n our alley," 
it runs in very quick time, and the arrange- 
ment is a different affair, so that the music 
alone held the merit of the performance. Mr. 
Johnson declined an encore. 

Dr. G. R. Clark, the basso, sang Berger's 
" Message of the Deep," a not altogether 
pleasing selection, in good voice. 

The remainder of the evening's performance 
rested with Mr. Alfred de Sdve, the violinist. 
The audience treated Mr. de S&ve very kindly, 
and for both of his performances, Sarasate's 
" Zigeunerweisen' and Vieuxtemps' " Fantasia 
Appassionata," he was recalled, playing a 
commonplace mazurka, and the " Slumber 
song" by way of encore. M. de Sdve smiled 
so delightedly that he had that remarkable 
audience with him in a moment. And it is the 
hand of a master that can draw about half a 
bow's length of absolute silence out a string 
and have a breathless suspense broken up into 
tumultuous seething applause. However, M. 
de Sdve has an agreeable enthusiasm and 
Mme. de S6ve plays his accompaniments 
beautifully. 

Light is glad that the concert was so much 
of a success. The receipts were over $1100, 
and Miss Howe gets about $950. She is 
coming to sing again next Fall, and Light will 
welcome her as warmly as ever. It has no 
wish to assume that she will fail in " The 
Golden Legend" or anything else she may 
undertake, and is willing to wait until the 
time comes for her to sing. 



About Folks. 



The success of the presentation of Sir Jolin 
Stainer's cantata, "The Crucifixion," at Pil- 
grim church, last Sunday evening, was 
marked, and must have been very gratifying to 
the director of the choir, Mr. J. Vernon Butler, 
through whose careful and intelligent work of 
training so satisfactory an interpretation of it 
was made possible. The church was crowded, 
and even the standing room was at a pre- 
mium. The solo parts were well sustained by 
Mrs. George A. Bigelow, soprano, Mr. George 
Butler tenor, and Mr. John H. Howell, bass. 
By general desire the "Crucifixion" will be re- 
peated next Thursday evening, at 7.30 p. m., 
and Pilgrim church will be none to large to 
hold the audience. 



Miss Edith L. Smith has been engaged as 
contralto for the choir of the First Unitarian 
church at LIxbridge during the coming year. 



Since the matter on Light's fourth page 
was prepared, Mr. D. F. O'Regan has been 
elected editor-in-chief of the W P I, and Mr. 
S. A. Kinsley local editor. 



Mr. Perry Averill, the baritone, has been 
engaged as the soloist for the next Gounod 
Club concert. May 13. 



Mr. Edward N. Anderson has the sympathy 
of many Worcester friends in his recent af- 
fliction, the death of his mother. Mr. Ander- 
son's musical work has been interrupted this 
week, but he will be able to resume work 
during the coming week, 



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Professor Warren W. Green gave a recep- 
tion to his dancing classes, at Horticultural 
hall, Wednesday evening, and the affair 
was a decided social success. Professor 
Green acted as floor director, assisted by 
Messrs. Arthur P. Shaffer J. Porter Stone, 
H. L. Green, and G. Stewart Dickinson 
as aids. The grand march, a very unique 
figure, was participated in by about 125 
couples. It was led by Mr. E. H. Robinson 
and Mi.ss Maud Pierce, followed by Mr. 
Arthur P. Shaffer and Miss Nina Batchellor 
of Sutton; Mr. J. Porter Stone and Miss 
(irace Lovely, Mr. Herbert L. Green and lady, 
Mr. Frank Cady and lady, Mr. Fred G. 
Daniels and Miss Maud Shaffer, Mr. Stanley 
C. Brennan and Miss Emma Mills, Mr. 
George A. Lackey and lady, Mr. George E. 
Miller and Miss Baker, Mr. Edward Power 
and Miss Sadie A. Hetherington, Mr. George 
Carr and Miss Marshall, Mr. Frank Clark 
and lady, Mr. Loring N. Farnum and lady, 
Mr. Charles Hobson and Miss Lulu Dieniar, 
Mr. Fred W. Hoppin and Miss Ada Bickford, 
Mr. George H. Salie and Miss Clara Norton, 
Mr. Arthur Warren and lady, Mr. Willis Pratt 
of Shrewsbury and lady, Mr. Fred Pratt of 
Shrewsbury and lady, and others. Caterer 
Rebboli served refreshments in the library 
room, but there was no other interruption to 
the dancing, and the last waltz ended about 
1.30 Thursday morning. 

Messrs. Louie E. Ware and George C. 
Burrage, and Miss Mary Goddard, all of 
whom are Worcester students at Cornell Uni- 
versity, have been at home, on their spring 
vacation, during the past week and will return 
to college Monday night. Mr. C. J. Shearn, 
business manager of the Cornell Daily Sun 
and commodore of the Cornell navy, has also 
been in town during the week, the guest of 
Nathaniel Paine, Esq. Mr. Shearn is collect- 
ing the material for his thesis for graduation, 
the subject of which is "A Century of Ameri- 
can Journalism," and has been availing him- 
self of the opportunities for research offered 
by the American Antiquarian society. Mr. 
Ware attended the second annual banquet of 
the Iota Mu chapter of Phi Gamma Delta 
fraternity, of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, at Boston Tavern, W^ednesday 
night. 

Mr. A. L. Emery, of Westboro, who was 
captain of the Worcester Academy athletic 
team last year, is at home from Cornell Uni- 
versity, and visited the Academy last Monday. 
He also attended the Phi Gamma Delta 
banquet at Boston Tavern, Wednesday night, 
and responded to the toast "Fraternity Life at 
Cornell." 

Miss Miriam Gray is at home frome Mt. 
Holyoke College and Seminary, for a vaca- 
tion, and is entertaing a classmate. Miss Mar- 
ion G. Howard, of Beloit, Wis. Miss Bertha 
R. Houghton is also home from Mt. Holyoke 
and is entertaining a college friend. 



The Wellesley contingent of collegians 
came home Monday night. 

Miss Grace M. Bigelow is at home from 
Miss Salisbury's school at Pittsfield, for two 
weeks. 



Miss Lucy A. Pratt is at lionie from .Smith 
college. 



The date of the class exhibition at the 
Young Women's Cluistian association, has 
been fi.xed for Thursday, April 17. The pro- 
gram includes readings by members of the 
reading class, physical work by Miss Evans 
and two pupils, singing by the vocal music 
class and papers by members of this class in 
current events. There will be tables on wliicli 
will be spread samples of the work in cooking, 
sewing, dress cutting and millinery. The 
class members cordially invite all their lady 
friends to come and see what they have been 
doing this winter. The class members will 
celebrate All Fools' day by a social from 7 to 
9 p. m. The home fund is creeping up toward 
the required amount. This week's donotions 
have been )Jioo from Mrs. M. E. Reed, and a 
check for $2^ from a friend. Money or 
pledges of money can be left with the secreta- 
ries of the association at the rooms, or given 
to the collectors who are appointed in the 
churches. Mrs. S. E. Hildreth will lead the 
meeting tomorrow at 4 p. m., and a cordial 
invitation is extended to all young women, es- 
pecially strangers. Licht sheds its beams in 
the reading room and is much sought for. 
Tickets for Prof. Murdock's readings, April 8, 
are selling well. It is a rare opportunity to 
hear this matchless reader and help a worthy 
a worthy cause. Worcester people should 
rise to the occasion. 



Miss Jessie Mclver has been with her peo 
pie in New York during the present week. 



Mr. Rufus M. Taft, the state evangelist, 
writes to Light that he has had a very sue 
cessful season of work at West Barnstable, 
during the week closing today. He is holding 
meetings in what is said to be the oldest 
church in America, the building having been 
erected in 17 17. Mr. Taft will end his work 
in Barnstable on Monday, and on Tuesday 
will attend the Pilgrim conference of churches 
held in Hanover, where he is to speak on tlie 
topic, "How may the Evangelistic force be in- 
creased in our churches?" Mr. Taft will re- 
turn to Worcester Wednesday, and next 
Saturday will go to Lawrence for his next 
work. 



Misses Josephine Kinsley, Julia Under- 
wood and Hattie Gates were among those who 
heard Patti sing in Boston, a week ago to-day. 



Mrs. Calliope S. Vaitse, a Greek lady whose 
husband is at Andover, studying for the minis- 
try, gave a very interesting talk at the mid- 
week prayer and conference meeting of Pied- 
mont church, Wednesday night. This lady 
and her hu.sband were brought up in the 
Greek church, and were converted to Protest- 
ant Christianity through the efforts of Ameri- 
can missionaries, Mrs. Vaitse having attended 
the school of the Womans' Board in Athens. 
She spoke veiy interestingly of the customs of 
the Greek church and of the condition of the 
Greek people. When her husband has com- 
pleted his education they are to return to 
Greece and labor as missionaries among their 
own people. Mrs. Vaitse is to speak at Union 
church Wednesday, May 7. 



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OUR WILLOW FARM CREAM, 

OUR PARA(;oN CHEESE, 
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OUR PRIDE OF DAKOTA FLOUR, 

OUR PIN-MONEY PICKLES, 
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OIR llo.ME-.MADK (;I.\(;ER WAFERS, 

OUR ITALIAN BREADSTICKS, 

OUR HOME-MADE PRESERVES, 

(Miss Martin's.) 

OUR TABLE DELICACIES. 
ALWAYS FRESH AND CHOICE 
—AT— 

JOHN A. HARTIGAN'S, 

47 Pleasant Street. 



Easter Gloves 
R. GROSS & CO.'S, 

(Successor to C. H. EUsv/orth.) 

349 Main Street. 



Our Glove Department is now complete in 
every particular with the largest and best as- 
sortment of Kid Gloves ever displayed in 
Worcester. 

Gloves of every description at lowest prices 
consistent with first-class goods. 

.Sole agents here for RoeikPs Gloves in all 
styles of Glacd, Sui^de, and Musquetaire, 
known as Coustanze, at $1.25 ; Benita, at $1 ; 
Su(^de Musquetaire, at $1.25. 

We are also sole agents for the Maggioni 
^lo-,'e. Read what a New York journal says 
of this glove : "The gloves of this house 
(Maggioni), have long been held in high favor 
in the United States, and for 14 years were 
handled by P. Centemeri & Co., but Mr. Mag- 
gioni established a special agency here in 
August last, where fre.sh shipments are re- 
ceived by every steamer.'' 

Every glove we sell at 5i or over is fully 
warranted. 

*»WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL^* 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate tiie Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from tlie metliod of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils iiave free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MKS. I.. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 



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RAYMOND'S 

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All Traveling Expenses Included. 



A party will leave Boston, Monday, April 28, for a 
Tour of 61 Days, through 

COLORADO 

AND 

CALIFORNIA, 

with visits to leading cities, resorts, and places of pictur- 
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Denver & Rio Grande Railway -the Great " Scenic 
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will leave Boston for aTour of 75 Days over the same 
routes through 

COLORADO AND CALIFORNIA 

Theuce through the Picturesque Regions of the 

PflCiriC N0RTHWE5T, 

And homeward over tlic entire length of tlie Northern 
Pacific Kailroad, with a week in the Yellowstone 
National Park. 

Both these parties will travel in Special Trains of 
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with Pullman Palace Dining-Cars included. 
incidental Trips to the Vosemite Valley and Uic: 
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K. SiMMONDS, 

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Ladies thinking of purchasing 
Spring Millinery would do well to 
inspect the stock of Trimmed and 
Untrimmed Goods and Millinery 
Novelties at 

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294 Main Street, opp. Bay State House. 

Order Easter Hats now. 



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OF COLORADO. 

gen'l henj. f. butler, president. 

C. E. PARKER, vice-president. 

JAMES GILFILLAN, TREAS., EX-TREAS. OF U. S. 

JOSEPH TORREV, SECRETARY. 

Boston, Mar. 20, 1890. 
Publishers of Light, 
Gentlemen: 

We have advertised in 
Worcester County more or less 
for the past eight months. We 
have advertised regularly there 
for the past three months, and we 
note with surprise that since the 
first appearance of our advertise- 
ment in Light we have received 
nearly twice as many letters as 
during the previous three months. 
We think it but just to you to 
state the fact, which is of great 
interest to advertisers. 
Yours truly, 

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To Her Little Daughter. 



liY URMtV M. SMITH. 



It is nearly 400 years since the conquest of 
Mexico by Cortez, as told in the fascinating 
pages of Prescott. We hope the young people 
of to-day have not altogether given up the 
reading of these noble volumes, though the 
mass of reading matter in these days perilously 
suggests that they have been crowded aside. 
With the common reader, a pretty safe place 
to put anything out of sight, is in the appendi.x. 
Therefore when I say that the appendix to the 
third volume of Prescott's Conquest of Mexico 
contains something which is of much interest 
to the little daughters of to-day as it was in the 
days of Mexico before the conquest of the 
Spaniards 1 must make good my assertion. 

It is a letter of sweet and loving advice from 
a mother to a daughter, who is just forming 
her habits for life ; it is a letter so pure and 
good that the best mother in the world might 
well be proud of it, though it was an Aztec 
matron that wrote it, in the midst of the very 
shocking deeds and customs that were per- 
mitted and familiar to Aztec civilization. For 
they had the practice of human sacrifices in 
those times ; and what was worse they were 
cannibals. The last fact was so notorious that 
Captain Bernal Diaz, the chronicler of Cortez 
victories, notes it as miraculous that the Aztec 
cooks could not serve up the Spanish prisoners 
in that way, finding them too intensely bitter 
for food. 

This makes all the more remarkable this 
letter from an Aztec mother to her daughter. 
But let me say that the boys were not for- 
gotten though their lesson of good behavior, 
as handed down in these same pages of Pres- 
cott, seems to have been of the briefest descrip- 
tion. I find that the good little Mexican boy 
in the days of Montezuma was punctiliously 
enjoined not to take his seat at the board until 
he had washed his face and hands ; and to be 
sure to cleanse his teeth after eating, two ex- 
cellent rules by the way. Not to keep the 
readers of the Light any longer from the 
mother's letter to her daughter— here it is.^ 

"My very beloved daughter, very dear little 
dove. Take care that your garments are such 
as are decent and proper, and observe that you 
do not adorn yourself with much finery, since 
this is a mark of vanity and folly. As little 
becoming is it that your dress should be very 
mean, dirty or ragged, since rags are a mark of 
the low, and those who are held in contempt. 
Let your clothes be becoming and neat, that 
you may appear neither fantastic nor mean. 

When you speak, do not hurry your words 
from uneasiness, but speak deliberately and 
calmly. Do not raise your voice very high, 
nor speak very low, but in a moderate tone. 
Neither wince when you speak, nor when you 
salute ; nor speak through your nose, but let 
your words be proper, of a good sound, and 
your voice gentle. 

In walking, my daughter, see that you be- 
have becomingly, neither going with haste nor 
too slowly; since it is an evidence of being 
puffed up to walk too slowly, and walking 
hastily causes a vicious habit of restlessness 
and instability. Therefore neither walk very 
fast nor very slow ; yet when it shall be nec- 
essary to go with haste, do so,— in this use 



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your discretion. And wlien you may be ob. 
iiged to jump over a pool of water do it with 
decency, that you may neither appear clumsy 
nor light. When you are in the .street do not 
carry your head much inclined or your body 
bent ; nor as little go with your head very 
much raised, since it is a mark of ill breeding; 
walk erect and with your head slightly inclined. 
Do not have your mouth covered, or your 
face from shame, nor go looking like a near- 
sighted per.son, nor on the way make fantastic 
movements with your feet. Walk through the 
street quietly and with propriety. 

Another thing you must attend to, my 
daughter, is, that when you are in the street 
you do not go looking hither and thither, nor 
turning your head to look at this and that ; 
walk neither looking at the skies nor on the 
ground. 

Do not look upon those whom you meet with 
the eyes of an offended person, nor have the 
appearance of being uneasy, but of one who 
looks upon all with a serene countenance; 
doing this you will give no one the occasion of 
being offended with you. Show a becoming 
countenance that you may neither appear 
morose nor on the other hand too complaisant. 
See, my daughter, that you give yourself no 
concern about the words you may hear in 
going through the street, nor pay any re- 
gard to them ; let those who come and go say 
what they will. Take care that you neither 
answer nor speak, but act as if you neither 
heard nor understood them ; since doing in 
this manner no one will be able to say with 
truth that you have said anything amiss. My 
daughter this is the course you ought to take 
since in this manner the ancestors from which 
you spring brought us up. Those noble and 
venerable dames, your grandmother told us not 
so many things as I have told you,— they said 
but few words, and spoke thus, "Listen my 
daughters; in this world it is not necessary to 
live with much prudence and circumspection. 
Hear this allegory. Here, in this world we 
travel by a very narrow steep and dangerous 
road, which is as a lofty mountain ridge on 
whose top passes a narrow path; on either 
side is a great gulf without bottom, and if you 
deviate from the path you will fall into it. 
There is need therefore of much discretion in 
pursuing the road." 

My tenderly loved daughter, my little dove, 
keep this illustration in your heart and see 
that you do not forget it,— it will be to you as 
a lamp and a beacon so long as you shall live 
in the worid— God who is in every place sees 
you. May God prosper you, my first born, 
and may you come to God." 

Words of Others. 

Edward Bellamy on Nationalism. 

Nationalism insists that the weak worker 
shall share equally with the stronger, or, to put 
it more broadly, that all men and women, 
while required to render such services as they 
may be capable of, shall share alike this total 
product. In a word, nationalism holds that 
every one is born into the world a debtor to 
society for all he can do, a creditor to society 
for all he needs.— A'<v/// American Review. 
The Movement of Art. 

The history of the development of the artis- 
tic sense is quite as surprising as that of the 



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evolution of any other faculty. Tlie student 
of art, commencing with primitive forms and 
passing through the cultured period of Greece 
to the dominancy of mediivval imagery and on 
to the present time, will be struck with the ad- 
vances of each succeeding period, and the 
complete triumph of taste in our latest civiliza- 
tions. With the devolopment of a refined 
a-sthetics among the Greeks, religion had an- 
otlier chance of ex4jre.ssing itself; but while 
primitive art tinctured religion with supersti- 
t'on, (Irecian art corrupted it, and in time ex- 
tinguished its open manifestation. As neither 
the one nor the other in any way 
assisted in the purification of religion or the a.s- 
sertion of its teachings, Christianity finally 
appropriated it, and has both borrowed from 
it its entertaining power and conferred upon it 
its approval and benediction. At the present 
time art stands alone ; it is not the handmaid 
of religion, nor is it related to religion any 
more than it is to civilization. Thus its per- 
fection, or imperfection, will be determined, 
not by its relation to religion, but by its own 
potencies and the ends it serves in human 
society. It has outgrown primitivism, cul- 
tured paganism, and individualism ; and, being 
free, like commerce, philosophy, and social 
statics, it should powerfully aid the race in 
culture, refinement, and progression. — Metho- 
dist Review. 
Bismarck's Good-Bye. 

Bismarck's retirement from the active con- 
trol of affairs could not be far off in the ordi- 
nary course of nature, so that if he has now 
actually gone, it only leaves the young em- 
peror in undisputed possession of the field a 
few years earlier than he would otherwise 
have had it. The German people have now a 
fair prospect of what are called "lively times." 
With a majority hostile to the government in 
the reichstag, with socialism growing every 
day, and undoubtedly by this time making it- 
self felt in the army, and with an inexperienced 
young man in command of the army, who con 
siders the whole community "a talent" com 
mitted to his keeping by Almighty God, we 
may fairly look forward to that state of things 
in Gemiany described in the old English say- 
ing as "wigs on the green." — New York Post. 

Infantine Bismarck. 

Bismarck is at last showing infantine traits. 
Second childhood is upon him, and he likes a 
new toy in the way of a dukedom that he has 
often despised with becoming nobility, being 
content to be a great statesman rather than a 
royalty made nobleman. It is the old story of 
"pleased with a rattle and tickled with a 
straw." — Boston Home Journal. 

Corn, Corn, Corn. 

The Agricultural department report in rela- 
tion to the amount of corn and wheat left over 
from last year's crops gives very little encour- 
agement to the holders of corn, and even less 
to the eaters of wheat. The crop of corn last 
year was very large, and the consumption has 
been the largest ever known, but, in spite of 
this, the balance on hand on the ist of March 
is estimated at 970,000,000 bushels. We get 
some idea of the vastness of this, when we see 
that a reduction of one cent a bushel in the 
price of corn means a loss of jS 10,000,000 to the 
farmers. — Boston Herald. 



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Mrs. Miller's Dress Reform. 



BY MRS. I'HILEAS FOGG OF WORCESTER. 



Did you ever visit Mrs. Jeanness Miller's 
rooms, at No. 363 Fifth avenue, New York? 
Then let me tell you : While there, waiting 
for the "City of Paris" to pass quarantine and 
land our friends, I thought, what can I do for 
two hours, and still be "on call," at any time, 
to greet them. This is what I did : I went to 
Mrs. Miller's. Jeanness Miller's Magazine on 
Dress is published and sent out, spreading the 
good news of freedom — freedom from what ? 
There are no slaves now, except slaves to un- 
comfortable, stiff boned, heavy clothes for 
women. Here in this office are a few brave 
souls who are martyrs for dress reform, and 
by their work and example, are slowly usher- 
ing in the new millenium — a combination of 
graceful, healthful and practical dress for 
women. 

I have long been interested in this, having 
been compelled by poor health to adopt a 
home-made method of my own, in which my 
body should be warmly clothed, without the 
double and twisted, heavy-weight, swaddling 
clothes in common use. I have labored with 
my dress-makers not to wig and wad and 
stiffen my skirts, making them so heavy that I 
have really cried from e.xhaustion and back- 
ache when I shed them at night. To a strong, 
well woman, this may seem incredulous, but I 
assure you it is the experience of many, and 
so I was greatly rejoiced at the amount of 
practical work done in this direction. Of 
course I need not here explain that the Jean- 
ness Miller interiors and exteriors are not at 
all like the "blooomer costume" agitated so 
long ago. Here in this office and salesroom 
are patterns of the under-garments, the "foun- 
dation dress lining," and the dresses them- 
selves, also many of the under-garments are 
ready made, and by paying cash you can 
triumphantly carry one home to try on, which 
I did, but waited until my dear husband, 
Phileas, was surely up-town in the broker's 
office. There are three kinds of under-waists 
for sale, some with whale-bones and some 
without, each to take the place of corsets. 
The arrangements are made for Mrs. Miller 
to use when lecturing, taking her many cos- 
tumes to practically show the comfort, beauty 
and freedom of her peculiar kinds of dress. 
The pretty girls are addressing magazines and 
pamphlets to send all over the world in an- 
swer to letters asking about the good work. 
I took one glance at the show window, lumi- 
nous with pretty clothes, ribbons and patterns, 
then walked slowly back to Broadway, and 
thence to Hardman hall, where the Jeanness 
Miller school for physical culture is now in 
session. I meekly ascended the stairs and 
stood trembling on the outside for five 
minutes, wishing in hopes some one would 
happen to come to the door. No one came. 
Oh, dear, what .should I do! My great desire 
to see for myself overcame my timidity and I 
knocked and went in. Here were 15 ladies 
from 16 to 35 years old receiving instruction. 
The teacher is Miss Besserer, a French 
woman from the Senac school, who satisfied 
me beyond a doubt, that she understands 
what she is to do for these ladies in the way of 
physical culture and development. She wore 



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a black cambric dress, blouse waist, short ac- 
cordeon-plaited skirt, black hose slippers. She 
also wore a padded shield, covered with 
chamois, trimmed with red, and upon which a 
red leather heart, three inches wide, was sewed 
directly over where the lady's heart was sup- 
posed to be. This shield was tied closely 
around the neck and extended down four 
inches below the waist — a complete chest pro- 
tector. She also had on a muzzle of strong 
green wire, attached to flat bands which en- 
circled the head — a most curious arrangement, 
which made one think of the muzzling bill be- 
fore the Massachusetts legislature. Five of 
the ladies stood in line and answered to 
the calls, Marchiez and Robes, extending their 
right arms at full length, pointing a long silver 
foil at the eye of the teacher and at the com- 
mand, "Lunge !" all the foils simultaneously 
stuck in the chamois armor, very near the red 
leather heart. This strengthens the chest and 
shoulders. They went through a number of 
simple athletic exercises, but used no heavy 
weights, and then Professor Carl Marwig, 
who taught the nation's kirmess in Boston, 
came in to give them dancing steps and grace- 
ful curves for half an hour. Such grace of 
movement with strength of muscles ! I can- 
not tell you more. I had spent two hours, two 
fares and enjoyed much. Hoping someone 
may do likewise is the only apology for writ- 
ing this. 

Rhymed Presentation. 

The following poem was read by Dr. J. P. 
Rand, in presentation of the association ban- 
quet to Dr. J. K. Warren, president of the 
New Hampshire sons and daughters, at Hor- 
ticultural hall, Monday evening: — 

In days of old 
As we are told, 
The hero brave and true, 
Was decked in sheen 
Of emerald green 
As proof of honors due. 
The maidens fair 
Entwine his hair 
With buds and blossoms gay ; 
The King and Queen 
With gracious mien 
Their royal homage pay. 
But we, to-night, 
Have nought to write 
Of battles lost and won ; 
We celebrate 
Our native state. 
And toast her worthy son. 
'Tis well to praise 
In rythmic lays 
The hero o'er and o'er 
Who dares to fight 
For Home and Right 
And bathe his hands in gore. 
But better far 
Than war's hurrah 
And cannon, smoke and blood, 
It is to calm 
The dread alarm 
And staunch its crimson flood. 

'Tis surely more 

To health restore. 
Bring back a single one, 

Than win a fight 

With dynamite. 
Or man a murderous gun. 

Nor has he less 

Of manliness, 
Courage and valor, too, 

Who hazards life 

In daily strife 
With death and dangers true, 



Than he who bears 

A flag, and wears 
A uniform of blue, 

\\'ho holds it high 

With flashing eye 
And seeking death to woo. 

Then loud huzzahs 

For "Stripes and Stars," 
And. their defenders brave, 

But louder still 

For him, whose will 
And mission, is to save. 

But Doctor, dear. 

We are not here 
To laud your craft or skill, 

Though truly all 

Within my call. 
Would do it with a will. 

But if you please 

For courtesies, 
For kind'and thoughtful aid, 

And for your share 

Of toil and care 
And* generous efforts made. 

We wish to show 

You that we know] 
And thank you for them all ; 

Jn proof we bring 

This offering, 
Which, please accept, tho' sm 

These leaves will fall 

These petals, all 
Will wither and decay, 

But time and space 

Can ne'er efface 
The message they convey. 

No words can tell 

Our thoughts so well, 
No picture can portray; 

E'en Music sweet 

Is not more mete 
To voice the soul, than they. 

Thy represent 

A compliment 
Which we would like to pay. 

Nay more,— suggest 

Our very best 
Regards for you, to-day. 



THE ICE FAMINE. 



The question just now agitating many minds 
is, " What shall we do for our ice next sum- 
mer?" At the present time there is no ice on 
the Hudson river, and from the latest indica- 
tions it is all but certain that this condition of 
things will continue right into the spring. 

Not only New York, but nearly the whole 
eastern part of the country is affected by the 
prospective famine. Only two sources of 
supply are left to New York — the Maine 
rivers and the lakes in northern New York, 
The facilities for transportation from Lakes 
Champlain, (ieorge and Saratoga are meagre 
and at present it seems as if the honest Maine 
famier will reap all the benefit of the high 
prices which will result from the vast famine. 

A tour of investigation, made Saturday 
among the presidents and managers of various 
large ice companies in New York city went to 
show that the worst fears on the subject have 
been fully justified. 

A leading official of the Knickerbocker Ice 
company, which generally handles 1,200,000 
tons of ice a year, says: "If the Hudson 
river and Rockland Lake fail us we shall have 
to depend entirely on Maine and Lake Cham- 
plain for our supply. I cannot tell you what 
stock we have now on hand." 



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Mixed Up. 



BY H. F. G. 



"Isn't she pretty, John, dear ? Doesn't she 
look exactly like a little rosebud ?'' 

"She's well enough," answered the young 
luisband, with provoking indifference. 

"Well enough !" mimicked Lilia in a laugh- 
ing vexation. "John Hawkes, you really don't 
deserve to own a live baby — you don't indeed !" 

"Very probably I don't," said Mr. Hawkes, 
shouldering a stack of carpet-bags, baskets 
and shawls. "There's the whistle — come 
along, and tell that sleepy nurse girl of yours 
to look sharp if she expects to get a seat !" 

Of course it was a matter of some consider- 
able time to stow Mrs. Lilia Hawkes safely 
away, with her baby, her shawls, her novels 
and her nurse, and by the time John had estab- 
lished himself Lilia interrupted him with a 
little estatic scream. 

"Oh, John, what a lovely baby ! Don't she 
look like our little angel ? Dear, dear, how 
piteously she cries, to be sure." 

"Sure enough," said Mr. Hawkes, in an ab- 
stracted sort of manner. 

But Lilia's overflowing maternal sympathies 
were roused. 

"I could quiet her, Susan — bring the little 
love here!" 

The care-worn mother of seven uproarious 
little travellers looked up in some surprise as 
Susan O'Reilly clumsily took the screaming 
infant from its nest of cushions by her side, 
but Lilia softly uttered : — 

"Excuse me, ma'am, but you have so many 
to attend to, and I should so like to hold her 
for a few minutes !" 

"I do actually believe she's glad to get rid 
of it !" thought the indignant Lilia. 

"Halloa ! Two babies, as I live!" ejaculated 
John Hawkes, looking up in some surprise. 
"Where on earth did the other one come 
from ?" 

"Hush — sh — sh !" whispered Lilia, holding 
up her pretty finger with a warning gesture. 

And, absorbed in these puzzling and not al- 
together agreeable meditations, Mr. John 
Hawkes dropped into a feverish slumber, and 
dreamed that his one baby had suddenly 
transformed itself into a whole orphan asylum 
full. 

When he waked up, with a nervous start, it 
was quite dark, save for the swinging, shifting 
glare of the lamp overhead, and Lilia was 
softly murmuring some cradle-song, while 
Susan, with the other little one sound asleep 
in her amis, was nodding harmoniously to the 
jolting of the train! 

"Melton !" roared the iron-lunged conductor, 
putting his head into the car door and drawing 
it back again, as if he had seen a wild beast, 
after the manner of conductors. 

"Here we are Susan," said Lilia eagerly, 
"take the poor little pet back to its mother ; 
stay — give me the baby first. Dear me, John, 
she has gone." 

"Never mind — never mind," said John, hur- 
riedly ; "take the little basket and the striped 
shawl quick if you don't want to be carried on 
to Allenville." 

"But, John " 

"Oh, fiddlestick !" ejaculated the perturbed 
husband ; "there comes Susan now with your 



baby ! It's all right, I tell you. I lure we .ire 
and here is Miss Kourke waiting for us with 
the carriage." 

"Oh, isn't it nice to get home !" exclaimed 
Mrs. Hawkes, joyously, as she came dancing 
into the bright little parlor. "It is worth a 
journey any time, John to learn to appreciate 
your own home properly." 

"Why, yes, it is rather snug," said Mr. 
Hawkes, rubbing his hand.s, and looking com- 
placently around the room. 

"And baby has been so good all the time — 
bless mamma's own little, dark-eyed angel ! 
Give her to mamma, Susan. And, oh, John — 
John !" 

"What the deuce is the matter?" ejaculated 
Mr. Hawkes, stopping short in his labor of un- 
locking a portmanteau. "Why, it's the yellow- 
eyed baby, as sure as I'm a living sinner ! 
And where is little Lily ? Stop screaming, 
Lilia, and answer nie. It isn't possible — it 
can't be !" he added, with a sort of gasp — 
"that Susan brought out the wrong baby !" 

Susan burst into a doleful howl at this stage 
of affairs, terminating in a dismal wail. 

"Sure, sir, an' wasn't it as dar-r-k as a wolf's 
mouth, so it was, and the childher all bawlin', 
and it is meself could't tell the one from 
t'other. Sure, sir, an' it ain't my fault." 

"Oh, my baby, my baby!" screamed poor 
Mrs. Hawkes, wildly wringing her hands to- 
gether "my precious birdling ? Oh, John, what 
shall we do ?" 

"Telegraph," answered Mr. Hawkes, suc- 
cinctly. 

"But will that bring her back ?" asked Lilia, 
with a vague idea of her infant being inclosed 
in an envelope and forwarded "per special 
messenger, 25 cents to collect." "I mean, 
telegraph on to Allenville, for of course those 
other people will stop there when they dis- 
cover the exchange. I will go right on by tlie 
very next train." 

"And I too." 

Lilia clung convulsively to her husband's 
arm. 

"What's the use of your going, my dear?" 

"I could not stay at home, John — I should 
be distracted. Please — please let me go ?" 

Her piteous voice of appeal melted Mr. 
Hawkes' heart. 

"Suit yourself, my dear," he said, "and get 
your things on, quick. I hope this will cure 
you of dandling other people's babies, Lilia." 

So Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes, with the uncon- 
scious burden in their arms, took their hurried 
way once more toward the depot. 

"Fortunately we are on time," said Mr. 
Hawkes, with a deep sigh of relief. "The 
train for Allenville is just going out." 

The three miles between Allenville and 
Melton seemed perfectly interminable to poor 
Lilia, racked with alternate hopes and fears, 
although the "yellow-eyed "infant slept quietly 
in her arms and the train flew along over the 
iron rails at very creditable speed. 

The moment the cars slacked she sprang 
out and rushed into the depot like a wild 
creature, spite of her husband's detaining 
hand and voice. 

"Lilia, my love! you'll certainly be killed !" 

She broke from him and was gone. 

It was a close, uncarpeted little room, 
liglited by one or two flickering gas burners, 
and furnished with wooden benches extending 



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all around the wall. A tne l)nrned like a red, 
sullen eye in a small cylinder stove, and a 
sleepy ticket agent nodded behind the aper- 
ture of his inclosed station — no very inviting 
prospect to the bewildered travellers. 

But, sure enough, there .sat the mother of 
the seven noisy children, in crumpled bonnet 
and travel-stained garb, composedly feeding 
her small flock with relays of biscuit sand- 
wiches and heavy gingerbread. She looked 
up, but she neither sprang to her feet nor ex- 
tended her arms for the stray bantling return- 
ing to her after such an odd fashion. 

"Oil ! I thought most likely you'd bring her 
back," was the most calmly spoken greeting of 
this Spartan matron. "I suppose there 
was some mistake. You'll find your child 
among those shawls on the bench yonder." 

Mrs. Hawkes laid the strange baby in its 
mother's lap, and flew like an arrow to little 
Lily, the petted child, who never before had 
known a single instant's neglect, and who now 
lay with tear-stained cheeks, staring piteously 
up at the flaming gaslights overhead. 

"My sweetest," she sobbed, straining it 
wildly to her breast, "my precious recovered 
treasure." 

And then — why of course, Mrs. Lilia 
Hawkes went into hysterics. 

The other mother opened her eyes. 

"Deary me ? I don't see the sense of mak- 
ing such a fuss over a baby. Just sprinkle her 
forehead with water— she'll come to fast 
enough I'll be bound. There — she's all right 
now. Tommy," addressing her second hope, 
"if you don't stop teasing Marcus Aurelius, 
I'll skin ye alive, see 'f I don't?" 

An hour or two afterward, when Mrs. 
Hawkes sat once more by her own bright fire- 
side, with Lily nestling, flushed and rosy, in her 
lap, John leaned good-humoredly over her 
shoulder to whisper in a half-mocking tone : — 

"I say Lilia — you'll leave off petting strange 
babies in the cars, now, won't you?" 

"Oh, John," answered Lilia, "what a differ- 
ence there is in mothers ! How I pity that 
poor little wretch with its six brothers and 
sisters, and that hard, indifferent mother !" 

"But wasn't it a joke, though," resumed Mr. 
Hawkes, "to think we got hold of the wrong 
baby ?" 

According to that eminent astronomical 
authority, beautiful spring is here, yet one's 
feet still linger on the cold, cold Arctic ground. 



Already folks are talking of theatre parties- 
May the kind fates forbid. A theatre party 
may be very pleasant for the lucky party, but 
it's terribly hard on the unlucky audience. 



Cold Weather Baths. 

I'robably nothing is so neglected during 
winter time as bathing. There is a natural 
dislike to bathing when one gets chilled after- 
ward. This could be avoided, if bath-rooms 
were heated all the time, not just when one 
wants to bathe, but continually during the day 
and evening. The trouble of starting a fire 
often deters one from taking a bath. The 
bathroom should be heated very warm, not 
merely enough to take the "chill off the air," 
but enough to prevent the bather receiving a 
chill after his bath, and to permit him to batlie 
without hurrying. — London Lancet. 



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Inside the House. 



A bruise may be hindered from discolora- 
tion either by the instant application of hot 
water, or by using a little dry starch or 
arrowroot merely moistened with cold water, 
and placed on the injured part. 

If the fishy taste in wild game is objection- 
able, it can be removed by putting a small 
onion, cut fine, into the water it is cooked in, 
or carrots, if onions are not liked. 

Suet should be used instead of butter for 
making sauces, gravies, etc. 

Nothing is better than a glass fruit jar for 
keeping cooking raisins moist. 

Never use the first water that comes from 
a pump or hydrant ; it has been in a lead or 
iron pipe all night, and is not healthful. 

There should always be plenty of good 
kitchen aprons, which protect the dresses so 
much. Long-sleeved ?nd high-necked sack 
aprons for children should be kept on them 
while at play or at the table. 

The old-fashioned idea that burning sulphur 
is a disinfectant is pronounced by physicians 
of the present day to apply only to the rooms 
and closets of a house, but will not answer 
for clothing and blankets, which should be 
washed in a solution of carbolic acid and left 
in the air for several days. 

When the glass globes of chandeliers have 
become smoked and grimy, soak tliem in hot 
water to which a little sal soda has been 
added. Then put some ammonia into hot 
water, enter the globes and scrub briskly with 
a stiff brush. Rinse thoroughly and wipe 
dry. 

Patti's anti-influenza, also her beauty recipe, 
has just been made public, and for this, as well 
as many other useful things, she has earned 
the world's thanks. Patti says: "Now be sure 
and take plenty of exercise. Take it in the 
open air; take it alone and breathe with the 
mouth closed. Keep regular hours for work, 
meals, rest and recreation, and never under 
any circumstances indulge in the fashionable 
habit of eating late suppers. If you want to 
preserve the beauty of the face, and the price- 
less beauty of youth, keep well, keep clean, 
keep erect, and keep cool." 

AH soiled spots found around door-knobs, on 
light-painted doors, may by removed by kero- 
sene on flannel cloth, with no injury to the 
paint. 

A dark flannel skirt should be worn every 
day for winter, and a moreen one of some 
neutral tint for summer, so that white skirts 
need not be washed and ironed every week, or 
worn out by frequent laundering. 

All linings should be carefully basted on 
goods before the pieces of skirts or waists are 
put together. Long stitches in basting skirts 
— or any part except the waist — give better 
satisfaction than short ones. 

A writer on hygiene says that the common 
use of soda to correct acidity in the stomach 
is an error. A counter acid is a safer correc- 
tive than an alkali. A little lemon or Ume 
juice, properly used, will remedy the trouble 
as often as anything. In some cases a very 
little sugar occasionally, alternated with cold 
water, is found effective. Sometimes hot 
water is the best thing. Sometimes nothing is 
so good as external warmth applied over the 
stomach. Lemon juice before meals will be 



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very advantageous as a preventative to lieart- 
burn. Acids, as a rule, decrease the acid 
secretion of the body and increase the alkaline. 
When acid is given for the relief of dyspepsia, 
it should be taken before eating. 



A Trip on a Train of Thought. 



What a wonderfully cheap mode of travel 
"a train of thought" is ! The carriages are so 
comfortable that one never stops to criticise 
their decoration. The power for moving such 
a train — a picture, a few words of a song, or a 
chance remark, may start one whizzing off 
toward any point of the compass perhaps un- 
thought of before. Let us set off upon such a 
trip now, with the old country namesake towns 
of some cities and villages in our own country 
forming most of our itinerary. 

Let us leave London at Westminster bridge 
and think our way up the Thames to Oxford. 
We have had quite enough of the smoke and 
fog of this great city, though statistics show 
the death rate to be lower here than in any 
other city in the world. We'll leave the splen- 
didly Gothic parliament houses on the right, 
keeping our way with the river between Bat- 
ter-sea — with remembrances of her once 
famed enamels — and Chelsea, with its interest- 
ing Soldiers' home, in the chapel of which are 
kept the three American flags which our un- 
happy mother took from us in the family dis- 
agreement at Bunker hill. The old soldier 
who displays them, seems surprised when we 
tell him "we have several state houses full of 
such mementoes that once belonged to 
'mother,' in America." In the neighborhood is 
the house where Carlisle lived, and after visit- 
ing this spot and picking some of the ivy 
leaves from the wall of George Eliot's garden, 
we must go on. 

All the villages, with thatch roofed cot- 
tages, and square ivy covered towered 
churches, are inviting us to stop, but we must 
content ourselves with accepting an occasional 
civility. We must take tea at Taplow, for tea 
on the inn's shaded porch, with the beautiful 
view before us, will be just what a tea hour 
should be. The cloth is laid. A dapper, 
plump little woman "has howns the 'ouse" 
brings us the repast. There surely is no meal in 
the four that compares with an afternoon tea 
when "every thing is just right." The bread- 
and-butter, not bread and butter, here at Tap- 
low, is sure to be of the firmest, sweetest and 
thinnest slices conceivable. The loaf cake 
has just the right number of plums in it and 

the tea, as Miss makes it, will be sure to 

be "to the queen's taste." The tea kettle is 
brought in, hissing away over its spirit lamp 
and left to sputter alone on the floor till the 
"spoonful of tea for each one and one for 
the tea pot" is carefully measured. Now the 
boiling water must be poured in by one who 
knows "just how much," then the pretty, inno- 
cent Canton affair is set "to draw" beaneath a 
"cozey (?)" (like a fever patient under a com- 
forter !) All this whets the appetite that our 
flight through space has engendered, and when 
all is ready, and flavored with bits of informa- 
tion regarding incidents connected with re- 
gattas at Henley, house-boats, punting, row- 
ing or other sports that seem born of the 



Thames, the tea is indeed a pleasure and we 
are almost sorry to start on our whirl again. 

We must stop just for a glance at the 
church at Cookham. Its tower is covered 
with the oppressively affectionate ivy, doing 
its best to unjoint the stones, at the same time 
making us admire the effect of its wrong 
doing. We pass Virginia Water, but must 
wait for a bit at Runnymeade and Magna 
Charta island. King John is forced upon our 
thoughts at both places, but particularly at the 
island, where he signed the great charter, prob- 
ably upon the immense flat stone about which 
we are standing, and in which is graven, "Be 
it remembered that on this island, 15 June, 
1215, John, King of England, signed Magna 
Charta." 

On we go between the low green 
shores of this hard working river whose pro- 
gress is impeded so frequently by locks. We 
can look down upon the tangle of punts, 
launches, and the more ordinary boats be- 
neath us, enjoying the singing and chatting of 
their occupants, and not be bothered in the 
least by waiting for our turn in the procession 
to pass through the lock, though the excite- 
ment attendant upon this passing is one of the 
river's attractions. 

Off to the right lies Cleveland — the Duke of 
Westminster's place — and the sound of the 
chime floating down to us through the woods 
from the old tower, makes a happy combina- 
tion with the river sounds and the cuckoo's 
notes. Suddenly we meet a gondola — the 
only one on the Thames, and comfortably 
seated among the cushions is a man, accom- 
panying himself upon a banjo, while he sings, 
"Away down upon the Suwanee River." At 
first our English friends seem to enjoy the 
combination of Italian and American, but 
when they learn that the singer is compli- 
menting an American river while enjoying the 
hospitality of their own, they say, "An or- 
din'ry man he must be, rather, to sing so in 
public." 

It is better to sing Suwanee river in Amer- 
ica, for the Thames is the Londoners' special 
play-ground. While "on the river" an Eng- 
lishman lapses into his true self and thor- 
oughly enjoys everything about him. But "en 
aslant .'" 

At this point, on the left, Falstaff was 
dumped into the river, and as the stories re- 
garding him are told, we near Windsor. The 
"Eton boys" are swarming the river, singing 
their class songs as they leave their boats for 
the night. We will rest here, looking about 
till next week. 



SERENADE.* 



BY CHECKERBERKV S. HILL. 

Love, I dreamt that thy white brow 
A bloody mark of death did show ; 

1 rose, and crossed the lonely moor 
To call thy name at thy shut door. 

Love, the wind is blowing rough. 
And sharply snaps the frozen bough ; 
But safe within thy chamber warm 

1 know thee free from every harm. 

Love, this wind is hard to bear, 
And, as you do not seem to hear, 

1 guess ril now be on the move, 

And call when you're awake, my Love. 
•The author is painfully aware that some- 
thing ails the ryhme in this poem, though it 
looks all right. Any suggestion as to what 
the matter is will be gratefully received. 



For Our Young Folks. 

Hieroglyphics. 

This is a game both amusing and puz- 
zling, if well done. Strictly speaking it 
is not a game, but a trick or puzzle. 
We will suppose that of all the company only 
Harry and Will are acquainted with the secret 
of "hieroglyphics." Harry volunteers to name 
any word that the others may select during his 
absence from the room. He then goes out, 
leaving the company to choose the word, 
having first requested Will to act the part of 
Egyptian seer. Will now takes a cane or 
pointer of some kind and with a preparatory 
flourish bids the rest to make their selection. 
"Any word ?" somebody inquires. "So it is 
not too long," answers Will. "Three or four 
letter words are the best, though of course you 
may do as you please — a long word takes a 
monstrous lot of heiroglyphics though," he 
adds sedately. After a little consultation the 
word "pail" is agreed upon, and Will calls to 
Harry "Please come in." As Harry enters. 
Will fi.xes his eyes upon a particular spot in the 
carpet, assumes a grave expression, and moves 
the pointer slowly over the floor, as if making 
mysterious signs of some sort. The attention 
of the company is naturally attracted to these 
movements, and the dialogue that accompa- 
nies the movements is seldom heeded, espec- 
ially if spoken in an off-hand way, both Harry 
and Will meanwhile not allowing their eyes 
to wander once from the heiroglyphics that 
the latter keeps constantly making. "Are you 
ready?" Will says, and Harry answers. After 
awhile. Will remarks: "I hope I am making 
this clear to you, my boy." And after another 
interval, given over to several extra dashes and 
curves, Will concludes the cabalistic perform- 
ance with a "Let me see now if you can name 
the chosen word." Harry all the time has 
carefully borne in mind the initial letters of 
the several sentences which Will has addressed 
to him. "Please come in" — the initial letter 
f was "p." "Are you ready ?" — initial letter "a." 
\ "I hope," etc. — initial"!." "T.et mesee," etc. — 
initial letter "1." An in.stant after Will's last 
remark Harry triumphantly announces the 
correct word, amid surprised exclamations of 
"Oh ! how did you know ?" 



Literary Leaves. 

"Robert Browning's Principal Shorter 
Poems," 92 of them in the 30S pages, and 
"Frozen Hearts," a romance by G. Webb Ap- 
pleton, are the lates issues of the Town and 
Country library. P hlished by D. Appleton 
& Co., New York. 

The Scribners are issuing a new book by 
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, which is cal- 
culated to rival "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in 
popularity. It will be entitled, "Little Saint 
Elizabeth, and Other Stories," and is an at- 
tractive picture of child nature, full of the de- 
lighful humor and tenderness of feeling char- 
acteristic of the author. It will contain 12 new 
full-page drawings by Reginald B. Birch, the 
illustrator of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and 
will be issued in uniform style with the latter. 

"I am told on pretty good authority, al- 
though I cannot state it as an absolute fact," 
writes Edward W. Bok, "that the price paid 



lyld HT 

by the Scribners for the American rights to 
Henry M. Stanley's book was $40,000." 

Henry Clay I.ukens, who has made a most 
careful study of American humorous litera- 
ture, from its birth, at tlie close of tlie 17th cen- 
tur>', up to the present day, will contribute to 
the April number of Harper's Magazine an 
article entitled, ".American Literary' Come- 
dians," which will present, in condensed form, 
a survey of this entire field. The article will 
be illustrated with portraits. 

The Scribners will publish, immediately, a 
small book by George W. Cable, entitled "The 
Negro Question," containing the address de- 
livered by the author on Washington's Ijirth- 
day before the Massachusetts club, in reply to 
the memorable speech by the late Henry W. 
Grady, and several open letters. 

The Paris Figai-o recently gave the first an- 
nouncement in France that Alphonse Dau- 
det's new Tartarian serial, "Port-Tarascon," 
is to be published in an English translation in 
America before it appears in its original form 
in France. The Figaro looks upon this as a 
most significant event for the future of French 
and American literary relations. 

Longmans, Green & Co., have in hand a new 
story by H. Rider Haggard, entitled "Beat- 
rice." 

T. C. de Leon, whose "The Rock and the 
Rye," a clever parody on Amt^lie Rives's "The 
Quick or the Dead?" was a decided if ephem- 
eral success, has added "Juny ; or. Only One 
Girl's Story," to the list of his novels. The 
scene changes from a moonshiner's still in 
the North Carolina mountains to New York, 
and the heroine is a beautiful octoroon. Pub- 
lished by the Gossip Printing company. Mo- 
bile, Alabama ; for .sale by the booksellers ; 
price, 50 cents. 



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TO OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. 



Light believes in the rising generation ; it 
knows that the young folks have minds, sen- 
sible thoughts, and latent originality. It fur- 
ther believes that they should be respected 
and encouraged to develop the stuff tliat's in 
them. 

Light therefore offers a prize of five dollars 
in gold to the boy or girl who will write the 
best article on "Newspaper Reading for 
Young People." 

The conditions of this contest are as fol- 
lows : — 

First : — The writer must be a regular at- 
tendant of some public or private school in 
Worcester or Worcester county. 

Second ; — The writer or some member of 
the writer's family must be a regular subscriber 
to Light. 

Third : — The article must not be less than 
of 800 nor more than 1500 words. 

Fourth : — The article must be written on 
only one side of the paper. 

Fifth : — The article must be presented on or 
before April 28, 1890, the earlier the better. 

Sixth : — The article must be accompanied by 
the name and address of the writer. 

The successful article will be printed in 
Light of May 3d. The next two best articles 
will also be printed, if worthy of publication. 

Please address your articles to Editor of 
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HYGIENIC DRESSING. 



.Mrs. .Annie Jcanness Miller, in her lecture at 
Tremont Temple, Boston, under the patron- 
ship of tlie Woman's Kducational union, 
said things interesting to ladies in general. 

As her subject of dress was to he illus- 
trated by costumes made after her 
models, of course every one will be 
interested to know what she wore. Her first 
dress, in which she made her bow to her au- 
dience, was a soft peari-gray plusli with a 
demi-train, V-shaped ncek, edged witli cut 
steel passementerie, and elbow sleeves, with 
frills of exquisite point lace. The dress was 
perfectly plain at the back, and was shirred 
over the hips, and was arranged in soft folds 
on the front, held in place l)y bands of pas.se- 
menterie. The gown was exquisitely artistic 
in color and texture. She announced this as a 
good style for stout women, with the simple 
change of omitting the shirring over the hips. 
With dresses of this kind no one knows where 
the material ends and tlie Hesh begins; it is a 
most complete and thorough disguise of form. 
With a thin woman it is the same, the thinness 
is not accentuated by this mode of dressing. 
It is hidden, and the deficiencies not so 
prominently noticed. The first dress Mrs. 
Miller explained was a gown which a woman 
would wear in her own house for a reception 
dress. The next dress was a walking one. 
This was of gray tricot, made in the directory 
style, with the wide, incroyable revers and 
with a vest of terra cotta. The third gown 
was also a house gown, but made without a 
train. It was a cashmere in a most exquisite 
shade of heliotrope, with panels of a deeper 
shade of velvet on each side, and with an ap- 
plique embroidery' of velvet on the cloth across 
the front and side breaths. The shirred vest 
of soft surah was arranged in graceful folds, 
and a sash of the same encircled the waist and 
hung on the right side in long, graceful folds. 
Over the vest was a bolero jacket, outlined 
with the applique ■embroidery, both at the 
waist and about the V-shaped neck. A school 
girl's dress of pale rose surah was next worn, 
and after that she gave the ladies a chance to 
see the effect of the divided skirt, which is 
worn in place of a petticoat. The last dress 
was the evening dress, which she wore at her 
last lecture, of brocade and point lace with 
pearl passementerie. Since her lecture here 
in October a large number of women have 
adopted the dress. 

No American book of modern times has 
had a wider and more interested circle of 
readers than Gen. Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur." 
Wherever it has gone it has been re.ad with 
delight upon all hands, and by all classes of 
people. It has received a translation into all 
the languages of the civilized world. The 
trustees of All Souls church, thinking there 
must be a large number of people who have 
perused it with interest, who would like to see 
it delineated by a master hand in an evening's 
time, have made arrangements with L. O. 
.Armstrong, E.sq., of Montreal, to deliver his 
interesting illustrated dramatic lecture at Hor- 
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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1890. 



Nii. r, 



Worcester has 250 societies. There is no 
other city in America that has so many soci- 
ties, population considered, and yet Worces- 
ter is not chquey generally, although of course 
it may be specifically. The societies of Wor- 
cester have done much toward raising Worces- 
ter socially,and to increase the brotherhood and 
sisterhood. A large proportion of the soci- 
ties admit both sexes, and it is a pity that 
more of the societies do not follow the laws of 
absolute equality. The wife has as much 
right to enter the society room with her hus- 
band, as the husband has to enter the socLil 
boudoir of the wife. Of course Light be- 
lieves that there are exceptions to this gen- 
eral rule, and that it would be as improper for 
a woman to go into some of the lodge rooms, 
as it would be to have every other seat in the 
sewing circle occupied by men, still the 
oftener the two sexes meet socially, in the 
home and out of it, the better it is for both of 
them. Worcester, in her societies, is doing 
more than any other city in mixing up the 
sexes as they should be mixed. 



People like amusement, and they always 
will. There are as many kinds of amusement 
as there are people to be amused. Perfection 
of amusement is entertainment which appeals 
to the intellectual side without tiring it. 
Light has a suggestion to make to the 
societies, and to the home circle, or rather to 
a combination of home circles. The amateur 
singer is all right ; let her sing ; the amateur 
reader is all right ; let her read ; but one tires 
of too much of one thing, and there isn't 
much instruction to be had from hearing a 
piece read which has been read so many 
times before. Let a dozen, or fifty, or two 
hundred people, get together, and from them- 
selves into an informal class, and let some 
lady or gentleman be leader of the class for 
each evening. Supposing there is some one 
in the class who is familiar with some partic. 
ular subject, for instance there is a leading 
insurance man who has made insurance a 
life's study. He talks for, say thirty minutes, 
on general insurance, leaving out technicalities. 
If any of his auditors desire to ask a question, 
up goes his hand, and at the conclusion of the 
formal part of the informal talk, the speaker 
becomes teacher, and the auditors his 
scholars, and together they discuss the popu- 
lar side of this great industry, so well known 
to the few and so little known to the many. 
Let some cashier talk on money, some doctor 
talk on medicine, some lawyer on law ; let any 
one talk on any subject about which he or she 
is familiar, and which is not generally under- 
stood by the general people. It is not neces- 
sary that the man or woman should be a 
speaker, but it is necessary that he or she should 
be simply a conversationalist. There is un- 
developed talent in any one who has any 
talent at all. Many a man or woman does not 
know how much he or she does know until he 
or she gets a chance to tell somebody else. 



Parisians are nothing if not original. They 
set the whirl of fashion whirling, and regulate 
the measure of gaiety without the handicap of 
license. Their latest fad is to escort their 
guests to some museum, hospital, or other 
public institution, enjoy the sights, explain 
the unexplainable, and then return home to 
enter some cafcS to balance the intellectual 
strain by giving the physical something to do. 
It is not a bad idea; it gives the company 
change, exercise, and the intervening exhilera- 
tion of the open air. It relieves the hostess, and 
generally the company. Visiting is bad enough 
any way, and any change from the poky 
company room is profitable. 

Fifty years ago the Worcester busine.ss man 
wended his way New Yorkward, over the 
forest wilds of two states, by the way of one 
of those not-yet-forgotten vehicles, which 
wobbles along under the name of stagecoach. 
To go from the Heart of the Commonwealth 
to the metropolis, one passed through three 
days of climatic changes, and travelled over 
roads not made by man ; was hungry, and 
could only get food at unstated intervals ; and 
delicate physiques were land sea-sick half of 
the voyage. To-day the same man, or the 
same man's son, enters the coliseum depot, 
where under cover he steps aboard a wheeled 
palace, and in four hours and fifty minutes, 
without wetting his feet or his head, is landed 
in the largest city in America. He travels 
over as much territory in an hour as he used 
to in a day ; his feet rest on a velvet hassocki 
and he sits upon a chair as comfortable as a 
boudoir lounge. Refreshments are served to 
him, and colored servants administer to his 
wants. He telegraphs from the moving car to 
wife or partner, and receives an answer before 
the train .slackens speed. He informs people 
that he is coming, and they know that he is 
on the way, thirty minutes after he has started. 
Yet the very man who used to sleep three 
days between Worcester and New York, is 
the man who now, kicks at the railroad com- 
pany if the train is ten minutes late. The 
man who rode between the two cities in an 
ox cart, straddling a pine board, with splinters 
in it, is the man who kicks to-day. He berates 
the Wagner car conductor if there is a peanut 
shell on the carpet of the car. The man who 
used to get his half way dinner at a rickety 
farm house, at a rickety table, and pounded 
his steak with the but of his whip handle 
before he ate it, can't wait six seconds for his 
dinner, nowadays, and wants the affidavit of 
the ox attached to his porter house before he 
dares to cut into the juicy viand. Fifty years 
ago a man could not communicate with his 
brother in T3uffalo and get an answer back in 
a week ; a little later he could do it in three 
days; now he calls up "central," and sauces the 
innocent telephone girl, if she doesn't give 
him Buffalo inside of a minute. The man 
who used to climb up seven flights of stairs 
to get to the top of his building, now expects 
the elevator boy to keep the elevator on the 



floor he is on, all of the time, and kicks if the 
elevator is too slow, and kicks if it is fast 
enough to take his breath away. Ben. 
Franklin wrote his almanac by the light of a 
dim candle; to-day shoemakers peg .shoes by 
tlie glare of the electric light, and yet men 
kick. The kicker is as much a fixture in 
modern civilization as tallow is a part of the 
tallow candle. 



The grade crossing is becoming as 
fatal as the deadly car stove. Grade 
crossings appear to be necessary, 
where lack of travel does nor warrant the ex- 
pense of going under or beneath the grade, 
but it does seem poor economy, from a busi- 
ness point of view, if from no other, to run 
trains over a cro.ssing over which pa.ss a con- 
tinual stream of humanity, and if the crossing 
is as blind a one as that of Lincoln square, it 
is liable to prove doubly fatal. 



Here's journalistic consistency! Editor 
Colonel Blank, is a tall, broad-.shouldered, 
long-headed, straight-backed, sort of a Ver- 
mont newspaper man. He owns two papers; 
one is fairly booming the election of Mr. 
Woodbury for governor, while the other is 
quite sure that Mr. Page could fill the gover- 
nor's chair better than can any other man, in- 
cluding Mr. Woodbury. Editor Blank is a 
shrewd fellow. Whichever man is elected he 
can claim to be one of his working constit- 
uents. 



A man can be a man when fools think him 
a sapling. M anly qualities generally rise to the 
surface, but not always. Many a man's man- 
liness is unearthed at his earthing. Some folks 
have to die to be understood. There is more 
nobleness chronicled in the encyclop.T-dia than 
there is out of it. There is often more be- 
nevolence written in wills and testaments than 
is posted in the anti-mortem book of life. 



Affectation isn't dead, even in Worcester. If 
every one of us claimed to be just what we 
are, it would be mighty hard on conceited .self- 
respect. 

If half of the poetical words and literary 
effusions which sell by writer's name were 
sent anonymously to the leading literary pub- 
lications, nine-tenths of them would come 
back tagged with that sad motto of '• unavail- 
able for publication." Not what is good, but 
what we think we ought to think is good is 
what sells many a book, and always will. 



"Never before," says a lady of business 
womanhood, "has my sex had such opportuni- 
ties of independence. A young woman nowa- 
days finds a thousand occupations open to her, 
where a few years ago she had ten. They are 
too numerous to count, and women lose nothr 
ing in public opinion by providing their bread 
and butter." 



L I Ci HT 




' /7'^6R(ESTER.A\A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
fl^^ Advertising rates upon application. 



Editors and 
Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 
Telephone No. 141-5. 

Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Readers of Light will be interested to know tliat at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 



Dissolution of Co-Partnership. 



Notice is hereby given, that the partnership lately 
subsisting between Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr., and Fred 
E. Colburn, both of Worcester, county of Worcester, 
state of Massachusetts, under the firm name of 
" Fowler & Colburn," was dissolved by mutual consent, 
on the 31st day of March, 1890, the said Colburn having 
sold his interest to F. E. Kennedy, of Boston. 

Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. 

Fred E. Coluurn. 



Notice of Co-Partnership. 



Worcester, Mass., March 31, 1890. 
Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr., of Worcester, and F. E. 
Kennedy, late of Boston, now of Worcester, have this 
day formed a co-partnership, under the firm name of 
" Fowler &. Kennedy," publishers and proprietors of 
Light. 

Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. 
F. E, Kennedy. 



Worcester, Saturday, April 5, 18 



About Folks. 



The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people. 



April 5: Sun rises at 5.20 A.M.; sets at 
6.15 P. M. Length of day, 12 hours, 55 minutes. 
Full moon, April 5th., 4 hours, 24 minutes, 
morning, w. To-morrow, Easter. 

Mr. W. H. Dunham and Mrs. H. F. 
Knowles, the tenor and director and the 
soprano of Plymouth church choir, concluded 
their engagement there last Sunday, and on 
Saturday, while coming up from Boston to- 
gether, Mrs. Knowles presented Mr. Dunham 
with a handsome ebony baton, ivory-handled, 
as a souvenir of the time during which they 
have been pleasantly associated. 

Captain Frank L. Child spent Palm Sun- 
day, with his relatives in Walpole. 

Mr. Fred S. Dickie, who was to have en- 
tered the employ of B. A. Atkinson & Co., of 
Boston, this week, has decided to remain in 
Worcester and is now with J. A. Long. 



Mr. Frank J. Kinney is to speak at a far- 
mer's meeting, at Boston to-day, on " Small 
Fruits." 

A pleasant little party of friends gathered at 
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Elkins, 
Monday evening, to present golden wedding 
congratulations. Mr. and Mrs. Elkins were 
married in Leicester, March 30, 1840, and have 
lived in Worcester ever since. Mr. Elkins has 
been prominent in musical circles for many 
years, and his valuable services as a member 
of the board of government of the Worcester 
County Musical association were recognized 
Monday evening, when Mr. A. C. Munroe, the 
secretarj-, presented on behalf of the board a 
beautiful bouquet and a substantial sum in 
gold. Mr. Munroe made congratulatory re- 
marks in a pleasant way and Mr. Elkins re- 
sponded. The scores of friends who would 
have been glad to testify to their regard for 
Mr. and Mrs. Elkins, had the gathering been 
other than a very private one, have a large 
store of good wishes for them. 



Sigmund Beel, so recently returned to 
America, brings letters from Joachim, von 
Billow and Kogl, and has already made a 
good impression in New York. Since Gre- 
orewitch studied with Joachim he has had no 
pupil in whom he has shown such interest. 
We hope to hear him before he leaves the east 
for his Californian home. 



Mr. Fred H. Fuller is now with the Hodg- 
don Rubber company, School street, Boston. 



Grand Army Hall was crowded, Monday 
evening, with members of Worcester Grange, 
P. of H., and their friends, called together by 
the announcement of an amateur dramatic 
entertainment. The play was "The Stolen 
Will," and the parts were assumed by mem- 
bers of the Grange. Altogether, it was very 
cleverly done and evoked no little applause. 
The cast included Mr. James Draper, as the 
Coroner; Mr. Fred Midgley, as Chip JFuik/e, 
Esq., a country boy; Charlie Harrington, as 
Af aster Markey Loker, an overgrown booby ; 
Mr. Walter S. Bowen, as George Jameson, 
the "villian" of the play Mr. H. L. Rand, as 
Amos W'cnley, a farmer; and Hon. Edward 
Enright, a foreign traveller; Mr. G. A. Cheney, 
as Deacon Cuff, deacon of the orthodox 
church; Frank Montgomery, as _/<)//«//)' .Srt////- 
ders, a boy of the period, and as "Police" ; 
Frank Harringtoa, as a newsboy ; Mr. Charles 
H. Rice, as a footman ; Mr. H. A. Putnam, 
as the sheriff ; Mr. C. E. Bond, as a "cop"; 
Miss S. A. Widgley, as Viola Wenley ; Miss 
Eflie B. Draper, as Sadie Loker, a society 
belle; Miss Alice G. Draper, as J/rj-. Loker, 
parvenus M'ss Bertha C. Bancroft, as Little 
Cora; Ellen W. Stagg, as Betsey Smith, a 
wicked housekeeper; and Miss Blanche Ban- 
croft, as Kathleen, the nurse. The movement 
of the play was smooth and showed careful 
preparation on the part of the actcrs. Miss 
Widgley, who sustained the most difficult of 
the ladies' parts, did herself credit, and Miss 
Draper, who also had a difficult part, was 
especially good. Betsey Smith was done in 
much better style than amateurs usually get in 
such parts. Mr. Widgley carried off the 
gentlemen's palm as Chip Winkle, and 
Charlie Harrington made a hit at once. 



Master Frank Montgomery was no less satis- 
factory, and Mr. Cheney's clever way of 
announcing that he was "deacon of the Ortho- 
do.\ church and president of the Chamberlain 
District Reform Club," took well. AH the 
parts were well done, for that matter. Among 
those noticed in the audience were Mayor 
Harrington and Alderman Ellsworth, who 
came in after the adjournment of the city 
council. After the play there was dancing 
until I o'clock. 



A very pleasant, though entirely informal, 
reunion of the Normal School class of '87 was 
held at the school on Saturday last. The 
number present (twelve) seems large when one 
considers the difficulties of reuniting any class 
even a few years after its commencement. 
The seclusion of the attractive "Graduates' 
Room" offered opportunity for the e.xchange 
of social courtesies, and after these had had 
full sway for a time, the young ladies ad- 
journed to the dinning room for an old-time 
"spread." Among those present were Miss 
Lilian Smith, of Webster, and Miss Lizzie 
Wallis, of North Oxford. The others were 
all from Worcester : Misses Kate E. Smith, 
Cora D. E. Robinson, Sarah E. Earley, 
Henrietta M. Wright, Elizabeth McFarland, 
Carrie F. Fletcher, Caroline G. Cooke, Hattie 
L. Partridge, and Abbie C. Knight. 



Rev. B. Fay Wills, who conducted religious 
meetings at the rink, two years ago, is holding 
similar meetings at Jacksonville, 111., in which 
all the Evangelical churches, except the 
Episcopal, unite. 

Mr. Will A. Howland, the baritone, now in 
Bridgeport, Conn., has been at home this 
week, and his friends have had opportunity to 
congratulate him on his recent musical suc- 
cesses. 

The Young Ladies' Home Missionary 
society at Pleasant street Baptist church had 
an Easter sale at the residence of Alderman 
Webster Thayer, 17 Oak avenue, Tuesday 
afternoon, and in the evening a " buttercup 
entertainment" was given. Mr. Fred Simester 
as an Irishman, Mr. Herbert A. Kimball as a 
Chinaman, Miss Lottie Thayer as an Irish girl, 
Mrs. Webster Thayer as a Dutch girl, Mrs. 
Fred Simester as a Scotch girl. Master John 
Thayer, as a darkey, and Miss Eunice Thayer 
as Little Buttercup, made up the party. Miss 
Lillie Ellis gave readings. Miss Ann Foskett 
sang, and Miss Fannie Hapgood assisted at 
the piano. Mr. and Mrs. Thayer entertained 
the party hospitably and the affair was a great 
success. 



Wednesday, April 2, was the day before the 
one hundred and seventh anniversary of Wash- 
ington Irving's birth, and as the High school 
is making a study of this author's writings, 
fifteen minutes were spent in the hall that 
morning in a very interesting recital by many 
pupils, of items in Irving's life and times. 

Principal Alfred S. Roe, spent Thursday 
with Mr. Charles A. Chapin, a former teacher 
in the High school, now living in Hartford, 
and yesterday was at Wilbraham Academy, 
being a member of the board of visitors of 
the latter institution. 



The entertainment which will celebrate the 
the 25th. anniversary of the surrender of Gen- 
eral Lee, and which occurs at (»rand Army 
hall, on the afternoon and evening of next 
Wednesday, under the auspicies of the Wo- 
man's Relief Corps, will be one of the most 
unique of interesting entertainments. The 
hall will be turned into a virtual camp ground, 
the tents and booths to be shaded by groves 
of cedar trees. The regimental appointments 
are as follows: Co. A., with aprons and hand- 
kerchiefs, under the charge of Mrs. Mary A. 
Bushnell. Co. B.'s paper, flowers, pictures 
and novelties will be commanded by Mrs. Luc- 
retia B. Rice. Co. C. will have its pop corn 
and confectionary quartermestered by Mrs. 
Lizzie T. Hubbard, and a guess cake will be 
there for guesses. Co. D. 'will amuse the 
soldiers and otheas with an entertainment, in- 
cluding charactes sketches by Mr. T. Hey- 
wood Blood, a fan drill by ten pretty lassas, 
readings and songs by Mrs. A. S. Roe, and 
banjo and violin solos, with Mrs. M. Jennie 
Matthews as officer of the day. Co. E., under 
the captainship of Mrs. Camilla E. Jenks, will 
entertain the children with a miscellaneous 
program, with a May dance, crowning, as 
queen. Miss Arline Hale. Co. F. has appoint- 
ed Mrs. Emma F. Savels custodian of flowers 
and plants. Co. G. will sell ice cream and 
cake, matronizedby Mrs. Susan Ames. Co. H. 
wiil have clam chowder to serve to messmotes 
by Mrs. Helen Jewell and assistents, the naval 
dressed girls adding to the flavor of the "mess." 
Co. I. is to have a gipsy camp of basket mak- 
ers and fortune tellers, with Mrs. Angle A. 
Robinson as head gypsy. Co. K. will fit up an 
old-fashoned kitchen, with an old-fashoned 
supper, served by new-fashioned waiters, boss- 
ed by Mrs. M. Jennie Mills. Co. L. will 
know beans with its big bean pot, with Mrs. 
Fannie B. Allen as superintetent of guesses. 
Co. M.'s "mystery" table will cater to the lit- 
tle folks, undes the direction of Mrs. Anna H. 
Burbank. The matinee will begin at 2.30 
o'clock, and the evening's entertainment opens 
at 7.00 o'clock. 

Miss Flora B. Chamberlain, a graduate of 
the January class at the Normal school, and 
a daughter of Gen. Robert H. Chamberlain, 
is teaching in the Southbridge High school. 



Miss Mabel Wright, about whom New 
York has been talking so much since her 
marriage to Fernando Yznaga, is a relative of 
Mr. Curtis A. Wright's people, of this city, 
and her father, Mr. George C. Wright, was 
several years ago a designer at the Crompton 
Loom works. His daugher, however, has 
never lived in Worcester, her home having 
been in New York. Miss Wright's appear- 
ance among the 400 was something out of the 
usual line. She was not " in the swim," of 
course. At Narragansett, however, she sud- 
denly became the admired of all admirers. A 
friend of the family who was away up in 
society, introduced her, and henceforth her 
success was marvellous. A New York corres- 
pondent writes that she is about 23 or 24 years 
old, very tall and slender, and a beauty in 
every sense of the word. At the New Year's 
ball, he says, she is said to have been one of 
the few women whose coloring was faultless 
enough to stand the glare of those unfortunate 



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electric lights. She was the admired of the 
evening, in pale mauve, and attracted much 
attention. Sefior Yzn.iga is a Cuban, whose 
first wife was a Miss Smith, and is now a Mrs. 
Tiffany. They say in New York that when 
the new Mrs. Yzanga is introduced to London 
society, Belgravia will see the prettiest Ameri- 
can who has been in London since Miss Mary 
Brady went over there two years ago. 



Mr. Alfred S. Roe, who is every year called 
upon to deliver Memorial Day addres.ses 
before county posts of the Grand Army, is to 
give Decoration Day addresses, this year, at 
Montague, Franklin county, in the morning, 
and at Turner's Falls in the afternoon. 



The officers of Eureka chapter. Royal 
Arch Masons, visited North chapter, R. A. M., 
of Winchendon, last Monday, and were given 
a banquet, after which they were entertained 
by a miscellaneous program of music and 
readings. 



Mr. G. L. Sanborn, the basso, closed a year's 
engagement at the Calvinistic Congregational 
church at Fitchburg, last Sunday. He has 
rejected several offers for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Fred A. Bigelovv very pleasantly enter- 
tained a party of his classmates of the middle 
class of the Polytechnic Institute, at his resi- 
dence,i7 Oread Street, Tuesday evening. Whist 
was the feature of the evening, but refresh- 
ments were served and a general jollification 
over the beginning of the Easter vacation took 
place. The party included Messrs. George E. 
Barton, George W. Booth, Bradford H. Gib- 
son, Edwin S. Phelps, Edwin A. Taylor, Her- 
bert A. Warren, John A. Whittaker, Frank 
E. Bradford, Harry L. Dudmun, Charles H. 
Dunbar and Herbert J. Somerset. 



Miss Gertrude Inez Buss has been engaged 
as soprano at the Main Street Bapti,st church 
for the coming year. 



Dr. Arthur Y. Greene gave a whist party at 
her residence, 923 Main street, last Tuesday 
evening, twelve couples being present. There 
were some sharp contests, all the members of 
the party being good players, and from 8 to 11 
o'clock they enjoyed themselves thorougly. 
The party included, beside Dr. Greene, .Messrs. 
Will W. Lewis, Fred H. Davis, Charles B. 
Sanford, George A. Lackey, Jerome Corbet, 
George W. Eddy, Arthur P. Shaffer, Charles 
S. Cook, Herbert L. Green, Harry P. Davis 
nnd Francis Grant, Misses May Montgomery, 
Addie M. Goulding,Alice Davis, Mae I. Fuller, 
Althea Bigelow, Alice Rice, Effie C. Walch, 
Maud Shaffer, Annie Welch, Alice Welch, 
Henrietta M. Ager, Gertrude Fiske. The first 
prize for gentlemen, a fancy thermometer, 
went to Mr. Lackey, and the "booby," a 
Japanese doll, to Mr. Harry Davis. Miss 
Davis won first prize for ladies, a rose jar, and 
Miss Bigelow the "booby," an owl. 



.Somebody who evidently knows a good 
deal about Methodist affairs in Worcester 
contributes an interesting "Worcester letter" 
to Zion's Herald of this week, under the 
pseudonym, " Wesleyana." 



I 

Miss Grace Rice, who formerly lived at the 
South End, and is now in Auburn, took part 
in a production of a cantata entitled "A 
Garden of Singing Flowers," at the Auburn 
Congregational church, Tuesday evening. 



On invitation of .Mrs. I. J. Lansing, the 2d 
W. C. T. U. will hold a tea meeting and 
parlor concert at her new residence on Lin- 
coln .street, Friday, April 11. At 4 p.m. a 
regular business meeting of the Union will be 
held, and at 5.30 tea will be served; at 8 
o'clock will come music and reading.s. A fee 
of 10 cents will be charged, and the funds thus 
secured will be applied upon the $too pledged 
by the Union towards the erection of the 
W. C. T. U. National Temperance Temple, 
the corner stone of which is soon to be laid at 
Chicago. The payment of this sum entitles 
the LInion to have its name inscribed upon 
one of the marble panels in Willard hall. 



The committee on medals of the New Eng- 
land Intercollegiate athletic association, con- 
sisting of Messrs. E. C. Rice and H. L. 
Dadmun, have given the contract for making 
the medals for the coming sports in May to 
T. D. Gard. 



Another pleasing entertainment was given 
at Green hall, Sargent street, under the 
auspices of the Piedmont branch Sunday 
school, Tuesday evening. The program in- 
cluded a piano solo by Miss Florence M. 
Gates ; a vocal duet, " I would that my love," 
by Miss Gates and Miss Grace A. Grosvenor; 
a song, "Thursday," by Mr. Charles E. 
Hitchcock ; a harmonica solo, "The Midnight 
Hour," by Mr. J. F. Devlin: a reading, "The 
Obstinate Music Box," by Miss Grosvenor; a 
duet by Misses Gates and Grosvenor; a song, 
" Down Deep Within the Cellar," by Mr. 
Hitchcock ; a harmonica solo by Mr. Devlin, 
and a concluding piano solo by Miss Gates. 
Miss Grosvenor's reading, given with admir- 
able taste and pronounced ability, easily 
carried off the honors of the evening, and she 
was enthusiastically recalled. The musical 
numbers on the program were also received 
with great satisfaction, and the entertainment 
was in keeping with past successes under the 
same management. 



Work will be commenced upon the Odd 
Fellows home about June i. 



The Worcester Dental society held its an- 
nual meeting and dinner, at the Lincoln house, 
Tuesday evening. No one was allowed to 
preside at the table for the occasion was 
wholly informal. About 20 dental doc- 
tors enjoyed the teeth-destroying viands, and a 
general "smoke" ended the evening's sociable. 
Previous to the dinner the following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: President, 
Dr. Oliver F. Harris; vice-president. Dr. 
John W. Gould; secretary. Dr. J. Everett 
Toombs; treasurer. Dr. Samuel W. Cooke; 
executive committee, Drs. George Buttler, Jr., 
Almond F. Townsend, and Arthur C. Hull. 



Light has received from A. L. Burbank 
& Co. Spaulding's Official Base Ball Guide 
for 1890. 



Worcester' s Tra inin' Band. 

There seems to be something in Worcester 
air that inspires love for the military. Ever 
since Worcester became something more than 
a frontier settlement Worcester men have 
been known as good fighters. Even in peace, 
they have clung to the trappings of war, and 
have made themselves " minute men" on 
whom the country could always rely. A com- 
pany of Worcester men made up a part of the 
first regiment that Massachusetts sent to the 
defence of the national capital, in 1861 ; and 
all through that terrible internecine strife of 
four years, Worcester men fought and bled 
and died with the bravest. 

They left to their children a heritage of 
patriotism and valor,andthe military spirit has 
always been active and fruitful. Probably in 
no city of the country have so many com- 
panies of young men and boys been organized 
with so little encouragement. The High 
School Cadet Corps offers an illustration. 
Cadet corps in various churches go to carry 
out the idea. Central church is one ; the 
Natural History Camp boys have an excellent 
little company; the Old South boys have 
lately come to the front ; and St. John's and 
St. Anne's Cadets are old companies now. 
This suffices to show that Worcester boys, like 
their fathers, are full of the military spirit, 
and it is a very poor citizen who will not have 
faith that the boys have also the patriotism 
which should inspire their love for the trap- 
pings of war. 

It is natural that boys bred up on such ideas 
should cling to them when they have grown 
older. The result is seen in the militia of to- 
day. 

The organized militia is the successor of 
the old " trainin' band" of which our grand- 
fathers have told us wonderful tales. The 
" muster" has been succeeded by mobilization. 
The nineteenth century has been marked by 
progress in the military as in other lines of 
life. There are still with us some old citizens 
who remember when the militia was halted, 
and arms were stacked, while all the boys 
went in to cool their throats ; but those days 
are gone by, and the volunteer service of to- 
day knows no such diversions. 

Massachusetts has reason to be proud of its 
militia, and of that pride Worcester claims a 
large share. It has one of the oldest and one 
of the youngest companies in the state and 
some of the best drilled men in the ranks. 
Connecticut has her "National Guard;" so 
has New Hampshire ; but there is a ring to the 
name, " Massachusetts Volunteer Militia" 
that makes every Worcester man think it the 
finest military title in the world. 

Of Worcester's three companies, its oldest 
and historic one is the Worcester Light In- 
fantry. It was organized June 6, 1803, on the 
same day as the Portland Light Infantry. 
That was before Massachusetts and Maine 
were divided, and the same governor signed 
both charters ; and what is odd is that both 
companies have maintained a continuous or- 
ganization ever since. It was called into duty 
during the war of 1812 for a short time ; and 
during the rebellion became famous. When 
the call for troops came, the Worcester Light 
Infantry, with the Sixth Regiment, was one of 
the first to hurry to the seat of coming war. 



LI(i HT 

It went through the bloody streets of Balti- 
more with the Old Sixth. Afterwards, it was 
attached to other regiments, and in 1878 
became a part of the second regiment. To 
tell the history of the company is not a matter 
of a few paragraphs, nor would it be a matter 
of a few pages. Its valor in the field was of 
the kind that knows no end but in victory, and 
all through the strife, wherever the Worcester 
Light Infantry appeared in line of battle, 
there was a lot of powder burned and more 
or less blood spilled. 

The younger generation does not realize 
how many of the men whom they daily meet, 
whose hair is now tinging with gray, have been 
members of this historic company. Among 
the list of commanders have been some of 
our most prominent citizens. Levi Thaxter 
was the first captain, in 1804, and after him 
came Enoch Flagg, William Green, Isaac 
Sturtevant, John W. Lincoln, Sewall Hamil- 
ton. John Coolidge, Sewell Ward, Artemus 
Ward, John Whittemore, Charles A. Hamilton, 
Thomas Studley, General William S. Lincoln, 
Charles H. Geer, Henry Hobbs, Dana H. 
Fitch, D. Waldo Lincoln (afterwards mayor), 
George W. Parker, George F. Peck, Edward 
Lamb. Then came the war and while the 
company was in service, Tiarrison W. Pratt 
and George W. Prouty were the commanders. 
After the war came James M. Drennan, Joel 
Prouty, George H. Conklin, John A. Lovell, 
John J. Upham, Levi Lincoln, Joseph P. 
Mason, Thomas E. Leavitt, Frank L. Child, 
Winslow S. Lincoln, Edward A. Harris and 
Frank L. Child again. Where are they, now .'' 
Some dead ; some gone to distant parts of the 
country ; some still living here. 

The formation of the Light Infantry Veteran 
association, in 1S77, chiefly through the efforts 
of Mr. Herbert R. Cummings, marked the 
realization of the veterans that the time had 
come for them to sit about the fire and tell 
stories of the old times, while the younger 
men did the drilling. 

Since Capt. Harris left the company, and 
he, by the way, held the command longer than 
any other captain. Captain Frank L. Child has 
been at work and is building the company up 
toward perfection. There is a large surplus 
in the treasury, and the ranks are practically 
full. The officers at present are : Captain, 
Frank L. Child; ist lieut., Harry B. Fair- 
banks; 2d lieut., Fred G. Davis; ist sergt., 
Winslow S. Lincoln; sergeants J. F. H. 
Mooney, Phineas L. Rider, Frank A. Hatch, 
Frank L. Allen ; corporals, D. M. Sullivan, J. 
McGrath, W. F. Gilman, H. Ward Bates. 

After the Light Infantry, Co. C, came the 
Worcester City Guards, Co. A. During the 
political excitement of 1840, there was a divi- 
sion in the Light Infantry, and while the 
democrats remained in the old company, the 
whigs withdrew, and Sept. 19, 1840, organized 
the City Guards. The first captain was George 
Bowen, and after him the commanders have 
been George Hobbs, Leonard Pool, CJeorge B. 
Conklin, L. Lincoln Newton, Edwin Eaton, 
Charles W. Longley, John M. Goodhue, 
George H. Ward, A. B. R. Sprague, Robert 
H. Chamberlain, Joseph A. Titus, William H. 
King, Edwin R. Shumway, George H. Cleve- 
land, William D. Preston, William A. Condy. 
The Guards, like the Infantry, were prompt 
in answering to the call for troops, but the 



company saw no active service. It went 
south, under command of Capt. Sprague, as a 
part of the 3d Battalion of Rifles, and was 
mustered out in August of '61. But over 50 
of its members again turned their faces to 
the foe, in other regiments. Capt. Sprague 
and Lieut. Josiah Pickett became colonels; a 
past captain, George H. Ward, became a 
colonel, and was the only colonel of a Massa- 
chusetts regiment killed at Gettysburg. The 
individual records of the members of the Old 
Guards are as glorious as any that Massachu- 
setts can claim. 

Several years ago the guards also organized 
a Veteran association, of which Gen. Sprague 
is the president. 

The officers of the guards at the present 
time are : Captain, William A. Condy ; ist 
lieut., M. H. Tisdell; 2d. lieut., E. G. Barrett; 
ist sergeant, A. D.Jefferson; sergeants, John 
D. Grace, Axel Eliason, J. Henry Lander, 
Charles L. Putnam ; corporals, Frank H. 
Luken, W. E. Wilkins, Charles W. Leonard, 
Charies H. Mann. 

The youngest of the Worcester companies 
is the Emmet Guards, Co. G., Ninth Regi- 
ment. The Emmets have no historical past, 
but they have a bright future. The company 
was organized independently in December, 
1884, with Captain Joseph J. Corbett in com- 
mand. The company soon achieved a good 
reputation, and on the loth of May, 1S87, it 
was admitted to fill a vacancy in the ninth 
regiment, with the recommendation of Col. 
Fred W. Wellington, Col. Strachan, and 
other militia men. The Emmets have a repu- 
tation for being one of the best drilled com- 
panies in the state. Capt. Regan very 
modestly says that he has " a good working 
company." The Emmets have borne away 
scores of prize trophies, and at a national 
military tournament in 1886, carried away first 
honors. Just now the Emmets are drilling 
three times a day, in preparation for a prize 
drill with the Montgomery Guards of Portland, 
next Thursday. The company has had only 
two commanders, Capt. Corbett and Capt. 
Regan. The present officers are : captain, 
William Regan ; ist lieut., Bernard J. Wilmot; 
2nd lieut., Michael J. Sullivan; ist sergeant, 
William E. McCann ; sergeants, Robert M. 
Burns, Matthew E. Hinds, John J. Grady, 
James J. Conlin; corporals, Patrick J. 
McManus, Daniel J. Sullivan, Martin J. 
Hacker, Jeremiah Moynihan. 

Besides its infantry companies, Worcester 
has one company of artillery, General 
Robert H. Chamberiain Battery, B., light 
artillery, unattached. It is one of the three 
batteries of the state, Battery A. being at 
Boston and Battery C. at Lawrence. Battery 
B. was organized in February, 1869, and its 
first commander was Captain Henry Reed. 
Since then it has had for captains, John G. 
Rice, George L. Allen, Henry C. Wadsworth, 
George L. Allen again, Fred W. Wellington, 
John E. Merrill and George L. Allen again. 
The battery was originally attached to the 
First Battalion of artillery, but in 1879 was 
made unattached. It was named for Gen. 
Chamberlain, the commander of the old 
Third Brigade. 

The battery has for an armament four 10- 
pound Parrott guns and two Gatlings which 
were added in 1887. The battery is in splen- 



did trim just now. Captain Allen is a very 
popular and efficient commander and carries 
the men with him. The officers are: captain, 
George L. Allen; senior ist lieut, Charles 
I F. Bigelow ; junior ist lieut., Joseph Bruso,Jr., 
senior 2d lieut., Waldo A. Simpson; junior 
2nd lieut., Lawrence G. Bigelow; sur- 
geon, Lt. William T. Souther; hospital steward, 
William F. Banfield. 

The ranking officer of the city is Major 
Edwin R. Shumway, of the second regiment, 
and as a representative militia man, who has 
worked upwards from the ranks, Light gives 
him the post of honor at the head of the local 
militia. 

Major Shumway was born in Jamaica, Vt., 
in 1844, and when the war broke out, he 
enlisted in Co. i., 4th Vermont V^ols., for 
three years. In December 1883, hereenlistedon 
the field for another three years, being with 
the "Old Iron Brigade" of Vermont. He was 
i5 engaged in all the battles with the Army of 
' the Potomac and was wounded at the Battle of 
the Wilderness. He was one of the party 
sent out to tear up the Weldon railroad in 
front of Petersburg, Va., which was captured 
by Mahone's division. Then the major got 
his initiation into rebel prison life. He was 
sent to Libby, thence to Lynchburg, Danville, 
Andersonville and Millin, and later to Savan- 
nah, Ga., Blackshere, Fla., Charleston and 
Florence, S. C, and Goldsboro, N. C. He was 
paroled and sent into the Union lines at Wil- 
mington, after nine months of prison life. In 
July, 1S65, he was discharged from service, the 
war being at an end. 

Major Shumway located in Worcester, in 
March, 1866, and joined the old State Guard, 
commanded by Major L. V. Stone, with which 
( he served two years. He joined the City 
i Guards, then a part of the loth regiment, in 
October, 1868, Capt. J. A.Titus being then in 
command. He rose through the stages of cor- 
poral, sergeant, first lieutenant and second 
lieutenant, to be captain, Aug. 28, 1S76, a posi- 
tion which he held for five years, until dis- 
charged by act of the legislature. An election 
to fill a vacancy occurring, he was unani- 
mously reelected captain. The company was 
transferred from the loth regiment in 1S76, and 
March 11, 1884, he was elected major of the 
Second regiment. 

During this long term of service, Major 
Shumway has never been absent from any 
state duty, and during his 16 years with the 
City Guards he was absent from only three 
drills. Few men in the state can present such 
a record. Major Shumway ranks as a first- 
class marksman, and has won many prizes in 
competitive shoots. He was president of the 
Broad Meadow Rifle club in 1878 and '79, and 
is a member of Post 10, G. A. R. 

Personally, Major Shumway is one of the 
most popular men in the militia. He is as 
good a citizen as he is a soldier, and is uni- 
versally respected and esteemed. He is a 
militia man with a war record to be proud of, 
and his present position is due to his own hard 
and faithful work. Light feels that in giving 
him its first page it is honoring one to whom 
honor is due. 



L T Ci H T 

About Folks. 



Mrs. Jennie I. Ware, a teacher in the High 
school, who received honorable for second 
place in tlie recent competition for the AnnJIie 
Kive.s-Chanler prize, offered for the best essay 
on child labor, has been winning new laurels. 
She has received from Charles .Scribner's Sons 
$25, as her share of the first prize of ^(150 of- 
fered by the Book Buyer for the best list of 
answers to the prize literary questions printed 
in the January and February i.ssues. Mrs. 
Ware had one the best six lists. 



Queen Esther Lodge, Daughters of Ke- 
bekah, had a double entertainment and sup- 
per. Fast Day afternoon and evening. The 
afternoon program included a piano solo by 
Mrs. Waite, recitations by Mr. Clarence 
Young, Miss Emma Munger and Master Les- 
lie Leland, a piano duet by Miss Buswell and 
Master Livermore; dialogue by Miss Emily 
Lamson and Bessie Drury, Masters Frank 
Drury, Willie Champlin and George Munger. 
After supper, there was another entertainment, 
the program including songs by Mr. Louis E. 
A. Lamson, Misses Maud A. Knowlton and 
Lottie Lamson, and Dr. Kendrick; particularly 
pleasing readings by little Miss Olive Hewitt, 
and others by Misses Nellie Hatch, Corinne 
Rueben, Miss Bowman. The farce entitled 
"The Mysterious Disappearance"! was also 
given, under the able direction of Mrs. A. P. 
Fairbanks, the parts being taken by Misses 
Lottie Lamson, Gracie Pearson, and Lulu 
Hewitt, Masters Nelson Champlin, Arthur 
Templeton, Harry Hubbard and Frank Kemp. 



Light cannot pass by one visit of Deathi 
this week, without a word of sympathy for 
those who have felt his hand. Mr. Alexander 
H. Dean, one of Worcester's best business 
men, a kind friend and a good citizen, has 
gone to the reward to which a life of earnest 
work and God-fearing conduct has made him 
heir. A wide circle of friends mourn with his 
family their present loss. 



Mrs. Edward S. Sears, of Boston, is the 
guest of Mrs. Arthur G. Lewis, of Lincoln 
Street. 

Membership Secretary George H. Robbins 
will lead the morning meeting at the Y. M. 
C. A. tomorrow, and at 4 p. m. there will be a 
special Easter song service. The Cecilia 
Ladies' Quartet and Mr. Frederic Howard will 
sing, and Rev. E. G. Fullerton will speak. 



Says the editor of the Practical Mechanic, of 
Worcester: 'j We are glad to welcome so solid 
and respectable a publication as Light." 



This week and next furnish the days of the 
Easter Vacation of most of the educational in- 
stitutions. The Polytechnic Institute closed 
Tuesday for two weeks; the Worcester Aca- 
demy boys are enjoying their vacation; the 
Normal school pupils had Thursday only, as 
their mid-term recess begins April 21; Miss 
Kimball's Home school closed Wednesday, to 
reopen the 14th. The Worcester students in 
the colleges are nearly all at home. The Har- 
vard boys came up Tuesday, for a week, all 
except John D. Baldwin and D. Osborne 
Earle, who remained to train with the crew. 
The Amherst boys are back, and those from 
Williams as well. The Cornell delegation re- 
turned last Monday. The young ladies from 



Wcllesley, Smith and Mt. Holyokc are at 
home and same of them have been participa- 
ting in the social events of the week, as refer- 
ence to other colums will show. Miss (Jrace 
M. Bigelow, from Miss Salisbury's school, at 
I'iltsfield, has been unfortunate enough to be 
ill since she came home, and is perforce spend- 
ing her vacation indoors. 



The Worcester County Music School had 
its fourth recital of the present series last 
Wednesday evening, and a pleasing program 
was presented, the pupils appearing being 
Misses Lillian Howard, Florence M. (iates, 
Cora Knight, Florence Wood, Florence Ever- 
ett, .Margaret Oiggs, Nellie M. Tucker, Mr. 
A.W. Marsh. 



An Orange supper given by the Ladies' 
Sewing circle of Tatnuck, Tuesday evening, 
was largely attended. Miss Hattie L. Bruce, 
Miss Bessie Pelton, and Mr. Talmadge B. 
Jordan, of the Worcester County Music 
school, furnished the program, which was 
thoroughly enjoyed. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Buffingtonhave returned 
from Magnolia, Fla. 



Col. and Mrs. J. W. Wetherell gave a tea at 
their residence, 2 State street, a week ago last 
night. 

Coming — a New England baby show; — the 
rink turned into a gigantic cradle, in which 
will laugh and cry, holler and yell, smile and 
coo, squirm and wiggle, one thousand or less 
babies of all and assorted sizes. Many moth- 
ers and nurses will sing ''Rock a bye," to the 
accompanimeent of a whirl of swinging cra- 
dles, while delighted other mothers will ballot 
for prizes. 

Messrs. Holland & Havener are completing 
a private gymnasium, at their Main street 
warerooms. It will contain all modern im- 
provements. 



Gilmore and his great band will be heard at 
Mechanic's hall, on the afternoon and evening 
of the i6th inst., in two of the Gilmore con- 
certs, which have come to be known as Jubi- 
lees all over this country. There will be the 
usual amount of classical music and a suffi- 
cient number of popular and wonderfully per- 
formed novelties to stir up the enthusiasm 
wliich is a characteristic of all performances 
which Gilmore leads. He will bring Miss Ida 
Klein, the soprano from the New York Metro- 
politan Opera House; M. Henri Koeke, the 
young German tenor, and Mr. Edward O'Ma- 
honey, the famous Irish American bas.so, and 
well known in Worcester. The concerts will 
be under the management of Mrs. Wilkinson. 



Primrose & West's, with Lew Dockstater on 
the end, will be at Mechanics hall on the even- 
ing of the 28th inst., under the management of 
Mr. Wilkinson. 



Becker's Business Men's Jubilee, which 
proved a great success, will be repeated, at 
Horticutural Hall, on the evening of the 14th 
inst. Many new attractions will be presented 



Some Bits About Windsor. 



Windsor castle, set upon the hill within a 
bend of the Thames, is the centre of all 
attraction in this borough founded so long ago 
by William I. The present castle was begun 
by Edward 111., who was born there, and to 
him we owe the beautiful St. George's chapel 
(so like that of Henry VIII. in Westminster 
Abbey.) All the royal families of England 
since Edward have spent most of their time 
during their several reigns here, so that prob- 
ably this grand gray pile has been the shelter 
of more people of royal blood than any other 
building in the world. Its numerous edifices 
constitute two courts, and from that called 
the Round Tower one can easily see the rich 
green fields of 12 counties. From this 
outlook we make our plans for trips from 
here, and with Eton, Stoke, Harrow, all 
equally interesting, before us, it is hard to 
know where to begin ; but let us do the 
castle. 

Though the kindness of Lady , we re- 
ceive our permit for the private apartments, 
and to-day, as we've previously seen the Eliza- 
beth and Henry VIII. gates, the Norman 
tower, and have enjoyed our e.\plorations of the 
gardens and downs, we will hurry to the in- 
terior. The Queen's retinue of servants is 
almost innumerable, and though scores are 
with her at Osborne, scores are at home the 
day we call. 

We enter by the private stair case and des- 
cend first to the basement. The walls painted 
a deep yellow are tomb-like in appearance, 
but after walking through numerous halls and 
turning numberless corners — the angles of 
which hold mirrors, in order that loaded trays 
carried by hurrying servants may be discovered 
before coming to grief, we arrive at the ser- 
vants' library. Most all new books of fiction, 
after being looked over, generally by the Queen, 
are added to the already large lot of scientific 
and historical works, so that these lucky ser- 
vants have great advantages, though they are 
under strict discipline. 

A little way on one reaches the "holy of 
holies" — the kitchen. Either end of this 
immense room is a huge fire place. That at 
the left contains a "spit" with chains and 
pulleys, so arranged that a whole beef may 
be barbecued with the greatest ease. The other 
fireplace is smaller and contains grills, smaller 
spits, and other contrivances for roasting and 
broiling meat in the fashion that gives to Eng- 
land the lead in these departments of cook- 
ery. About one side of the hall — the room is 
as large as our Insurance hall — are marble and 
wooden tables, while on the other side are huge 
ranges — giants in their way — and all were in 
full blast for " er 'ighness, sir, his a comin' 
'ome the morrow, sir." 

Though the royal mistress is obliged to 
forego the dainties in which she used to 
indulge, she still has a good appetite for each 
of the four repasts served her, and her tea — 
so light in most homes — is always accompanied 
with bacon and eggs and some sort of fruit. 

The rooms above are hardly as fine as we 
had expected to see, but there was a decided 
homeliness about them that we could not 
help but enjoy. The green drawing-room was 



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ugly in the e-xtreme, but the music lying upon 
the grand piano, and a few toys in a bo.x by 
the broad window overlooking the garden,told 
us we might sit down. The paintings and 
portraits were such as one might see any day 
in houses of families who like to see them- 
selves in bright or .Sunday clothes, and this 
room alone proved to us that royalty is human 
after all. 

'Twas in this room that an anecdote of an 
American girl was related to us by a lady 
who, when a little girl, had often visited and 
had been visited by the then Princess Victoria. 
She was the daughter of the Vicar near one 
of the Duchess of Kent's summer houses. 
When Mrs. Sartoris was Nellie Grant, and 
with her father in England, she was sum- 
moned to be " presented" to her Majesty. 
She feared the form of the ceremony at 
Buckingham palace, and wrote, without her 
people's knowledge, to the Queen at Windsor, 
saying: " Queen Victoria, Dear Friend : I 
appreciate the honor of your summons, but 
I'm afraid of the glamour and should much 
rather lunch with you at your own home." 
The outcome of the affair was that she lunched 
alone with her majesty at Windsor. We 
laughed at the story, but the lady telling it 
said "fancy the impertinence !" Poor Nellie 
Grant as Mrs. Sartoris is " unknown" in 
London now, but we wonder if she remembers 
the pretty private dining room with any more 
real pleasure than we do. 

The portrait of the Prince Consort and all 
the children hang about on the dark oak 
panelled walls, guests with the lone lady in 
waiting, who sometimes is forced to sit silently 
all through a luncheon or tea if her majesty 
feels a bit out of humor. Poor Marchioness 
Ely, about the last girlhood friend left to the 
Queen, was in a dreadful way a few weeks 
before our visit. Her majesty, liking to break- 
fast out doors — she begins these Watteau 
d(^jeuners early in May — "commanded" the 
lady's attendance. Her servant smuggled 
an ottoman under the table for his mistress's 
feet, for the ground, of course, was damp. 
Her majesty, discovering this, gave words to 
the idea that the ground was good enough for 
her feet and ought to be for her ladies, and so 
the foot rest was taken away and the 
Marchioness contracted a severe cold. The 
first duty, upon recovery, was to attend the 
castle as accompanist — for the Queen still 
sings, sweetly — so " they say." What must it 
be to have the applause of a nation ! We 
think the Lady Ely better off with a cold. 

We glance into the royal bed room, very 
plain and not large, and remember it princi- 
pally because it was the room we wanted to 
see ; and yet we couldn't enter it. 

The sitting rooms are furnished partly in 
chintz and are cozy with Davenport desks, 
family photographs and vases of freshly cut 
flowers. 

In the long corridor famous for its collection 
of paintings, statuary and cabinets of " kick 
shaws," we have a conglomerate feast. Royal 
weddings are pictured to us. There are Van 
Dyk portraits of Charles I .,the familiar group of 
children and a numberless array of other 
canvases that are old friends. The 
busts are of more or less interest. In 
one cabinet is the beautiful collec- 
tion of delicate "rose du Barri" in which all 



England takes pride. Near it one of the 
grand children had left a " woolly dog" on 
wheels — three wheels, for, like other boys, he'd 
broken the toy. We wondered why grandma 
didn't give him a clean new string with which 
to drag it over the polished floor. Across the 
corridor, in a superb crystal case, is the worn 
and priceless bible of General Gordon — one 
of the Queen's most valued relics. 

We might notice more in this interesting 
place, but all Windsor is rich in memory, and 
we cannot tell all. Tea with one of the " Old 
Knights of Windsor," a pensioner, will always 
be thought of with pride. He was one of the 
" noble six hundred," and during our short 
stay with him he liked to talk of the horrible 
famous charge. He is the last of the brigade 
left at Windsor and one of the three living, I 
think, yet his heavy shock of brown hair gives 
one no idea of age or infirmity. 

We now pass out of the main gate at the 
upper end of the long walk. Three miles 
from us, at the further end of this magnificent 
shaded, straight and royal road, is the eques- 
trian statue of George II. in the garb of a 
Roman Emperor. He sits his horse awk- 
wardly, and looks as foolish as we might 
suppose. 

Off to the right, in a by lane, we find 
" Mistress Anne Page's" cottage, an unassum- 
ing house used now as a small ware shop, 
looking little as we suppose the scene of such 
embellished tales would. 

The market house, each end guarded by 
William or Mary, tells us its age, and of the 
scenes it has witnessed. The streets are 
crooked and the shops small. Several 
jewellers sell old silver by weight here and a 
little solid enjoyment came from this fact. 
Behind high walls rise more or less pretentious 
homes. If an antiquary dined at one, the cres- 
cent-marked Royal Worcester service and 
rare old mahogany, with the quaint picture of 
a cook scouring a copper kettle, by Murillo, 
would delight him so that dining would be for- 
gotten. 

The drive to Virginia Water, through the 
parks, by the Princess Christian's home and 
the various shooting boxes, starting up here 
and there pheasants, rabbits and deer, might 
be spun out interminably, but all is so delight- 
ful we must not specify. 



Light can be found on sale at the following 

news-stands : — 

F. A. Easton, post-office. 
J. H. Sullivan, depot. 

L. H. Browning, 56S Main street. 
Boston Store, 490 Main street. 
H. L. Hopkins, 190 Pleasant street. 
C. H. Fisher, 201 Main street. 
A. F. Bragg, 332 Main street. 
A. \V. Barber, 7 Main street. 

G. K. Mellor, 432 Main street. 
P. H. Murphy, 15S F'ront street. 
A. M. Driscoll, 7S'A Front street. 
A. C. Woodward, 8S7 Main street. 
F. Oxley, 64S Main street. 

Prentice & Bowler, 120 Chandler street. 
M. Schlesinger, 238 Front street. 
Sullivan Bros., 164^ Front street. 
Boston & Albany R. R. depot, Boston. 
On the trains. 

At the office of Light, 339 Main street, 
A limited number of copies can be had by applying at 
the Light office. 



Rejoice. 

A Song of Easter. 



BY CORNELIA WESSON BOVl 



Early at tlie break of day, 
When the sun's first tender ray 
Softly paints the eastern sky, 
With his brush of golden dye ; 
Then it was with spices sweet. 
Brought to lay at Jesus' feet, 
Mary sought Him where he lay. 
Lo! the stone was rolled away. 

And two angels robed in white, 
Stood with faces Heavenly bright. 
"Do not fear," they gently said, 
"Christ has risen. He is not dead." 
Mary peered with bated breath. 
Deep into the house of death. 
Wondering, trembUng, full of fear. 
Whispering low, "He is not here." 

Then she fled the tale to spread, 
"Christ is risen, is risen," she said, 
"In the place where He did sleep, 
Angels now a watch do keep." 
And the word from throng to throng. 
Swelled in one triumphant song ; 
Till the world with one glad voice, 
Loudly sang, "Rejoice, rejoice !" 

And the ages speeding by 
Echo still that gladsome cry. 
And when early spring-time flings 
Wide earth's doors, 'all nature sings ; 
And the meadows, hill, and dale. 
King with that sweet oldei. tale. 
Lo ! from death new life is born ; 
Hail! rejoice! 'tis Easter morn. 
WortcsUr, Mass. 

Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

No Man Kkows: — T. T. T. asks: -'What 
is electricity?" A recent issue of the Worces- 
ter Practical MecJianic well answers the ques- 
tion as follows : "We do not know. 
We call it a form of energy. But 
though we may not know what electricity is, 
its laws are as well understood as the law of 
gravitation. The dimension, capacity, effi- 
ciency, and all the details of a system of elec. 
trical transmission of power can be calculated 
and predetermined as certainly as the power of 
a waterfall or steam engine." 

Church Denominations. — George W. 
asks the number of church denominations in 
active work in this country. Forty-seven. 

The Language of Colors:— H. W. P. 
asks if there is any language of colors. Some 
folks who don't know, for nobody knows, say 
that black indicates sorrow ; black and white 
stripes, sorrow and hope ; brown, the earth to 
which the dead return; blue, the hope that the 
dead are in heaven; white, purity. Purple and 
violet are colors peculiar to royalty. Scarlet 
and deep blue are mourning colors in some of 
the African tribes. 

Potatoes. — A farmer asks if potatoes are 
healthy. Certainly, yet the potato in itself is 
not a very nutritious article of food. One hun- 
dred lbs. of potatoes contain 75.9 lbs. of water ; 
albumen 2.3 lbs.; oily matter, 0.2 ; woody fiber, 
0.4 lbs.; starch, 20.2 lbs.; minerals, i lb. In 
connection with other foods the potato plays 
an important part. 

You are Liable. — A business man in- 
quires if he is liable if a protest notice sent by 
mail fails to reach him. if the letter contain- 
ing a protest of non-payment be put into the 



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post-office, any miscarriage does not affect the 
party giving notice, and it may be sent either 
to the place of business or of residence of the 
party notified. 

The Colonial Postal System. — Mrs. 
H. C. W. asks: "When was the postal 
system organized in America?" In the year 
1753 Franklin organized the postal system of 
the American colonies, making it self-sup- 
porting. The record was preserved of the 
number of letters then carried in proportion to 
the population, but in 1800 the gross receipts 
for postage were $320,000, toward which 
Pennsylvania contributed most largely — tlie 
sum of $55,000. From letters the government 
received in gross $290,000. The lowest rate 
of letter postage was then eight cents. The 
smallest charge for letters carried more than a 
hundred miles was i2j^ cents. If on an 
average ten letters were carried for a dollar, 
the whole number of letters was 2,900,000 — 
about one a year for every grown inhabitant. 



APPLES AS MEDICINE. 



Chemically, the apple is composed of vege- 
table fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyll, 
malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much water. 
Furthermore, the German analysts say that 
the apple contains a larger percentage of phos- 
phorus than any other fruit or vegetable. This 
phosphorus is admirably adapted for renewing 
the essential nervous matter, lethicin, of the 
brain and spinal chord. It is, perhaps, for the 
same reason, rudely understood, that old 
Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as 
the food of the gods, who, when they felt 
themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, 
resorted to this fruit for renewing their powers 
of mind and body. Also, the acids of the 
apple are of signal use for men of sedentary 
habits, whose lives are sluggish in action ; 
those acids serving to eliminate from the body 
noxious matters, which if retained, would 
make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about 
jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied 
troubles. 

Some such an e.xperience must have led to 
our custom of taking apple sauce with roast 
pork, rich goose and like dishes. The malic 
acid of ripe applies, either raw or cooked, will 
neutralize any e-xcess of chalky matter engen- 
dered by eating too much meat. It is also the 
fact that such fresh fruits as the apple, the 
pear and the plum, when taken ripe and with- 
out sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach 
rather than provoke it. Their vetable salts 
and juices are converted into alkaline carbon- 
ates, which tend to counteract acidity. 

A good, ripe, raw apple is one of the easiest 
of vegetable substances for the stomach to 
deal with, the whole process of its digestion 
being completed in 85 minutes. Geffrard 
found that the "pulpe of roasted apples mixed 
in a wine quart of faire water, and labored to 
gether until it comes to be as apples and ale, 
which we call lambs-wool, never faileth in 
certain diseases of the braines, which myself 
hath often proved, and gained thereby both 
crownes and credit. The paring of an apple, 
cut somewhat thick, and the inside whereof is 
laid to hot, burning or running eyes at night, 
when the party goes to bed, and is tied or 
bound to the same, doth help the trouble very 
speedily and contrary to expectation, an excel- 
lent secret."' 



Still Others See the Li.uht. 

Clean, Breezy and 'Wholesome. 

l.K.MT is the illuminating title of a hand- 
somely printed weekly society paper which 
has recently made its appearance at Worces- 
ter. It is a beautiful specimen of the typo- 
graphic art, and its contents are prepared 
with a refinement of taste and skill that heart- 
ily commends it to the very best class of 
readers. Devoted to local society, art and 
educational and home intercst.s, it is thoroughly 
clean and wholesome, and yet it has a light 
breezy style that will be acceptable to those 
who have no taste for the pedantic. This 
appears to be a Light that will not hide under 
a bushel, and we hope its radiance may pene- 
trate to every portion of the county. — Athol 
Transcript. 



Two Souls 'Which Think As One. 

We agree with the Journalist that Worces- 
ter is to be congratulated on the appearance 
of Light. "Its editorials are bright," the Jour- 
nalist adds, "its social news complete, its sev- 
eral departments cover everything that is 
interesting to men and women, and there is 
not a line in it of even middle tone. Its editor, 
.Mr. Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr., is a journalist of 
great originality and e.xperience, a man with a 
clean record of steady success. Mr. Fred E. 
Colburn, the business manager, is a young 
business man, a member of an old New Eng- 
land family of shrewd business men. The ap- 
pearance of Light, and the good reputation of 
its owners, assure the people of the permanen- 
cy of the paper, of which every good citizen 
has reason to be proud." — Boston Times. 



Seven Days 'Without Trimmmg. 

"God said, let there be light, and there was 
light." When the inhabitants of the city be- 
came dissatisfied with tallow candles and 
whale oil for light, kerosene was adopted: but 
this was soon superseded by gas-light. Still, 
crimes were committed, and the police were 
befooled within its gentle rays, because more 
light was needed. Then the electric light was 
furnished for out-door use, and incandescent 
light for dwellings, stores, shops, etc. And 
now, even, when some men are asked what 
they most desire, their answer is invariably, 
"more light." The sun and moon continue to 
give their light, but this is not sufficient; and 
so "two gentlemen from Verona," — no, from 
Boston, we should say— have come among us 
and launched upon our goodly city a great 
"Light," which will run seven days without 
trimming, and it is expected that its illumina- 
ting power will be so generally diffused 
throughout the city that every house-holder 
will adopt it. It costs only two dollars and a 
half a year, or five cents a single "Light" per 
week. We allude, of course, to the new publi- 
cation of this name, just started by Messrs. 
Fowler & Colburn. Their office is in Burn- 
side Building, in close proximity to the New 
England Advertising and Publishing Agency 
and of "The Librar\- Record," by whose efful- 
gent glimmer, we still hope,— as we have been 
striving for a year and a half past,— to read 
our title clear to mansions of peace and hap- 
piness most dear.— TV/t- Library Record. 



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IvICiHT 



About Folks. 

Several Easter sales are due next week, 
among tliem one at Pilgrim hall, arranged by 
the South Unitarian ladies, for Monday even- 
ing. The ladies appointed to have charge of 
the various departments are as follows: — 
Reception committee, Mrs. O. F. Harris, Mrs. 
J. P. K. Otis, Mrs. W. M. Freeman; fancy 
and domestic table, Mrs. A. J. Marble, Mrs. 
Dr. Welch ; confectionery and flower table, 
Mrs. J. H. McMulIin; icecream table, Miss 
Bertha C. Yeaton ; mystery table, Mrs. George 
R. Leland; supper tables, Mrs. Dr. Estabrook, 
Mrs. J. W. Dodd, Mrs. George Newhall, Mrs. 
George Willard, Mrs. G. M. Stoddard, Mrs. 
H. Harrington and Mrs. J. A. Maynard, aided 
by a corps of other ladies. Mrs. John C. 
Yeaton is treasurer of the affair. 



Palm Sunday was observed not only by the 
Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, but 
by other denominations as well. Rev. M. H. 
Harris arranged special Palm Sunday services 
at the First Universalist church ; at Piedmont, 
Dr. Mears preached a Palm Sunday sermon, 
dwelling upon the events of the last week of 
our Saviour's life, while other pastors made 
similar references. Rev. J. F. Lovering and 
Rev. 1. J. Lansing exchanged pulpits ; Rev. C. 
D. Hartranft, D. D., of Hartford, preached 
at Plymouth church; Rev. H.J. White and 
Rev. C. H. Pendleton exchanged; Rev. R. O. 
Sherwood of Abington preached at the South 
Baptist; Rev. George S. Chadbourne, D.D., 
presiding elder, preached at Laurel street 
church. In the evening. Pilgrim, Piedmont, 
and the Old South held their second fellowship 
meeting at the church first named, and the 
three pastors spoke. Altogether Palm Sun- 
day had some very interesting and inspiring 

services. 

The members of the Art Students club are 
preparing for their annual exhibition, which is 
to be given during the week beginning April 
21, and the artists are already sending in the 
titles of their pictures. Last Saturday night 
the club had its usual monthly exhibit and 
social. Etchings and pencil sketches made 
by Mr. Charles Herbert Woodbury, of 
Boston, were also shown,the sketches showing 
some remarkably good pencil work. An 
amusing little comedy sketch, "The Serenade," 
was introduced as a part of the evening's 
pleasure. Miss Mary Davis and Miss Cogs- 
well sustained the principal parts, and Mr. 
Eugene O'Connor, Miss Mary O'Connor and 
Miss Anna O'Connor furnished the vocal 
music upon which the point of the piece 
turned. Like all the Art Students' gatherings, 
the meeting was a very pleasant one. 

Mr. W. C. Barnard, who was granted a 
patent last month, for a moth-trap, has placed 
a large order with a Pittsburg glass company, 
and as soon as his glass jars have arrived will 
put his invention upon the market. This trap 
is designed to catch moths, millers and insects 
of kindred families, especially those preying 
upon such fruits as pears, plums and apples. 
It is also calculated for indoor use and 
attracts moths and even the buffalo bug. The 
trap is a simple affair, consisting of a glass 
jar about which is fastened a light wire frame- 
work for holding a bail, and with a top through 



which the insects enter. The jar is painted 
with bright flowers to attract the insects in the 
day time, and a strip of painting of phos- 
phorous attracts them in the night. The bait 
inside, mi.xed with sweetened water, attracts 
the insects. Mr. Barnard has worked for 
several years on his trap, studying the habits 
of the insects and experimenting to discover 
what sort of bait was needed. He has dis- 
covered the correct thing and has been able 
to get it patented. The bait is made up of 
oils and juices of plants most liked by the 
insects which it is proposed to trap. The trap 
has been tried with very successful results. 
Governor Brackett has manifested great in- 
terest in it, and it is to be tested at Amherst 
agricultural college. Mr. Barnard has been 
offered $25,000 for his invention, by southern 
parties, but has declined it. Local farmers 
and fruit growers say that it is likely to be a 
great success. 

Athletics among the students of Mr. 
Charles E. Fish's school seem to be booming 
more than ever. A ball nine, which the boys 
call the "second Fish school nine" has just 
been organized, and includes Pelham W. 
Lincoln, c, Edward F. W. Bartol, p., Harry H. 
Thayer, i b., Henry H. Fuller, 2 b., Randolph 
Crompton, 3 b., Sydney A. Lawton, 1. f., Roger 
Meniman, c. f., Arthur Morse, r. f., Alexander 
H. Bullock, s. s. The nine is captained by Mr. 
Bullock and managed by Mr. Lincoln. A sub- 
scription was taken up and the generous 
donations of teachers and scholars raised the 
amount to over $$0. With this money uni- 
forms have been purchased of A. L. Burbank 
and Co., the uniform consisting of a maroon 
jersey bearing the letter F., light gray trousers, 
a gray college cap trimmed with maroon, and 
maroon belt and hose. Mask, gloves, etc., 
have already been bought. A first nine has 
not been organized, and it is exceedingly 
doubtful if there will be any. A nine, how- 
ever, consisting of Ralph Richardson, c, 
Lewis E. Carr, p., Pelham W. Lincoln, i b., 
Henry H. Fuller, 2 b., Harry H. Thayer, 3 b., 
Edward F. W. Bartol, s. s., Randolph 
Crompton, I. f., Sydney Lawton, c. f., A. H. 
Bullock, r. f., includes all the best players in 
the school, and this nine intends to "do up" 
some of the out-of-town nines, if possible. 
Arrangements are being made for a game 
in Boston with Noble's school, which was last 
in the Interscholastic league last year, and it 
is probable that a game will be played with 
the second Academy team. The first nine 
mentioned, which is the weaker, will content 
itself with playing small picked teams and 
grammar school nines in the city. The other 
team will do out-of-town work and contend 
with visiting nines here. 

The Methodists of the city are just now find- 
a fruitful theme of conversation in the coming 
New England conference of their church, which 
opens at the People's church in Boston, 
Wednesday,April 9. Bishop William X. Ninde, 
of Topeka, Kan., is to preside. Last year 
Worcester entertained the conference, and 
our own Bishop Mallalieu presided. It was a 
notable conference and, remembered with the 
triennial council of the Congregational 
churches, makes 1SS9 a year to be long re- 
membered in Worcester's ecclesiastical his- 
tory. Worcester is interested just now to 



know which of the Methodist pastors will re- 
turn. There is not a man in the circle who 
has not done good work. Dr. Thomas has 
been here two years ; Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, 
three; Rev. John Galbraith, two ; Rev. Henry 
Dorr, two; and Dr. J. O. Knowles, one. Nor 
must the good work of the Swedish pastors, 
Rev. H. W. Eklund and Rev. Victor Witting, 
be forgotten. The New England conference 
is only one of the seven which meet in the 
New England states this month. Bishop 
Ninde will preside over the New England 
Southern conference, at Newport, R. L, April 
16; Bishop E. G. Andrews, of Washington, 
will preside over the Vermont conference, 
which meets at Brattleboro, April 17; the 
Maine, at Bath, April 23 ; and the East Maine, 
at Dover, April 30; Bishop Charles H. Fow- 
ler, of San Francisco, will preside over the 
New Hampshire, which meets at Lisbon, 
April 23, and Bishop John P. Newman, of 
Omaha, Neb., has jurisdiction of the Troy 
conference, which covers, territorially, be- 
sides a portion of eastern New York, those 
sections of Vermont and Massachusetts lying 
west of the Green Mountains, and which meets 
at Saratoga, N. Y., April 16. 



Worcester people are very much interested 
in the re-union of the Philadelphian society, to 
be held at the Bay State house, next Tuesday 
evening. The public meetings, which the mem- 
bers formeriy held at Washburn hall, were al- 
ways attended by the best people. It was the 
custom to invite prominent men to sit as 
judges upon the results of the debates, to de- 
cide the question on the apparent arguments. 
Among the judges were Hon. George F. Hoar, 
Mr. Joseph Mason, Mr. William S. Barton, 
and Librarian Samuel S. Green. At the re- 
union, Hon. A. S. Pinkerton will act as toast- 
master, and it is expected that over 150 will 
be present. The literary exercises, at the 
table, have not yet been fully arranged, but 
already the society has been assured of a 
humorous paper by a local humorist, which 
will attempt to hit and floor every member ; 
an original poem, written for the occasion ; a 
declamation by an old-timer. One of the city 
fathers will respond to the toast of "Our City," 
and one of the older members will speak for 
the society; while a prominent bachelor, who 
never was acquainted with his mother, will im- 
mortalize "The Ladies." Tickets can be ob- 
tained from the following committee: Hon. A. 
S. Pinkerton, Mr. A. A. McLaughlin, Mr. 
Herbert Wesby, Mr. George S. Hatch and 
Mr. W. H. Stoddard. 



Miss E. C. Nason entertained the ladies of 
Piedmont choir at her home, 27 Orange street, 
a week ago Wednesday and though in the 
nature of a farewell gathering, the party was a 
delightful one. Those present included Mrs. 
Carrie King-Hunt, who has been the organist 
at the church during several weeks past, and of 
the chorus. Misses Ida E. Stratton, Jessie M. 
D. Hamilton, Nellie T. Sargent, Florence N. 
Gates, Cora B. Eaton. Margaret R. Hamilton, 
Nellie Laird, Mrs. L. R. Wheeler, Miss Ina E. 
Lyon and Miss Carrie E. Caldwell. Miss 
Nason entertained her friends in a most hos- 
pitable way, and not the least pleasant feature 
of the evening was the presentation to her of a 
handsome basket of flowers. 



Beethoven and the Emperor. 

FROM THE GERMAN OF WOI.FfiANC MULLt-:R. 



When Beethoven was about i6 years of age 
he was court organist in Bonn, on the Rhine. 
Max Francis, the elector of Cologne, became 
interested in the young musician, and, to help 
him along' sent him to visit Vienna, which 
was the great musical centre of the world. 
The elector gave him a letter of recommenda- 
tion to the emperor of Germany. 

After his arrival in Vienna, he dressed him- 
self in his best, and started for the royal castle. 
Although he had overcome in some degree his 
dread of conversation with people in the 
higher station of life, still it was not without a 
feeling of trepidation that he thought of meet- 
ing the mighty ruler of the whole empire. 

As he passed through the door which led to 
the emperor's apartments, a simply dressed 
gentleman came into the ante-room, and, at- 
tracted by the young man's manner, advanced 
toward him. 

"Where do you wish to go ?" he asked cour- 
teously. 

Beethoven looked at the speaker, thinking 
perhaps he was making fun of him, but the 
whole expression of the handsome, slender gen- 
tleman was that of friendly earnestness. 

"To the emperor." 

"Have you a petition ?" 

"No, a letter of recommendation." 

"From whom, if I may ask?" 

"From Max Francis, elector of Cologne." 

"Let me see it." 

Beethoven showed the letter. The stranger 
found the address and seal correct. 

"And who are you ?" asked the gentleman. 

"I am a musician." 

"A musician," repeated the stranger. Then 
he continued: "The emperor is not at home. 
But you can see him this evening at 7 o'clock 
at his house in the Angarten." 

"Do you know the emperor personally .'" 
asked Beethoven. 

"Oh, yes !" said the other. 

"You have an office near him, perhaps," sug- 
gested the young man. 

"I shave him occasionally," was the an- 
swer. 

"Is he good, or strict .'" asked the musician 
confidentially. 

"Oh! he's not so bad," said the other smil- 
ing 

"I know that he plays the piano very well, 
is quite skilful on the violincello, and that he 
even composes sonatos," answered Bee- 
thoven ; "but great gentlemen do not usually 
go very far with music. He showed a sonata 
to Mozart the other day, and asked him what 
he thought of it. Mozart replied : 'The son- 
ata is very good, but he who composed it is 
much better.' " 

"That's a pretty story,'' laughed the 
stranger. 

When Beethoven related this occurrence, 
his friend Waldstein smiled and advised him 
to follow the stranger's suggestion, which he 
did as soon as the evening came. The ser- 
vant led him up the steps into a prettily fur- 
nished drawing-room. Opening out of that was 
a long, narrow room, with canary-bird cages in 
the corners, and in the centre a stand, on which 
Stood vases containing fragrant flowers. At 



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the right of this room was the entrance into 
two other good-sized rooms, a sitting-room and 
a bed-room. Beethoven was led into the for- 
mer. Two gentlemen stood there. One of 
tliem he recognized as the man who .some- 
times shaved the emperor. The other had a 
good and benevolent face, beaming with 
friendliness. Could that be the emporor? 
Beethoven had imagined him to he much 
taller. It was probably not either of them, 
for of course it could not be the barber. 

"That is a nice story !" the taller gentleman 
was saying to the shorter one. "A new war 
between Prussia and Austria ! But this time 
not about a country and a people, but 
about a man who is worth almost a province 
to us. They offer you 3000 thalcrs income in 
Berlin, while here you receive only 800 gulden. 
King Frederick William II. is certainly a 
lover of splendor, with whom Emperor Joseph 
in his simplicity and poverty cannot compare, 
for he must save for his people, and conse- 
quently count the kreutzers, because in former 
times there was too much luxury. Now, I 
cannot feel angry with you for wanting to ac- 
cept this offer. You must provide for your 
wife and child, of course. Your fame will not 
diminish because you go to the northern part 
Germany, but on the contrary, it will increase. 
Therefore go, and God be with you." 

The words were spoken with such warmth 
and kindness that the tears came into the 
other's eyes, as he exclaimed, " By the grace 
of your majestv, I stay !" 

" Your majesty !" the little man had said. 
Beethoven started with dismay. Then that 
was not the Emperor's barber, but the Em- 
porer himself ! He thought of his morning's 
conversation with him, and remembered that 
he had told him the little anecdote about 
Mozart. 

Joseph then turned to the young man and 
said, with the same affability, " Ha ! there you 
are !" 

Beethoven attempted to make some e.xcuses 
V)ut the words would not come to his lips. 
" Your majesty — I beg your forgiveness — your 
majesty told me that you sometimes — eh — 
sometimes — " 

" Yes, I shave myself," laughed Joseph, and 
related the story of his meeting with the new- 
comer to the little man. Then he continued : 

" Now give me the letter." 

He read it, then turning to the other again : 

" My brother. Max Franz, recommended this 
young man to me as a talented musician, who 
improvises especially well. Suppose we give 
him a trial immediately." 

" Do you agree, Herr von Beethoven?" asked 
the Emperor. 

" With pleasure,"' answered the young musi- 
cian. 

" Have you ever played music by Mozart?" 

" Why should I not ?" replied the young 
fellow. 

" And what do you think of him ?" 

"That he is the most musical, charming, 
inexhaustible master the world has ever seen," 
said Beethoven, enthusiastically. "Johann 
Sebastian Bach may stand higher in church 
music. Handel in oratorio, but on the stage 
the Salzburg composer excels even Gliick in 
versatility and in characterization of indivi- 
duals and situations.'" 

" Do you know his work by heart ?" 



" Your majesty may demand what you will." 

Joseph thought a minute, then said : " Play, 
and make variations on the Aria of Sarastro, 
" In (litscn hcil'Ken Ilnllcn, 
Kcnnt man die Kachc nicht. 

The Bonn organist seated himself at the 
piano, and played the melody with such rich- 
ness and fulness of expression that the em- 
peror was visibly astonished ; and their aston- 
ishment grew as Beethoven, after finishing 
tlie melody, burst out into a free and indepen- 
dent treatment of the variations, which dis- 
played an incredible richness of form and an 
almost supernatural power of harmony. 

"Good, splendid !" exclaimed the little man, 
with sudden fire, as Beethoven finished. " Ex- 
cellent ! Hut now I should like to hear an 
original composition." 

The young man from the Rhine at once ac- 
ceded to this request, and played a composi- 
tion which the little man pronounced not only 
excellent, but also entirely new and original in 
the character of the melody, and the harmony 
unusual and almost unheard of. 

"Well, what do you think of the young mu- 
sician from Bonn, now ?" asked the Emperor, 
turning to him. 

" He will be one of tlic first masters of the 
art," said he earnestly, and gave Beethoven 
his hand. 

" And do you know who speaks this decision 
about you?" asked the Emporer of the young 
man. Ludwig looked at the little man. He 
did not know. 

" No," he an.swered. 

"It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!'' said 
the Emperor, with empliasis. 

Beethoven gave a mental shout of joy. 

And now followed a conversation, during 
which the Emperor, IVIozart and Beethoven 
all seated themselves. Joseph asked the 
young man if he would not like to come to 
Vienna to live. No; the wish was not lack- 
ing, but duty called him back. He .spoke with 
emotion of his good mother and his little 
brothers, and with gratefulness of his patron 
and master, the Elector Max Francis. As the 
Emperor dismissed his two guests, he gave 
Beethoven a ring for remembrance. 

It was one of the most delightful days of 
the great composer"s life. He had seen at one 
interview the greatest ruler in the German 
fatherland and the greatest ruler in the king- 
dom of sound. 



Blackwood's Magazine tells of a factory 
which makes 5,000,000 tin soldiers yearly out 
of sardine cans. 

Leonide .'\postoloff, a Cossack engineer, is 
at work on a new boat, which he says will 
make eighty knots an hour on the surface of 
the sea, and 120 knots at full .speed under 
water. His idea is to use the motive power of 
the screw to the fullest extent. The boat is 
shaped like a spindle, and consists of an inner 
and an outer shell, the inner one revolving on 
journals fitted at each end of a horizontal shaft 
that runs through the axis of a spindle. Be- 
ginning at a point near the bow and winding 
twice around the outer shell is a blade perpen- 
dicular to the axis of tlie spindle, very much 
like the thread of a screw. As the outer shell 
revolves this screw thread will worm the craft 
through the water. The screw will be turned 
by an electric motor with a storage system. 



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A Voyage to the Tropics. 



BV DR. JOHN O. MARBLE. 



The weapons with which the modern physi 
cian combats disease are no longer confined to 
drugs, — in fact these are not even the chief 
remedies the most progressive employ. Among 
the most successful of means, other than med- 
icines, are change of scene and climate, es- 
pecially such change as is found upon sea 
voyages. Aware that the readers of Light 
like all mortals, are liable to be ill or ex- 
hausted from overwork or care, I have con- 
sented to give them brief directions how best 
to take one of the most delightful and health 
giving of sea voyages, viz., that from New 
York to Nassau, N. P., Santiago de Cuba, 
Cienfuegos and return. 

In January' last, while nearly all the people 
of Worcester either had or imagined that they 
had "la grippe," the writer bethought him of 
the advice which he had so often given to 
tired out patients, to "run away;" and decided 
to accompany a friend, who had travelled 
much both by sea and by land, and who was 
about to take the trip referred to above. The 
steamships Santiago and Cienfuegos, of the 
Ward Line, leave New York for Nassau and 
the two cities on the south side of Cuba whose 
names they bear, fortnightly. They are fine 
propellers, stiunch and safe, and have every 
comfort and convenience desirable, such as are 
to be found upon the trans-Atlantic lines. The 
officers of the Santiago, upon which this was 
our second trip, are just such men as one feels 
safe with at sea; and the menu was better than 
I have found upon a Cunarder. On a former 
trip to Nassau, when we left the wharf at New 
York, the ship plowed through crumbled ice 
for miles down the harbor.and the cold was so 
intense that I shall never forget the contrast 
from that evening with my ulster to the even- 
ing of the third day out when we sat upon 
deck in a balmy breeze like that of June at 
home scarcely needing even a light overcoat. 
Let no one, however, especially an invalid, 
take this voyage or any other in winter, with- 
out being prepared for all sorts of weather. 
The best plan is to take along clothing suitable 
for any month in the year in New England and 
plenty of it. When he learns that in Cuba in 
February, little children go about in the scanty 
garb of Adam in Eden in the ante-apple epoch, 
he will not fail to pack his seer-sucker suit 
and balbriggan underwear. Panama hats are 
best obtained there and he will not fail to 
bring one home. As to what one should take 
as his outfit upon such a journey, aside from 
suitable clothing, only experience in travelling 
will teach him, but it is well to remember 
about his regular needs and how to provide 
for as many as possible. For one, I vastly 
prefer too much baggage to too little, and this 
is a good rule for invalids especially. One 
trunk to be placed in the hold, and one large 
bag containing articles for immediate use to 
be kept in the state room are ample for a gen- 
tleman for this trip. For a lady I will not 
venture an estimate. 

From New York to Nassau is 960 
miles, about a four days' passage 
in average weather. Sea sickness is 
the great bugbear, the lion in the path, not 
only to invalids, but to many who travel for 



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pleasure, and as I can solemnly attest from 
one or two sad experiences "it cannot be 
smiled away." But for the encouragement of 
bad sailors it may be said that, as a whole, 
this voyage from New York to Cienfuegos 
averages remarkably well in that respect. Of 
course until the much abused Hatteras is 
passed one is liable to rough weather in win- 
ter, though in neither of my trips was there 
any bad weather even here. From the third 
day out till the end of the voyage on the 8th 
there is usually a remarkably tranquil sea. 
On this last trip the sea was almost as smooth 
as a millpond all the way from Nassau to 
Cienfuegos and there was no excuse for mal 
de liter. 

After passing Hatteras and entering the 
gulf stream the balmy breezes and warm 
though invigorating air which surrounds us 
till Nassau is reached are indeed a pleasing 
contrast to the cold chills left in New York, 
or the misty, foggy, damp, not "nipping," but 
gripping air left at home in January. On the 
fourth day from New York the first of the 
Bahamas, the Abaco, is sighted, and soon 
we are anchored off Nassau, where those 
who are not to remain have several hours, 
six to ten, in which to go ashore, get a first-class 
breakfast or dinner at the Royal Victoria ho- 
tel, and look about this most interesting town, 
which everj'body leaves with regret. A dozen 
of us bound for Cienfuegos went ashore at 
Nassau, and took together one of those 
breakfasts, and the A'ictoria and mine host 
seemed like old friends to me. One of the in- 
stitutions of the Royal Victoria and Nassau 
when we were there, two years ago, was Gen- 
eral Perkins of New York, "his sister and his 
yacht." L'pon his splendid steam yacht "Nir- 
vana" he was accustomed to invite parties of 
congenial friends, and with his sister, Mrs. 
McCurdy, as chaperone, most delightful ex- 
cursions were made several times a week 
down the harbor among the islands. Having 
enjoyed several such entertainments we be- 
came, as have many other pilgrims to Nassau, 
deeply attached to "the general," as everybody 
called him. So our prompt inquiry on arriv- 
ing at the hotel was for him, but we were 
shocked to learn that he had died a few days 
before from pneumonia, following la grippe, 
contracted in New York. \'isitors to Nassau 
will miss his genial face and generous hospi- 
tality. 

Space forbids a description of Nassau, 
but guide books give glowing accounts of its 
charming scenery, luxuriant vegetation and 
hospitable people. 

The climate is simply exquisite, to. use the 
expression of the ladies. The air is not warm 
enough to be debilitating, yet is devoid of the 
evening chill to be dreaded in many warm 
countries. In fact, it seems adapted to the 
condition of almost any invalid. Lung troubles, 
rheumatism, nervous prostration, and, in fact, 
all the ills which flesh is heir to, seem to van- 
ish in this atmosphere laden with healing. 
Better adapted than Bermuda, being warmer, 
and than Cuba, being cooler, to most of the 
troubles which our people seek to escape. 

But we must leave this "gem of the ocean," 
and return to our good ship "Santiago," which 
has discharged the freight and passengers 
destined for Nassau, and is ready to set sail 
for Cuba. The voyage down through the Ba- 



hamas to the eastern end of Cuba, Cape 
Maisi, occupies about 36 hours, and is full of 
interest. The most noted of these islands is 
San Salvador, where.as every schoolboy knows, 
or thinks he knows, Columbus landed, though 
it is still in dispute, like the place where his 
body rests. We steamed along past this 
island quite near the shore and it, like all these 
wonderful coral islands, is a beautiful sight to 
see. It was at sunset, with its gorgeous tints 
of sky reflected upon the clear waters of the 
bays and inlets between these clustering isles. 
Such an hour and view as this must have in- 
spired the poet w'ho wrote of them: — 

"And her fair islets small and bright, 
With their green shores reflected there. 

Look hke those Peri isles of light 
That hang by spell-work in the air." 

I never expect or wish to see a fairer sight. 
As the sun sank below the horizon the light of 
the distant lamps of the lighthouses on some 
of these islands was scarcely distinguishable 
from the stars, which hastened to appear upon 
this enchanting scene. The soft evening air 
seemed to do one good like a medicine, and 
one felt a delicious sense of dolce far niente 
stealing o'er him and banishing all thought of 
the cares and ills of life. There is a popular 
notion that it does one good to be sea sick, but 
the fallacy arises from the fact that nearly 
every one feels better after a sea voyage, 
whether sea sick or not. This improved con- 
dition is due to the change of scene and the 
iodine and ozone abundant in sea atmosphere, 
as well as to the rest, contentment and free- 
dom from care, referred to above, which the 
voyager enjoys. 

Here among the Bahamas Ponce de Leon 
sought and thought he had found the fountain 
of perpetual youth, and it would seem that 
here, if anywhere on earth, it might be looked 
for, rather than in somebody's elixir. But I 
must not tarry in this enchanted and enchant- 
ing region, for other scenes await description. 
After another night so charming that we 
grudge the time for sleep, we wake to see be- 
fore us the great bluff, dark and grand, the 
eastern point of Cuba, Cape IVIaisi. with its 
brilliant revolving light looming up against 
the dark sky, and a perfect deluge of rain 
pouring upon land and sea. It was as grand 
as, but entirely unlike, a terrific thunder storm 
I once encountered upon the summit of the 
Simplon while crossing the Alps. This was 
the first rain we had seen since leaving New 
York, but in half an hour the sky was perfect- 
ly clear, and the sun had risen upon one of 
the fairest visions I have ever seen, composed 
only of sky, an expanse of water, and a moun- 
tain range — a scene for Bierstadt's brush. 
The whole eastern end of Cuba is a lofty 
mountain range, barren and bare as seen from 
the ship. If the voyage down through the 
Bahamas was delightful, this along the east 
and south side of Cuba is magnificent and 
grand. All were surprised at the loftiness of 
the mountains. From early morning till late 
in the day we sailed along not a hundred rods 
from the shore, so deep is the water and so 
precipitous the coast, with this grand pano- 
rama of mountains rising upon one side, and 
the calm, clear, transparent waters of the Car- 
ibbean sea upon the other, and a perfect sky 
above us. My description may seem to be 
couleur de rose, but it was certainly delightful 



beyond any day's journey of my experience. 
Until past noon not a human habitation was 
to be seen — nothing but nature unadorned 
around, above, beneath us — then there was 
pointed out to us a small house in a secluded 
nook where the famous W. M. Tweed of un- 
savory fame had his hiding place some years 
ago. It would seem that only at the day of 
resurrection, and when the earth shall give up 
both its living and its dead, could he be found 
— but he was ! 

About 3 P. M., having sailed 560 miles from 
Nassau, we came to the entrance to the bay, 
at Santiago de Cuba, said to be the most re- 
markable harbor on earth. As we approach 
it nothing can be seen e.xcept the grand old 
Moorish castle upon the bluff. The en- 
trance to the bay is but 100 feet wide 
(two ordinar}' ships cannot pass in it). After 
about 100 yards, this passage widens out into 
the beautiful bay of Santiago. The entrance 
to the harbor can scarcely be seen from the 
ocean, and this quiet bay was formerly the 
hiding place of pirates who, after plundering 
vessels, fled here to enjoy their booty. Soon, as 
we proceed up the bay, there appears, five 
miles in front of us, spread out upon the face 
of the mountain, the former capital of this 
island, Santiago de Cuba. Our American 
consul, a genial New York man, came off to 
our ship, and during a conversation with me, 
informed me that there were several cases of 
yellow fever in the city, a fact which I did not 
communicate to my fellow voyagers, for in 
parts of Cuba a few cases of that scourge are 
always to be found, just as a few cases of diph- 
theria may alway be found in New York or 
Boston. We lay at anchor in the bay during 
the night and ne.xt morning took a stroll in 
this quaint old Spanish town. Mark Twain 
said of the wharf at Bermuda, that it was all 
covered over with vegetables, "with here and 
there an onion." Santiago streets are full of 
people, with now and then a donkey. 

The chief sights of interest are the plaza, 
the cathedral and the dark-eyed Spanish 
maidens. I have urged upon invalids this sea 
voyage, but not a prolonged stay in Cuba and 
least of all, this city, remarkable for its 
antiquity and antiseptic needs. A very brief 
inspection of the place sufficed for us, for 
some of the party had got wind of the yel- 
low-jack story, (figuratively speaking), and 
were anxiously inquiring of me how far a 
bre?ze would carry the germs, and how long 
the period of incubation of the dread disease ! 
Later in the day we steamed out of the beauti- 
ful bay, down by the frowning old giant fort- 
ress, Morro, the pavements of whose dark and 
lonely basement cells have echoed to the 
tread of many a doomed, hopeless political 
prisoner, whose "hair was white, but not with 
years." The hoary old castle, gray and 
gloomy, is described by some one as vying in 
appearance of antiquity with the surround- 
ing mountains, and indeed it looks ante- 
diluvian. Leaving this dismal structure our 
ship directs its course towards its destination 
Cienfuegos, 325 miles distant to the northl 
west. .After passing Cape Crus we are out of 
sight of land till near the end of the trip. 
Thus far not a wave of trouble or of water had 
rolled to disturb our peaceful rest since leav- 
ing Nassau, and this immunity continued to 
the end of the ship's course. The nights were 



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clear, the sea was calm, the sky was brilliant, 
and, awaking at 3 A. .M., I looked out of my 
state-room window and directly before me saw 
a vision worth the whole journey of 1500 miles 
to behold— the Southern Cross. This magnifi- 
cent cluster of brilliant stars, tlie constella- 
tion "Crux" can be seen for several hours 
towards morning in this latitude, about 19° 30'. 
The Southern Cross has been sung by poets, 
and with good reason. So near the horizon 
that the size and brilliancy of its several gems 
seem intensified, it appears like a veritable 
cross of diamonds in the clear sky, each daz- 
zling jewel sparkling gorgeously as if endowed 
with life. So distinct and brilliant, and so per- 
fect a figure of a cross does it stand out in the 
heavens, that the first time one beholds it the 
spectacle is almost startling, and it is not sur- 
prising that the ignorant and superstitious be- 
hold in it something more than a constellation 
in the southern sky. An irreverent member 
of our party who had seen both 
this magnificent spectacle and the 
".Mikado" of Gilbert and Sullivan, ex- 
claimed, that even more than certain angular 
parts of the anatomy of Katisha, it was worth 
"going miles to see !" and with his irrepre,ssi- 
ble habit of punning, he spelled out the last 
word — sea. He was, however, immediately 
confined in his berth and fed upon bread and 
water for a day. 

On Thursday, the eighth day out from New 
York, we arrived at the fine harbor of Cien- 
fuegos, beautiful and larger in extent, but 
without the rugged grandeur of that of San- 
tiago. Our ship proceeds directly to the 
dock, an unusal thing in southern ports where 
one is apt to find the inconvenience of trans- 
portation to the shore in a small tug. Cien- 
fuegos is a city of to day when compared to 
Santiago or Havana. It is a clean and 
healthy place in winter, at least, notwithstand- 
ing a .slanderous note which I saw in some 
newspaper recently. The buildings are most- 
ly low, as in all places where earthquakes are 
liable to occur, at any time, and are all colors, 
brown, blue, white, and even red. The streets 
are comparatively well kept. We were agree- 
ably surprised to meet on landing from the 
ship our old friend, Walter Beal of W'orces- 
ter, whose headquarters are here while he 
superintends the affairs of Mr. Atkins of Bos- 
ton, who owns a large sugar plantation near 
by. He had expected us and had kindly 
secured excellent rooms at Hotel L'nion, 
where he lives. We had intended to spend 
one day here, but by reason of his efforts to 
make the place attractive, the day lengthened 
out to four. One of these days we passed at 
"Solidad," the sugar estate above referred to, 
reaching that appropriately named retreat by 
a small steamboat, going 15 miles up a little 
river, so narrow that we could pluck flowers, 
fruit and branches from the over-hanging 
trees. The story of oysters growing upon 
trees has a Munchausen flavor, but it is liter- 
ally true. We saw, at low tide, bushels of 
these delicious bivalves, firmly attached to the 
trunks, and even branches of shrubs growing 
upon the banks of this little creek. Dense 
tropical foliage overhangs its banks and the 
air is laden with richest perfumes. The mag- 
nificent royal palm grows everywhere here, its 
proud top and graceful trunk satisfying the 
eye, like the proportions of a cathedral. We 



12 

were hospitably entertained by the superin- 
tendent, first by explaining the whole process 
of sugar making, from the time the cane is 
ground in mills of immense power, till it comes 
from the fan as dried powdered sugar and 
made ready for shipment in bags; then at a 
genuine Cuban lunch at his spacious summer 
house near the factory. Returning by the 
little steamer to the city we dined at our hotel 
with the owner, Mr. Atkins of Boston, and 
Charles Francis Adams, who had just arrived 
with him as his guest. Altogether it was a 
most enjoyable day. 

Cienfuegos, like nearly every Spanish city, 
has its cathedral, its market and its plaza, and 
they are all good of their class. .Silver must 
have been scarce, however, when those cathe- 
dral bells were cast, for their tone is harsh and 
discordant. An elegant new opera house, of 
proportions altogether beyond the needs of 
the town, has just been completed, the gift of 
a former resident merchant. On Sunday even- 
ing, after dining on the Santiago by the invi- 
tation of Capt. Allen, we all repaired to the 
plaza for an hour, where it .seemed that nearly 
all the young people of the city had assembled. 
Here promenade at this hour the senoritas of 
olive complexion and lustrous eyes, generally 
accompanied by the mother. If a gentleman 
escorts a young lady, her sister or other friend 
is walking with them, for Spaniards and 
Cubans regard men as ever going about seek- 
ing whom they may devo''r. The name of 
this city, Cienfuegos, (a hundred fires), would 
seem to indicate that it is extremely hot, and 
no doubt it is in summer, but at this season it 
is very comfortable indeed. Our ship remains 
here three or four days, discharging and re- 
ceiving her cargo before leaving for home, and 
persons making this trip for health need have 
no fears of the time hanging heavily, or of suf- 
fering with heat, as the temperature was not 
above 78° during our stay. The fare for the 
round trip is $110, a very reasonable rate when 
the distance, nearly 1900 miles and return, the 
time consumed, about three weeks, state-room 
and good board, are considered. On the re- 
turn voyage stops are made at Santiago and 
Nassau, as on the trip out. 

Instead of returning on the Santiago we 
continued our journey to Batabono, thence 
across the island by rail 35 miles to Havana, 
thence by the cozy steamer Olivette, to Tam- 
pa, and home through Winter park, (stopping 
at the "Seminole" a few days, the elegant hotel 
owned by F. B. Knowles of Worcester), 
Palatka, St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Savan- 
nah, Charleston and Washington. 

For invalids, or people seeking rest and 
recreation, the tour already described, how- 
ever, is sufificient for one outing, and if this 
paper shall mduce many ill or weary people to 
take the journey, they may feel repaid for 
having read it, and 1 for having written it. 

A widower with a number of small children 
married a widow who was similarly blessed. 
In due time the newly married couple 
added to the number. Hearing a voice in the 
yard one day the father went out to see what 
was the matter. 

" Well, what was it ?" a.sked his wife as he 
returned out of breath. 

" Your children and my children were 
pounding our children," was the reply.— TV-raj 
Si/lings, 



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Something to Wear. 



— Furs used to be called in at this time of year, 
but in these days they remain on all summer 
— "k I'anglaise," you know. This year at the 
summer resorts shoulder capes of furs will be 
worn all through August. 

— Ladies making up plaid ginghams must be 
told that the stylish manner of arranging them 
is to have them bias in every part, but, at the 
same time, they are warned that bias-cut cot- 
ton goods easily pull out of shape when 
washed and ironed. 

— When traveling, or even for shopping, 
many tailor jackets and skirts are worn with 
blouses of wash surah or India silk. An Eng- 
lish modiste advises Su&de leather vests in 
brown and blue dresses of this class. 

— An idea of drapery is given in the latest 
French plates by tiny panniers, a slight lifting 
of the sides and front, all of which points to 
the idea of more drapery, yet long effects, with 
the advent of thinner fabrics in summer wear. 
Bodices all have full fronts of some kind, and 
the jacket designs grow in favor. Full sleeves 
are greatly worn, especially the leg o' mutton, 
shaped in one piece, leaving off the huge, deep 
cuff that first appeared. 

— For a dressy basque what is prettier than 
short, round, or square fronts in jacket form of 
velvet, plain goods covered with braiding, or a 
contrasting woolen goods edged with tiny gre- 
lots over a full front of surah, crepe, or the 
dress fabric pleated at the top to imitate 
a pointed yoke, and again at the waist-line in 
the form of a pointed girdle. The full sleeves 
may be slashedjat the top to admit of a puffing 
of the second material. 

— Gray and white, or black, is taking well in 
India silks, also violet shades, old-rose, china 
blues, and sage, or yellow greens. White 
china silks are selling for young|ladies' dressy 
gowns, and black surah for blouse home 
suits. 

— Princesse gowns for older dames show a 
draped front and plastron of gold-embroidered 
silk muslin or lace, with collar, cuffs, and belt 
across the front of gold passementerie. Black 
net fronts are worn with gowns of satin in 
shaded stripes. 

— Gray dresses are very stylishly trimmed 
with a braiding of silver and gray. Many have 
cloth jackets to match, and a jaunty little 
toque is quite a matter of course. A tweed of 
two shades of brown has a loosely pleated 
skirt, not caught anywhere, slightly draped in 
front, and a Norfolk basque with bone but- 
tons, and a leather belt. The outside jacket 
is of plain brown made in "re^er"' style. 

— An inventory of the wardrobe of Queen 
Elizabeth, made in the year 1600, recently 
published, shows that the queen had then 99 
robes, 126 kirtles, 269 gowns, 136 "foreparts," 
125 petticoats, 27 fans, 96 cloaks, 83 safe- 
guards, 85 doublets, and 18 lap mantles. The 
gowns appear all to have been of the richest 
materials. 

— Regular walking skirts are quite a feature 
for young ladies taking health walks, and 
are of sensible length, width and material. 
Some are very plain, and look like a short 
'labit, with jackets to match, sometimes open 
to show a white or checked waistcoat, or 



closed nearly to the throat, displaying the neat 
collar and tie. All the fullness of the skirt is 
massed at the back, the front and sides being 
gored to sit as plain and flat as possible. This 
only suits a slim figure. The other style has 
gathers all round, mounted into the waist- 
band, and is almost always worn with a silken 
or flannel shirt. These skirts average three 
and a half yards wide, and reach only to the 
ankles, or even a little above. Rough serge is 
much used for them, also the so-called "blanket- 
ing," which is rough in texture, but quite light in 
weight. This is usually in dark or light gray. 
With these walking skirts, small sailor hats 
are usually worn, and also rather flat-heeled 
laced or button boots, very high in the leg and 
thick in the soles. 

— Basques are fastened with tiny pearl but- 
tons or invisibly, and sometimes the only mode 
of egress is by unhooking the left shoulder 
and under-arm seams. Collars may turn over 
or stand erect. Plain fronts without any full- 
ness are prettily trimmed with two rows of 
Vandykes placed just above and below the 
bust, reaching from one arm-seam to the other. 

— Black, gray, and dark blue mohairs are the 
tailor gowns for mid-summer, and are worn 
with white waistcoats and collars, that are so 
delightfully cool in appearance, whatever they 
may be in reality. To carry out the correct 
idea these dresses should not have a particle 
of trimming about them, but some have a gar- 
niture of flat silk braid. 



About the House. 



— Good housekeeping consists in continual 
care for small things, which in themselves are 
nothing, but in the total make up the comfort 
of home life. It is a simple matter to see that 
all the house stores are kept on hand, that 
each match-box about the premises is filled, 
that every room has a convenient receptacle 
for matches and one for burned matches. 

— A good supply of nice brown papers laid 
away carefully, and a bag or box containing 
different kinds of twine, cost a housekeeper 
nothing, as they may be saved from parcels; 
yet such a habit will find ready appreciation 
when some one is in need of paper and string 
to tie up a parcel. 

— There is nothing better than old newspapers 
under the carpet to soften the tread and keep 
the hard floor from wearing out the carpet. 
There seems to be some ingredient in printer's 
ink that drives away moths, and for that rea- 
son newspapers are better than anything else 
to wrap up furs and woollens during the sum- 
mer. 

— It is a wise precaution to keep a roll of old 
linen, one of old cotton and needles and thread 
in the kitchen drawer, where it can be readily 
found in case of a burn or cut. 

— A step-ladder, which may be covered when 
not in use, or a wooden-seated chair, should be 
on every floor. 

— A bird singing in the window, an aquarium 
on the table, plants growing and blooming, 
domestic pets moving about as if at home, 
give life and brightness to an apartment, and 
afford constant opportunity for pleasantest 
occupation and companionship. 



— Books people a room, and pictures on the 
walls, if selected with taste, are ever fresh 
sources of enjoyment. You may gauge the re- 
finement and cultivation of a family by these 
infallible tests. 

— Bits of embroidery, crocheted or knitted 
work, and a thousand tasteful devices may con- 
tribute to the charm of a room, and make it 
irresistibly attractive. 

— The room in which one lives takes on the 
complexion and prevailing states of mind of 
the occupant. If one is sunny-hearted, cheer- 
ful, tasteful, and intelligent, these qualities 
will be impressed on his surroundings, and 
you will know him by them just as you would 
know a crab by his cast-off shell. 

There are lovely rooms in which there is not 
one bit of fine furniture, one bit of elegant up- 
holstery, but where the tastes of the occu- 
pants has found beautiful expression in calico, 
ingrain, and wood engraving, and such re- 
sources as bounteous nature bestows on us all 
—ferns, and flowers, and sunshine, and domes- 
tic pets. 

— In laying a kitchen floor put down hard« 
wood instead of hemlock. If it is 12x16 feet it 
will cost less than $2 more than the softer 
wood. Before a soft wood floor is worn out it 
will require at least $2$ more expended in 
strength to keep it clean. Soft maple makes a 
good floor and can be swept and washed 
easily. The only objection to it is that it is 
slippery in winter. This can be overcome by 
using very narrow boards. Some object to 
soft maple because it is likely to decay in the 
grooves, but it doesn't need to be soaked to 
clean it. — Springiidd Homestead. 

A pretty and serviceable receptacle for news- 
papers and magazines may be made of an or- 
dinary wire broiler. Gild, break, or cut off 
the short handle, wind wide silk or satin rib- 
bon all around the frame and cover the re- 
maining handle. Then braid ribbon of an- 
other color in and out, across the wires of the 
front part and the sides of the back, leaving 
the remainder plain. Pull the ribbons tight 
around the corners of the bottom, and as they 
are worked upwards, gradually leave them 
looser so as to form a wedge-shaped pocket. 
Fasten a bow made of the same ribbons to 
one side of the front, and another over the 
ring on the handle. 



The second wife of each of two men in 
Hartwell, Neb., is the daughter of the other 
man. Both women have children. We leave 
it to some of our ingenious readers to deter- 
mine the tangled relationship in the family. 

All estimates agree in placing the probable 
total population of the United States which 
this year's census will show at 65,000,000. 
That would be 15,000,000 more than the total 
of 18S0, and would represent a growth of thir- 
ty per cent., or the same as that of the decen- 1 
nial period from 1870 to 1880. 

Of the 4200 kinds of flowers which grow in " 
Europe, only 420 are odoriferous. The white 
flower is the most common, there being 1194 
kinds of that color. Leds than one-fifth of ; 
these are fragrant. Of the 951 kinds ofyel-i 
low flowers seventy-nine are odoriferous; of ! 
the 823 red kinds, thirty-one; of the 305 violet- 
blue kinds, thirteen. Of the 140 kinds with' 
combined colors, twenty-eight are fragrant. j 



The Bath. 



BV J. P. RAND, M. D. 



It was a bright remark of that thrifty old 
lady, who said, the reason she washed Monday 
was because " cleanliness came next to 
Godliness," and she might have added that 
the amount of soap a nation consumed was a 
fair index to its worth. Certain it is that 
missionaries have found it indispensable to 
their labors, and declare its use among the 
heathen a most hopeful indication. 

Now while all in theory admit the impor- 
tance of personal cleanliness, many prac- 
tically deny it, by making no adequate provi- 
sion therefor. Especially is this true in the 
out districts and smaller villages of our state. 
There are houses erected, costly and elegant, 
by people of abundant means ; they are fur- 
nished with pictures, libraries, and music ; the 
markets of the world are taxed to please tlie 
eye and gratify the taste ; but you may search 
them in vain for a bath-tub ; it is not there. 
When any of the family wishes to bathe, he 
must wait until the work is all done in the 
kitchen. By that time the fire is out. He 
starts a blaze, heats a quart of water, more or 
less, and rubs it over the thickest places. 
" Delays are dangerous." Somebody may 
want to come in. He hurries through, and 
then questions if bathing is not a failure after 
all. Such hindrances are as needless as 
annoying. 

Every house should have a bath-tub, and a 
proper room. The architect should plan for 
that as much as for the kitchen. It is as truly 
necessary for a man to have his skin waslied 
as his dishes. Did you ever consider what an 
important organ the skin is — how it is made 
up; — what its function ? It certainly is more 
than a covering. Look at the palm of your 
hand through a low magnifying glass ! Its 
surface will be seen divided into little rows of 
minute elevations called papillae. Upon the 
ridges of these are the openings or mouths of 
the sweat glands, which may be seen " as 
small indentations crossing transversely." 
These glands are simply the small mass 
formed by the sweat-duct which coils upon 
itself in the substance of the true skin. The 
entire length of the coil is about 1-16 of an 
inch and its diameter 1-370 of the same. 
They are found in nearly all parts of the 
body, but are most numerous upon the palms 
of the hands and soles of the feet, where 
there are nearly 3000 to the square inch. Now 
allowing an average person to have about 14 
square feet of cutaneous surface, and esti- 
mating the number of sweat glands to each 
square inch thereof, and assuming each coil to 
measure 1-16 of an inch, as before stated, 
physiologists have found the exact (?) number 
of these glands to be 2,381,248, and "the entire 
length of the secreting tubes, unravelled, to 
measure about 2'^ miles." 

Of course these figures are open to criticism^ 
and a careful recount of the back districts 
might alter the returns somewhat. But in 
any case we have quite a strip to be drained 
which can only be done when the mouths of 
these tubes are kept free and open. 

Now in the course of a day, whether we per- 
ceive it or not, about two pounds of moisture 



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escapes from tile skin, while workmen, labor- 
ing under intense heat, have been known to 
reduce their weight as much as four pounds in 
a single hour. With this escape of moisture 
is eliminated a certain amount of poisonous 
and effete matter. This is proven by 
covering an animal with an impermeable coat 
of varnish, which will cau.se its death in a few 
hours. History relates the gilding of a child 
" to give brilliancy to the fete accompanying 
the election of Pope Leo X." The child was 
to represent the -'Golden Age," but "climbed 
the golden stair" as a result. 

If, then, the skin is such an essential organ, 
upon whose activity depends our well being, 
and perhaps our very existence, how should 
it be cared for? I have met people who did 
not care for it at all. They wash their hands 
and faces because it is the fashion, but here 
they draw the line. They never think it a 
duty they owe to themselves. I remember the 
remonstrance a patient of mine once made 
when I advised him to take a bath. 

■' Why doctor," said he, " I haven't done 
such a thing for 20 years." 

However, I insisted that was no reason for 
changing the prescription. 

The ancients were far ahead of us in 
hygienic practices. Read the sundry com- 
mands to the Jews regarding personal clean- 
liness. Think of the money expended by 
the Romans in erecting those costly baths, 
whose ruins still exist. I doubt if the modern 
Italian ever heard of them or any other. 

The term bath is not limited to the applica- 
tion of water. It is applied to any exposure 
of the body to an unaccustomed medium. 
Hence we have vapor, electric, sun, hot air, 
mud, sulphur, etc., etc. But for the common 
people I know of nothing better than a soap 
and water bath, followed by a brisk applica- 
tion with a coarse towel. How indifferent 
you felt before ! How different after ! Nature 
appears in roseate colors and life seems 
worth living. 

The way to take a bath is to bathe. It 
matters not by what name you call it. If the 
sea-washed beach is far in the distance ; if 
specialists' fees are beyond your reach, if even 
a comfortable room and ordinary bath tub are 
denied you, do not despair. The wash basin 
is yours, wiping towels are cheap, and water is 
plenty every where. These " three w's" of an 
hygienic outfit are within your reach. Use 
them, and you have secured cleanliness, the 
primary object of the bath. 

Never bathe on a full stomach, and for that 
matter never eat to repletion. Three hours 
at least should elapse after eating before in- 
dulging in a bath, and re-action be fully estab- 
lished before eating again. The temperature 
of the bath depends upon the strength of the 
individual, and object to be attained. For a 
tonic effect, cool or cold baths are necessary. 
They invigorate the system and render the 
bather less susceptible to atmospheric changes. 
If, however, they produce "shivers" and pro- 
longed uncomfortable feelings, they are harm- 
ful. Hot baths are useful in various diseases, 
to induce perspiration and render the skin 
more active. For the common wants of 
common people, however, the tepid or warm 
bath is to be preferred. It is cleanly, it is 
healthful, it is refreshing ;— a luxury and neces- 
sity combined. 



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ABOUT INFECTIOUS GERMS. 



.Nine-tenths of all diseases, if not all, are 
caused by specific low organisms. Among 
those which we have already isolated distinctly 
are the bacilli of consumption, typhoid fever, 
yellow fever, lockjaw, pneumonia, cholera, 
dysentery, plague, etc. There is a great dif- 
ference between these different bacilli, ju.st as 
there is between large animals. A fence 
which will be perfectly safe against cattle may- 
prove of no account against dogs; and where 
cattle may grow we may not be able to raise 
elephants. Similar differences exist also be- 
tween those bacilli. 

.•Ml these germs of di.seases require moisture 
for their plantation and growth. They are not 
killed by dryness ; they only do not develop. 
A well-authenticated case is on record where 
the plague, which we have now hardly any 
rea.son to doubt is caused by a bacillus, broke 
out in a town in Germany 200 years after the 
last plague had been there, and while no 
cases of plague were within 1000 miles, after 
the tearing down of an old house, in the 
masonry of which a mummy was found that 
had been cemented in. From records it was 
evidently the corpse of a person who had died 
200 years ago of the plague. This shows 
the wonderful tenacity of these microbes. 
The whole medical science has been revolu- 
tionized by their discovery. 

It has been found that the germ of cholera 
will grow on every article of food that is ex- 
posed to draughts of air, however light, from 
the commodes and the privy. In dysentery 
proper the bacillus spreads through drinking 
water polluted with sewage ; the same is the 
case with typhoid fever. 

Uncleanliness is now much better under- 
stood as being the factor of spreading diseases. 
Virchovv examined the nails of school chil- 
dren, and underneath those nails he found, 
with particles of dirt, eggs of all the intestinal 
parasitical worms and bacilli, which, of course, 
would be eaten by the children with their 
daily bread. — Pro/. Mayr, in Sa/iifary Era. 

Whitney's linen store is a Boston institu- 
tion, and is as well known to the ladies, within 
100 rniles, as is the state house to politicians. 
Whitney's store has always been patronized 
by the best people ; folks who appreciate the 
best, and realize that unseemly bargains are 
poor economy. Everything worth anything is 
worth its equivalent in cash. The man who 
states that he is giving you something for 
nothing generally works off upon you nothing 
for something. Mr, Whitney has just fitted 
his basement into handsome art rooms, where 
is displayed the linen art of the world. His 
lace curtain department is the most com- 
plete of its kind in the state. The middle of 
April, Mi.ss S. R. Hall will superintend the art 
embroidery department. Miss Hall has a na- 
tional reputation and stands at the head of the 
embroidery profession. The articles pur- 
chased are stamped free, and delivered in 
Worcester, at Boston prices, free of express. 



With the no-school signal to help them out, 
the public school pupils had a good 
deal of vacation time last month. They 
have begun again in April, with Fast day and 
Good F"riday. School closed Wednesday noon 
for the week. 



16 



About Business. 



Depew on Self-Confidence. 

Lack of self-confidence is often the cause of 
failure. Many men seem to have no faith in 
themselves, consequently no assertive ness, no 
independence, no pluck, and no push. They 
seem to be afraid to stand up and speak out 
for themselves and prefer to lean on others. 
Poverty in such cases is inevitable. Another 
cause of poverty very prevalent in this country 
to-day is that many young men are wanting in 
decision and fixity of purpose. If they get in- 
to a good place at the start they should stick 
to it, knowing that by perseveranc, industry, 
and ability they will win promotion in due 
course as vacancies occur. Rum is the great- 
est cause of poverty ; it is the cause of more 
poverty than all the other causes put together. 
When a man drinks to excess he lets go of 
everything. He loses his position and is un- 
able to secure other employment. A drunkard 
can not be trusted with work or responsibility. 
He and those dependent upon him, if he has a 
family, become paupers. In my own personal 
experience I have known about 50,000 men 
who have been ruined by rum. There is a 
vast amount of poverty caused by men who 
would rather loaf than work. When a man 
finds his mission in the world he should re- 
main constant to it, and not leave one trade or 
business to engage in another for which he 
may be unfitted. Poverty often results from 
such aimlessness. But the lazy man is always 
a poor man. — Chauncey M. Depeiv. 
Business Getting Together. 

Producers of various and sundry articles 
continue to get together in order to abate com- 
petition. Twenty-two creameries in Minne- 
sota have been sold by the proprietary com- 
pany, together with other valuable business in- 
terests, to a syndicate composed chiefly of 
foreign capitalists, and bent on increasing our 
export trade in butter. Natural gas in the 
western fields is getting into strong hands. 
The new $25,000,000 lead smelters' consolida- 
tion will control bullion against the white lead 
trust. The rod and wire people have tried a 
second time to organize against competition, 
and efforts are making in other lines not so far 
removed from the mill interests to get up a 
combination. — Age of Steel. 
Natural Gas. 

Inventors everywhere are trying to discover 
an artificial gas fuel that will end the days of 
solid fuels. A Winconsin genius has brought 
out a scheme of new water gas that is thought 
well of by scientists. In the end there will 
probably be developed several gas fuels that 
will work all right. The sooner the better, for 
it is one of the unfortunate facts of the age 
that the way fuel is now used about 75 per 
cent of it is wasted. — Cleveland Press. 
Profits on Mortgages. 

Mr. James Willis Gleed, a professor in one 
of the Kansas colleges, has an article on west- 
ern mortgages in one of the magazines, in 
which he asserts that the value of the 
west has been increased in proportion 
to the amount of its present mortgage 
indebtedness. The proposition is alto- 
gether undemonstrable ; but even if it were 
true, it would not follow that the present mort- 
gaged condition of the west is either a natural 



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or a desirable condition. The west has no 
disposition to defraud its creditors. It will 
pay all that is named in the bond, but it is a 
curious absurdity which holds that a large pri- 
vate debt is a great public blessing. The 
average interest rate of money is the measure 
of its average reproductive power at any given 
time. If at any time it takes 5io one year to 
beget $1 in the average business of the coun- 
try, the interest power and dividend power of 
money in that year will be identical. If it be 
admitted then, that the west, being in a state of 
prosperity, borrows only for larger investment, 
the impossibility of doing a paying business on 
borrowed capital is demonstrated as soon as 
experience begins to demonstrate — as it surely 
does— that the average profit-earning power of 
money at any period is not above the average 
rate of interest. In exceptional cases this is 
not true, but it is so plainly true that the 
profit-earning power of money fixes the rate of 
interest that the proposition may be regarded 
as axiomatic. The mortgaged west then re- 
turns as interest its profits on borrowed capi- 
tal, thus, in a fi.xed time, paying back the full 
amount borrowed without at all reducing its 
indebtedness, since average profits and aver- 
age interest rate are identical. It is well known 
that eastern usurers are the virtual owners of 
the very best lands the government has opened 
for settlement in the last 10 years. These are 
not desirable conditions. The debt thus in- 
curred must be paid, and that it may be paid, 
government discrimination against the west 
must cease. If eastern money-lenders want 
their principal and interest, they will do well 
to interest themselves in seeing that the west 
is relieved from the burdens of high-tariff dis- 
crimination. Otherwise western states may be 
forced in time to enact laws under which the 
foreclosure of a mortgage will be difficult and 
the foreclosure sale title extremely insecure. — 
St. Louis Republic. 

TO OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. 

Light believes in the rising generation ; it 
knows that the young folks have minds, sen- 
sible thoughts, and latent originality. It fur- 
ther believes that they should be respected 
and encouraged to develop the stuff that's in 
them. 

Light therefore offers a prize of five dollars 
in gold to the boy or girl who will write the 
best article on "Newspaper Reading for 
Young People." 

The conditions of this contest are as fol- 
lows : — 

First : — The writer must be a regular at- 
tendant of some public or private school in 
Worcester or Worcester county. 

Second: — The writer or some member of 
the writer's family must be a regular subscriber 
to Light. 

Third : — The article must not be less than 
of 800 nor more than 1500 words. 

Fourth : — The article must be written on 
only one side of the paper. 

Fifth : — The article must be presented on or 
before April 28, 1890, the earlier the better. 

Sixth : — The article must be accompanied by 
the name and address of the writer. 

The successful article will be printed in 
Light of May 3d. The next two best articles 
will also be printed, if worthy of publication. 

Please address your articles to Editor of 
Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass. 



Words of Others. 

Emperor William and His Working Class. 
It seems to be the general opinion that the 
sudden interest taken by Kaiser William in re- 
gard to the condition of the working classes of 
his subjects, is merely politic. From the be- 
ginning of his reign he has shown a surprising 
lack of those qualities which made his father 
and illustrious grandfather beloved by all Ger- 
mans. No nation has a greater innate love for 
the "faderland" than the Teutons, and it must 
be a real grievance that will cause them to 
leave in such hordes. It is evident that the 
emperor is alarmed at the outlook and wishes 
to take steps to prevent the exodus. He can 
do nothing but make his government less op- 
pressive. The German people are a thinking 
people and it is most natural that they should 
prefer a country like America where every 
man's opinion is sovereign to himself and re- 
spected by others, where there is not a tre- 
mendous standing army (none in fact worthy 
of the name) as a constant menace; and where 
he has a voice in the government. Give the 
Germans these privileges at home and the 
crown need feel no anxiety about an alarming 
exodus. — Practical Mechanic. 
Starvation of the Indians. 

Rt. Rev. John Shanley, D. D., bishop of 
North Dakota, who is now in Boston, draws a 
sad picture of the suffering and destitution 
existing among the Chippewa Indians of the 
northern frontier. The bishop says he has 
witnessed scenes among these people which 
would disgrace Siberia. The Indians are 
rapidly dying of exposure and starvation. The 
condition of these unfortunate people is a re- 
proach to our government. — Gardner Journal. 
The Great Majority. 

The masses are poor, ignorant, and disorgan- 
ized, not knowing the rights of mankind on the 
earth, and never knowing that the world be- 
longs to its living population, because a small 
class in every country has taken possession of 
property and govenment, and makes laws for 
its own safety and the security of its plunder, 
educating the masses generation after genera- 
tion, into the belief that this condition is the 
natural order and the law of God. The quali- 
ties we love in a man send him to the poor- 
house— generosity, truth, trustfulness, friendli- 
ness, unselfishness, the desire to help, the 
heart to pity, the mind to refuse to profit from 
a neighbor's loss or weakness, the defense of 
the weak. The sermon on the mount and 
natural justice can rule the world, or they 
can not. If they can, our present ruling is the 
invention of the devil : if they can not, the 
devil has a right to rule — if the people let 
him — but he ought not to call his rule "Chris- 
tian civilization. "^/r)/;« Boyle O'Reilly. 

A remarkalile funeral procession paraded 
the streets of Pekin a few weeks ago. It was 
the formal public celebration of the burial of 
Tsching fschu, a grand chamberlain, and 
brother-in-law of Prince Kung. The bier was 
carried by eighty men, preceded by forty- 
eight flag-bearers, eight camels and twenty- 
four white horses. One hundred and sixty 
men followed, bearing sixteen red planks, on 
which were painted in many-colored letters 
the name of the dead nobleman. The whole 
procession was a mile and a half long. 



About Folks. 



"How Can I Become a Successful Actress?" 
is a question that has agitated the feminine 
breast since the memory of man, and the fail- 
ure to answer it satisfactorily has probably 
caused more blighted ambition and heart- 
aches than any other human problem. Miss 
Lillie Gilbert, Worcester's latest contribution 
to the stage, appears to have found the solu- 
tion, if her present experience at Providence 
can be taken as a criterion. A correspondent 
of Light had the plea.sure of witnessing the 
performance of "Leah," last week, and was 
surprised at the intense dramatic power, per- 
sonal magnetism, and sympathetic touch 
she displayed. During the scenes of Leah's^ 
rejection by Rudolph, and her final farewell 
and forgiveness of her too credulous lover, the 
audible sobs and the vigorously plied hand- 
kerchiefs paid tribute to the actress's genus. 
In an interview, later, afforded the reporter by 
the fair ddbutante, she said, "Yes, I was very 
ner\-ous at first, but 1 called out all my will 
power and determined to fight it down. My 
first applause seemed a long time in coming, 
but it came at last, and 1 felt my battle was 
won. The representatives of several Boston 
and New York papers, besides the local pressi 
were present, and all congratulated me heart- 
ily on my ddbut. Isaac B. Rich sent me a 
ver)' kind letter regretting that his sickness 
kept him from being present, and telling of 
the good reports he had heard of my success. 
I received several nice messages from other 
managers, too, and the people of Providence 
have treated me very cordially. I have had 
more bouquets and invitations than 1 can 
count. The Japanese minister occupied a bo.x 
here a day or two ago. The Japanese express 
their approval by a long whistle which begins 
like a hiss, but towards the end strongly re- 
sembles a fog horn. The noise was confusing at 
first, but when one gets used to it, it is 
amusing. I play here for two weeks longer, 
but beyond that have no settled plans as yet." 
Miss Gilbert has received offers from W. 
J. Scanlan, "Storm Beaten" and "Hoop of 
Gold," but is considering most favorably a 
proposition from two well known managers to 
star her in an entirely new drama of the 
Maude Granger style, her talents being best 
displayed in the heavy emotional. As Miss 
Granger has retired, temporarily, at least, 
from the stage, it is not at at all unlikely that 
that lady's place in public regard may yet be 
held by Miss Gilbert. 



The Springfield Hotnestead says : "The 
New York Tribune gives especial prominence 
to news from the colleges, which fact makes 
the more inexcusable two blunders of that 
newspaper, perpetrated this week. The doing 
away with class day by the Dartmouth seniors 
inspired an editorial deploring the abolition of 
commencement exercises, which are quite an- 
other thing; and the Tribune credited Clark 
university of Worcester with rank among 
the colleges, whereas that institution is de- 
voted entirely to post-graduate work or orig- 
inal research." 

One of Mr. C. W. Bowker's Elm street 
flats is ready for occupancy, and the other 
will be completed shortly. The houses are 



LI(i HT 

models in their way. I'^ach flat contains two 
parlors, three bed-rooms, dining-room, kitclien 
and bath-room, with looo feet of storage room, 
and a large independent cellar. The houses 
contain every modern convenience, such as 
ash-shutes, electric gas-lighting and hard wood 
floors in dining-room and kitchen. One is sur- 
prised at the amount of closdt room, the 
builder having put a shelf and drawer in every 
conceivable place, and the closets are as large 
as small rooms. Mr. Bowker evidently built 
the flats more to live in than to rent. 



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Correspondence. 

Some Other Scholars. 

WoRCKSTER, April 2, 1890. 
Editor of Light: — Gentlemen, there was 
a slight mistake in regard to those ques- 
tions and answers printed in Light. 
In the first place the answers were not 
given by the pupils now at Oxford street. 
They were from a collection I've been making 
for years. In the second place I had not the 
remotest idea that my name, or that of my 
school, would appear in print. You a.sked 
for contributions and I sent you those 
with the hope that they might shed a little 
light upon the pathway of knowledge. 
Perhaps some one would like to ask 
how large a percentage of answers like 
those printed in last Saturday's Light a 
teacher would receive from an ordinary class. 
I think one or two per cent. Generally a 
majority of the answers given show a good 
deal of intelligent thought. They are not 
mere recitations, word for word, from books, 
for many, after getting the idea, clothe it with 
their own words. The question that called 
for an explanation of the gulf-stream theory 
probably elicited forty-five correct answers 
out of fifty, and this from pupils under the 
age of fourteen years. 

Mary F. Harrington. 

Oxford Street School. 



EASTER. 



at all saints. 

PRIL. 

6 Easter Sund.w. — Sunrise service, morning 
prayer, 6 a. m.; holy communion, 7 a. m.; offer- 
tory for a special object ; holy communion and 
ssermon, 10.30 a. m., offertory for a special ob- 
ject ; children's festival service, 4 p. m. 

7 E.ASTER Monday. — Holy communion, 9 a.m., 
offertory for rector's charity fund ; parish meet- 
ing, evening. 

8 Easter Tuesday.— Holy communion, 9 a. 
m., offertory for rector's charity fund ; annual 
meeting of Women's Missionary society. 



AT ST. JOHNS, LINCOLN STREET. 

Easter-Day.— Early service and address, 7 
a. m.; morning prayer, holy communion and ser- 
mon, 10.30 a. m.; children's carol service, 6 p. m. 

Monday.— Easter parish meeting, 7.30 p. m. 

Wednesday.— Evening prayer and address, 
7.30 p. m. 

Thursday.— Evening prayer and address, at 
Chadwick square mission, 7.30 p. m. 



AT ST. MARKS. 



Easter Day.— Morning prayer, holy com- 
munion and sermon, 10.30 a. m.; childien's 
service, 3 p. m. 

Monday.- Easter parish meeting, in parish 
house, 8 p. m. 



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every particular with the largest and best as- 
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Worcester. 

Gloves of every description at lowest prices 
consistent with first-class goods. 

Sole agents here for RoeckFs Gloves in all 
styles of Glacd, Su^de, and Musquetaire, 
known as Coustanze, at $1.25; Benita, at Si ; 
Sudde Musquetaire, at $1.25. 

We are also sole agents for the Maggioni 
glove. Read what a New York journal says 
of this glove: "The gloves of this house 
(Maggioni), have long been held in high favor 
in the United States, and for 14 years were 
handled by P. Centemeri & Co., but Mr. Mag- 
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August last, where fresh shipments are re- 
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About Folks. 



The following is the complete program to 
be given at Mechanics Hall, next Friday eve- 
ning: Fan drill, by i6 young ladies in cos- 
tume. Willie Windle, in his trick bicycle rid- 
iug. The Arlington Quintette, in banjo select- 
ions. Bayonet drill by a squad from the City 
Guards. Club swinging by Profe.ssor Haven- 
er. Songs by Mr. Tom Walters, Jr., and Mr. 
Frederic Howard. The Elberon Orchestral 
Club will furnish nusic. A squad from Bat- 
tery B. will give an exhibition sabre drill. The 
entertainment will be under the management 
of Mr. Fred Knight and Professor Havener. 
The proceeds will be given to a deserving 
charity. 

Inquiries have been made this week regard- 
ing Mr. Fred H. Blake. Light is glad to an- 
nounce that he will be able to enter upon his 
duties as organist at Union Church, to-morrow. 



Miss E. C. Nason and Miss Gertrude Pren- 
tice are to sing at the Harvard Square 
Church, Cambridge, to-morrow, at a special 
Easter service. Miss Nason sings at the ur- 
gent request of the committee, and Miss Pren- 
tice is to sing as candidate for the alto position. 



Mr. Rufus M. Taft, the state evangelist, has 
returned from his work on the Cape, and to- 
day he goes to Lawrence for a week's work. 



At a concert given by the Pythian Sister- 
hood, in North Brookfield town hall, Tuesday 
evening, Mrs. W. E. Bowen, reader, and Miss 
Cora Fisher, vocalist, of this city, assisted, 
meeting with excellent success. 



Mr. Frank A. Leland gave a complimentary 
banquet to the employees of the firm of S. R. 
Leland & Son, of which he is the head, a 
week ago last evening. The piano wareroom 
was decorated for the occasion, and Caterer 
Rebboli did his share when it came to the 
table. Mr. M. B. Lamb acted as toast-master, 
and Mr. Frank A. Leland welcomed those 
present in a brief speech. Several gentlemen 
were called upon to respond to toasts, includ- 
ing Mr. C. W. Bowker, for "Our Country" ; 
Mr. Seth Richards, "Early Employees"; Mr. 
C. P. Morrison, "Our Musical Friends"; Mr. 
Ben T. Hammond, "Schoolmates"; Mr. M.A. 
Lapham, for general remarks, and Mr. Henry 
Billings, "The Rolling Ocean." There was 
also a musical program, and those present 
included M. B. Lamb, M. A. Lapham, C. P. 
Morrison, Ben T. Hammond, Henry Billings, 
.Seth Richards, C. C. Stearns, M. Riedl, John 
J. Heron, James H. Cafferty, Joseph B. 
Brooks, George Robinson, A. J. Abbott, A. G. 
Walker, Charies H. Walker, P. O'Dowd, R. 
A. Morgan, C. M. Farnum, E. H. Robinson, 
G. B. Hall, George L. Sanborn, Charles Law- 
son, J. U. McCauley, Joseph B. Brooks, C. A. 
Anger, Louis Ellis, and George O'Connell. 
Mr. Leland was presented a dressing case and 
a pair of field glasses. He sailed for Europe, 
accompanied by Mr. Lapham, on Tuesday. 

The poetic and dramatic readings by Mr. 
Murdoch at Association hall, next Tuesday 
evening, for the benefit of the Young Women's 
Christian Association, promise a treat to all 
who attend. In New York, Washington and 



I.I d HT 

the larger cities, harp music has been in great 
demand at all literary readings. Worcester is 
fortunate in having a resident, Mrs. S. E. 
Lawton, who is a skilfuU harpist, and who will 
play two selections, beside Mr. Murdoch's 
readings. Mrs. Lawton is a daughter of the 
late Dwight Reed, the founder of the Associa- 
tion, and coatributes her services because of 
her interest in the cause. The full program 
follows : "Rivemiouth Rocks," from "Tent 
on- the Beach," Mr. Murdoch; "Drifting," a 
poet's revery, T. B. Read, Mr. Murdoch; Se- 
lections from "Romeo and Juliet," Mr. Mur- 
doch; Harp solo, Mrs. S. E. Lawton; "The 
Lady in Yellow Curl-papers, or the Wrong 
Room," Dickens, Mr. Murdoch; Harp solo, 
Mrs. Lawton ; "The Chariot Race," from 
"Ben Hur," Mr. Murdoch. Another enter- 
tainment is being arranged for the benefit of 
the same Association. This is a children's 
concert under the direction of Mrs. William 
Sumner. Vocal selections and piano and vio- 
lin music will be contributed by children of 
many of our well-known citizens, while the 
most unique feature will be the performance 
on tuned clappers by a little New Hampshire 
girl. This concert will probably be held some 
time in April. 

There was a general handshaking among 
the members of Piedmont choir, after the 
morning service, last Sunday. As there was 
no evening service, the choir sang in the morn- 
ing for the last time, and after the dismissal, 
many members of the congregation stopped to 
speak with the members of the retiring quar- 
tet, while the members of the chorus also gave 
evidence of their regret at the change. 



Mr. William Ludwig, the celebrated bari- 
tone, who is to sing at the Handel and Haydn 
anniversary at Boston, tomorrow night, spent 
Monday night and Tuesday in Worcester, 
stopping over to call on friends. He was the 
guest of Mr. Ben T. Hammond during his 
stay. Worcester would be glad to hear Mr. 
Ludwig at the Festival again this fall. 



Mr. Charles S. Park gave a very enjoyable 
whist party at his home, 67 Providence street, 
Thursday night. There were four tables and 
the lucky ones were Sergt. J. T. Johnson, who 
took first prize for the gentlemen, and Mrs. 
Hattie Gray, who took first prize for. ladies. 
Mr. M. R. Shattuck secured the booby in the 
shape of a huge leather medal, and Mrs. Henry 
Holland took the ladies' booby. Refresh- 
ments were served and the party broke up at 
midnight. The party meets every week. 



The new residence of Mr. George Sessions, 
on Woodland street, was the scene of a pro- 
gressive whist party Friday evening, 28th, 
which proved a very delightful affair. Eight 
tables were filled. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. 
Warren, assisted by Miss Laura J. Sessions, 
entertained a few friends, among whom were : 
Hon. and Mrs. Francis A. Harrington, Gen. 
and Mrs. Robert H. Chamberlain, Capt. and 
Mrs. George L. Allen, Alderman and Mrs. A. 
Frank Gates, Lieut, and Mrs. Fred G. Davis, 
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Banfield, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles H. Woodcock, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. 
Kendrick, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo E. Sessions, 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Sessions, the Misses 
L. C. and L. H. Thompson, Miss F. A. Gose, 



Miss H. J. Bacon, Mr. E. P. Pevey, Mr. 
George A. Kendrick and Mr. P. L. Rider. 
The prizes were won as follows : First prize to 
lady, Mrs. W. E. Banfield ; first prize to gentle- 
man, Mr. George A. Kendrick ; booby to lady, 
Mrs. E. H. Kendrick, booby to Gentleman, 
Mr. George Sessions. 



A handsome cup-vase is exhibited in Hol- 
land & Havener's Main street window. It is 
of silver, garnished with gold, and cost $150. 
It is offered by the citizens of Millbury, 
for the best two-in-three annual bicycle races, 
in eight mile contests. Mr. Charles A. Ben- 
son, of Worcester, won the first contest, last 
season, and will enter the race in the May 
or June contest. 

Of Coming Things. 

Sunday, April 6. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. William Carruthers, of 
Holyoke, preaches. 10.30 and 7. Full Easter service. 

Monday, April 7. 

Main Street Baptist Church.— Union meeting 
of the Young Peoples Societies of Christian Endeavor. 
6 p. M. 

Pilgrim Hall.— South Unitarian society. Easter 
sale. Evening. 

Tuesday, April 8. 

Association Hall.— Readings under Y. W. C. A. 
auspices, by Prof. James E. Murdoch. 8 P. m. 

Y. M. C. A. Parlors. — Eleventh annual meeting and 
dinner of the Amherst Alumni Association of Central 
Massachusetts. 3 p. m. 

First Universalist Church.— Annual meeting of 
the Chapin club. 7.30 p. m. 

Washburn Hall.— Worcester County Mechanics 
Association ; annual meeting. 7.30 p. m. 

Art Students Club Rooms.— Lecture by Prof. 
Edward S. Morse, on " Japanese Art Handwork," before 
the Worcester Art Society. 7.45 p. m. 

Salem Street Church.— Turkey supper, served 
by the ladies. Evening. 

Wednesday, April 9. 

Insurance Hall.— Private dance party. Evening. 
Grand Army Hall.— Encampment of Woman's Re- 
lief Corps No. II. 2.30 and 7.30 p. m. 

Thursday, April 10. 

Pilgrim H.all.— Annual apron sale, 3 p. m., and en- 
tertainment, evening. 

Saint Matthews Hall.— St Matthews Ladies Par- 
ish .Aid society ; entertainment. 8 p. m. 

Friday, April 11. 

Mechanics Hall.— Fan drill and entertainment. 
7.45 p. m. 

Residence of Rev. I. J. Lansing, Lincoln 
Street.— Tea, and Parlor concert under W. C. T. U. 
auspices. Business at 4 ; tea at 5.30 ; entertainment at 
8 p. m. 

Monday, April 14. 

Skating Rink.— Baby Show, i to 10 p. m. Through- 
out the week. 

Horticuitural Hall.— Becker's Business Men's 
Jubilee. Repeated by special request. 7.45 p. m. 

Tuesday, April 15. 

Association Hall.— Festival chorus rehearsal. 7.30 
p. m. 

Wednesday, April 16. 
Mech.\nics Hall. — Gilmore's band and soloists. 
2.30 and 7.45 p.m. 

Monday, April 28. 

Mech.\nics Hall. — Primrose and West's Minstrels, 
with Lew Dockstater. 7.45 p. m. 

Friday, May 2. 

Horticultural Hall. — Complimentary promenade 
concert and ball, for benefit of Natives of Maine organ- 
i2ation. Evening. 



Smile or Not. 

A Coming Miser. 

A Sunday-school teacher asked her scholars 
to each learn a verse to recite when they 
dropped in their pennies at the next missionary 
meeting, appropriate for the occasion. 

They all came prepared tlie ne.xt Sabbath, 
and the first little fellow as he dropped in his 
offering, said, " Blessed is he that considereth 
the poor." 

The second repeated, " He thatgiveth to the 
poor lendeth to the Lord." 

The teacher was delighted, and as the third 
a very little boy, went forward, she whispered 
in his ear, " Now speak out loudly, Johnnie." 

Johnnie, reluctantly dropping his money in 
the box, lisped, " The fool and hith money ith 
thoon parted." 
She Couldn't Play. 

Hostess : — Won't you please play something 
for us, dear Miss Swindle ? 

Miss Swindle ; — Oh, I cannot, really, I'm so 
horridly out of practice. 

Hostess : — Oh, Miss Swindle ! When you 
always play so beautifully at any time ! 

Miss Swindle: — I ? I play beautifully, when 
I really don't pretend to be anything more 
than an amateur .' I only wish I could play. 

First Guest; — Do play. Miss Swindle. 

Second Cruest ; — Oh, do. 

Third Guest :— Please do. Miss Swindle. 
I've heard so much about your exquisite play- 
ing, and have always wanted to hear you. 

Miss Swindle : — Oh, thank you ! But 1 really 
am quite out of practice, and 1 simply play a 
little for my own amusement. 

Guests (in chorus) : — O-o-o-o, Miss Swindle ! 

Miss Swindle : — Really, 1 don't pretend to 
play well. 

Fourth Guest : — Do, please, play something 
for us. Let me escort you to the piano. 

Miss Swindle (reluctantly): — Well, if I must, 
1 must, 1 suppose ; but I shall play horridly, 
and 1 really don't know of a thing to play, 
anyhow. 

Hostess (to her husband an hour later) : — 
We really must do or say something to get 
that stupid Miss Swindle away from the piano 
She's played six long pieces now and is begin- 
ning on the seventh, and heaven only knows 
when she'll stop. Everybody's either yawning 
or giggling. I don't know what ever made 
me so stupid as to ask her to play, anyhow ! 
— Domestic Monthly. 



Central District Lodge, 1. O. G. T., held its 
annual meeting at Curtis hail, on Fast Day, 
and had a very interesting session. The fol- 
lowing officers were elected : D. G. T., H. 
A. Maynard, Shrewsbury; D. C, A. P. Ham- 
lett, Clinton ; superintendent of juvenile tem- 
plars, Susan A. Newcomb of Worcester ; V. T., 
Mary E. Lovejoy of Worcester ; district secre- 
tary, W. C. Southwick of Millbury; district 
treasurer, William Dowe of Bolton ; district 
chaplain, H. L. Keyes, Clinton ; district mar- 
shal, F. H. Atwood, Northboro; guard, J. Q. 
Mellen of Winchendon ; sentinel, Fred Ga- 
mache of Millbury; deputy marshal. Bertha 
Higgins of Worcester; finance committee, 
George Buck of Shrewsbury, Charles E. Love- 
!oy of Worcester, George W. Marble of Mill- 
bury. The next quarterly gathering will be 
held at Clinton in July. 



About Cooking. 

Plain Rice Croquettes. 

Put one cup of rice into a kettle with a pint 
of milk and a pint of water, cook slowly until 
the rice entirely absorbs the liquid. Season 
with salt, pepper, and a little onion juice, turn 
out to cool. When cold form into cylinders, 
dip egg and bread crumbs and fry in hot suet. 
Lyonnaise Potatoes. 

Twelve potatoes boiled till nearly done ; 
when cold, slice or cut into dice. Chop fine 
one onion. Put a tablespoonful of butter in 
the skillet ; put in the onion and let it fry two 
minutes. Add the potato dice. .Stir constant- 
ly and fry five minutes. Just before taking up 
add salt and pepper to taste. 
Quick Loaf Cake. 

Beat two eggs with two cupfuls of sugar, 
one of butter and one of milk; add two cupfuls 
of raisins, half a cupful of shredded citron, 
four cupfuls of Hour sifted with two teaspoon- 
fuls of cream tartar, and one teaspoonful of 
soda dissolved in a very little hot water. Bake 
at once. 
Hard Gingerbread. 

One teacupful of molasses or a half-cup each 
of molasses and sugar, three tablespoonfuls 
shortening, two tablespoonfuls water, warmed 
if butter is very hard, one teaspoonful each of 
ginger and soda, 'a little salt, flour to make a 
dough stiff enough to roll in flat cakes the size 
of the baking pan. 
Coffee Cake. 

One cup of strong coffee, one cup of lard 
and butter (mixed), two-thirds cup of molasses, 
two-thirds cup of brown sugar, two eggs, one 
teaspoonful each of pepper, cloves and soda, 
one cupful of raisins ; add from two to three 
cups of flour. After baking, wrap in a cloth 
to prevent the aroma from escaping. 
Muffins. 

Scald one pint of milk, take it from the fire, 
add four ounces of butter, and when lukewarm 
add a half-cup of yeast, or a half yeast cake 
dissolved. When the butter is melted add a 
teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of sugar and 
lYz pints of sifted flour. Beat thoroughly, 
cover, and stand in a warm place until very 
light. Bake the same as Yorkshire muffins. 
Potato Salad. 

Two well-beaten eggs, three teaspoonfuls 
mixed mustard, two of salt, three tablespoon- 
fuls each of sugar and olive oil, or butter, one 
dessertspoonful of flour ; mix well, pour into a 
teacupful of boiling vinegar, let it cook until 
it thickens, stirring constantly, then pour it 
over two quarts of cold boiled potatoes, 
chopped with two onions ; salt to taste. 
Banana Fritters. 

Sift a light pint of flour, take from it a light 
pint; sift two or three times with one tea- 
spoonful of cream tartar and one-half tea- 
spoonful of soda. To this add a saltspoonful 
of salt, two eggs whipped verj' light, two table- 
spoonfuls of sugar and three-fourths of a cup 
of rich milk. Rub through the flour first a 
dessertspoonful of butter. Beat all to a 
smooth, light batter. Slice bananas into four 
lengthwise strips, dip each slice into the bat- 
ter and fry a golden brown. 



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About Folks. 



Mr. Charles J. Dyer's singing of "Palm 
Branchet," by Fanre, was an excellent feature 
of the music at Central church, last Sunday 
evening. Mr. Dyer heard the composition 
sung by the composer in Paris, last year, and 
was thus well prepared to interpret the song as 
its composer intended. 



The young people of the city look forward 
to no fixture of the social year with more 
eagerness than to Mrs. Jennie Abbott 
Mattoon's annual reception to her dancing 
pupils. The fourth of these, which was given 
at Horticultural Hall, a week ago last night, 
was no less delightful than those of previous 
years. Mrs. Mattoon has established an 
enviable reputation and has given to this exhi- 
bition of her pupils' progress an interest 
shared by parents and younger folks alike. 
It was a very pretty affair. Little people, full 
of the buoyancy of childhood, restrained 
themselves that they might take their steps 
with proper dignity, and the young ladies and 
gentlemen, with a grace which skillful training 
had given them, moved through the dances in 
a way very pleasant to see. Every inch of 
space available for spectators was of course 
crowded. Putnam's orchestra furnished music 
for the occasion, and as early as 7 o'clock, or 
a very little after, the grand march began. 
It was headed by Miss Alice Hodgkins and 
Master Frank Whittemore, the two smallest 
pupils in the school, and following them came 
Misses Mary C. Swan, Edith Loring, Hattie 
Cobb, Susie Hartwell, Maud A. Parker, Mamie 
Fisher, Julia Davenport, Grace Manning, 
Marion Forehand, Alice Pierce, Mattie 
Hodgkins, Edith Stockwell, Florence Shaffer, 
Bessie Stockwell, Ethel Curtis, Grace Kendall, 
Emma Prentice, Winifred Nichols, Helen 
Kendrick, Lilla Tiemeyer, Ida Smith, Edith 
Armington, Ella Stevens, Dottie Prentice, 
Alice C. Brown, Jessie Nichols, Daisy 
Babbitt, Hattie Ruggles, May Eddy, Hattie 
Bruce, Carrie Hale, Lottie Taft, Carrie 
Smith, May Mellor, May Lytle, Fannie 
Perkins, Lucy Witherby, Marie Webb, Jennie 
Webb, Sophie Draper, Libbie Draper, Mollie 
Myrick, Effie Adams, Ethel Phelps, Cora 
Midgley, Ida Bowen, Lilla Belle Allen, Edith 
Boyden, Maud Willard, Ida Duke, Bertha 
Welch, Misses Hall, Mes.senger, Hall, Morgan, 
Mrs. Joseph B. Garland, Messrs. Joseph B. 
Garland, George A. Lackey, E. H. Wilson, 
Benjamin H. Beaumont, Arthur C. Comins, 
George W. Eddy, James Mellor, Lawrence P. 
Greenman, A. Otis Davis, Fred H. Daniels, 
G. Stewart Dickinson, Fred Manning, Charles 
Webb, Edward Garland, Bayard Woodford, 
David Casares, Thane Boyden, Willis Rice, 
Fred Curtis, Fred Goddard, Clarence God- 
dard, Will Hamilton, Henry J. Kettell, Frank 
Stoddard, George E. Ryan, George K. Clark, 
Charles Manning, Fred E. Gorham, Frank 
Whittemore, Harry Hastings, John Wash- 
burn, William Wellington, and others, and 
there was also a number of Highland cadets, 
as follows : First sergeant W. N. Briggs, 
Corporals Frank Brown, S. H. Learned. N. G. 
Van Voorkis, W. R. Sargent, Rinaldo Phelps, 
Cadets Noyes, Merriam, Orth, Sprague, 



Iv I (i M T 

Gamboa, McCame, Gates, Sherman, Maurs, 
Arjoria, Potter, Raynolds and R?mirez. After 
the grand march came the lanciers, then a 
waltz, and then the highland fling was danced 
by some of the youngest pupils, including 
Misses Winnie Nichols and Mollie Miricki 
Master Frank Whittemore and Alice Hodg- 
kins, Misses Lilla Belle Allen and Maud 
Willard. Then came a schottische, and a 
tambourine dance, by Misses Ethel Curtis, 
Lilla Belle Allen and Ethel Phelps : a court 
quadrille next; a Berlin polka; then the 
cachucha, danced by the same misses who 
gave the tambourine dance, and Miss May 
Lytle with castenets; then a york, then a 
minuet, by Misses Ethel Curtis and Ethel 
Phelps in court costume; rock-a-bye baby, by 
Miss Alice Pierce, who ended by soundly 
spanking the " bady ;" a waltz by the second 
division ; an octagon quadrille ; a scarf dance 
by 16 misses, Miss Ethel Curtis leading; the 
sailor's hornpipe, by Master Frank Whitte- 
more and Lilla Belle Allen; Highlanders, by 
Messrs. George Clark and A. L. Greenman : 
the cracovienne, by Miss Lilla Belle Allen; and 
the last was the Tyrolean dance, by Misses 
Ethel Curtis, Ethel Phelps, Mollie Mirick, 
Marion Forehand, Winnie Nichols, Maud 
Willard, Alice Hodgkins, Mattie Hodgkins, 
May Lytle, Lilla Belle Allen. The spectacle 
presented was a very pretty one, and when the 
floor was cleared for dancing, at 10 o'clock, 
there were many warm praises for Mrs. Mat- 
toon and her pupils. Messrs. George P. Mat- 
toon, William E. Fairbanks and Charles A. 
Williams acted as floor managers. Among 
those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Moore, 
the veteran dancing master and his wife, and 
others were Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Gorham, 
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Washburn, Mrs. Anna 
Allen, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lytle, Mr. and 
Mrs. A. F. Prentice, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
Piper, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pierce, Mr. and 
Mrs. Henry S. Pratt, Misses Alice G. Draper, 
Eflie B. Draper, Lisette M. Draper, Villroy 
Goulding, Nellie Fairbanks, Jessie Morse, 
Sadie Hill, Miriam Gray, Marion Howard, of 
Beloit, Wis., Alice and Florence Buckingham, 
Mabel Pierce, Maud Shaffer, Bertha Bigelow, 
Bessie Pelton, Fanny A. Hair, Belle Hariss, 
Nettie Strauss, Edith Taylor, Lizzie Prentice, 
Mabel Blanchard, Alice Day, Kittie Black, 
Mrs. George A. Park, Mrs. H. H. Gabeler, 
Mrs. John Watson, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Booth, 
Mrs. John P. Grover, Mrs. F. H. Pelton, Mr. 
and Mrs. G. W. Aldrich, Mrs. Freeman Brown, 
Mrs. E. S. Pierce, Mrs. George E. Fairbanks, 
Messrs. Lee Hastings, George Kendall, 
Charles M. Harrington, E. L. Keyes, George 
Tower, Frank W. Washburn, F. H. Goddard, 
A. J. Daniels, Frank A. Clark, Eugene Bel- 
knap, Fred Whittemore, James Woodford, 
Eben Francis Thompson, Frank A. Richard- 
son, Harry L. Dadmun, George F. Wall, 
Addison L. Bemis, Frank B. Hall, John Nel- 
son, Frederic Howard, L. C. Havener, T. 
Hey wood Blood, E. H. Russell, E. W. Kins- 
ley, John Ried, A. B. Southwick, Dr. J. Mar- 
cus Rice, Fred A. Bigelow, Dr. Frank H. 
Howland, and Will W. Carter. It was a large 
crowd and the fact that the hall accomodations 
were insufficient goes to show that Mrs. Mat- 
toon's receptions have become more popular 
than ever. She ought to have the next one in 
Mechanics hall. 



FANCY DRILLS * 

* AND CONCERT ! 

A fancy drill and concert will be held in ^M 

MECHANICS HALL, 

Friday Evening, April 11, 1890. 

The program is as follows : — 
FAN DRILL, by i6 young ladies in costume. 
AVILLIE WINDLK, in his trick bicycle riding. 
THE AKLINGTON QUINTET, in banjo selections. 
BAYONET DRILL, by a squad from the City guards. 
CLUB SWINGING, by Prof. Havener. 
SONGS by Tom Walters, Jr. 
FREDERIC HOWARD, baritone. 
MUSIC will be furnished by the Elberon Orchestral club. 
SABKE DRILL, by a squad from Battery B. 

Tickets, 25 Cents. Reserved Seats, 35 Cents. 

On sale at Mechanics hall box office, Monday, April 
7, at 10 o'clock a. m., afterwards at Putnam, Davis & 
Co.'s, No. 3S9 Main Street. 



^^WORCESTER SKATING RINK* 



One Week C 



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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 

Continuing every afternoon and evening during the 
week, from i p. m. to 10 p. M. The Boston Exhibition 
Exchange has the pleasure to announce a grand 

NEW ENGLAND 

(Open to all New England Babies.) 



(To Enter the Contest.) 
FOR THE FOLLOAVING VALUABLE FRIZES : 

To the handsomest baby, #50 in gold. 

To the largest baby (for its age), diamond ring valued 

at $50. 
To the smallest baby (for its age), baby buggy valued 

at ^30 
To the homeliest baby (under one year) , beautiful baby 

cloak valued at J20. 
To the prettiest twins (under one year), each a diamond 

ring valued at J25 each. 
To the largest twins (under one year), a twin baby car- 
riage valued at $30. 
To the handsomest triplets, JS50 in gold. 
To the largest triplets (under one year), each a diamond 

ring valued at $20 each. 
To the nandsomest quadriplets, $100 in gold. 
To the most wonderful (freak baby), a beautiful baby 

wardrobe valued at $40. 
fC^^ Remember, the above prizes will be given away 
in a fair and impartial manner, viz.: Each person upon 
entering the Kink receives a coupon, naming the diner- 
ent classes of babies that prizes are to be given to, with 
blank space opposite. Each chair occupied by baby, 
mother or nurse will be numbered. Parties holding 
coupons will select babies they consider most deserving 
to receive prize, and number coupon accordingly, which 
they will deposit in a sealed box arranged for the pur- 
pose prior to leaving the Rink. '1 he votes will be 
counted by a committee on Saturday evening, April 19, 
1890. Each class receiving the largest number of votes 
will receive prizes as per the above. 

(E^^^Parents desiring to have their children appear in 
this "most novel exhibition" address or call Wednesday, 
Thursday or Friday, April gth, loth and nth, 1890, from 
10 A. M. to 6 P. M., and confer with Manager of Baby 
Show Burnside BuildingL339 Main street, Room 8, first 
floor, Worcester, Mass. Take elevator. 



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CARD. 



It is, we think, generally well known that in our old store, on Tremont street, we were large dealers 
in Lace Curtains. On moving to our present quarters we were (on account of adding new departments,) 
unable to make room for the Draperies — much to our regret. We have finally, by storing our surplus 
stock of general merchandise outside our premises, made ample room in our basement for the resuming of 
this department. 



We offer the public looo Damask 
Lunch Cloths, colored borders: — 
2 yards square, $i-75 

2X2 1-2 yards, 2.00 

2x3 yards, 2.25 

Former prices $2.50, $3 and $3.50. 
These cloths have all the new and 
delicate shades, and the fringes 
are knotted. 




Notice carefully the bargains we 
offer below: — 

Colored Bordered Lunch Sets 
(Cloth and one dozen D'Oyleys), 
$4.75 per set, formerly sold for 

$7-50- 

The cloths are all 2 1-2 yards in 

length. 

White Damask Hem Stitched 
sets, $8.75, formerly $15. 

White Damask Hem Stitched 
sets. Hand Open-worked, $14, for- 
merly $25. 



At great expense we have secured the services of Miss S. R. Hall to take charge of our new art 
parlor April 15. This lady is so well known to our fine class of trade, that we think further comments 
are needless. 



ALL MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER * 
Temple Place, Boston. 



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Special attention given to repairing after the original design. 
Also old books and pamphlets bought. 

53 LINCOLN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. 




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Steam Boiler Insurance, 

492 Main Street, Clark's Block, Worcester. 



All Classes of Property Insured in the ISost 

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Worcester. 




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the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
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Fashionable Hat, 
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& Athletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 




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By permission we refer to any of the above gentlemen. 

Send for circulars containing description of property and full particulars, mchi 3m 




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MAIN AND E.XCHANGE STS., 

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it was org:anized to do business, not to force its 
stock upon the market. 



Investments 

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(Hon. James Gilfillan, Ex-Treasurer of the 
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The company owns the richest gold lands in 
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full information which cannot be crowded 
into this brief advertisement. 
GEN. BENJAMIN F. BUTI-EK, President. 

JAMES GILFIL1..\N, Treasurer, 



Hotel and Tourists' Bureau. 



LIGHT has established a Hotel and Tourists' Bureau for 
the convenience of the people in and about "The Heart of the 
Commonwealth," where is carried on file the time-tables of rail- 
road and steanship lines, plans of steamship cabins and of ho- 
tels, descriptive matter concerning summer and winter resorts, 
transportation lines, excursions, and of the leading hotels. 
LIGHT makes no charge for giving this information, and offers 
the free use of this department to the public. 



339 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



8 CONGRESS ST., 



Boston, Mass. 



FOR SALE. 

ECHO LAKE HOTEL, 

Tyson, Vermont. 

Located in the centre of a beautiful chain of lakes, in a 
picturesque valley of the Green Mountains. Lovely 
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altitudes. Will accommodate 100 guests. For further 
particulars address A. F. Hubbard, Proprietor. 



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6.30. Supper, 25 cents ; chowder 15 cents. 



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4-THE QUEEN CITY OF THE SOUTHWEST -f 



Gateway to the great state of Texas. 



The City of Denison offers great advantages to the investor, and liberal inducements 
to those manufacturers desiring to locate in the Southwest. 

Complete Railroad Facilities and Rapid Transportation to all points. 

Climate not excelled by that of Italy. 

Unlimited supply of pure Freestone Water. 

Lighted by Electricity. Eleven miles of Street Railway in operation. 

Free Schools and Churches of every denomination. 

City is regularly and beautifully laid out. Streets and avenues 70 to 100 feet wide. 

Cheap Fuel in abundance, for either Manufacturing or Family Use. 



CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED 

BY THE 

Denison Land and Investment Co., 

Denison, Xexas. 
Paid-Up Capital - - - $1,200,000. 



OFFICERS: 

W. P. RICE, President, 

MILTON H. FRENCH, Yice-Pres. and Gen. Man. 

ARTHUR L. BERRY, Secretary and Treasarer. 



W. p. RICE, 

Kansas City, Mo. 
J. M. FORD, 

Kansas City, Mo. 
A. R COLLINS, 

Denison, Texas. 



DIRECTORS: 

B. J. DERBY, 

Burlington, Vermont. 
PAUL LANG, 

Oxford, N. H. 
M. V. B. CHASE, 

Augusta, Maine. 



MILTON H. FRENCH, 
Thomaston, Maine. 

A. H. COFFIN, 

Denison, Texas. 

JOS. B. LINCOLN, 
Boston, Mass. 



Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
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latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



339 Main St. Burnside Building. 

THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO., 

of Hartford, Conn. 

JUSTUS E. ALLEN, AGENT. 



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A Representative Veteran of the Civil War. 



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A NEW EDIT10N.^DE LUXE OF 

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Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., 'SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1S90. 



No. 7. 



Worcester is a great city for atliletics. All 
out-doors is tlie play ground of its men and 
women of all ages. The winter gymnasium is 
giving place to the ball-field, the tennis-court, 
and other fields of exercise. Fashion, years 
ago, removed the only barrier that kept 
woman from exercising in the open air. To-day, 
girls accompany their brothers, and other 
girls' brothers, through almost the whole cata- 
logue of athletic sports. The girl-tennis-player 
is as expert as her brother; the fair equestrian 
can jump as broad a ditch as the male escort 
at her side ; the row boat holds as many girls 
as boys ; and were the sexes matched in con- 
test one would be as likely to win as the other. 
Athletic sports may be carried to dangerous 
e.xtremes, as they so often are, but the common 
modes of e.xercising, like horse-back riding, 
tennis, cycling, club-swinging, and dumb-bell 
exercise, never do anyone any harm, and are 
doing much to make the race healthier, 
stronger and better spirited. The strength of 
Worcester, tomorrow, depends upon the health 
of Worcester, to-day. 



These are the days of colds, chills, and 
pneumonia. The d.iys alternate hot and cold, 
and poor mercury becomes demoralized in try- 
ing to register the changes. The casting off 
of clothing is very liable to assist in reducing 
the population. It is better to perspire in over- 
clothing than to shake between blankets in 
bed. One can hardly be too careful in this 
April weather. 

No one belives in innocent amusement for 
boys more than does Light; still it is sug- 
gested that it would be just as well, if the five 
hundred, or less, boys of Worcester would not 
go a-gunning for birds and cats along the pul> 
lie streets and highways. The little birds and 
independent cats are in no particular danger, 
but the balls in missing the mark might chance 
to interfere with the comfort of those pedes- 
trians not travelling in mail and armor. The 
spring-gun is nearly as dangerous as is the 
cartridge rifle, and neither should be permitted 
upon public property, by the authorities, nor 
in the back yard, by the parents, for rifle-balls 
are no respecters of fences nor other boundry 
lines. 

Mr. G. W. Smalley, who is generally 
credited with knowing what he is talking about, 
in a recent letter to the New York Trihtiiu; 
calls the attention of Americans to an ap- 
peared-to-be-forgotten characteristic in the 
character of the late reigning Bismarck — 
his loyal friendship to the Father Land. 
"He kept Prussia," says Mr. Smalley, '■benev- 
olently neutral when Napoleon tried to 
organize a European cabal in favor of the 
Southern Confederacy. But for Prince Bis- 
marck in Germany, and Disraeli in England, 
that perfidious scheme might have succeeded. 
"I never would listen to it,' said Prince Bis- 
marck. "When the Emperor asked my 
counsel, I set my face against it as an act of 
enmity to the United States, and I had only 



to remind the king that friendship with tlie 
LInited States was a policy traditional with 
Prussia from the day of Frederick the Great." 
In lesser matters he was equally staunch. 
He renounced and rebuked his own officer in 
Samoa sooner than tolerate acts leading to a 
possible quarrel with the United States, ,and 
his hand is visible through the .Samoan 
Treaty, a hand then, as ever, outstretched in 
cordial good-will to America and Americans." 
Intelligent .'\mericans appear to be divided in 
their opinion of the late greatest minister. It 
is, however, universally acknowledged that 
Bismarck is a man of prodigious intellect, 
coupled with an iron will, which never under- 
did anything, and frequently, by its .sheer 
strength, was too heroic in its method. Bis- 
marck is as much of a statesman as was 
Molthe a soldier. The retirement of Molthe 
hardly made a ripple outside of diplomatic 
circles. The .stepping down of Bismarck has 
shaken the nations, and the former giant is 
being discussed in hall, palace and cottage. 
Tyrannical as he was in his judgment of 
judgment, he has carved out for posterity a 
model of iron will, and an example of the 
severest of executive execution. 



Among the grand sayings of lightning brill- 
iancy which shot from out the homely mouth 
of Lincoln, there is none more uniquely true 
than that which says: "You may fool all the 
people a part of the time, or a part of the peo- 
ple all the time, but you can't fool all the peo- 
ple all the time." There is a moral here which 
perhaps can be studied with profit, even in 
Worcester county. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie, under the title of 
"The Gospel of Wealth," has contributed to 
the North American Revie-w a paper which 
is creating much interest among thoughtful 
people. The writer holds "that the accumula- 
tion of wealth for future generations is wrong ; 
that every man should be his own executor be- 
fore he dies ; and that it is his duty to dispose 
of his property, beyond a competence which 
should go to his children, to be used for the 
best interests of society at large." That a 
man has a rigat to do with his property as he 
sees fit before he dies, and to dispose of it by 
will after he dies, admits of no legal argument. 
There are few cases upon record, however, 
where the relatives are satisfied with the pro- 
visions of a will, and there are equally few 
cases recorded where the charitable societies 
of any town have had many good words to 
.say, except those societies which have been 
favored by the bequests, about the generous 
man who left his money to one or a few of 
them. It is accepted that no man can dispo.se 
of his property in the prospective as well as he 
can in the present and living There is no rea- 
son why a good and generous man should not 
have the gratification of knowing that he is 
beloved by his fellow men for generous deeds 
this side of the grave. It may require little 
noble sacrifice to leave property, but it requires 



a great deal to give it. There is room for 
benevolence outside of giving to benevolent 
bodies. Many a man has, by starting a young- 
er man in busines.s, or by aiding him in it, re- 
ceived the blessings of a whole family, and 
spre.ad his philanthropy over ground which he 
could not touch himself. There is a deal of 
post mortem philanthropy. It is far better 
that way than not at all. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes makes this cold- 
blooded proposition in the Atlantic: "I think 
you will smile if I tell you of an idea 1 have 
had about teaching the art of writing 'poems' 
to the half-witted children at the idiot asylum." 
Editors have been laboring under the impres- 
sion that the Autocrat's "idea" was carried 
into effect years ago, with the possible excep- 
tion of the a.sylum part of it. 



The embezzlement of the funds of the 
Peoples' Savings Bank has set local tongues 
agog, and resurrected the antique " told you 
so," and " now who can you trust," which 
meaningless nothings are floating promis- 
cuously through the air. The facts are 
simply these : he was a trusted employee — all 
responsible employees are trusted — he had a 
chance to steal, and he stole ; he did what 
thousands have done before him, and what 
thousands may do after him. There may 
have been some heavy temptation resting 
upon him. The inside history of crime is 
seldom accurately painted in printer's ink. 
Extenuating circumstances may have been 
many, and there may have been no extenuating 
circumstances. Perhaps his alleged frequent 
visits to the bucket shops, and his rather over- 
love of sport, had something to do with his 
downfall. The Peoples' Savings Bank 
managers are not to be criticized. They took 
all the precautions they could have taken, and 
what has happened to them could have hap- 
pened to any bank in Worcester. .Morbid 
morality may attempt to draw^ a lesson, but 
there is little to be learned in this case. He 
was a thief, has been found out, and will be 
punished if they can get him, and it is just as 
well to here leave the matter in the hands of 
the proper authorities, and forget what he has 
done, beyond tendering a tender sympathy 
for those he has deserted and injured. 



The statement, app.arently backed by fact, 
that Zola has received $100,000 from the sale 
of one of his most unliterary and impure 
novels, is a blow to those writers who are 
laboring to elevate literature and improve the 
reading tone. Before criticising the morals 
of Zola, let it be remembered that popular 
taste has much to do in shaping novelism. 
The reading people need elevating far more 
than does Emile Zola. 



In three we^ks the census-taker will per- 
ambulate from house to house, asking about 
births and ages, while an unkind law makes 
the penalty thirty dollars for incorrectly re- 
porting the ages, ladies not e.Kcepted. 




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A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



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Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopa;dia. 



Worcester, Saturday, April 12, 1890. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



April 12: Sun rises at 5.08 a.m.; sets at 
6.23 P. M. Length of day, 13 hours, 15 minutes. 
Moon, last quarter, April 12th., 5 hours, 53 
minutes, morning, E. 



Mayor Harrington and Ex-Mayor Winslow 
attended the meeting of the Mayors' club, at 
Boston, last Saturday. 



The rhetorical exercises at the High School, 
last Thursday, had unusual interest. Charles 
Baker, Jr., read an essay on "Patriotism: 
Our Duty to it;" Louis Friedman gave a 
recitation in Hebrew of the 23d Psalm; and 
Miss Lizette M. Draper read an essay on 
"The Reward of Learning." All the pupils 
participating are seniors. 



Messrs. Frank A. Leland and Mowry A. 
Lapham cabled home, Wednesday, that they 
had airived safely at Queenstown. The Teu- 
tonic, on which they were passengers, broke 
her record on the trip, making it in a shorter 
time by two hours than on any previous oc- 
casion. 



Mr. C. A. Gray, teacher of the history class 
at the Boys' Club, during the winter, has 
resigned his position and last Saturday even- 
ing invited about twenty-five of the boys to 
Rebboli's, for ice cream. The boys man- 
ifested their regard for Mr. Gray in a series of 
appropriate resolutions. 



A very pretty dancing party was given at 
Insurance Hall last Wednesday evening, un- 
der the direction of Messrs. C. Leslie Cham- 
berlain, Herbert F. Blood and George O. 
Bridges. The dances were arranged in a 
novel way and the affair throughout was dis- 
tinctly different from any dancing party given 



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this winter. Mrs. George E. Fairbanks and 
Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mattoon were the patron- 
esses. Mr. Chamberlain and Miss Dennis led 
the grand march. Mr. Blood led the first half 
of the german, and Mr. Bridges the second 
half. Bicknell's orchestra furnished music 
and Zahonyi served the refreshments. Those 
present were : Messrs. C. Leslie Chamberlain, 
Herbert F. Blood, George O. Bridges, Fred 
E. Wheeler, Frank A. Richardson, Fred A. 
Bigelow, William E. Fairbanks, Henry J. 
Gross, Henry J. Kettell, Charles M. Harring- 
ton, Walter H. Mellen, Hoskison Gates, S. 
Frank Gates, Arthur K. Ross, Foster H. 
Goodwin, Edward B. Fish, Walter H. Hil- 
dreth, Amherst College, Thomas B. Shaw, 
Yale, W. Henry Towne, Harry W. Van 
Hoosear, Lud C. Havener, Fred D. Sibley, 
G. E. Aldrich, Emil Landry, F. O. Plummer, 
A. B. Southwick, H. P. Bagley, Misses 
Elizabeth W. Dennis, Molly W. Waite, Grace 
L. Crawford, Maud A. Knowlton, Jennie L. 
Ross, Jennie E. Stacy, Alice E. Robbins, 
Mabel S. Chamberlain, Mrs. Harry W. Van 
Hoosear, Cora J. Goodwin, Nellie Fairbanks, 
Winifred C. Quimby, Alice M. Rheutan, 
Bertha Bigelow, Gertrude E. Smith, Villroy 
Goulding, Sadie E. Hetherington, Mamie E. 
Fay, Anna Kennedy, Nettie C. Gates, Lottie 
Taft, Stella H. Plummer, Daisy Babbitt, Nellie 
Armstrong, Bertha J. Brewer. 

Says the Boston Herald: "Six weeks ago 
Mr. Nathaniel C. Fowler. Jr., of Boston, who 
has earned a national reputation for his origi- 
nality in journalism, in connection with his 
partner, started Light, in Worcester, Mass. 
The paper is circulated among the best people 
in Worcester county, and has a circulation 
larger than its publishers expected, even at the 
end of theyear. Mr. F. E. Kennedy of Boston, 
a bright and enerjjetic newspaper business man- 
ager, has purchased Mr. Colburn's interest, and 
has moved to Worcester, in order that he may 
give his whole attention to Light. Worcester 
people may congratulate themselves on having 
such an excellent local paper." 



Wednesday was the 25th anniversary of 
Lee's surrender at Appomatox, an event whose 
importance is perhaps lost sight of, at times, 
by the younger generation. But the students 
at the High School were reminded of it, at 
any rate, for "Old Glory" floated from the 
flagstaff all day, despite the downpour. 



The program to be given at the Gilmore 
afternoon concert, at Mechanics Hall, Wed- 
nesday, is as follows : Overture, "Semiramide," 
Rossini. Piccolo Solo, "Fantaisie Lucrezia," 
Donizetti, Signor de Carlo, Song for Basso, 
"The Mighty Deep," Jude, Mr. Edward 
O'Mahoney. Grand Scene from the Hugue- 
nots, Gilmore's Band. Aria for Soprano, 
"Murmuring Zephyrs," Jensen, Miss Ida 
Klein. Solo for .Saxophone, "Angel's Sere- 
nade," Rossini, Mr. E. A. Lefebre. Valse 
Lente. from the ballet "Naila," Gilmore's 
Band. Song for Tenor, "By the Danube," 
Pressel, Mr. Henri Koeke. Solo for Euphon- 
ium, "Fantaisie La Favorite," Ifartinan, Mr. 
Harry Whittier. Tarantelle Fantastiqe, 
Gilder, Gilmore's Band. Trio for voices from 
Attila, "Ti Sol Quest' Anima," \^erdi, Miss 
Ida Klein, Messrs. Koeke and O'Mahoney. 
Episode Militaire, "The Charge of the Light 



Brigade," Puertier, Gilmore's Band. The 
evening program will include : Overture, 
"Robespierre," Litolff, Gilmore's Band. 
Aria for Tenor, "Original Themes with 
Variations," Raffayolo, Signor Raffayolo. 
Religious Meditation, "Trust in God," Gil- 
more's Band. Scena from Faust for Soprano, 
"Jewel Song," Gounod, Miss Ida Klein. Solo 
for Petit Clarinet, "Hungarian Fantaisie," 
Matzcs, Herr Matus. Symphonic Heroique, 
Schubert, Gilmore's Band. Buffo Aria for 
Nozze de Figaro, "Non Piu Andrai," Mozart, 
Mr. Edward O'Mahoney. Solo for Saxo- 
phone, "The Image of the Rose," Reichardt, 
Mr. E. A. Lefebre, Messrs. Weston, Case, 
Ringer, and Zilm. Concertstueck, Weber, 
Gilmore's Band. Trio for Voices, "Dual 
Volutta," Verdi, Miss Klein, Messrs. Koeke 
and O'Mahoney. Popular Fantaisie, "Le 
Carnival de Venise," Gilmore's Band. 
Descriptive Fantaisie, "A Trip to Manhattan 
Beach," Gilmore's Band. The concerts are 
managed by Mrs. Lillie Wilkinson. 



Dr. James J. Rafferty, Light's amiable 
neighbor in the Burnside building, went to 
Philadelphia Tuesday evening for a brief 
vacation. 



Both Rev. Calvin Stebbins and Rev. Austin 
S. Garver have expressed to Light their re- 
gret at being unable to respond to an invita- 
tion to join with our clergymen in the words of 
farewell to Rev. M. H. Harris, which were 
published in Light of March 22. In Rev. 
Mr. Stebbins' case, a post office delay was the 
cause; and Rev. Mr. Gar\-er was out of 
town. Both have written words of cordial 
approval of Light's review and have ex- 
pressed deep regard for Mr. Harris. 



"The Still Alarm," the scenic melodrama, 
will be given at the new theatre, during the 
week of May 19th. 



Mr. James Logan, of the Logan, Swift & 
Brigham Company, left last Monday for a trip 
to the west. He will visit Cleveland, Chicago, 
Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, spending two or 
three days in each city, and will probably re- 
turn by next Thursday. 



Bishop Ninde, who is presiding over the 
New England Conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, at Boston, has accepted the 
tender of a reception by the Worcester 
Methodist Social L'nion. The date is Mon- 
day evening, April 24, being after Bishop 
Ninde's return from the New England South- 
ern Conference, at Newport, which begins on 
the 15th. The reception will be given at 
Trinity Church, with a banquet, and it is 
hoped that Dr. Emerson Warner, president of 
the local union, will return from his trip to the 
Azores in time to preside at the meeting. It 
will probably be an important gathering. 

Miss Tryphosa Bates, the daughter of Hon. 
Theodore C. Bates, gave a delightful Easter 
cotillion to her young friends in the city, at 
Insurance Hall, last Monday evening. Ideal 
Hall was made a drawing-room for the 
occasion, and the dancing was done in Insur- 
ance Hall. Miss Bates was assisted in receiv- 
ing by Mrs. Theodore C. Bates, Mrs. Dr. 
Sprague of Providence, Miss Woods of 



Boston and Miss Helen White. Tlie yoiing 
gentlemen acting as ushers were Reginald 11. 
and Arthur Washburn, Chetwood Smith, 
Ale.xanderH. Bullock, Edwin Brown, Jr., and 
Alexander Doe. Misses F^dith Blake, Mary 
Adams, Lucy Throop and Mary Eaton distri- 
buted the favors, which were unusually pretty. 
Merrick Lincoln and Miss Bates led the 
cotillion, and those present were: Misses 
Grace Whitman, Caroline Earle, Mabel Davis, 
May Doe, Susan Throop, Louise Wood, 
Anna Colvin, Eleanor Blake, Grace Baldwin, 
Edith Goodell, Mabel Norcross, Rose Lincoln, 
Helen White, Ethel Bartlett, Mary Stone, 
Margaret Harlow, Alice Paine, Katherine 
Lincoln, Emily Eaton, Winifred White, Emily 
Wood, Margaret Marble, Katherine Bent, 
Dorothy Colvin, Katherine Pratt, Helen 
Blacker, Rosamond Mitchell, Fanny Goulding, 
Helen Goulding, Edith Hamilton; Messrs. 
Chandler Bullock, Reginald H. Washburn, 
Lincoln Davis, Chetwood Smith, Earle Brown, 
Merrick Lincoln, Alexander H. Bullock, 
Charles Earle, Randolph Crompton, Alex- 
ander Doe, Arthur Morse, Pelham Lincoln, 
Arthur Washburn, Fred Pratt, Harry Thayer, 
.Albert Warren, Edward Bartol, William S. B. 
Hopkins, Jr., George Throop, Henry Baldwin, 
Preston Player, John Thayer, Edwin Brown, 
Jr., Lyman Bartlett, William Barton, Edward 
Simpson, Everett Throop, Ralph Earle, 
William Hogg, Henry Chamberlin. Zahonyi 
catered. Messrs. J.J. Heren, J. N. and Angelo 
Truda and P. L. Babcock furnished the music. 



Mr. George E. Camp, Worcester Polytech- 
nic Institute, '88, now with the Spalding, 
Jennings & Co., steel works. West Bergen, 
N. J., spent Easter with friends here. 



Mr. Windsor T. White, of the Polytechnic 
Institute, has been south on a short trip, during 
the Easter vacation. 



The great success of the Business Men's 
Jubilee given by the pupils of Becker's Col- 
lege recently, and numerous calls for its 
repetition, have induced the management to 
reproduce it. This entertainment has been uni- 
versally declared one of the most unique and 
original that has been given this season, and 
any who have not seen it have lost a treat. 
It will be repeated Monday evening, April 
14th, at Horticultural Hall. Many new 
houses have been added and a banner drill by 
seventeen young ladies will add greatly to the 
novelty and beauty of the entertainment. 



Misses Bertha R. Houghton and Annie 
Forehand returned to Mt. Holyoke College 
last Tuesday, going up on the noon train with 
a party of Mt. Holyoke students who came 
from Boston and vicinity. 



The young ladies of Miss Kimball's Home 
School have probably been enjoying them- 
selves thoroughly during their Easter vacation, 
which has extended over the past ten days. 
Miss Edna Warren and Miss Sadie L. Sutton 
are at Boston Highlands, the former with 
friends at the Norfolk House and the latter 
with relatives. Miss Fannie Swett and Miss 
Verna Cate are at their homes in Haverhill; 
Miss .'Vnnie Prouty is with her parents in 
Spencer; Miss Florence Burtis is at home in 



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Brooklyn; Miss Millie Finder is at her home 
in Concord, and i\liss Marion Porter is a guest 
of Mi.ss Linder; Miss Margaret Brown is at 
home here in town; and Miss Ethel Emerson 
is at the school. Of the instructors, Mrs. Julia 
Thrall is visiting friends in Bridgeport and 
Miss M. Isabella Goldthwaitc is with her 
people in Boston. The young ladies, and their 
teachers as well, will return to .school and re- 
sume work next Monday. 



Major and Mrs. E. T. Raymond and Capt. 
and Mrs. W. A. (\\\c were guests of the Nor- 
folk Club in Boston, at the club's ''ladies' 
niglit," Friday, the 4th. 



Mr. Charles W. Wilson, the well-known 
engraver, has just completed and has at his 
residence, No. 59 Orange street, a clock, made 
by himself, which is undoubtedly one of the 
most wonderful pieces of mechanism ever pro- 
duced in Worcester. It is a tower clock, fol- 
lowing the design of the " Castle of Cornville," 
in which hung the " Chimes of Normandy," 
and is a very elaborate affair, being four feet 
in height, and representing a great deal of 
skilful work. The case is made of ash and 
black walnut burls, veneered upon live oak, 
and is entirely the work of the fret saw, save 
for the carving of posts and similar parts. 
This portion of the work alone exhibits a de- 
gree of skill and patience as remarkable as it 
is rare. The towers, with slender spires, the 
steps and the entrance gates, the lamp-posts at 
the sides, and, in fact, all the details of the 
original tower, are faithfully reproduced. In 
the center of the main spire is the clock-face, 
black, with gold hands, and in itself giving no 
hint of the marvellous combination of cogs 
and springs and bells behind it. It is but a 
simple matter, however, to penetrate the 
mystery, for on turning the clock about, the 
back is found to be largely made up of glass, 
securely framed, affording an unobstructed 
view of the works. Mr. Wilson very cour- 
teou.sly entertained a member of Light's 
staff, a day or two ago, with an exhibition and 
explanation of the workings of the clock. 
The clock itself is a Seth Thomas eight-day 
movement, and to it Mr. Wilson has applied 
various levers and cogs for the accomplish- 
ment of his plan. On the hour the number is 
struck on a gong which gives forth a beauti- 
ful tone ; at the ciuarter a single stroke sounds 
on a bell in the upper tower. At the half 
hour there is a single stroke on the gong, then 
a music bo.x plays a tune, and a repeater strikes 
the number of the hour then last past. At 
the half hour, also, the clock completes a cir- 
cuit on a wire which lights a tiny incandescent 
light hung over the gateway in front of the 
clock. The effect is novel and amusing. The 
little globe is hardly as large as the end of a 
lead pencil, but it makes a perfect incandes- 
cent light, and the circuit is closed for about a 
minute and a half. At the three-quarter hour, 
a chime of three bells, tuned in C, E and G, 
gives a beautiful sound. Reference has been 
made to the music box. This is set in the 
bottom of the box, the chime being above and 
at the top the clock movement. The music 
box plays six tunes, the grand march from 
"Faust," "Nancy Lee," a "Mikado" selec- 
tion, "Chimes of Normandy," "Kathleen 
Mavourneen" and " Blue Danube," waltz, one 



at every half hour. Looking tlirougli the 
gla.ss at the back of the clock, the works pre- 
sent a curious and interesting sight. It is 
apjiarent even to one unfamiliar with work of 
this sort that the skill required to regulate all 
this mechanism mu.st be marvellous, saying 
nothing of patience. Mr. Wilson did all the 
work himself, except the making of the clock 
movement and the music box. He had the 
case finished over two years ago, and has since 
been arranging the works. He made the clock 
for his own gratification, and has no desire to 
sell it, although it must have a value of several 
hundred dollars. Tlie clock will not be placed 
on exhibition, but Mr. Wilson very kindly 
states that he will show it and explain its work- 
ings to anyone who cares to call at his resi- 
dence, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of 
next week, between 7 and 8 I'. M. The clock 
occupies a place on a shelf in Mr. Wilson's 
parlor, the battery furnishing the current for 
the incandescent light being in the cellar. The 
clock is wound from beneath, through a hole 
in the shelf. 



The Boston Globe remarks : "Frederick 
Kimball, the Worcester bank teller, did not 
take the trouble to bother with banking arts — 
he simply stole the money, thief fashion, and 
walked off. His method has at least the virtue 
of directness." 



The four Episcopal churches of the city 
held their annual parish meetings on Easter 
Monday, as usual, and elected officers as 
follows : 

All Saints. — Wardens, Hon. Edward L. 
Davis, Charles M. Bent; vestrymen, Hon. 
John D. Washburn, Josiah H. Clarke, Wil- 
liam E. Rice, George F. Hutchins, Frederick 
S. Pratt, Charles L. Nichols, Charles ('•. 
Washburn, George T. Dewey, Luther .M. 
Lovell, Henry P. Murray, Francis W. Blacker; 
treasurer and collector. Charles M. Bent; 
clerk, Henry P. Murray. 

St. John's. — Wardens, Stephen C. Earle, 
Edmund L. Parker; vestrymen, Edmund W. 
Barton, Edwin Todd, Charles F. Pierce, John 
Rankin, George W. Mirick, Joseph A. Shaw, 
Walter E. Holmes, Harry W. Anderson, 
Samuel A. Woodside, Thomas K. Corbiere; 
clerk, Daniel J. Burgess; treasurer, Walter E. 
Holmes. 

St. M.\Rk's.— Wardens, Hon. Henry L. 
Parker, Lemuel A. Bishop; vestrymen, 
Charles A. Allen, Orlando W. Norcro.ss, S. 
Hamilton Coe, Thomas B. Cowan, Edgar E. 
Fay, Henry K. Orme, Charles S. Bickford, 
Charles B. Day; treasurer, Joseph Jackson ; 
clerk, Louis N. Wilson. 

St. Matthew's.— Wardens, Mathew J. 
Whittall, James Cunningham; vestrymen, 
Francis Boston, Alfred Thomas, J. W. Young, 
William Coley, Henry Fenton, Thomas 
Wray, William Sheffield, William Carr. 

The delegates to the diocesan convention 
were chosen as follows: All Saints— Hon. 
Edward L. Davis, Charles F. Washburn, 
George T. Dewey; St. John's— Stephen C. 
Earle, Joseph A. Shaw, George W. Mirick; 
St. Mark's— Dr. George E. Adams, S. Ham- 
ilton Coe, L. A. Bishop; St. Matthew's— 
James Cunningham, Joseph Pardee, J. W. 
Young. 



Fraternity, Charity, Loyalty. 

George H. Ward Post lo, G. A. R. 



BY ALFRED S. ROE. 



Massachusetts has just one post of the 
Grand Army of the Republic larger than that 
of Worcester and that one is in Lynn. Our 
own post boasts an active membership of 
about 700 men ; so many, in fact, that it is a 
matter of frequent inquiry among Grand 
Army members, why we do not form an addi- 
tional post. This subject, however, is never 
seriously mooted in the post itself, where one 
large, active organization is better lilced than 
several smaller and struggling bodies. On ac- 
count of the approaching anniversary of the 
post, the following seems in place : — 

It was April 13, 1S67, that the applicants for 
a post in Worcester received from General 
Stephen A. Hurlbut his signature, thus 
sanctioning their request. General Hurlbut, 
then the Commander in Chief of the G. A. R., 
was one of the fighting officers of the Rebel- 
lion. He was one of Grant's most trusted 
lieutenants ; at one time he commanded the 
iGth Army Corps and he succeeded Banks in 
the command of the Department of the Gulf. 
Since the war, he has been prominent in dip- 
lomatic and political circles, for a number of 
years being in Congress from Illinois. Our 
charter was given by him at the capital of 
his state, Springfield. 

Such was the man who gave the empower- 
ing act. The charter members were A. A. 
Goodell, J. A. Titus, H. Fairbanks, J. Stewart 
BrovTU, Robert H. Chamberlain, R. Elliot 
Blake, D. M. Woodward, James M. Drennan, 
Augustus Stone, Geo. M. Woodward, and 
Charles E. Simmons. It is not a little note- 
worthy that of this entire number two only, 
A. A. Goodell and D. M. Woodward, have 
been removed by death, and of the remainder, 
only Harlan Fairbanks has severed his mem- 
bership. He is now in Pasadena, Cal., where, 
there is not the least doubt, he keeps up 
the reputation of the old Bay State, of Wor- 
cester and of the gallant 15th Regiment, of 
which he was a worthy member. R. E. Blake 
is one of the most important officials con- 
nected with the U. S. Postal Service, with 
headquarters in Boston, but his name is still 
on our list. He must be a stranger in Wor- 
cester who does not at once recognize the 
remaining names as those of the erect, sol- 
dierly Col. Titus ; the courteous and obliging 
treasurer, Brown, at the Five Cent Savings 
Bank ; our ever faithful keeper, Chamberlain, 
of the Summer street Penitentiary; the effi- 
cient Deputy Sheriff, Col. Drennan; the one- 
armed postman, " Gus," Stone, and our ever 
cheerful though sadly afflicted comrade, JRev. 
C. E. Simmons. 

To these names have been added more than 
1700 others. They represent 17 different 
states besides the navy and the regular army. 
Of course, the large majority are Ma.ssachu- 
setts men but the other New England states 
and the Middle states are well represented. 
There was hardly an encounter during the 
entire Rebellion in which some one of the 
comrades was not present. The number of 
those who saw service on the sea is very great, 
and if the list of vessels and gun-boats that 



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carried Uncle Sam's men during the strife 
were to be called it may be doubted whether 
some representative could not be found in this 
post to answer " here" for every craft. The 
mutations of moving, Time and Death have 
taken from us more than a thousand men, but 
the roll is still a long one. The most of those 
who have left us are members elsewhere, so 
there is nothing really lost. 

Though for twenty years the post has held 
its meetings in what is known as Grand Army 
Hall, it was not always thus. The charter 
was received in this hall, then called Brinley, 
and it was an eminently proper place to make 
the beginning, for the old room had an excel- 
lent military reputation. In it, George H. 
Ward had drilled his men, and, in the days 
of war, it was the place of all others identified 
with soldiers' concerns. The organization, 
however, halted here only a few months, going 
thence to Odd Fellows', since known as 
Frohsinn Hall, in Waldo Block. Whenever 
there was anything afoot, requiring more room 
there was an adjournment to Horticultural 
Hall where there was an abundance of space 
for eloquence as well as for bodies. Here 
was fought the famous battle over the admis- 
sion of a certain colored ex-soldier, resulting 
in the complete victory of the progressive 
element, to that extent in fact that the ques- 
tion has never arisen since. In July, 1870, 
Brinley Hall was taken, thereafter to be known 
as it is to-day. 

I know not what other names may have 
been considered in the naming of the post, 
but I am certain of this that no better selec- 
tion could have been made than that which 
for nearly a quarter of a century has linked 
memories of Gettysburg with the present. 
George H. Ward was a military man long 
before the alarm of war drew him from home 
to the field of strife. In the militia companies 
of the city his was one of the most conspicu- 
ous figures, and it was not strange that he 
early won distinction in the war. From 
Ball's Bluff he had come home to recuperate 
for a time, and then he went back to find im- 
mortality on the memorable field of Gettys- 
burg. It was meet then that his name should 
be ours as long as old soldiers in this hall con- 
gregate to talk over the strife and to devise 
means of helping our needy comrades. His 
portrait, for many years, has hung in front of 
the hall, and surely we could have no better 
emblazonment. 

The hall itself is a study to him who de- 
lights in memories of the past. The visitor, 
entering, will first note the excellent portrait of 
Major General Charles Devens, of the Su- 
preme Court of the Commonwealth, and a loyal 
member of the post. Opposite is the life-like 
semblance of Lieut. Willie Grout, of the 15th, 
who was killed in swimming the Potomac after 
the ill-fated day at Ball's Bluff. For his 
memory a Worcester poet wrote those most 
pathetic words of war time, " Th# Vacant 
Chair." From another frame the grand face 
of General A. A. Goodell looks out on his old 
comrades of the 36th, who in large numbers 
congregate here. Here, too, appear the well- 
known features of the armless Sergeant, 
Plunket, whose act at Fredicksburg has passed 
into prose and verse. On the wall, in elegant 
frames, are the famous chromo-Iithograph 
pictures of the Rebellion, a present from 



General Pickett. Also, equally well framed 
and displayed, are the celebrated Forbes 
etchings, than which there are no more graphic 
reminders of war times in existence. These 
come from General A. B. R. Sprague, another 
enthusiastic member of the post. Properly 
disposed are all of the corps badges that 
finally had so prominent a part in the pictur- 
esque attitude of the Rebellion, while from the 
gallery at times the peal of the bell from the 
Rebel ram, Albemarle, reminds the sailor-boy 
of the times when dangers confronted him 
upon the sea. 

So much for the outer life of the organi- 
zation. Of that part of its life which bears 
out its motto at the head of this article, the 
public is receiving indications every day. 
The care of sick and distressed comrades and 
their families is the very first duty of every 
member, and to this end the post has devoted 
many thousands of dollars. Its reading room, 
with its books and papers, is sought by many 
and the spirit of fraternity is never lost sight 
of. Some members are almost always present 
at the meetings, while others, just as loyal, 
make their devotion known in other ways. 

The post has furnished one commander. 
General Devens,to the National Encampment, 
and one. General Sprague, to the State De- 
partment. Comrade James K. Churchill is 
now the Junior Vice-Commander of the de- 
partment. There are other men in the ranks 
who are quite as well-known as those who 
have reached higher position. For instance, in 
Worcester, no Grand Army men out-rank in 
fame and reputation, " Dave" Boyden, 
" Bill" Robinson, Clare Putnam, " Sam" 
Babbitt, and a host of others, and they have 
merited their glory, for none have been more 
attentive to the demands of the organization. I 
have been asked by every G. A. R. man I ever 
met away from home, i.e., every man who knew 
aught of Worcester, if I knew " Dave" Boy- 
den, as though it were possible for any man 
to live in the same city with him and not 
know him thoroughly. The discreet manner 
in which he has attended to the renting of the 
hall has contributed not a little to the financial 
success of the post. When one begins to par- 
ticularize in an article like this one had better 
stop, for comparisons are odious, and where all 
are faithful, what more can we ask or expect ? 



Light bears, this week, the semblance of a 
man whom Worcester soldiers delight to 
honor. Virginia has long poured unstinted 
praises on him who led the famous charge on 
the third day at Gettysburg, nor has his praise 
been confined to those of the Old Dominion, 
for all mankind recognizes and appreciates 
bravery; but the Virginian Pickett was not the 
only one who won imperishable fame mid 

"Flame and smoke, 
And shout and groan and sabre stroke," 
since the old Bay State sent to the combat 
her Pickett as brave and as daring as him of 
the Southland. Let an old 25th. man tell the 
story of their commander's conduct at Drew- 
ry's Bluff and Cold Harbor, and no one will 
wonder at the way the hats go up nor at the 
ringing cheers when Colonel Josiah Pickett 
appears at the annual reunions of the regi- 
ment. 

General Pickett was born at Beverly, Nov. 
21,1822. Who among us, not knowing his 



age, would ever imagine him to be in liis 68th 
year? The weight of years rests lightly upon 
him, and, notwithstanding his long and hard 
service in the field, and his active life since 
the war, he still has the energy and fire of a 
young man. 

When still a boy, he had a taste for the 
military. He enlisted in Co. F., Sixth Mass. 
Infantry, in 1840, when only eighteen years of 
age, and three years later he was elected a 
lieutenant. After coming to Worcester in 
1S55, he joined the Worcester City Guards, 
and in 185S was elected lieutenant. He went 
with the Guards to the front, at the first call 
for troops, in iS6r, in the three months service. 
As a soldier. General Pickett rose by rapid 
advances. He was chosen captain of Co. A., 
25th Mass. Infantry, which he was instru- 
mental in raising, in September, 1S61, in the 
following March was promoted to be a major, 
and in October of the same year he was made 
colonel of the regiment. He resigned in Jan- 
uary, 1865, in consequence of wounds received 
in the service. 

He was breveted Brigadier-General, to date 
from June 3rd, 1864, for gallant and meritorious 
services during the war, especially at the bat- 
tle of Cold Harbor, where he was severely 
wounded. 

Briefly, this is General Pickett's military 
record; but it can give no idea of this man's 
service for his country. He was one of the 
commanders whose word was "Follow me !" 
and not "Go on, men !" Always valiant and 
thoughtless of himself, he had the confidence 
of his men from first to last and made himself 
immortal in their regard. 

Through the twenty-five years that have in- 
tervened since the close of the war, Worcester 
has had no citizen more respected or honored. 
In 1866, President Andrew Johnson made him 
postmaster of Worcester and he filled this 
place honorably and creditably till the whirl-a- 
gig of politics took him out in the administra- 
tion of Grover Cleveland. Under him, the 
business grew to almost metropolitan propor- 
tions, and, in every particular, it was admirably 
managed. 

The way he directed the parade, in October 
1884, when Worcester requested him to serve 
as Chief Marshal at her Bi-Centennial celebra- 
tion, gave the public a notion of how he could 
handle men. 

General Pickett has been an active citizen 
and has held many positions which serve to in- 
dicate the esteem in which he is held. He is a 
member of Post 10, G. A. R., is one of the 
board of trustees and for twenty-one years lias 
been treasurer of the Post relief fund. His 
comrades of the 25th regiment have made him 
president of their veteran association; he is a 
member of the Society of the Burnside Expe- 
dition and the Ninth Army Corps, a member 
also of the Society of the Army of the Poto- 
mac, and the Society of the Army of the 
James. He is a charter member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion. 
He is a member of the State Armory Com- 
mission, and Worcester has profited by his 
experience in securing his advice and counsel 
in the construction of the new armory. Here 
as everywhere, he has done his work thor- 
oughly and well. 

Finally, Worcester realizes the obligation 
she bears to one who for so many years has 



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discharged every duty with conscientious faith- 
fulness, a man as modest as he is brave, as 
good a citizen as he was a soldier, as kind- 
hearted in peace as he was strong-hearted in 
war. As one of the earliest members of the 
Post, his picture fitly accompanies this brief 
resum^ of the twenty-three years of the Post's 
existence. 



About Folks. 



The "Maidens Fair," at the Old South 
Church, which was, it need hardly be said, 
was directed by fair maidens, attracted large 
crowds on Thursday and Friday evenings, and 
made one of the most successful "hits" of the 
season. 

The South End Progressive Whist Club 
met with George H. Salie, 104 Chandler street, 
Thursday evening. Four tables were used, 
and twenty hands were played. The members 
and their lady friends present were: Messrs. 
George H. Salie, Arthur P. Shaffer, Melzar 
W. Brigham, G. F. Purrington, E. H. Nash, 
Fred W. Hoppin, W. E. Allen, Dr. A. Y. 
Greene; Misses Clara H. Morton, Amelia L. 
Diemar, Lulu Diemar, May Winn, Althea 
Bigelow, Ida Bickford, Marion Yeaton and 
Maude Allen. The first prize for gentlemen 
was won by Mr. Shaffer, 33 points; the first 
prize for ladies by Miss Bigelow, 39 points. 
The "booby" prizes went to Mr. Purrington, 
10 points, and Miss Lulu Diemar, 12 points. 

Mr. E. N. Kirk Mears, Williams College, 
'92, has been elected a member of the editorial 
board of the Williams Weekly, and will begin 
his work in that capacity next term. 

The many beautiful celebrations of Easter 
Day, in Worcester churches, made last Sunday 
one of the most memorable Easters in many 
years. The early matins at Pilgrim Church 
are to be particularly noted, and the large at- 
tendance shows that the people of the Evange- 
lical churches are coming to think more of 
Easter than they ever have in the past. 



Miss Lillie H. Davidson, of Franklin, was 
one of those present at the dancing party at 
Insurance Hall, Wednesday evening. Her 
name was omitted from the account on the 
fourth page. 

Col. Fred W. Wellington is to inspect Bat- 
tery C, at Lawrence, Tuesday evening. 

Worcester Grange, P. of H., is to have a 
mock trial at its meeting ne.xt Tuesday eve- 
ning, the affair being in charge of Messrs. 
Arthur P. Rugg and Fred H. Chamberlain. 
Mr. James Draper will be the judge and Mr. 
Charles E. Bond will be arrested for stealing a 
rooster. 

The only public observance in Worcester of 
the 25 th anniversary of Lee's surrender was 
that of the Womans Relief Corps, which went 
into camp at Grand Army Hall, Wednesday 
afternoon and evening. The celebration was in 
the nature of a fair, with stage entertainments 
in the afternoon and evening. The ladies divided 
their forces for the occasion in twelve compan- 
ies from A to M, the staff officers being : Mrs. 
Lydie A. Stearns, commander-in-chief; Mrs. 
Helen De Camp, adjutant; Mrs. Fanny 
Goddard, aid, and one in each company tent. 



ICach company had charge of one of llu- taste- 
fully arranged booths or of entertainment 
matters, and the following shows how they 
faced the enemy : Company A, domestic 
articles, Mrs. Fordis O. liushnell in command ; 
Mrs. S. A. Pratt, Mr.s. Adeline Fuller, Mr.s. 
\'ienna Dean, Miss Abbie Gassett, Mrs. 
(ieorge H. Ward, Mrs. Cephas N.Walker, 
Mrs. Lydia A. Bigelow; Company B, paper, 
picture card.s, etc., Mrs. Lucretia A. Rice in 
command, Mrs. J. A. Stone, Mrs. Abbie 
Whitcomb, Mrs. G. V. Bemis, Mrs. M. J. 
Bruso, Mrs. E. M. John.ston, Mrs. O. K. Cole, 
Mrs. M. A. Cooley ; Company C, confectionery, 
cornlialls, mystery cake, etc., Mrs. Lizzie F. 
Hubbard in command, Mrs. Mary J. Mon- 
tague, Mrs. S. H. Lincoln, Mrs. Mary O'Gara, 
Mrs. S. M. Stockwell, Mrs. M. A. Mills, Mrs. 
L. A. Mellor, Mrs. T. J. Goddard ; Company 
D, miscellaneous entertainment, Mrs. M. 
Jennie Matthews in command; Company E, 
children's entertainment, Mrs. Camilla E. 
Jenks in command : Company F, flowers and 
potted plants, Mrs. Emma F. Savels in com- 
mand, Mrs. Jennie Olney, Mrs. May Abbot, 
Mrs. Sarah Whitney; Company G, ice cream, 
sherbet, and cake, Mrs. .Susan Ames in com- 
mand; Mrs. Winslow, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Wilder, 
Mrs. Whitten, Mrs. Upham, Mrs. Macomber, 
Misses Lottie Hubbard and Lizzie Fairbanks; 
Company H, Mrs. Helen Jewell in command; 
Mrs. Newhall, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Betterly, 
Mrs. Draper, Mrs. Stearns, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. 
Johnson and Mrs. Ward; marines, A. G. 
Mills, H. L. Jewell and J. J.Torpey ; Company 
I, fruit, jellies and canned goods, Mr.s. Angle 
A. Robinson in command; Mrs. H. M. Lord, 
Mrs. E. A. Parker, Mrs. Lucretia E. Morse, 
Mrs. Amelia Cook, Mrs. Emma Pike, Mrs. 
Isabel Brewer, Mrs. Susan L.Hayes; Com 
pany K, an old-fashioned kitchen, Mrs. M. 
Jennie Mills in command, Mrs. Briggs, Mrs. 
Sarah A. Bulllard, Mrs. Mary Barton, Mrs. 
Lucy Crook, Mrs. Catherine Jones, Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Morse, Mrs. M. Oakley, Mrs. Eliza S. 
Perkins, Mrs. Amelia M. Tew, Mrs. Lucy 
Underwood, Mrs. Lizzie M. Wallace, Mrs. 
Charlotte Walker, Mrs. Mary Locker; Com- 
pany L, fancy articles, Mrs. Fannie B. Allen 
in command, Mrs. Addle Pinkham, Mrs. 
Mary Burr, Mrs. M. S. Hine, Mrs. Hattie 
Hildreth, Mrs. Pond, Mrs. Emma Harrington, 
Mrs. Clara Lawrence, Mrs. Fairbanks; Com- 
pany M, mystery bundles, easter eggs, etc., 
Mrs. Anna H. Burbank in command, Mrs. J. 
H. Woodis, Mrs. A. L. Howe, Mrs. S. E. 
Mitchell, Mrs. S. J. Prince, Mrs. L. M. Robin- 
son, Mrs. A. M. Shorey, Mrs. H. Kanouse. 
The children's entertainment in the afternoon, 
was very pretty, and included songs, recita- 
tions, etc., concluding with a May Queen's 
dance. Miss Lilla Belle Allen, and Master 
Frank Whittemore danced a Highland fling. 
The evening's entertainment included a violin 
solo by Miss Helen Riedl, song by Miss Edith 
Lamoine, a pleasing reading of " Keenan's 
Charge" by Miss Alfred S. Roe, banjo duet by 
Harry Hoyden and Bert Mirick, a Fisher's 
hornpipe danced by Miss Lilla Belle Allen ; a 
whistling solo by Miss Lula Isaacs, banjo 
selections by Miss Etta Spaulding, a reading 
by Miss Coburn, and a maiden's flag drill by 
several young ladies. The hall was tastefully 
arranged and decorated. Despite the rain, it 
was a famous victory. 



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Over the Bridge to Eton. 



It's a bright blue Sunday afternoon, just the 
right sort of a one for the pleasant walk we 
have planned. This morning we attended 
service in Saint George's chapel. A more im- 
pressive place is hard to imagine. Here lie 
buried Henry VI., Edward IV., Henry VIII., 
and his Queen, Jane Seymour, and Charles I. 
George III. and his family occupy a tomb 
quite by themselves at the last end. Passing 
by these regular attendants, we are discovered 
by the verger and shown to the carved choir 
seats set apart in honor for the Knights of the 
Garter. Each stall is of finely carved oak, 
with Gothic back reaching high into the 
vaulted canopy, below which is set a square 
brass illuminated and engraved plate giving 
the name of the knight to whom the seat be- 
longs. Ours were those of the German Kaiser 
and the Czar of Russia. It was a peculiar 
feeling when one realized that at any moment 
either gentleman might come to claim his pro- 
perty. 

The sermon was fine, I've no doubt, but 
even the dean and attendant clergy and superb 
choir could not keep us from imagining the 
brilliant ceremonies that had taken place 
in this hostoric spot. Away up at the left, 
like an inner stage box, was the Royal pew. 
Her majesty almost never occupies it, for 
though in a way she is the head of the Church 
of England, personally she is a Scotch Pres- 
byterian, much to England's mortification, and 
so they try to disguise the fact that plain ser- 
vice is held for her and her household in a 
private chapel. 

Service over, we walk home by the downs 
and after the Sunday luncheon of beef steak, 
pie, and gooseberry t^rt, we set off for " Etons 
spires." Old Windsor bridge is solidified 
poetry. The hard working and beautiful 
Thames swirls under its low grey arches with 
a patronizing air quite in keeping with the turn 
the road takes, and the twists the houses make 
wholly to accommodate the bridge. We soon 
meet small companies of boys in Eton jackets 
and grey trousers topped off by the inevitable 
tall hat, enjoying their Sunday outing. Two 
of the upper classmen in suits similar to the 
others, save that their coats have grown to the 
dignity of tails, join us for a look about the 
buildings and grounds. 

The whole restful village might be called 
the school, for without it the people would 
have long since slept themselves away. Most 
of the buildings that the founder, Henry VI., 
erected, in 1440, remain, and some of the 
square oak logs still do their duty as seats for 
their share of the 700 boys who attend Eton 
school annualUy. As one walks along, the 
houses overgrown with ivy and Virginia 
creeper, with here and their diamond-paned 
windows peeking out between the solid wall of 
green, one can hardly realize them to be the 
abode of school-boys. There is none of the 
blank dormitory look to these homes. 

In each house lives one or more masters, 
who enter with the boys into their "games" 
as well as lessons. In each house, too, is a 
matron, whose duties are to impart still more 
of the house air to the family of boys. A 
number of the matrons are ladies of position, 



whose means have become reduced, and these 
places, at both Eton and Harrow, are in great 
demand. The boys' rooms are quietly but 
well furnished, being decorated principally 
with their trophies from cricket, foot-ball and 
river matches. The lack of photographs was 
startling, and when we saw "the counterfeit 
presentment" of a pretty face we were almost 
sure to be told, "It is my sister," or " my 
cousin." Judging from the limited display of 
such art we must think another good point in 
the English girl is that she does not distribute 
her photographs, for we surely known that the 
English heart is susceptible to beauty. 

By the fire-place always stands a tea-kettle, 
for the boys indulge as regularly in afternoon 
tea as do their mothers and sisters, and right 
well they make and serve it too. Books are 
placed on shelves by rule, lamps kept in per- 
fect order by " my fag." Poor Fag ! A truly 
English idea ! An under classman must do 
service to an older fellow until he arrives to 
the dignity of a third year boy. No matter 
who he is, he must " varnish the boots," dust 
the clothes, and wait upon his master during 
his first two years. The little fag we first saw 
bringing up the tea things and arranging them 
upon the white-embroidered cloth, was " the 
scion of a noble house," yet he did his duties 
well and seemed happy about them. 

We were afterward received by the matron 
of the house, a much-travelled lady, whose 
interesting drawing-room was almost crowded 
with rare furniture. The Chipendale chairs 
and tables, were conversationally arranged 
among rugs and footstools. On the walls were 
fine etchings and bits of cloissonnd, with here 
and there an Indian placque. A Turner 
upon an easel in the corner was guarded by a 
superb tiger rug. Such a room as this, pre- 
sided over by the entertaining hostess, is 
naturally sought quite occasionally by the 
thinking boys. 

Now we go to the fields. The broad mea- 
dows, acres in extent and dotted here and 
there by huge oak trees, are divided among 
the different classes, each of which has its 
cricket, foot-ball and tennis ground. The 
Thames winds in and out, helping to mark 
the lines of division, but the rest of the 
boundaries are picturesque hedges, crossed 
by wooden stiles, or imaginary lines which the 
under classman never forgets. Eton fields 
are justly celebrated. 

Some of the boys were anxious to start a 
base-ball club, " but there's not much science 
in it, don't you know, and the masters prefer 
cricket and round ball rather." (! ! !) 

At 5 o'clock, the great sight of the after- 
noon occurred. At the stroke of the clock, 
all the boys meet in the large quadrangle, in 
which stands Henry's statue, to answer to the 
roll-call, we should say, but they call it 
" absence." The head master, in gown and 
mortar-board, calls the names of the seven 
hundred, and each shouts his own name in 
echo to the call, at the same time holding his 
hand that high above his head that he may 
be seen if not heard. Tardy ones approach 
the record keeper, hat in hand, in reverence, 
to receive a rebuke, three of which bring a 
penalty. This " absence" is gone through 
with twice on holidays. 

At Eton, as at Harrow, corporal punislnuent 
is abolished, save for great offences, but we 



were shown the bunch of birch twigs that was 
ready for the next chastisement. 

On the oak walls of one old school-room we 
saw carved the names of Salisbury, Gladstone, 
Lome, Gray, and scores of others, for every 
one who leaves the school either carves or has 
carved the fact that he's been an " Eton boy." 
Chapel is compulsory, but as every English- 
man goes to church, it needn't be. The ser- 
vice — Even song — was intoned, the responses 
all being well given by the church full of boys, 
led by their choir, consisting of very fine 
voices, and under the direction of Joseph 
Barnby. 

Everything at Eton is a part of the true 
polish applied to solid English worth. The 
air, the scenery, the association, are thoroughly 
rubbed in to grain of the solid wood, and little 
veneer can be discovered. All sides of the 
boys are attended to here. Of course they 
have their "larks" and " meets," but through 
all an inseparable amount of true manliness, 
and refinement is seen. , 

It is too late to go on to Stoke to-day. It 
and its memories of the Peuns, Cobdens, and 
Grey, must be left for another excursion. 



Literary Leaves. 

Taking the sale of books as the test of suc- 
cess, the most successful author in the United 
States, according to the New York Cotnmer- 
cial Advertiser, is J. W. Buel. It says : " J. W, 
Buel has written fourteen books, the aggregate 
circulation of which exceeds 2,500,000 copies. 
His works are all of a religious or philosophi- 
cal nature, and are sold on the subscription 
plan. The most popular is his 'Beautiful 
Story,' which has reached the sale within only 
3,000 of 600,000 copies in less than two years. 
His last two works. The Living World' and 
'The Story of the Man,' have both gone beyond 
250,000 copies each, and are indorsed (?) by 
Mr. Gladstone and Bismarck. During 1888, 
Mr. Buel's royalties amounted to ;J33,ooo, and 
this year they will exceed ^50,000. 



A new novel by Mrs. Oliphant is coming 
from the press. It is recorded as an example 
of this lady's versatility that she once proposed 
to the editor of Blackwooifs Magazine that 
she should write the whole of one number i. e., 
the serial story upon which she was then en- 
gaged, and five articles on different topics. 



"The Working Principles of Political Econ- 
omy," by S. M. Macvane, McLean Professor 
of History in Harvard College, is a text-book 
on economic doctrine, intended primarily for 
beginners, but advocating some modification of 
the generally accepted modern ideas. Pub- 
lished by Effingham, Maynard & Co., New 
York ; for sale by the booksellers. 



Mr. Rider Haggard's new story has for hero 
a Zulu king named Charcoal. 



"The New World Book List" is a catalogue 
of a collection of Americana, made by William 
George's Sons, at the sign of the Cabot's 
Head, in Bristol, England. The list includes 
two thousand three nundred and forty-nine 
books, pamphlets, and maps, both new and 
old. Libranes and private collectors will do 
well to examine this valuable catalogue of val- 
uable books. It is published by the collectors, 
William George's Sons, Bristol, England. 



How Michael Came Home. 

(Founded Upon Fact.) 
BV CHARLES \V. LINNELL. 



Too close attention to the details of an 
intricate law case in which 1 had been engaged, 
brought on a severe attack of nervous pros- 
tration, and upon my recovery my physician 
ordered me to avoid practice for a few weeks 
and walk in the open air as much as my 
strength permitted. In fulfilment of his pre- 
scription I daily boarded one of the street 
cars that ran out to the suburbs, and leaving 
the car at any corner that took my fancy 
would walk around until I was tired, and then 
return home. 

One particularly pleasant morning in the 
latter part of April I left my car at the end of 
its route in the southern section of the city and 
started on my usual walk. 

Tempted by the bright sunshine and sweet- 
smelling air of the spring day I strolled on 
until a feeling of fatigue warned me that I 
was over-tiring myself, and I knew it would be 
wise to rest awhile before returning to the car. 

I was standing by the entrance to the 
Catholic cemetery and I suddenly remembered 
that my old Irish nurse had married a man 
named Morris IVIcGlinn,who was now a grave- 
digger, and lived in a cottage just outside the 
gates on the other side of the grounds. I had 
never been to their house although often asked 
to come by Mary in her visits to my family, 
and the present opportunity seemed to be 
fitting for the fulfilment of my long standing 
promise, beside offering the selfish advantage 
of a place to rest in. 

It was quite a distance across the grounds 
and the walk added to my previous fatigue so 
much that I was very tired, indeed, when I 
knocked at the door of the cottage. 

"Does Mr. McGIinn live here.'" I asked 
as the door opened and Mrs. McGlinn's pleas- 
ant face and generous form appeared in the 
aperture. 

"He doos, sor," she began, and then flinging 
the door wide open exclaimed, "well, well Mr. 
Edward, an' is it yerself now. Come in sor, 
come in. Faith an' its glad I am to see ye, 
but indade, sor, its not well ye're looking these 
times. 1 hope its not sick yee'se are, sor .'" 

Thirty years in America had not been suffi- 
cient to banish the brogue from Mary's tongue, 
and it ran though her speech, giving it a 
warmth and heartiness that came straight 
from her own warm heart. I was very glad 
to go in and to sit down in the cane-seated 
rocker that Mary pushed toward me after 
giving it a quick dusting with her gingham 
apron. 

"Yes," I said, in answer to her cjuestion, "I 
have been cjuite sick lately, but I am a great 
deal better now, and hope in a few weeks to 
be at work again. I don't need to ask how 
you are, Mary; your looks speak for them- 
selves, but how is your husband ?" 

"Morris is well, sor, thanks be to God, an' 
here he comes to answer for himself." 

As she spoke Morris came in, after 
leaning a spade up against the side of the 
house, and greeted me warmly. 

The couple had had but one child, a boy 
named Michael,who was now about twenty-one 
years of age. He was the apple of tlieir eye 



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but the terror of other people. Indeed, 1 had 
been called upon by Maiy several times to 
intercede in my profe.ssional capacity between 
Michael and the victims of his malicious 
doings, and a tougher young rascal I had never 
met. To my knowledge he had succeeded in 
keeping out of the hands of the police, but in 
my opinion it was only a question of time 
when he would get himself behind the bars, 
and but for the sake of liis father and mother 
I would say the sooner the better. However, 
I knew I must ask after him or they would 
notice it, and so said ; " How is your son 
Michael now, and what is he doing.'" 

A shade fell over the two honest faces 
before me, and Mary partly turned away and 
put her apron up to her eyes, "Indade an' 
that's the very thing we'd be glad to know 
oursilves, sor," Morris said, " fur niver a 
blissed wurrd have we heard from our bye 
since a year gone Christmas." 

" Indeed," I said, " I had not heard that he 
had left home. I am very sorry that I asked 
the question as it must be painful for you to 
answer it." 

Mary interrupted me. " Painful is it ye say, 
Mr. Edward. No sor, it can never be painful 
for a father or mither to spake of their son, no 
matther if he be dead, or gone to the bad ; but 
of our boy ! Sure, sor, ye don't know him as 
we do or ye'd niver mintion painful in the 
same breath wid him. We're sure its not 
dead he is, for he'd sint us wurrd if he fell sick, 
but its our belafe that he's havin' harrd luck 
in his wurrk, or maybe no wurrk at all, an' its 
ashamed he is to let us know he's not doing 
well, an' not likin' to come home widout a cint 
afther bein' away so long." 

From what I knew of Michael I had no doulit 
but that he was in jail at last, but 1 could not 
tell his parents so, and I affected to believe 
with them that it must be the " hard luck" he 
was having that was keeping him away from 
his home. 

Morris had come to the house for his dinner 
at an earlier hour than usual, explaining to 
his wife that he had to finish a grave before 
one o'clock, for " wan o' thim convicts." 

I had accepted their invitation to dinner 
to the extent of a cup of tea and a sandwich 
and was enjoying my lunch when my attention 
was attracted by Morris' explanation. 

"A grave for a convict," I repeated, "are the 
convicts that die at the jail buried here, Morris?" 

"Well ye see, sor, I'll tell ye how it is sor. 
The praste that goes to the jail, Father Sul- 
livan it is, sor, is the praste of this parish, an' 
whin wan o' thim convicts dies as has no 
frinds to bury him, an' is a Catholic, he lets 
him be buried here among dacent people of 
his own church." 

" I should think the lot owners would object 
to convicts being buried among their relatives," 
I remarked. 

" Well to tell ye the thruth sor," said Morris, 
with what would have been a twinkle in his 
eye had he been speaking of a less serious 
subject, " the place where we do be burying 
thim jail-burrds is a long way from anywhere 
else. Ye might like to come along wid me 
the day an' see the buryin', sor." 

My curiosity was excited by the prospect of 
witnessing the burial of a convict, and as I 
was feeling quite strong after my rest and 
lunch I accepted the invitation. 



.After bidding Mrs. McGlinn good-bye, and 
receiving many messages from her to my 
family, Morris and I left the house, and turn- 
ing down a side path as we entered the gate 
went towards the east end of the grounds. 

In a few minutes we pa.ssed out of the 
finely-kept part of the cemetery where the 
multitude of handsome tomb-stones and care- 
fully-tended lots revealed the extravagant 
respect paid to the dead by the warm-hearted 
Irish race, and entered a region of plain white 
crosses and unkempt graves, which did not 
need Morris' explanation, "the people that 
do be buried here were very poor, .sor." 

Beyond these poor tokens of regretful love 
the grounds were open and sandy, ending in a 
little bluff that overhung a dry ravine, and 
bare of trees or ornamental shrubs of any 
kind. Close to the edge of the gully was a 
row of graves, with a white-painted board at 
the head of each, which bore only a name and 
date. These were the graves of the convicts, 
and at the end of the row was the unfinished 
excavation on which Morris was at work. 

Morris looked at his big silver watch and 
remarked " Be the powers I must make haste 
or I'll never be ready for thim." He pulled off 
his coat and jumped down into the pit with 
his spade and pickaxe. 

" Do you know what is the name of the man 
who is to be buried here ?" I asked, as Morris 
worked busily away. 

"Well, I did hear his name was Murphy, 
sor, but ye can niver tell if that be his right 
name or no. Some o' thim fellers is ashamed 
to have their frinds know they bees in jail, so 
they gives the police a wrong name an' no wan 
is iver the wiser for it." 

It did not require a great deal of labor to 
finish the grave in the sandy soil, and after 
chopping away the roots of a stump Morris 
pronounced it ready for its occupant. " An' 
none too soon ayether," he said, pointing along 
the road we had come. I looked around and 
saw a hearse followed by a single carriage 
coming across the level ground in our direc- 
tion. When they reached us I saw that the 
carriage contained an officer of tlie jail, an 
undertaker and a Catholic priest, who, I had 
no doubt, was the Father Sullivan spoken of 
by Morris. 

The hearse stopped and the undertaker, 
assisted by the driver, lifted out the coffin in 
its unpainted pine box. As they raised it 
their feet slipped in the soft soil and the box 
fell heavily, jarring off not only the cover of 
the box, but of the coffin as well, and exposing 
the face of the dead convict within. It was a 
young face and wore a strangely familiar look. 
Suddenly it dawned upon me where I had seen 
it before, and the thought instantly followed 
that Morris must be kept from seeing that 
face, if only for an instant. I turned to see 
where he was, and found he was standing 
directly behind me. Too late ! 

His glance had gone over my shoulder and 
rested upon the face in the coffin. 

For a nloment his eyes only expressed 
curiosity, quickly followed by doubt, horror, 
and finally such awful suffering as I hope 
never to see again. 

He sprang forward and knelt by the coffin, 
throwing his arms across it, and hiding his face 
in them, while great sobs of agony shook him 
from head to foot. Michael had come home. 



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About Folks. 



Mr. Charles E. Hilcireth, of Amherst, has 
not been spending his vacation at home, 
although he spent a day here with his people, 
afterward going off on a trip to Washington 
with a college friend, Mr. Robert Goodell. 

The graduates of the last class at the State 
Normal School are rapidly finding positions 
as teachers. Ten are now so engaged, among 
the latest being Miss Anna G. Moore, at 
Wilkinsonville, and Miss May Hewett at 
South Royalston. The two named began teach- 
ing last Monday. 

Miss Helen Bruce, the younger daughter of 
Rev. H.J. Bruce, the missionary, who is now 
in India, came up from Wellesley and spent 
her Easter vacation with the Misses New- 
comb, on Gates street. An elder sister, like 
her parents, is devoting herself to missionary 
work, and Miss Bruce has a similar purpose. 
After completing her course at Wellesley, she 
will obtain a medical education, studying in 
Philadelphia, and then, equipped for the noble 
work of ministering to both body and soul, 
she will follow her parents to the foreign mis- 
sion field. Few young women have so self- 
sacrificing a spirit and so noble an ambition. 



Dr. Edward Earle Hopkins, of Newtonville, 
with his family, spent Easter Sunday with his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Hopkins, in this 
city. 

Miss Cora J. Goodwin entertained at her 
home, 26 Providence street, on Friday evening 
of last week, a party of friends who meet 
regularly for social whist playing, and the 
evening was a pleasant one for all present. 
The party included Misses Cora J. Goodwin, 
Jessie A. Morse, Alice B. Hammond, Alice M. 
Watson, Clara L. Brigham, Mabel G. Merrill, 
Helen R. Merrill, Alice M. Rheutan, Ellie 
Rheutan, Sadie E. Hill, and for gentlemen, 
Messrs. Harry L. Dadmun, Henry J. Gross, 
Henry J. Kettell, Fred A. Bigelow, Lawrence 
P. Greenman, Lucius W. White, Foster H. 
Goodwin, Will W. Carter, Frank E. Bu.xton, 
and Frank B. Hall. This made a party for 
five tables, and 25 hands were played. The 
first prize for gentlemen went to Mr. Bu.xton, 
and the first for ladies to Miss Helen Merrill; 
the " boobies" were won by Mr. Kettell and 
Miss Brigham. 

Mrs. Frank E. Buxton, of Boston, has been 
visiting for several days with her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Edwin Johnson. 



The Mystic Quartet, including Messrs. Will 
F. Little, James A. Brennan, John H. Howell 
and James H. Cafferty, is to sing at a Red 
Men's fair in Meriden, Conn., next Tuesday 
and Wednesday nights. 



Misses Ella G. and P'lorence Shaffer enter- 
tained a small party of friends at their home, 
66 Florence street, a week ago last night, the 
affair being complimentary to Miss Bertha 
R. Houghton, at home from Mount Holyoke 
college on vacation. Those present were the 
Misses Shaffer and Miss Houghton, Misses 
Maria Wright, Flora H. Clifford, Alma L. 
Collins and Mamie E. Fay, Messrs. Elmer C. 



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Rice, James H. Cafferty, Herbert L. Green^ 
Frank A. Richardson and Sergt. W. E. Briggs. 
Instrumental music by Misses Wright and 
Clifford, and the Misses Shaffer, and songs by 
Mr. Cafferty, furnished entertainment, and a 
candy pull was also indulged in. 

The April exhibition of the Worcester Hor- 
ticultural Society occurs next Thursday, and 
the schedule promises an attractive display. 
It is as follows: Cut flowers, for the best 
round basket, on stand, not to exceed fifteen 
inches in diameter, four premiums, {(3, $2, $1, 
50 cents; Zonale geranium, in bloom, four 
plants, distinct in color, four premiums, the 
same ; cut flowers, twenty vases, not to exceed 
five blooms, clusters, sprays or spikes in each, 
four premiums, the same ; hyacinth, in bloom, 
twelve plants, not less than six varieties, four 
premiums, $4, $3, $2, $1 ; narcissus, display, 
four premiums, the same; tulip, six pots or 
pans, not to exceed twelve bulbs in each, not 
less than three varieties, four premiums, the 
same. Apple and pear, any variety, named, 
gratuity. In each of the following, three pre- 
miums, $1.50, $1, 50 cents: Horse radish; 
parsnep (Student and Hollow Crown, each); 
radish, two bunches, six in each bunch ; salsi- 
fy ; rhubarb ; cultivated dandelion, one-half 
peck ; spinach, one- half peck ; for lettuce, six 
heads, four premiums, $2, $1.50, $1, 50 cents. 



The Williams College Glee Club, which had 
arranged to give a concert at Association 
Hall on the evening after the Intercollegiate 
field sports, will not sing in Worcester, this 
season, after all. The club recently voted to 
abandon the concert and consequently the 
date is open. The Amherst boys have sung 
at this time, for two years, and would be sure 
of a good house if they decided to come 
again. The large expense of transportation, 
etc., and the fact that the trip would use 
up a large number of cuts, is under- 
stood to be the Williams boys' reason for 
thinking that it would not pay to come. It is 
much easier for the Amherst boys to come, 
of course. The latter, by the way, made a 
pretty good thing out of their Easter tour, 
netting about jtiooo. 



The innocent early worm, which foretells of 
coming spring, received his first bath this 
week from the gentle sprinkle of the dust- 
reducing water-cart. 



The ladies of the Webster Square M. E. 
Church Social Circle have elected officers for 
the year, as follows: President, Mrs. Frank 
L. Jenks ; Vice-President, Mrs. A. W. Cole; 
Secretary, Miss Ida Green; Treasurer, Mrs. 
George A. Gregoon ; Executive Committee, 
Mrs. George W. Jordan, Mrs. John N. Albee, 
Mrs. Conger, Mrs. James Hunt, Mrs. 
Georgiana Dunton. The new board is likely 
to be an active one, and will undoubtedly or- 
ganize a most satisfactory campaign of work 
and sociability. 



The Worcester Tennis Club has elected as 
officers for 1890 : President, Harry W. Smith : 
secretary and treasurer, Randolph W. Cromp- 
ton ; executive committee, the above, e.x-offi- 
cers, and Miss Elizabeth B. Hopkins. The 
membership fee has been raised to jSio for 
gentlemen and $5 for ladies. 



Greendale is getting to be one of our liveliest 
suburbs. Mr. E. S. Fuller will probably erect 
a number of cottages, this summer, upon land 
he has recently purchased. Messrs. Samuel 
Slocomb and N. B. Hayle have bought land 
and will erect fine residences for themselves 
this summer. Mr. John B. Tougas intends to 
move his old house where he now lives, and 
erect for himself a splendid residence upon 
the old site. The site for the chapel has 
been agreed upon, and will include the lot 
adjoining and north of the school house. 



The carpentering work on the new theatre 
is entirely completed. The painters have been 
given exclusive possession of the interior. The 
decorations will be of simple elegance. The 
announced opening night will not be post- 
poned, for the building is liable to be ready 
before the allotted time. 



The current issue of the New \oTk Journal- 
ist remarks : N. C. Fowler's "Light" of 
Worcester is growing brighter and better. Mr. 
Fowler deserves all the success that can come 
to him. 

The Crescent Tennis Club, which is the only 
organization of lovers of the game now at the 
South End, began on Fast Day the prepara- 
tion of the club grounds, at the corner of Main 
and Freeland streets, for the coming season. 
The courts will be put in the best possible 
condition, and the erection of a club- 
house is also one of the club's plans. The of- 
ficers for 1890-91, are: President, Morton R. 
Crane; vice-president, Harry D. Temple; sec- 
retary. Will C. Bemis ; treasurer, Wilton W. 
Dadmun. Six new members have been ad- 
mitted, making a total of twelve. The club 
intends having its formal opening on Memorial 
Day, for which time special exercises will be 
prepared. 

Mr. Alfred P. Perkins, of Williams College, 
spent the first week of his Easter vacation at 
his home in this city, and last Monday went to 
Peabody to visit relatives until his return to 
college. 

Superintendent I. B. Chapin of the Consoli- 
dated Street Railway Company deserves the 
thanks of the public for the special accomoda- 
tions in the way of extra cars provided on 
Easter Sunday. It may not be out of place, 
also, to speak of the manner in which he di- 
rected the handling of the crowds on Fast 
Day, taking personal charge at the junction of 
Main and Pleasant streets, and other points. 



Mr. Norman P. Woodward's four months 
in Europe seem to have done him a great deal 
of good, for he looks to be vastly improved in 
health, and he has seen a great deal of an 
interesting part of the world. Mr. Wood- 
ward got the benefit of a sea voyage on a sail- 
ing bark and visited Spain and Morocco. 

Miss Florence M. Gates gave a very satis- 
factory pianoforte recital at the rooms of the 
Worcester County Music School, Friday even- 
ing, 4th, having the assistance of Miss Harriet 
L. White, soprano, Mr. Charles E. Hitchcock, 
bass, and Mr. Ewald Weiss, of New Haven, 
Conn., violinist. This was Mr. Weiss's first 
introduction to Worcester. The program was 
pleasingly selected and arranged. 



Our Churches and " Society. " 

BY MARY. 

I have a criticism to make concerning Wor- 
cester's church-going people and their relation 
to "society," so-called. I do not know that 
even one reader will think it is a true criticism- 
I myself sometimes fancy it is only the foolish 
reasonings of a young woman who has not the 
same religious convictions as her neighbors 
and is therefore open to their pity. True it is 
that the aspect of the case which I am about to 
state appeals to me very strongly; I frequently 
stay at home from church on a Sunday to have 
fits of the blues in which I moralize in about 
the following strain ; — 

Worcester is a city of churches. It is essen- 
tially a church-going community and it is 
doubtful if the crowds which walk the streets 
of the city on Sunday on their way to church 
could be matched in any Eastern city of pro- 
portionate size. How the Westerner would 
stare at the spectacle of all the city turning out 
on the first day of the week to attend divine 
worship ! It is a remarkable sight, when you 
come to think of it, and brings to mind a 
staunch custom of our Puritanical ancestors 
which has passed down to the present time un- 
affected by the demands of the religious prac- 
tices of some portions of our c'ountry. Influ- 
enced more by custom than by anything 
else does all Worcester attend church so regu- 
larly and with such consistent purpose. Reach- 
ing so many classes of people, the church in 
Worcester has an immense power and the 
manner in which it sways its sceptre is certain- 
ly of great interest. 

The city churches fill a very important place 
in the social world of Worcester. No one will 
deny that what there is of "society" irt the city 
depends almost wholly upon the churches for 
its very inception and healthy continuance. 
Rarely does a social event of any prominence 
occur except under the auspices of one of our 
church societies. In speaking of "society," I 
do not mean that parasitic growth known as 
"the upper ten" which accompanies a city as 
inevitably as the riches which accumulate 
there. I mean the great body of respectable, 
God-fearing citizens who have made the city 
what it is, — who form the controlling minds 
and the skilled l^abor of the manufacturing es- 
tablishments which have made Worcester re- 
nowned as a manufacturing centre, — who are 
in every-day business life in our stores, our 
schools and our offices and are not ashamed 
of their daily toil. These men and women, who 
perfectly characterize Worcester, typify the 
Yankee spirit, and Worcester's claims to socie- 
ty pretensions cannot, by any possible means, 
be founded on the number of her inhabitants 
who can point to an illustrious line of ances- 
tors or boast of an ability to keep from work- 
ing. As far as society goes in Worcester, 
everybody seems to be as good as his neigh- 
bor, and, provided he is respectable and has 
money enough to keep up a standing in his 
church, be it a Baptist, or Methodist, or Con- 
gregationalist, or what not, he is as fairly 
launched on the social stream as if he had 
gone to New York, or Philadelphia, or Wash- 
ington, aud inaugurated a course of swell balls 
and elegant dinners. It is not necessary for 
his wife to give 5 o'clock teas, to be con- 



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sidered "in the swim," neither is he obliged to 
trouble himself very much about "bringing out" 
his daughters. The "blushing young ddbu- 
tante" is unknown in Worcester. The Wor- 
cester giris drift up to marriageable age and 
slip into the hymeneal noose without any such 
frivolous and entirely unnecessary proceeding 
as a "coming-out party." And Worcester 
fathers doubtless think that their daughters 
drift just as satisfactorily as if the launching 
were done in the regulation metropolitan style. 
The nearest thing to a "coming out" that a 
Worcester girl has is at that eventful period 
in her life when she attends church with her 
hair "up" for the first time, attired in her first 
long dress. 

Do our churches satisfactorily fill this func- 
tion of guiding and controlling our society in- 
terests ? is a question that may find a negative 
answer in some heart which feels the incon- 
gruity of uniting widely-varying secular with 
religious interests. Let us take, for example, 
the average Worcester family. Saturday night 
finds paterfainilias exhausted with the labors 
of the week, glad that the day of rest has come. 
After supper, as he dozes over his newspaper 
by the fireside, his wife is probably putting 
the baby to bed in the trundle-bed up-stairs, 
promising young hopeful that, if he is a good 
boy, he shall attend church on the following 
day. The older children surround the table 
in the sitting-room busily engaged in the study 
of their Sunday school lessons. Their mother 
joins them and assists them over the hard 
places. .\ pretty picture, this simple home 
scene. Would that Saturday evening could 
be spent in every home as profitably as in this. 

Sunday comes and, truly, it is the day of the 
week. The Sunday suit, which, if worn any 
other day on unimportant occasions, would be 
frowned upon as not in good form, is gleefully 
donned and the wearer goes to church. Pause 
here, reader. How many go to church to find 
inspiration for their immortal souls and help 
that they may serve God to His will and to 
give assistance to down-trodden humanity? 
How many go because it is "the thing," be- 
cause it keeps their business reputations where 
they ought to be, because they like good sing- 
ing, or because they wish to exhibit their new- 
gowns or criticize those of their friends ! 

Sunday was never meant to be the day in 
which many Worcester families make their 
only appearance in society. It is not to be 
utilized for planning social events of the week. 
It is a day of rest and a day of worship and, if 
for no other reason, the church ought to be 
free from all entanglements of "society" in 
order that one may go into the sanctuary 
one day of the week, throwing aside all 
thoughts of pleasure, that religion may be a 
help to better life, not a temporary amusement. 

With Monday begins the social whirl of the 
average Worcester family which has been 
planned in the churches either by printed cal- 
endar or by announcements from the pulpit, 
the day before. Sociables, bible classes, 
prayer meetings and the conventions of half-a- 
dozen societies, some of them founded for 
purely social purposes, round out the week. If 
anything of a social nature occurs outside of 
the church, it is purely a secondary matter and 
attendance to it is not conducive to highly 
pleasurable enjoyment. The "best people" of 
one church seldom, if ever, meet those of 



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another in social intercourse. There is no 
common ground on which they can meet. The 
musical festival is about the nearest thing that 
comes to it, but this comes only once a year, 
and, by force of the very fact that Worcester's 
society people never .see each other anywhere 
else, is but a large edition of a concert given 
to a heterogeneous audience. The musical 
critics who tell us every September that Wor- 
cester audiences do not, as a rule, appreciate 
classical music, and are, in fact, musically ig- 
norant, think that our tastes are being culti- 
vated by these yearly festivals. It is a mis- 
taken opinion. If Worcester society is not in 
a position to discuss music or anything but 
church work intelligently, how can the vulgar 
and unintelligent element be kept from pre- 
dominating? To attend, without any knowledge 
of music, a musical fete where the best music 
is sung, and expect to understand it, is like at- 
tending a lecture on "Centre of Gravity" and 
expecting to comprehend what is said without 
a knowledge of integral calculus. 

The nearer the church gets to the home, and 
the more it l)ecomes a part of it, of course so 
much the better. No one would underesti- 
mate the importance of a close union of the 
church with our daily duties. But there is no 
reason for its usurping ever>' social function 
and completely dictating our .social relations. 
How many Protestants would be glad to asso- 
ciate with thoroughly able Catholics, and vice 
versa, but for the fact that the church seems 
to loom up between them as an impenetrable 
barrier! 

Worcester is provincial, perhaps, in that its 
churches do have such a strong hold upon our 
social functions. There is not that broad and 
catholic spirit in Worcester which prompts us 
to warmly recognize a writer of genius when 
he visits us or to socially lionize a prodigy in 
some special line of effort. If such things are 
done at all, they have to be done through some 
church or under the auspices of some church 
society and the result is that it is very 
hard to get anyone to take the initiative. 
There is hardly an organization in the city 
that encourages ability or where men of ability 
and standing in the community give advice 
and help to the younger generation. In a word, 
there is no society, in the best and broadest 
meaning of the word. The churches tr\' to 
fill the bill, but they do it in a superficial man- 
ner. They do not get down to the real depth 
of things. Now is the time for Worcester's 
"best people" to meet, not as Congregational- 
ists, or Methodists, or Episcopalian.s, but as 
citizens, and give encouragement and social 
recognition to all prai-seworthy attempts made 
by men and women of brains in musical, liter- 
ary, artistic, scientific and other lines of effort. 

Concerning Mark Twain's copyright suit, the 
niuslra/eii Americaitsiys: "Mark Twain is 
affording lots of fun at present to the American 
comic paragrapher. The developments in the 
copyright trial over 'A Prince and the Pauper' 
were not all that the friends of Mr. Clemens 
could desire, and the controversy between Mr. 
House and himself has been carried into the 
newspapers. The best contribution was un- 
doubtedly made by Mr. House in his letter to 
the New York Times, which was vigorous and 
trenchant. Mr. Clemens has been temporarily 
enjoined from producing the play." 



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The Church Choirs. 



The annual shaking-up of the church choirs 
has taken place, and last Sunday the new choirs 
sang for the first time. The shaking-up has 
been a vigorous on«, this year. There have 
been some important moves on the checker- 
board ; and during the three months just closed 
surprise has followed surprise. The people 
outside of the magic circles of the committees 
have not been the only ones surprised, either, 
for occasionally some one of those awe-inspir- 
ing bodies has been startled and grieved to 
find that a singer supposed to be engaged 
"for keeps" has pulled up the tent-pins and 
"dusted." 

No change has occasioned more comment 
than that made at Piedmont, where a clean 
sweep was made, organist and all going out, 
and the changes at the First Unitarian church 
and the Church of Unity have also been a 
fruitful theme for conversation. Mr. Walter 
Scott Kennedy has seemed so much a fixture 
at the former that the announcement that the 
Unity people had been able to secure his val- 
uable services was hailed with surprise and 
delight in the church where he now is ; and at 
the First Unitarian, Mr. Ben T. Hammond's 
return to active musical work is especially 
pleasing. 

Except in one or two instances, other than 
these, there are no notable changes. Death 
has removed from the circle two men 
long prominent in it — John Q. Adams and A. 
Carey Field. A few favorites like Mr. John 
H. Howell and Miss E. C. Nason retire from 
the list for the present. Mr. Howell has not 
considered any of the offers made him, and 
Miss Nason is about to go abroad. 

Particularly worthy of mention is the suc- 
cess achieved by Mr. J. Vernon Butler in his 
directorship of Pilgrim church choir. 

Within the year, the Old South has entered 
its new house and opened its new organ. 

Some of the music committees have had a 
hard time this year. From Union church, Mr. 
Temple and Mrs. Norcross went to Piedmont, 
and left two important positions to be filled. The 
committee at Plymouth thought they had Mrs. 
Louise Baldwin Powers for a soprano, but 
Mrs. Powers broke the contract. Mrs. Nor- 
cross, likewise, left Piedmont to go to Boston. 
The usual agitation concerning the proposed 
changes from quartet to choruses and vice 
versa has left the situation the same as before, 
now that the smoke has cleared away. 

So far as yet heard from, the new choirs 
gave great satisfaction last Sunday. At Pied- 
mont, where there were five new people, beside 
a chorus with several new voices, the interest 
felt was great, and, despite regrets for old 
friends, everybody seemed pleased. Miss 
Houghton, who is a n^w-comer to Worcester, 
was received with marked favor. Mr. Rich- 
ards was heartily congratulated on the success 
of the chorus work. The same feeling seems 
to prevail at Plymouth and Union churches 
and at the others, where only one soloist, per- 
haps, has been changed, there appears to be 
no grumbling. The music committees are 
probably a very happy lot of people this week. 
They have succeeded in getting their several 
elephants off their hands, and can rest now in 
comparative ease, 



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The choirs have been made up late this 
year, at any rate. Some of them are not com- 
plete even now. Below is given a list of the 
choirs in most of the important churches :— 

Adams Square Baptist Church.— Cho- 
rus. Director, John C. Chapin; leading so- 
prano, Mrs. John F. Cross. 

All Saints Episcopal Church.— Chorus. 
Choirmaster, C.I.Rice; precentor, Charles 
M. Bent; organist, G. Arthur Smith; Decani: 
Bass— Charles I. Rice, solo, Louis E. Booth, 
W. E. Desper;tenor— James A. Brennan, solo, 
E. P. Crierie; boys— Louis Brennan, Theo. 
Haselden, Fred Card, Warren Spurge, Carl 
Page, Walter Eaton, Harry Pitts, Charlie 
Benedict, Willie Jordan, Robbie Taylor, Wil- 
lie Beaumont. Canton: Bass— Luther M. 
Lovell, Robert E. Gates, Lucius W. White; 
tenor— Hoskison Gates, Stanley H. Rood; 
boys— Walter Newton, Bennie Hill, Roy 
Stimpson, Tommy Mitchell, Ernest Cooper, 
Alween Tweltzsch, George Stacy, Fred Pettit, 
.Fred Valva, Herman Colesworthy, Frank 
Gray. 

All Souls Universalist Church.— 
Quartet. Soprano, Miss Lizzie M. Norcross; 
alto, Miss Sadie C. Hooker; tenor and direc- 
tor, M. M. Mowry; bass, C. F. Hitchcock; or- 
ganist, Mrs. Walter Calden. 

Central Congregational Church. — 
Chorus. Director, Edward N. Anderson ; 
organist, Charles H. Grout ; sopranos — Misses 
Henrietta M. Ager, Eva Coughlin, Mrs. L. M. 
Davis, Misses Susie Eldridge, Hattie L. Ells- 
worth, Ida W. French, Etta Kester, Lizzie 
McFarland, Hattie Morse, Addie Pike, Mrs. 
J. W. Pitts, Misses Emma Perkins, Alice 
Perkins, Mrs. J. W. Plaisted, Misses Effie C. 
Smith, Ella Smith ; Altos— Misses Amy Cod- 
ding, Hattie Cromb, Annie M. Dean, May 
Earle, Alice B. Hammond, Clara Megget, 
Minnie Perkins, Lois Thompson, Mrs. Mary E. 
Tenney ; tenors — Charles Fuller, R. H. Gould, 
A. le Cam de Mezillach, Harold C. Powers, 
Rev. A. Burritt Smith, William H. Sanford, 
Milton N. Wicker; basses— W. A. Davis, 
George F. Davidson, Nathan Green, Harry R. 
Hildreth, Professor George H. Haynes, 
Vernon H. Morey, Addison E. M'Gaffey, John 
F. Munroe, F. E. Powers, James Reed, F. J. 
Riggs, Arthur I. Rice, A. F. Smith, Charles B. 
Sanford, W. L. Smith, George Sieurin. 

Church of the Unity. — Quartet. Sopra- 
no, Miss Mae Shepard of Boston; alto. Miss 
Alma L. Collins; tenor and director, Walter 
Scott Kennedy; bass, C. V. Mason; organist, 
Mrs. Carrie King-Hunt. 

Dewey Street Baptist Church. — Quar- 
tet. Soprano, Mrs. E. C. Moulton; alto, Miss 
Anna Louise Smith ; tenor, George A. Put- 
nam ; bass, Wilton H. Merriam; organist and 
director, H. I. Osborne. 

First Baptist Church. — Quartet and 
chorus. Soprano, Miss M. E. Kendall; alto, 
Mrs. John H. Howell; tenor, Thomas A. Cal- 
lahan; bass, Frank H. Hamblin; director, 
Charles G. Stowell. Chorus; Sopranos— Mis- 
ses Lina Johnson, May L. Dadmun, Carrie 
Williams, Amelia Diemar, Nettie Davis, Em- 
ma Mason, Elize Cote and Flora Simmonds; 
altos — Misses Anna Taylor, May M. Whid- 
den, Nellie Shumway, Amy Whidden and 
Annie Volkmar; tenors — Harry A. Cook, An- 
drew Adarns, Frank Shaffer, A- Smith; basses 



— L. J. Terrill, I. F. Goodwin, Forrest Wesson, 
Arthur Rice. 

First L^nitarian Church. — Quartet. So- 
prano, Mrs. Ida Johnson; alto, Mrs. George 
M. Bassett; tenor, J. Edward Fuller, Jr.; bass 
and director, Ben T. Hammond; organist, 
Walter G. Ingalls. 

First Universalist Church. — Quartet. 
Soprano, Mrs. Henry F. Harris; alto. Miss 
Florence King; tenor, C. S. Stoughton; bass, 
James H. Cafferty; organist and director, F"red 
W. White. 

Hope Congregational Church. — Cho- 
rus. Director, Mr. Joseph Walther ; organist, 
Miss Annie Gaunt. Sopranos — Misses Carrie 
E. Sampson, Lottie V. Mee, Lydia Moss, 
Emma Wehinger, Anna I. Erickson, Pauline 
Warden, Jennie M. Ryan, Rose E. Harford, 
Florence A. Deacon; altos — William Gaunt, 
James Warden; tenor — Eugene N. Mellor; 
basses — Walter N. Hook, William C. Deacon, 
Alfred P. Lepley. 

Lake View Congregational Church.— 
Chorus. Director, W. C. Healey; organist, 
Miss Kate Hamilton. Voices— Misses Carrie 
Page, Lena Eaton, Lillie Hacker, Ida Hacker, 
Margaret Hamilton, Louise Scott, Ella Mc- 
Goure, Mr. Russell, Mr. Eugene Simmonds. 

Lincoln Square Baptist Church.— 
Soprano, Mrs. A. S. Hatch; alto. Miss Ida N. 
Chase; tenor *nd director, John F. Waters; 
bass, Elmer J. Cutting; organist, Miss Emma 
Berry. 

Main Street Baptist Church.— Quartet. 
Soprano, Miss Gertrude Inez Buss; alto. Miss 
Elizabeth W. Parmalee; tenor, W. C. Powers; 
bass, Arthur W. Parmalee ; organist and di- 
rector, C. P. Morrrison. 

Old South Congregational Church.— 
Quartet and chorus. Soprano, Mrs. J. W. 
Mitchell; alto. Miss Nellie Broadbent of Mill- 
bury; tenor and director, Thomas B. Hamil- 
ton; bass, Charles J. Marshall; organist, A. V. 
Hill. Sopranos— Mrs. Charles S. Stoughton, 
Mrs. George R. Bliss, Misses Hattie Jerome, 
Mary E. Whipple, Gertrude Whipple, Jessie 
M. D. Hamilton; altos— Miss Anna Louise 
Smith, Mrs. Tompson, Miss Nellie Jerome, 
Miss Foyle, Miss Whitney; tenors— George R. 
Bliss, Francis Blood, Frank Sellers, Louis R. 
Harlow, Harry A. Cook, Mr. Kerr; basses- 
John W. Mitchell, Charles Hammond, Wilton 
H. Merriam, Raymond Kingston. 

Park Congregational Church.— Cho- 
rus. Organist and director, Mrs. E. Sagen- 
dorph. Sopranos — Misses L. Gertrude Col- 
burn, Edith M. Gould, Mrs. M. C. Luce, Miss 
Annie B. Parker; altos— Misses Hattie M. 
Ball, Kate H. Brewster, Florence Parker, El- 
va Sawin; tenor — A. D. Wright; basses— 
Lovell W. Putnam, Asa L. Kneeland. 

Piedmont Congregational Church. — 
Quartet and chorus. Soprano, Miss Evange- 
line Houghton of Boston; alto. Miss Luella 
Flagg, tenor, E. M. Temple of Nashua, N. H.; 
bass, George L. Hyde; organist, Walter H. 
Gaylord; director, Seth Richards, Sopranos 
—Misses Ida E. Stratton, Grace A. (^rosvenor, 
Alice Laird, Mrs. Horatio L. Miller, Mrs. W. 
A. Merriam, Miss Renna May Ingraham; 
altos — Misses Carrie E. Caldwell, Nellie T. 
Sargent, Ina E. Lyons, Florence M. Gates, 
Cora B. Eaton, Margaret R. Hamilton; tenors 
— W. A. Merriam, George Bancroft, Will W. 
Lewis; basses— Louis E, A. Lamson, J. A, 



Cherry, George E. Miller, Will W. Orr, 
George T. Woodward. 

Pilgrim Congregational Church. — 
Quartet and chorus. Soprano, Mrs. George 
A. Bigelow; alto, Mrs. William N. Berry; tenor, 
George L. Butler; bass, George H. Learned; 
organist and director, J. Vernon Butler. So- 
pranos — Misses May E. Ballard, Sadie K. 
Chandler, Sadie E. Dewhurst, Ida L. Gaskill, 
Grace Marden, Georgiana Newton, Elizabeth 
Pease, May A. Parmenter, Emma M. Plimp- 
ton, Lizzie Pierce, Lotta Shellar, Mrs. A. L. 
Stone, Mrs. H. W. Verry: altos — Misses Edith 
' L. Brown, Clara B. Meggett, Sybil M. Gray, 
Anna G. Moore, Jessie Mclver, Mrs. F. L. 
Coan, Mrs. W. E. Knowlton, Mrs. A. H. 
Knight; tenors — William D. Powers, C. D. 
Perkins, F. L. Stetson, Fred J. Wilson, Henry 
Gaunt; basses — A. W. Darling, W. E. Knowl- 
ton, A. H. Barrows, F. R. Heath, Hugh M. 
Southgate. 

Pleasant Street Baptist Church.— 
Quartet. Soprano, Mrs. Webster Thayer; al. 
to. Miss Ann Foskett; tenor, Herbert A. Kim- 
ball; bass, W. J. Flagg; organist and director, 
C. C. Stearns. 

Plymouth Congregational Church.— 
Quartet and chorus. Soprano, Miss Annabelle 
Clarke of Boston; alto, Mrs. H. A. Hanco.v, 
tenor, Frank H. Mason ; bass and director, 
Charles E. Tinney of Boston; organist, George 
E. Brown. Sopranos— Misses Emma L. Dun- 
bar, Avis Day, Mary M. Harvey, Minnie 
Howard, Anna T. Kelley, Mrs. J. A. Long, 
Miss Lessie L. Maynard, Mrs. George A. 
Smith, Miss Nellie M. Rood, Miss L. Ger- 
trude Stowe, Mrs. J. W. Townsend, Miss Car- 
rie M. Wheeler ; altos— Misses Grace G. Al- 
len, Ella P. Blenus, Mrs. George Day, Miss 
Ellen Day, Mrs. F. M. Lord, Misses Hattie H. 
Maynard, A. Louise Penniman, Gertrude Pen- 
der, Ida E. Pease, Addie E. Smith, Mrs. E. 
C. Sibley, Misses Lizzie M. LTrban, Emily G. 
Whittemore, Minnie M. B. Wheeler; tenors — 
Henry W. Butler, Edwin C. Gilman, L. Har- 
wood, T. B. Jordan, Francis D. Leonard, 
George A. Smith, L. D. Smith ; basses — E. 
W. Brigham, George R. Davis, Charles W. 
Gilbert, Charles S. Holden, Sumner A. Kins- 
ley, C. C. Kenyon, George G. Manning, 
George E. Moore. 

Salem St. Congregational Church. — 
Chorus. Organist and director, B. D. Allen 
soloist, Mrs. F. W. Ruggles. Sopranos, Misses 
Sarah F. Hallett. Emma E. Hayward, Carrie 

E. Lee, Mrs. I. Lillian Pardo, Miss Mai^y E. 
Rice, Mrs. E.Tucker. Jr. ; altos. Miss F. Lillian 
Barber, Mrs. Nettie J. Fisher, Misses Edith 
M. Harding, Gertrude E. Lovell, Annie L. 
Otis, Mrs. F. W. Ruggles; tenors, Frank H. 
French, M. S. T. Nahigian, John W. Stewart, 

F. W. Ruggles; basses, Edward F. Otis, 
Charles F. Rice, Charles E. Trumbull, Daniel 
C. Turner, William A. Weir. 

Summer St. Congregational Church. 
— Quartet. Soprano, Miss Mabel Kihbe; alto. 
Miss Cora Morrill; tenor, A. S. Merritt: bass, 
Charles Crover; organist, Frank S. Morrill. 
Mrs. May Sleeper-Ruggles directs the re- 
hearsals. 

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. 
— Chorus. Organist and director, George N. 
Morse. Sopranos — Mrs. William W. Seaver, 
Miss Julia Nichols, Mrs. J, R, Burgess, Miss 



ly ICl HT 

May Hewett, Miss Hattie Luther, Mrs. Chess- 
man, Miss Rena Hartt, Miss Hook, Miss Em- 
ma Ball, Mrs. C. Hilton, Miss Winnie Rankin; 
altos— Mrs. Charles Norwood, Misses Lottie 
Lawson, Cora Braman, E. W. Bean, Lottie 
Buck, Ada Clarke; tenors— Charles L. Clarke, 
J. R. Burgess, Arthur Walls, Dr. F. Lanison, 
Mr. Gustaf Holl; basses— Joseph Clarke, M. 
A. Bemis, Charles T. Buckman, J. Bemis, K. 
C. Walls. 

Union Congregational Chuucil— 
Quartet and chorus. Soprano, Mrs. Emma 
Wagner of Boston; alto, Mrs M. M. Peck, 
tenor, A. C. Buttrick, of Boston ; ha.ss and di- 
rector, D.E.Spencer; organist, Fred H. Blake. 



Words of others. 



Eighteen Hundred Mortgages. 

The Farmers' Alliance is a powerful organi- 
zation in Kansas, and it has recently instructed 
the delegation in Congress from that State 
that something must be done to relieve argri- 
culture and save the homes of the people to 
their present occupants. As a fact going to 
prove the deplorable condition of agriculturists 
out there, this organization states in its memo- 
rial that a single law firm in southern Kansas 
holds a contract to foreclose i,8oo mortgages. 
— Montpclier Argiis-Patirot. 
Lyman Abbott on the Labor Question. 

Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott has always been 
known to hold broad and sympathetic views 
of the labor question, but generally from the 
standpoint of the present industrial system. 
In a recent address at Chicago, however, he 
pronounced against the whole wage system, 
and in favor of an industrial government. 
As it is now, he said, the laborer is denied a 
chance of profit or a chance of work ; the 
wage system diffuses poverty and makes of 
the cradle a coffin, and of the bed a bier. It 
might be true, he declared, that the poor were 
better off now than formerly, but relatively 
the rich are becoming richer and the poor 
poorer — as Henry George has so often said. 
He pointed out that in America, the very El 
Dorado of labor, the average earnings of 
5,200,000 men in 1S89 were only $200 each, or 
%\ a week ; that the bulk of the wealth of the 
country is in the possession of a very few ; 
and that, if we are to avoid a plutocracy — the 
worst form of government on earth — which 
we have already developed in our midst, we 
must find means for more equitably distribut- 
ing the wealth of the land. What these means 
were to be Dr. Abbott very clearly intimated 
at the close, when he said that the adminis- 
tration by the people of a treasury department 
or a bank required no ability or service that 
could not as well or better be applied to a 
cotton mill or the operation of railroads and 
telegraphs. Plainly, then, the pastor of Ply- 
mouth church is prepared to join the ranks of 
the state Socialists and Nationalists in seeking 
the government control of the instruments of 
production. This is a wide departure from 
the views apparently held by him when writing 
the article on " Christianity versus Socialism" 
one year ago for the A'ortli Aiiicricaii I\c7'ifii\ 
and his change of attitude will exert a great 
influence both within and without the church. 
—Spring fit -It i Hi -p uhlican . 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Coninuinications to tliis department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, l.ii.nr, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Paint vs. Beauty.— Mrs. C. O. H. asks 
Answerer for some data regarding the "art of 
beautifying the face." Assuming that the lady 
refers to artificial coloring, it may be said that 
the art of beautifying the complexion by this 
means is very old. The women of anti(|uity 
knew how to give their cheeks the rosy hue 
which nature had denied them. In Nineveh 
the practice of enameling was quite common. 
The skin was made smooth and clean with 
pumice stone, and then covered with a layer of 
white chemical preparations. A toilet case 
found in the ruins of Thebes contained a 
whole ar-senal of little bottles full of per- 
fumeries and complexion medicines. The 
women of Athens painted themselves with 
white lead and vermillion. The poet Ovid de- 
scribed various paints which were used by the 
Roman matrons, and complained that the 
women tried to imitate with cosmetics tlie rosy 
complexion which health alone could give. He 
also spoke of the deceitful pallor lent to their 
cheeks by white lead, and of curious methods 
they had of beautifying their eyes. Again he 
mentions that a pale face was a necessity for 
every woman who aspired to be "good form." 
The custom of painting the face was brought 
to Gaul and Germany by the Romans. A few 
centuries later one hundred different salves 
for the complexion were sold in the German 
market. In modern times France has been 
the great manufacturer and consumer of cos- 
metics. In England, too, the use of them has 
been general. In 1779 the English Parliament 
found it expedient to consider a bill to the 
effect that "all women, without distinction as 
to age and rank, maidens as well as widows, 
who should deceive the male subjects of his 
majesty, and mislead them into marriage by 
means .of paint, salve, beauty water, false 
teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, corsets or pads, 
should be punished under the provisions of the 
law against sorcery, and the marriage should 
be declared null." A German statistician, 
who has accurate data concerning the use of 
cosmetics throughout the civilized world, esti- 
mates that the money which American women 
pay for cosmetics would pay for the painting 
of 37,000 houses at an expense of S75 per 
house. 

Queen Victoria's Crown.— Mr. T. H. K. 
asks if the crown is still in use in England. 
Queen \'ictoria's crown is kept with other 
royal regalia under strong guard at the old 
tower, and worn only on state occasions, and 
is said to be worth $600,000, metal, gems and 
decorations included. 

It Depends Upon Your Looks.— .Mary 
M. asks if it is proper for a lady to wear black 
at a wedding reception. It depends upon 
w-hether or not you look \vell in black, and the 
state of your wardrobe. If your black dre.ss 
is the best dress you have, and it becomes you, 
wear it by all means. 

Fictitious Names of States.— Walter 
W. H. asks for the fictitious names of the 
states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Connecticut and Rhode Lsland. Lumlier or 
Pine Tree state. Granite state. Green Mountain 
state, Nutmeg state. Little Rhody, respectively. 



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A Masonic Easter. 



The Easter service held by the members of 
Lawrence Chapter, Rose Croix, at Masonic 
Hall last Monday evening, was one of the 
most impressive Masonic services ever pre- 
sented in Worcester. Over two hundred and 
fifty prominent masons, and their ladies, filled 
the large hall, and at 7 o'clock the services 
began. 

The committee of arrangements was subdi- 
vided as follows ; — 

General committee of arrangements: M. W. 
and P. M. George B. Buckingham, 33°, John 
L. Harris, 33°, Fred A. Lapham,32°, Sam'l 

E. Hildreth, 32°, John F. Howell, 18°, Orman 
L. Taft, 32°, R. James Tatman, 32°, E. E. 
Longley, 32°, Enoch Earle, 32°, H. C. Wilson, 
32°, Francis Brick, 32°, W. A. Smith, 33°. 

Special committees: 111. Geo. B. Bucking- 
ham, 33°, M. W. and P. M. Chairman, (Ex- 
Officio.) 

Hall and decoration: 111. Kts. John L. Har- 
ris, 32°, Enoch Earle, 32°, M. M. Allard, 32°, 

F. A. Atherton, 32°, J. A. Lowe, 32°, J. S. 
Lovejoy, 32°. 

Flowers ; 111. Kts. John L. Harris, 32°, Henry 

G. Crane, 32°, E. E. Longley, 32°. 
Banquet : 111. Kts. R. J. Tatman, 32°, A. F. 

Gates, 32°, B. F. Parkhurst, 32°, R. H. Cham- 
berlain, 32°, C. B. Pratt, 32°, H. C. Wilson, 32°. 

Subscriptions: 111. Kts. F. A. Lapham, 32°, 
A. F. Gates, 32°, Moses Gross, 32°, J. A. 
Lowe, 32°, W. L. Davis, 32°, F. A. Beane,32°. 

Printing: 111. Kts. Francis Brick, 32°, O. L. 
Taft. 32°, F. A. Atherton, 32°. 

Ritual; 111. Kt. Francis Brick, 32°. 

Music; 111. Kt. Henry B. Keith, 18°. 

Associate masters of ceremonies: 111. Kts. 
Forrest E. Barker, 32°, F. M. Clark, Jr., 32°, 
W. L. Davis, 32°, Chas. E. Davis, 32°, New- 
ton Darling, 32°, Moses Gross, 32°. 

The altar was profusely decorated with 
potted and cut lillies, and red and white roses, 
which, with the wax candles, presented a scene 
artistically .solemn in its significance. The 
following is the program in full: 

Organ introduction, Bro. Kt. H. B. Keith, iS°. 

Processional march and hymn: OflScers of 
the Chapter and the Chapter Quartet com- 
posed of first tenor, W. F. Merrill, iS° ; sec- 
ond tenor, John N. Morse, 18°; first bass, 
Geo. L. Sanborn, 18°; second bass, E. E. 
Spencer, 18°. 

Prayers : "The Lord's Prayer," and "The 
Prayer for Light," by orator, Samuel E. Hil- 
dreth, 32°. 

Address : "Easter and Some of its Associa- 
tions," 111. Bro. Geo. W. Buckingham, 3;^°, M. 
W. and P. M. 

Solo ; "Cross and Crown," (by request,) Bro. 
Kt. D. E. Spencer, 18°. 

The gospel: Matt. Ch. 28, by senior warden, 
John L. Harris, 32°. 

Unveiling of the "Great Lights," and light- 
ing of the "Lesser Lights,": M. W. and P. M. 
and officers of Lawrence Chapter, with music 
by quartet, "He Came to Regenerate Man- 
kind." 

The lessons of Faith, Hope and Charily : 
M. W. and P. M., senior and junior wardens, 
John L. Harris, 32°, and Fred A. Lapham, 32°. 

Easter anthem : "The Lord of Life is Risen 
Again," quartet. 



Iv I(i HT 

Charity offering: hospitaller, R. James Tat- 
man, 32°, and treasurer, John F. Howell, 18°. 

Anthem : "Alone I Stood Outside the Gate," 
quartet. 

Prayer: by Orator Samuel E. Hildreth, 32°. 

Solo and chorus: "Father in Heaven, Hear 
While we Pray," (by request,)solo by Bro. Kt. 
W. F. Merrill, 18°. 

The address: "The Joy of the Cross," by 
Bro. Kt. Rev. J. F. Lovering, 18°. 

Song : "The Lord is My Strength," quartet. 

Benediction: by Orator Samuel E. Hildreth, 

32°- 

Recessional hymn and march. 

M. W. and P. M. Buckingham made the 
opening address, and spoke feelingly of Easter, 
styling it the "Queen of Festivals." "With 
the growth of Christianity," said the speaker, 
"Masonry became closely connected with 
Christian thoughts and movement, and since 
the time of the Crusade, the relations between 
Cliristianity and Masonry have been of the 
most intimate character." 

Rev. J. F. Lovering, D. D., of Old South 
Church delivered the address of the evening, 
taking for his text the words, "We joy in God 
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we 
have received the atonement." The sermon 
was on Easter undividely, and the word-pic- 
tures beautifully painted the resurrection with 
its Easter lessons. In closing the speaker 
said, "It is a miserable shame and disgrace to 
those who, by anonymous inuendoes or by di- 
rect assaults, attack our noble order, charging 
upon us that we have no faith in Christ, our 
Savior. We honor the cross; we live under its 
shadow, and so we dare to ask God's blessing. 
Immortality, salvation, glory — these help us to 
know the joy of the cross. Let that cross be 
our inspiration in this life and for the life to 
come." 

At the close of the services in the hall, the 
party proceeded to the Bay State House, 
where an elaborate banquet was served. Ex- 
actly two hundred and forty people were 
seated at the tables. The menu was as follows : 



Soup, 



Tomato. 



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rolls. 



Koast turkey. Cranberry sauce. 

Browned mashed potatoes. 
Fillet of beef, with champignons. 
Potatoes. Spinach. 

Chicken croquets. 
Green peas. 
Escaloped oysters— New England style. 
Oyster patties. 
Chicken salad — mayonaise dressing. 
Orange sherbert. 
Roast grouse — larded. 
Baked potatoes. 
English plum pudding — brandy sauce. 
Charlotte russe. Sponge cake. Nut cake. 

Fig cake. Pound cake. Angel cake. 
Salted almonds. Mixed nuts. Raisins. 
Bananas. Oranges. 
Edan and domestic cheese. Bent's water crackers. 
Coffee. 
The menu cards, as well as the program of 
services at the hall, were elaborate affairs, be- 
ing bound in boards, and faced with steel en- 
gravings upon celluloid. The printing was 
done by Mr. O. B. Wood. 

The midnight bells were ringing just as cof- 
fee was served, and there was no time for ex- 
tended speech making. Toast Master Buck- 
ingham, however, introduced Mayor Francis 
A. Harrington, who spoke briefly, congratulat- 
ing the chapter, and Rev. J. F. Lovering, D. D., 
whose speech was brimming over with bright- 



ness, and whose anecdotes were irresistable. 
The quartet sang "Annie Laurie" and their 
famous, "Boy, Teacher and Tack," song. At 
the conclusion of Mr. Lovering's remarks, Mr. 
Buckingham, in behalf of the chapter, pre- 
sented him with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. 
Flowers were then distributed to those families 
who by sickness were unable to be represented. 
The company then sang "Auld Lang Syne." 
Delightful music was furnished by Kibbe & 
Stacy's orchestra, and the quartet received the 
heartiest of appreciative encores. 

The chapter is officered as follows : Most 
Wise and Perfect Master, George B. Bucking- 
ham, 33° ; M. E. Senior Warden, John L. 
Harris, 32°; M. E. Junior Warden, P'red A. 
Lapham, 32°; Gr. Orator, .Samuel E. Hil- 
dreth, 32° ; Treasurer, John F. Howell, 18°; 
Secretary, Orman L. Taft, 32° ; Hospitaller, 
R. James Tatman, 32° ; Master of Ceremonies, 
E. E. Longley, 32° ; Captain of the Guardi 
Enoch Earle, 32° ; Tyler, Henry H. Flint, 18°. 

Among those present were : — 

Gen. and Mrs. R. H. Chamberlain, Hon. S. E. 
Hildreth, Mrs. L. W. Rand, Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry C. Wilson, Mrs. D. F. Parker, Mrs. 
George E. Boyden, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Brown, Mr. C. R. Rathbun, Mr. and Mrs. F. 
L. Lapham, Hon. and Mrs. L. L. Whitneyi 
Mr. George M. Pierce, Dr. and Mrs. F. Buck, 
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Buckingham, Miss 
Alice P. Buckingham, Miss Florence E. 
Buckingham, Rev. J. F. Lovering, Mayor and 
Mrs. F. A. HaiTington, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo 
E. Sessions, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Harris, Mr. 
and Mrs. Franklin P. Douglass, Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward E. Longley, Mr. Nathaniel C. Fowler, 
Jr., Mr. and Mrs. William H. Burns, Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles O. Tyler of Spencer, Mr. and 
Mrs. George P. Prouty of Spencer, Mr. and 
Mrs. N. E. Craig of Spencer, Mr. George A. 
Craig and daughter of Spencer, Mr. M. S. 
Morse, Mr. M. Schlesinger, Mr. Daniel B. 
Sulkin, Mr. G. A. Cheney, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. 

A. Winter of Millbury, Mr. and Mrs. .Augustus 
S. Winter of Millbury, Dr. and Mrs. A. C. 
Hull, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Rice, Dr. and Mrs. 
J. M. Barton, Miss M. E. Warner, Mr. and 
Mrs. E. C. Field of Ashburnham, Mrs. G. K. 
Rand, Mr. Fred H. Woodcock, Mr. and Mrs. 
Moses Gross, Mr. and Mrs. James Pursey, 
Mrs. D. B. Wetherbee of New Bedford, Dr. 

J. C. Cutter of Warren, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. 
Conway of West Brookfield, Mr. J. S. Tenny, 
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Crane, Mrs. Jay E. 
Phillips, Mr. M. M. Allard, Mr. and Mrs. R. 
James Tatman, Mr. C. T. Tatman, Miss May 
E. Tatman, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Davis, Mr. 
and Mrs. J. A. Sears, Mr. and Mrs. linoch 
Earl, Mr. E. Walter Earl, Mr. and Mrs. 
Alfred H. Whitney of Ashburnham, Mr. 
Nathaniel Jewett of Ashburnham, Mr. and 
Mrs. A. F. Gates, Mr. Frank E. Wheeler, 
Miss Susie E. Wheeler, Miss S. F. Gates, 
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Stoddard, Mr. and Mrs. 
John A. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Wood, 
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Prentice, Mr. and 
Mrs. Jesse Smith, Miss Mabelle H. Prentice, 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Richardson, 
Miss Gertie E. Smith, Miss I?ertha I5igelo\v, 
Miss Mabel Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 

B. Pratt, Mr. Martin O. Richardson, Mr. and 
Mrs.J. Henry Jack.son, Mi.ss Emily Wilson, Mr. 
Matthew J. Whittall, Mr. Chariotte Hinsley, 
Mrs. M. J. Whittall, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 



Thomas, Miss L. Green, Mr. and Mrs. N. G. 
Burbank, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Evans, Miss 
Josephine Davis, Miss Harriet Gates, Mr. 
Charles H. Davis, Miss Maud .Shaffer, Mr. 
and Mrs. S. L. Shaffer, Miss Florence L. 
Shaffer, Miss Ella G. Shaffer, Mr. Waldo A. 
Merrifield, Mr. F. H. Merrifield, Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward H. Atherton, Mr. Frank A. Atherton, 
Mrs. H. L. Adams, Captain and Mrs. H. R. 
Williamson, Miss Eva Clarke, Miss Hellen 
Hinsley, Mrs. Waldo A. Simpson, Mr. and 
Mrs. O. F. Kawson, Miss. M. Rheutan, 
Miss Gertrude E. Smith, Miss Bertha L. 
Bigelow, Miss Rheutan, Miss Gertrude 
Everett, Mr. I. L. Rheutan, Mr. J. F. Howell, 
Mrs. J. F. Howell, Miss Mattie R. Howell, 
Mrs. A. M. Thomas, Miss Maud Clark, Miss 
Etta Holbrook, Mr. H. P. Hopkins, Mr. F. M. 
Clark, Jr., Mr. F. A. Clark,Mr. and F. M. Cljrk. 
Mr. F. C. Andrews, Mr. C. C. Andrews, Mrs. 
D.W.Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Fair- 
banks, Mr. A. G. Weatherbee, Mrs. F. E. 
Weatherbee, Mrs. L. C. Babbitt, Mr. Fred A. 
Pierce, Miss Alice C. Beane, Mr. and Mrs. F. 
A. Beane, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Estey, Mr. W. 
T. Scott, Mr. William T. Pratt, Mr. and 
Mrs. P. W. Wood, Mrs. H. T. Ames, Miss 
A. C. Wolf, Mr. William T. Gould, Mr. H. T. 
Ames, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Willis, Mr. H. F. 
Rice, Mr. John P. Munroe, Mrs. Addie 
McLauglin, Mrs. David Atherton, Mr. Osman 
S. Taft, Miss Mabel C. Taft, Mr. and Mis. F. 
E. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Davis, 
Mr. H. B. Keith, Miss Florence E. Keith, Mr. 
Edward H. Keith, Mr. G. L. Sanborn, Miss 
Delia A. Cheever, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. 
Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Merrill, Mr. and 
Mrs. Morton E. Converse of Winchendon, 
.Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ainsworth, Mrs. B. F. 
Parkhurst, Miss Parkhurst, D. Waterhouse 
Niles, M. D., Mr. Henry E. Fisher, Mr. and 
Mrs. Henry Walker, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. 
Oilman, Mr. Horace C. Holmes, Miss Dora 
O. Holmes, Mr. Walter E. Holmes, Miss 
Minnie M. Gard, Mr. Francis G. Burgess, Mr. 
and Mrs. T. D. Gard,Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Stew- 
ardson, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Richardson, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. W. Greene, Miss Mamie A. Green, Miss 
Bertha Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Rheutan. 



A leading American artist was asked why 
he confined himself to portraits, small pic- 
tures and foreign ideas, instead of undertaking 
something that would really make a sensation 
in art circles — some big American subject that 
would be worthy of his talent. He replied 
that he would do so gladly if he could, but he 
could not afford it. To paint sucli a picture 
would cost, allowing himself carpenter's wages, 
from $1,200 to $2,000. Models must be hired, 
researches undertaken, and costly material 
purchased. Then, when it was done, the 
chances were, he thought, that every one 
would admire it and no one buy it. Artists 
without capital or patrons won't undertake big 
work. Artists with capital and reputation 
have no reason to. Why don't some of our 
wealthy men undertake to encourage art by 
agreeing to stand sponsor to some of our 
rising artists ? The Government fosters art in 
France. Here the Government ruins it; for 
once in a while it buys a bad picture at an 
enormous price and is so overcome with its 
virtuous acrion that it has to rest several years 
before trying 2,%-i:m.— Philadelphia Inquirer. 



About Folks. 

The Arlington Club has elected officers for 
1S90, as follows: President, Frank B. Waite; 
vice-president, Herbert P. Hopkins; secre- 
tary, Fred D.Sibley; treasurer, A. J. Daniels; 
directors, George A. Barnard, William H. 
Goodell, John A. Lake; membership com- 
mittee, Frank S. Day, Edmund F. Capron, 
Arthur E. Davis, Burloii W. Grout, John V.. 
Kennedy. 

The young men of Piedmont Church have 
arranged for a supper and entertainment to be 
given at the church Tuesday euening. They 
have made all the arrangements themselves 
and their mothers and sisters have not been 
permitted to have any part in the plans. 
A musical program, novel in many respects, 
will be given by young men only, both 
instrumental and vocal talent appearing. 
Young men will also serve the supper 
and the waiters are to appear in a 
costume never before attempted in the city — 
in public at least. The waiters will probably 
furnish as much "entertainment" as the musi- 
cians, though in a slightly different way. 

Mr. L. M. Alexander, of 195 Front street, 
announces his first annual catalogue of 'cycles. 

Both branches of Piedmont Benevolent 
Union met last Tuesday afternoon, the junior 
branch holding a missionary meeting. Mrs- 
Horatio L. Miller presided, and Mrs. Dr. 
Mears read several letters from foreign fields. 
Interesting papers were read by Miss Ida E. 
Stratton, Mrs. B. F. Curtis, Mrs. Leo C. 
Farnsworth, Miss Florence Chaffee and Miss 
Lizzie Stone, the general subject being 
"Medical Missionaries." 



Mr. Benjamin Whitmore, Jr., one of the 
corps of instructors of the Worcester County 
Music School, has been engaged as tenor and 
director of the choir of Grace M. E. Church. 



Mr. Alfred Clifford, now the manager of 
the Y. M. C. A. Concert and Entertainment 
Bureau, at Boston, entered upon his duties 
last week. His first booking is of Worcester 
parties, as he has made an engagement for the 
Cecilia Ladies Quartet, including Mrs. E. H. 
Plaisted, Mrs. L. M. Davis, Miss Lillian 
Whittemore and Miss Ann Foskett, and Miss 
Stella M. Haynes, elocutionist, to give an 
entertainment under Y. M. C. A. auspices at 
Southbridge, April 29. 

Principal Alfred S. Roe is the editor of a 
volume of the "Sir Roger de Coverley Papers" 
from The Spectator, ]uii published by Leach, 
Shewell & Sanborn, Boston and New York. 
It is a very attractive little volume, i2mo., 
98pp., bound in cloth, tastefully stamped in 
black. The book is one of a ".Students' .Series 
of English Classics," and has merits which 
recommend it particularly to young students 
of English literature. Mr. Roe has done his 
work very carefully and exhaustively. Several 
pages of prefatory work are his, including a 
succinct account of The Speetator's career, a 
list of sources of information concerning the 
Spectator and its contributors, chronologies 
of the lives of Addison and Steele, and a 
sketcli of Eustace Budgell. At the end of the 
book are inserted a dozen pages of valuable 



l2 

notes, into which Mr. Roe must have put no 
small amount of research, aside from a per- 
ceptible application of a wide range of general 
knowledge. Not less valuable is the index, 
something that other editors might u.se more 
frequently, to the gratification of the readers. 
In the body of the book, that is, the papers 
themselves, the work of the editor's careful 
hand is also readily apparent to one familiar 
with this famous group of papers. Mr. Roe 
has used everything printed in The Spectator 
which has a bearing upon the subject, and in 
eludes three letters which have appeared in no 
previous edition. He also retains the old 
headings and date lines, something that no 
other editor has done, for some rea.son 
which is shrouded in mystery. Beautiful 
as tliese treasures of ICnglish literature are, it 
must be remembered that two centuries ago, 
or nearly that, expressions crept into the best 
writings which in these days would be con- 
sideted a tritle "broad." Mr. Roe, then, has 
carefully eliminated from the text everything 
of the nature referred to, and, it must be said, 
in an exceptionally satisfactory way. His 
pruning has been judicious and makes no 
serious wound in the original material. This 
has prepared the book for readers of all ages 
and ideas, and has given to a gem never to 
be duplicated, a setting which will enhance its 
value in the eyes of many readers. 



Mr. Frank S. C. Wicks, an instructor in 
Vieuland School, at Peekskill, N. Y., has 
been at home for a week, on vacation. Ac- 
conrpanying him is Mr. Gilbert Bulkeley 
Morgan, of Buffalo, N. Y., who is a student 
at Vieuland, and Mr. Wicks has been show- 
ing him the sights of Worcester. 



Mr. Caleb A. Wall will give a historical 
addre-ss in Pilgrim Hall, on Monday evening, 
April 28, by invitation of the young people of 
Pilgrim Church, on the "South End of Long 
Ago," in which he will give an account of the 
first settling in that section, and their 
locations, with particular reference to the 
appearance presented there 100 years ago and 
fifty years ago, respectively, in contrast with 
the present time. This will be followed by 
other addresses of a similar character by him, 
in other sections of the city, during the coming 
season, descriptive of the earliest settlers and 
their respective locations. One of these sec- 
tions to be described in this way, takes in the 
centra! portion of the city, including both 
sides of Main and Front streets, between the 
Old Common and Lincoln and Washington 
Squares. 

The Junior Endeavor Society of Salem 
Street Church is to give an entertainment at 
the church, next Tuesday evening, which will 
include a "Kinder Symphony," entirely by the 
children, and "Musical Shadows," whicli 
promise to furnish more than the usual 
amount of entertainment to those present. 
The proceeds are to be applied to missionary- 
purposes. 



Mr. Frank W. McCleay, who has been en- 
gaged as support for Wilson Barrett, is to give 
a reading in Worcester shortly, under the 
auspices of Mrs. J. H. Cutter's School of 
English Speech. 



16 



Words of Others. 



Insurance Without Examination. 

In the early days of life assurance a medical 
examination was not deemed necessary, and 
tliougli there is evidence forthcoming to prove 
that the system then in vogue worked satisfac- 
torily, the conditions of assurance have so 
altered of late that it would not be safe to base 
any argument on this fact. Some forty or 
fifty years ago the directors of the various 
offices awoke to the importance of subjecting 
applicants for assurance to a medical examina- 
tion, and a medical examination is insisted on 
by all British companies. It is stated that an 
old assurance society intends to revert to a 
modified form of the old discarded method of 
assurance without examination. Though we 
fully recognize the value of a good family 
history-, we can not agree with the statement 
we once heard drop from the lips of a dis- 
tinguished actuar)', that given a good family 
and personal history he thought a medical ex- 
amination might be dispensed with. One 
thing, however, is certain, that it would not be 
possible at the present time to accept lives for 
assurance in the ordinary sense of the term 
without a medical report. — British Medical 
Journal. 
Competitive Examinations. 

May not a man be eminently competent for of- 
ficial preferment, and not at all competent for a 
competitive examination,'' The system of com- 
petitive examination may not be perfectly 
adapted to ascertaining the comparative fitness 
of candidates for place; but it is the best that 
has been suggested, and it is infinitely better 
then a system in which fitness is not considered 
at all. Whatever may be the influence of the 
system of federal examinations upon the edu- 
cation of the American people, there can not 
be two opinions as to the effect of that system 
upon the national character. It is needless 
to point out that a contest of merit, into which 
any one may enter without fear or solicitation, 
induces high endeavor,and conserves manhood. 
— Oliver P. Morton, in A ttantic Monthly. 

Again Congratulated. 

Worcester is to be congratulated on the re- 
cent addition made to its literature. The new 
paper or magazine consists of 24 large, three 
column pages, is neatly printed, bound, and 
trimmed, and its entire outfit being new, its 
contents varied and all intensely interesting to 
young and old, male and female, it cannot fail 
in filling the "long felt want." True to its 
name. Light will be shed through its columns 
in every household that gives it a welcome. 
The enterprise conducted on the line upon 
which it has been started and under its present 
managers cannot fail being a success. — Athol 
Chroniile. 
Cost of Municipal Lighting. 

American citizens are still discussing the 
question whether they can save anything by 
establishing their own lighting plants. Euro- 
pean cities satisfied themselves long ago that 
municipal control is not only cheaper to the 
tax-payers, but that it results in much more 
ample and all-penetrating illumination. Only 
two or three .-\nierican cities liave followed the 
ICuropean example of undertaking the gas 
business as a municipal function ; but now 



that electricity has entered the field so largely 
as a street luminant, a number of our cities 
are making the experiment. Some extremely 
instructive figures upon the point of cost 
of electric lighting are presented in the last 
issue of the New York IndependetU in an 
article by Mr. Victor Kosewater, of the Johns 
Hopkins University. Mr. Rosewater gives a 
list of nearly a hundred American cities that 
are supplied with electric light by private com- 
panies, and another list of about twenty cities 
that have gone into the business upon public 
account. There is great diversity in the price 
paid in different cities, but the average in 
those patronizing private companies is JI103.13 
per light per annum. Boston pays JJiSo, 
Philadelphia $\ti. New Orleans J130, and 
Minneapolis $150. New York pays only $90 
under a recent bid. Except New York, New 
Orleans, and Philadelphia, Minneapolis is the 
largest user of street electric lights in the 
entire country. Those cities which are manu- 
facturing their own electricity obtain a supply 
at an average cost of $$2.12^2 per light — about 
one-third of what Minneapolis pays. Chicago's 
municipal plant supplies nearly 300 lights at a 
cost of $65.60 each, and they burn all night, 
every night. Ypsilanti, Mich., supplies 80 
lights at a cost of $23.61 each, and these are 
the full lights of 2,000 candle power. — Minne- 
apolis Tribune. 

The Girl and the Flower. 



About Business. 



BY EDMUND SMITH Mil 



I Stood alone amid the leaves and flowers, 

In green'ry cooled by early evening air, 
.^nd breathed the perfume born in tropic bowers. 

Of plants that only knew of love and care. 

A dewy freshness filled the peaceful hour, 

The moon-beams glanced and danced with silver feet, 
.\nd stepping light from leaf to fragrant flower, 

Were making beauty still more rich and sweet. 

This was a home for royal blooms and rare, 

The deepest blush of rose and lily pale 
Were free from vulgar eyes that mock and stare. 

These flowers lived like queens in olden tale. 

Each bud, a gem alive with beauty's glow, 
\\' as graced with every blessing from above. 

They knew not pain, or winds that coldly blow. 
Each flower was a child of happy love. 

Anon I felt the breeze was cooler blowing, 
And strolled away into the moon-lit night. 

I found a wee and lonely flower growing 
Among the shadows almost lost to sight. 

No care of loving heart, or touch of hand. 
Had made its life a long and pleasant dream. 

Alone it lived amid the forest land. 
Now wet by dew, now warmed by sunny beam. 

And as I gazed the flower grew in grace, 

Until it shed a glory all around. 
It seemed to have a soul, I saw a face ! 

.\nd heard low words and sweetest music sound. 

I thought of homes and daughters safely dwelling. 
The father's joy, the mother's nestling dove. 

Of family hearths, and bliss beyond the telling, 
A house-hold blessed by fond parental love. 

Each maid is like a fragile blossom reared, 
Her life is full of joyous warmth and light. 

No bitter pang, no dissapointment feared. 
Have told that life is full of weary fight. 

But out amid the city dark and cold, 
Her parents long asleep beneath the sod. 

In garret chamber poor, no friends or gold, 
A maiden lives, whose only friend is God. 

Her soul is pure as is the forest flower. 

Her life is filled with that same boundless love. 
For her exists the same eternal power, 

And ^angels watch her from the realms above. 
Worcester, Mass. 



Foreign Capital in the United States 

Says the Troy Times — The extensive pur- 
chases recently made in this country by British 
syndicates has no doubt aroused a great deal 
of apprehension, and with just reason. The 
highest estimate places recent investments in 
the United States by British syndicates at $70- 
000,000 to $80,000,000. We turn out, at a rough 
guess, $10,000,000,000 worth of products year- 
ly. In the industries whose fruits are repre- 
sented by those figures how insignificant is the 
$70,000,000 or $80,000,000 of British gold! 
Again, it should be remembered that this has 
long been a favorite field for British investors, 
and that some enterprises of great value and 
importance to Americans owe a large part of 
their financial backing to foreigners. Thus, 
for instance, it is said that about $80,000,000 of 
the capital of the Pennsylvania and Reading 
railroad companies is in British hands. But 
as the total capitalization of the two corpora- 
tions is $400,000,000, the foreigners are very far 
from having control. There is hardly a new 
railroad launched in this country the stock or 
bonds of which are not held in England, and 
the total amount invested in these undertak- 
ings by the British is put at $700,000,000 to 
$800,000,000, As this is less than one-tenth the 
entire railroad capital of the country the best 
paying part of which is kept at home, there is 
comparatively little danger of our foreign 
friends appropriating them to their exclusive 
benefit. In like manner it is comforting to be 
assured that the recent British investments by 
syndicates do not represent one-twentieth the 
value of our manufacturing plants. 
Business an art. 

One great secret of success in business — the 
secret, in fact, of success on a large scale — is 
to conceive of it as a matter of principals, not 
merely as a series of transactions. There are 
great merchants, as there are great statesmen, 
and there are small merchants, as there are 
small politicians, and the difference between 
the great and small men is very much the 
same in both professions. The small politi- 
cian works by the day, and sees only the one 
small opportunity before him, the small mer- 
chant does the same thing — he is looking for 
the next dollar. The statesman, on the other 
hand, is master of the situation because he 
understands the general principles which con- 
trol events ; this knowledge enables him to 
deal with large questions and to shape the fu- 
ture. The great merchant does the same thing; 
his business is not a mere money-getting affair, 
not a mere matter of barter, but a science and 
an art; he studies the general laws of trade, 
watches the general condition of the country, 
investigates present needs, foresees future 
wants, and adapts his business to the broad 
conditions of his time and place. He puts as 
much brains into his work as does the states- 
man, and he ends by being, not a money-get- 
ter, but a large minded and capable man. An 
eminently successful business man of the 
statesmanlike quality, said, the other day, tliat 
the more he understood of life, the more clear- 
ly he saw that it was all done on business 
principles. By which he meant not only that 
the universe stands for the dollar, but that the 
universe is governed by unvarying laws, that 
promptness, exactness, thoroughness, and hon- 
esty are wrought into its very fiber. 



The Worcester Coal Mine. 



IIV H. H. CHAMISERLIN. 



Editors of Light : 

C;entlcmen: My modest address to the So- 
ciety of Antiquity was so "rattled" by the re- 
porters that it really "did not know its own 
father;" and indeed the "author of its being" 
found it difficult to recognize his bantling; in 
justice to the gentleman so unjustly accused of 
the authorship, and in deference to the request 
of some who heard the address, I gratefully 
avail myself of your permission to use your 
columns. Your Ob't. Sei-v't, 

H. H. Chambeklix. 

CHAPTER I. 

Before taking up our immediate subject, 1 
hope I may be indulged in "looking backward" 
to the eprly days of mining in this vicinity. 

The following account may be found in 
"Lincoln's History of Worcester :" "About the 
middle of the last century, a mania for mining 
prevailed, almost as ruinous as that for specu- 
lation an hundred years later. Mining opera- 
tions, in search of the precious metal, begun 
almost simultaneously in Worcester, Temple- 
ton, Sterling, and many other towns of the 
county, terminated, from want of science and 
skill, in total failure. 

"As early as 1754, a vein of metal, which 
was supposed to be silver, was discovered at 
the head of the valley, about a mile north of 
the town of Worcester. A company for ex- 
ploring the spot was formed, by some of the 
most substantial inhabitants. Furnaces and 
smelting houses were erected, and a cunning 
German was employed as superintendent. Un- 
der his direction a shaft was sunk eighty feet 
perpendicularly, and a horizontal gallery ex- 
tended about as far through the rock, which 
was intersected by another shaft, commenced 
about six rods north of the first opening. The 
company expended great sums in blasting the 
rock, raising its fragments and erecting build- 
ings and machinery. 

"But while the pile of stones increased, the 
money of the partners diminished. Specimens 
of the ore contain a minute portion of silver, 
specks of copper and lead, much iron, and an 
extraordinary quantity of arsenic. The fur- 
naces in full blast produced nothing but suffo- 
cating vapors, curling over the flames in those 
beautiful coronets of smoke which still attend 
the attempt to smelt the ore. Some papers 
which still exist indicate that the shrewd for- 
eigner pretended to a knowledge of the occult 
sciences, as well as skill in the art of decep- 
tion. However this may be, he assured the 
company that the great enemy of man had 
been busy in defeating their exertions, making 
his presence redolent in the perfumes of sul- 
phur and arsenic." (So far Lincoln's History.) 

It is possible that this sorcerer, warned by 
these sulphurous intimations, began to suspect 
that he was approaching too near to that for- 
midable gate-way, over which was written "ye 
who enter here leave all hope behind." And 
having exhausted the funds and the patience 
or his dupes, he was glad to get away while 
there was time ; so, having collected $100 from 
credulous friends, and taking a barrel of ore, 
under pretense of having it assayed in Phila- 
delphia, he fared forth "to fresh woods and 
pastures new," and was never heard of more. 



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Something About Clothes. 

— Lovely Knglish tweeds in almost invisible 
chccks, J2.50 per yard, are made up without 
any trimming except hand.somely carved pearl 
buttons. The basques are pointed or jacket 
shaped, the collars high, the sleeves full or 
plain as desired, and either the front or the 
side of the skirt is trimmed. 

— Striped checked cheviot, serge, etc., for a 
walking, traveling, or shopping gown, will be 
exceedingly stylish. 

— Some lovely toilettes for church and visit- 
ing wear are of cashmere, having a draped 
front ornamented with deep Vandykes, six in 
number, or three cross bands, each three 
inches wide, of appliqu^ embroidery over lace, 
which gives a charmingly dressy appearance 
to the gown. 

— Misses will fancy the convenient and 
jaunty shoulder capes with their spring cos- 
tumes, either of the dress material or of plain 
cloth of the same color; or if of brown, blue, 
fawn, green, or tan cloth, they can be worn 
with all suits. 

— Nothing is more refined for an elderly 
matron's best dress than a black armure or 
gray faille, trimmed with lace pleating around 
the neck, sleeves, and down the front as a 
jabot. Sometimes the basque is left plain, 
and either a white or black lace scarf draped 
to form a loose plastron, with lace to corres- 
pond basted in the sleeves. The pansy shades, 
in vogue once more, are charming on women 
past their middle bloom as well as their first 
freshness. 

— Cheviot having a plaid effect of three 
shades forms a pointed bodice front, large 
sleeves, and both the front and left of a skirt. 
The collar, cuffs, and shaped belt are of brown 
velvet matching the medium shape. The 
"habit" back to the bodice, full skirt back, 
slightly draped sides and square front carried 
over to the left hip so as to disclose a plaid panel 
and facing at the foot, are of tan brown serge 

— The woollen goods are surpassingly love- 
ly this spring and yet of a reasonable price. 
Plaid effects are very prominent; by this is 
meant plaids of shades interruped by a plain 
satin, or bourette hair-line of another color. 
These good never grow outre even if out of 
style, which can not be said of the tartans, 
now revived. When in fashion tartan plaids 
are very stylish, but their day is not a long 
one, and their very striking effect kill them 
when passt^. 

— Delicate shades of fine woolen goods are 
made up for young ladies' dressy gowns with 
out being for full dress. They are made with 
round waists or basques, shirred to the figure 
wherever a seam may be omitted, and have 
full skirts and gigot sleeves, with trimming of 
velvet ribbon only, or heavy guipure lace in 
addition. One receutly seen had a yoke, 
sleeves, and girdle of silk cord netting, the 
shade of the fine cashmere, laid over silk. 

— Yokes of Vandykes or piece embroidery 
are fashionable again, as are round jacket 
pieces or arm-size trimmings. Perfectly round 
waists are worn, full on the shoulders and at 
the waist, or with gathers at the waist only, 
with a belt of insertion or ribbon, or an hlliza- 
bethan bodice having a round back and bluntly 
pointed front, with fullness from the shoulders 
drawn to the point. 



^ 

A NEW DEPARTMENT 

Opened this week, in wliitli we show llie (inesl and most 
complete assortments of 

13k Kss AN" Wrah 

-f TRIMMINGS 4- 

to Ix- fimrul ill tliis city. All Uie hti-st styles of Van 
Dyki' rciiiits from one inch to thirty-six inches wide, 
I'linges, Tinsel and Steel Gimps, liraids and Wrap 
Trimmings, Etc., and an extensive line of choice nov- 
elties not to be found elsewhere. 

;\s this depaitment is to be made a special feature of 
our business, ladies will always find us supplied with 
everything new and desirable in Trimmings at the low- 
est prices. 



R. GROSS & CO., 

Successors to C. H. Ellsworth. 
349 MAIN ST. 



K. SiMMONDS, 

FINE MILLINERY GOODS, 

294 Main Street. 



Ladies thinking of purcha.sing 
.Spring Millinery would do well to 
inspect the stock of Trimmed and 
Untrimmed Goods and Millinery 
Novelties at 

K. 5innOND5, 

294 Main Street, opp. Bay State Honse. 

Order Easter Hats now. 



13 

Easter Monday in Washington. 

Washington, D. C, March lo, 1890. 

Mr. Editor : The Capitol City sends most 
cordial greeting to the city of Worcester, and 
has l)een trj-ing for days to send her the balm- 
iest breezes and, borne on their wings, some 
of the perfume of her bursting leaves and 
flowers. But New York has been so chilly 
ever since she failed to get the "World's 
Fair," that she freezes everj' breath from the 
sunny South that passes near her, and floods 
both herself and all the New England shore. 
There, your six-days-in-the-week rain is ac- 
counted for, and thus, too, is indicated the 
good fortune of those who have spent Easter 
week on the banks of the Potomac. 

Washington is always interesting, but never 
more so than when putting on her spring 
robes. At this season pilgrims come hither 
from ever>' quarter and every state of the 
country — Florida's visitors return north to 
escape the heat, Louisiana's flee from inunda- 
tions. Westerners from cyclones, and Cana- 
dians from under the shadow of icebergs. A 
gentleman from Montreal tells me that April 
I, the snow in his own city was four feet in 
depth. 

Within the week of our stay here some 
things have occurred of more than ordinary 
interest. At the Capitol the Montana election 
case has elicited debate in the Senate of 
unusual vigor and spiciness. This has run for 
some time and has not yet ended. On Thurs- 
day we saw Mr. Ingalls installed as President, 
pro tempore. After occupying the chair for 
three minutes, he resigns it to Mr. Cockrell of 
Missouri, whom Vice-President Morton had 
called to preside a half hour earlier. So that 
morning the Senate had three presiding officers, 
all of whom despatched business with as much 
ease and grace as if they had been guiding the 
Senate all their days. If you hear that only 
two or three Republican senators are in their 
seats when some time a dull political oppo- 
nent is rehearsing a part, chiefly for the benefit 
of his constituents, — you may be sure that Mr. 
Senator Hoar is one of these two or three. 
Nothing escapes him. No duty does he 
shirk, though it be unpleasant. 

It was a little amusing that same day to hear 
two Puritan New England senators lead off in 
advocacy of adjournment on Good Friday. 
What would Pym and Hampden, had they 
come from the shades, have said to that? 

The one spot in Washington which year by 
year more and more attracts and instructs 
visitors is the National Museum. This is the 
outgrowth of the Smithsonian, but is now two 
or three times larger. Practically both are 
one. They are under the same general man- 
agement, that of Prof. Langley, aided by a 
corps of very competent assistants. In ten 
years the number of specimens in their collec- 
tions has increased fifteen fold, or from 200,- 
000 to 3,000,000. Here the student of almost 
any science can find abundant material for 
illustration. Here, if we include the Bureau 
of Agriculture, is a centre of deposit and ex- 
change of every known production of the 
country. Here are most valuable historical 
relics, — implements and ornaments of the 
stone age, the vestiges of the mound-builders, 
models of nearly extinct pueblos, canoes. 



L I d H T 

weapons and dress of many Indian tribes, the 
spinning wheels of a century or two ago, the 
first locomotive ever built and used in the 
country. Prof. Morse's original telegraph in- 
struments, Gen. Grant's sword, medals, and 
corporation gifts, woods, ores and minerals 
from every state in the Union, beasts from 
every forest and fish from everj' clime— these 
are mere suggestions of the value and extent of 
these collections. All have been re-arranged 
and many of them re-mounted within five 
years. For lack of room, nearly one-half the 
treasures committed to the Museum either 
permanently or temporarily cannot be ex- 
hibited. The Senate has three times voted an 
appropriation of half a million for a new wing 
of the Museum, and the House should concur. 
Easter Monday is a school holiday in 
Washington, and all the children of the city 
with their friends are invited to the grounds 
of the White House to participate in what is 
called egg-rolling. All carrj' hard boiled eggs 
in their lunch baskets, and the sport consists 
in rolling them down the slopes of two pretty 
knolls in the rear of the executive mansion. 
When a hard shell strikes a soft shell and 
cracks it, the latter is the captive of the former 
and the hard shell may thus win a dozen of its 
weaker brethren. One boy, it is said, starved 
his hens for a few days, then fed them inor- 
dinately with a mixture containing a large pro- 
portion of powdered oyster shells and by this 
means obtained eggs whose shells were almost 
as thick as the coffee cups of restaurants. 
Most of the eggs were painted. All colors 
were represented and the effect was very 
pretty. One dealer sold 12,000 eggs in the 
three days before Easter. The children came 
from nine to eleven A. M., and stayed till 
towards evening. The Marine Band dis- 
coursed delightful music, the President and 
Mrs. Harrison, and others of the household 
and of the cabinet, not excepting the babies 
McKee and Harrison, adorned the southern 
portico of the White House and looked down 
with delight on the 10,000 or more who with 
equal delight looked up from the lawn below. 
The day was warm and balmy, as if ordered 
for such an occasion, and the sprinkling of 
older among the younger, and the strangers as 
well as residents who were present will not 
soon forget the day, — now observed for nearly 
a score of years, — when our chief ruler, as 
Tennyson says, "Gave all his lawns up to the 
people." Yours, Rolvat. 



tractions, the ladies had every reason to feel 
satisfied with the large attendance and the fi- 
nancial results. They have done some noble 
work, in their society, for the church, and 
deserve their success. 



Mr. James E. Murdoch's readings at Associ- 
ation Hall, Tuesday evening, gave the Young 
Women's Christian Association a substantial 
benefit, and particularly worthy of mention 
"was the harp playing of Mrs. S. E. Lawton, a 
Worcester lady who ought not to let her light 
be hidden under a bushel hereafter. She will 
be welcomed at any future entertainment at 
which she may appear. 



Col. Calvin Foster entertained ex-Senator 
Stevens of Fall River last Thursday. 



Col. Cheney R. Prouty, formerly of Wor- 
cester, has been elected mayor of Eagle Pass, 
Texas. 

The ladies of the South Unitarian Society 
held one of the many Easter sales of the week, 
and by starting in Monday with a very gratify- 
ing success, seem to have struck the keynote 
for the entertainments in other churches on the 
succeeding days of the week. 



The Ladies' Aid Society of Pilgrim Church 
held an Easter sale in Pilgrim Hall, Thursday 
afternoon, and in the evening gave a very sat- 
isfactory entertainment, which took the form 
of a "Tournament of Idylcourt," a musical 
allegory. De-spite numerous down-town at- 



Of Coming Things. 

Sunday, April 13. 
Plymouth Church.— Rev. E. B. Webb, D.D., of 
Wellesley, preaches. 10.30 a.m. and 7 p. m. 

Mechanics Hall.— Union Services, non-sectarian. 
Evening. 

Monday, April 14. 

HoRTicuiTURAL Hall.— Becker's Business Men's 
Jubilee. Repeated by special request. 7.45 p.m. 

Natural History Hall.— Lecture by Nathaniel 
Paine, Esq., on "Main Street Illustrated." 7.45 p. m. 
Tuesday, April 15. 

■^ssocIATION Hall.— Festival chorus rehearsal. 7.30 
p. m. 

Massachusetts Ploughman Buildinc. 45 Milk 
Street, Boston.— Committee of .Arrangements of the 
Worcester Agricultural Society meets trustees of New 
England Society, to perfect arrangements for ne.xt fair- 
10 a. m. 

Piedmont Church.— Supper and entertainment 
provided by the young men. Supper at 6.30 p. m. 

Insurance Hall.— Mock trial by Worcester Grange, 
P. of H. 7.30 p.m. 

Horticultural Hall.— Post 10, G. A. R. cele- 
brates its anniversary. Banquet and speeches. 

Salem Street Church.— Kinder symphony; en- 
tertainment by the Junior Endeavor Society. 7.30 p. m. 
>Vednesday, April 16. 

Mechanics Hall.— Gilmore's band and soloists. 
2.30 and 7.45 p.m. 

Odd Fellows' Hall.— Anchoria Lodge celebrates 
its third anniversary. Banquet and entertainment. 
Evening. 

.■\t the Residence of Miss Emma Buck, Pied- 
mont Street. Eureka Whist Club meets. 8p.m. 
Thursday, April 17. 

Laurel Street Church.— Jubilee over payment 
of church debt. Evening. 

Insurance Hall. — Children's musical entertain- 
ment, under direction of Mrs. WiUiam Sumner, for 
benefit of Voung Women's Christian Association. 
8 p.m. 

Friday, April 18. 

Continental Hall.— Reception to Rev. and Mrs. 
M. H. Harris by Continentals. Evening. 
Sunday, April 20. 

First Universalist Church.— Worcester Con- 
tinentals attend services, on invitation of Rev. M. II. 
Harris. 7.30 p. m. 

Skating Rink. — Sam Small, on " From Bar-room to 
Pulpit," under W. C. T. U. auspices. 

Thursday, April 24. 
Trinity Church.— Reception to Bishop Ninde by 
Worcester Methodist Social Union. Evening. 
Monday, April 28. 
Pilgrim Hall.— Mr. Caleb K, Wall speaks on the 
"The South End of Long .Ago." 7.45 p. m. 
Tuesday, April 29. 
Continental Hall.— .Annual meeting of the Bay 
State Agricultural Society. 10 a. m. 

Thursday, May i. 
Continental Hall..— Women's Relief Corps 
visitors meet. 

Horticultural Hall.— Good Will Lodge of Odd 
Ladies' May party and calico ball. Evening. 



Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 



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Tea Cake. 

Put one cup of sweet milk, two heaping 
cups of sugar, two-thirds cup of lard and 
a little salt in a pan on the stove to melt. 
When it cools, beat three eggs very light, stir 
them into the milk, add two quarts of well- 
sifted flour, three heaping teaspoonfuls of bak- 
ing powder, or two teaspoonfuls of soda and 
four teaspoonfuls of cream of tarter well mixed 
with the flour; roll thin and bake quickly. 

A Good Breakfast Dish. 

To a pint of cold m.aslied potato add a 
tablespoonful melted butter, a well-beaten 
egg and one teaspoonful minced parsley. 
Mold into cakes with the hand, dip them 
in beaten egg, then in cracker dust, and 
fry to a nice brown on both sides in plenty 
of hot butter and drippings. As taken up, 
have ready as many poached eggs as potato 
cakes, lay one on the top of each on the 
platter. Garnish with parsley and serve at 
once. 
An Inexpensive Charlotte Russe. 

Put one pint of milk into a farina boiler with 
one teacup of sugar, and stir till the sugar is 
dissolved. Mix the beaten yolks of two eggs 
with one teaspoonful of sea-moss farina and a 
little cold milk, and pour into the hot milk, 
stirring till quite smooth, but not allowing it to 
boil. Remove from the fire, stir in one cup of 
cream, flavor to taste, then beat lightly in the 
whites of the eggs already beaten to a froth. 
Line the bottom and sides of a mold with 
slices of sponge cake, pour in the cream and 
set upon ice or in a cold place to stiffen. 

Tomato Soup. 

To one pint can of tomatoes add one pint of 
boiling water and boil ten minutes. Strain 
through a colander or vegetable strainer and 
return to the stove, season with butter, pepper 
and salt, add one teacup of sweet milk and 
four teaspoonfuls of finely powdered cracker 
crumbs. 

Gingerbread. 

Three cups of flour, one each of milk, mo- 
lasses, sugar and butter, the latter scant. 
Cream the butter and sugar together with three 
beaten eggs; add the molasses with one tea- 
spoonful of soda dissolved in it; next stir in 
two tablespoonfuls of ginger and two tea- 
spoonfuls of cloves; add the milk, and lastly 
the flour. 

Chocolate Caramels. 

One cup each of molasses and sugar, one- 
half cup of sweet milk in which you have 
rubbed smooth two heaping teaspoonfuls of 
sifted flour. Stir all together, and when you 
think it has boiled nearly enough, add a piece 
of good butter the size of an egg, and one cup 
of unsweetened chocolate, scraped or grated. 
Boil till a little dropped in cold water will 
harden without spreading much. Cool in but- 
tered tins to the depth of one-half inch, and 
mark in squares when nearly cold. Wrap each 
square in a bit of oiled tissue paper. 



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Philadelphian Reunion. 

It was a joyful occasion.where reminiscenses 
were as plentiful as mid-summer black-berries. 
The very- air was permeated with the literal 
tones of Auld Lang Syne. It was the first 
reunion, after eight years slumber, of the 
Philadelphian Literary Society. At eight 
o'clock the members gathered at the Bay 
.State House, and shortly afterward proceeded 
to the private dining-room, where the appended 
menu was " taken from the table :" 

Question, " With, or Without." 

Affirmative—" Appetite." Negative—" Intellect." 

Discussion. 

Raw oysters Half Shell 

Lemon 

Tomato soup Vienna Stick Lettuce 

Baked Lake Trout Potatoes Lyonaise 

Filet de Boeuf Pique aux Champignons 

Neapolitan Sherbet Kinney's Preferred Puffs 

Sirloin Beef, Dish Gravy 

Spring Chicken, Cranberry Sauce. 

Saddled Venison Larded Grouse 

Baked Sweet Potatoes Onions 

Green Peas Baked Potatoes 

Chicken Salad Escalloped Oysters 

Washington Pie Cream Pie 

Apple Pie 

Ice Cream Angel Cake Assorted Cakes 

Fruits Nuts Raisins 

Bent's Water Crackers 

Edam and Young America Cheese 

Tea Coffee 

"Critics' Report" 
The menu card was handsomely printed in 
colors and gold upon unique card-board. At 
9.30 o'clock Mr. Herbert Wesby rapped the 
company to order, and in a short address, 
extended a hearty welcome to everybody. 
"The Easter season," said he, "inspired 
everybody with a new feeling of sociability. 
It is a time of ' looking forward', not ' back- 
ward', yet we must look backward over the 
reminiscences of the past." Mr. Wesby then 
introduced as toast-master of the evening, 
Hon. A. S. Pinkerton. In accepting the honor, 
Mr. Pinkerton spoke in his usual vivacious 
and happy manner. His words fairly bubbled 
with original wit, which was interspersed with 
well thought-out sentiment. The toast- 
master suggested that April ist might have 
been a better date for the reunion. He re- 
viewed the work of the old society, and 
tenderly referred to the society's strength and 
unadulterated "gall" which allowed it to 
handle with impunity the tremendous ques- 
tions of the days gone by. In his opinion the 
national government missed it in not regularly 
consulting with the old society. Then the 
speaker began to harmlessly hit the members, 
and in closing spoke of the experience and 
help gained in the debates, where parliamen- 
tary law was so mi.xedupthat Gushing himself 
could not have been likened unto Job in trying 
to solve it. Ancient Secretary C. M. Rogers 
called the roll of membership, and read the 
report of the last meeting, the 348th of the 
society, which occurred on October 10, 1882. 
The toast, " Our Country," was responded to 
by Mr. A. M. Taft. " One of the first things 
inculcated into our members," said he, "is 
familiarity and consequent love of our native 
land. The debates were nearly always of a 
national character, and intelligence frequently 
cropped out. Every Philadelphian loved his 
country. The United .States had taken the 
lead in all international (juestions, and there is 
every reason to believe that it will eventually 



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stand as the first nation in the worid, for 
American education, business and progression, 
coupled with the utmost of regulated freedom, 
make the many states with all the strength of 
an independent nation, working together to 
give to the United States a strength not pos- 
sessed by any other nation in the worid." 
" Our City," brought to his feet Mayor Francis 
A. Harrington. The mayor's speech was 
short and to the point, and in closing he said 
that the old Philadelphian society had been of 
great benefit to the city of Worcester. Mr. 
H. A. Knight responded for the " Philadel- 
phians." His remarks were full of reminis- 
censes of old days, and he dwelt particulariy 
on the benefit gained by individual members 
in the society. He likened the society work to 
that of the school-room. Mr. C. E. Snow 
gave a humorous declamation, which was 
much appreciated. Mr. William H. Gates 
responded for the " profession." He said that 
the society exemplified that statement so often 
made, that no man knew how much he knew 
until he got an opportunity to say something 
about it, and that every man knew one subject 
very much better than he did any other. Mr. 
A. A. McLaughlin visionized with the visions 
of the past. " When any member was stuck," 
said Mr. McLaughlin, "he always went to 
Librarian Green seeking information and 
never did Mr. Green fail him but once, and that 
was when he was asked for some authority 
advocating Grant's third term." Librarian 
Samuel S. Green was heartily received. He 
spoke of a society, of seventy years ago, 
known as the Fraternity of Odd Fellows, not 
a branch of the regular order of Odd Fellows. 
This society had a library connected with it, 
and an iron-clad rule that anybody who kept 
a book over time must pay six per cent, of the 
value of the book. This society had its 
meetings in the years of the oddity of its 
members. The Philadelphian society might 
well hold its meetings in the years of the 
brotherhood of its members. The library- 
helps young men in an accessory way. The 
Philadelphian society has done likewise. It 
was there that most of its members first 
learned to speak, to answer, to control their 
tongues, to think and speak, not to speak and 
think. Mr. James C. Stewart spoke of base- 
ball and food, and paid a glowing tribute to 
the toast-master. Mr. William Woodward, at 
whose house the first meeting of the society 
was held, spoke of the other old societies of 
Worcester, dead and buried. " Our sweet- 
hearts, wives and friends," brought up Mr. E. 
W. Coffin, who said that he was the only one 
who could be trusted with that subject. " The 
Lord bless 'em and may the men furnish 
•money to dress 'em." Mr. George S. Hatch 
spoke about business, claiming that prosperity 
in trade depended upon honesty, sobriety and 
industry, and that a business is just what a 
man makes of it. Mr. William F. Dearborn, 
Jr., of Boston, spoke of music. Mr. W. C. 
Jones remembered the Philadelphians who 
live at the " Hub." Mr. W. P. Rowell spoke 
for the Philadelphians wlio had not made any 
mark. Rev. C. F. Burroughs said that the 
society had done much toward teaching 
young men how to think. Mr. C. O. Munger 
told a funny story. Mr. W. J. Estey spoke of 
the religious side of the society. Mr. Fred 
Knight smilingly spoke of other days. Mr. 



W. H. Stoddard was introduced as the man 
who got up the dinner and worked hard in 
doing it. He said his little speech, and re- 
ceived the thanks of the company. Brief 
speeches were made by Messrs. John A. Lowe, 
John H. Sykes, E. A. Pierce, C. A. King, C. 
S. Southworth, E. C. Fuller, F. S. Chickering, 
W. H. Sears, G. G. Davis, G. H. Stone, H. B. 
Knight, W. C. Munger, John C. Stewart, 
Lyman Russell, F. E. Holt, J. C. Rollins, J. D. 
Sisson and Robert H. Ney. The society 
voted at adjournment to hold another reunion 
within a year and the matter was left in the 
hands of Mr. Herbert Wesby, chairman; Hon. 
A. S. Pinkerton, and Messrs. A. A. McLaugh- 
lin, George S. Hatch and W. H. Stoddard. 

Mr. Chauncey M. Depew has been down to 
the South, and in his own terse way says : 
"The political regeneration of the section does 
not lie in federal legislation. The New South 
believes in mines, mills and corner lots, and 
the development of its magnificent resources 
will eventually bring a new population and a 
change of old methods. The South must 
work out its own salvation." 



^WORCESTER SKATING RINK^^^ 

One Week Commencing 

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 

Continuing every afternoon and evening during the 
week, from i P. m. to 10 p. m. The Boston Exhibition 
Exchange has the pleasure to announce a grand 

NEW ENGLAND 



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(Open to all New England Babies.) 



IIDIIIMB 



(To Enter the Contest.) 
FOR THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE PRIZES : 

To the handsomest baby, $50 in gold. 

To the largest baby (for its age), diamond ring valued 

at $50. 
To the smallest baby (for its age), baby buggy valued 

at $30 
To the homeliest baby (under one year), beautiful baby 

cloak valued at $20. 
To the prettiest twins (under one year), each a diamond 

ring valued at $2S each. 
To the largest twins (under one year) , a twin baby car- 
riage valued at $30. 
To the nandsomest triplets, $50 in gold. 
To the largest triplets (under one year), each a diamond 

ring valued at $20 each. 
To the nandsomest quadriplets, $100 in gold. 
To the most wonderful (freak baby) , a beautiful baby 

wardrobe valued at $40. 
CF"Remember. the above prizes will be given away 
in a fair and impartial manner, viz.: Each person upon 
entering the Rink receives a coupon, naming the differ- 
ent classes of babies that prizes are to be given to, with 
blank space opposite. Each chair occupied by baby, 
mother or nurse will be numbered. Parties holding 
coupons will select babies they consider most deserving 
to receive prizej and number coupon accordingly, which 
they will deposit in a sealed box arranged for the pur- 
pose prior to leaving the Rink. Ihe votes will be 
counted by a committee on Saturday evening, April 19, 
1S90. Each class receiving the largest number of votes 
will receive prizes as per the above. 

KF^Parents desiring; to have their children appear in 
this "most novel exhibition" address or call Wednesday, 
Thursday or Friday, April i6th, 17th and i8th, 1890, from 
10 A. M. to 6 p. M., and confer with Manager of Baby 
Show, Burnside BuildingLj39 Main street, Room 8, first 
floor, Worcester, Mass. Take elevator. 



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We present this week a Decided Novelty in Pillow Cases and Sheets. They are made of a fine 
English cotton, and are hem-stitched, being also elaborately embroidered with white silk. Cases finished 
22 1-2x36 inches. Sheets finished 2 1-2x2 3-4 yards. 

At the Table Linen counters we commence Monday to give Linen Tray Cloths (full size) for 12 
1-2 cents each, all stamped. 

Note carefully the following: 120 pieces of extra wide, fine all-linen Glass Towellinos, 12 1-2 cents 
per yard, no less by the piece. Never sold in Boston for less than 17 cents. 

Woolen and Silk Table Covers. We confidently believe we have the largest assortment of fine 
goods in the city, and shall be pleased to show the new designs and colorinos in all sizes of cover. 



In the Embroidery Department 
we are having a large sale of the 
Persian cloth. 

Knitting Silk being sold at 17 
cents per ball. 

Balance of Sorrentos Squares, 
.05 each. 




We have on hand 630 pairs of 
Linen Pillar cases. These goods 
measure 22 1-2x36 inches, fin- 
ished. They are hand hem-stitched. 

$1.00 per Pair. 

Although the quantity is large, we 
advise an early response. 



Leaders in our Lace Curtain Department— Three lots of Lish Point Lace Curtains— Lot i, $3 per 
pair (a $4 value). Lot 2, $4 per pair (a $5 value). Lot 3, ^54.25 per pair, worth $5.75. Prices on Lace 
Bed Sets range from $1.75 to $50; we are showing new Curtain Muslins by the yard. 

An immense quantity of Damaged Handkerchiefs for ladies, gentlemen and children. Most of 
these goods have but slight imperfections, such as pin holes or dropped stitches; we are of the opinion that 
this is the best lot of Handkerchiefs we ever offered for the price. They are of the manufacture of Henry 
Matier & Co., Belfast, Ireland. 



* ALL MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER 
Temple Place, Boston. 



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AGENT FOR AND DEALER IN 

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for gents' garments, Leading tailors. 

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80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 23 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

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Kngravings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

4t Park; St., Worcester. 

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About Folks. 

Mr. Sanford B. Sargent's dancing pupils 
gave a very pleasing exhibition at Continental 
hall, Wednesday evening. The pupils partici- 
pating were Misses May Davenport, Pauline 
Lapham, Elizabeth and Elsa Whitin of Whit- 
insville, Edna Warren, Caro Ellsworth, Ruth 
Lamson, Charlotte Thayer, Marguerite and 
Maria Thayer, Hetty Dewey, Anna Barnard, 
Gertie Lawrence, Maud Knowlton of West 
Upton, Lara and Elizabeth Fish. Among the 
spectators present were Mr. and Mrs. A. 
George Bullock, Dr. and Mrs. Albert P. Mar- 
ble, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Washburn, Miss 
Miriam Washburn, Mr. William B. Scofield, 
Mrs. E. D. Thayer, Jr., Mrs. C. W. Smith, 
Mr. Harry W. Smith. Mr. Charles Ranlett. Mr. 
Waldo Lincoln, Mr. J. F. Adams, Miss Mary 
Adams, Miss Frances M. Lincoln, Miss Lulu 
Throop, Miss May Doe, iMiss Mary Eaton. 
Mr. George D. Moore, Mrs. C. C. Baldwin, 
Mr. Erastus Hopkins, Miss Elizabeth Hop- 
kins, Mrs. Charles H. Doe, Miss Sadie Hop- 
kins, Miss Miriam Washburn. 



The pupils connected with the class in 
elocution, at Becker's Business College, gave 
a delightful recital, Thursday evening. The 
participants were : Misses L'nderwood and 
Sutton, Mr. Charles I. Pope, Miss Alice M. 
Power, Miss Sadie Parsons, Miss Maud A. 
Knowlton, Miss Gertrude E. Pender, Misses 
.Avis and Ellen Day, Miss Minnie E. Scho- 
held, Miss Marguerite Davis, Mr. E. E. 
Fuller. The recital was under the direction of 
Miss Minnie E. Bigelow, who deserves the 
highest commendation for the proficiency dis- 
played. 

Worcester imports a lot of musical talent 
for its church choirs, every year, and seems to 
e.xport considerable, as well. Miss Edith L. 
Smith begins an engagement as contralto at 
the Unitarian Church in L'xbridge, to-morrow ; 
Mr. D. Herbert Smith is the tenor. Miss 
Bertha A. Maynard the alto, and Miss S. C. 
Pollock the organist, at the Congregational 
Church in Grafton, for the year; Miss. May F. 
Robbins is the organist at the Whitinsville 
Congregational Church; and Miss Adelaide 
L. Wood is to be the alto at the Second Con- 
gregational Church in Millbury. Doubtless 
there are other engagements about which 
some of our modest musicians haven't told us 
as yet. 



Light can be found on sale at the following 
news-stands : — 

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LIGHT 



Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, ARIL 19, 1890. 



No. S 



This is an era of peace; arbitration rather 
than musketry is settling the questions of the 
nations, still it is not without the line of possi- 
bility that this glorious country of ours may 
be obliged to shoot its reciprocal bullets into 
the breasts of foreigners. Supposing that the 
great military critics are correct in saying that 
in the event of war we should be obliged to 
throw away our rifles and cannon to use some 
other kind, to do away with our powder to use 
some other powder, to discard our code of tac- 
tics for other tactics, and even to substitute for 
our regular soldiers, the militia and volunteers ; 
would it not be well to become acquainted 
with these "other kinds" sometime near the 
present ? 

In some European cities the citizens consti- 
tute themselves special policemen, making it 
their duty to become posted regarding the local 
laws. The citizen reports infractions of the 
statutes to the proper authorities. These 
special policemen give particular attention to 
preserving the parks and public grounds of the 
city. By this constant watchfulness, mischiev- 
ous boys are prevented from doing damage to 
flowers, trees or lawns, and private grounds 
are protected. Some European ideas are 
worthy of being copied, even in Worcester. 



If he who cannot preach would do something 
which he can do well, if the man who does not 
know Coke of Law from coke of coal would 
take up the honest profession of shoe-making, 
if the man who does not know paregoric from 
Epson's salts would change from renovating 
humanity to renovating furniture, it would be 
better for Worcester county and for all the 
other counties that the sun has shone upon. 



A city is known by its roads and highways. 
Everything except the soil of Worcester has 
been brought into Worcester, loaded upon a 
common wagon to be pulled over a common 
highway. Worcester's lumber, brick, stone, 
mortar, iron, machinery, her whole trade of 
merchandise, everything which she buys and 
sells, is carted about Worcester over her roads, 
and can get out of Worcester in no other way. 
There are roads in Worcester county so poor 
that it costs the farmer more to truck his pro- 
duce over the highway, from farm to depot, 
than it does to carry it over the railroad, ten 
times the distance, to Worcester or Boston. 
The prosperity of Worcester depends upon the 
surrounding country, and the better the roads 
about Worcester, the faster she will grow and 
the more business she will do. The railroads 
are, perhaps, the most important factors in the 
movement of trade. The railroads will give 
Worcester a national importance; they bring 
in the crude stuff and carry it out finished, 
but Worcester's local distinction depends 
largely upon the position which she occupies 
among the towns which look up to her and re- 
volve around her. Mr. Edwin Chadwick, in 
addressing the Institution of Civil Engineers, 



remarked, "In the present condition of the 
countrj', it is of vast importance to reduce the 
cost of transit to the uttermost. If by the im- 
provement of the rural roads, four horses could 
be enabled to do the work of five, the saying 
of the country in agricultural horses would not 
be less than seven millions a year." And con- 
tinuing, he says: "If the city traffic be taken 
into consideration, we believe the cost of tran- 
sit to be saved by improvement in roads, 
would not be less than from seventeen to 
twenty millions a year." It is fair to assume 
that the wheel-business of Worcester county 
requires double the number of horses that it 
would if the roads of her city and about were 
as good as Worcester county can afford to 
have them. It is better to have a well-built 
road than a poorly-built one. A well-built road 
costs more, but it saves in repairs. A good 
macadamized road costs less to support than a 
poor horse. In the city of New York it is es- 
timated that there are twelve thousand trucks, 
carrying an average load of about one and a 
half tons for twelve miles per each working 
day of the year, making the aggregate cost of 
trucking per day about $48,000, or four dollars 
for each truck, the whole resulting in the 
transportation of sixty-five million tons one 
mile every year at a cost of $14,400,000, or 
something over twenty-two cents per ton-mile. 
Now, this same amount of goods carried over 
the railroad costs six-tenths of a cent a mile. 
On asphalt pavement can be transported three 
times as heavy a load as can be carried over 
rough and unkept roads. It is safe to state 
that first class country roads will save at least 
one-half the expense necessary to carry loads 
over the present roads in Worcester county. 



American aristocrats may claim what they 
will, and they may paint on their coaches 
Graeco-Roman-English-American pedigrees a 
yard long, while they and everybody else know 
that there is no real English-grown aristocracy 
in America. America has its old families, — 
grand old people who came from the hardy 
toilers of the early soil. Three-quarters of the 
English blood in America is not a fluid-of-pride. 
Old Americans of to-day are the descendants 
of those down-trodden English people who left 
the Mother Country, disgusted with their 
mother. In the early days of the old families 
there was no aping of the English nobility. 
The American ape of today simply doesn't 
know any better. 



Four hundred men of Worcester ; three hun- 
dred veteran? of the war; half a hundred 
beardless sons of warriors ; fifty men of days ; 
a congregation of old Worcester, new Worces- 
ter, and growing Worcester ; men who live in 
the living and honor the dead ; manly men, 
who can curve themselves to see both sides of 
the past as well as to recognize both sides of 
the present ; an assembly which Worcester 
honors ; a representative body of genuine loy- 
alty, whose patriotism was not slumbered by 



the declaration of peace. Along the hall sat 
three hundred veterans of the war, brothers in 
peace, over whose heads floated no bloody 
remnants of the strife, save the crimson of 
the stripes in t!ie grandest banner that Cod 
ever permitted man to spread to the peaceful 
l)reezes of Heaven. 



Indeed it was a pity that the soldier-woman 
of Worcester could not have been present to 
hear the ringing words of the toastd, which 
placed woman where she always should have 
been, hand in hand with man in war and peace. 
The angel-woman, who in.stilled life into the 
bloodless veins of the soldiers, at home and on 
the battle-field,j who offered up husband or 
brother a living sacrifice to stain a deeper 
crimson the stripes of the flag — to her is due 
a full page in the great log-book of L'nion 
loyalty and peaceful prosperity. 



If about one-half of the so-called literature 
which tries to fill the pages of the great mag- 
azines was printed in the "patent-insides" of 
the county weeklies, nine-tenths of the mag;i- 
zine readers would fail to find it, and the other 
tenth would not discover any merit in it. 



Flats have a place in the home-economy of 
Worcester. Without flats one-quarter of the 
family-population would sleep under the twink- 
ling stars. A flat does nicely for the married 
family of two, or for the unmarried couple of 
maidens more or less fair to see. But some of 
the families of Worcester are prolific, to whom 
a home-of-the-flights necessitates considerable 
high and lofty infantile tumbling. Some 
of the flats are commodious, have airy yards, 
and see all of the modern necessities of a home- 
dwelling, but a good proportion of them are 
simply floors subdivided into rooms. With 
the acres of splendid land about Worcester, 
with steam and horse railways, it would seem 
that some shrewd capitalist might profitably 
start a home ward, for that increasing cla.ss of 
respectable people who are not yet ready to 
build houses of tlieir own. 



Mrs. Grover Cleveland set a glorious exam- 
ple to the American would-be-author, in refus- 
ing to write a magazine article, solicited largely 
because she was an E.x-President's wife. If 
other young women who have no talent what- 
ever for literary writing, and have been 
inveigled into giving something to the leading 
magazines simply because tney are noted for 
someone's else notoriety, could only be gifted 
with Mrs. Cleveland's reticence and modesty, 
what oceans of literary stuff might be spared 
to the suffering reader. 



Someone once asked Burdette "what is an 
agnostic ?" The prince of funny men replied : 
".'Vn agnostic is a man who loudly declares 
that he knows nothing, and gets mad and 
abuses you if you believe him. He says he 
doesn't know anything, but he really believes 
he knows everj'thing." 




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Worcester, Saturday, April 19, 1890. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



April 19: Sun rises at 4.57 a.m.; sets at 
6.31 P. M. Length of day, 13 hours, 34 minutes. 
New Moon, April igth., 3 hours, 6 minutes, 
morning, E. 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dexter left San 
Francisco a weel< ago, and have started east- 
ward. They will stop at Salt Lal<e City, Den- 
ver and other points, and are expected to reach 
Worcester next Friday morning. 



Hon. and Mrs. John E. Russell have reached 
Jerusalem in good health and have so far en- 
joyed their stay this winter in the East very 
much. Most of the time has been spent in 
Egypt, on the Nile. Their beautiful home at 
the top of Leicester Hill is being put in fine 
repair and has been wonderfully improved by 
the changes that have been made in the sur- 
roundings, giving them now a very extensive 
view to the south and east, "over the hills and 
far away." 

Rev. I.J. Lansing has arranged a series of 
Sunday evening sermons under the general ti- 
tle "Christian Reform", the first of which is 
to be given tomorrow evening, at 7 o'clock. 



A mock trial furnished fun for the members 
of Worcester Grange, P. of H., last Tuesday 
evening. Messrs. Arthur P. Rugg and Fred 
H. Chamberlain had charge of the plan, which 
was very successfully carried out. Mr. James 
Draper made a dignified judge; Mr. Warren 
C. Jewett was clerk of the court ; Mr. H. J. 
Allen was foreman of the jury, and Mr. Henry 
Putnam was sheriff. The prisoner, Mr. 
Charles E. Bond, was charged with stealing a 
rooster from Mr. H. B. Watts of Leicester. 
Mr. A. V. Newton appeared for the defense, 
Mr. C. S. Dodge being prosecuting attorney. 
The witnesses were Messrs. W. J. Estey, W. L 



L I d HT 

Allen and F. H. Hammond for the govern- 
ment, and Messrs. G. A. Cheney, Fred Midgley 
and E. S. Wright for the defense. There was 
a continual fire of wit, during the trial, and 
when the jury, after being out five minutes, 
brought in a verdict of guilty, and Judge Dra- 
per sentenced the prisoner to weed onions for 
two months on Mr. A. S. Lowell's farm at 
North Worcester, the merriment came to a 
climax. 

A very pleasing concert was given under the 
auspices of the class of '90, Leicester Acad- 
emy, in Smith Hall, last evening. Worcester 
talent was prominent, the Arlington Banjo 
Quartet appearing, with Mr. L. C. Havener, 
Miss Lilla B. Houghton, soprano, and Mr. J. 
Edward Fuller, Jr., tenor. 



Local sign painters are busy painting on 
large canvases the sad, sad words, "Hot Soda 
Three Cents per Glass, Ice Water Five Cents 
per Tumbler-full." 

Messrs. Fred Knight and L. C. Havener re- 
peated their entertainment of drills and music, 
at Mechanics hall, Friday evening, the nth, 
and met with large and deserved success. 



Darling Brothers began early in the week 
upon two important pieces of work, the super- 
structure of the State Normal School buildings 
at Bridgewater and at Westfield, both of 
which they are building. Mr. Harry H. Brad- 
ford is superintendent of the work at Bridge- 
water and Mr. W. L. Brown is the brick fore- 
man. At Westfield, Mr. C. H. Beckwith is 
superintendent of the work, and the brick fore- 
man is Mr. William Williams. Both buildings 
are to be of brick, that at Bridgewater having 
marble trimmings and the other havimg trim- 
mings of granite. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lory S. Watson, of Leicester, 
start home from California this week, after an 
absence of a number of weeks in southern 
California, for the benefit of Mr. Watson's 
health. 

Mr. and Mrs. H. Arthur White held a re- 
ception at their pleasant home in Leicester, 
Friday, April ii, the occasion being the cele- 
bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their 
marriage, and incidentally the fifty.sixth anni- 
versary of the marriage of Mr. and iMrs. Alon- 
zo White, parents of Mr. White, who were 
present, and assisted during the early part of 
the reception. A multitude of friends crowded 
the parlors and offered their congratulations 
from 4 until 10 P. M., and partook of the gener- 
ous hospitality extended to them. There were 
beautiful flowers in abundance and some of 
the designs were quite elaborate, the decorat- 
ing of the dining room being especially taste- 
ful. While "no presents" had been requested, 
many of the friends brought floral offerings, 
and the very intimate friends left an elegant 
silver tea service and a dining service of china, 
besides many other pleasant tokens of esteem 
and friendship. During the evening an orig- 
inal and characteristic poem was read by 
Miss Ida F. Warren of Leicester, and another 
one was contributed by Mrs. Mary Greene of 
Meriden, Ct., which added much to the pleas- 
ure of the evening. Congratulatory letters 
were received from Gen. Josiah Pickett, Gen. 



A. B. R. Sprague of Worcester, Major N. N. 
Foster of North Brookfield, Captain C. C. 
Murdock of Clinton, Mr. C. J. Spaulding of 
Fitchburg, who served with Mr. White in the 
25th Mass. Regiment during the war, and 
many other absent friends, among them the 
venerable Rev. Samuel May, who was that 
day celebrating his eightieth birthday at his 
home in Leicester. Among the three hundred 
or more guests present there were from out of 
town, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sugden, Mrs. 
Henry Sugden, Commissioner and IVIrs. Emer- 
son Stone and two sons, of Spencer, Judge and 
Mrs. William T. Forbes, of Westboro, Colonel 
and Mrs. Joseph A. Titus, Mr. and Mrs. 
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worth, Mr. and Mrs.Albert H. Stone, Mr. and 
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MissGeorgie Porter of Cambridge, Rev. AI- 
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Marsh of New Haven. Conn., Mrs. E. G. 
Carlton, Mr. Everett Carlton, Miss Carlton, 
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Craig of Rochdale, Mrs. 
Perley Holman of Cherry Valley, Mr. and 
Mrs. Amos L. Fuller of California. 



Keetels' French grammar, for a long time in 
use at the High School, has been replaced by 
Worman's Principles of French. The new 
books were received and given out this week. 



Dr. Jennie S. Dunn has returned from a long 
and enjoyable trip through the west. 



The Art Students Club is to hold its eleventh 
annual exhibition at the club rooms in Walker 
building, next week, and there is reason to be- 
lieve that in many respects it will excel any yet 
held. Monday night will be "members' night," 
and after that the exhibition will be open to 
the public throughout the week. Hand-painted 
water-colors have been sent out, with the cards 
of invitation, and the club's very graceful way 
of extending an invitation is an indication of 
its excellent taste in all its works. 



Dr. and Mrs. John N. Murdock, of Leices- 
ter, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. George 
H olden, in New York, 



Mr. Edward H. Thompson, consul of the 
LJnited States at Merida, Yucatan, and remem- 
bered in Worcester for many gifts to local so- 
cieties, notably Aztecan relics given to the 
American Antiquarian Society, has been 
elected a corresponding member of the Natural 
History Society of Hamburg, Germany. 

As brilliant an event as the present social 
season has had was the party given by Mr. 
and Mrs. J. Edwin Smith, at their residence 
on Ashland street, last Monday evening, in 
honor of Miss Nannie Earle and MissGeorgie 
McClure. Two clever pieces of play-acting 
were provided for the entertainment of those 
present. No other residence in the city, per- 
haps, is so well adapted for an affair of the 
sort. In tlie large hall in the upper part of the 
house was erected a convenient stage and 
thereon appeared some well-known society 
people as the actors. Two pieces were given 



the first being, "Old Gooseberry, or None so 
Deaf as Those Who Won't Hear," the parts 
of which were taken by Mr. Cieorge B. Blake, 
Mr. George A. Stearns, Jr., Miss Edith Blake 
of Portsmouth, N. H., and Miss Lulu Throop. 
The second was "Sweet Violets," a bright 
burlesque on the standard sob and shriek mel- 
odrama, which was written by Brook Here- 
ford. Mr. Rufus S. Woodward, Miss Mary 
Adams, Mr. Stearns and Miss Throop assumed 
the parts. Tlie actors made a great deal of 
merriment for their friends, and deserved all 
the congratulations showered upon them. A 
supper followed the play acting, and music 
was provided for dancing, the spacious rooms 
affording every facility desired. Those pres- 
ent included Mr. John Smith, Mr. George 
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Washburn, 
Miss Miriam Washburn, Mrs. C. W. Smith, 
Miss Smith, Mr. Charles Crompton, Misses 
Mildred and Georgie Crompton, Mrs. Charles 
Blake of Portsmouth, N. H., Mr. Philip W. 
Moen, Miss Sophie Moen, Miss Alice Moen, 
Mr. Ernest L. Thayer, Mr. George S. Taft, 
Mr. Ernest H. Wood, Dr. Homer Gage, Mr. 
Rufus S. Woodward, Miss Howe, Miss Syd- 
ney Howe, Mr. Bradford of Springfield, Mr. 
James W. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. George B. 
Witter, Miss Fanny Clarke, Miss Francis, 
Miss Whitman, Miss Throop, Miss Woodbuiy 
of New Rochelle, Miss Knowlton of West 
Upton, Mrs. Richardson of Boston, Miss i\Iary 
Eaton, the Misses Blake, Mr. Erastus Hop- 
kins, Miss Hopkins, Miss Bessie Hopkins, Mr. 
New-ton Darling, Miss Georgie Stone, Miss 
Helen Lincoln, Mr. Eben Francis Thompson, 
Miss Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Colton, 
Col. Rockwood Hoar, Mr. Henry M. Witter, 
Mr. H. M. Witter, Jr., Mr. Wilkinson of Provi- 
dence, Miss Liscomb, Miss May Baldwin, Miss 
Alice Baldwin, Mr. Charles F. Aldrich, Mr. 
Frank B. Smith, Mr. Harry W. Smith, Mr. 
Chetwood Smith, Mr. Charles Ranlett, Mr. 
Charles D. Wheeler, Miss Gage, Miss Fanny 
Foster, Miss Marsh, Miss Jennie Woodward, 
Mr. Charles G. Hale, Mr. Frank L. Hale, Dr. 
Lemuel F. Woodward, Mr. T. Heywood 
Blood, Miss Paine, Miss Maud Chase, Mr. W. 
S. B. Hopkins, Jr. 

Rev. A. F. Dunnells, pastor of the Central 
Congregational Church, of Bath, Me., called on 
friends in Worcester, last Wednesday. 



Mrs. Fred W. Wellington is working ener- 
getically to insure the giving of a cordial re- 
ception to the ofificers and members of the La- 
dies Aid Association of the Soldiers Home of 
Massachusetts, who are to visit Worcester 
May I. The objects of the association are to 
be presented to the ladies of Worcester, at 
Continental hall. 



Mr. Harry A. Adams of the Chatham Ath- 
! letic Club, was one of the inspectors at the 
! sports at Boston, last Saturday. 



The Young Peoples Christian League of 
Grace church has published the first number 
of "The Epworth Herald," a bright three col- 
umn paper, whose editor is Rev. John Gal- 
braith, the business manager being Mr. L. J. 
Pentecost. It is devoted to church interests. 



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Rev. and Mr.s. M. H. Harris were enter- 
tained at a private dinner party, Thursday, by 
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Marble. Last evening 
the Continentals tendered a reception, and 
ne.xt Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Harris 
will be tendered a complimentary banquet at 
All Souls' church. Rev. Francis A. Gray will 
act as toastmaster. 



Miss Ella (;. Sliaffcr went to .New ^'ork, 
Tlunsday, for a stay of two weeks. 



Miss E. C. Nason and Miss Nellie Ham- 
mond sail from Boston on the Cephalonia, of 
the Cunard line, on Saturday, May 3. Tlioy 
will remain abroad for a year. 



A "deestrick skewl" entertainment is to be 
given at Union Church vestry, next Thursday 
evening, and Miss Mary Brigham, a teacher in 
Boston, will be the "skewl marm." An enter- 
tainment of the same sort has been given in 
two or three of the other churches, this season, 
but this one is to be made particularly attract- 
ive. There will be about twenty scholars, in- 
cluding teachers from the High School, Wor- 
cester Academy and the Polytechnic Institute, 
and with all this erudition there ought to be 
more than an ordinary amount of wit and 
humor. The participants will appear in old- 
fasliioned costume. 



Mr. Frank Hopkins of this city occupied the 
pulpit of the Methodist church at Whitinsville, 
last Sunday, the pastor, Rev. E. S. Best, being 
absent at Conference. 



Mr. Charles D. Nye started off, Thursday, 
for Atlantic City. He is in need of a rest and 
wants to sniff the salt air of the ocean for a 
week or so, after which he will come back and 
sell us more books than ever. 



The Williams college boys were the last to 
return to their books, after the Easter vaca- 
tion. They went back last Wednesday. 



The Bay State Agricultural Society will 
hold an institute at Continental Hall, Tuesday, 
the 29th inst. At 10 a. m. Colonel F. D. Cur- 
tis will open the discussion upon "The Dairy 
and the Hay." Hon. Edward Burnett and 
other prominent men will speak upon the sub- 
ject. At 1.30 l>. M. Professor C. A. Goessman, 
director of the Massachusetts State Agricultu- 
ral Experiment Station, at Amherst, will open 
the subject of "Swine Feeding," to be followed 
by Professor W. W. Cooke, of Amherst, and 
others. 

The supper "and entertainment provided by 
the young men of Piedmont church, last Tues- 
day evening, proved fully as successful as 
could be desired, and the ladies, who were the 
guests of the occasion, were generous in their 
praises. A sign on the elevator indicating 
that it was for the use of "Gentlemen Only," 
indicated that the ladies had no part in the kit- 
chen management on this occasion. Both the 
parlors were used for supper rooms, and six 
tables were tastefully set. An abundance of 
good things was provided, and from 6.30 to 8 
supper was served in a most satisfactory style. 
A corps of young men acted as waiters and 
they performed that part of the contract as it 
has rarely been done in the past. They ap- 
peared, too, in a costume never before worn 
on a like occasion. It consisted of a white 
dress shirt, carefully laundered, and worn with 
nothing covering it, a standing collar and 



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wliite dress tie completing the outfit. .'\ sash 
worn at tlie waist gave an artistic finish to (lie 
costume, which was universally admired. 
Worn-by a score of handsome young men, it 
was enough to compel anybody's admiration. 
Tlie waiters who looked so well and discharged 
their duties so faithfully, were Messrs. Arthur 
R. Bingham. Harry H. Hill, Harry I. Stevens, 
Allen Laird, Charles C. Milton, Edward H. 
Warren, Benjamin F. Curtis, Allie C. Higgins, 
Frank Hill, Edward Gulliver, Walter Smith, 
Henry Smith, Ivdward Waite, Warren Thayer, 
Theodore E. Brayton, Jr., J. C. Perry, Walter 
Monroe, Walter Hurd and Francis Grant. 
After the supper rooms had been cleared, an 
entertainment was given in the large chapel. 
Mr. W. H. Moulton introduced Mr. Edgar E. 
Putnam, who presided, and gracefully intro- 
duced the gentlemen taking part in the pro- 
gram. For none but gentlemen appeared. 
The ladies wondered what sort of an enter- 
tainment could be provided, with male talent 
only ; but their applause testified to their ap- 
aproval. A male quartet, including Messrs 
Frank H. Potter, George A. Putnam, Alfred 
H. Knight, Elmer J. Putnam, Charles J. Dyer, 
George E. Moore, Louis E. B. Lawson and 
Charles E. Hitchcock, sang delightfully Wer- 
ner's "The Two Roses," and were enthusi- 
astically recalled. Later, they sang Koschat's 
"Fidelity" with equal success. Mr. George 
Bancroft played a violin solo; Mr. Charles 
Ludwig rendered harmonica solos ; Mr. Frank 
W. Chaftin played a cornet solo; Mr. B. F. 
Southwick gave several delightful readings; 
Mr. Hitchcock furnished a vocal solo; and 
Messrs. Gaylord, Chafifin and Bancroft played 
a trio. The appearance of Mr. L. C. Have- 
ner, in athletic costume, was the signal for an 
outburst of enthusiasm, and he gave a fine ex- 
hibition of club swinging. Mr. Walter H. 
Gaylord acted as accompanist for the even- 
ing, and contributed no little to the success of 
the entertainment. All the gentlemen sus- 
tained their parts unusually well and the re- 
calls were frequent. The young men give the 
proceeds of their entertainment, something 
over $75, to the Benevolent Union. Over 400 
people were present. The committee man- 
aging the affair included Messrs. John Knight, 
Edgar E. Putnam, W. H. Moulton, George 
J. Merntt, Dr. C. H. Davis, W. H. Balcolm, 
W.ilter H. Twichell, Arthur R. Haven and 
Frank R. Batchelder. 



Rev. W. W. Sleeper, assistant pastor at Sa- 
lem Street church, has accepted a call to the 
pastorate of the Congregational church at 
Stoneham, and will leave Worcester next 
month. Worcester will regret to have him 
leave, while e.xtending cordial good wishes. 

Mr. Leander F. Herrick has been elected 
master of Millbury Grange, P. of H. 



Mr. Windsor T. White. Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute, '90, returned a day or two 
ago from his brief trip to Florida. He brought 
with him three baby alligators. 

The young people of the church of the Unity 
gave their pretty "Seven Times Seven" tab- 
leaux at the Home for .-Vged Females, last Sat- 
nrday afternoon, to the unbounded delight of 
the old ladies. 



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The Grand Old Army. 



Along the hall were six tables laden with the 
good eatables of Worcester. Beside these 
tables sat four hundred men, three hundred 
veterans of the great voluntary army upon the 
record pages of history. A hundred emblems 
of the stars and stripes hung in clusters over 
the heads of the men who baptized the flag 
into perpetual life in the blood of the battle 
field. The sons of the veterans sat side by 
side with their fathers, and the prominent poli- 
ticians of the day bowed their heads in homage 
to the men who had fought the real battles of 
fundamental politics. The stirring strains of 
the band, and the hearty accompaniment from 
the patriots, made the hall ring as it has sel 
dom rang before. The brotherhood of the 
army makes brothers indeed; men of patriotism, 
business, loyalty, and of a fellowship so broad 
and so gentle as to forget the foe in the glorious 
celebration of civilization's greatest victory at 
arms. At times the hall had the stillness of 
the church, at others it rang with all the 
stength of the union shout. Kind words there 
werer for the country, not for the North alone. 
The band played "Glory Hallelujah," and the 
veterans sang until the very walls resounded 
with the volume of sound, and here occurred 
one of the most delicate tributes to the man, 
who, although the greatest traitor to his coun- 
try, never realized his treachery until he had 
crossed the River. The rather rough refer- 
ence to the dead president of the confederacy, 
in this famous song of the Union soldier, was 
sung by every veteran without words, an omis- 
sion which told volumes of the universal love 
of our universal country. Every toast had the 
sentimental ring of true sentiment, and every 
speaker spoke from his heart. A mpre repre- 
sentative body of men as men — never gathered 
within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
OflScers and privates sat side by side, and 
shoulder straps and arm stripes counted for 
naught. One man was as good as another, 
and no man thought himself better than the 
others. The tributes paid to the departed 
seemed to bring the dead back to life, and no 
veteran was ashamed of the glistening tear, 
which better than his words, told of his appre- 
ciation of what the dead had done. Every 
speech had its point ; there was not a dry mo- 
ment from the opening address of Commander 
Pinkham to the closing poem of Chaplain 
Smith. Light would like to give the toasts 
and responses, but the whole volume of its 
columns could not contain one-half the grand 
things said. It is better to give none than not 
to repeat the whole. One poem, however, was 
so well written and so well expressed the feel- 
ings of the veterans that Light prints it in 
full. It was by Comrade John Howard Jewett 
and was entitled ''Then and Now." 

Form the ranks in "Open order," as of old, on Dress 

Parade. 
See, the hosts of memory gather,— old-time scenes that 

never fade 
From the hearts of veteran soldiers, painted there in 

blood and tears ; 
Time can never dim the lustre of those unforgotten 

years. 

Comrades, halting here a moment, on the forward march 

of Ufe, 
We salute the grand procession from those far off scenes 

of strife ; 



Thronging past, the gallant legions,— ranks unbroken, 

flags unfurled, 
Marching on to save the Union, while at gaze stands all 

the world. 

SL\ty-one— The sky is darkened. Sixty-two— A deepen- 
ing gloom. 

Si.\ty-three :— The clouds are lifting ;— Sixty-four ;— Re- 
bellion's doom ; — 

Si.\ty-five;— Then, Appomattox I Hear the ringing 
echoes rise ; 

Sound "Recall." The war is over. Hushl The mar- 
tyred Lincoln diesl 

Steady. Comrades, see the victors, counter-marching, 



grown war-worn men 
Pass, the remnant of an Army ; see the ragged colors 

wave; 
Count the ranks,— for each survivor, count a cripple, or 

a grave. 

Thus salutii.g, we, who linger, lift the veil, nor blush at 

tears ; 
Memories of the past grown clearer, dearer, by the flight 

of years. 
"We who linger." .Ah, how many still left fighting, old 

and gray, 
Single-handed, where the foemen Want and Hardship 

bar the way. 

Fighting daily for their loved ones, bravely striving for 

their own 
In the hard, unequal contest where misfortune strives 

alone. 
Men who fought well, men who wrought well, but were 

beaten in the race 
Since the war; — who claim no pension, — poverty their 

sole disgrace. 

"Used-up men," whose fighting record would adorn a 

general's fame. 
Broken now, by human weakness,— they were heroes^ 

just the same. 
Men, who, though they need a pension, will not lie to 

"get it through ;" 
Still preferring toil to begging, — brave old heroes of the 

"Blue." 

Soldiers' wives and soldiers' children, widowed, or- 
phaned since the war ; — 

Shall we leave them to the tender mercies of the Pension 
Law? 

God forbid I The G. A. R. boys never will their badge 
disown ; 

Never, till the last survivor decorates the graves, alone 1 

While the nation grants its millions, every year, in Jus- 
tice' name, 

Many, equally deserving, yet must wait to "prove a 
claim." 

Let it then, be ours the duty, first to succor, first to 
cheer. 

First to prove that we are faithful to our sorrowing com- 
rades here. 

In the old days, you remember how we fared together, 
then. 

On the march, or round the camp-fire, in the fight or 
prison pen. 

Then, the strong man helped the weaker tote his knap- 
sack or his gun. 

Shared his ration or his blanket with a comrade who had 
none. 

That was brotherhood in earnest, sealed in blood and 

binding fast ; 
Comrades of the old Grand Army — Comrades always, 

first and last. 
Pass the countersign and rally I G. A. R. in F. C. L. 
Open hearts and open purse-strings— these are shots that 

always tell. 

"Charity" means spare all blaming for the help our 

brothers need ; 
"Harden not your hearts." The weakest need you most ; 

to them give heed. 
In "Fraternity" there's meaning, broad as ocean and as 

deep; 
Share again each other's burdens— let the old-time 

cadence keep 

All the boys "forward marching" in the ranks of fellow- 
men, 

Shoulder touching shoulder, daring, bearing, sharing, 
«cwas then. 

"Loyalty" to Flag, not faction. Men may err, but truth 
survives ; 



Let no soldier dare to question theirs, who risked for 
Right, their Uves. 

Hush all discords; sing the old songs, and agree to dis- 
agree ; 

Ever Loyal and Fraternal, — grander still in Charity. 

Comrades, — one by one, we vanish in Time's ever-deep- 
ening mist ;— 

Let us, then, stand altogether, till the end,— "Parade's 
dismissed I" 

The arrangements were under the direction 
of an executive commitree composed as foL 
lows: Post Commander Charles H. Pinkham, 
chairman ; W. W. Scott, J. B. Willard, C. W. 
Putnam, George A. Blunt, J. B. Lepire, A. M. 
Parker, S. F. Babbitt, J. B. Lamb, J. P. Cros- 
by, C. N. Walker, George W. Hubbard and C. 
W. Gassett. 

The reception committee consisted of C. H. 
Pinkham, John B.. Lepire, Fred. E. Fuller, 
A. B. R. Sprague, J. Pickett, E. T. Raymond, 
W. S. B. Hopkins, W. A. Gile, David Boy- 
den, J. Stewart Brown, T. O'Gara, A. S. Roe, 
W. H. Bartlett, R. H. Chamberlain, Dr. Albert 
Wood. 

The honorary committee was composed of 

A. B. R. Sprague, Robert H. Chamberlain, 

E. T. Raymond, J. M. Drennan, J. Stewart 
Brown, P. F. Murray, George F. Thomp- 
son, T. J. Hastings, David Boyden, T. Spen- 
cer Jenks, Thomas O'Gara, W. S. B. Hopkins, 

B. W. Potter, Jeremiah Murphy, Dr. B. F. 
Clough, L. J. Goodell, E. R. Shumway, J. S. 
Baldwin, Alfred S. Roe, F. W. Southwick, 
George C. Whitney, Jotham E. Bigelow, G. E. 
Wetherbee, Josiah Pickett, Dr. Albert Wood, 
Dr. J. Marcus Rice, O. W. Norcross, Edwin 
Brown, J. A. Titus, J. E. Dennis, J. A. Long, 
J. W. Hadley, D. W. Darling. J. T. Dading, 
W. A. Gile, C. W. Wilson, William Hickey, 
Rev. C. E. Simmons, F. E. Goodwin, Henry 
Green, George M. Woodward, E. H. Pevey, 
W. H. Bartlett, W. F. Bancroft. 

Rousing speeches were made by Hon. W. 
W. Rice, Colonel W. L. Robinson, Colonel 
Samuel E. Winslow, Commander George H. 
Innes, Hon. Francis A. Harrington, Captain 
W. A. Gile, Major E. R. Shumway, Colonel W. 
S. B. Hopkins, Hon. T. C. Bates, Commander 
John D. Billings, Hon. F. P. Goulding, Com- 
rade A. S. Roe and Comrade Charles M. 
Smith. 

Letters were read from Senator George F. 
Hoar, Hon. J. H. Walker and Past Depart- 
ment Commander Richard F. Tobin. 

Among those present were: 

Department Commander George H. Innes, 
loth Mass. Battery,of Boston, and staff. Senior 
Vice Commander Arthur A. Smith, 52d Mass., 
of Coleraine, Junior Vice Commander James 
K. Churchill, of Worcester, Quartermaster 
General John H. O'Donnell, U. S. N., of Bos- 
ton, Inspector Wilfred A. Wetherbee, of New- 
ton, Council of Administration Eli W. Hall, 
of Lynn, Department Inspector Andrew E. 
Perkins of Boston, Charles S. Anthony, 2d 
Mass., Lt. Artillery, Aid-de-Camp Major E. 
T. Raymond, Aid-de-Camp P. F. Murray of 
Worcester, Aid-de-Camp A. A. Putnam of Ux- 
bridge, John D. Billings, loth Mass., Battery, 
of Cambridge, past department commander, 
Mayor Francis A. Harrington, E.x-Mayor 
Samuel Winslow, Hon. W. W. Rice, Charles 

F. Washburn, A. George Bullock, Hon. Theo- 
dore C. Bates, Frank P. Goulding, Esq,, 
Henry A. Marsh, Esq., Dr. Charles H. Davis, 
Edward I. Comins, John B. Watson, Oscar F. 



Rawson, Dr. J. Marcus Rice, Judge George 
M. Woodward, Councilman Edward J. Mc- 
Mahon, John R. Thayer, Col. T. S. Johnson, 
J. E. Bigelow, H. Mansfield, George VV. Ward, 
Councilman D. F. Fitzgerald, R. L. Ward, 
Col. E. J. Russell, M. J. Whittall, Col. Henry 
E. Smith, Alfred S. Roe, Col. W. S. B. Hop- 
kins, W. A. Denholm, George L. Bliss, Wood- 
bury C. Smith, Charles A. Lindsey, A. C. 
Jackson, Capt. James A. Gettings, Sons of Vet- 
erans, Col. Samuel E. Winslow of the gov- 
ernor's staff, Lt. Samuel A. Willis, Adjt. Aaron 
S. Taft, Quartermaster Edward B. Dolliver,Lt. 
Edward P. Pevey, Quartermaster, Lieut. 
George H. Harlow, clerk, Worcester Conti- 
nentals, Major E. R. Shumway, 2d Regt., M. 
V. M., Capt. W. A. Condy, Lt. E. G. Barrett, 
City Guards, Capt. William Regan, Emmet 
Guards, Lt. Fred G. Davis, Light Infantry, 
Capt. George L. Allen, Lt. L. G. Bigelow, Lt. 
W. T. Souther, Battery B, M. V. M., Capt. 
Charles H. Pinkham, Commander of Post 10, 
Gen. Josiah Pickett, 25th Mass., Burton W. 
Potter, Co. A, 14th \'t., Capt. W. A. Gile, iSth 
N. H., W. W. Scott, Co. C, 24th Mass., C. H. 
Draper, Co. I, 2d Mass., H. A., John B. Lepire, 
Co. E, 34th Mass., William Hart, Co. H. ist 
Heavy, C. W. Gassett, Co. F, ist Batt., H. A., 

E. L. Newcomb, ist N. H. Cav., Cephas N. 
Walker, Co. C, 34th Mass., James P. Crosby, 
U. S. N., Clare W. Putnam, Co. K., 25th 
Mass., Nathan Taylor, Co. E, 6th Mass., 
Joseph T. Darling, Co. G, 6ist Mass., Samuel 

F. Babbitt, Co. F, 4th Mass., H. A., Albert 
Wood, Surgeon ist Mass. Cav., Arthur M. 
Stone, Co. E, 34th Mass., Frederick G. Stiles, 
42d Mass., Charles H. Peck, Co. F., 51st 
Mass., G. E. Wetherbee, Co. B, 44th Mass., 
George W. Hubbard, Co. E, 3d Me., Adjt. of 
Post 10, Charles M. Smith, Co. E, ist Mass. 
Cav., Amos M. Parker, 3d Batt. RiHes, John 
W. Hadley, 6th Mass., W. F. Bancroft, ist 
and i2th Vt., Dr. B. F. Clough, U. S. S. 
"Blackhawk," and U. S. Hospital ship, "Red 
Rover," David A. iVIatthews, 3d Mass. Bat- 
tery, Charles W. Wilson, 2Sth Mass., J. E. 
Goodwin, Co. A, 25th Mass., C. W. Wood, Co. 
C, 36th Mass., D. W. Darlimg, Co. G, 6ist 
Mass., W. H. Mason, Co. D, 2d H. A., 

C. W. Hall, Signal Corps, U. S. A., Thomas 
H. Haskell, Post 11, Benjamin S. P'arnsworth, 
Co. D., Heavy Artillery, William W. Atkins, 
Co. D., 4th Mass. Heavy Artillery, James W. 
R. Batchelder, Co. D., 4th Mass. Heavy Artil- 
lery, Thomas Stephens, Co. B., 21st Mass., 
Jerome Perry, Co. i, C. V. A., E. H. Eaton, 
Co. F., 26th Maine, Thomas Kimball loist 
111., H. S. Pike, Co. G., 57th Mass., C. E. Ab- 
bey, Co. H. 4th New York H. A., E. H. Whit- 
ney, Co. K., 4th Mass. Cavalry, Amos Up- 
ham, Co. B., 27th Mass., Albert Stockdale, Co. 
K., 2Sth Mass., Herbert W. Verry, Co. A., 23d 
Mass., William Lee, Co. C, 57th Mass., 
Michael Donahue, Co. G., 25th Mass., Samuel 

D. Barrett, Co. C, 51st Mass., J. Stewart 
Brown, 51st Mass., U. S. S. "Mattakesett," 
Edwin Brown, Co. C, 51st Mass., George A. 
Blunt, Co. B., 2d N. Y. Artillery, J. H. Locke, 
Co. D., 25th Mass., W. E. Jacques, Co. E., 
42d Mass., Alexander M. Comrie, Co. E, 34th 
C. E. Vols., drummer, James H. Baldwin, Co. 
A., 34th Mass., Patrick McDermott, Co. B., 
P. F. Murray, Co. E., 15th Mass., M. D. Gil- 
man, Co. M., 3d Mass. Cav., F. O. Bushnell, 
Co. B., 13th Vt., Samuel H. Fuller, 51st 



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Mass., J. M. Brown, Co. C, 4th Me., James A. 
Clemence, Co. A., 51st Mass., J. Butterworth, 
Co. C, 36th Mass., Robert F. Laverty, Co. F., 
15th Mass., C. H. Hazelton, Co. G., 2d Mass., 
Hospital Steward, U. S. A., E. W. Newton, 
Co. H., 2d Mass., H. A., J. H. Booth, Co. A., 
53d Mass., E. P. Kimball, Co. K., ist New 
Hampshire, H. A., M. C. Keyes, Co. E., 31st 
Me., T. Spencer Jenks, Co. F., ist Mass. Bat- 
tery, H. A., John J. Upham, Co. F., 60th 
Mass., William 11. Bartlett, Co. A., 48th 
Mass. and Co. B., H'dq'rs Battalion, Dept. of 
the Gulf, Thomas O'Gara, Co. D., 7th Vt., 
William Hickey, 3d Batt. Rifles and with Far- 
ragut in the Gulf Squadron, Mason A. Boy- 
den, Co. F, 51st Mass., J. Murphy, Co, I., 50th 
Mass., T. J. Hastings, 15th Mass., George E. 
Batchelder, 40th Mass., L. J. Goodell, 3d H. 
A., Col. James M. Drennan, 25th Ma.ss., David 
Boyden, 36th Mass., John Howard Jewett, Co. 
C, loth Mass., George Waldo Mirick, Co. I., 
15th Mass., James Armstrong, Co. I., 24th 
Mass., D. E. Burbank, Co. A., 2d N. H., 
George W. Barton, 4th Mass., H. A., Patrick 
Diggins, nth Vt., H. H. Comings, 17th Conn., 
Charles N. Hair, 51st Mass., G. B. King, 34th 
Mass., Priestley Young, 15th Mass., E. D. Mc- 
Farland, 57th Mass., E. H. Hammond, Co. E., 
i6th Vt., S. G. Ingraham, Co. L, 24th Mass., 
George O. Pettibone, Co. B., 25th C. V., 
George F. Sibley, Co. I., 24th Mass., Mark 
Froom, 4th Mass., Eusibe Errell, Co. B., 60th 
Mass., and Co. K., iSth N. H., Hubert Claf- 
fey, 2ist Mass., M. M. Childs, 26th Conn., 
C. P. Buck, Co. H., 69th N. Y., Francis K. 
Bullard, Co. D., 4th Mass. H. A., Fred Bul- 
lard, Co. F., 15th Mass., Sumner Cummings, 
19th Mass., Daniel Tuson, 42d Mass., Charles 
A. Goddard, sist Mass., Otis H. Davis, 7th 
Mass., S. E. Johnson, 12th N. H., William C. 
Sprague, Co. F., 42d Mass., John Hanley, ist 
Batt., H. A., Henry W. Childs, Co. E., 42d 
Mass., Julius C. Conners, Co. F., 14th N. H., 
David Roche, Co. K., ist U. S. Infantry, Co. 
C, 3d U. S., Co. A. 5th U. S., Allen Clark, Co. 
B., iSth Conn., L. D. Goddard, Co. D., 15th 
Mass., John H. Mawbey, Co. K., 13th N. H., 
Jere M. Hine, Co. D., 4th Mass., H. A., N. J. 
McMahone, Co. G., 50th Mass., J. J. Beau- 
mont, Co. K., loth Mass,, George M. Pierce, 
Co. F., ist Batt. H. A., J. M. Muzzy, Co. D., 
2ist Mass., H. A.Winn, Co. C, 51st Mass., 
and Co. F., 4th H. A., Willard Cheney, 2d U. 
S. C, Daniel E. Denney, Co. E., 42d Mass., 
Henry J. Fiske, Co. D., ist Conn., H. A., 
Charles A. Mayers, Co. A., 25th Mass., C. E. 
Hall, Co. B., ist Mass., H. A., George E. Kir- 
by, Co. D., 51st Mass., H. T. Buck, Co. B., 
117th N. Y., F. H. Rice, Co. K., S3d Mass., 
J. S. Perkins, Co. K., 5th Mass., John W. 
Warren, Co. E., 21st Mass., Charles D. 
Holmes, Battery A., 3d R. I. Artillery, E. C. 
Dockham, Co. K., 13th Mass., Charles K. 
Adams, Co. D., loth Mass., Co. C, 4th Mass. 
Cav., Charles S. Barber, Co. A., 36th Mass., 
Nelson Stark, Co. K.. 24th Mass., Patrick 
Morrisey, Co. A., 3d LI. S., Marcus Curtis, Co. 
G., 6th Mass., Alfred Edwards, Co. D., 5th 
Cav., Edward C. Winslow, Co. B., 3d Batt. 
rifles, Co. B., 51st regt., George P. Taft, 
Troop M., 3d R. 1. Cav., G. K. Parker, Co. 
K., 13th Mass., C. A. Parker, Co. G., 12th 
Mass., Edson Fairbanks, Co. B., 51st Mass., 
George F. Pearce, U. S. bark "Guerilla," H. 
N. Pepper, Co. F., 51st Mass., Charles F. 



Gould, Co. A, 34th Mass., Marcus M. Smith, 
Co. G., 14th N. H., Edmund B. Balxmk, Co. 
I., 5tli Ma.ss. and Co. C, 4th Mass. Cav., A. S. 
Graton, Co. C.,2istMass., A. B. Macomber, Co. 
!•:., 13th Mc., H. B. .Adams, Co. F., 42d Mass., 
E. A. Rice, Co. 1)., 15th Mass., F. L. Fuller, Co. 
B., 27th Ma.ss., William H. Garrcll, Co. H., 
36th Ma.ss., Henry C. Lowell, Co. B., 15th 
Mass., Harry L. Lewis, Co. D., ist Batt. H. 
A., Warren W. Williams, Co. K., 13th Mass., 
E. R.Lawrence, Co. H., 25th Mass., W. F. Mil- 
ler, 15th Ma.ss., Edward J. Ryan, loth Mass., 
Geo. H. Boyd, Co. A., ist Mass., H. A., Nathan 
White, Co. E., 42d Mass., J. G. Dimick, 2d 
and 13th Mass. Battery, A. M. Seagrave, Co. 
H., 4th R. S. W., E. Schofield, looth N. Y., 
C. J. Lakin, 46th Mass., A. A. Peacock, 4th 
Mass., H. A., Michael C. Lally, 57th, 2d 
Mass. Cav., Elias Sprague, Jerome M. Stone, 
George R. Rowe, 55th Mass., William Law- 
rence, 36th Mass., L. C. Lawrence, 7th Mass. 
Battery, A. J. Williams, 42d Mass., Charles A. 
Mann, Co. D., 25th Mass. 

The .Alpine Quartet, composed of George 
A. Smith, H. A. Kimball, Charles S. Holden 
and Luther M. Lovell, with George N. Morse 
accompanist, rendered many patriotic airs, 
which were heartily applauded. 



— The light-colored kinds of artificial hair 
come from Germany, e.xcept the drab and ash 
shades, which are furnished by Sweden. Near- 
ly all the various shades of dark hair are im- 
ported from France. 

— .Stradivarius, the world famous master 
of the science of violin making, was born at 
Cremona in 1670 or thereabouts, and lived to 
be fifty-eight years old. 

Engaged. 

Miss Rosalind Ethel of Vassar, 

Knew Greek and antimacassar; 
But when farmer Fred 
Asked, "Will you me wed .'" 

She immediately answered him, "Yassar !" 
— Contrihu/eii. 
A Select Congregation. 

Deacon Jones (solemnly): — My young friend, 
do you attend a place of worship .' 

Young man:— Yes, sir, regularly, every 
Sunday night. 

Deacon Jones : — Pray tell me where you go 
to worship ? 

Young man — I'm on my way to see her now. 
—A'fw York Truth. 



Light can be found on sale at tlie following 
news-stands : — 

F. A. Easton, post-office. 
J. H. Sullivan, depot. 

L. H. Browning, 56S Main street. 
Boston Store, 490 Main street. 
H. L. Hopkins, 190 Pleasant street. 
C. H. Fistier, 201 Main street. 
A. F. Bragg, 332 Main street. 
A. W. Barber, 7 Main street. 

G. K. Mellor, 432 Main street. 
P. H. Murphy, 15S Front street. 
A. M. Driscoll, 7S'/i Front street. 
A. C. Woodward, 8S7 Main street 
F. O.xley, 64S Main street. 

Prentice & Bowler, 120 Chandler street. 
M. Schlesinger, 23S Front street. 
Sullivan Bros., i64!4 Front street. 
Boston & Albany K. R. depot, Boston. 
On the trains. 

At the office of Light, 339 Main street. 
A limited number of.back copies can be had bv apply- 
ing at the Light office. 



About Folks. 



A notable event occurred last Thursday, the 
17th, it being the 88th birthday of one of 
Worcester's best known women, Mrs. Sarah 
Dennis Mayo. Mrs. Mayo was born in Mar- 
blehead in 1802, where she lived during the 
stirring times of the war of i8i2,her father 
serving on board one of the American men-of- 
war. After her marriage she moved to Wor- 
cester. Mrs. Mayo has always been a promi- 
nent member of the First Universalist church, 
aud her husband was one of its first deacons. 
Her health is good, and Thursday afternoon 
and evening she held an informal reception. 
Her house on Congress street was fragrant 
with beautiful flowers, brought by her children, 
grand-children and great-grand-children, and 
many friends who wish her many more such 
pleasant, happy birthdays. 

Dr. George Stillman Clark was married in 
Springfield, Wednesday, to Miss Elizabeth S. 
Wheeler, a daughter of Mr. Moses P. Wheeler. 
The wedding was a brilliant one and several 
Worcester people were present to tender con- 
gratulations. Dr. and Mrs. Clark will be at 
home, at 69 Main street, after May 15. 



The program for the class e.xhibition of the 
Young Women's Christian association, Tues- 
day evening, includes music by the singing 
class, readings by Misses Carrie Hale, Vesta 
Whitcomb and Eliza Rawson, a five minute 
paper on "Siberia," by Miss Hattie Kemp, 
and exercises in physical culture by Miss A. 
1. Evans, assisted by Misses Mathilde Haas 
and Lura J. Murray, with Miss Alma J. 
Leathers, accompanist. There will also be 
displayed, in the library, samples of the work 
done in the cooking, sewing, writing, dress- 
cutting, fancy work and millinery classes. All 
ladies interested in the class work of the as- 
sociation should see for themselves what has 
been done in the winter evenings. No admis- 
sion will be charged, and a cordial welcome 
will await any who will climb the stairs at 352 
Main street. 



Mr. Alfred S. Clifford, Worcester's gifted 
'cellist, who has been playing in Proctor's 
Twenty-third Street Theatre, New York city, 
for some time, has been re-engaged to play un- 
til July 13, and also has a contract at the same 
place for the entire next season, which will op- 
en August 4, with opera. 



Miss Marion Yeaton very pleasantly enter- 
tained a party of friends at her home, 901 Main 
street, Tuesday evening, the diversions of the 
evening including music and g?mes, and re- 
freshments were also served. Those present 
included Mr. Arthur L. Clifford, Miss Flora 
H. Clifford, Miss Alma L. Collins, Miss Etta 
Howland, Miss Nellie Howland, Mr. Fred 
Knowlton, Miss Lathrop and Mr. Edward 
Nash. 



To-day is the 19th of April, and it would be 
interesting to know how many people will 
pause between rising time and bed time, in the 
rush and hurry of life, to think for a moment of 
the part it has played in the history of Amer- 
ica. It brings the anniversaries of three of the 
most important events in American annals. 



L I (i H T 

It is one of the coincidences of history that 
these three events occurred, many years apart, 
on the memorable 19th of April. April 19, 
1689, Andros, the hated British governor of 
Massachusetts, was imprisoned in Boston and 
American liberty opened its eyes to the future ; 
April 19, 1775, tells the story of Concord and 
Lexington; and April 19, 1861, was the day 
when Massachusetts men, and Worcester men, 
marched through the streets of hostile Balti- 
more. Massachusetts may well say that she 
has no more memorable anniversary day than 
the 19th of April. Every flag ought to be 
flung to the breeze ; every patriotic man ought 
to make it a special day of Thanksgiving to 
God. Light hopes that the younger genera- 
tion will not pass by the 19th of April without 
thinking of its history, and upon the pupils of 
the public schools, especially, it would urge a 
study of the day's history. Let them ask Mr- 
Green, at the Public Library, for a copy of 
"Three April Days," an interesting paper pre- 
pared by Mr. Alfred S. Roe, some years ago. 
It will make a profitable hour's reading for 
this afternoon. 

Mr. F. P. McCleay, the understudy of Mr. 
Wilson Barrett, the English actor, and a 
tragedian of present and growing prominence, 
will give an evening of select readings, at As- 
sociation Hall, on May-day. The proceeds 
of the entertainment will be for the benefit of 
Mrs. Cutter's ladies' gymnasium. 



Worcester Methodists have every reason to 
be satisfied with the doings of the New Eng- 
land conference, held at Boston during last 
week and the early part of this. All of the 
Worcester pastors were returned to their 
charges, and not only Methodist Worcester, but 
Worcester in general, will feel pleased. 



Worcester in the Colleges. 

From Harvard. 

Mr. D. Osborne Earle is making a decided 
success of his captaincy of the Harvard Fresh- 
men Crew. A strong oar himself, he has the 
respect of all his men, a very desirable matter 
for a captain. Mr. Earle is exceedingly popu- 
lar among his classmates. He has been 
elected one of a governing committee of four of 
the new Harvard rowing club. 

Mr. John D. Baldwin has been elected a 
substitute on the Freshmen crew. Mr. Bald- 
win weighs but 136 pounds, but he is very 
strong, and if he can gain in weight, his friends 
predict great success for him in rowing during 
his college course. 

The class races take place on the Charles 
river, Thursday, May S. Each class is sup- 
porting its crew with much enthusiasm and a 
close race is anticipated. 

Mr. Harry N. Rice is an editor upon the 
Harvard Daily Crimson. 

In all departments of Harvard University 
there are thirty-one men from Worcester, seven 
being in the freshmen class of the academic 
department. 

Mr. Harry Y. Simpson, Jr., entertained Mr. 
Harry L. Dadmun here last Saturday, the lat- 
ter being in Boston to attend the athletic 
sports. 
Purple and White. 

Amherst College gave President Seelye a 



warm welcome home last Wednesday evening, 
upon his return from a seven months' absence 
in Europe. During the evening, the boys re- 
paired in a body to the president's house, and 
after giving the college cheer, welcomed him 
back to Amherst. President Seelye replied 
briefly, after which many of the students 
shook hands with him. It is expected that he 
will have one recitation with seniors during 
the spring term. 

Every pleasant afternoon the ball field and 
campus are alive with men, training for the 
ball team and for the Worcester sports, to be 
held on the 27th of ne.xt month. The popular 
opinion here seems to be that Amherst is 
working hard enough to win in both, and that 
the chances of winning in the latter are excel- 
lent. The new method of counting points, to 
be employed at the next meet, is also consid- 
ered an advantage for her. 



Of Coming Things. 

Saturday, April 19. 

Worcester Club.— Smoke Talks. Dr. Leonard 
P. Kinnicutt on "Sewage and Sewage Disposal." 

Rink. — Loyal Legion boys meet Mr. C. C. Wood- 
man, to rehearse music for Sam Small service. 4 p. m. 

Polytechnic Institute.— Hare and hounds run. 
2.30 p. m. 

Sunday, April 20. 

First Universalist Church.— Worcester Con- 
tinentals attend services, on invitation of Rev. M. H. 
Harris. 7.30 p. m. 

Skating Rink. — Sam Small, on " From Bar-room to 
Pulpit," under W. C. T. U. auspices. 

Pleasant Street Baptist Church.— Sam Small 
preaches. 10.30 a. m. 

Salem Street Church. — Series of Sunday even- 
ing sermons. "Christian reform defined — wrongs to be 
righted." 7 p. m. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of 
Wellesley, preaches. 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. 
Monday, April 21. 

Art Students' Rooms.— Eleventh annual exhibi- 
tion opens to members. Evening. 

Pilgrim Hall. — Talks to the boys. Mr. Frank R. 
Heath on "Mathematics." 

Tuesday, April 22. 

Washburn Hall.— Worcester County Mechanics 
Aassociation, adjourned annual meeting. 7.30 p. m. 

All Souls Church.— Reception to Rev. M. H. 
Harris. 7.30 p. m. 

Y. W. C. A., 352 Main Street.— Class exhibition. 
S p. m. 

Wednesday, April 23. 

Mechanics Hall.— John Boyle O'Reilly, lecture 
on "Irish Music and Poetry." Sp. m. 

Thursday, April 24. 

Trinity Church.— Reception to Bishop Ninde by 
Worcester Methodist Social Union. Evening. 

Union Church.— "Deestrick Skewl." 8 p. m. 
Monday, April 28. 

Association Hall.— Public meeting of Associated 
Charities. Addresses by Robert Treat Paine and 
others. 

Tuesday, April 29. 

Continental Hall.— Farmers Institutes, under 
auspices of Bay State Agricultural Society. 10 a. m. 
and 1.30 p. m. 

Thursday, May i. 

Continental Hall.— Officers and members of the 
Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home of Mas- 
sachusetts meet Worcester ladies. 2 p. m. 

Association Hall.— Readings by Mr. F. P. Mc- 
Cleay, of Wilson Barrett's company. 7.45 p. m. 

Curtis Hall.— First Presbyterian Church; installa- 
tion of Rev. Thomas Atkinson. 7.30 p. m. 
Wednesday, May 7. 

Bay State House.— Second annual banquet of the 
Builder's Exchange. 8. p. m. 

Decoration Day, Friday, May 30. 

Agricultural Park.— Annual spring meet, League 
of American Wheelmen. 



A Dav at Stoke. 



A six miles' ride from Eton, over a finely- 
Icept drive, between liedges of hawtliorne and 
ivy-covered gray stone walls, beneath the cool 
and rich green branches of the magnificent and 
almost continuous rows of oaks and elms, and 
we reach a quiet "God's Acre," almost un- 
noticed behind its shield of hedge and vine 
that screens it from the road. The turn-stile, 
through which we enter the quiet spot, calls 
forth immediately our respect. It is old in its 
service, like the butler at the manor house, and 
is as well preserved and as faithful to its duty 
as is he. The stile forms us into single file, 
and thus we wind up the narrow path, through 
grasses, columbines and buttercups, to the lit- 
tle church. 

The spire has been added during some re- 
cent upheaval of poor taste, and so in absorb- 
ing of the poetry of this sacred spot we will 
forget its presence and not think of its per- 
petrator. The eaves of the cruciform build- 
ing are so low that one can almost touch them. 
The quiet color of the walls is relieved by the 
omnipresent ivy (of which, of course, we took 
slips, that are already promising plants,) and 
by subdued stained glass windows, some of 
those in the nave bearing the coat of arms of 
the Cobdens, Stokes or Poges — for the name 
Stoke-Poges dates from the marriage of an 
English Stoke to a French Poges. In one 
quiet corner is a tablet, recording the births 
and deaths of the Penn family, for this was 
their parish church, and here many of William 
Penn's ancestors and descendants are buried. 
He rests only a few miles from here, in an 
even more unfrequented spot. 

The old manor pew, now occupied by the 
owners of Stoke Park, remains nearly as it was 
when Gray, during his long visits to the Cob- 
dens, used to listen to service from it. AH of 
the right transept, raised a few feet from the 
floor level of the church, is given over to this 
immense ''sitting." The windows in it and in 
the private hallway leading to it from the 
quaint porch are rather good, but a bit too 
gaudy to be in keeping with the prevailing 
simplicity. Against the wall and scattered 
about the center of the room are rare old claw- 
footed mahogany chairs, their backs carved 
and seats upholstered in a faded and interest- 
ing brocade. 

We were shown several prayer books in 
which were the Cobden arms, and under one 
such impression was Gray's autograph. The 
vicar's stories were full of interest regarding 
the imaginary scenes — even love-making — in 
which the poet might have indulged in tlie 
great bo.x pew. 

We enter the tower through an outside door. 
About us lie the grave-digging spades and 
picks, so often used by the deaf old se.xton, 
who leads us up the narrow stairs to the next 
story, where the bells, so old that their voices 
sound cracked as they tell of service, are kept 
company by unused tombstones, old biers, 
dried funeral flowers and such uncanny re- 
minders. The view from the tower is purely 
a country landscape, shut in by trees, save 
through one opening, where a glimpse of the 
casde can be had. 

Outside the church the interest is chicfest. 



h I n r 

Set into the wall is a .small marljlc .slab telling 
that Gray's grave is near, and directly in front 
of it is the huge table-like slab containing his 
epitaph. Near by lies his mother, from whose 
family his poetic genius must have come. His 
grave is marked by the ugliest slab in the 
church yard, but as all the low mounds tell of 
him, he needs no better. Surrounded by the 
narrow cells of the hamlet's rude forefathers, 
his grave seems perfectly in keeping with what 
we know of him. The yew trees, with their 
dark, thick and spice-breathing branches, wave 
a continual peace of the quiet scene. 

The Hall of his times has been mostly torn 
down, there being left only a part of the old 
building which served as farm-house for the 
keeper's family. The lower rooms are now 
dairy, laundry and living-rooms, but above 
stairs one still finds the remains of past splen- 
dor. Odd-shaped chambers, with fine mantel- 
pieces, deep fire-places, and spaces of deco- 
rated walls tell us of the decorative taste of 
the Cobdens. Above the state dining hall is 
the room pointed out as the poet's. The dia- 
mond-paned windows command views of the 
meadows, and, as we look, surely "the lowing 
herds wind slowly o'er the lea," driven by a 
yellow-headed youngster in a blue smocked 
frock. Secret cupboards abounded in the 
walls of this old house, and pitchers, bowls and 
glasses said to have been found in them made 
us wish these honest English folk bribable. 
The hideous memorial built in a neighboring 
field is too unworthy to be examined, and so, 
full of the scene that Gray has given us in his 
"Elegy," we turn our energies for a walk 
back to Windsor. 

After dinner, while talking over our after- 
noon, in the long twilight (something our 
Anglo-Manics can't copy) we hear from the 
Norman tower the curfew tolling "the knell of 
parting day." Words give faint ideas at best 
of the interest and satisfaction such a day 
brings, unless one has experienced a like en- 
joyment. 



Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" 
has now reached a circulation, including trans- 
lations into foreign languages, of fully 400,000 
copies. 



Miss Fanny T. Bugbee, a graduate of 
Worcester High School, '86, and for two years 
since at Wellesley, has accepted a position as 
assistant principal in the Holden high school. 
Miss Bugbee is now resident in Shrewsbury. 



Lippincott's Magazine for May will contain 
two notable novelets; one by Bret Harte, 
entitled "The Sappho of Green Springs," and 
the other by Lafcadio Hearn, entitled "Karma." 
Julian Hawthorne will have in the same num- 
ber a characteristic paper, entitled "Some 
Physiological Revelatons." 



Mr. Whittier writes to a correspondent : " I 
have reached a time of life when literary noto- 
riety is of small consequence, but I shall be 
glad to feel that I have not altogether written 
in vain ; that my words for freedom, temper- 
ance, charity, faith in the divine goodness, love 
of nature and of home and country are wel- 
comed and approved.'" 



Correspondence. 

Old North Church, 

7'o The Editor of IJfrJit : 

IJo we realize how poor the parish of the 
"Old North Church" in Boston is.' Last Sat- 
urday, its sexton, after showing us about, told 
us tliat in a little while it must pass from their 
hands and if not torn down would become a 
museum ! Think of it— our torch for the 
kindling of liberty torn down ! Christopher 
Wren designed it; George II. enriched it; our 
our (ieorge 1. attended his first .service there as 
commander-in-chief of our army, and yet al- 
most no New Englanders are interested in it. 
The body of the church, save in arrangement 
of pews, is as it was when Leonard Vassel, 
Governor Winthrop and many other of our first 
and truest Americans attended .service there. 
The communion service still used was given 
largely by George II. 

The same clock ticks in its old place below 
the veritable old organ front that Washington 
faced so many years ago. Above the pew he 
occupied is the mate to the lost Washington 
bust, so pronounced by Elizabeth Bryant 
Johnson — made from life by a Philadelphian 
sculptor. Can't something be done to help the 
parish to retain their sacred trust ? If not the 
Episcopalian church in Boston, then in .Mass- 
achusetts, or in New England, or at least in 
America. Let's at least keep the first church 
identified with our liberty. J. 



The Spirit of Poetry. 



BY CORNELIA WESSON BOVDEN. 



Oh ! thou dear spirit who hath waked my brain 

And roused my soul to aspirations high, 
Who'st shown me beauties of immortal gain, 

And whispered secrets of the earth and sky. 
Who broke the thraldom that didst hold me fast, 

And snapped the chains of years of dreamless sleep, 
When on the world my untried soul was cast, 

Didst know of all the tears that I must weep ? 

Didst know that every step I gained was fraught 

With bitter trials sorely hard to bear, 
That ere I reached the lofty goal I sought, 

My feet would trip o'er many a tangled snare; 
And that the friends I thought I had were not, 

And 1 alone must stand save but for thee, 
That scofts and sneers instead of praise I got, 

Didst know all this was meted out to me ? 

Ah yes ! thou didst ; for 'tis the lot of all 

Who, poor, unknown, have trod the path to fame, 
That few succeed while countless numbers fall, 

And years are spent ere one has won a name. 
Yet knowing this thou camst to me and spoke. 

And I with joy didst answer to thy voice, 
And spite of all my tears since I awoke ; 

Of every lot in life this is mv choice. 

But tell me. Oh! thou spirit who inspires, 

What work it is that thou wouldst have me do? 
Make known to me thy wishes, thy desires, 

And I will be thy faithful servant true. 
Inspire thou me, as, in the ages past, 

Thou didst the bards \^hose songs have deathless 
grown ; 
Teach me the hymns once sung, that firm and fast 

Within life's annals bright have e'er been shown. 

Give me the power to touch each human heart, 

To wake up smiles, and aye cause tears to How ; 
The tales of love that spring from Cupid's dart. 

The tender pathos of each song of woe. 
All this I ask since thou didst me awake ; 

And should 1 win the smallest share of fame, 
I'll bless the tears I've shed for thy dear sake, 

And count them naught against an honored name. 



10 



About Folks. 



Mr. Herbert H. Taylor has been admitted 
to tlie Harvard Law School Association. 



Elm Park has had its spring opening. The 
flower-bed gi"ound has been spaded, the seats 
placed in position, and the row-boats placed 
upon the lake. There are few prettier pleas- 
ure grounds anywhere. The lake surround- 
ings are picturesque, the walks shady and 
romantic, and the excellent exercise of rowing 
is here given splendid opportunity, with danger 
reduced to the minimum. 



Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hogg have been in 
Florida during a fortnight past and write home 
reports of a delightful time among the posies 
and 'gators. 



Mr. Frederick L. Coes is making extensive 
alterations to his residence, 1017 Main street, 
and when completed, it will be one of the 
handsomest houses at the South End. The 
short piazza in front is being replaced by a 
wide veranda ; the entrance on the south side 
of the house has been removed and a corres- 
ponding entrance and short porch on the north 
side is being put in. Inside, Mr. Coes is hav 
ing several partitions removed and will gain 
considerable room. Special attention will be 
given to the interior decorations, which are 
likely to be particularly fine. 



Mr. William H. Chase of Williams college 
led the young men's meeting at Y. M. C. A., 
last Sunday morning. 



The recently announced selection of Mr. 
Fred W. White, heretofore the assistant 
book-keeper at the People's Savings bank, to 
take the position of teller, is gratifying to many 
beside his personal friends, who have been 
thrown in contact with him and appreciate his 
good qualities of heart and head. The pro- 
motion of a faithful employe, also, seems but 
just. Mr. Edward L. Spurr, for several years 
book-keeper for Manning Brothers, the shoe 
men, is to take Mr. White's place as assistant 
book-keeper at the bank. The new arrange- 
ment seems to meet with the warm approval of 
all who are interested in the bank. Incidental 
to the new arrangement, Mr. Harry B. Fair- 
banks has his title changed from that of clerk 
to treasurer's book-keeper, and he also gets an 
increase in salary. 

Mr. J. William Patston has been elected 
president of the Arlington Club, in place of Mr. 
Frank B. Waite, who was elected at the annual 
meeting, but declined to serve. Mr. Patston 
has been a very popular president in the past 
and would not stand for re-election ; hence his 
acceptance of the position now gives great sat- 
isfaction to the members of the club. 



A Worcester lady writes Light her impres- 
sions of a visit to O.xford street Kindergarten 
school : From the moment of my entrance in- 
to the delightfully pleasant sunny room, my 
attention and interest was held, until the very 
close of the session. I did not think when I 
went into the Kindergarten, that I should stay 
over half an hour, but the length of my visit 



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was nearer three hours. Imagine a dozen or 
so little boys and girls from three to six years 
old, sitting in a half circle around their teacher, 
each choosing in turn the song he or she loves 
best, not by giving its name, but by a pretty 
little motion representing some part of the 
song. One very sweet little song was shown 
by a little cradle made with the fingers. The 
cradle was swung and the baby (who was a 
sailor boy) rocked to sleep, and in the last verse 
all the little children went off to sleep singing 
"Sleep, Baby, Sleep." A little mite of a girl 
wanted to sing, "Jack Frost is a Roguish 
Little 'Feller'." The little ones seemed to enter 
into the life of it. Miss Harding's slightest 
gesture was obeyed, and the wrong motion was 
changed into the correct one. A song, which 
particularly interested me, was one of three 
verses, each about a different bird. "The 
Swallow Who Was a Mason," "The Weaver 
or Golden Oriole," and "The Old Woodpecker 
Hard at Work as a Carpenter," or "carfenter" 
as a little fellow of three or four called it. 
Frank could tell all about these birds too, how 
they made their nests and what they found to 
eat. A pretty little march followed the song, 
the smallest little girl was "dnmi major," and 
the next smallest, a little boy, was "captain," 
then came policemen, bandmen and soldiers. 
They marched through the different rooms, 
then stopped behind their little chairs, which 
were placed around the table, and at a signal 
from the piano, seated themselves very quietly 
for their lesson. One little boy, not five years 
old, told that a cube had six square faces, eight 
corners, and twelve edges, and proved it too, 
by counting them on the cube which he held 
in his hand. After a lesson of about twenty 
minutes, the little ones played their games, in 
which they represented animals, birds and the 
different trades; a beautiful idea of teaching 
children in play, the natural and practical 
things of life. The children's party, to which 
all bring their lunch, then takes place, and 
after this 1 saw them busied in weaving mats. 
Miss Harding said they had a different lesson 
and occupation each day. Miss Harding's 
manner with the children is kind and pleasant 
with just enougli discipline in it to control the 
little folks, and I do not wonder that they all 
seem to love her. Visitors are always cordially 
welcomed. 



Miss Gertrude E. Nash gave a very pleasing 
piano forte recital at the rooms of the Worces- 
ter County Music school, last week Friday 
evening, and had the assistance of Mrs. Clara 
H. Bliss, soprano, Mr. George H. Learnard, 
bass, and Mr. Ewald Weiss, violinist, of New 
Haven, Conn. A brilliant program was pre- 
sented. 



The Amherst college boys played a good 
game of ball with the Worcesters,last Saturday, 
and up to the last inning, it looked as if they 
were booked for winners. The Worcesters, 
however, harvested two runs at the critical 
time and the purple and white retired, defeated. 
The college boys seemed to be playing unusu- 
ally good ball. 



Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., of Piedmont 
church, and Rev. Daniel Merriman, D. D., of 
Central church, exchanged pulpits last Sunday 
morning; Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, the Home 



Missionary preacher, preached at Pilgrim 
church ; Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of Welles- 
ley, preached at Plymouth; Rev. H. H. Keli 
sey, of the Fourth Congregational church (D. 
Graham Taylor's), Hartford, Conn., a brother 
of Rev. William S. Kelsey of this city, occu- 
pied the pulpit of Union church and the latter 
went to Hartford ; Rev. J. V. Osterhout, 
of Providence, preached at the Pleasant Street 
Baptist church, and Rev. H. J. White, with 
whom he exchanged, occupied Rev. Mr. Oster- 
hout's pulpit in Providence; Rev. L. S. Brown 
preached at Dewey Street Baptist church, and 
Rev. B. H. Lane of Valley Falls, R. I., at the 
South Baptist. Dr. Puddefoot also spoke at 
Salem Street church in the evening and Rev. 
Mr. Kelsey at Lake View in the afternoon. 



Horticultural Hall was comfortably filled 
Monday evening, with the big and little stu- 
dents of Becker's Commercial College, and 
their brothers, other brothers, pas, mas, and 
other folks. It was the second Business 
Men's Jubilee, or rather the second edition of 
the first, repeated at the earnest request of 
the students and the business men. At 8 
o'clock the following "order of busi- 
ness" was presented: Orchestral se- 
lection. Boston Store, Etta Doran ; 
Ware Pratt Co., Harry Young; Star 
Restaurant, Edith Sawin; Moulton, Jeweler, 
Katie Ryan; J. P. Young, E. E. Fuller; Un- 
derwood, Photographer, Alice Power; Prouty 
Brothers, Emma Doescher ; Fred W. Welling- 
ton, T. Wheatley and E. Harrington; Telegram, 
F. Faucher; Charles E. Davis, Viola Crooker; 
C. E. Steere, May Holly; Adams Home Fur- 
nishing Co., Eva and Laura Becker; vocal 
solo, "The Spirit of Spring,", Mrs. Johnson; 
zither solo. Miss Alice Seibert ; piano solo, 
Miss Emily G. Whittemore ; C. L. Gorham & 
Co., Misses Avis and Ellen Day, with song by 
Miss Avis Day; Kirby, Maggie McMurray; 
Dr. F. H. Kendrick, C. L. Mahoney and Amos 
Torrance; Worcester Laundry, Alice Dorsey; 
Ware-Pratt Co., F. H. Davidson ; Marshall's 
Restaurant, F. C. Howe ; E. Tolman, Jennie 
Adams; LuiHT, Mabel Wright; Mrs. Bout- 
well, Eva Becker; H. A. Maynard, Emma 
Winn ; F. O.xley, Maggie McGovern ; C. E. 
Steere, H. Roper; George Fairbanks, Gla- 
sheen and Mahoney; Denholm & McKay, 
Grace Underwood ; reading. Miss Minnie 
Bigelow; vocal solo, "Love Me if I Live," 
Mrs. Johnson; Kirby, Whips. Herbert Knox; 
Jones & Davis, Walter Henshaw; Keyes, 
Florist, Gertrude Pender; W. E. Howe, Min- 
nie Schofield; W. E. Bowen, Ella Rice; 
Worcester Wall Paper Co., Etta Wood; 
Marsh & Royce, Alice Seibert; Boston Store, 
Nellie Whitney; Holland & Havener, Tor- 
rance and Jackson; Post-office, Whitney, Rose, 
and others; L. C. Havener, exhibition drill. 
The exhibition ran with remarkable smooth- 
ness. The banner drill, at the close, was well 
executed. The ingenuity displayed in the 
making up of the costumes showed a high 
sense of artistic originality. At about 10 
o'clock the floor was cleared, and dancing be- 
gan, the grand march being led by Mr. C. L. 
Mahoney and Miss Nellie Whitney. Mr. C. 
L. Mahoney acted as floor director, assisted by 
Mr. F. C. Howe and Misses Minnie Alexan- 
der, May J. Holly, Alice Power, Nellie Whit- 
ney. 



Worcester County Mining. 



BY H. H. CHAMBERLIN. 



CHAPTER 11. 

While the speculations mentioned in the 
preceding chapter were in progress, there had 
been established in Hardwick mining and 
smelting works, where the business was 
carried on for many years, with successful re- 
sults. 

For the account tliat follows I am indebted 
to Page's History of Hardwick and my own 
early recollections. 

"On the water power of Moose brook, in 
Hardwick, a tributary of Ware river — a fur- 
nace for the manufacture of iron hollow warci 
was erected about the middle of the last cen- 
tury, which for sixty or seventy years furnished 
employment to many persons. The larger 
part, perhaps the whole of the iron ore was 
procured in West Brookfield." Among my 
"earliest recollections" is seeing my father 
start from our home in the "Furnace Village,'' 
with a gang of men and numerous o.x teams to 
bring home a few tons of ore from the mines at 
West Brookfield, carting it wearily over the 
rough hills, along the miry roads of New 
Braintree, some twenty miles to Hardwick, to 
the "Furnace Village" above mentioned, wliere 
it was smelted and cast into innumerable forms 
of pans, spiders, skillets, andirons, dogs, Dutch 
ovens, cauldrons, stoves, potash-kettles and 
cannon-balls. The fuel used in smelting this 
ungenerous ore was brought, in the form of 
charcoal, from the neighboring hills, while the 
four-horse teams, employed in carrying to Bos- 
ton the product of the farms, brought back 
loads of oyster shells, to furnish the lime for 
flux in smelting. It is remembered that these 
teams often brought home, as part of their re- 
turn freight, hogsheads of a fluid then known 
as New England or Medford rum, an essential, 
indi-spensable ingredient in running a blast fur- 
nace in those days. 

It is mentioned that in the Revolutionary 
war this furnace rendered important public 
service, as appears from a petition which is 
still preseri'ed, addressed "To the Honorable 
Council and the Honorable House of Repre- 
sentatives, etc. Humbly show .Stephen Rice 
and James Woods, in behalf of themselves and 
partners, owners of a furnace at Hardwick, in 
the county of Worcester, that your petitioners 
have agreed to furnish a large quantity of can- 
non-ball and other warlike stores, a part of 
which we have already supplied, which are al- 
lowed to be of the very best kind. We are at 
this time entering on a new blast and under- 
standing that this honored court have just or- 
dered one half of the militia to march to Ticon- 
deroga on an alarm .... it will be im- 
possible for us to proceed in carrying on our 
blast, should one half of the militia in Hard- 
wick and New Braintree be ordered to march. 
Wherefore your petitioners pray that thirty 
persons be excused from the present, or a fu- 
ture requisition of men, during our present 
bla.st, from sa'd towns of Hardwick and New 
Braintree. Dated at Watertown, Oct. 25, 1776. 
Signed, .Stephen Rice, James Woods." A blast, 
once under way, was kept up night and day, for 
several months, until it became necessary to 
build a new crucible and make other repairs. 
After such continous labor it may well be 



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supposed that the time for "blowing out" was 
looked forward to with cheerful anticipations, 
not only by the furnace-men, but by all the 
jolly neighbors; and, strange as it may seem, 
the "fluid" 1 have mentioned above, was more 
in requisition on this occasion than at any time 
during the "blast." 

Early in the present century another furnace 
was Iiuilt on Ware River, about two miles west 
of the one above described, which was called 
the "New Furnace" to distinguish it from the 
"Old r'urnace" at Furnace Village. In the 
Massachusetts Spy of July 12, 1815, it was an- 
nounced that "The new furnace lately erected 
on Ware River, in Hardwick, is now in blast." 
There was also a furnace in Stafford, Conn., at 
this time. After the close of the war the com- 
petition, which had been stimulated by the large 
profits made during the war caused the "new 
furnace" soon to suspend operations. The 
"Old Furnace" still kept up intermittent blasts 
till about 1822, when after a prosperous career 
of seventy years, it too yielded to the inevitable 
and the tired furnace-men resolved to "blow 
out" their fires never more to light them. 



Tiie Joys of Bicycling. 



BY WILLIAM B. STOCKWELL. 



To an outsider, and by that term reference is 
made to those who do not and have not ridden 
a wheel, the full meaning of this article can 
hardly be apparent. Indeed it may be said 
with truth that a non-wheelman knows very 
little of the pleasure and profit derived from 
an active participation in this most exhilarat- 
ing of all sports. It is true, however, that 
there are some foolish people in the world, 
(and probably will be to the end of time), who 
regard the bicycle as a sort of death dealing in- 
strument, or in other words, a horrible menace 
to life and limb. Two things can be truthfully 
said of all such, one is that they are happily in 
the minority, the other that they are wofully ig- 
norant. It is a safe statement to make that 
nine-tenths of all the accidents that occur to 
bicycle riders are the direct result of reckless 
riding. An insatiate desire on the part of 
some bicyclists, who unfortunately possess 
more vanity than skill, has been the cause of 
many a sore head. If such would-be aspirants 
for racing honors could only have some of the 
egotism knocked out of their silly heads by 
such methods and more good common sense 
knocked in, perhaps such sad experiences will 
not prove in vain. The full delight of riding a 
bicycle is known only to those who ride. A 
spin of fifteen or twenty miles over fine roads, 
and through places where nature has bestowed 
her choicest gifts, drinking in at every breath 
pure air, listening to the singing of birds, will 
give to one a frame of mind akin to holiness. 
No purer, or more healthful sport has the brain 
of man ever conceived than bicycling. An- 
other thing that lifts this most agreeable mode 
of locomotion to a higher plane than that of 
most all other sports, is the fact 
that wheelmen are generally gentle- 
men. Wheelmen include some of the 
best men in the community. As a witness 
to this fact, note the large number of eminent 
clergymen who ride wheels, students, business 
men, and those who move in the higher walks 
in life. As a health giving exercise it has no 



n 

equal. The ruddy cheek, the muscles strong 
and hard, the sharpened appetite, the rerfewed 
spirits, the general invigorating and the toning 
up of the whole system, all attest to the henifi- 
cent results of riding a bicycle. This delight- 
ful pastime has done more to improve the 
roads than any other. It has come to stay, 
and every good citizen ought, and doubtless 
will, rejoice in the multiplicity of cycles and 
cycling. 



Words of Others. 



No Theology and the New. 

The logical issue of the No Theology is 
positivism — no supernatural, no miracles, no 
faith, no future life, no other object of love 
or reverence than Man spelt with a capital M. 

The New Theology secures the unity of the 
universe by a very different process, and con- 
ducts to a very different issue. We are com- 
ing to regard man no longer as dual. The 
New Theology revivalist no longer says to his 
auditors : "You have immortal souls." 
They are immortal souls. So we no 
longer think of immortality as a future ac- 
quisition ; it is a present possession. I am 
immortal ; not I shall be. We are not so sure 
as we once were that we shall exist forever ; 
we are surer than we ever were before that I, 
the true I, is a somewhat that pain docs not 
touch and death can not destroy. We are 
now in eternity; this world and the other world 
are one. God and nature are not dual. We, 
therefore, of logical necessity, have done for- 
ever with the distinction between nature and 
the supernatural. — A'ct. Dr. Lyman Abholt in 
Tlic ForiDH. 
The Art Education of Children. 

It is coming to be generally recognized that 
there is much to be gained for the cause of fine 
arts in this country by the proper education of 
children. In our colleges and schools provi- 
sion is made for instruction in drawing and 
modeling, so that now few boys and girls leave 
our public institutions of learning without hav- 
ing acquired a rudimentary knowledge of art. 
This is well as far as it goes. But if art is to 
flourish in the United States we must have 
something more than mere technical teaching 
to build upon. We must educate children to a 
love for pictures and statues. The proposition 
to put good pictures and reproductions of 
worthy works of art in school buildings is 
wholesome. In no other way can we hope so 
easily to elevate the art taste of the community 
for the next generation. Although, like the poet, 
the artist is born, not made, yet appreciation 
of art is a matter of education. No child ever 
learned to love good literature simply from 
being taught penmanship; neither is it possible 
from the drawing-book only to become imbued 
with a love for art. France has long recog- 
nized this fact, and the eminence of the French 
people in matters of art is a lesson directly to 
the point. Teach the children to use their 
eyes and minds, as well as their hands, as a 
means of acquiring art knowledge, and we 
may reasonably hope that in a few years this 
country will no longer be the market for spuri- 
ous Corots and Daubignys ; that our public 
statues of the future will be less offensive, and 
that our cities and towns will become archi- 
tecturally more beautiful. — A'ew York Star. 



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A Queer Maneuver. 



"Snigger & Snap, merchant tailors," was all 
that appeared over their shop-window. The 
contents of the window had in them nothing of 
warlike significance. Tweeds and worsteds, 
broadcloths and meltons, put one in mind of 
no implement more dangerous than a yard- 
stick. 

The necessities of life compelled Messrs. 
Snigger & Snap to devote much of their time 
and attention to tailoring, yet their hearts lay 
not in their trade. They would have preferred 
making breaches to making trousers. Their 
incomes, were insufficient for the wants of 
themselves and their families; so they were 
reluctantly compelled to combine as they could 
the occupation which brought them money 
with the occupation which brought them pleas- 
ure. 

During the day Mr. Snigger was a tailor, 
in the evening he was a colonel; and in the 
same way, Mr. Snap, though a tailor during 
eleven months of the year, was during the 
twelfth a captain. 

The similarity of tastes of the two members 
of the firm was all that was necessary to com- 
plete the perfect unison of the partnership. 

It was Colonel Snigger's custom, in his 
enthusiatic love of soldiering, to induce as 
many of his men as possible each year to vol- 
unteer for the Easter review and maneuvers, 
and, as he wasknown to be very liberal towards 
those who did so, not a few of his regiment 
were usually willing to devote their Easter hol- 
iday to marching and countermarching in 
pleasant country lanes. It was Colonel Snig- 
ger's boast that only two or three out of all the 
corps turned out on such occasions so strong 
or so well as his. 

The season promised to be a great one for 
him. For the first time in his life he was to 
have a separate command. In the maneuvers 
and sham fights which were to take place his 
regiment was to be detached from the main 
force on his side, and to operate against the 
enemy under his sole direction. Captain Snap 
was nearly as much interested in the matter as 
his partner. 

"Now, Tom," said the gallant captain, on 
the eve of Colonel Snigger's departure for the 
seat of war, "take care and don't disgrace the 
firm." 

"No fear, my boy," replied Colonel Snigger, 
cheerily. "Don't you be afraid. I'll keep my 
military eye open, I assure you." 

"There are to be sham fights and night at- 
tacks, you say. See now, that nobody cap- 
tures you." 

"Well, you are complimentary, Sam," an- 
swered Colonel Snigger, a little hurt. "Do you 
think you could capture me?" 

"Well, I don't know ; but I should like to try." 

"Pity you can't. You can come down, 
though, and help me with your advice." 

"1 wish I could," replied Captain Snap, "but 
business is business — we can't both be away 
for long at the same time. You'll be about 
Braxby, won't you? Let me see, I have a 
cousin near there— old Farmer Spuds. I will 
run down for a day or so, see the maneuvers 
and pay him a visit at the same time. 

"All right, my boy; you may depend upon 
having a true military welcome." 

On the following Saturday afternoon Colonel 



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Snigger and his men were camping after sev- 
eral hours' severe march. As the gallant col- 
onel watched the \'olunteers preparing for the 
approaching night, he thought with pleasure 
over the incidents of the day, and with regret 
over the absence of his partner Captain Snap. 
While thus engaged an orderly rode up to him, 
and presented him with an order from the gen- 
eral in command of the forces to which his 
regiment was attached. Opening the dispatch 
with an important air, Snigger glanced over it. 
To his delight it directed him to attack that 
night certain of the enemy's forces which were 
stationed near Braxby, about five miles off. 
He was ordered to leave his encampment about 
ten o'clock, to advance silently and secretly 
upon Braxby, and, if possible, effect his cap- 
ture about midnight. 

It was no wonder that Colonel Snigger was 
delighted. Hitherto, in maneuvers and sham 
fights, he had been pitched against \'olunteer 
officers; but in this case the officer in command 
of the enemy's troops was a regular. Not 
merely so, but he was no less than a general — 
General Slack. 

The day had been bright and cold, but as 
night came on the sky began to be over- 
clouded, and before it was dark rain was com- 
ing down. Colonel Snigger regarded the 
change in the weather with a soldierly satis- 
faction. 

At about 6 o'clock he thought it was time to 
inform the corps of the intended operations. 
Summoning his officers together, he com- 
municated to them his orders, and instructed 
them to tell their men to be ready to set out at 
10 sharp. At the hour appointed the regi- 
ment was assembled, and the advance began. 
The rain came down in heavier torrents than 
ever, and the cold had grown piercing. The 
moon was hidden by thick, impenetrable 
clouds, and the whole country was over- 
whelmed in darkness. The \'olunteers marched 
courageously, feeling their way. In this way 
they had advanced until pretty near the en- 
emy's position. Colonel Snigger thought it 
was as well, now that the foe was near, to go 
among his men and caution them to tread 
lightly, and on no account to speak above a 
whisper. 

Suddenly, to everybody's amazement, a 
crash of musketry sounded through the night. 
It was answered by another and louder peal. 
A third succeeded, and then the fir'ng settled 
down to one continuous rattle. The advanc- 
ing columns paused. 

"What can it mean?" said Colonel Snigger to 
Major Starch. 

"Blessed if I know," answered the major. 
"It seems as if the enemy were having a fight 
among themselves." 

"Perhaps it is a false alarm," suggested Cap- 
tain Tytler. 

"Yes; that may be," said Colonel Snigger. 

"Why should it go on so long?" asked the 
major. 

"Well, whatever it may be," said Colonel 
Snigger, sagaciously, "it is not of so much im- 
portance to us as the question, what should 
we do? Should we advance ?" 

"I think we should retreat," said Captain 
Tytler. "The surprise has failed." 

"Yes," said the major, "but the attack hasn't. 
Let me remind you. Captain Tytler, that in a 
night attack it isn't absolutely necessary you 



should take the enemy by surprise. Now, for 
instance, on one occasion, during the Peninsu- 
lar war, the duke " 

"Oh, bother the duke," interrupted Colonel 
Snigger. "The question is what should we do? 
I think, advance !" 

"I say so, too," said the major. 

"I obey my commanding officer's orders," 
said Captain Tytler, who was annoyed at the 
major's questioning his military knowledge, 
and now wanted to show that he knew his duty 
as well as the major. 

"Well, we'll advance steadily, and send for- 
ward scouts to report what is going on in front." 

"Splendid idea," cried the major, in admira- 
tion. "Colonel Snigger, you're a born com- 
mander." 

Somescouts were sent forward at once, and 
the main body continued to advance. Some 
of the scouts returned, announcing that the 
roadway in front was blocked with farmers' 
carts, from behind which and behind the hedges 
men were firing on a body of troops which ap- 
peared to be in the road. 

It was too dark to make out anything. 

"This is very extraordinary and inexpli- 
cable," thought Colonel Snigger, uneasily. 

"Is it possible I have taken the wrong road, 
and blundered upon operations with which I 
have nothing to do?" The rest of the scouts 
came in, and with them was the gallant and 
satir'cal Captain Snap. 

"Why, Sam," gasped Colonel Snigger, 
"what the deuce does this mean?" 

"Listen," cried Captain Snap, hurriedly, and 
he whispered a few words into Colonel Snig- 
ger's ear. 

"Eh, what?" exclaimed Colonel Snigger, in 
amazement. "You don't mean it?"' 

"It's a fact, confound it," answered Captain 
Snap. "Are you going to take advantage of 
it?" 

"Here, lads," shouted Colonel Snigger, "the 
leading company follow me at full speed I" 

In a few minutes the Volunteers were on the 
scene of the action. Colonel Snigger could 
distinguish above the firing the voices of the 
general and umpire in argument. Evidently 
General Slack was being ordered to surrender. 

By way of bringing him to his senses. Col- 
onel Snigger ordered his men to open fire. 

Volley after volley was poured into the sur- 
rounded force. Then, after a time, Colonel 
Snigger ordered his men to cease firing, and 
screamed at the top of his voice — 

"I give General Slack five minutes to sur- 
render. If he does not do so within that time 
my men will re-open fire." 

"He must surrender," answered the umpire. 
"His retreat is cut off, and he's surrounded on 
all sides." 

"I won't!" yelled the general. 

"But you must," argued the umpire. "If 
this were real war young men would be falling 
by the score every minute." 

"But it isn't real war," answered General 
Slack, angrily; "and I won't surrender." 

"Absurd ! You're reducing the whole thing 
to a farce. Don't you see that you are alto- 
gether out-generaled " 

"Do you mean to insult me?"' demanded 
General Slack. 

"Look here, general !'" shouted Colonel Snig- 
ger. "I tell you one thing — if you don't sur_ 



render, you'll stay where you are for the rest 
of the night." 

The prospect of spending the night in pelting 
rain seemed to have a cooling effect upon Gen- 
eral Slack. He began to regard his position 
more reasonably, and, after much grumbling, 
he delivered up his sword. 

When the general order came out, a large 
portion of it was devoted to the night attack. 
Colonel Snigger and his men were handsomely 
complimented on the brilliant way in which 
that operation was carried out. The \'ol- 
unteers were declared to have perforn.ed their 
difficult march in a way that veterans might 
be proud of. Colonel Snigger was said to 
have planned the attack with the greatest sa- 
gacity. 

Some time after the event, Captain Snap 
was having a little confidential chat with the 
wife of his bosom. 

"Why did you laugh, Sam ?" that lady asked, 
"when I said to .Mrs. Snigger the other day 
that her husband was a born soldier." 

"I suppose," he said, when he had finished 
laughing, "that it was because of his Braxby 
exploit that you said so?" 

"Of course it was," answered Mrs. Snap. 

"Well, I'll tell you the true story of that," 
said the gallant captain. "When 1 went down 
to Doltshire I went to old Spuds. My object 
in going there w^as that I wanted Spuds's help 
to play a little trick. 1 thought if I could get 
three dozen clodhoppers, with fowling pieces, 
I might surprise Snigger and make him sur- 
render. Spuds cottoned to it; we got the clod- 
hoppers, and started out. .After wading ditches 
we got to a road which Spuds said was the 
one from Snigger's encampment to Braxby. 
We put carts across it and waited his arrival. 
A force soon came marching along; from be- 
hind the hedge and carts we poured in our fire 
upon it; it turned to retreat, but before it could 
do so we had blocked the other end of the road 
with carts, too. Oh ! it was beautifully done, 
only " And Captain Snap paused. 

"Only what ?" asked his wife. 

"Only we had attacked the wrong force. I 
never discovered it until one of Snigger's reg- 
iment was caught scouting by a clodhopper, 
and told me Snigger was only advancing. I, 
of course, immediately saw I was in a fix, for 
as soon as General Slack discovered what was 
wrong, he'd kick up a row and get me broken. 
In a moment I saw my way out. Rushing off 
to Snigger, I told him to hurry some of his 
men forward. He did so : they took the clod- 
hoppers' places, and General Slack, unable to 
get away, surrendered to him." 

"Well, I never!" exclaimed Mrs. Snap. 
"Only to think you were so clever ! But Mr. 
Snigger has got all the credit and you none." 

"All the credit, my dear," replied Captain 
Snap, "but not all the profit. Military renown 
isn't everything. I'm a tailor first and a soldier 
afterwards, and if my exploit has not profited 
me as a soldier, it is simply making my fortune 
as a tailor. We're getting our premises ex- 
tended. All on account of Snigger's reputa- 
tion. All the \'olunteers are proud of him, and 
come to talk military matters over with him, 
and before they leave I take care that they 
talk o\'er tailoring matters with me. Good 
business, my dear, good business !" 



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Opera and Drama in London. 

BY HERBERT H. TAYLOR. 



No city in the world has so many theatres as 
London. Two houses are used exclusively for 
the production of Italian Opera — the Royal 
Italian Opera House in Bow street, Covent 
Garden (which I am told is the finest in the 
world) and Her Majesty's Theatre in the Hay- 
market. Italian Opera, however, has not been 
heard at the latter place for several years. It 
is a handsome structure and when last I saw it 
was undergomg a complete renovation. 

The opera usually commences at 8.30 i>. M., 
five nights weekly, and the season is concur- 
rent with that of the Parliamentary session. 
The price of a seat in the stalls at either of the 
above theatres is twenty-five shillings. 

The light operas of Gilbert and .Sullivan are 
produced at the Savoy Theatre under the man- 
agement of D'Oyle Carte. This is, in my 
opinion, one of the prettiest theatres in Lon- 
don. I witnessed the performance of the 
"Yeoman of the Guard" there, and the excel- 
lent company of artists rose rapidly in my es- 
timation when my eye caught sight of the fa- 
miliar name of Miss Geraldine LUmer upon 
the unique program handed me by one of the 
lady attaches of the theatre. Miss Ulmer, a 
New York girl, well known to American 
theatre-goers, has been for a considerable time 
a member of the stock company at the Savoy 
and is a universal favorite. The price of ad- 
mission to the Savoy varies from one shilling to 
three guineas. 

In the boxes and stalls, at all theatres, it is 
customary to appear in evening dress, and 
cloak and refreshment rooms are provided. 
The play for the evening is generally preceded 
by a farce or comedy lasting about half an 
hour. Programs are provided free of charge 
at the leading theatres ; at others they may be 
purchased at fourpence. 

The oldest theatre in London is Drury Lane. 
Melodrama is the usual fare provided and the 
pieces are mounted with much liberality and 
care. The Christmas pantomines are a feature 
of this theatre. 

A short distance up Wellington street from 
the Strand, near the ofiice of the Era, the lead- 
ing dramatic paper of England, is the Lyceum 
Theatre, under the management of that cour- 
teous, genial gentlemen, Mr. Henry Irving. 
This is one of the most fashionable places of 
amusement in London and the scenery and 
stage appointments are superior. Miss 
Mary Anderson appeared here during her stay 
in England. Prices for the stalls are half a 
guinea. 

The popularity of the Gaiety Theatre is due 
to the successful management of Mr. George 
Edwardes. Burlesque is the usual feature and 
I thought the company very suggestive of Aron- 
son's. Mme. Sara Bernhardt, I am informed, 
plays here occasionally, and matinees for 
the purpose of introducing new actors and 
actresses are frequent. It is located in the 
Strand. 

The Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly is one of 
the most comfortable in London. Mr. Charles 
Wyndham, the present lessee, retains his hold 
on public favor as an accomplished actor as 
well as manager. Here one may always be 
sure of a good drama well played and carefully 
mounted. 



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In the Strand, near Charing Cross, is the 
Adelplii Theatre. Melodrama has gained for 
it a wide popularity. 

The Royal Surrey Theatre, Blackfriarsro.ad, 
is tlie principal place of amusement on the 
Surrey side of the river, and is devoted to mel- 
odrama and its concomitants. I visited this 
theatre, at the request of an American mana- 
ger, to witness the initial performance of 
"Mankind," a powerful domestic drama now 
being played with success in America, and I 
must confess that although the theatre is old 
and shabby and the scenery well-worn, the 
company was a superior one. Mr. George 
Conquest, the manager of the theatre and joint 
author of the play, essayed the leading role. 
The price for stalls here is three shillings. 

Among the music halls of London, the AI- 
hambra Palace, on Leicester Square, .stands 
first. Opera bouff^ and extravaganza, mounted 
on a most extravagant scale, arc the principal 
attractions here. The ballets surpass anything 
in the world and the best speciality people in 
the profession are played at this house. I am 
certain that we have nothing in America in the 
way of a variety theatre that can equal it. It is 
somewhat after the style of Koster & Bial's, 
but upon a much more elaborate scale. The 
objectionable features are that smoking is per- 
mitted and wines are served in all parts of the 
house. Miss Alice Maydue, who has reached 
the apex of artistic perfection in her particular 
line, first introduced the now popular craze, 
"Little Annie Rooney," at the Alhambra and 
the audience joined in the chorus, after the 
style of music-hall-goers, and demonstrated its 
approval of the new song by repeated encores. 
Owing to the fact that there is no international 
copyright, American publishers are reaping a 
harvest from the sale of this song. Price for 
fauteuils at the Alhambra is five shillings. 

Other music halls are the Empire, the Pa- 
vilion and the Royal Aquarium. It is super- 
fluous to add that the performances at all 
music halls are considered a bit outr^ by the 
more conservative public. 

Who has not heard of Madame Tussaud? 
And yet a mention of the places in London 
would not be complete without reference to 
this magnificent establishment. The charge 
for admission to Madame Tussaud's is one 
shilling, "with sixpence extra for the chamber 
of horrors," as the guide-books put it. The 
place is well worthy of a visit, being the most 
complete exhibition of wax works in the world, 
although there are two very good establish- 
ments at Liverpool. I think that the figure 
labeled "Mr^ Harrison, President of America," 
is capable of improvement in some respects, 
but upon the whole it is a wonderful exhibi- 
tion. 

He had come to spend the evening and she 
had received him in the library. The parlors 
were occupied. The old settlers' association 
was holding a meeting there. "Miss Fredo- 
nia," said a domestic, opening the door, "I'm 
sorry to disturb yez, but they're a-wantin' more 
chairs. I'll have to take all yez can spare." 
The face of the fair young girl grew radiant 
with the glow of generous self-sacrafice. "Al- 
fred," she whispered resolutelv, "those old 
people must not stand. . . . Nora, you may 
take everything except this rocking-chair."— 



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Interesting to Worcesterians. 



BY MRS. E. KURD SIEBERS. 



New York, April 17, 1890. 

April entered upon the beneficent work of 
making amends for the dismal March weather 
the year's wintering brought within the com- 
pass of a single month. Lungs have felt the 
tonic effect of dryness given by a perfect 
Spring day, balmy and bright. A week of 
such weather would do much to restore faith 
in the virtues of the American climate. But 
again the heavens open and the floods de- 
scend, one pleasant day in three, and we must 
give thanks for that one. 

The last of the dreary season was en- 
livened by a musical event of great interest in 
the presentation of Parsifal, in the form of 
oratorio, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 
under the auspices of the Seidl Society. 
Much has been written about the production 
of Wagner's work, and it has been illuminated 
by the lectures of Messrs. Damrosch, Parsons 
and others. The principal singers of the 
Metropolitan Opera House sang the solo 
parts. Though the performance itself was 
superlatively excellent, and the interpretation 
by Mr. Seidl an achievement surpassing the 
brilliant work to which he has accustomed the 
people of New York, still it is impossible to 
pronounce an unqualified opinion of the artis- 
tic value of the concert. Many of the e.xcerpts 
given were portions of the drama wholly in- 
effective in the concert room, the omitted por- 
tions being the very parts suited to such a 
place. 

There is a disposition in some circles to de- 
nounce such performances as sacreligious. It 
is indisputable that the beauty and significance 
of the work cannot be perceived unless all its 
integral elements are brought to notice, and 
that is possible only by means of a stage 
representation. "Parsifal" is the symbol of 
Christ. The transformation from a drama to 
an epic is not necessarily a profanation. "Par- 
sifal" is a wonderfully moving, artistic crea- 
tion, and its subject is religious as religion was 
understood in the middle ages. There is a 
great desire to become acquainted with Wag- 
ner's last drama. It was listened to with rapt 
attention. Great praise is due .Mme. Schman, 
Mr. Fischer, and the other principals. The 
occasion was of a fashionable nature, and an 
atmosphere of a private entertainment was 
given by the transformation of the sombre 
academy into an interior of bloom and beauty, 
by the aid of silken hangings, rich brocades, 
pictures, stands of plants and bric-a-brac, 
while the foyer was turned into a series of re- 
ception rooms, handsomely carpeted and 
adorned. 

The stage setting was elaborate, with an 
impressive interior, modelled after the picture 
of the Holy Grail used in Bayreuth. 

The concert began at 5 p. m.; at 6 there was 
an interim of an hour and a half, when the 
social aspect was further enhanced by having 
dinner served in the assembly rooms at small 
tables, where groups of friends dined and 
chatted until recalled by the bugle notes for 
the second part of the music. Many promi- 
nent people went from New York to attend 
the concert. Much of the success of the affair 



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was due to that bright and clever woman, 
Laura C. HoUoway, the president of the Seidl 
Society, so well known in the good work ac- 
complished in the superior concerts given at 
Brighton Beach. 

THE ITALIAN OPERA SEASON 

of four weeks opened with Otello and Signer 
Tamagno in the tifle role. Notwithstanding 
the critics agree that his voice is not particu- 
larly agreeable in quality and not always true 
in pitch, that it lacks breadth — that for all 
these and other faults and deficiencies which 
were manifested early in the evening of the 
first night — they claim that the disposition to 
hold to such technical criticism was finally dis- 
armed and yielded to admiration of the power 
of his magnificent voice, and the wonderfully 
effective manner in which the singer devoted 
his powers in exemplifying the composer's 
purpose in writing the music. Later on it was 
made apparent that Signor Tamagno's artistic 
stature is commensurate in all respects with 
his physical stature and his great fame. There 
is no doubt that he is a tenor lobusto, a 
great dramatic singer, ignoring the conven- 
tionalities of the operatic stage, and justifying 
Verdi's choice of him as the hero of his pro- 
duction. Verdi's numbers were superbly ren- 
dered, in "11 Trovatore" Tamagno being heard 
to even better advantage as Maurico. The 
tenor's high C's appeared to be a revelation to 
the audience. Mme. Nordica sang the role of 
of Leonora acceptably, though her voice is 
pure and fresh, it was at times a trifle hard. 

The ballet was amusing and harmless, being 
ancestral, a surplus amount of avordupois 
militating against the fair grace of the pre- 
miere danseuse. 

It was decidedly an experiment involving 
considerable risk to introduce Mme. Patti 
amid such new surroundings as the opera of 
Lakme called for, as Patti is conservative, 
and doesn't usually believe in taking risks. 
This made it all the more astonishing that she 
should appear in such a very modern work as 
Delibes' Lakme. Her impersonation pro- 
voked comparison with that of Mme. L'AUe- 
mand who sang the role in the English Opera 
Company, and to the latter's advantage. It 
may be rampant heresy to say it, biit such is 
the consensus of opinion that L'Allemand's 
rendering was the more completely satisfac- 
tory. The queen of song filled the ear, but 
her acting was tame. Why the heroine of 
"Lakme" should appear in an Indian jungle 
in a white silk ball dress was an 'unanswerable 
question. Even 

M.ME. PATTI 

has her limitations, and her genre is small, but 
in it she is unique. She shines best where 
scintillant vocalization most abounds. Apro- 
pos it may be interesting to know that the 
diva's chief secret in the notable preservation 
of her beauty and figure is embodied in the 
magic word — rest — entire physical rest of body, 
voice and mind. The day preceding an enter- 
tainment is given up to this repose, while this 
quiet is supplemented by a rigid diet and sys- 
tematic exercise, with long hours of sleep. I 
cannot reconcile this dainty care of her well- 
being with the fact of her never washing her face 
— that is with water — other means of cleansing 
being employed. She sleeps with a silk hand- 
kerchief around her neck and uses every morn- 
ing a strong salt gargle. She certainly is a 



convincing proof of her practical theory. 
That other clever money maker, 

MRS. JENNESS MILLER, 

also believes that rest is the royal road to suc- 
cess. The prima donna's figure retains its 
youthful grace, as her voice does its sweetness, 
while as of old the execution is faultless. 
Patti is fifty-two, yet the advance of time has 
been checked wherever art or care were com- 
petent to offset it. 

The significant fact that the Kendals sent 
5100,000 in a single draft to England for in- 
vestment may have much to do with their cor- 
dial liking for America, and why not ? Also 
it may be a potent factor in Mrs. Bernard 
Beere's sudden determination to come to 
America to star. She is devoid of personal 
beauty, very tall and a sincere imitator of 
Mme. Bernhardt. Force of personality she 
must have, as she is the leading emotional ac- 
tress in England. 

There is just now in New York a golden op- 
portunity going about seeking, yet finding not. 
There are only two requisites, but they must 
be of undubitable quality, above suspicion of 
of their reality. They are manly beauty and 
a certain degree of talent for actmg. Surely 
there must be a few of the youth of the "senior 
sex" in this broad land of ours, who at least 
think they could fulfill these apparently simple 
conditions, but it seems not. Modesty prob- 
ably forbids their making themselves known 
to a waiting public. A New York manager is 
in anguish because he cannot find a leading 
man to support Mrs. Leslie Carter. If it 
were merely a question of beauty alone ! — but 
the beauty must be able to act. The combina- 
tion would seem to be a pearl beyond price. 
In writing this last word I realize that 1 have 
made an unintentional pun, and as I do not 
believe in hiding even a fire-fly's gleam, 1 
must remark that the aforesaid manager's 
name is Price. 

Society is again enjoying for a time the 
presence of its former favorite, the 

BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, 

and delights to do her honor. Mrs. Paran 
Stevens gave a dinner to "Her Grace" at 
which were present Mme. Albani and Prince 
Yturbide. Not every day is it possible, even 
in New York — where most things are possible 
— to meet at dinner a duchess and a prince. 
New York dearly lov^s a title, like all the rest 
of the world, and now boasts of two of its 
pretty women who are wearing the strawberry 
leaves and enjoying in England all that it im- 
plies of honors, wealth and distinction, in 
being allied to a duke. 

Lady Mandeville, formerly Miss Yznaga of 
New York, and now the Duchess of West- 
minster, is very popular in London, being on 
close terms of personal friendship with the 
Princess of Wales. 

It is attributed to the influence of his .Ameri- 
can wife that the Duke of Marlborough has 
completely reforaied since his marriage — tak- 
ing his place with others of his order who 
realize that "noblesse oblige." He writes for 
the quarterlies and magazines and writes well, 
and is generally considered a brainy man. 

Another prominent society woman of New 
York, 

MRS. MARSHALL O. ROBERTS, 

who, by the way, has dropped the familiar 



'•O" as having too Hibernian a sound, luis 
taken Spencer House in London, and is enter- 
taining in royal style. At one of her recent 
evenings the guests listened enraptured to the 
Boston Lotus Club and the playing of Johan- 
nes Wolf. 

EASTER GLORIOUSLY FULFILLED 

the promise of a day befitting its character. 
The morning dawned fair and clear, and the 
freshness of the jubilant spring flooding the 
parks, squares and streets, was in consonance 
with the churches where the "Tenebre" and 
"De Profundis" gave place to the joyful "Te 
Deum" and the "Ressurexit." Tlie hearts 
and faces of the throngs gave glad response 
to the happy mood of nature in its perfect day, 
and New York was one reflection of the joy 
and brightness of the Easter-tide. The day 
could not have been more beautiful for the 
memorial of the Resurrection. Fifth avenue 
and Broadway were gay and brilliant with the 
moving throngs. Everywhere were flowers, 
lilies and roses perfuming the air with 
fragrance. Nearly every woman wore them in 
her corsage, and the men in their button-holes, 
while all the churches sent up a triple incense 
of fragrance, song and eloquence. 

I attended services at St. Thomas, corner of 
Fifth avenue and Fifty-Third street, and made 
one of the struggling, pushing crowd from 
which, once entered, there was no turning 
back. Finally 1 secured a seat in the gallery 
near the altar, from which coign of vantage I 
had an e.xcellent outlook down upon the sea of 
faces upturned to the commanding form of the 
rector, the Rev. John W. Brown, D. D., whose 
clean-shaven and classical face gave emphasis 
to the cultured voice, earnest words and 
simple gestures. His theme was upon the 
significance of the day, and he dwelt upon the 
power of an indissoluble life to come, surviv- 
ing whatever changes death may bring, and 
the certainty that through all, and above all, 
the personal identity would be retained. 

The musical program, arranged with special 
care, was under the direction of the famous 
organist, George W. Warren, and was indeed 
a feast of harmony. Besides the usual choir 
and harpist there was a chorus of forty-four 
voices. The clear high notes of the soprano. 
Miss Granun, together with the full mellow 
tones of the well-known contralto. Miss Emily 
Winant, with the fine tenor and basso, formed 
an ensemble difficult to surpass in church 
choirs. 

THE EXQUISITE MUSIC 

of the anthems, canticles and hymns, the 
purity of the Ascension lilies and the royal 
purple of the Passion flowers, with the white, 
silver and gold of the altar drapings, while 
above all shone the iridescent splendor of the 
pictured saints on wall and window, conspir. 
ing with the soft glow of the lights and solemn 
hush of the attentive listeners within the beau- 
tiful interior of the stately edifice, to form a 
picture long to be retained in memory's treas- 
ure hall. Coming out into the blinding sun- 
shine, the throng parted, and the parade began 
anew, receiving additions from each outpour 
ing of the churches on the avenue. It was a 
decorous succession of lovely gowns and dainty 
hats and bonnets worn by pretty stylish girls 
and women. The artificial flowers rivalled in 
their cunning perfection the natural garden it- 
self. One thing is evident : Bonnets are close. 



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sm.iU and flower-wreathed; hr.ts arc cillier 
very small or else large, with saucy brims and 
coquettish, nodding plumes and tips; white 
gowns cling more closely than ever, with mod- 
erate sleeves. It was a bewildering array, 
each face seemed prettier than the last. Cer- 
tainly New York women have lovely com- 
plexions. One daring beauty, with her gold 
epauletted shoulders and vest and her gold 
bedecked toque, challenged the very god of 
day in her dazzling splendor of array. Not to 
be eclipsed by the butterflies of fashion, the 
new Easter trousers and delicately-tinted top- 
coats with wonderful brevity of skirts, rioted 
in all their gorgeous Easter bravery. 1 
walked down Fifth avenue from Fifty-third 
street to Twenty-third street, and it was all as 
the passing of Arthur, for the glory of the 
showing. The pleasantest episode of the day 
to me was the meeting and chat with General 
O. C). Howard, U. S. A. As he extended his 
left hand in greeting from beneath the braided 
military cloak, it was like an instantaneous 
glimpse of history, more realistic than the writ- 
ten page, for there was no right arm under the 
soldier's cloak — it was left at the battle of Bull 
Run. The earnest Christian gentleman speaks 
in the face as well as in the quiet agreeable 
tones of the voice; the clear grey eyes have a 
steadfast, firm, yet kindly glance, and the 
years are leaving time's grey touches in the 
full beard. Courteous and urbane is this dis- 
tinguished man ; an intimate of heroes and 
one himself in the war that to this generation 
is but the reading of history ; to others went the 
making. 

In the course of the chat. General Howard 
said he "supposed that he and Sherman would 
live to be a hundred;" to which I replied, I 
indeed hoped they would, as we could not 
afford to let them go. Speaking of 

GENERAL GRANT 

he said that his desire for liquor was such an 
overpowering one that it came to the point 
where he was obliged to exert all the force of 
his enormous will power to conquer the crav- 
ing, else it bade fair to master him, but he, the 
man, conquered the demon within. Further- 
more whenever Grant went to dinner he al- 
ways turned over the wine glasses at his plate, 
and made it an especial point to take in some 
lady well known for her abstemious principles, 
often going in with Mrs. Howard. General 
Howard said he himself never touched wine or 
liquor of any kind. In case of war he humor- 
Tjusly remarked that the old men could be 
more surely depended upon than the young 
men, for having young legs they could run 
away, whereas the veterans would have to stay 
and fight. At present his home is on (lover- 
nor's Island, though he says he is a cosmopol- 
itan. 

The oldest lawsuit ever known is now in 
progress of trial in the highest Russian court 
in St. Petersburg. It was originally brought 
500 years ago against the city of Kamenez- 
Podolsk by the heirs of a dead nobleman to 
recover several thousand acres of his estate 
which had been confiscated by the munici 
pality. The testimony is weighty. There are 
forty-five tons of it in manuscript. 

Some people cannot drive to happiness with 
four horses, and others can reach the goal on 
foot. — Thackeray. 



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Presented Compliments. 

FROM KDITOKIAL I.\ THEN. Y. JOURNALIST. 



Tliree years ago Mr. Nathaniel C. Fowler,Jr., 
well known in Massachusetts press circles, 
began to study Worcester's newspaper advan- 
tages. Mr. Fowler's experience as a journalist, 
and his familiarity with the entire inside of news- 
paper business, enabled him to see the ins and 
outs of any newspaper opening. .Six weeks 
ago he started the VVorcester Li(;iiT, in which 
were shown unmistakable marks of his origi- 
nality and newspaper experience. Light is of 
twenty-four pages, bound in book form, wide 
columns, printed with new type, and filled 
with the brightest and freshest news and liter- 
ary matter. Worcester people were surprised, 
but they grasped the situation and the new 
paper instantaneously, and at the end of the 
month the support was so generous that the 
new paper was more than paying expenses, a 
success unheard of in the history of starting 
new newspapers in this country. The succe.ss 
of Light is due to three things: First, the best 
family field in the country ; second, the best 
conducted local paper of its class anywhere ; 
third, indomitable push and energy, with 
marked originality. Light covers the clean 
side of Worcester completely, and besides 
gives its readers many pages of choice literary 
matter, and other reading especially interest- 
ing to the household. It is a home paper, 
always clean and pure, and ever bright, enter- 
taining and instructive. Mr. Fowler attends to 
the editorial department. Light has as regu- 
lar contributors the best writers in Worcester. 
Mr. Fred E. Colburn, who was associated 
with Mr. Fowler, has sold his entire interest to 
Mr. F. E. Kennedy, of Boston. Mr. Kennedy 
has the reputation of being an able and ex- 
perienced newspaper manager. Light's staff 
is one of the strongest, and everything consid 
ered, it is easy to believe the statement made by 
the publishers, that Light has a bona fide sale 
of as many papers as does any of the old-estab- 
lished weekly papers of Boston. Worcester 
people are proud of "Light." 
Light in Worcester. 

The bright and interesting new weekly jour- 
nal in the neighboring city of Worcester is 
appropriately named Light, for certainly 
there is hardly a dull spot in it. In typography 
and make-up it is all that could be desired, 
and Worcester ought to begin to feel almost 
metropolitan now that it has a journal which 
bears so little of the provincial stamp. The 
object of Light appears to be to give, with 
taste and discretion, the personal, social and 
literary gossip of the city, as well as to provide 
a great variety of miscellaneous reading matter. 
The conductors are Messrs. N. C. Fowler Jr., 
and F. E. Kennedy. The former has had no 
little newspaper experience in Pittsfield, where 
he published a daily paper, as well as in Bos- 
ton, where he held a responsible position. 
He is a bright and clever man, and he and his 
partner, Mr. Kennedy, who is credited with 
great business ability, ought to succeed in their 
new venture. ■ — Boston Post. 

The following is the closing portion of a 
business letter from Mr. Arthur E. Gray, the 
Worcester flour merchant : " Accept congratu- 
lations for presenting to Worcester a bright, 
clean, readable, society and home paper." 



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Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Hats in Elevators. — George H. K. says: 
"Mr. A. and myself have had a discussion. A. 
claims that an elevator is public property, and 
consequently a common carriage, making it 
unnecessary for a gentleman to take off his 
hat when riding in it with the ladies. I claim 
that a gentleman should always remove his hat 
when riding in an elevator, unless it is so cold 
that it would be dangerous to do so. Which 
is right ?" A question of etiquet, concerning 
which, even experts might differ. The courtly 
old school gentleman would, without doubt, re- 
move his hat; the modern, hurried money- 
seeker might or might not, just as he hap- 
pened to feel. The more common usage of to- 
day is to keep the head covered, whether it be 
correct or not. 

Seek the Directory. — E. C. A. asks: 
"How many business men who did business in 
Worcester twenty-five years ago are still in 
business here? How many of the number 
have never failed ?" By referring to the 
Worcester Directory of 1S65, the above ques- 
tion can be readily answered by the ques- 
tioner. The Directory may be found at the 
Public Library, at the American Antiquarian 
Society, or at the rooms of the Worcester So- 
ciety of Antiquity. Its 132 pages will graphic- 
ally show what Worcester was then. The 
names there recorded will tell a story that col- 
umns of this paper would not suffice to indi- 
cate. It is safe to state, in a word, that a new 
generation is on the stage. 

The World's Universities. — A student 
asks how the United States ranks in the num- 
ber of its educational institutions. In number 
of educational institutions and regularly at- 
tending students, the United States ranks first 
among nations. In this country there are 360 
universities, 4,240 professors, and 69,400 stu- 
dents. Great Britain has 1 1 universities, 334 
professors, and 13,400 students. 

Let Not One Poor Word Suffer It 
All. — E. R. B. asks; "What word in the 
English language is most frequently mis- 
used?" Probably no two people could be 
found who would agree as to the word, it 
varying according to place and occupation. 
Where there are so many that are both misused 
and mispronounced, it hardly seems worth 
while to lay too much stress on one poor word. 

To be a Teacher. — L. M. S. of Shrews- 
bury asks ; "Will you kindly inform me as to 
the duties of a teacher in the public schools, 
and at what age a ceitificate can be obtained?" 
The writer of the foregoing should address a 
note to Superintendent of Schools Dr A. P. 
Marble, asking for a copy of the school regu- 
lations of Worcester and the first question will 
be answered there. As to the second, there is 
no stated age at which one may or may not be- 
come a teacher here. 

Movable Easter. — "How does it happen 
that Easter Sunday comes one year in the 
very first part of April and in another it is late 
in the month before new bonnets are exhib- 
ited?" The day is a movable feast of the 
church and may range from March 22d to 
April 25th. It is the Sunday following the 



I. I (3 M T 



first full moon after the Vernal Equinox or 
March the 2 1 St. This arrangement has held 
since the days of Pope Gregory the Great, un- 
der whose auspices the old calendar was re- 
vised. 

About Lawns. — An amateur farmer asks: 
How much grass seed will plant an acre of 
lawn? About twenty quarts. 



Literary Leaves. 

Mrs. Oliphant has gone to the Holy Land 
for a few months. She intends to write an 
account of her travels, which will be published 
by Macmillan. 

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will Jpublish "Sixty 
Folk-Tales'' from exclusively Slavonic sources, 
translated, with brief introduction and notes, 
by A. H. Wratislaw, who has been head-master 
of two English schools, and is a fellow and 
tutor of Christ's College, Oxford, as well as a 
correspondent of the Bohemian Society. The 
book covers a field which has only been par- 
tialy explored, Slavonian stories, many of 
which are extremly beautiful, being unfamiliar 
to English readers as compared with those of 
other races. 



The present session of Congress has before it 
a measure looking to the adoption of consider- 
able changes in spelling in all publications 
emanating from the Government Printing 
Ofiice, which if enacted into law would give 
spelling reform a prestige it has never before 
attained. The resolution reads as follows : 

Resolved, etc. , that the Public Printer be directed in all 
works for Congress to adopt the following rules for 
amended spellings : 

FhsZ—Dvop He at the end of words like dialogue, 
catalogue, etc., when the preceding vowel is short. 

Si'i'f;;/^/— Drop finale- in such words as definite, infinite, 
favorite, etc., when the preceding vowel is short. When 
the preceding vowel is long, as in polite, finite, unite, etc., 
retain present form unchanged. 

7"/uVi/— Drop final /£ in words like quartette, coquette, 
cigarette, etc. 

Fourth— V>xo\) final me in words like programme. 

i^:///;— Change ph to / in words like phamtom, tele- 
graph, phase, etc. 

5/.vM— Substitute e for the diphthongs <r and ce when 
they have the sound of that letter. 



The latest move in the "cheap library trust" 
is thus outlined by the Stin: 

John W. Lovell is buying right and left the plates for 
printing what are called the "competitive books,'' that 
is, for the cheap "i2mo" editions of standard literature. 
Lovell has purchased the plates of W. L. Allison, by 
paying a certain sum down, the balance to be paid in 
installments covering eighteen months. The plates of 
the Worthington Company cost him twenty-two thou- 
sand dollars cash. George Munroe exacted for his 
enormous collection of Seaside Libary plates fifty thou- 
sand dollars a year for three years, and one milHon dol- 
lars at the end of that time. His plates include not 
only the "competitives," but an immense number of 
which there are no dupUcatesin the country. Lovell has 
controlled Norman R.Monroe's plates for a year or so. 
He has also purchased the "i2mo" plates of the Lippin- 
cotts, of Philadelphia, and of a number of smaller 
concerns. When Lovell gets control of all these plates, 
he can put up prices, as competitors would have to 
invest an enormous amount of money in manufacturing 
new sets of plates, and until they got as big a lot as he 
has, he could knock them out of the market by cutting 
prices below cost of paper and ink on books that they 
could make, and get square by shoving up the price of 
books that they couldn't make. The most noticeble 
effect upon the retail book market is expected to be an 
increase of prices on sets of standard works, like those of 
George Eliot, Macaulay, Dickens, andThackeray, and 
similar books that can now be bought for ridiculously 
little money. 



About the House. 



[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on one side of the paper. Address all communica- 
tions to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



— If the coal cinders, when taken from the 
stove, are put in an old tin and cold water 
poured over them, in an hour you will have 
nice clean cinders that will burn clear and 
good, without the disagreeable trouble of sift- 
ing them. 

— Bedrooms should be light and cheerful as 
possible, but not white as possible. Some 
variety of color is needed to relieve any too 
monotonous decoration of the wall. 

— A baker who has a great run on rye 
bread, remarked concerning it : "It is eaten 
only by the better class of people. Poor peo- 
ple wouldn't think it good enough for them." 

--A lady's maid, seeing her mistress strug- 
gling with a stamp that would not stick, took 
the stamp, rubbed it on the mucilage of the 
flap of the envelope and put it in its place. It 
was an ingenious way out of a common diffi- 
culty well worth remembering. — Boston Tran- 
script. 

— Lace curtains look equally well with mat- 
tings and light colored furniture coverings of 
summer and the richer upholstery of the win- 
ter. But most ladies refrain from using them 
during the warm weather, when flies and dust 
prevail. 

— A charming London-made costume of light 
grav alpaca had a coat with loose front, the 
collar of which was rolled back, disclosing at 
a full vest of primrose yellow surah, a double 
frill, trimmed with black feather-edged braid, 
being carried up the middle to a large bow at 
the throat. The coat and plain skirt were bor- 
dered with two rows of satin milliner's folds, 
one yellow and the other black. 

— To set delicate colors in embroidered 
handkerchiefs, soak them ten minutes previous 
to washing in a pail of tepid water, in which a 
dessertspoonful of turpentine has been well 
stirred. 

— The fact that silk thread is soaked in 
acetate of lead to increase its weight makes it 
dangerous to people who bite off the thread 
with their teeth. Some have thus suffered 
from lead poisoning. 

— Waxed paper bags are a new idea for hold- 
ing coffee, fruit, confections, etc. They are 
also useful for packing furs and woolens away 
from moths, the paraffine coating rendering 
them both air and water-tight. 

— The strong point in American goods is cut 
and finish ; not in the shirt trade alone, but in 
every trade. Take a pair of cheap shoes for 
instance, costing, say, $1.50 ; you will find them 
fashionably cut and stylishly finished, better 
finished than shoes at double the price in Eng- 
land. The finish and cut of cheap goods in 
England at once proclaims them to be cheap- 
whereas here it would take an expert to distin- 
guish between expensive and common goods 
displayed in a shop window, because in both 
cases the utmost attention is paid to the fin- 
ish. — Draper's World. 



-►f SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Claris Ev-i.iia.in.g', ^32 ^v^aixi St. 



i'i. Take Klevatti 

Next Term Begins April 24- 



Instruction given in Elocution, \ ocal Teclinimie and 
I'liysical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
auL'ht. (-'.ill. I't- send tor circular, .\ddress Miss Stella 
kt. II, lyuex, I'liiKipal, graduate of N, E. Conserv.atory 



MRS. S. E. LA^A/^TON, 

« 19 MAIN STREET « 



■ Harp, riaii.i, (iiiita 

1 lo IS and i to tl, eve 

exeept Friday. 



ll'^.nm-rh with l>r. Ck-.l 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

lOR L.\UIES .\ND CHILliREN ONLY, 

3.")2 Main Street, Corner JIaple. AVoree.ster, Mass. 

tlr'Office hours— 9 to 12 .\, m.; 2 to 4 1-. M, Treat- 
ment at the homes of patients by appointment if desired, 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. K, J, Bean and Mrs. L. E. Soutlnvorth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

2-i5 n^v/Taios. St., I^oom 1, 
Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction, 

Worcester Select School of 



Shorthand and Typewriting, 

44 Fi;«»T ST,, MOKCESTEi:, M.\SS, 

C. CREELMAN, - - PRINCIPAL. 

onabk'. Pupils should apply early, as num- 



ber is limited. 



If you want a piano that will last a lite-tiiuc. 
get the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C.F.HANSON SCO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Kstablishecl 18*iii.) 

The best goods, the most honorable deaUng, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS A.ND MUSIC. 

4.-.4 MAIN STREET. 

MECHANICS HALL, 

One Night Only, Friday, April 25. 

* A BRILLIANT OPERATIC EVENT « 

Kngagenient of the famous 

EMMA ABBOTT 

Grand Opera Co. 

Abbott, Annandale, Mirella, Mithelena, Ebert, 
Pruette, ISroderiik, Allen, Keadv. Karl, AVard, 
Fricke, Krause, Sinclaire, Maddock, and Carl 
Martens, direi tor. 

FULI, CHOKUS, GRAND ORCHESTRA. 

Friday, at 8 p, m,, will be presented on a scale of stage 

splendor never before attempted in opera in Worcester, 

VERUI'S MASTERPIECE, 

ERNANI ! ERNANI ! 

Emma Abbott and the entire company of over 50 people- 
Gorgeous Costume)!!. Enchanting 

Mu^ic, Brilliant ]>Iise en Sceue I 



L I (i M T 

Fashion's Favors and Flavors. 

— I'arasols arc large, with short .sticks, .An 
odd and pretty style is a ribbon para.sol. The 
whole cover is made of narrow ribbon in two 
sliadcs woven together, forming little squares 
of two colors, and finished about the edge 
with loops of the ribbon. 

— Spring muffs, a new fancy, are worn with 
some of the spring visiting gowns. They are 
usually composed of fine flowers, especially 
violets, and others are made up of many rows 
of frills of mousseline de soie, with needle- 
worked edges, and are ornamented with bou- 
quets of violets, orchids or other flowers, 

— Parisiennes are now wearing very short 
gloves, fastened by but two buttons, 

— Dre.ssy pinafores for little girls are now 
made of lace, arranged in accordion plaits. 
They are simply made with a back and front, 
the round neck and the armholes being edged 
with narrow lace, and bows of broad ribbon 
are placed on the shoulders, 

— Comfortable spring jackets are made open 
in front, and may be worn with or without a 
movable vest, that is easily fastened in the 
armholes by buttons. Rough, dark blue diag- 
onal cloths are especially liked for these jack- 
ets, with facings of faille or the long rolling 
collars. 

— A pretty spring wrap consists of alternate 
capes of gray and white cloth, with pointed 
edges braided with gold, and a deep white 
collar, 

— Shoes are getting around again to the 
Chinese pointed toe. For walking, boots have 
returned into fashion, the top part being of kid, 
and the toes of varnished leather. Shoes are 
made in the same way. For evening and 
home wear, tiny slippers with a little bow in 
the front are worn. 

— A handsome round cape for summer wear 
may be made with a black velvet yoke around 
which is gathered a deep ruffle of Chantilly 
lace. This goes well with almost any dress. 



The Laurel Street church people had a jubi- 
lee Thursday night over the paying off of the 
church debt. It has been done largely through 
the efforts of the pastor. Rev. Alonzo Sander- 
son, one of the most energetic and faithful 
workers the Lord ever had in his vineyard. 
Mayor Harrington, ex-Mayor VV'inslow, Mr, 
Alfred S, Roe, Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., 
Rev. John Galbraith, Rev. George M. Smiley, 
Rev. H. T, Cheever, Rev. D. O. Mears, D, 1),, 
and others, were present, and expressed con- 
gratulations. 



Next Friday evening, April 25, a presenta- 
tion of grand Lnglish opera will be given at 
Mechanics hall, by the peerless Diva of Eng- 
lish opera, Emma Abbott, supported by her 
splendid company, A great production is an- 
nounced, the opera being Ernani, which is 
magnificently put on with scenic adaptation, 
elegance and conformity of costumes and thrill- 
ing culmination of vocal effects and orchestral 
support. Miss Abbott is singing with superb 
richness and power this season, and has 
achieved greater triumphs in the east than ever 
before, notwithstanding the brilliance of her 
operatic career through many seasons of un- 
clouded lustre. The advanced sale will open 
Friday morning at Gorham's music store. 



|r 

A NEl DEPARTMENT 

Opened this week, in wliich we show the finest and most 
complete assortments of 

IDrkss AM) Wrah 

-f TRIMMINGS 4- 



to Ix.* found in this city. All the latest styles of Van 
Dyke I'oints from one inch to thirty-six inches wide, 
Fringes, Tinsel and Steel Gimps, Braids and Wrap 
Trimmings, Etc., and an extensive line of choice nov- 
elties not to be found elsewhere. 

As this depaitment is to be made a special feature of 
our business, ladies will always find us supplied with 
everything new and desirable in Trimmings at the low- 
est prices. 



R. GROSS & CO., 

Successors to C. H. Ellsworth. 
349 IVEAIN ST. 



K. SiMMONDS, 

FINE MILLINERY GOODS, 

294 Main Street. 



Ladies thinking of purchasing 
Spring Millinery would do well to 
inspect the stock of Trimmed and 
Untrimmed Goods and Millinery 
Novelties at 

K. 5inr\0Nb5, 

294 Main Street, opp. Bay State House. 

Order Easter Hats now. 



15 



Free Masonry in Worcester, 



BY DANIEL SEAGRAVE, 32 = 



The institution was organized in Worcester 
during the early part of the year of 1793, the 
first lodge being named "The Morning Star 
Lodge." In the spring of that year Isaiah 
Thomas, the patriot editor and printer of the 
revolution, Nathaniel Paine, Nathaniel Chand- 
ler, John Stanton, Ephraim Mower, Clark 
Chandler, Samuel Chandler, Charles Chand- 
ler, Benjamin Andrews, Joseph Torrey, John 
White, Samuel Brasier, John Stowers and 
Samuel Flagg petitioned the Grand Lodge for 
a charter, which was granted them, April 19, 
1793, and the first board of officers, installed in 
the June following, was Isaiah Thomas, W. 
M.; Nathaniel Paine, S. W.; and Samuel 
Chandler, J. W. On the occasion of the con- 
stitution and installation. Rev. Aaron Ban- 
croft, then pastor of the Second Parish (First 
Unitarian) in Worcester, delivered an oration. 
Isaiah Thomas was the printer of two editions 
of "The Constitution of the Ancient and Hon- 
orable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Ma- 
sons" in 1792 and 1798. Both are interesting 
works to the Masonic student, and at this date 
quite scarce, especially the 1792 edition. The 
associates of Dr. Thomas were all active and 
prominent men of Worcester and vicinity, and 
gave dignity and character to the institution of 
which they were members. Its membership 
during the ninety-seven years of its existence 
has been composed of the best citizens of the 
town. It has enjoyed a generous prosperity 
and now numbers more than 300 members. In 
1893 it is proposed to commemorate its centen- 
nial, which will doubtless prove an occasion of 
great interest to the craft in this vicinity. 

Montacute Lodge, (the second lodge,) was 
chartered June 9, 1859, its membership com- 
ing mainly from the older lodge. Its first 
master was Wm. A. Smith, who held the office 
two years. The charter members now living 
are Wm. A. Smith, George W. Bentley, Henry 
Goddard, Lyman Brooks, H. M. Witter, John 
A. Dana and Daniel Seagrave. This lodge 
has had a continuous prosperity, and at this 
date numbers nearly 400 members. 

Athelstan Lodge was chartered June 13, 
1866. Its first master was Henry Goddard. 
Among its charter members now living, though 
not all residents of Worcester, are Henry God- 
dard, E. P. Woodward, Hon. John D. Wash- 
burn and George W. Bentley. This lodge is 
in a prosperous condition and has a member- 
ship of more than 300. 

Quinsigamond Lodge was chartered Sep- 
tember 13, 1 87 1. It has a membership of 
more than 100, with a fair prosperity. John 
P. Grover is the presei.t master. 

Worcester Chapter of Royal Arch Masons 
was organized in June, 1823, and chartered 
October 21, 1824. Among its charter mem- 
bers were Isaiah Thomas, L. L. D., above 
mentioned, John Wilson, the postmaster of 
Worcester for more than thirty years, being 
the immediate successor of Isaiah Thomas; 
Rev. Jonathan Going, D. D., the beloved pas- 
tor of the First Baptist Church in Worcester 
from 1815 to 1832; Otis Corbett, a prominent 
citizen of his day ; Ephraim Mower, the cen- 
tenarian, and Dr. Benjamin Chapin, a promi- 
nent physician of his day, and its first high 



I^ I (i^H T 

priest, who continued in office for several 
years till the anti-Masonic persecution began. 
For some fourteen years or more this body, 
like others in this section, was in a state of 
dormancy, during which period the active 
labors of many were suspended, and some did 
not again resume their labors. In 1846 this 
body again took up the work it had so reluct- 
antly laid down, and has continued its labors 
till the present time. It has a membership of 
about 250 at the present time. Dr. C. A. Pea- 
body is the present high priest. 

Eureka Chapter, its charter members coming 
largely from Worcester Chapter, was insti- 
tuted in 1S70, and now has a membership of 
more than 300. Its first high priest was Rev. 
T. E. St. John, now of Haverhill, Mass. This 
Chapter has had a continuous prosperity. 
George Wood is the present high priest. 

Hiram Council, R. and S. M., was chartered 
in Sutton December 13, 1S26, and subsequent- 
ly removed to Worcester in 1858. This Coun- 
cil is the largest of its grade in the world, hav- 
ing now more than 700 members. For the last 
thirty years it has enjoyed a generous prosper- 
ity. F. A. Beane is its present chief officer. 

Worcester County Commandery K. T. was 
organized in the neighboring town of Holden 
in 1824, and chartered June 16, 1825. Its first 
commander was the late Col. James Esta- 
brook. In the year 1845 it removed to Wor- 
cester, where it has since remained. In 1875 it 
commemorated its fiftieth anniversary or semi- 
centennial, which occasion was one of great 
interest to the sir knights of this city and 
vicinity. It is one of the most numerous as 
well as prosperous of its grade in the jurisdic- 
tion. It has a membership of more than 500. 
Among the past commanders now living are 
George W. Bentley, Henry Goddard, Rev. T. 
E. St. John, Charles G. Reed, ex-mayor. Gen. 
R. H. Chamberlain, R. James Tatman, F. A. 
Harrington, our present mayor, and George 
B. Buckingham. The present commander is 
Oliver P. Shattuck. 

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. — The 
following grades of this Rite are established 
in Worcester and are all in a prosperous con- 
dition : 

Worcester Lodge of Perfection. — Organized 
September 30, 1893. It has a membership of 
more than 300. F. A. Lapham is the present 
T. P. G. M. 

Goddard Council, P. J., was instituted June 
17, 1870, and has now a membership of more 
than 200. Its present presiding officer is M. 
M. Allard. 

Lawrence Chapter, Rose Croix, was also in- 
stituted June 17th, 1870. It has a membership 
of more than 200. Its presiding officers have 
been Rev. T. E. St. John, now of Haverhill, 
Mass., Henry C. Willson, Francis Rich, M. 
D., and George B. Buckingham, 33°, now in 
office a second term. 

These bodies are very popular and their 
mysteries are eagerly sought, and most of their 
membership have attained the 32° of this rite. 
The Masonic bodies of our city are all 
thoroughly and generously equipped with cost- 
ly and magnificent jewels and paraphernalia, 
and the officers are well skilled in the work of 
the several grades. 

The home of the fraternity has, for the last 
twenty-three years, been in the post-office 
building on Pearl street, where it will gladly 



welcome the brethern of the mystic tie and 
Pilgrim Knights to its fellowship and to its 
hospitalities. 

In respect to that great brotherhood of 
Worcester Masons, Light gives this week the 
portrait of Most Wise and Worthy Master 
George B. Buckingham, the leading Mason of 
Central Massachusetts, and one of the best 
known Masons in Masondom. 

George Beecher Buckingham was born in 
Oxford, Conn., but his parents removed, when 
he was still young, to Seymour, and afterward 
to New Haven. He availed himself in both 
places of the public school instruction, supple- 
menting that while in New Haven by a year's 
course in the Russell Military School, and the 
country boy with a sound body and a sound 
mind, of quick perception, retentive memory 
and eager ambition, was well equipped for a 
hand-to-hand struggle for life. Young Buck- 
ingham's early business life was passed in 
New Haven, where he thoroughly learned 
business from the bottom. He came to Wor- 
cester in June, 1869, when only twenty years 
old, full of energy, business tact and pluck. 
He was master of himself, and master of 
the situation. Before taking up his residence 
in this city he was engaged by the 
Sargent Card Clothing Company. He 
remained in the employ of this firm until 1S73. 
At that time he became connected in business 
with Warren McFarland. Two years previous 
he had married the daughter of Mr. McFar- 
land. From the very first, until 1880, he had a 
third interest in the business which prospered 
greatly under his careful management. In 
i88o the whole business came into his hands, 
in consequence of the advanced age and in- 
firmities of Mr. McFarland, who died in Nov- 
ember, 1884. Since Mr. Buckingham assumed 
the entire proprietorship, the business has in- 
creased. His social life has been largely in con- 
nection with the various orders of Free Ma- 
sonry. A simple enumeration of them will 
sufficiently indicate his interest irt the various 
orders and the high esteem in which he is held 
by his associates. He joined Athelstan Lodge, 
January 29th, 1872 ; Eureka Chapter, April 
9th, 1872 ; Worcester County Commandery K. 
T., September 26th, 1872; Hiram Council 
Royal and Select Masters, January 30th, 1873 ; 
Worcester Lodge of Perfection, February i6th, 
1874; Goddard Council Princes of Jerusalem, 
April 9th, 1885; Lawrence Chapter of Rose 
Croix, April 9th, 1885 ; Massachusetts Con- 
sistory, 32°, April 24tli, 1885; Supreme Coun- 
cil, ii°, September 17th, 18S9. He was High 
Priest of Eureka Chapter, 1876 and 1877; 
Eminent Commander of Worcester County 
Commanderj', 1SS7, 18S8, 1889, and Most Wise 
and Perfect Master of Lawrence Chapter of 
Rose Croix, 1888 and 1889. 

In every office he has held he has mani 
fested sound judgment, thoughtful considera 
tion for others, careful attention even to the 
minutia: of affairs and a great aptitude in win- 
ning the confidence and securing the help of 
all. The admirable success attending the late 
Easter service and all the details of the ele- 
gant banquet served at its close, warrant this 
brief and necessarily imperfect notice of one 
who is held in high esteem among business 
men, and in most cordial and brotherly regard 
by those who are privileged to know him in his 
social life. 



Mrs. C a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet tier friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS-f 

No. 3S7 Main street. Grout's block. Perfect s.itisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

NEW^ YORIv 

DRESSMA.IVINQ 

Mme. Stone, 418 Main St. 



Fine Dressmaking in 



Fit guaranteed. 



Miss M. E. Tibbf.tts, 

DRESS X MAKING * PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MAUK A SFECIAI-TY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

^^::^WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL^^^:> 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MKS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—.AGENTS TAUGHT FREE. — 



MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK KKSIDENfE, 29 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 



"Good Bread and Cake Doth Whet the Ap- 
petite.'* 

KiNB Bakbry ! ! 

HKJHE.ST QIIALITY ONLY. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASANT ST. 

All Goods Hot at 3.30. 

PLEASE NOTICE! 

WE HAVE 

MISS HACKETT'S 

Home-Made Ginger Snaps. 

MRS. HUMPHREY'S 

Home-Made Cake and Salted Almonds. 

HON. J. H.WALKER'S 

Jersey Butter, fresh from his farm. 

W. S. LINCOLN'S 

Jersey Cream, fresh every day. 

THE OLD "JERSEY CREAM" FLOUR, 
Unsurpassed by any, at 

EBEN W. HOXIE'S, 

816, 818 and 305 Main Street. 



For the Kitchen. 



19 



[LiciiT invites the ladies of Worcester and Ticinity to 
contribute cookinj^ receipts which they have tried and 
proven to l)e good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
lmer only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Kditnr, 1 .K.iiT, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Quick Tea Cakes. 

Sift together one quart of flour, tluoe tca- 
spoonfuls of baking powder, and one (scant) 
teaspoonful of salt ; rub into this one heaping 
tal)k'spoonful of butter, or butter and lard 
mi.\ed ; mix into a dough just stiff enough to 
roll out with cold milk. Roll about half an 
inch thick, cut into rounds, bake in a hot oven, 
split and butter them. These can lie made 
with one half graham flour if preferred. 



Squash Griddle Cakes. 

One egg, one pint of milk, one and one-half 
cups of st|uash boiled and sifted, one-half tea- 
spoonful of soda, a little salt, flour enough to 
make batter. 

Rice Griddle Cakes. 

One and one-half cups of cold boiled rice, 
two cups of warm milk, three eggs, one-half 
teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream 
tartar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, flour to 
make batter. Fry and sprinkle with sugar 
while hot. 

Graham Cup Cakes. 

Two cups of graham, one of white flour, two 
heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one- 
half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of 
butter, one teaspoonful of sugar, one egg, two 
cups of milk. Bake in tin cups in a good oven. 



Breakfast Muffins. 

Three cups of flour, two heaping teaspoon- 
fuls of baking powder, one tablespoonful of 
butter, one tablespoonful of sugar one-lialf tea 
spoonful of salt, two cups of milk, two eggs 
beaten very light. 

Corn Muffins. 

One egg, one tablespoonful of sugar, one 
cup of corn meal, one cup of flour, one tea- 
spoonful of cream tartar and one of soda, or 
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half 
tablespoonful of butter, one-half teaspoonful 
of salt, milk to make a stiff batter. 



Squash Muffins. 

One cup of sifted squash, one and one-half 
cups of milk, two tablespoonfuls of melted 
butter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two tea- 
spoonfuls (heaped) of baking powder in flour 
enough to mi.\ quite stiff. Bake in mufiin 
rings or little tins. 

Parsnip Fritters. 

Scrape and boil three or four parsnips until 
very tender; mash, season with salt, pepper 
and butter. Make a pint of batter, add the 
parsnips, and fry a tablespoonful at a time in 
boiling lard. 

Potato Balls. 

Press cold mashed potatoes into balls with 
the hands, lay in a tin on buttered paper ; make 
an impression in the centre of the top of each ; 
place in it a bit of butter ; pour a half-teaspoon- 
ful of milk on top of this; sprinkle over all 
pepper and salt, and bake to a delicate brown 
n a hot oven. 



Keuka 



Grape 

Catsup, 

New, Wholesome and Delicious ! 



Thi.s Catsup is made from carefully selected grapes, 
and retains that dehcious and wholesome Havor which 
is the peculiar charm of that fruit, grown in the vine- 
yards surrounding Lake Keuka. The grapes used are 
■IS fresh and attractive as those found on one's table at 
home. The wholesome quality of this fruit is a well- 
known fact, and nearly every one has heard of the grape 
cure resorts of Europe, frequented by so many seeking 
a restoration to health. From the first the aim has been 
to retain the tonic quality peculiar to the grape, and 
after long and careful experiments this has teen accom- 
plished. This delicious condiment to Ije h.ul .it 

JOHN A. HARTIGAN'S, 

47 Pleasant Street. 

TURKIJH BflTMS. 

F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
2 to9 F. M. Sundays, 



9 to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln llou- 
Worcester, Mass. 



ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, Silver and Nickel Plating, 

I'olisliing, Bronzing and l^aequering:, 

Keplating Table-ware a Spetialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PKOP. 

Over Collar Laundry, IBarton Place, Worcester, Mass. 

* GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

L. M. ALEXANDER, 

At Hill & Tollman's old stand, 
195 FKONT ST. 




WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Karton F*l£ice. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOIv & Co., PROl^S. 



^^ 



W. A. ENGLAND, 



W FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

KKI'.VIHIXf; PHOMI'TLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



^0 

E. Boyden & Son, 

A K C H 1 '1' E C 'i" S ! 

M. A. Boyden, 

CIVIL K N O I N E E R, 

406 Main St., Worc-ester, Mass. 

I. REUBIN, 

MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN 

-^PICTURE FRAMES AND M0ULDINGS4- 

Oil I'aiiitiiiKs, < liioiuDs, KiiKiaviiiKs, Ac, *<■. 

Picture frames to order a specialty, and orders 
promptly attended to. Art studies for sale or to rent. 
Prices will be found very reasonable on application. 
220 Main St., Worrester, Mass. 

RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When yoxi want a good mattress of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We gruarantee first-class work. 

13 Rark: St., Worcester. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSE-<^ 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies" Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAIVIS & SON. 
C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Franne IVl'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
£ng:raTings, Etcliing:s, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Parle St., W^orcester. 

LE i JOLLY ? FRENCH ? DYEIKG 

AND i CLEANSING i HOUSE. 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Lacesand Lace Curtains, Gro s & Strauss. 

" for ladies' garments, Leading dressmakers. 

" for gents' garments. Leading tailors. 

C. T. MELVIN, FKOPKIKTOK. WALNllT ST. 

CHAS. K. REED, 
TAXIDERMIST, 

AND DE/ LER IN 
NATURALISTS' SUPPLIES. SHELLS, ETC. 

White Doves "Wanted. 

262 MAIN STREET. 




E. L. S U M N E R, 

^ KROEGER&SONS S 
I WHEELOCK & CO. i 

379 Main St., Wi. roster. (Over Putnam & Tliurs- 

WEBER 

PIANOS, (TABKK OIUiANS) AT 

OSBORNE'S MUSIC STORE, 20 FRONT ST. 
Call for Catalogue of late popular music at 10 cents per 
copy. Everythmg in the music line at low prices. 



L I (i H T 

Said to be Funny. 

A Very Reasonable Proposition. 

Customer : — Have you a diamond that will 
match this one of mine in size and shape? 

Jeweler, (somewhat in the pawnbroking 
line): — I think I have. Yes, here is one — a 
beautiful stone — exact match. See? 

"Yes. What's it worth ?" 

"It's worth 5150. Let you have it for $ioo." 

"Um — let me see. Two exact matches in 
diamonds are hard to get, ain't they ?" 

"They are." 

"And when a man has 'em they're worth 
more together than if he had two of equal 
value but of different shape ?" 

"Yes, they are worth a great deal more. 
With another stone to match it, yours would 
be cheap at $200." 

"Well, give me $75 on it, can't you ?" — 
Chicago Tribune. 
Matter of Principle. 

Wearv Raggles : — I'm very hungry, sir, 
an' if you'd give me a dime fer ter git " 

Museum Proprietor: Hungry, eh ? You're 
just the man I want. There's a pie eating 
contest going on inside, but in order to keep 
up the excitement we must change the eaters 
every now and then, when the room is cleared. 
You look like one of them, and you can take 
his place in a few moments. I'll pay you two 
dollars an hour for the work. 

Weary Raggles (reluctantly backing off) 
— I'd 'av accipted that offer if yer hadn't 
called it wor-r-rk. — Puck. 
Dedicated to the Kickers. 
Had this old world been made to suit the 

kickers everywhere 
'T would be a freaky, bulging, crooked, sadly 

mixed affair. 
We'd have our winters in July if we but had 

our way, 
And in December's place we'd put the tender 

month of May. 
We'd transpose nearly everything and change 

it all about, 
And turn it upside down and very likely in- 
side out, 
And when we'd regulated things the best that 

we knew how, 
'Tis certain we'd have cause to kick lots 

worse than we do now. 
Over the Garden Wall. 

" Ha ! Carpentering, Jones ?" 

" Yes, I'm building a hencoop." 

"What ! Are you going to keep hens ?" 

" I am." 

" I thought you always hated hens." 

" So I have and do hate 'em, but my neigh- 
Smith swears he'll have a prettier garden than 
mine this summer, and I'm bound he shan't." 
Not a Worcester Girl, Oh, No! 

Willie (to older sister) : — Say, Irene, you 
get me a cooky on the sly, or I'll give you dead 
away. 

Older Sister : — What do you mean, Willie? 

"Do you s'pose I don't know Mr. Hankinson 
was here last night?" 

"Well, what of it?" 

"What of it ? Nothin', only I put a hunk of 
gum on that extra chair in the parlor before he 
came, and it's still there this morning. That's 
all." 



FURNITURE * 



AND CARPETS. 



Our large spring stock is complete. Latest design 
all grades, and the best to be had for the money. 



'i* 



BEDROOM SUITES * 

Over a hundred different styles of the latest designs, 
made by the most skilled workmen. A Solid Ash Suite 
for ;piS.75. A handsomely finished suite, well made, hard 
wood, for $2d. A Solid Oak Suite, an extra bargain, at 
$30. A handsome, magnificent suite at $65, complete. 
And we could enumerate more than a hundred of these, 
every one a great bargain, and you will say so when you 
see them. 

* PARLOR SUITES * 

We carry a variety of styles. A nice suite at $30, Hair 
Cloth or Plush. A handsome suite at $60. We could 
mention many positive bargains in these, but prefer that 
you would see them. 



* BABY CARRIAGES * 

Certainly our assortment of Baby Carriages cannot be 
excelled. We have positive beauties at very reasonable 

g rices. It will p)ay you to see these before you purchase, 
'ur Baby Sleeping Coach is now in stock, and we guar- 
antee that every Httle one so fortunate as to ride in one 
of these will be exceedingly happy. 



* REFRIGERATORS ^- 

of the best makes. Call and examine our goods. 



THE C. F. ADAMS 

HOME FURNISHING HOUSE, 

gSS-gSS l^airL St. 

C- L-Gorham& Co- 

Tie Largest Store and Stock 

IN WORCESTBR. 

ARTHUR C. KING, 

1 11:1 porter anci Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine FreBcoing a Specialty. 

NO. 33 PEAKL STREET. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FKAMKS KK-GILDED. 

OLD KNGKAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 Foster .Street, Opp. Itiiik, AVorcester, Mass. 

L. MERRIFIELD, 

AGENT FOR AMi DEALER IN 

First-Class Pianos and Organs, 

Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise of every de- 
scription. 
LAMli'S BLOCK, 43 PLEASANT STREET. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver anci Nickiel 
F*later, . 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., WorceBter, Mass* 



Bronze medal Silver Gold Grand Diploma 

1S79. 18S0. 1881. 1SS2. 

Awarded \Vm. Laugher for upholstery and drapery. 

WWL. Laughbr, 

UPHOLSTERER, 

677 MAIN ST., COR SYCAMORE, 

where he is prepared to execute orders in the same first- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 
tlie past. 

Bedding, Shades and Draperies * 

* Furniture Repairing and Carpet Worlt. 



Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



LIFE AND ENDOWMENT 

POLICIES. 
-^^COMBINED i LIFE i AND - ACCIDENT4- 



Term Annuity and Coupon 

Annuity Endowments. 

Ji„isttis. E. ^llen, 

Agent: The Travelers Insurance Company. 



* NEVER A HOUSE * 

With too many closets, or a chamber with 
too much drawer-room. The generous mod- 
ern Chiffonier is a joy to the housekeeper's 
heart. There are in our warerooms many 
new and very charming designs in Chiffon- 
iers, Dressing Cases, Bureaus, Bedsteads, 
and Chamber Furniture of all kinds, which it 
would give us pleasure to have you examine. 

EVERYTHING IN FURNITURE 

Is offered at moderate prices, and in great 
variety, by 

KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, 
139 Friend Street, 



Boston. 



L Kj HT 

Base Bail in Worcester. 



21 



WRITTEN FOR LIGHT BY JACOH C MOKSK, 

I!A.SE BALL EDITOR OF THE BOSTON 

HERALD. 



Worce.ster i.s acknowledged to be one c4 tlic 
best minor league cities in the country, witli 
an evenly balanced league of clubs, investment 
in the stock of a local base ball organization 
would be sure to bring large returns. To 
secure such an evenly balanced league savors 
almost of the inipo.ssible. It seems that there 
must be strong clubs and weak clubs in every 
league and such is the case in the Atlantic 
Association today. Worcester may be count- 
ed upon to turn out in large numbers when tliu 
local club faces a strong team. Clubs too may 
be strong in players and yet the city surporting 
it may make a wretched showing financially 
and this has unfortunately been too frequently 
the case. Jersey City and Newark will have to 
improve a great deal upon past records to 
score any kind of success in the season before 
them. A strong club, struggling financially is 
a demoralizing factor in any association, as 
has been proven time and again. The trouble 
is that the clubs are too strong for the cities 
and that the salaries are too high. Worcester 
can today afford to pay higher salaries than 
any club in the association but the otherclulis 
cannot stand the strain. Hartford cannot 
stand high salaries, nor can Newark nor Jersey 
City and the officers of these clubs must ad- 
mit that serious mistakes in this respect have 
been made in the past. The day of high sal- 
aries in minor league clubs is a thing of the 
past. The Atlantic Association of 1890 is far 
stronger than the Atlantic Association of 1S89. 
Strong accessions are the clubs of Baltimore 
and Washington with such experienced man 
agers as William Barnie and Ted .Sullivan. 
These clubs, with those of Worcester and 
New Haven, constitute the strength of the 
league. These three elements, then, are ne( - 
essary to secure the success of base ball in 
any city: strength in organization, strength in 
support and strength in players. If these 
elements be not present concurrently, the clul) 
will be a failure. It will be seen, too, that if 
any league lacks these requisites, the effect 
will be felt by every club in the league. Wor- 
cester has had plenty of experience in this sort 
of thing in past seasons and has paid very 
dearly for the same. Indeed it can almost be 
said that Worcester got so tired of it that it 
was extremely doubtful until very recently if 
there would be a professional nine in Worces- 
ter this season. The Inter-State Commerce 
law played the very mischief with the base 
ball people and made travelling more expensive 
than ever. To add to this the clubs got into 
the habit of carrying more men than formerly 
was the case. If all the Atlantic Associations 
were as strong in the requisites enumerated as 
is Worcester, the league would be a glorious 
success. The club will be ably managed by 
Mr. Cudworth, who has been brought up to 
understand New England base ball, New Eng- 
land crowds and New England players. He 
has under him a strong nine able to hold its 
own against any club of its class. All of tlie 
clubs are strong in players, and as far as the 
work on the diamond is concerned, the battle 
is sure to be most interesting. Wilmington pre- 
sents a club in which the players are mostly 
new to the base ball arena but the work of the.se 
players in the practice games augurs well for 
what they will be able to accompli.sh when the 
championship season begins. 



* STEINWAY PIANOS * 



■iIk«-<1 Stiinilind olllii- W.irliL 



C. L. G O R H A M & CO. 



JOHN G. SMITH, 

ANTIQUE FURNITURE, CROCKERY 
AND BRIC-A-BRAC. 

Slx'cial :ittciili(in given to reii;iirin>; after the onKinal 
design. Also old books and pamphlets IjxJUHht. 
r,:i i.iNcorN st., woieckstkh, mass. 



. B. Woodworth, 

<:: ARCHITECT * 

492 Main St., 

W'orccter.s 



^r^WORCESTER SKATING Ml^^ 



One AVeek d 



MONDAY, APRIL 21, 



Continuing every afternoon and evening duiinK Jlx 
week, from i p. jt. to lo r. m. 'I he Boston l-.xhiDitior 
Exchange has the pleasure to announce a grand 



NEW ENGLAND 




li:i)!l(il}MS! 



(To Enter tlie Contest.) 



1-OK THK FOI^LOWlNfi VAIAAIJI.F PKIZKS : 

To the handsomest baby, $50 in gold. 
To the largest baby (for its age), diamond ring valued 
at $50. , , 1 , , 

To the smallest baby (for its age), baby buggy valued 

To the homeliest baby (under one year), Iwautiful baby 

cloak valued at $20. , u j- 1 

To the prettiest twins (under one year), each a diamoncl 

ring valued at $25 each. . 

To the largest twins (under one year) , a twin baby car- 
riage valued at $30. 
To the handsomest triplets, $50 in gold. 
To the largest triplets (under one year), each a diamond 

ring valued at $20 each. 
To the handsomest quadriplets, 5ioo in gold. ., , , , 
To the most wonderful (freak baby), a beautiful baby 
wardrobe valued at $40. 
tl^' Remember, the above prizes will be given away 
in a fair and impartial manner, viz.: Each person upon 
entering the Kink receives a coupon, naming the differ- 
ent classes of babies that prizes are to be given to. witli 
blank space opposite. Each chair occupied by taby. 
mother or nurse will be numbered. Parties holding 
coupons will select babies they consider most deservini; 
to receive prize, and number coupon accordingly, which 
they will deposit in a sealed box arranged for the pur- 
pose prior to leaving the Rink. 'Ihe votes will be 
counted by a committee on Saturday evening, April 19, 
iSoo. Each class receiving the largest nnmbei of votes 
will receive prizes as per the above. 



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• WHITMET'SJJNEM • JTORC ^ 

Commencing Monday. 

Fifteen Light Shades of Japanese and China Silks in 24, 27 
and 36-inch widths. The finest assortment we ever offered. 
New designs in Fancy Printed Silks. In the Art and Embroid- 
ery Department our Miss S. R. Hall is showing many novelties 
in Art Work. 



STAMPING FREE 

0?s: ^LL GOODS 

PURCHASED OF US. 




EXPRESS CHARGES 

PREPAID 

TO WORCESTER. 



Another invoice of the Bellagio Silk Wraps, $2.75, former- 
$4.50. New designs in Curtain Muslins. Linen Pillow Cases, 
Hand Hem-stitched, $1 per pair. The linen alone in these goods 
would cost $1.2^. All our fine ^o cent Tray Cloths we will 
close out for So cents each. These goods are stamped with 
new patterns. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



I. I(i H T 



CORDLEY & CO. 



Bankers, 



121 Devonshire Street, 



p. O.Box 
MEMBERS OF 
NEW YORK, BOSTON and CHICAGO 
STOCK EXCHANGES, 
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Frank R. Cordley. 
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W. P. RICE, Pres. 



O. F. PAGE, Sec'y i Treas. 



Union Investnnent Co., 

Paid Up Capital, 811,000,000. Kaunas flty. Mo. 

SPECIAL OFFKB TO INVKSTOIJS. 

A Guaranteed 7 per cent. Investment, secured by Business Property centrally located 
in Kansas City, with 50 per cent, of the net profits additional. 
Indorsed by Prominent Business Men, Hankers and Capitalists, viz: 
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Bank; Hon. T. B. BULLENE, E.x-Mayor; li. T. WHIPPI.E & CO., Real Estate 
and Investment Securities; Hon. WILLIAM WAKNEK, I.ate Commander-in-Chief 
G. A. R. and Ex-Member of Congress; WALTON H. HOLMES, Pres. G. A. Cable 
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Cashier Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. 
By permission we refer to any of the above gentlemen. 
Send for circulars containing description of propertyand full particulars, mchi 3m 



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-4- Ocalist •( and i Optician 4- 



ExHxiiiiiation free. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street. 
Worcester, Mass. 

THE SAN MIGUEL 
GOLD PLACERS CO. 

(OF COLORADO.) 

Gen. Benj. F. Bntler, Pres. 
James Gilfilian, Treasurer, 

(Ex-Treasurer of V. S.) 

For the purpose of thoroughly 
equipping the property, will con- 
tinue for a brief perio(i only to sell 
at $4.50 per share. Stock full paid 
an(i non-assessable. Par value, 
$10. 

The price will be advanced dur- 
ing the present month. With the 
completion of the proposed addi- 
tions to the present working plant, 
the best authorities report that 
3,000 net annual profit is en- 



tirely practicable — ecjual to $2 per 
share yearly dividends. 



James Gilfilian, Treas., 

8 Congress St., Boston. 




EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fasliionable Hat, 
Fine Furnisliing 
& Atliletic Honse. 

365 Main St., "Worcester. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3, 



S. II. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



Worcester 
Illuminated 
Advertising 
Company, 

General Office, 311 Maii-i 
Street, Roon:i 13. 

C. E. SQUIER. F. H. BEALS. 



Advertisements Artistically Displayed bv a 

powerful Electric Light upon 600 

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DISPLAY: 

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Special, No. 3. 



The American Writing Macbine Company, 

H.VKTFOKD, CONN. 
Branch Otlices :— 227 Broadway, N. Y.; 14 W 4! 
Street, Cincinnati, 0.; 1002 Arch Street, Philadelphia 



Clifford & Johnson, 



All kinds of Dra- 
pery and Upholstei y 
work to order. 

HAIR MATTRESSES 

TO ORDEP 

Our own make. 
First-class Turk 
ish work a specialt} 




Particular atten- 
tion given to re-up- 
liolstering in all its 
branches. Estimates 
furnished upon ap- 
plication. Original 
Designs a Marked 
^ Feature. 



425 MAIN ST., COR. FRONT ST., UP ONE FLIGHT, WORCESTER. 




PROGRESSIVE ! PRACTICAL ! THOROUGH ! 

Has placed during the past two weeks a large number of pupils in positions, and has refused not less than 15 
applications for help because students could not be fitted fast enough. The surest guarantee of the success of 
your son or daughter, in securing lucrative employment, is a course at 

Becker's College, -492 N^Iain St. 

Eg^Cirfu lais free. Spiiiis term begins April 1. 

EAST TENNESSEE LAND CO. 



Enormoas Saccess!! 

$750,000 
AGCRSaATE 

SALES 
TO DATE or 
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ONLY 

$3,000,000 

OF CAPITAL 

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SHARES $50 

EACH, 
Only Sold at Far. 



(Dfflrers. 

Clihton B. Fisk, 

President. 
J. IIOPRWEIX, Jr., 

1st Vice-President 
A. W. WAGN^iLLS, 

Treasurer. 
A. .\. IIorKINS, 

Secretary. 



James B. Ilobhs. 
Ferd. Schumacher. 
W. Silvcr^vood. 



E. M. Goodall. 

F. W. Breed. 
Frederick Gates. 
Philip S. Mason. 



(A I"I T .\ I. I Z -V T I (> > ! 



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SECOND EXCURSION TO HARRIMAN, MAY 5, 1890. 



■special Train, Spe 



and Special iH.luicinents to ..ief the Newest City 
of the New South. Full rarti.ulars fiiven. 

NEW ENGLAND HEADQUARTERS, 54 EQUITABLE BLDG., BOSTON, MASS. 



f ^Famous OilRangb 




For Family Use. 



The "F.^MOUS," as its name implies, is an Oil Kanee, and is fully the equivalent 
of the coal range. It stands firmly on legs, at the right height to work over. Is is cleanly 
and free from odor. Its tank is of Seamless Lead and is at the rear, where it does not 
gft heated. The wicks can be burned as long as there is a drop of oil in the tank. It has 
sufticient power to do all the cooking and laundry work of the family the year round, at 
less than half the cost of the coal stove. Thousands are in use in all parts of the country. 
Write us for further information and name of nearest agent. 

SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

M.VKKKS. r.OSTON. :m.\ss. koi; S.VI.K I'.Y 

J. W. GREENE, 51 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 



Ui III uiiuunu, ui mnii 




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T. D. GARD, 


Be sure that you don't get left. 

Claflin's best Cabinet Photographs, m'i a doz. 


ib Worker in Gold and Silver ^^ 


until July 4th. Take the elevator at 


ANU KKGALIA M'F'G'It, 


405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 


3113 Main St., Up Onf. Flight, Worcester, Mass. 



I 



46 ^ 46 FRONT 5T. 

THE 
B/1T 
JTflTE 



conp'T, 



WORCESTER i nfl55. 



James E. Dennis, M'g'r. 




HON. JOHN D. WASHBURN, 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland. 



[ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR LIGHT.] 



LIGHT 

Freight prepaid to Worcester. 



FACTORIES, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 




81-91 •■=• 

WASHINGTON-STREET 

Cor. Elm St. 



BRANCH AT 
BAR HARBOR, ME. 



SALESROOMS, 
BOSTON - - MASS. 



A Special Feature. 



THE WINNER INVESTMENT CO. 

Handles Exclusively Kansas City Investments, and does not handle 
Farm Mortgages. 

PAST INVESTMENTS 

through this company have yielded nearly $3,000,000.00 profits, every dollar of principal 
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PRESENT INVESTMENTS. 

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For full particulars send for circulars, pamphlets and papers, or call. 



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A NEW EDITION DE LUXE OF 

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Unquestionably the most superb edition evet attempted in this country. 

The type is large and clear, especially cast for this work, the paper is made of th 
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LIGHT 



Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1890. 



No. 9 



Worcester gives to its people a free library, 
free preaching, beautiful public parks, and 
many other things which are appreciated, but 
it is suggested that a decimal part of the 
wealth of Worcester could be utilized in the 
direction of a concert for the working girls, 
where the best of music would be provided at 
a nominal price. A free exhibition of a great 
painting, or an exhibition of educating art, 
would do a great deal toward improving those 
who do not realize their need of more than the 
commonest education. A course of lectures, 
like those of the Lowell Institute of Boston, 
would be of decided benefit to the working- 
men, and they would be appreciated by the 
evening students, who are combining necessary 
labor with pleasurable study. 



It is a popular notion, apparently backed by 
fact, that a hotel is doomed to financial ruin if 
there is no bar kept upon the premises ; yet, 
Sidney, Australia, manages to support a pala- 
tial hotel, of 250 rooms, conducted e.\clusively 
on temperance principles. The Australasian 
ballot system appears to be not the only thing 
which comes, to enlighten America, from the 
"big island of the sea." 



A quarter of a century ago, George Peabody, 
the rich banker, and richer philanthropist, set 
apart about two millions and a half of dollars, 
for the purchasing of wretched tenements in the 
London slums, tearing them down, and build- 
ing in their stead cheerful and sanitary homes 
for the poor. So well has this work been 
done, that twenty thousand people are sheltered 
in these houses, and twenty thousand people 
are blessing the man who gave his money 
where it was the most needed, and where it 
could be best appreciated. Worcester has no 
slums, but there are within the city limits, 
many dilapidated tenements which barely 
shelter the people who live in them, and 
George Peabodyism can, in a smaller scale, be 
practised even in the "Heart of the Common- 
wealth." 

Fresh air exercise and practical body-build- 
ing have almost been incorporated into the creed 
of the churches. The Christian Association 
g)-mnasium, the Sunday-school picnic, and the 
ministerial vacation, are all accepted necessi- 
ties. The religious press are thoroughly alive 
to the importance of out-of-door life. The 
Christian Union announces an annual "out- 
ing number," treating the "theological" themes 
of base-ball, tennis, archery, lacrosse; canoeing, 
rowing, swimming, fishing, and other kindred 
pastimes which aid in making better Christians. 



It is suggested that the movers of buildings 
through our public streets be not permitted to 
hew their way among the tree branches, which 
may obstruct the free passage of a two-story 
house. The beautiful shade trees of Worces- 
ter must be preserved. Better not move the 
houses than cut down Worcester's principal 
natural attractton. 



Rev. Dr. Burnham, of Springfield, in a recent 
discourse, said these words, which have the 
clear ring of truth in them : "The home is 
pre-eminently woman's. No one can make it 
but woman. I am sorry for the arena of merely 
physical competition that hardens the hand 
and destroys the tact of woman. There is 
much she can do here, in tasks that require 
skill. Her field is widening. The tea-table is 
hers. No one but her can give it its attraction 
and persuasive power. I am sorry for the 
home that has never learned the beauty and 
the power of the table about which the family 
may gather, as a place not merely to eat and to 
drink, but a place of attraction, a place for in- 
tercourse the most blessed in its influence. So 
too the parlor is woman's Its adornments are 
hers. Its mottoes are hers. Its pictures are 
hers. Its social power is hers. Its individual 
influence is hers. She rules as its queen. She 
decides who shall enter it. She decides what 
influence it shall exert in a thousand ways. 
Surely, her life here is a power." The balance 
of power in the home is as much vested in the 
womanly head of it, as is the right of business 
management at the office in the hands of the 
man. Marriage is a partnership, both legally 
and morally. Its true practice demands that 
there should be two friendly heads, each work- 
ing its distinct part in the economy of every 
day life, each for itself, both together. The 
same principles which make business success- 
ful at the store orshop, apply to the home man- 
agement. The husband who does not respect 
the tiresome labor of the household does not 
deserve the comforts of the sitting room nor 
the cheerful glow of the rosy fireside. 



The Boston Hera/d recently said : "The 
way the dust flew about town was a caution. 
Great clouds of it rolled through the main 
thoroughfares, whisked up and down the alley- 
ways and pirouetted around the corners. It 
penetrated every chink and crevice, and blinded 
the eyes of everybody who ventured out of 
doors. It was everwhere adjudged a nuisance 
that ought to be suppressed. What a pity it is 
that the street watering carts do not carry on a 
livelier business at this season of the year, and 
thus contribute to the public health and com- 
fort !" Can it be possible that such things are 
said of Worcester .' 



It is quite the thing, now-a-days, to go over 
the water for a year, a month, or even to make 
a call upon friends. West Siders meet on 
Main street: "Good morning, fine day, see 
you in Paris, next week." It is only a sleep- 
and-eat of six days, a palatial stateroom, a 
sumptuous table, a bath-room, sitting-room, 
library, barber shop, full orchestra, six meals 
a day, and you are over there. Hun- 
dreds of Americans are in Europe, to-day, 
who don't know whether Bunker Hill is in 
Charlestown or Charleston, or whether the 
Yellowstone National Park is located in 
Wyoming or Colorado. 



There is a decided tendency, and a growing 
one too, among the educated and refined, to 
substitute the term woman, for that of lady. 
The name woman is by far the most honoral)le 
and correct that can be applied to the feminine 
sex. The word lady is of later origin, and its 
modem use is simply meaningless. The gin- 
ger-bread aristocracy who try to copy the char- 
acteristics of sombody else, will he disgusted 
to know that the term lady, among the old 
Anglo-Saxons, was used to denote "the keeper 
of the bread," or, "the housekeeping head of 
the family." Think how it would sound to 
speak of "The Lady of Samaria," or, "The 
Ladies of the War." There is ten times le.ss 
meaning in the silly term of lady than in the 
grand old name of woman. 



The cold-water army may find it e.xpensive 
to keep up its stock, after the closing of this 
month. With no license for beer, and no ice 
for water, the dry Worcesterian has a hard 
season before him. 



It may not be just the thing, perhaps it is not 
a tony walking ground for the tony, but 
Elm park of Worcester is a delightful ren- 
dezvous for people who live in the crowded 
tenements of back streets, and even the 
owner's children of a brick block might find 
the balmy air and pleasant walks a delightful 
contrast to the crowded side-walk and a micros- 
copic back-yard. 



In the wild, dreary untutored, unkept, un- 
lettered wilds of Portland, Oregon, this is the 
way the editor of the /fcj/ Shore, by all odds 
the brightest paper on the upper coast, pleas- 
andy criticizes an esteemed contemporary : "A 
page editorial in the San Francisco Argonaut 
is the rankest piece of "weing" and "ouring" 
that ever fell under our notice. It passes be- 
yond the ridiculous and becomes unconscious 
burlesque. The head of a man who could 
write such stuff in dead earnest would squeeze 
a bushel basket out of shape." 



Moral biliousness is about as prevalent as the 
physical complaint of the same name. For 
tunately the latter can be cured by physic, but 
the former never. The chronically bilious 
began life dissatisfied, and will depart in alike 
condition. He glories in his fancied infirmi- 
ties, and will thank no man to recommend a 
cure. The way to treat him is not to treat him 
at all. Let him kick; he will do no harm 
unless some one is in his wav. 



They appear to be mighty suspicious over 
in Westboro. Even the church folks can not be 
trusted, if one can believe the following item 
which appeared in one of the lively town 
papers: "The Australian ballot system was 

used at the election of deacons for the 

church, Monday evening, and it is not strange 
to learn that it proved a marked success." 




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Worcester, Saturday, April 26, 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



April 26 : Sun rises at 4.46 A. M.; sets at 
6.38 P. M. Length of day, 13 hours, 52 minutes. 
Moon, first quarter, April 26th, 1 1 hours, 52 
minutes, evening, W. 



Mr. Edward L. Sumner, with Mrs. Sumner 
and his mother, Mrs. William Sumner, went 
down to Bailey's Island, Me., last Saturday, 
and thence to Marblehead, last Monday. 
They had a pleasant trip and returned home 
in the middle of the week. 



Ex-Mayor Samuel Winslow, with Mrs. 
Winslow, and their neice, Miss Alice E. Rob- 
bins, went to New York last Thursday, and 
are the guests of Hon. John Winslow, the ■ex- 
mayor's brother, in Brooklyn. To-day they 
sail on the Etruria for Europe, where they will 
travel for several months. Miss Robbins, who 
was graduated from the High School, with the 
class of '89, and has been taking a post-graduate 
course, will return in season to enter Smith Col 
lege in the fall. 



Dr. Roscoe W. Swan and Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles H. Prentice will be passengers on the 
Etruria, sailing from New York for Europe, 
to-day. With Mayor Winslow's party, Wor- 
cester will be well represented. 



Gen. William F. Draper's friends in Worces- 
ter will be interested in the report that he is to 
marry a Miss Preston, of Lexington, Ken- 
tuck, next month. It is particularly interest- 
ing because the parties represent the opposing 
sides in the great national conflict of a quarter 
of a century ago; for Miss Preston, who is 
said to be very beautiful, and is about thirty 
years of age, is a daughter of Gen. Preston, 
whom President Buchanan made minister to 
to Spain, and who was afterward a major-gen- 



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eral in the Confederate army. Gen. Draper 
met Miss Preston at Narragansett Pier, last 
summer. Mr. Eben Draper, the general's 
younger brother, married ex-Secretary Bris- 
tow's daughter, a Kentucky girl, like Miss 
Preston, and hence came the association of 
the two families and the meeting at Narragan- 
sett. The general's prospective bride comes of 
a very old and wealthy family. Gen. Draper 
is only forty-eight years old, having celebrated 
his birthday a fornight ago, and would any- 
where be called a handsome man. He has 
been for some years a widower, and when his 
war record is remembered (he was one of the 
gallant boys of the 36th) his coming marriage 
has a decided tinge of romance about it. 



Miss Margaret H. Griggs and Miss Bessie 
Pelton, pianists, are to give the next recital in 
the Worcester County Music School series, 
Friday evening. Vocalists will assist. 



A party of about twenty of the friends of 
Mr. Benjamin Whitmore, Jr., gave him a pleas- 
ant surprise last Monday evening. It was his 
birthday anniversary, and they wanted to help 
him celebrate ; so he was invited to the resi- 
dence of Mr. William C. Ellis, 14S Beacon 
street, and there found the party assembled. 
There was music and a generally social time, 
and the evening passed as pleasantly as the 
hours did swiftly. 

The music at Piedmont church, last Sunday, 
attracted considerable attention. The prom- 
inent feature in the morning was Miss Evange- 
line Houghton's soprano solo, with chorus, 
"From thy Love as a Father," from Gounod's 
"Redemption." In the evening. Miss Luella 
Flagg sang a contralto solo, with chorus, 
"Love not the world," from Sullivan's "Prodi, 
gal Son;" Miss Houghton sang a solo with 
quartet, "O Lord I Come," arranged from 
Braga, Mr. J. N. Truda playing a violin obli. 
gato;and Mr. George L. Hyde sang a bass 
solo, "Rejoice Greatly," Marston. Miss 
Houghton is to be entertained to-night and to- 
morrow by relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. 
Green. 

A special assembly of Hiram Council, Roy- 
al and Select Masters, was held at Masonic 
Hall, Wednesday evening. M. III. Grand 
Master Daniel W. Jones, of the Grand Coun- 
cil of Massachusetts, paid an official visit, 
with his suite, including Gr. P. C. of W., E. S. 
Powers; Gr. Treas., James B. Gardner; Gr. 
Rec, A. F. Chapman ; Gr. M. of C, Augustus 
Ridgeway ; Gr. Lect., George A. Gillette ; Gr. 
Sent., Ed. Macdonald. Officers and members 
of Boston Council were also present as the 
guests of Hiram Council, including Th. 111. 
M., E. Bentley Young; D. M., Augustus 
Ridgeway ; P. C. of W., John Thorrogood ; 
Rec, A. F. Chapman ; M. of C, George A. 
Savery; C. of G., Charles M. Pear; Conduc- 
tor, JohnTI. Bowker; Sent., Ed. Macdonald. 
Other members of Boston Council were pres- 
ent, and also visitors from councils in Green- 
field, Norwich, Palmer and Portsmouth. The 
committees of Hiram Council for the occasion 
were as follows: Committee to receive Grand 
Council — 111. Companions W. A. Farnsworth, 
George M. Rice, 2d, Thomas Piper, StillmanL. 
Shaffer. Committee to<receive Boston Coun- 
cil — Companions George B. Buckingham, 



John A. Lowe, William L. Davis, R. James 
Tatman, A. Frank Gates. General reception 
committee — Companions H. C. Wilson, Fred 
A. Lapham, F. E. Barker, Charles E. Davis, B. 
M. Scott. The work for the evening was with the 
royal, select and super-excellent degrees, with 
full ceremonies. The officers of Boston Coun- 
cil conferred the royal master degree in a most 
perfect and impressive manner, and the select 
and super-e.xcellent degrees were conferred by 
Hiram Council. After the work, a ban- 
quet was served in the upper hall, Th. 111. Gr. 
Master Frank A. Beane presiding, and 
speeches were made by M. IlL Gr. M., D. W. 
Jones, Th. 111. M., E. Bentley Young, Rev. 
John W. Dadmund, and Recorder Alfred F. 
Chapman. 

Worcester could not entertain the Methodist 
conference, again this year, but last Thursday 
evening it had the opportunity to entertain 
one of the bishops of the Methodist church, 
which was the next thing to it. The Worcester 
Methodist Social Union had charge of the 
affair, and tendered to Bishop William Xavier 
Ninde, at Trinity church, a reception which 
was attended by a large proportion of the 
prominent Methodists of the city. The pleas- 
ant vestry of the church was turned into a ban- 
quet room, and five long tables, beside that at 
the head, were filled. After the necessary pre- 
liminary to all such communions of kindred 
souls, the banquet. Dr. Emerson Warner, the 
president of the L'nion, made a very pleasant 
speech of introduction, and Bishop Ninde 
arose amid applause. The Bishop is rather 
tall, inclined to stoutness, and has a face which 
speaks of a gentle and truly Christian nature. 
In what he said, his earnest spirit was ap- 
parent. He talked more about Christian 
brotherhood than he did about the Methodist 
church, although he did not neglect that, by 
any means, and he infused no little fun into his 
remarks. He said some very good things. 
"The Christian church is the greatest thing on 
earth." "The Christian church has its pick of 
the intelligence, enterprise and thrift of the 
land — no denomination in particular but the 
church catholic." "When we reach our faith 
and hope, the church of God is substantially 
one." "If I was asked to define the spirit of 
the Methodist church — and every church has 
its spirit — I should say that it has always 
placed a peculiar emphasis upon the emo- 
tional side of religion." "The Methodist 
church has always accentuated what I call the 
community idea. It has always insisted on 
coming to the heart of the people." "It is the 
richest church in the land : it is gathering in 
the poor boys whom nobody wants, whom no- 
body cares about, and it is making men of 
them." "The dominating spirit of the church 
is a restless aggressiveness." "Finally, the 
mission of the Methodist church is to do good 
in all possible ways." Speeches were also 
made by Presiding Elders George S. Chad- 
bourne, of the Boston district, John H. Mans- 
field, of the Lynn district and George F. Ea- 
ton of the Springfield district. The Bishop was 
presented with a bouquet of arbutus by Miss 
Edith Kinney. Miss Camille M. Clark sang 
vocal solos and there was also congregational 
singing. Those present included Rev. W. H. 
Thomas, D. D., Rev. John Galbraith, Rev. 
Henry Dorr, Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, 



Rev. J. O. Knowles, D. D., Rev. 
H. W. Eklund, Rev. Victor Witting, Rev. 
J. F. Pomeroy of Northampton, Hon. C. C. 
Corbin of Webster, Alfred S. Roe, Dwight 
Smith, Charles W. Wood, Henry H. Hough- 
ton, Charles H. Carpenter, Ira G. Blake, A. B. 
F. Kinney, Charles E. Morse, Charles O. 
Richardson, Albert Tuson, A. M. Thompson, 
Charles L. Clark, Joseph K. Greene, Charles 
W. Delano, Rev. V. M. Simons, P. Foster 
White, C. W. Russell, Henry D. Barber, 
Aaron Sampson, Alexander McGregor, Wil- 
liam Tabor, B. G. Luther, C. S. Goddard, A. 
W. Chapin, W. B. Fay, Dr. F. E. Lampson, 
Arthur E. Dennis, J. R. Bartlett, W. H. Bur- 
bank and others. 



Mr. Harry Allen took part in a musical en- 
tertainment which was given at Millbury, Tues- 
day evening. 

The Worcester Continentals tendered to 
their chaplain. Rev. M. H. Harris, and Mrs. 
Harris, a reception at their armory, on Friday 
evening of last week, at which there was 
pleasant speech-making and a large amount of 
cordial hand-shaking. Mr. Harris was pre- 
sented with a bronze statue, to serve as a re- 
minder of the friends whom he is about to 
leave. On Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. 
Harris were tendered a complimentary ban- 
quet at All Souls' church, at which there was 
a large gathering. Still another reception was 
given them, Thursday evening, at Ideal Hall, 
by classes 26 and 27 of the First Universalist 
Sunday School. 

Congressman Joseph H. Walker and Mrs. 
Walker arrived home last Thursday, and will 
remain until Monday. 



Miss Flossie Gushing entertained a party of 
friends at her home, 46 Myrtle street, Thursday 
evening, and after a musical program, which 
occupied the first part of the evening, a few 
hands of whist were played. Those present 
included Messrs. Moore, A. P. Shaffer, Wood, 
Walter, Cummings and J. E. Nourse, and 
Misses Flossie Gushing, Mabel A. Wright, 
•Mabel Kibbe, Addie M. Goulding and Mrs. 
Gushing. Refreshments were served and a 
general good time was indulged in. In the 
whist playing, Mr. Shaffer and Miss Gushing 
won the greatest number of points, and Mr. 
Ward and Miss Kibbe the least. 



Rev. Eugene Shippen, a son of Rev. Rush 
R. Shippen, of Washington, formerly pastor of 
the Church of the Unity, will speak in that 
liouse to-morrow morning. 



The friends of Mrs. G. Arthur Adams, the 
wife of the late composer, will be glad to know 
that she has decided to return to Worcester, 
and will be engaged in voice teaching. Mrs. 
Adams is now living in North Brookfield. 
She has had remarkable success as a vocal 
teacher, equal, in fact, to her success as a 
singer. She was engaged several years at 
the Church of the Unity. 

Mr. Alfred Clifford, who has the direction of 
the music for the sendees at the Young Mens 
Christian Association, has arranged to have 
several of the leading choirs of the city heard 
in turn at the Sunday afternoon meetings, each 
singing once each month. The first is the 



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Central Church chorus, which will sing to- 
morrow afternoon, under Mr. Edward N. 
Anderson's direction. The program arranged 
includes four numbers, as follows: anthem, 
"Praise the Lord, O my Soul," Watson, by the 
choir; unaccompained response, "Night Son^," 
Kheinberger, by the choir; duet, "Morning 
Land," Phelps, by Miss Alice B. Hammond 
and Mr. Anderson; anthem, with tenor solo, 
"Seek ye the Lord," Roberts, by Mr. Anderson 
and the choir. Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, 
rector of All Saints' Church, will be the speaker! 
General Secretary McConaughy will lead the 
morning meeting. The next choir to sing at 
the Sunday afternoon service will be that from 
the First Baptist Church, Mr. Charies G. 
Stowell, director: then will come the Pilgrim, 
Church choir, Mr. J. Vernon Butler, director; 
then the Pleasant Street Baptist, Mr. C. C. 
Stearns, director; the Old South, Mr. Thomas 
B. Hamilton, director; and others in regular 
order. The plan promises well for increasing 
the interest in the meetings. 



Mrs. Thomas B. Hamilton entertained a 
party of 20 or 30 musical friends, at his resi- 
dence, 31 Oread street, Thursday evening. 
Music and sociability occupied the time. 

A notable meeting of Stella Chapter, Order 
of the Eastern Star, was held last Thursday 
evening, when eight of the Past Matrons were 
presented with jewels. Grand Secretary' 
Daniel Seagrave made the address of presen- 
tation, and the recipients of the jewels were: 
Mrs. Ardelia L. Pond, Mrs. M. H. Parker, Miss 
Sarah M. Cowen, Mrs. M. O. Davis, Mrs. M. 
H. Black, Mrs. H. Amelia Rawson, Mrs. 
Emma B. Gates, Mrs. Anna B. Harrington. 
Past Worthy Patrons Daniel Seagrave, H. A. 
Richardson. W. A. Farnsworth, J. M. Barton, 
H. A. Southwick and Fordis O. Bushnell and 
Worthy Patron Cyrus Stickney were presented 
with bouquets by Past Worthy Matron A. L. 
Pond. 



Mr. James H. Cafferty is now permanently 
located with S. R. Leland & Son. 



Circulars have been privately sent out among 
the Masonic fraternity of Worcester, looking 
to the organization of a Worcester tribe of the 
Improved Order of Red Men, to be composed 
entirely of Masons. A meeting will be held 
at Continental Hall, Wednesday evening, at 
which the new tribe will probably be formed. 
The prime movers in the plan are James K. 
Odell, Chief of Records Benjamin Rowell, and 
(^.rand Prophet Judge Wright, of Hobomok 
Tribe, of Boston, which is composed entirely 
of Masons. 

Miss Villroy Goulding has been in Boston 
and with relatives at Jamaica Plain, for two or 
three days, this week. 



The Arlington Club held its seventh annual 
dinner at the Bay State House, Thursday 
evening, and enjoyed a fine spread and a so- 
cial gathering. Those present were : President 
J. William Patston, Vice-President Herbert P. 
Hopkins, Secretaiy Fred D. Sibley, Directors 
George F. Barnard, John A. Lake and W. H. 
Goodell, Messrs. Roland. C. Finley, Arthur E. 
Davis, B. M. Scott, Walter D. Burbank, Lin- 
wood Robinson, Frank Tracy, Albert Hyde, 
Albert H. Lange, Charies W. Newhall, Henry 



Kindred, F. S. Fay, Edmund F. Capron, Fred 
S. Dickie, Arthur B. Weixler, C. Harry Morse, ' 
A. \'. Chase, Arthur Pritchard, V. W. Horton, 
Lewis A. Colvin, William F. Robinson, Hiram 
N. Cudworth, (k'orge M. Bassett and F. M 
Clark, Jr. 

The Worcester Congregational Club held its 
regular April meeting at Association Hall, 
Monday evening, and diacus.sed the subject of 
"Free Pews." Mr. Howard A. Bridgman, of 
the C(Wj';rc«//'(«/rt//j/, sustained the affirmative 
and Burton W. Poller, Esq., of this city, spoke 
in the negative. President Arthur M. Stone 
occupied the chair. 

The youthful students of Mrs. Morgans' 
kindergarten are arranging for a presentation 
of the "Fairy Masque," from the Midsummer 
Night's Dream. The beautiful scene has been 
expressly arranged for the occasion by Mrs. J. 
C. Cutter. The May pole dance and the braid- 
ing of the pole will bring into action fifty 
children. The incidental music will be sung 
by several prominent Worcester artists. 

Verdi, and not Jacobowski, is popularly 
supposed to have written "Ernani," the opera 
presented by the Emma Abbott Concert Com- 
pany at Mechanics Hall, last evening; but 
that had no effect on a young lady who went 
into Gorham's after the opening of the ticket 
sale, last Tuesday, and laid down a half dollar 
with the remark : "Please give me one of the 
best seats for 'Erminie.' " "The Two Thieves" 
had stolen away her wits. 



Mr. Will D. B. Mead, assistant secretary of 
the Young Mens Christian Association, went 
to his home in Pittsfield last Thursday and will 
return Monday. 

Councilman and Mrs. Henrj- G. Taft spent 
last Sunday in Upton. 



Mr. Caleb A. Wall's address at Pilgrim Hall, 
next Monday evening, on "The South End of 
Long Ago," will comprise an account of the 
first settlers and old farms in that section, with 
a contrast of the former times with the present, 
in illustration of the remarkable changes and 
progress of the last fifty years. 



Rev. H. W. Eklund, pastor of the Thomas 
Street Swedish M. E. Church, is to preach at 
the Scandinavian mission in Gardner, next 
Wednesday evening. 



The third and last entertainment for the ben- 
efit of Pilgrim Gymnasium is to be held in Pil" 
grim Hall on the evening of May 6. There 
are to be solos by popular male vocalists, fine 
orchestral selections, cornet, flute and violin 
numbers, and an exhibition of gymnastic work 
and pyramid building by Prof. Havener and 
pupils. Prof. Havener is also to swing the 
Indian clubs in a character costume which is 
a novel affair, and he will be accompanied by 
the entire orchestra. It is intended to make 
this, the closing affair, an unusually interesting 
event. 



Messrs. Eugene Van de Mark, W. H. Moul- 
ton and Charles S. Southworth constitute a 
committee having in charge arrangements for 
the annual picnic of the Piedmont Sabbath 
School. It will be held during the first week 
of July, but no place has yet been selected. 



Some Pretty Pictures. 

The usual "members' night" ushered in the 
tenth annual exhibition of the Art Students' 
Club, last Monday, and the cosy rooms of the 
club in Walker building were filled with the 
members and their friends, who united in a 
very social way and made it pleasant for every- 
body. The rooms were crowded from 8 to lo 
o'clock and everybody seemed sorry to go 
away. Almost at the first, on going in, I had 
a cordial welcome from Mrs. Freeland, who 
always makes a visitor feel at home, at once, 
and a little later 1 had a chance to congratu- 
the the officers and some of the members. 

The decoration committee, I thought, de- 
served especial praise for giving the visitor a 
pleasant "first impression." Rugs and tapes- 
tries and portiires were used about the walls 
and mantels, and the room had a centre of 
potted plants, with seats conveniently ranged 
about. Mrs. Munger, Miss Kinsley, Mr. Sim- 
mons, Prof. Gladwin and Mr. O'Connor did 
the work, and one of them said to me that 
Miss Smith, of Harvard street, and Mr. 
Swartz, with A. F. Burbank & Co., deserved 
thanks for the loan of the articles. 

The hanging committee followed the usual 
plan in the distribution of the pictures, nearly 
all of which were framed, this time. The 
water colors were given the east wall, while 
the oils occupied the other sides of the room, 
and Mrs. Getchell's etchings had their accus- 
tomed place between the windows. 

I took the catalogue and made my way about 
to look at the pictures, but there were were so 
many people there that I concluded to wait 
until the next day before scrutinizing care- 
fully, and accordingly I went in Tuesday 
morning and looked at them in the reposeful 
daylight. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the "mem- 
bers' night" gathering very much. Quite a 
number of members who have done good 
work for the club, in the past, were there. I 
noticed Mr. Frederick A. McClure and Mr. 
Charles S. Hale, formerly a president of the 
club. Rev. Austin S. Garver and Col. Ed- 
ward B. Glasgow, both actively interested in 
art matters, and Mr. Ben T. Hammond, were 
also present. I did not attempt to catalogue 
the members. They were all there. 

After looking at all the pictures and remem- 
bering past exhibits, it seems to me that there 
has been a decided improvement in many re- 
spects. Of course, there are pictures on the 
walls which could have been spared, but even 
these, so far as they indicate that the painter 
is striving for something greater, are not to be 
wholly despised. There are twenty-eight ex- 
hibitors this year, against twenty-six last year 
and twenty-five in 1888. Mr. W. T. Hunt 
shows ten pictures, the largest number credited 
to any one exhibitor, and from that number 
they vary down to Mr. Eben Harrington's 
single entry. 

There are several new exhibitors, and in 
looking over my catalogues of past years, 
which I have preserved as pleasant souvenirs, 
I find that there is about the same number of 
new ones every year, while several drop out. 
Of course, there are some, like Mrs. Freeland 
and Mr. Hunt, who continue uninterruptedly. 
Now, in 1888, John W. Adams, Martha Aid- 
rich, F. S. Bartholomew, L. F. Chew, Charles 
S. Hale, A. E. Jenkins of Shrewsbury, Mary 



LI(i HT 

E. Joslyn of Leicester, Kate W. MuUiken and 
Annie N. Sinclair exhibited and they did not 
show a picture a year ago nor have they re- 
turned this year. Last year there were Edith 
E. Baldwin, Grace M. Chamberlain, Mrs. W. 
J. Estey, Frederick A. McClure and Ida M. 
Thayer, and they have no entries this time. 
On the other hand, there are seven new exhib- 
itors, Mr. Addison L. Bemis, Miss Sadie K. 
Chandler, Miss Elizabeth A. Kent, Mrs. 
Daniel Merriman, Dr. L. M. Nason, Mr. 
Eugene A. O'Connor and Miss Julia Perrin of 
Boston. 

As soon as I had glanced at the catalogue, I 
felt a disappointment in not seeing Mr. Mc- 
Clure 's name. I was not surprised, for he had 
told me that he has been too busy to do much 
with his brush, lately ; but I hoped he might 
relent and show something. He has shown 
some of the best pictures ever produced in the 
club, in the past, and I hope he will return to 
the ranks of the exhibitors next year. I 
thought, also, that perhaps Mr. Hale might 
put in something this time. 

There are a great many very interesting pic- 
tures, chiefly landscape and still life. I turned 
to Mrs. Freeland's "Portrait of Baby Mc- 
Clure" almost at the first. It is a pastel, and 
makes a charming picture. The subject is Mr. 
McClure's little daughter Evelyn, a very sweet 
little lady whom Mrs. Freeland has presented 
in a portrait that enlisted my liking at once. 
Mrs. Freeland also has two pictures of chrys- 
anthemums, one a small panel and the other a 
large canvas. They are the best chrysanthe- 
mums I have seen painted for a long time — 
realy spiky, you know, and looking as if they 
grew there. I was amused to hear one critic 
who intended well, and wanted to say some- 
thing nice about them, remark that she "could 
almost smell their fragrance," but then, she 
was not a floriculturist, and didn't know that 
the "Autumn Queen" lacks perfume. Beside 
these, Mrs. Freeland has a large canvas of 
laurel, and although I never liked those great 
clusters of bloom, I had to admire Mrs. Free- 
land's work, particularly for the faithful color, 
not the easiest in the world to get. Out in the 
library room, Mrs. Freeland shows some 
pretty tiles for a fire-place, done in blue min- 
eral color, with bits of landscape, a dog's head 
and similar objects. That makes me think 
that I missed the picture by which she usually 
shows us that she loves the dumb creation. 

Miss Jeanie Lea Southwick,whois the presi- 
dent of the club, has nine water colors, nearly 
all of which are "down-east" scenes — shore 
and harbor pictures. I liked "Behind the 
House" rather more than I did the rest, 
although the "Wreck of the Nile," a picture 
of a dismantled bark on the shore, was good. 
As for "Racing," representing two yachts, I 
wish she had puffed out the sails with a capful 
of wind, and even heeled them over a little. 
They have too much the appearance of being 
at anchor. 

Mr. Henry Woodward's pictures are small 
water-colors, of which I liked "On the North 
Shore" best. The "Coast Rocks at Nantas- 
ket" aren't bad, either. 

Mr. Eben Harrington's trout is a thoroughly 
interesting and creditable piece of work. It 
represents the fish in the water, and the water 
itself is admirably painted, while the fish, in 
color and detail, is finely done. 



Miss Miriam Washburn's "Easter Lilies" 
and "Malaga and Concord Grapes" (oils) are 
striking pictures, and I liked them both. I 
thought that in the latter there might have 
been a trifle more careful work in detail, 
though the network of vines is perfect. Her 
"Chrysanthemums," (water color) are in dark 
colors and do not compare with the oils. 

Miss Carrie A. Williams has four oils, three 
of them catalogued as "Still Life," and all 
three suggest luncheon. I was struck by the 
large number of "eatables" painted for this e.\- 
hibition, and with the very suggestive looking 
mugs and glasses which hinted of Bacchana- 
lian revels ; for, beside Miss Williams, Mr. 
Bemis, Miss Hildreth and Miss Dickinson had 
pictures of viands of one sort or another. 
Miss Williams had a very good plate of cake, 
and wine to accompany it, then a picture of 
oranges, candy and nuts, and a box of cigars, 
a tray and a mug of beer. The latter was the 
best both in color and design, and was really 
an excellent picture. Miss Williams's fourth 
picture was a study of azaleas. 

Two pictures by Miss Anne W. Munger 
pleased me very much. One was "Rain 
Flowers," a string of umbrellas of various 
stages of dilapidation, on a line, as if hung out 
to dry. For a picture offering small oppor- 
tunity for color, it was particularly effective. 
The other one, which pleased me even more, 
because I knew something about the subject, 
was a picture of "Zil." "Zil" is a very green 
and very lively parrot owned by Miss Mabel 
Bradford. Whether it gets along well with 
the kittens I don't know. Mr. Gomes brought 
it to Worcester from South America, and Mrs. 
Munger has painted agood picture of it. Three 
other pictures by the same hand showed some 
pleasing work. 

Four water colors by Mr. Charles H. Lin- 
coln interested me, particularly the black and 
white drawing, which was a reminder of one 
of the pictures in "The Earl's Return," by Mr. 
W. L. Taylor, which were shown at the club 
rooms some time ago. 

Miss Carrie Carleton Kinsley's pictures 
pleased me greatly. Both are still life studies, , 
the larger one representing two Japanese dolls 
engaged in close conversation, with a teapot in 
the background, and it made a charming little 
fancy. Miss Kinsley's other picture showed 
tulips and a shoe, the tulips especially being 
faithfully done, and the color was the best. 

Miss Carrie A. Hildreth has three credit- 
able pictures, of equal merit, something that is 
worth mentioning, because some artists insist 
on showing inferior pictures with their good 
ones. Miss Hildreth 's lettuce and radishes is 
her best, though the sketch near Peat 
Meadow is also attractive. 

Ten water colors from Mr. W. T. Hunt's 
brush make up the largest single exhibit. 
They are characteristic landscapes, and Mr. 
Hunt has visibly improved. He treats his 
subjects more carefully, and he has a greater 
diversity of ideas than I have noticed in the 
past. I liked the "Edge of the Meadow" as 
well as any. 

Mr. J. H. Greenwood has five oils, four of 
them autumn landscapes, and one credited to 
April. They are in the sombre tints of Au- 
tumn as she dies rather than when she is 
arrayed in purple and gold. Nearly all repay 
one for study. 



Miss Alice Hatliaway Baldwin always paints 
strong pictures and I liked her study of a Gre- 
cian Fraiilein's head as well as any picture on 
the walls. 

Miss Mary Davis, too, believes in quality 
and not quantity. Her four water-colors are 
among the most interesting of all the pictures. 
There is a study of violets, notably good, a 
picture of "Beverly Bridge," a "Study of a 
Rose," and a .sketch of the gateway and en- 
trance to the Green Hill estate. 

Miss .iXnua Ballard has three good oils, and 
a charcoal drawing. An interior study, show- 
ing a trunk and a valise "filled with confu- 
sion," in a garret room, is strong and accurate. 
Mr. Frank J. Darrah shows four oils and 
one water color, in subdued colors. In place of 
"Documents," one of the pictures named in his 
catalogue list, he shows a portrait (study of 
head) of Mrs. Darrah, which is the most inter- 
esting of his pictures. 

Miss Mary E. Bothwell has five oils and two 
charcoal sketches, her study of a head being 
the most pleasing. 

Miss Mabel E. Dickinson's four oils are at- 
tractive pictures, particularly the one with fruit 
and caramels. 

Prof. George E. Gladwin shows two sketches 
of churchyards in Old England, rather lugu- 
brious in subject, and four small sketches, two 
of Provinceton harbor and two of Connecticut 
rocks. 

Two charming etchings, "Salem Dories," a 
dry-point, and "Desolate Companionship," are 
Mrs. Edith Loring Getchell's contributions. 
Her work is always well done and interesting. 
Miss Frances A. Knowlton has five oils, 
two pastels and a charcoal, and the pond lily, 
not catalogued, pleased me most. 

Then the new e.xhibitors. Mr. Addison L. 
Bemis leads the list, alphabetically and other- 
wise. His work is really among the best 
shown. He contributes six oils. The most 
ambitious is a "Study of a Violin," and the 
idea is good, while the draughting is perfect. 
The reproduction of the printed words and a 
cut of Beethoven, as they appear upon the 
sheets of music, is splendidly perfect, the 
foreshortening being geometrically and artis- 
tically correct. The colors are good, too. 
Then Mr. Bemis shows a "Study of the Corn 
Chamber," admirable in color, "A Bit of a 
Lunch," (beer, crackers and sardines), "A 
Cooling Beverage," (pitcher and glasses of 
lemonade), "Oranges and Wine," and "An 
Old Veteran," a strong picture of a brass kettle 
and a pan of doughnuts. In every case, the 
subject is interesting, and the treatment is ex- 
cellent. I think Mr. Bemis will make some 
fine pictures before another e.xhibition reaches 
us. 

Miss Sadie K. Chandler has a well exec- 
uted study of still life, showing a Bible, spec- 
tacles and a skull. "Rather uncanny," a 
young lady friend whispered me, with a shiver; 
but I liked it. Miss Chandler has also two 
clever charcoals. 

Miss Elizabeth A. Kent shows four oils. Dr. 
L. M. Nason has a small oil, "Near Hope 
Cemetery," and Mr. Eugene A. O'Connor 
shows a crayon portrait. Mrs. Dr. Merriman 
shows six pastels, of which I found "The 
First Springlike Day," the most interesting. 

Miss Julia Perrin, of Boston, exhibits a 
number of pieces of decorated china, notably 



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a fish platter and plates. Her work is very 
faithfully and pleasingly done. 

TIius you see it is a very satisfactory exhibi- 
tion, and I only hope Worcester may appre- 
ciate how good a work this Art Students' club 
is doing. I could pick out pictures and find 
fault with them for a page's length, if I 
thought it necessary ; but ctti bono / I shall not 
quarrel with an amateur whom 1 think honest 
and progressive, because he has not learned in 
six months what some of his older brethren of 
the brush have not learned in six years. 

The catalogue, this year, is a joy to the 
visitor. Printed on heavy paper, in good type, 
with wide margins, whereon I found room to 
make many memoranda which will enhance 
its value as a souvenir, it is very neat. Mr. 
Charles S. Hale designed a pretty initial letter 
"Y" for the first page. R. 



About Folks. 



Mr. Charles E. Smith gave a dancing party 
at his residence, 33 Harvard street, on Friday 
evening of last week, and entertained a num- 
ber of friends, including Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
N. Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Potter, 
Eben Francis Thompson, Esq., Mr. Harry S. 
Myrick, Mr. Henry P. Murray, Mr. John B. 
Chamberlin, Mr. George H. Corbett, Mr. 
Charles M. Harrington, Mr. Lawrence P. 
Greenman, Misses Hattie and Nannie Cobb, 
Miss Olive Marble, Miss Amy Murray, Miss 
Minnie Rice, Miss Gertrude Smith, Miss 
Sadie Linell, Miss Louise Upton, Miss Jessie 
Nichols and Miss M. Jennie Barbour. The 
evening was made a pleasant one for all pres- 
ent. 

Mr. Frank 15. Knowles' people have returned 
from Florida. 

The Eureka Whist Club met with Miss 
Sadie A. Hetherington, at her home, 140 
Chandler street, Wednesday evening, and 
after a half hour spent in singing college songs, 
the party sat down to the tables and played 
twenty hands of whist. Those present were 
Misses Sadie A. Hetherington, Emma Mills, 
Grace Peacock, Clara Norton, Emma Buck, 
Grace Green, Cora Wallace, and Ada E. 
Bickford ; Messrs. Edward B. Fish, Arthur 
P. Shaffer, E. D. Miller, Frank Norton, George 
H. Salie, Will Riedl, Walter Cummings and 
Fred W. Hoppin. The first prizes were won 
by Mr. Miller and Miss Mills, and the 
"boobies" by Mr. Salie and Miss Bickford. 

Mr. F. R. Heath talked to the boys at Pil- 
grim Hall, last Monday evening, about "Fig- 
ures." 

Prof. Fred L. Emory, Polytechnic Institute, 
'87, a teacher in the Manual Training depart- 
ment of the High School at Washington, D. 
C, has been appointed superintendent of in- 
dustrial education and drawing at the Massa- 
chusetts Reformatory for Boys, at Warner- 
ville, Mass. He will assume his duties May i. 



A half dozen Worcester people went out to 
Leominster, last Tuesday evening, and gave 
at the Town Hall a concert which drew out the 
best people in the town and was in every way 
a great success. The stage was tastefully de- 
corated with potted plants, and the audience 
was an appreciative one. The program 



opened with an overture, "Harvest Home," by 
Mr". Ernest W. Marshall, violin, Mr. F. W. 
Chaffin, cornet, and Mrs. Cornelia Marshall 
Coxe, piano. Mrs. May Sleeper-Ruggles sang 
in splendid style three songs, "Arabian Song," 
Godard, "Clover Blossoms," Sleeper, and 
"Snowflakes," Cowcn; Mr. Chaffin played a 
a cornet solo, and was encored; Mrs. C. A. 
Merrill and Mrs. Ruggles sang duets, "The 
Angel" and "Song of the Birds," Rubinstein ; 
Mrs. Georgie Bacon Pickett played a piano 
solo, Hummel's "La Belle Capricioso;" and 
Mrs. Merrill sang, with violin obligato by Mr. 
Marshall, (Jounod's "Sing, Smile, Slumlier," 
and Reinecke's "Spring Flowers." The open- 
ing number of part second was a piano trio by 
Mrs. Coxe, Mrs. Pickett and Mrs. Merrill; 
Mrs. Ruggles sang Glover's "Chalet Horn," 
with cornet obligato by Mr. Chafiin, and was 
called upon to repeat it ; Mrs. Merrill sang de- 
lightfully a polonaise from Ambroise Thomas's 
"Mignon," and, for an encore, wliich was de- 
manded, Cowen's "Is my lover on the sea?" 
Mr. Marshall played a violin solo from "Tann- 
hauser, and, for an encore, selections from "The 
Beggar Student." Mrs. Merrill and Mrs. 
Ruggles sang Brahms's duet, "The Gypsies," 
and the program closed with a trio by Mr. 
Marshall, Mr. Chaffin and Mrs. Coxe. 



Mr. Charles H. Morgan was among the 
Worcester visitors in Boston, last week. 



Mr. Francis P. McLeay's program, at 
Association Hall, next Thursday evening, is as 
follows: "The Second Trial," Sarah Winter 
Kellogg; Mark Anthony's oration over the 
dead body of Caesar ; "Uncle Gaul's Idear of 
a Steamboat," Mark Twain and Charles Dud- 
ley Warner; "Hervd Riel," Robert Browning; 
"The Foolish Little Maiden," music by Laura 
S. Collins; "The Kitchen Clock," music by 
John V. Cheney ; Scenes from Shakespeare, 
selected. Mr. Wilson Barrett, for whom Mr. 
McLeay acts as understudy, says of him ; "He 
has dramatic talent of the most remarkable 
order. He had not read four lines when I saw 
it. He has a very fine voice and a delicacy of 
ear that gives him beautiful intonation." 



An entertainment is to be given at Main 
Street Baptist Church, next Thursday evening, 
at which Mr. Tom Walters, Jr., and his "Cock 
Robin" chorus will be a prominent feature. 



LiCHT has previously announced the engage- 
ment of Mr. Charles W. Knight to be the head 
usher at the new theater. His assistants have 
been selected and will be Messrs. Harry S. 
Davis, George E. Burr, H. C. Boyden, A. G. 
Walker, William H. Cunningham and F. L. 
Hazelton. 

Mr. Henry Grey, of the Worcester Steel 
Works, has returned home after a two months 
trip abroad. 

The promenade concert and ball, compli- 
mentary to the Natives of Maine, to be given 
at Horticultural Hall, next Friday evening, 
under the management of Mr. George W. 
Hubbard, is designed to call out a gathering of 
Pine Tree folks which shall make up in num- 
bers what the annual reunion lacked. It prom- 
ises to be a very pleasant occasion. The mem- 
bers of the other state associations are invited 
to participate. 



About Folks. 



Mr. E. C. A. Becker starts to-day for an ex- 
tended trip of rest. He will visit his parents 
in Peoria, 111., and stop at Canton, Ohio, for a 
few days, returning by way of Wheeling, Cum* 
berland. Harper's Ferry, Washington, Balti- 
more and Philadelphia. The trip will occupy 
two weeks. 



The Massachusetts Division, League of 
Amerian Wheelmen, will hold its annual meet, 
in Worcester, on Decoration Day. The Wor- 
cester wheelmen will entertain the visitors by 
a rousing meeting, at the rink, in the evening 
There will be club runs from Boston, returning 
the following day. A grand parade will be 
the great feature of the day. 



Messrs. Holland & Havener have arranged a 
special room for the teaching of ladies to ride 
the new ladies' safety bicycle. The same par- 
ties will open a summer branch at Cottage City 
in June, and will add a swimming school for 
both sexes. 



The Elberon Orchestral Club, assisted by 
Mrs. H. M. Johnson, soprano, Mrs. H. A- 
Hancox, alto, Mr. W. F. Little, tenor, and Mr. 
C. G. Marshall, baritone, will give a concert in 
Millbury on May 8, at the First Congrega- 
tional Church. A fine program has been 
arranged. 

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Wetherbee cele- 
brated their golden wedding, last Thursday, 
and entertained a large number of friends at 
their residence, 20 Grove street. The gifts 
were numerous and approbriate. 

The choirs now singing at the Sunday even- 
ing services at Mechanics Hall have organized 
with the name Temple Choral Society, and 
officers as follows: President, Frank H. 
Beals; vice-president, Jefferson Eaton; libra- 
rian, A. S. Merritt; musical director, C. F. 
Hanson. 



The Cresent Tennis Club is to hold a meet- 
ing with Mr. Frank W. Washburn, 9 Freeland 
street, Monday evening, to discuss plans for 
the season. The club has just erected a neat 
pavilon on its courts, at the corner of Freeland 
and Main streets. 



Mrs. Edward I. Comins, chairman of the 
committee on arts and science, presided at the 
meeting of the Woman's Club, last Wednes- 
day. Mr. Edward H. Forbush, president of 
the Natural History Society, talked about 
"Some of the Birds of Worcester County." 



Mr. A. H. Fisher returned to Worcester a 
day or two ago, after a three months trip from 
home. He has been in New York and has 
also spent some time at the home of his daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Charles A. Chapin, and his grand- 
children, in Hartford. 



The public schools closed yesterday for a 
week's vacation. At the High School the 
marks for the third quarter were given out. 
Principal Roe is to spend his vacation with his 
parents at Fulton, N. Y., and will take his 
little son with him. 



L I d M T 

In the last issue of Light, under the head- 
ing of "Free Masonry in Worcester," the name 
of Dr. Francis Brick was made to read Dr. 
Francis Rich. 

Miss Camille !\LClark is the soprano soloist at 
the People's Church in Boston, again, this year, 
She gave great satisfaction last year and was 
re-engaged as soon as the year closed. 



Rev. I. J. Lansing will exchange pulpits to 
morrow with Rev. George E. Lovejoy of Frank- 
lin. Thursday evening. May 8, Rev Mr. Lan- 
sing is to speak on "Romanism," at Cambridge. 



Miss Grace A. Parker, the daughter of Sen- 
ator Henry L. Parker, has re-entered the Nor- 
mal Art School in Boston, and will attend un- 
til the close of this year. 



Mr. Henry Eddy has received the contract 
for building the new mill of the Fisher Manu- 
facturing company, at Fisherville. It will be 
of brick, four stories high, 172x95 feet. 



Miss M. Lizzie Holbrook has been at home 
for a week or more, from the Framingham 
Normal school, on a vacation. She returns to 
Framingham next Monday. 



Rev. H. H. Kelsey, of Hartford, Conn., a 
brother of Rev. W. S. Kelsey of this city, who 
preached at Union church a week ago last 
Sunday, contributes to this week's Cong7'ega- 
tionalist an opinion on the Christian Endeavor 
Society movement, formed from actual test. 



The pupils of the State Normal school are 
enjoying their mid-term recess, which began 
last Monday. School begins again next Tues- 
day. 

Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., has been entertain- 
ing during a week past Dr. and Mrs. Cutter of 
New York. 

In the sad, sad days to come : 

Sweet West Side Maiden : — What's the 
cost of ice cream per quart? 

Irox-Faced Clerk : — Will you have it 
frozen or chilled ? 

Sweet West Side Maiden : — Frozen, of 
course ! 

Iron-Faced Clerk : — Eight dollars, please. 

"What's the matter, little boy?" asked a 
ministerial looking Worcesterian, of a small 
specimen of youngster, who was nodding on a 
stump in the front yard, "why don't you go to 
bed if you are sleepy i"' 

"Can't," lisped the boy. 

"Why not .'"' inquired the man of cloth. 

"Hain't got no bed !" exclaimed the young- 
ster. 

"No bed to sleep upon!" ejaculated the 
clergyman; "no bed, and your father a Main 
street merchant ? Where is your bed ?" 

"Don't know!" snapped the boy. "The bed- 
stead's being scrubbed, the mattress is on the 
back piazza, the sheets are on the line, and 
the blankets are soaking in camphor. Boo, 
hoo !" 

"Why don't you speak to your father !" 

"Did, but pa daren't say his soul's his own. 
Ma's cleaning house." 

The minister was a married man, and he 
sadly wended his way homeward, answering 
nary a word. 



Forepaugh's great moral show is booked for 
Worcester, sometime in May. This year the 
new management have much enlarged the 
"Wild West," introducing the features known 
as "Custer's Battle" and "Sheridan's Ride." 
And now the good men of Worcester will 
Put five cents in the charity box. 
With a prayer that it may go 
To help the poor in other lands, 

While he spends at Forepaugh's show 
Two dollars and a half in tickets 

To let his children see 
A show he wouldn't miss himself 
For a chest of breakfast tea. 



One of the best methods of cleaning hair 
brushes is to put a full teaspoonf ul of household 
ammonia into a basin of warm water. Dip 
the bristles in and rub briskly with the hand, or 
better still, with another brush. When 
thoroughly cleansed put in the sun to dry 
bristle-side up. Two brushes may be thus 
readily cleansed at once. 



Of Coming Things. 

Saturday, April 26. 
Dewey's Field.— Tech base ball series. '90 vs. '92. 
2 p. m. 

Sunday April 27. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. Arthur Little, D. D., of 
Boston, preaches. 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. 

Salem Street Church.— Rev. George E. Love- 
joy of FrankUn preaches. 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. 

Church of the Unity.— Rev. Eugene Shippen 
preaches. 10.30 a. m. 

Monday, April 28. 
Pilgrim Hall.— Mr. Caleb k. Wall speaks on the 
"The South End of Long Ago." 7.45 p. m. 

Mechanics Hall.— Primrose and West's Minstrels, 
with Lew Dockstader. 7.45 p. m. 

Association Hall.— PubHc meeting of Associated 
Charities. Addresses by Robert Treat Paine and 
others. 

At Mr. Frank W. Washburn's, 9 Freeland 

Street.— Crescent Tennis club meets. 7.30 p. m. 

Tuesday, April 29. 

Continental Hall.— Farmers Institutes, under 

auspices of Bay State Agricultural Society. 10 a. m. 

and 1.30 p. m. 

y. W. C. A., 352 Main Street.— Closing reception 
to the classes. Evening. 

Church of the Unity.— Tea and Musicale. Even- 
ing. 

^Vednesday, April 30. 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
Boston.— Semi-annual meeting of the American An- 
tiquarian Society. 10 a. m. 

At Mr. Ben T. Hammond's Rooms, 452 Main 
Street. — Pupils recital. 8 p. m. 

Thursday, May i. 
Continentai Hall.— Officers and members of the 
Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home of Mas- 
sachusetts meet Worcester ladies. 2 p. m. 

Association Hall.— Readings by Mr. F. P. Mc- 
Leay, of Wilson Barrett's company. 7.45 p. m. 

Curtis Hall.— First Presbyterian Church; installa- 
tion of Rev. Thomas Atkinson. 7.30 p. m. 

Horticultural Hall.— Good Will Lodge of Odd 
Ladies' May party and calico ball. Evening. 

Main Street Baptist Church.— Entertainment. 
Evening. 

Friday, May 2. 
Horticultural Hall.— Complimentary promenade 
concert and ball, for benefit of Natives of Maine organ- 
ization. Evening. 

Tuesday, May 6. 
Pilgrim Hall.— Last entertainment for the benefit 
of the gymnasium. 

Tuesday, May 13. 

Odd Fellows' Hall.— Annual meeting, Grand 

Chapter of Massachusetts, Order of the Eastern Star. 



The Swedes of Worcester. 



BV H. N. ORUP. 



FIRST I'APER. 

In order to form a correct opinion of tlie 
Swedes it is necessary to know sometliing of 
the place tliey come from. Sweden is a large 
country, larger than England, Scotland, Ire- 
land, Belgium and Switzerland com- 
bined. It is very sparsely settled, and only 
four and a half millions inhabit this vast terri- 
tory. This is not owing to emigration, but to 
the position of the country in the extreme 
North. 

Sweden is properly called "The Land of the 
Midnight Sun," for in the northern part it is a 
kingdom where the sun does not set, at least, 
in midsummer, and thus the glory of Eng- 
land's queen is dimmed. Large inland lakes, 
rushing rivers, deep and gloomy forests and 
rugged mountains fill the landscape with an 
abundance of natural scenery, and the lovely 
valleys, where in the short summer-time myri- 
ads of flowers grow, complete the attractions 
this country has to offer tourists. Besides 
this, the air is pure, the nights cool, but not 
chilly, and the changes in the weather few. 
The summer season is too short to make agri- 
culture profitable, and the other natural re- 
sources of the country are not yet developed to 
to any extent. 

The chief industry is agriculture, and the 
majority of the emigrants are farmers who find 
the soil of the Fatherland too unproductive, 
and the taxes too high, to afford them a decent 
living, and prefer the uncultivated plains of 
the Western United States, with the freedom 
and possibilities of advancement, to the un- 
ceasing drudgery and meagre success of their 
native land. 

The efforts of the farmers, who are general- 
ly freeholders, and are represented in the 
"riksdag" (legislature), to lighten their burdens, 
have led to great hardships for the mechanics, 
and the most natural occupation of the people, 
manufacturing, suffers in consequence. There 
is a deplorable lack of enterprise among the 
moneyed men of Sweden, and English capital- 
ists, taking advantage of the situation, have 
been able to accumulate large fortunes by 
judicious investments in mining and lumber, 
as well as in manufacturing. 

Sweden has not a regular landlord system as 
in Ireland, but many of the small farmers 
are dependent upon the owner of some large 
country seat, and must contribute so many 
days of labor each year on the large estate for 
the privilege of tilling their own small patch of 
ground. The Swedes are natural mechanics, 
and in many provinces some industry like 
clock making has been carried on for cen- 
turies, descending from father to son. All of 
these old "grandfather's clocks" keep excellent 
time. 

Of late years attention has been called to 
the Swedish method of manual training known 
as "slojd," and many requests for teachers of 
this method have been sent to Sweden from 
this country,as well as from the South American 

[*Mr. Orup is a skilled mechanic, the foreman of one 
of the large machine shops of Worcester. He is a man 
liberal education, his knowledge of the English language 
being first acquired in the schools of Sweden. Mr. 
Orup has been a resident of Worcester for some eight 
years.— Ed.] 



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republics. It consists in making articles of 
wood or other material without the use of any 
but the most simple tools, depending upon the 
eyes and skill of the hands alone. 

The people who inhabit tliis part of the 
world have, as a natural consequence of their 
surroundings, certain peculiarties of character 
and temperament, and the difficulty of com- 
munication between the different provinces, 
leads to marked contrast between the people. 
In common they are patriotic, fond of knowl- 
edge, love music and poetry, admire art and 
the drama of the highest order. They also 
are somewhat conceited about their strength 
and physical abilities, an opinion fostered dur- 
ing the many years of war in which Gustavus 
Adolphus and Charles XII. led them from one 
victory to another, and it is the' universal 
opinion that Russia would meet witlv"a hot re- 
ception if she were to attack Sweden even 
now. 

The Swedes are fond of convivialty and a 
good time, which sometimes leads them into 
excesses. In later times there has developed 
a certain aversion to manual labor and a de- 
sire to look down upon those who earn their 
bread by the sweat of their brow. In con- 
trast, the people of the Northern provinces 
are patient, slow to anger, but terrible when 
once aroused ; love liberty, and are easily in- 
fluenced for either good or evil. In Southen 
Sweden they are quick tempered, prone to 
find insults where none are intended, conserv- 
ative, and stick to old ways with a remarkable 
tenacity. They all love military display, and 
the Swedish soldiers excited favorable com- 
ment from German officers on their visit to 
Sweden, There is also a marked trait of hos- 
pitality, and a visitor in a Swedish family must 
share their meal were it ever so scanty, and 
failure to do so would be considered a sign of 
ill-breeding. They are also fond of anything 
strong and staple, and when they build a 
house they build it like a ship, of strong tim- 
bers pinned together, afterwards caulked with 
oakum and pitch, so that it will be water and 
air-proof. They are sorely vexed to see the 
way houses are built here, and condemn the 
method. 

The educational advantages of the common 
people in Sweden are not excelled in the w'orld, 
and there are practically none who cannot 
read and write. Higher learning is encour- 
aged, and the universities of Upsala and Lund 
stand among the best in Europe. Art and the 
drama are aided by government appropria- 
tions, and the newspapers are generously pat- 
ronized. 

The State and Church are united in .Sweden, 
and as a result the majority of the people are 
Lutherans, but of late there has been a 
marked increase of dissenters, and there is 
some talk of disestablishment. Religion, or 
rather theology, is taught in the public schools, 
and until within a few years a person who did 
not get confirmed in the State Church, was 
considered as bad as a heathen, and could not 
get a position of trust. 

As in all old countries the rich are few, and 
the poor many, so in Sweden; but the major- 
ity are thrifty and disinclined to appeal to 
charity until every effort has been made to 
support themselves. Drunkenness has been 
the bane of the country ever since a certain 
king, to increase his revenue, established sa_ 



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luons and distilleries everywliere, and allowed 
the farmers to make all the gin they needed 
for home consumption. A reaction has fol- 
lowed, however, and now the temperance 
movement is very strong in Sweden, and as a 
result of this many Swedes in this country are 
stout supporters of the Third Party. When 
under the influence of drink the average 
Swede is apt to be quarrel.some, and ready to 
defend his side of the argument with his fist, 
and the result is a fight in which he is not likely 
to acknowledge himself beaten until he is un- 
able to move his limb.s, as some of "the finest" 
can bear witness. 

There are about 6000 Swedes in the city of 
Worcester, and they have come here so quiet- 
ly and mixed so readily with the rest of the 
population that, were it not for some special 
occasion like the recent fair in Mechanics 
Hall, or the occasional mention of "a Swede" 
after a man's name who's been before Judge 
LUley, they would hardly have been thought 
of. But they came here and began to cut 
their way, and as far as the writer knows, are 
satisfied with the country and obey its laws as 
well as the average citizen. 

They come here for various reasons. There 
is an ancient desire for travel and change of con- 
dition. The home military burden is trouble- 
some to many. Love of libert)' of conscience, 
and common right to vote without property 
qualifications, draws some, but the chief rea- 
son is undoubtedly that some friend has writ- 
ten home, and told about his success through 
hard work, and as hard work is not a draw- 
back to a Swede, he comes, too, to try what 
he can do. And he generally does try; tries 
hard, and is rewarded according to the gener- 
osity of his employers. 

The Swedes recognize the fact that the 
LInited States is the best country for the work- 
ingman, and the majority are workingmen. 
They may be imposed upon sometimes, and 
they feel that justice is not always accorded 
them, but they are grateful for the kind recep- 
tion they have received from the Americans, 
and have not come here to rule, but to work. 
They do not wish to swell the lists of tramps, 
and being unacquainted with the language, 
have to put up with what they can get rather 
than be a burden" to their friends or to the 
community. 

At first the Swedes worked in the wire- 
mills, but of late years there has been a desire 
among manufacturers to try the skill of Swede 
mechanics, and the results have been satisfac- 
tory to both parties, and now-a-days we find 
Swedish machinists, cabinet-makers, black- 
smiths, painters, printers, and, in fact, every 
industry in Worcester has some Swedes en- 
gaged in it. Even positions requiring a lib- 
eral education are filled by Swedes, and many 
of the larger stores employ Swedish clerks. 
They have also gone into business and have 
two co-operative grocery stores, besides in- 
dividual stores, of which that of Mr. Trulson, 
at Lincoln Square, is the oldest. 



True happiness consists not in the multitude 
of friends, but in the worth and choice. — Ben 
Jonson. 

Every individual who has work to do in this 
world, and does it, needs a vacation. — Dr, 
Helmuth. 



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About Folks. 



Rev. William S. Kelsey, who, since coming 
to Worcester, has made himself known as one 
of the most efficient workers connected with 
the YoungPeople's Christian Endeavor socie- 
ties, is to read a paper at the first annual meet- 
ing of the count)' societies, to be held in Gard- 
ner, May 6 and 7. 

Another of the series of recitals by Worces- 
ter County Music School pupils was given 
Friday evening, the 17th, by Miss Nellie M. 
Tucker, pianist, assisted by Miss Sadie C. 
Hooker, alto. Miss Hattie L. Bruce, soprano, 
and Mr. Ewald Weiss, violinist. Miss Tucker 
played three numbers, including a sonata for 
pianoforte and violin (Rubinstein), and was 
successful in a notable degree. The pupils 
assisting also came in for a share of the 
praise. 

Mr. John S. Lewis, formerly teller at the 
People's Savings Bank, can now eat terrapin. 
He has become an alderman out in the wild 
and woolly west, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 



There were fewer visitors than usual in Wor- 
cester pulpits, last Sunday, although there were 
several services of special interest. Sam Small 
(nobody thinks to call him "Reverend," al- 
though he is a clergyman) was the notable 
stranger within the gates, and he preached at 
the Pleasant Street Baptist church in the morn- 
ing and at the First Baptist in the evening, be- 
side giving his address at the Rink in the after- 
noon. Rev. C. F. Lewis of Andover preached 
to the Free Baptists. All the Congregational 
pastors occupied their own pulpits; and Rev. 
E. B. Webb, D. D., of Wellesley, preached at 
Plymouth church. Mr. Rufus ^L Taft, the 
State Evangelist, conducted the services at 
Lake View. The Methodist pastors were 
back from Worcester, in their own pulpits, 
with the exception of Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. 
D., who preached in Boston, while Rev. E. M. 
Taylor of that city occupied the pulpit of Trin- 
ity church. Rev. Francis Tiffany of Boston 
spoke at the Church of the Unity on Indian 
mission work. Rev. M. H. Harris preached to 
the Worcester Continentals at the First Univ- 
ersalist church, in the evening. 



Miss Amy Murray, a member of the Janu- 
ary class of the State Normal School, has 
joined the ranks of the teachers. Her school 
is at "Harback," in the town of Sutton. 



Mrs. Cutter's Shakespearian classes have in 
preparation "The Merchant of Venice," which 
they will present at Horticultural Hall, some 
evening next month. The performance will be 
in the form of a parlor entertainment. The 
recital will be interesting in that it will bring 
out the thorough methods of Mrs. Cutter's 
plan of Shakesperian study. 



Park Commissioner O. B. Hadwen, follow- 
ing his custom of several years standing, has 
given the class of '90, of the Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute, a class tree. The tree is a 
handsome young elm (Ulmus Americanus, 
as they would say on Boston Common,) 
and it was planted last Monday, near the 
north entrance to the 1 nstitute grounds, hav- 
ing a place next to '88's tree. Mr. Hadwen 



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not only furnished the tree, but set it out as 
well, all the class had to do being to dig a 
hole for it. The class is planning something 
unusually elaborate for a class day celebra- 
tion. The Worcester Brass Band has been 
engaged to furnish the music. 



The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tennis 
association has elected as officers: President, 
A. B. Larcher, 'go ; vice president, Fred A. 
Bigelow, '91 ; secretary and treasurer, Frank 
E.Bradford, 91. The season will soon open in 
earnest, if weather continues favorable. 



Miss Mabel G. Merrill entertained at her 
home. No. 14 Bowdoin street, on Friday even- 
ing of last week, a party of friends who meet 
regularly for social whist playing, and the 
evening \yas an enjoyable one for all present. 
The party included Misses Mabel G. Merrill, 
Alice B. Hammond, Alice M. Watson, Cora 
J. Goodwin, Helen R. Merrill and Alice Mer- 
rill, and Messrs. Harry L. Dadmun, Henry J. 
Kettell, Fred A. Bigelow, Foster H. Goodwin, 
Frank E. Buxton and Frank B. Hall. This 
gave occupants for three tables, and 21 hands 
were played. The first prize for ladies was 
taken by Miss Hammond, and the first for 
gentlemen by Mr. Goodwin. The "boobies" 
were won by Miss Watson and Mr. Buxton. 
The party will be entertained by Miss Wat- 
son, next Tuesday evening. 



Light has received one of the handsomest 
business publications issued in Worcester — 
Mr. James Draper's catalogue for 1890. In ad- 
dition to an extensive list of his productions, 
illustrated by many fine photographs, Mr. 
Draper gives some valuable advice about the 
setting out and care of plants and fruit trees 
that will be much appreciated at this season. 



"The babies in our block" are housed un- 
der one roof, and there they hold high jinks to 
the music of an electrical organ, and the 
merry laughs of the sight-seers, who promen- 
ade the broad aisles of the Rink, in which are 
exhibited 200 babies of all nations, sizes, 
colors and dispositions. Two hundred mamas 
are rocking the future presidents and presi- 
dents' wives, and the lullaby song drowns the 
waking cries of the little ones who appear as 
much at home as in the cradles of the sitting- 
room. There are pretty babies, some very, 
very pretty, sweet little things who know no 
sorrow save an occasonal drought in the milk 
supply. Infantile sunshine is there in the 
beauty of its innocence. It is an exhibition 
worth seeing and one which is being seen. 



Think of it ! A Worcester print called him 
James Boyle O'Reilly, last Tuesday. Such is 
fame. 

Miss Mary Howe is to sing in Fitchburg, 
Monday evening, and at the Apollo Club con- 
cert in Boston, Wednesday, April 30. At the 
latter, which is one of the notable events of 
Boston's musical year, she will sing Alabieff's 
"Nightingale" song, and a melody from A. 
Barthe's opera, "La Financee d' Abydos," a 
charming thing. Miss Howe is to be one of 
the leading artists at the second festival of the 
Hampden County Musical Association, which 
takes place week after next. At the concert of 
Monday afternoon. May 5, she will sing the 



"Mad Scene" from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lam- 
mermoor"and Benedict's "Carnival of Venice," 
and at the fourth concert, Tuesday evening, 
May 6, her numbers will be Delibes' "Indian 
Bell Song" in "Laknr.e" and the song "Char- 
mant Oiseau" (Thou Brilliant Bird) from 
David's "Perle de Bresil." 



The Springfield festival, by the way. May 5, 
6, and 7, will probably have a number of Wor- 
cester attendants. The scheme as announced 
includes six concerts, and the vocal artists are 
Miss Mary Howe, Mrs.Corinne Moore- Lawson, 
Mrs. Jennie Patrick Walker, Miss Charlotte 
Walker, Miss Rachel B.Jacobs, soprani. Miss 
Alice S. Lincoln, Miss Gertrude Edmunds, 
contralti, William J. Winch, Thomas L. Cush. 
man, tenori, Gardner S. Lamson, baritone, 
Myron W. Whitney, George R. Bond, bass. 
In most of these, Worcester festival-goers will 
recognize old friends. The first concert, 
Monday afternoon, May 5, will have a miscel- 
laneous program, Miss Howe singing, as pre- 
viously mentioned, and Victor Herbert will ap- 
pear as solo cellist. The other numbers are 
orchestral. The evening concert will present 
J. C. D. Parker's sacred cantata, "St. John," 
which the composer himself will conduct, and 
also Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise." The 
Tuesday atternoon and evening concerts will 
have miscellaneous programs, and the Wed- 
nesday afternoon concert will be similarly ar- 
ranged for the first part, the second part being 
Beethoven's Symphony, No. 5, in C Minor. 
The piece de resistance, to be presented as the 
last concert, Wednesday evening, will be 
Gounod's "Redemption." 



Worcester is showing up pretty well in Con- 
gress, just now. Congressman Walker has 
come to be recognized as one of the ablest 
financial statesmen ever seated in the house. 
Senator Hoar had a brush with Senator Vance 
during the debate on the Montana elections, 
last week, and came out several points ahead, 
making some particularly witty and effective 
remarks. 

Mr. William Ludwig, the great baritone, 
was in town last Monday, the guest of Mr: Ben 
T. Hammoid. He had some thought of ar- 
ranging for a Worcester concert, but will not 
undertake it, for the present, at least. 



Mr. J. Edwin Smith is building a handsome 
summer residence at St. George, Me. 



Tuesday was rhetorical day at the High 
School, and the exercises at the hall were 
more than usually interesting. Miss Mary L. 
Clark read an excellent essay on Webster's 
first Bunker Hill address; Mr. Herbert C. 
Lakin gave a thoroughly appreciative estimate 
of Sir Richard Steele, and Miss Annie M. 
Lawrence played a piano solo, "Ripples of 
the Ocean." All are pupils of the senior 
year. 

The Builders' Exchange of Worcester will 
hold its second annual banquet, at the Bay 
State House, on the evening of May 7th. The 
reunion will be under the direction of the fol- 
lowing committees : Messrs. H. W. Eddy, 
C. D. Morse, O. S. Kendall, J. T. Darling, 
Horace Griffin; banquet committee, George 
W. Carr, George D. Webb, J. E. Benchley, 
George Bouchard, secretary. 



Minister Washburn. 

When the whirlgig of Tiiiie brought in his 
revenges, about a year ago, and the adminis. 
tration of affairs at Washington changed 
hands, Worcester confidently expected to draw 
something more than a blank, in the distribu- 
tion of political rewards. The expectation 
had a more satisfactory sequel than many 
political expectations have— it materialized. 

In fact, one of President Harrison's earliest 
nominations, affecting the diplomatic corps, 
was that of John D. Washburn, of Worcester, 
to be Minister Resident and Consul General of 
the United States to Switzerland. The Asso- 
ciated Press wire ticked off the news of the 
nomination, in Worcester, on the nth of 
March, 18S9, and the next day, as a matter of 
course, came the report that the nomination 
had been confirmed by the senate. 

The appointment came as a very pleasant 
surprise to Col. Washburn's many friends. 
While there had been a feeling that Worces- 
ter would have one of the first honors, it was 
not known who the favored citizen was to be, 
and the announcement that Col. Washburn 
had been selected for the Swiss mission was 
not only pleasing to his friends, but aroused a 
feeling of pride in his fellow citizens, who 
could hardly feel otherwise than pleased that 
one of their number should be thus honored. 

Our newly-appointed mini.ster went to Wash- 
ington for presentation at the White House, 
and soon after receiving his papers, proceeded 
to Switzerland, where he took up his official 
residence at Berne, the capital city of the 
sturdy little republic. Last fall he came home 
for a short visit, looking as if life under the 
shadow of the Alps fully agreed with him, 
and he has also in mind a similar visit home 
before the end of the present year. 

A more agreeable post in the foreign field 
could hardly have been selected for Col. 
Washburn. Lacking the glamour and gilding 
of life at some of the courts of European 
monarchs, it offered what his friends knew 
would be especially pleasing to him, a resi- 
dence in a picturesque land, among a most in- 
teresting people and affording some oppor- 
tunity for the studies and pursuits of literature 
in which he is known to delight. The pro- 
gression of his life through fifty-seven years 
past has been such as to incline him to a life 
of this sort. 

John Davis Washburn was born in the 
Athens of America, on the 27th of March, 
1833, the son of John Marshall Washburn and 
Harriet Washburn. His residence in Boston, 
however, was short, for when he was five 
years old his people removed with him to Lan- 
caster. 

He must have taken to his booliis as nat- 
urally as he probably did to fire-crackers or 
other youthful diversions. At any rate, he 
was a very bright boy in his studies, and after 
passing through the preliminary courses which 
are in such cases made and provided, he en- 
tered Harvard LTniversity, whence he was duly 
and honorably graduated with the class of 

He had chosen for his profession the law, 
and, with the enthusiasm of a young man at 
twenty, entered at once upon the study of 
those valuable treatises wdiich, bound in 
sheepskin, make such an imposing array upon 



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the shelves of a legal library. Studying first 
with Governor Emory Washburn and Hon. 
George F. Hoar, Mr. Washburn made his way 
steadily upward. He received his diploma 
from the Harvard Law School in 1856, and 
during that same year was admitted to the 
Worcester bar. 

Mr. Washburn was now himself a practi- 
tioner, and he entered into partnership with 
Hon. H. C. Rice. When, however, Worcester 
furnished Massuchusettsonc of the best of her 
line of governors, and Alexander Hamilton 
Bullock became the occupant of the guberna- 
torial chair, in 1S66, Mr. Washburn succeeded 
to Mr. Bullock's insurance business. Gov. 
Bullock had a very fine insurance business, 
acting as a general agent and attorney, and 
into this Mr. Washburn entered very success- 
fully. 

Governor Bullock, also, made him his chief 
of staff during the three years of his service at 
the State House, and hence he became Col. 
Washburn. 

Col. Washburn pursued his business with 
great success, and, as time went by, was called 
upon to fill important positions in the service 
of public institutions. In politics, Col. Wash- 
burn was, naturally, an adherent of the repub- 
lican party. He served three years in the 
legislature, in the house, from 1876 to 1S79, 
and in 18S4 was elected to the senate. 

Col. Washburn's natural kindness of heart 
has always led him to take an active interest 
in all efforts for the alleviation of suffering 
and for the care of the unfortunate. This was 
recognized in his selection as a trustee of the 
Worcester Lunatic Hospital, a position which 
he filled from 1S71 to 18S1 ; and he also had 
a like interest in the Massachusetts School 
for the Feeble Minded, from 1875 to 18S5. 

In his business relations. Col. Washburn's 
judgment seems to have been long sought and 
highly esteemed. As a member of the Board 
of Investment of the Worcester County Insti- 
tution for Savings, for many years, and also 
as a trustee and treasurer of the Washburn 
Memorial Hospital, he has rendered valuable 
service. From 1866 to 18S0. also, he was one 
the directors of the Citizens' National Bank, and 
as a director of the Merchants and Farmers' 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he 
became a director in 1862, he rendered such 
service that in 18S3, on the death of Hon. Isaac 
Uavis, he succeeded to the presidency of the 
company. 

Col. Washburn's inclination toward the pur- 
suits of learning has already been hinted at. 
Finding himself comfortably situated in the 
world, with a lucrative business, he allowed 
himself those diversions in which a cultivated 
gentleman would be most apt to indulge. 
Since 1S71, Col. Washburn has been a coun- 
cillor and the secretary of the American .'An- 
tiquarian Society. He is also a councillor of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, an 
original member of the American Historical 
Association, and, since 1SS4, he has been a 
corresponding member of the Georgia Histori- 
cal Society. 

Harvard L'niversity has also honored a 
worthy son by making him a member of her 
board of overseers, and he has also served as 
a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. 
In this connection, perhaps, may be men- 
tioned his social relations, as one of the orig- 



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inal members of the Worcester Club and a 
member of the Worcester Fire Society. 

When Mr. Jonas G. Clark founded the uni- 
versity which bears his name, and asked from 
among his friends and associates some of the 
most honored citizens of Worcester to serve as 
co-workers with him, holding the relation of 
trustees. Col. Washburn was one of tho.se se- 
lected, and the confidence reposed in him as a 
capalile member of that body was further 
made manifest by his selection to be secretary 
of the board. 

Personally, Minister Wa.shburn is one of the 
the most genial and agreeable of men. 
Whether meeting him at his comfortable Peari 
street ofifice, where his artistic nature has 
called for delightful surroundings, or at 
his home on Linden street, or even upon 
the street for a curbstone chat, he impresses 
the least consequential of his acquaintances 
with the affability which never deserts him. 
He is one of those men who can refuse a re- 
quest in so graceful a way as to make it seem 
like a favor. 

Minister Washburn is a lover of good litera- 
ture, and is as familiar with the past as with 
the present. When he quotes from Horace or 
Homer, in one of those after-dinner speeches 
which he makes in so delectable a way, he is 
pretty sure to have the original well in mind ; 
and at times, in a quiet way, he has turned his 
mind to the making of verse which is as grace- 
ful and as limpid in utterance as his everyday 
speech. 

In appearance. Minister Washburn is tall 
and handsome, possessing a fine figure and a 
graceful carriage. In manner, he is always 
the polished gentleman. 

To his home life no reference has been 
made, but that, too, has been a pleasant one. 
He married in i860 Miss Mary F. Putnam, 
and his daughter. Miss Edith Washburn, was 
married, in 1884, to Mr. Richard Ward 
Greene. 

Minister Washburn finds his life in Switzer- 
land an agreeable one. A few months since. 
Congress changed his title from Minister 
Resident and Consul General to Envoy Ex- 
traordinary and .Minister Plenipotentiary, and 
to further dignify the ofiice, an increase in the 
salary was made. 

Minister Washburn's friends in Worcester 
know that his duties will be promptly and ably 
discharged, and indeed the whole countrj' 
realized that, when he took such prompt and 
vigorous action in the case of the two Ameri- 
cans who were imprisoned by Swiss oflScials. 
■Minister Washburn's relations with the Swiss 
government, however, are unusally pleasant, 
and he likes the Swiss people correspondingly 
well. His former travels in Europe, and his 
wide range of general information, are un- 
doubtedly valuable to h'm now. 

Light presents this week a portrait of Min- 
ister Washburn, made at home, to be sure, but 
still a very faithful likeness of him as he ap- 
pears this moment, perhaps, while descending 
under the Stars and .Stripes, from the steps of 
the Legation of the L'nited States, to stroll 
down the principal street of Berne. 

Faith is the Christian's foundation, and hope 
is his anchor, and death is his harbor, and 
Christ is his pilot, and heaven is his country. — 
Jocmy Taylor. 



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Oxford and IfFly Church. 



Oxford, though founded by the Britons at a 
time never surely known, has been named and 
rechristened several times. Memphric, an 
early king, named it after himself. The Celts 
called it Ryd-ychen, then came the Saxons, 
and, forcing their customs upon the unfortun- 
ate citizens, translated the name to their own 
tongue, calling it Oxeneford. All these 
changes came to the strongly walled and 
gated town before A. D. 689. From Oxene- 
ford we can easily see that carelessness or 
lack of time has given us its present name. 
Henry II. was probably founder of the first 
university in 

"That faire city, wherein make abode 

So many learned imps that shoot abrode," 

but as early as King Alfred's time it was a cen- 
tre of learning. Kings have been crowned 
and have ruled there. So, besides being the 
leading university town in England, it has 
other causes for pride in its history of men 
and martyrs. 

After a comfortable night's rest in a cur- 
tained four-poster at the Mitre, we began our 
journey through the narrow and crooked hall- 
ways, up a few steps, then down a few steps, 
skirting a court yard with balconies of black 
oak, then into a wainscoted hallway and final- 
ly down a freshly scrubbed stairway, across a 
billowy floor to the breakfast room. The 
room's walls and ceilings are of quartered oak, 
the huge beams, glorying in their strength, be- 
ing the only decoration. One side of the room 
looks out upon High street, through small 
window-panes in lead, beneath which extends 
a broad seat, worn glossy, if not soft, by con- 
stant use. Great pegs for hats and coats pro- 
ject from the walls, and these, with a huge 
clock and an occasional colored print of some 
"horsey" picture, are the usual decorations. 

Through admiring the barmaids' silver the 
previous evening, we have been done special 
honor this morning, for our breakfast is served 
in the best dishes the house affords. The cof- 
fee set is of silver, in the low plain shapes that 
set so comfortably 'round a smoking plate of 
eggs and bacon, backed by a toast-rack that 
shames everything in the line for miles 
about. The cold joints resting comfortably on 
the ser\'ing table, amidst greens and sauces, 
spotted with pinches of pepper and decorated 
around the handles and skewers with cut 
papers, look very tempting— much more so 
than this description sounds — but such a 
breakfast is not for us, and so we start out. 

A coach is just wheeling up and we stop a 
moment to see the order and glory of the 
whole turnout, for the eyes can never tire of 
any part of this mode of travel. L'p High 
street we go and into the first "quad of Maud- 
lin," as these people prefer to call the larger of 
Magdalen Colleges' quadrangles. Away at 
the left, as we enter, we are immediately 
charmed by a very choice bit of arcliitecture. 
It is all that remains of Maudlin old hall. I 
wish I could describe it, but it cannot be done 
with any degree of satisfaction. Its rather 
small, three-storied tower extends from the 
left front corner only a few feet above the ridge 
pole of the Gothic roof. The quiet gray stone 
is partially moss and ivy-covered, its windows. 



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some of which are grated with wrought iron, 
and some filled with opaque glass, are scat- 
tered ajout at all heights and distances, so 
that one must wonder how and where the 
floors are. From one corner extends a wrought 
iron torch-holder, so unique and intricate in 
design as to be fit for an interior decoration. 

I doubt whether the building is correct archi- 
tecturally or not, but it is correct in this place. 
Diagonally across the paved court is the curi- 
ous out-of-door pulpit, and through the huge 
west doorway, in the niches of which stand 
various saints, with the patroness at the top, 
we enter the "delectable meanders," one of 
which, through his fondness for it, has been 
called Addison's walk. Away down its cool, 
deeply shaded length, by the Cherwell, we 
walk, and surely no more beautiful path can 
be found anywhere. 

Through an opening at the left one sees a 
large park, and trotting up to the gate comes a 
fawn, his little red back polka-dotted in white. 
With his huge eyes he says he's there to be 
fed, and bits of biscuit given him cause him to 
invite his various relatives to an unexpected 
luncheon. They flock about him, only to 
sniff at their small share and are off again to 
graze under the magnificent oaks so bounti- 
fully provided for them. Occasionally a row- 
boat quietly passes, with mutually interested 
occupants, and then quietly, but beautifully in 
tune, the chime from St. Mary's tower tells us 
that time is still being measured and must be 
accounted for. 

The students here being tutored for the 
most part, there is no need for class-rooms and 
halls. The apartments occupied by them are 
for the most part uninteresting and gloomy, 
for the walls are thick and the windows small 
and recessed. An Oxford room without an 
Oxford man in it would be no better than a 
cell. 

The colleges, Merton, Balliol, Christ 
Church, Worcester and all, have architectural 
and historical charms about them that one 
might write of forever, but to no end. In 
Christ Church Hall, almost as interesting as 
Westminster Hall itself, are the portraits of 
many of its foundationers, some of the Van- 
dyke's, Gainsborough's and Reynold's being 
masterpieces. Charles I. held here a parlia- 
ment when London became uncomfortable for 
him, and Shakespeare is supposed to have 
read his plays and to have acted here before 
Elizabeth. Christ Church Cathedral is the 
smallest in all England. The gardens of 
Worcester College are particularly beautiful. 
The library is fine, but the buildings are rather 
more severe than are some others. To wan- 
der about these old buildings, so rich in asso- 
ciations, with names that are guide posts along 
the roads to learning, is an experience one 
must have before he can begin to appreciate it. 
In returning to the Mitre we came upon a 
lone cross, sunken in the roadway, near by a 
monument erected to their memory, where 
Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer were burned at 
the stake. 

The evening we spent listening to coaching 
tales and songs of the sort Dickens tells. The 
"whips" and "post boys" (continually "vishin' 
your 'ealth, sir"), have been written up well e.x- 
ternally by the novelist, but it is beyond any- 
one's powers to give the faintest idea of 
their internal capacity. The neat bar- 



maid "chaffs" easily with anyone desiring 
that sort of a chromo with his "'alf 'n' 'alf," 
while the demure chamber-maid, ready to 
light your candle and show you your room at 
any moment, wouldn't utter a word for worlds. 
Poor "boots," sleeping on the bench outside of 
the door, is another member of the interesting 
party always found about the fire place of an 
inn at evening time. 

Another night's sleep, induced by a mere 
looking over of Punch, and we were ready for 
our fourth day at Oxford. We walked along 
the green path by a much-travelled road, bor- 
dered by thatched cottages, hay mows, 
meadows and trees, to IfHy. Here is the sec- 
ond oldest church in all England. Pure Nor- 
man in style, situated on the bank of the 
Thames, nestling in a grove of fine old elms, 
and surrounded by such a comfortable church- 
yard, it looks a perfect cradle for honest, un- 
affected Christianity. 

Climbing to the top of the square tower, 
such a view is before us ! Oxford's towers in 
one direction, high hills in another, the river 
winding on and on to the horizon, while per- 
fect rest can be heard, felt and seen every- 
where. 

As we drink in the simple natural beauties 
of this rarely visited spot, shouts come up 
from beneath, and out from the vicarage 
school rush boys and girls who scramble in at 
the tower door of the church. From the dis- 
tance we hear music, and from away down the 
road we can just distinguish banners and occa- 
sional gleams of some bright instrument as the 
sun shines direcdy upon it. The procession 
approaches, and proves to be the "Forester's 
Guild" of the neighborhood. Once a year, on 
their patron's day, this old society, founded 
away back in the last century, keeps a festival, 
and their exercises begin always with morning 
prayer. 

The brass band playing old-fashioned 
"tunes" in older-fashioned ways, had now led 
the crowd to the church-yard stile. Here 
they all halted and joined band and voices in 
"God Save the Queen." With uncovered 
heads they then entered the peaceful yard and 
were soon deep in the service in the little 
church. Their corduroys, jeans and home- 
spuns — most of them wore knee breeches — 
with velveteen or home-woven stuff coats, 
their odd shaped hats, made the grouping very 
picturesque. 

Service being over, the bells began a very 
inharmonious wrangle. Though they'd been 
connected with the church in their present 
capacity for over two hundred years, they 
would not agree upon any one chord ! Some 
were "high" and some were "low"; others 
seemed "dissenters." We had seen a rare 
country sight, and as the men joined the pretty 
girls with luncheon baskets in several groups 
about, using the graves as seats, and the epi- 
taphs on the stones as texts for talks, we left 
them, going down a pretty lane by the vicar- 
age to Iffly Mill. 

Such a spot one rarely finds. A raceway, 
overgrown with ferns and mosses, allures the 
modest water to the squeaking wheel, which, 
spoiling all the effect of its good bringing up, 
sends it, all out of temper, back to the river 
again. The old miller was fond of all about 
his home and would not part with a coveted 



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silver candlestick for its "heft i' goold," he said. 
After a toll for crossing his narrow bridge, 
we walked back to Oxford by way of the tow 
path, which follows closely the river, a perfect 
bower of hawthorn, laurel and sweet briar. 
Along the banks are men and boys fishing, 
while upon the water punters, canoers, 
paddlers and scullers are going both up and 
down continually. River life is a great factor 
of summer living in England. The river being 
untaxable, house boats moored along the 
banks form comfortable, convenient and 
cheap homes for people who can't get further 
away for vacations.- The boat-houses used 
by the class crews of the different colleges are 
huge floats, looking more or less like re- 
modeled hulks of ships that have outlived 
other usefulness, are divided into several 
rooms, a large smoking saloon, well lighted, 
being just inside a vestibule, and from it are 
various dressing rooms. Great variety in ex- 
terior and interior finish is noticable in these 
floating houses, and on fete days, with banners 
and lanterns they are particularly attractive. 
The ferryman at hand takes us across for a 
penny, just as Big Ben rings out 12 o'clock. 

Heavy winter clothing and furs must be put 
away early, before the moths are astir. They 
seem to work in furnace-heated houses the 
year around. If one has no cedar chests 
to store woolens in, a very good substi- 
tute is a trunk or flour barrel. The barrel 
should be well washed in cold water, dried 
and lined with newspapers. These are pasted 
in. using thick flour paste with a large spoon- 
ful of alum added to a quart of paste. Cover 
every place on the inside of the barrel, letting 
the paper come up to the outside of the barrel. 
Cleat the cover together and paste paper on 
the inside. The woolens should be thoroughly 
brushed aud sunned, carefully folded and laid 
in. When the barrel is full, the cover should 
be pressed down, a stout manilla paper put 
over the top, coming down well round the bar- 
rel, tied down with twine and pasted so as to 
fit close. Woolens may be kept securely in 
this way. The g^eat thing is to sun and 
thoroughly brush the garments, so that if 
moths are already there, to get them out, and 
then pack securely. .An old trunk past its use- 
fulness, or a box properly prepared will answer 
the same purpose. 

Hang out furs when the sun shines hot ; let 
them hang several hours, combing them with 
a coarse dressing comb. Put into its box the 
muff and a strip of paper pasted around where 
the cover joins the box. The fur cape the 
same. Never add camphor or anything, and 
they can be kept twenty years, and 
never a sign of moth. The fur-lined circular 
may be put into a bag made of calico, made 
the length of the garment, the latter laid on 
the bed and folded together, a patent garment- 
holder put in at the neck, the bag slipped on 
from the bottom part, drawn closely at the top 
and tied, then sewed closely around the wire 
loop of the "holder." The seal plush sacque, 
the cloth jacket and winter overcoat are pre- 
pared in the same way. Have a row of hooks 
put up in the closet very near the ceiling, so 
that the garments hang full length, and come 
out in the fall with never a wrinkle. This 
leaves room below them for another row of 
hooks for shorter garments. 



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The Beautiful South. 



Hotel Liternk, Sai.km, \'a. 
April 24, 1890. 
To the Editor of Light: — Of the nearly 
seventy Salem townships in the United .States, 
the one most promment in the public mind is 
the picturesque Salem of Va. "The Switz- 
erland of the South," so charmingly nestled 
amid the purple shadows of the Alpine heights 
of the Blue Ridge and the AUeghanies, which 
coquet with the fleecy clouds in the fraternal 
blending of peace, mercy and righteousness. 
This Salem, the prettiest spot in all the Vir- 
ginia scenery which the inspired pen of Thomas 
Jefferson ever immortalized, is in the beautiful 
Roanoke valley ; being the county seat, the ed- 
ucational centre of the Southwest and only 
some eight hours from the city of Washington, 
down through the historic valley of the Shen- 
andoah. This quaint little city was incorpora- 
ted in 1802, and has been charmed with its 
ease, its refinement, and its social culture, un- 
til within the past ninety days the gates of her 
material resources have been unlocked and 
thrown wide open to welcome in loyal brother- 
hood the co-operation of earnest, honest effort, 
to the end of her upbuilding in all that pertains 
to the highest type of a progressive citizenship. 
Thus in a few short winter days a coterie of 
true Virginia gentlemen have awakened her 
from her dream of contentment and turned the 
industrial eyes of the country upon her. An 
inventorj- of the solid financial business opera- 
tions which have crowded these days would 
read like a romance ; yet it is a peerless record, 
unapproached in the history of municipal ex- 
pansion. Being within the envied thirty-fifth 
parallel of latitude, Salem has a climate as near 
perfection as is vouchsafed to man. She es- 
capes the heat and lassitude of the South, and 
the cold and icy rigors of the North, hence 
her reputation for exceptional healthfulness. 
and as a delightful summer resort, being sur- 
rounded by nearly all the more prominent min- 
eral springs of \'irginia. Washington once 
wrote, "that in future years Virginia would be 
the garden of America." This is not the extrav- 
agant language of one whose own Common- 
wealth was the idol of his heart ; its verification 
is in the union of a perfect climate and a per- 
fect soil. This section is, perhaps, the richest 
of the agricultural belts of the two Virginias 
and possibly her ranking orchard product- 
would be the famous \'irginia pippin, largely 
cultivated for export, an exclusive luxury for 
the English table, the seal of queenly approval 
having been placed thereon by Queen X'ictoria, 
for whom special provision is annually made. 
But brilliant beyond description is the outlook 
of Salem's development of her material re- 
sources: hard wood of ever\- variety, iron, coal 
and coke in practically inexhaustible quantity 
are at her door, already millions of capital 
have harnessed these potent agencies, and in 
ninety days Salem has become the brightest 
hustling star in the industrial firmament of the 
new south. The staid, plodding New Eng- 
lander who has not had personal contact with 
the new south can hardly comprehend what 
she is doing, and how she is doing it. She 
has entered upon a career of prosperity that 
is almost dazzling. In 1889 her cotton crop 
was nearly 7.500,000 bales, or a value increase 
of nearly ^75,000,000; her corn crop, the best 



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yield ever produced, reached 550,000,000 
bushels, and a conservative estimate places the 
increase in the value of all southern crops at 
Ji 50,000,000 more than in 1888, which was the 
greatest on record up to that time. In 1889 
she mined 23,000,000 tons of coal and produced 
about 1,600,000 tons of pig iron, and since 1879 
she has spent 5300,000,000 in building new 
railroads and improving old ones, having an 
increased mileage of over 20,000 milts. It 
has been officially stated that the aggregate 
value of the cotton and agricultural products 
for the past three years, has averaged over 
§830,000,000 for each year, with this enormous 
agricultural growth, with the hundreds of mil- 
lions of outside capital which have sought in- 
vestment in railroads, in furnaces, in mines, in 
mills, in timber, in mineral lands, in costly 
hotels, in business blocks, and in city real es- 
tate, undeveloped, we see something of the 
foundation on which the new south is building 
her great material prosperity. In some future 
notes upon Salem — the magical ninety days 
creation — I will place before your readers a 
concise statement of her achievements ; the 
methods employed, with some reference to the 
honored men who have wrought this wonderful 
municipal transition. Industrially vours, 

.\1. 

About Business. 

Shrinkage in Currency. 

f)uring the last eight years the United 
States have increased prodigiously in popula- 
tion and business, but during that period the 
amount of money in circulation has .shrunk 
several hundred million of dollars. In the 
one item of National Bank notes alone the 
shrinkage has been over $200,000,000. State 
bonds, county bonds, city bonds, paving, curl)- 
ing and sewering bonds are all sold in the 
East, and represent indebtedness of the West 
to the East. The West is full of agents and 
trust companies that make loans in the West 
and sell them to Eastern purchasers. 
Dun's Review. 

R. G. Dun & Co.'s review of the markets 
speaks most encouragingly of trade and in- 
dustrj', with the exception of iron. The ton- 
nage in motion throughout the country was 
larger than for any previous year at this sea- 
son ; a larger volume of currency was in circu- 
lation ; larger clearing-house payments were 
made ; larger imports and exports were re- 
corded, and there was a larger domestic pro- 
duction in iron and steel, leather, boots and 
shoes. 
Young Men in Business. 

One great cau.se of failure of young men in 
business is lack of concentration. They are 
prone to .seek outside investments. Every 
dollar of capital and credit, everj' business 
thought, should be concentrated on the one 
business upon which a man has embarked. 
No man or set of men or corporation can man- 
age a business man's capital as well as he can 
manage it himself. Put all your eggs in one 
basket, and then watch that basket, is the true 
doctrine. When, therefore, the young man, in 
any business, explains and complains that he 
has not opportunity to prove his ability and to 
rise to partnership, the old answer suffices :— 
"J he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings." 

—Andrew Carnegie, in the S. V. Tribmie. 



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Camping in Colorado. 



BY E. D. P. 



Colorado is well called the "Switzerland of 
America." It has noseacoast lined with fash- 
ionable summer resorts to which thousands go 
every summer for sea breezes, bathing and 
yachting ; but a state equal in size to two New 
Englands can hardly be lacking in variety of 
natural scenery. In the western part of the 
state are the great, rolling prairies, fast becom- 
ing fertile under irrigation; beyond these the 
great farming region stretching north and 
south through the state. Still west of this, 
with their eternal snows, rise the Rockies, the 
glory of the state. These three important fea- 
tures, with their many peculiar and character- 
istic differences, tend to the make-up of a 
country in which the grand, beautiful, and 
wonderful are strangely combined. 

The preparations for two months camping 
or "roughing it" differ, in a few respects, from 
preparations necessary for a summer at New- 
port. We were to be almost in the heart of 
the Rockies, where even cattle ranches are 
"few and far between ; therefore our ward- 
robes did not at all tend toward extensiveness. 
Much to our condemnation in the eyes of a 
friend spending the summer with us, rubbers, 
waterproofs and umbrellas were left behind as 
being entirely unnecessary. Miss Priscilla, 
however, did not follow our example, and pru- 
dently took all three, with the addition of a 
parasol, which four articles were not unfurled, 
so to speak, during our two months of camp 
life. 

Our costumes were varied to suit the whims 
of the wearers, some being of navy blue flannel, 
some of gingham, and others of what looked 
like striped bed-ticking. All of us wore heavy 
soled boots with brass tips, which one gets re- 
conciled to carrying around after a few days of 
wearing. When Miss Priscilla walked in her 
shoes for the first time, her gait was anything 
but light and graceful. Our head gear was 
the most important feature of our dress. As 
our faces were invisible from front view, an ob- 
server must have had an overwhelming curios- 
ity to know what manner of beings supported 
those water-sheds upon their heads. Most of 
us wore great straw hats with flapping rims, 
the circumference of which was considerable. 
When these rims became too lively, by reason 
of the wind, we would tie them in the middle 
close to our ears, the two arches thus made 
giving our heads a decidedly fore and aft ap- 
pearance. Not exceeding these in graceful- 
ness were the gingham sunbonnets, some of 
more marvelous workmanship than others, the 
prospective of which gave the wearer the ap 
pearance of lieing all sunbonnet. The gentle- 
men were clad in a variety of costumes, some 
of which were extremely grotesque, but admir- 
ably adapted to camp life. 

As it was the summer season we were likely 
to have showers in the afternoon, but the morn- 
ings and evenings were always clear and cool, 
and when the rain does come it pours, and 
when it gets through pouring, the clouds don't 
hang around waiting to hear what people have 
to say about the weather, but move off to New 
England in a very business-like way, and there 
settle down for a rest. 

We rode in two light, three-seated wagons. 



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and, as there were several saddle horses, some 
of us took turns in riding horseback. 

Before night we were well into the foothills 
and we made our camp on a littte plateau half 
way up a hill at the foot of which ran the swift 
Cash La Poudre. We were too tired to sit 
around the camp-fire long after supper. We 
spread buffalo skins and blankets over the 
pine boughs which were thrown on the ground 
floors of the tents, and, rolled up in blankets 
we were put to sleep by the moaning of the 
wind through the pines. 

At sunset, on the next day, we came into a 
beautiful mountain park in which we decided 
to fix our camp. 

The next morning we were more than ever 
charmed with the place we had chosen. We 
were hemmed in on all sides by mountains, 
hills and valleys. Off to the west, beyond a 
mass of rocky and pine-covered summits, ro.se 
two snow capped peaks, the highest of which is 
Long's Peak, 14.000 feet above the plain from 
which it rises, which is 11,000 feet above sea 
level. 

We had a delightful spot for a camp, and 
the men soon went to work to make it habit- 
able, first of all to make beds and a dining 
table. A framework was made by placing 
four poles across notched limbs, driven in the 
ground, and on this framework were nailed 
boards. It made a very good table. The 
frames of the beds were made in the same way, 
and upon the poles used for slats, willow 
boughs were thrown, and on these rustic springs 
we put our mattresses. We heard no complaint 
of aching bones or sleepless nights, even in 
the.se beds, which must have had some 
morphiate hidden in their leafy boughs, for we 
could never stay awake long enough to enjoy 
the novelty of sleeping upon such beds. Our 
other furniture was of the same rude sort. 

Miss Priscilla covered her dressing table, (a 
dry goods box) with a white sheet, which, 
when night came, assumed a very shadowy and 
ghostly aspect. One night the camp was 
aroused by an unearthly shriek which came 
from the neighborhood of Miss Priscilla'stent. 
Some one rushed to the scene of disaster just 
in time to sec Miss Priscilla hasten back to her 
nightly quarters after a hurried flight from her 
tent. §he would not explain the cause of her 
fright, but said she had been dreaming. The 
ghostly dressing table, with the pitcher upon 
it, explained to us all we desired to know. 

Our dining room was in the centre of the 
camp, under tall trees the boughs of which 
met directly overhead, forming a pretty arbor 
The table was covered with oil-cloth, on which 
were patterned all sorts of impossible figures, 
equal, in point of reality, to some specimens of 
early Greek art. The plates, cups and spoons 
were of tin. The refrigerator was down at 
the river bank, and was, in fact, the river it- 
self. 

We had not been in camp many days before 
the gentlemen began to prepare their fishing 
rods and tackle for use, and the ladies soon 
followed suit. Half a dozen of us started over 
to one of the fields, armed with sticks and 
branches, to catch grasshoppers for bait. We 
must have been a formidable looking company. 
We had not gone far before the grasshoppers 
became perplexingly numerous and active. 
Miss Priscill^ at this point, fled from the field 
of skirmish in horror. If a person has never 



been in hot pursuit of a grasshopper he can't 
realize what tantalizing work it is, and one who 
is not an adept in the art soon loses his temper. 
He has to suit his motions to those of the grass- 
hopper, which are decidedly unheralded, quick 
and jerky. Then comes a breathless pause in 
which he has to ascertain whether the hopper, 
in his last leap, has alighted before or behind 
him. Then comes another jump, jerk and 
strike, only to find the grasshopper calmly 
waiting for him several feet away ready for 
another leap. After half an hour or more 
spent in this most tantalizing but fascinating 
of pursuits we usually managed to fill sev- 
eral spool-boxes with the treasures. 

On the morning in question, our party, with 
the exception of Miss Priscilla, included only 
those who had had experience in fishing, and 
as she decided to "fish too," she was given the 
following instructions : "Be watchful, act 
quickly, keep cover on box of grasshoppers 
and don't talk." She assured us that she 
"knew all that before" and marched up the 
river with the rest, resolved to catch more fish 
than all of us put together, and thus make her- 
self the heroine of the day. We fished awhile, 
and at last, after a space of quiet, came a 
shriek of, "Oh, I've caught a ten pounder, 
but I can't haul him in, and he's pulling me 
into the river!" And then came a series of 
small shrieks. One of the party ran to the 
lescue, and found that she had been tugging 
at underbrush in the river bottom, in which her ' 
hook had caught. 

At length she succeeded in reeling a trout 
half way in, but in her excitement she let fall 
her box of grasshoppers into the river, and in 
making a dive for it, slipped off the rock upon 
which she had been balancing herself. She 
had scrambled back to the rock, sputtering and 
gasping, before anyone could get to her. She 
said she guessed she "wouldn't stop to finish 
getting that trout in," and the "heroine of the 
day" went back to camp for a change of ap- 
parel. 

Beautiful flowers grew everywhere around 
our camp, not only in the fields and canons, but 
on the highest mountains. Some are delicately 
tinted and others gorgeous with bright colors, 
but most of them lack fragrance. 

Toward evening we always needed extra 
clothing, for, although the air never becomes 
damp, it grows much cooler, and the campfire 
around which we sat in the evening, was al- 
ways welcome. 

This evening time around the camp fire was 
both weird and pleasant. In the bright circle 
of light, the surrounding darkness, with its 
dim outline of the white peaked mountains, 
looked ghostly in the moon-light. The roar of 
the river and the distant hoot of an owl mingled 
with our chat and laughter, and with the wind 
swishing through the fragrant pines. It has 
been remarked that more stars can be seen in 
that altitude with its clear atmosphere, than can 
be seen in the East. The heavens seem liter- 
ally alight with the myriads of bright twinklers. 

Of course there are unpleasant things which 
happen in camp as well as elsewhere, and a 
person can succeed in making himself very un- 
happy if he goes to work with that end in view. 
There are rattlesnakes, but we very seldom 
came acro.ss one, sometimes not m a whole 
summer. If a person is careful when walking 
in those dry, sandy, rocky places, he runs no 



risk. There are mosquitoes, but they are not 
of the ferocious Jersey type. There are the 
annoyances of having your hat or sunbonnet 
suddenly wafted into the river, and of having 
to fish it out again, but then we were always 
in e.\cellent practice. 

It is al.so provoking to have to hunt for the 
cow till eight o'clock, and after you have gone 
back to camp in despair, to see her walk 
into camp half an hour later as if nothing had 
happened. Also it is not comfortable to hear 
a loud shriek, and when one has rushed to the 
place of struggle, to find theshrieker, although 
very pale, smiling rather sheepishly. And 
when you have asked the cause of the uproar 
with a thumping heart, to receive the answer : 
"It's that old rope; thought it was a snake. It 
wriggled and 1 forgot I had hold of the other 
end of it." 

The.se things with the addition of certain 
rather thrilling adventures are uncomfortable 
at the time, but they all have their laughable 
side as well, and we manage to enjoy living 
through them. We are like persons caught in 
a sudden shower, but when the sun comes out, 
in a few minutes we are as dry as ever. 

This is a mere hint of the freedom and en- 
joyment of camp life. 

No one can fully appreciate and understand 
it until he has tried it. 



Sunshine's everywhere, and summer too. — 
M. Broioning. 

Death is the dropping of the flower that the 
fruit may swell. — Beecher. 

Reputation is what men and women think of 
us ; character is what God and angels know of 
us. — T. Paine. 

The man who made much of the earliest 
machinery for Prof. Morse has just died. He 
was Mr. Daniel Davis of Princeton, Mass. 

The perils of foot-ball are indicated by the 
casualties in England, where, since last Sep- 
tember, fifteen persons have been fatally hurt, 
and thirty-seven seriously wounded, while 
playing this lively game. 

Don Quixote thought he could have made 
beautiful bird cages and toothpicks if his brain 
had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most 
people would succeed in small tilings if they 
were not troubled with great ambitions. — Note 
Book. 

In correction of the oft-repeated assertion 
that sugar costs the people of this country 
more per capita than flour, F. B. Thurber of 
New York writes to the Ecoiioi/iis/ that the 
average consumption of sugar per capita, was, 
last year, about fifty-one pounds, and the retail 
cost was probably not over $4. The average 
consumption of flour per capita is one barrel 
per annum, and the average price to the con- 
sumer was S5.50 to $6. 

It is generally supposed that pneumonia is 
due to the accidental penetration of specific 
microbes into the system, but the observations 
of M. Jaccoud, a French student on the sub- 
ject, show that the disease really results from 
the development under favorable conditions of 
microbic germs permanently present in the 
system. A chief condition of such develop- 
ment is a sudden chill, which explains the fre- 
quent coincidence of lung affections with 
abrupt changes of temperature. 



I.IC1 HT 

Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant. 



BY ALFRED S. ROE. 



The announcement that Mrs. Chant is to 
speak in Worcester on the Sth of May, is 
hailed with no little pleasure by those who 
heard tier when she was here, about two years 
since. She came quite unheralded, for very 
little was known of the English lady whom the 
Woman's Suffrage Club had secured as the 
speaker on the evening of Thursday, the 17th 
day of May, iSSS. That she was related, colla- 
terally, to the distinguished statesman and ora- 
tor, Edmund liurke, had been mentioned and 
that she came with a long array of British 
commendations was understood, but to us she 
was a stranger. The comparatively small 
audience that confronted her when .she ap- 
peared made her strangeness to Worcester all 
the more apparent. However, if she had her 
way to win, she won it without any question. 
From her introductory words to the closing 
strains of the original lines which she sang, 
playing her own accompaniment, she held the 
close and enthusiastic attention of every list- 
ener. It mattered not whether all agreed with 
her, there was absolutely no difference of opin- 
ion as to the quality of her words and thoughts, 
and her manner of expressing them. A woman 
rather under than over the average stature, at- 
tractively attired, yet carrying in her dress the 
ideas she constantly advances of the need of 
reform in woman's garb ; having no notes to 
direct her speech or thought, but with a sweet 
expressive f.^ce, lighted up by the brightest of 
eyes and with a voice full of force and reson- 
ance and yet womanly, with no hesitation 
whatever, but rather as Charles James Fox 
was wont to complain that he could not utter 
the words half as fast as they came to him, she 
stood and told us of what she had seen and 
done in her observations and journeys through 
England. There was no dissenting voice in 
the approbation that followed this address, and 
all said if she were to talk again the next week 
there would be a much larger audience to 
greet her. When here she was the guest of 
Dr. and Mrs. Getchell and in the home circle 
was as pleasing as when addressing an audi- 
ence. 

Having a few moments at her command the 
next morning, that of the iSth, she gladly ac- 
cepted an invitation to visit the High school 
and to talk to the assembled hundreds of young 
people. There was an inspiration in the sight 
of such a gathering that drew from her even 
more eloquent words than those of the preced- 
ing evening. She touched at once a responsive 
chord that ceased not to vibrate while she 
spoke. No thought was taken of time, but all 
were sorry when she ended. It was no sigh of 
relief, but rather one of regret that the prose 
song was over that preceded the ringing cheers 
which followed her closing. The lesson was 
an excellent one in many ways. There were 
eloquence, rhetoric, advice, and all so blended 
that the half hour was a noble prompting for 
the weeks to come. 

Since leaving Worcester, her ways have 
been up and down the world; speaking here 
and there, always lending a hand to those in 
distress and ever making her voice and influ- 
ence tell in behalf of right and progress. 
Whether on the rostrum or in the pulpit, she 



\5_ 

has been equally ready to espouse any good 
cause that needed a champion. Hers was a 
prominent figure in the Woman's Congress 
that assembled in Washington last winter and 
from the pulpits of that and other cities she has 
sent forth ringing words that redounded to the 
good of mankind, and now she is to come to 
us again. Association Hall has been engaged 
for the evening of Thur.sday, the eighth of May, 
and the audience that .should greet her, should 
l)e limited only by the size of the room. We have 
recently seen it crowded to repletion by people 
wlio came to hear a distinguished and worthy 
lady talk al)out an art that was ages old and of a 
people long dead and forgotten. It remains to 
be seen whether as many will assemble to hear 
the most eloquent of her sex proclaim the story 
of the wants of womankind, not in a buried past, 
but in a living, and, too often, suffering present. 
Her theme will be "The Queen's Daughters, 
or the Women of England," but .she will 
doubtless cross the ocean and tell some of her 
observations among the queen's cousins in 
America. Were she however to confine her 
words to the Isle of Great Britain, there would 
be no lack of interest in all that she says. It 
was said of the eloquent John B. Gough that 
no matter what his theme, he always talked 
on temperance : so of our distinguished Eng- 
lish friend, she will always find a place to por- 
tray the wrongs that for generations have been 
the lot and portion of womankind. 

F«r them who like to know the history of 
those whom they hear, the following facts are 
given: Mrs. Chant was born, Laura Ormiston 
Dibben, in 1S4S, at Chepstow, Monmouth- 
shire, England. Her father was a civil en- 
gineer, her mother a lady of excellent Scotch 
lineage. At the age of five years, she was 
taken to London, there to spend the remainder 
of her girlhood. One of nine children, she 
passed her early life in the happy home way 
that comes sometimes to those whose family 
groups are numerous. There was little that 
could be had in the line of culture that she did 
not obtain. Strictly reared, she knew the 
Bible and early became a teacher in the Sun- 
day school herself. Poetry and music were 
ever in her soul and she was but a child when 
they had their first expression. She became a 
teacher in day schools and then, after a proba- 
tion, a Sister in the London Hospital in 
Whitechapel. Afterwards, she served a year 
in a lunatic asylum, in all these places learning 
much that she has since utilized in her labors 
upon the platform. She is an oflicer in at least a 
dozen societies, each one having for its object 
the bettering of humanity. Her home life is 
said to be singularly happy and attractive. 
There are four little people to call her mother, 
and to wish for her return. Her present visit 
to the United States is at the invitation of Mi.ss 
Francis Willard,whom she is grandly assisting 
in the latter's noble work. In conclusion, it 
may be said that Mrs. Chant by birth, rearing 
and education, and above all by the beauty of 
her home life, is equipped to do wonderful 
work for her sisters and thus to make better all 
mankind which, after all, is the chief end of 
living. The pleasure of listening will not be 
for the moment only. It will not be like the 
fleeting notes of the singer, but deep into 
every thoughtful soul must sink impressions 
that will permanently abide, perhaps to make 
of the possessor himself a minister for good. 



16 



A New Acquaintance. 



BY EMMA HARRIMAN. 



"Why, good morning, Mr. Van Fadden." 

"Good morning, Jennie. Glad to see you 
once more. Isn't that school most done? 
We're dreadful lonesome up here." 

Jennie Armstrong laughed. "Three weeks 
more," she answered as she got into the sleigh 
beside her mother. 

"Three weeks," said Mr. Van Fadden, tuck- 
ing her in and sighing ; "Three weeks, it's an 
age. How can we exist without you.'" 

"The other girls can console you," laughed 
Jennie as the horse trotted off briskly. 

"Who is that man, Jennie.'"' asked her mother 
anxiously, as soon as they were out of hearing. 

"That?" said Jennie; "that is Mr. Van F'ad- 
den." 

"Yes, I know," answered her mother, "but 
who is Mr. \'an Fadden ?" 

"Mr. Van Fadden," said Jennie, "why, he's 
stopping at the hotel." 

"And is that all you know of him ? 

"No, he's interested in the mines in Colora- 
do" 

"That is, he says so, I suppose. Does any- 
one else know him ?" 

"Anybody else?" said Jennie. "Lots of folks, 
all the girls. He has been here two weeks 
and — " 

"A very long time," said her mother. ' 

"He was at the party at Mrs. Brodman's. 
Len Mead brought him in when we were near- 
ly ready to go home." 

"Len Mead is one of the sort who keeps 
late hours, Jennie. It is not a very good rec- 
ommendation for him to come with Len Mead." 

"He is so polite," went on Jennie, apparently 
not having heard her mother's remark, "and so 
handsome and dresses so well. He has the 
handsomest gold watch. I got the first intro- 
duction to him." 

"You what ?" asked her mother in astonish- 
ment. 

"Got ahead of all the rest of the girls," an- 
swered Jennie, her bright eyes sparkling and 
her pretty face rosy. "We bet a nickel's worth 
of chewing gum, Lu and Sadie and I, that I 
would get introduced before anyone else and 
Mamie and the rest bet on Kittie Lee." 

"I am astonished," cried her mother. 

"Just for fun, mother," said Jennie. 

"And how did you get your introduction?" 

"I saw him in the hotel office and I went in 
and asked Len Mead — you know he's clerk 
there — if Sadie was going to the social that 
night and he introduced me." 

"Of course he knew you were in there for 
that purpose, or you would have gone to Sadie 
and asked her. Those men are both older 
than you girls and neither of them good men, 
I am sure. That newcomer has a bad face. 
Never do such a thing again, my daughter." 

"It was just for fun." 

Three weeks later Jennie's school ended, 
but the clerk of the school board was away 
from home and had not signed her order. He 
was expected home on Monday and she de- 
cided to remain and get her money and one of 
the school board would later take her home. 

She packed her trunk Monday morning, but 
waited till afternoon before she started on her 
errand. The man was at home. He signed 



her order with the laughing remark that sixty 
dollars was a good deal fo pay for a school- 
ma'am, and she at once walked towards the 
home of the treasurer to get her money. 

"Pretty big hunk of money for a little girl 
like you to get all at once," said the wife of the 
treasurer. "The most of 'em draws some 'fore 
the term's done. Cluess you wanted to see 
how big it looked all together." 

"Well I do like to see it," said Jennie." 

"Well, look out nobody don't steal it." 

"No one ever thinks of stealing around here," 
said Jennie. 

Didn't use to," said the man, but you can't 
say that now. .Somebody got into Ricliardes' 
store over to Mortonville, last night, and took 
lots of things, and they broke into the post-office 
at Smith's the night before, and took all there 
wus, an' now Newt Thomas has lost his boss 
an' they think that's stole. Seems to be a 
band of 'em som'ers." 

Jennie closed the door and came back to the 
table. "I believe I'd better hide my money," 
she said with a little laugh, "though I'm not a 
bit afraid; I'll tuck it all in this new pocket- 
book I bought when I was home last week, 
and put it in this inside pocket of my cloak,so. 
Now I'll just button it up tight and put the old 
pocketbook in this outside pocket. There's a 
little change in that, and if anyone asks me for 
my money or my life, I'll give him that. There, 
now, good-by," and she ran merrily down the 
path out into the road. 

The early dusk of the short winter's day 
was settling fast. "How cold it is," she 
said to herself as she tripped along the road 
that ran through the forest. "I can't go home 
till morning now, it has taken me so long to get 
around." 

Jennie was beginning to feel a little nervous, 
when she heard behind her the sound of ap- 
proaching sleigh bells. In a moment more 
the sleigh had come up with her and she saw 
that its occupant was Mr. Van Fadden. He 
bowed to her this time without removing his 
cap, seemed about to drive on, then stopped 
and asked her to ride. 

"How warm your horse is," said Jennie, "such 
a cold day, too." 

"I'm in a hurry," said Van Fadden. 

"I was getting a little nervous when you 
came up," said Jennie. "I had just heard 
there were robbers around and then a wolf 
howled and — " 

"Yes," said Van Fadden. "What had you 
heard about these — these men you speak of?" 

She noticed he was very much e.xcited. Per- 
haps he had a large sum of money with him. 

"I heard they had robbed the post-office and 
a store and — " 

"Did they — that is, has anybody-have you 
heard who did it?" 

"No, 1 don't know. I just heard it when I 
went to get my money this afternoon. I have 
just been after it ; that's what made me ner- 
vous." 

"Just got it, eh.'" said he quickly. 

"Yes, at Mr. Lord's; he's the treasurer. He 
has just got home from Newton and had heard 
about these robberies." 

"Hark!" said the man suddenly, "what was 
that .'" 

"That sound?" she asked. "A sleigh, I 
think ; what of that ?" 

"Take the lines," said he fiercely," "and 



t 



drive for your life," with a significent pat on 
his breast pocket. 

She could see the shape of the revolver as 
he did so. Too utterly dazed to think, she 
held on to the lines. The man had slippad off 
the seat into the bottom of the sleigh and 
drawn the robes over his head. 

"Drive faster. Can you see them.'" 

"Yes, coming around the curve at the end of 
the clearing." 

"Are we near the lake ?" he asked in a low 
tone. 

"It is just ahead." 

"Slow up a little and give me your money." 

She dared do nothing but obey, and pulling 
up the excited horse as best she could, reached 
him the old pocketbook. He grabbed it and 
jumped from the sleigh, made off into the 
woods just as the sleigh load of men came into 
sight again and shouted to him to halt. 

Jennie, terribly frightened, urged her horse 
on toward her boarding place across the lake, 
but the next moment a man had raised his rifle 
and shouted to her to stop. 

"Got 'em both," said the man, as the sheriff 
came back a few moments later from the 
woods where he and the rest of the party had 
pursued Van Fadden and soon caught him. 

"He pitched into a hole at the foot of a fall- 
en tree," said one of the sheriff's party, "and 
we nabbed him." 

"Sort of a good day's work," said the man 
who had halted Jennie; "got 'em both. I stop- 
ped the woman." 

"The woman !" said the sheriff, turning from 
his now firmly secured prisoner to look at Jen- 
nie for the first time. "Good Lord, Jennie, 
what are you here for?" 

"Oh, Mr. Bemis," cried poor Jennie, and then 
she fell to sobbing convulsively. 

"Let her go, Ben, she's all right. Poor child i 
that's Sam Armstrong's daughter, boys," he 
said explanatorialy. 

"Sam Armstrong's daughter," gasped the 
man, letting go her arm. "What's she riding 
with Slippery Dick for ?" 

"There, there, Jennie, poor child, don't cry 
so," said the sheriff. "You sha'n't be mixed 
up in this any more. Come and get into my 
sleigh and I'll take you home. You see, boys, 
he's been cutting such a swell up here in the 
village, that's how it comes." 

"Where do you board ? Right across the 
lake there ? Here, Steve, you drive her across. 
We'll walk this fellow back to that house and 
wait for you. This horse he stole needs to be 
got in out of the cold till the owner turns up." 

"My poor, dear child," said her mother, as 
she clasped Jennie in her loving arms that 
night. "You've had a bitter lesson. Don't sob 
so, dear. If Mr. Bemis had not been your 
father's friend it might have been worse, for 
you might have been mixed up in the trial." 

"O, mother !" 

"But there is no danger of that and I am 
sure you will never again be in haste to form 
a new acquaintance." 



The strength of criticism lies only in the 
weakness of the thing criticised. — Kavanagh. 



We spoil everything by hurry. We are 
wearing ourselves out as a nation by our hurry 
and intensity — too eager to get a living to be 
willing to stop and live. — Rev. Dr. Osgood. 



Our Worcester Collegians. 

The Harvard Boys. 

Mr. Robert M. Washburn is a candidate for 
third base of his class nine ('90). It is said he 
is almost sure of making the position. He is 
a ver>' fine fielder. 

Mr. Henr>' B. Washburn is trying for short 
stop of the '91 class nine and will probably be 
successful in his attempt. 

Mr. Walter Perley Hall will leave the Law 
School at the close of this year to study law in 
a Worcester office. This is Mr. Hall's second 
year at the Law School and he has gained 
much from it. 

Captain Earle has received a challenge from 
the Cornell Freshman crew, but it is his inten- 
tion to row no one but the Columbia and pos- 
sibly the Vale Freshmen. 

The Freshmen are having a serious time 
with their shell, a hole having been broken in 
it, and consequently delaying their practice 
in it. 

Mr. Wallace M. Turner is president of the 
Harvard Camera Club. 

Mr. Henry W. Doe has resigned from the 
Freshman Banjo Club. 

The Harvard nine is playing games every 
day and it is hoped that a strong team will be 
put in the field. With tlie support that gradu- 
ates are giving. Harvard's athletics seem to be 
coming up very satisfactorily. 

Williams. 

Six young men represent Worcester in 
Williams. 

Crook, who won two firsts and one third at 
Boston, will be on hand at the Worcester 
games. 

The Williams nine won the pennant offered 
by the New York League team to the college 
nine making the best score against it. Wil- 
liams was defeated by a score of 10 to S, and 
Yale, our strongest opponent, by a score of 1 1 
to 6. Spaulding, a new man who pitched in 
the last half of the New York game, struck 
out so many men that he was called "Keefe" 
by the spectators. Only one hit was made 
off his delivery. 



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J. H. Sullivan, depot. 

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Boston Store, 490 Main street. 
H. L. Hopliins. 190 Pleasant street. 
C. H. Fisher, 201 Main street. 
A. F. Bragg, 332 Main street. 
A. W. Barber, 7 Main street. 

G. K. Mellor, 432 Main street. 
P. H. Murphy, 15S Front street. 
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Latin vs. German.— Miss Florence says: 
"I do not expect to obtain more than the equiv- 
alent of a High scliool education. This being 
so, which will be the more profitable for me to 
study, Latin or German?" As the Worcester 
school offers both, why content yourself with 
either, alone? If you will have but one, let 
that one be Latin, for it has the greater 
antiquity. To it more tongues and dialects 
look for their origin, and it has been the speech 
of wisdom for ages. It will serve to unlock 
more verbal secrets and its grammatical struc- 
ture will serve as a skeleton on which you 
may lay the scant covering which our own 
English grammar so niggardly furnishes. 

Books, Books, Books. — N. F. F. says : "I 
am a young man, of common school education, 
and work for a living. 1 have saved JJS50 for 
the beginning of a library. Kindly give me 
your advice on the purchasing of books." 
First, a Webster's or Worcester's Unabridged 
Dictionary, next a good cyclopedia, say the 
"People's," then Higginson's History of the 
United States, ne.xt, J. R. Green's "Brief 
History of the English People." You cannot 
expect to do the whole world in this fashion ; so 
I should next read some good history of the 
war of the Rebellion, as Greeley's. I am glad 
you propose to buy and so own your books. 
You will get thrice the enjoyment from them. 
A book that is worth reading is worth owning. 
Biography is history in its most entertaining 
form, hence I should get the most of the volumes 
in Houghton & Mifflin's series of American 
Statesmen, and follow them with a correspond" 
ing selection from American Men of Letters by 
the same publishers. Of course, you will need 
General Grant's Memoirs; but fiction must 
come in somewhere in your list and naturally 
you will turn to Washington Irving. Read his 
Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall, then try 
the Knickerbocker History of New York and 
his life of Goldsmith. You must read the Spy 
and the Leatherstocking Series by J. F.Cooper. 
Get good editions of all these books. Don't 
buy cheap flimsy affairs, just because they are 
cheap. Clarendon Harris, whom Worcester 
remembers so well, used to say, "If I had my 
life to live over again, I would buy only the 
best editions." So when you get Cooper, get 
him with Darley's illustrations. They will add 
fully one half to the zest of the reading. Of 
Sir Walter Scott, you will read The Talisman, 
Rob Roy and the Antiquary at least and as 
many more as your purse will warrant. Read 
Dickens too. Not all of him, but Great Ex- 
pectations, Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist 
and Donibey and Son. Don't overlook Bay- 
ard Taylor, but journey with him in his "Views- 
Afoot" and such other rambles as you may 
elect to take. Poetry ! Ah, where shall we 
stop! You must have Bryant, Longfellow, 
Whittier, Lowell, Holmes, Tennyson at least. 
By the time you have read all of these, your 
fifty dollars will be nearly or quite exhausted. 
Then if you want some more, try us again. Of 
the making of many books there is no end. 
Don't try to read everything. Spend some 
time in memorizing beautiful passages, not 



I. I(i HT 

those that pleased some one else, but those 
that strike you as worth remembering. 

All O. K. — Miss T. asks: "Can you give 
me the origin of O. K.?" General Jackson, 
when a judge, was in the habit of marking "O. 
R.," meaning "order recorded." The famous 
"Major Jack Downing" (Seba Smith), seeing 
papers thus indorsed, mistook the initials to be 
"O. K." and jestingly declared the General 
used them as an abbreviation of "Orl Korrect." 
The idea "caught on" with the public, and 
since that time the term has become the syn- 
onym of certification of approval and freedom 
from error. 



Literary Leaves. 



The Chaiitauqiian for May contains a list of 
the graduates of the Class of 1889 of the Chau- 
tauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. It num- 
bers 3,799 names, bringing the sum total of 
graduates in the eight classes up to 21,921. 



J. B. Lippincott Co. has in press "How to 
Remember History," a method of memorizing 
dates,by \'irginia Conser Shaffer ; "Historic 
Note-Book," by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer ; 
"Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest- 
Fields of Literature," by C. C. Bombaugh,M.D; 
"Economic Basis of Protection," by Prof. 
Simon N. Patten; "Messalina," a tragedy, by 
Algernon Sydney Logan, and a novel,"For a 
Mess of Pottage," by Sidney Lyon. 



Mrs. General Grant is at work upon a vol- 
ume of memories of her husband, which will 
probably be ready for publication in the fall. 
It is well known among her intimate friends 
that Mrs. Grant has for some time had in mind 
such a work, and recently she began a sys- 
tematic overhauling of her papers for the book. 
A large number of the unpublished letters, 
written by General Grant to his wife will be 
given, the most charcteristic of which will be 
his letters while on the battlefield, which were 
written almost daily, giving his impressions of 
the battles as they proceeded from day to day. 



There are probably 5000 copies of the J 'out/i's 
Companion sent into Worcester each week, and 
there are, without doubt, 500 Worcester fami- 
lies who have taken this remarkable paper for 
two generations. Thirty years ago, Mr. Dan- 
iel S. Ford, of Boston, purchased the paper, 
paying for it about $5000. At that time, the 
paper had a circulation of not exceeding io,ooc 
copies, and perhaps not half that number. 
Mr. F'ord had little capital at his disposal, but 
with his characteristic energy, he has in these 
thirty years made of the Yoitth^s Companion 
the brightest paper of its class in the world. 
The paid circulation of the Youtli's Compan- 
ion exceeds 450,000 copies a week. Mr. Ford 
carries personal modesty to the extreme, the 
paper being published under a fictitious name, 
— Perry Mason & Co. Mr. Ford lives in a 
modest brick house, on Washington street, and 
goes very little into society, his principal rec- 
reation being the trip between Marblehead 
and Boston, in the summer-time, on his magnifi- 
cent yacht. Mr. P'ord's annual income from 
the Yontlt''s Companion is about $200,000. He 
gives away one half of it so quietly that even 
his own family do not know the direction of 
his benevolence. 



About the House. 



[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



— When the carpet has been removed, 
before attempting to sweep up the dust, 
scatter a good allowance of damp sand 
over the floor, and you will find that it can be 
thoroughly cleaned without raising dust. This 
is a vast improvement on the old method of 
filling the house and the lungs with dust every 
time a carpet has to be taken up. Sawdust is 
equally good, but not always as readily ob- 
tained. 

— Many mothers cut down fine merino hose 
for the younger children, and put in a piece for 
the sole of the foot, of an old stocking, or 
flannel cut bias, that matches it in color. By 
sewing these in ball stitch, they show but little, 
and will wear a long time. The toes and heels 
of stockings for children are often knit double, 
or have cotton and wool used, which makes 
them stronger. 

— A receipt for cleaning marble, etc.: Mix 
up a quantity of the strongest soap lees with 
quick-lime to the consistency of milk, and lay 
it on the stone, for twenty-four hours ; clean 
it afterward with soap and water and it will 
appear as new. 

— Napkins and table-cloths, if mended care- 
fully when they commence to show tiny breaks, 
will last much longer. Tray-cloths, made of 
butcher's or momie linen, will save the table- 
cloth greatly, and they can be made at home 
very easily, and either fringed or hemstitched. 

— Rattan chairs that have become discolored 
may be made very pretty by a coating of black 
or golden brown paint and finished with a hand- 
some cushion. 

— Do your buttons ever come off? 
Make use of these two hints when you are 
sewing them on and see if they make any diff- 
erence. When you begin, before you lay the 
button on the cloth, put the thread through so 
that the knot will be on the right side. That 
leaves it under the button, and prevents it 
from being ironed and worn away, and thus 
beginning the loosening process. Then, before 
you begin sewing, lay a large pin across the 
button so that all the thread will go over the 
pin. After you have finished filling the holes 
with thread, draw out the pin and wind the 
thread round and round beneath the button. 
That makes a compact stem to sustain the 
possible pulling and wear of the buttonhole. 
It is no exaggeration to say that these buttons 
never come off. 




Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS-^ 

No. 387 Main streit, Grout's block. TerffCt satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

NEW VORK 

DRESSMAKING 

PARLORS ! 

Mme. Stone, 418 Main St. 

Fine Dressmaking from #5. Fit guaranteed. 
MiS.S M. E. TiBBETT.S, 

DRESS y MAKING * PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADK A SrEClALTV. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

»*WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—.AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

MISS EDITH L SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK RESIDENCE, 29 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

"Good Bread and Cake Doth Whet the Ap- 
petite." 

KiNE Bakery ! ! 

HIGHEST QUALITY ONLY". 

GEORGE G, FOX & CO,, 15 PLEASANT ST. 

All Goods Hot at 3.30. 



PLEASE NOTICE! 



AVE HAVE 



MISS HACKETT'S 

Home-Made Ginger Snaps. 

MRS. HUMPHREY'S 

Home-Made Cake and Salted Almonds. 

HON. J. H.WALKER'S 

Jersey Butter, fresh from his farm. 

W. S. LINCOLN'S 

Jersey Cream, fresh every day. 

THE OLD "JERSEY CREAM" FLOUR, 
Unsurpassed by any, at 

EBEN W. HOXIE'S, 

816, 818 and 305 Main Street. 



I. I (i H T 

For the Kitchen. 



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[I.ir.MT invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to lie good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per imly, and address the communications to Culinary 
Kditor, I.ic.MT, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Pies That Will Not Leak. 

After putting the under crust on the plate 
and trimming it, cut a strip of pastry of the 
thickness of the under crust, half an inch wide 
and lone: enough to reach around the plate, 
dip this in cool water and lay it on the under 
crust close to the edge, pressing it into place 
with the fingers. In filling the pie be careful 
not to spill sugar or anything else on this rim. 
If it becomes dry before you are ready to put 
the upper crust on moisten it again. Put on 
the upper crust, press it close to the rim until 
it adheres, and trim smoothly with a knife. 
Dip the finger in water and rub the edge of the 
pie until it seems like one pie from the plate 
all around. Make an opening in the middle 
of the upper crust for the steam to escape 
while cooking, and the pie is ready for the 
oven and warranted not to leak. 
Pumpkin Pie. 

One quart of pumpkin, stewed and sifted, 
three cups of sugar, four eggs, three pints of 
milk, one teaspoonful of ginger, or lemon to 
taste. Bake with one crust same as custard 
pies. 
Bean Soup. 

Soak one quart of small white beans over 
night in cold water. In the morning cut fine 
about two pounds of fresh lean beef and put 
in all the bones ; when it comes to a boil, skim 
and add the beans, and cook until the meat 
and beans are all cooked to pieces; strain 
through a colander, put back in a kettle and 
season with salt. Do not use pepper unless 
you are sure all your family like it. Keep hot 
until you wish to serve it. 
Chocolate Marble Cake. 

One cup of sugar, two cups of flour, one-half 
cup each of milk and water, three eggs, one 
teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and one-half 
teaspoonful of soda; when mi.xed, take one 
teacup of the mixture, stir in one tablespoon- 
ful of grated chocolate which has been soft- 
ened by setting in a saucer over the teakettle ; 
fill the pan one inch deep with the yellow bat- 
ter, then -make two or three circles of the dark, 
then a layer of the yellow, and continue till 
you have as much as wished in the pan. 

Home Pudding. 

Beat together two eggs, two tablespoonfuls 
of butter and one of sugar; add one cup of 
sweet milk and a full pint of flour sifted with 
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar ; one tea- 
spoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water. 
Steam thirty minutes. You .may add fruit 
when steamed one hour. 

Graham Cookies. 

One egg well beaten, one cup of sugar, one- 
fourth cup each of butter and sweet milk, one- 
half teaspoonful of soda, a little nutmeg, and 
graham to mix stiff. Mold them in flour, rub 
the top with white sugar and bake in a quick 
oven. Or if you have cream, use a cup of 
sour cream instead of the butter. 



Keuka 



Grape 

Catsup, 

New, Wholesome and Delicious ! 



This Catsup is made from carefully selected grapes, 
and retains that delicious and wholesome Havor which 
is the peculiar charm of that fruit, grown in the vine- 
yards surrounding Lake Keuka. The grapes used are 
as fresh and attractive as those found on one's table at 
home. The wholesome c|uality of this fruit is a well- 
known fact, and nearly every one has heard of the grape 
cure resorts of Europe, frequented by so many seeking 
a restoration to health. From the first the aim has been 
to retain the tonic quality peculiar to the grape, and 
after long and careful e.tperiments this has been accom- 
plished. This delicious condiment to be had at 

JOHN A. HARTIGAN'S, 

47 Pleasant Street. 

TURKIJH BATHS. 

F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
2 to 9 p. M. Sundays, 



9 to 1 



No. 6 Elm street, 

Opposite Lincoln House, 

Worcester, Mass. 




ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, Silver and Nickel Plating. 

Polishing:, Bronzing and Larquering*. 

Keplating Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. 3IASSICOTT, PKOI', 

Over Collar Laundry. Barton Place. Worcester. Mass. 

* GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

L. M. ALEXANDER, 

.At Hill & Tollman's old stand, 
195 FRONT ST. 



WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

KarttTn Place. 

COLLAKS AND CUFFS LAUNUKUEO IN .SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without e.xtra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. Cook: & Co., probes. 



W. A. ENGLAND, 

DEALER IN 

FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



ZO 

E. Boyden & Son, 

ARCHITECTS ! 

M. A. Boyden, 

Civil. EKCrlNEER, 

4(l<> Main St., Woiiester, Mass. 

I. REUBIN, 

MANUl- ACTURI-K AND I>EAI-1:K IN 

-^-PICTURE FRAMES AND M0ULDINGS4- 

Oil Paintiiigi<i, Cliroiuos, Kiigraviiigs, tSrc, &c. 

Picture frames to order a specialty, and orders 
promptly attended to. Art studies for sale or to rent. 
Prices will be found very reasonable on application. 
220 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

RICH MATTRESS CO., 



"When yitn want a j^ootl i 
or yoiu- old one made ovei 
We guarantee first-class w 



II y grade 
ir order. 



13 F*a.rl^ St., Worcester. 

4- WORCESTER DYE HOUSE^^ 



Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAMS & SON. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Eicttii^e Fran"ie N/l'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
iEiigraTings, £tcliuigs, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Ileuses. Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Parl< St., Worcester. 
JOHN G. SMITH, 

DEALER IN 

ANTIQUE FURNITURE, CROCKERY 

AND BRIC-A-BRAC. 

Special attention given to repairing after the original 
design. Also old books and pamphlets bought. 

53 LINCOLN ST., WOKCESTEK, MASS. 

CHAS. K. REED, 
T A X I D E R M I S 1 , 

AND DEJ LER IN 
NATUKALISTS' SUPPLIES, SHELL.S, ETC. 

White Doves "Wanted. 

262 MAIN STREET. 



The best and highest grade pianos only. A 
sell no clieap goods. 

C. i GQiAil k CO. 

E. L. S U M N E R, 

g- KROEGER&SONS g 
I WHEELOCK & CO. i 



WEBER 

PIANOS, (TABEK ORGANS) AT 

OSBORNE'S MUSIC STORE, 20 FRONT ST. 
Call for Catalogue of late popular music at 10 cents per 
copy. Everythmg in the music line at low prices. 



Compulsory Laughs. 

Quite Tasteful. 

"O Sophy! I hear you kissed Mr. Rondo, 
the poet, in the convervatory last night." 

"Um-m-m !" 

"Tell me. What was it like ?" 

"Well, he has a very pronounced literai^j' 
taste." — Puck. 
Not the Pliocene Age. 

Census taker — What is your age, madam 'i 

Ancient maiden — I am 21, sir. 

Census taker — Madam misunderstands me. 
I want to know your age now. — Lawrence 
American. 
Carpenter and Joiner. 

A young man led a blushing female into the 
presence of the Rev. Dr. Carpenter: "We 
want to be married," he said ; "are you the 
Rev. Dr. Carpenter ?" "Yes," replied the 
genial minister,"Carpenter and joiner." — Jifiin- 
sey^s weekly. 
A Fiery Jonah. 

First Young American : — Why wusn't yer 
up to de fire las' night, Chimmy ?" 

Second Young American (extremely dis- 
gusted) : — Iwus; but, just my luck, it wus put 
out de minit I got dare. I alius wus a Jonah 
on a fire, anyhow." — Harper''s Bazar. 
Change of Programme. 

American Heiress — Ma, a foreign lord has 
invited me to see the new tragedy with him 
to-night, and I see by the papers that the star 
is ill, and the drama will not be produced. It's 
awfully provoking. 

Ma — That does not matter, dear. You have 
seen that tragedy once, and no doubt some 
other play will be presented. Go with him, of 
course. 

American Heiress (after the show) — You 
sat through that comedy without a smile, and 
it was awfully funny, too. I nearly died in 
laughing. 

Foreign Lord — Why didna ye tell me it 
was a comedy? I buy seats for a tragedy. 
It Cost More. 

"Waiter," said the smart young man, push- 
ing his plate away from him, "you may bring 
me a glass of aqua pura to wind up with." 

The waiter, who had romped on Boston 
Common in the guileless days of his boyhood, 
brought a glass of water to the smart young 
man, and changed the figures in his check 
from 35 to 60. 
Some Other Students. 

Belle (suddenly) — I'm afraid all this talk 
about students is rather frivolous for Sunday." 

May (easily)— Oh, but they're all theologi- 
cal students, you know. — Harper's Bazar. 
Metalic Trousers. 

"What a wonderful age of invention it is!" 
said Mrs. Colonel Armymann ; "1 see they 
are now making wire cloth, and I'll have some 
this very week to put a seat in Johnny's every- 
day trousers." — Jlfe?r/u!nt Traveler. 

"Do you think Miss K. would marry me?" 
"Well, she looks like a smart girl — she might." 



TO LET. 



Modern tenement of five or nine rooms— five on one 
floor, with all the modern improvements. Furnace heat 
and large yard. Rent very reasonable. Apply at ii 
William street. 



FURNITURE * 



AND CARPETS. 



Our large spring stock is complete. Latest designs i 
all grades, and the best to be had for the money. 



* BEDROOM SUITES 



made by the most skilled workmen. A Sohd Ash Suite 
for $18.75. A handsomely finished suite, well made, hard 
wood, for $24. A Solid Oak Suite, an e.\tra bargain, at 
$30. A handsome, magnificent suite at $65, complete. 
And we could enumerate more than a hundred of these, 
every one a great bargain, and you will say so when you 
see tnem. 



* PARLOR SUITES * 

We carry a variety of styles. A nice suite at %\o. Ha 
Cloth or Plush. \ handsome suite at %bo. \\ e could 



* BABY CARRIAGES * 

Certainly our assortment of Baby Carriages cannot be 
excelled. We have positive beauties at very reasonable 

S rices. It will pay you to see these before you purchase, 
'ur Baby Sleeping Coach is now in stock, and we guar- 
antee that every Httle one so fortunate as to ride in one 
of these will be exceedingly happy. 



* REFRIGERATORS * 

of the best makes. Call and e.xamine our goods. 



THE C. F. ADAMS 

HOME FURNISHING HOUSE, 

25S-25e Ix^ain. St. 



C- L. GorhaiTi& Co- 

The Largest Store and Stock 

IN WOKCESTER. 

ARTHUR C. KING, 

In:iporter and Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Fresc<»iiig a Specialty. 

NO. 33 PEARL STKEET. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS Ul- 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

t»I.I> FK.VMKS I{K-<;ILI)K1). 

OLD KNGKAVINGS BLKACHED. 

30 Foster Street, Opp. Kink, Worcester, Mass. 



L. MERRIFIELD, 

AGENT FOR AM) DEALER IN 

First-Class Pianos and Organs, 

Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise of every de- 
scription. 
L.'VMB'S BLOCK, 43 PLEASANT STREET. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nicltel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

l.'i Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 



GOOD HEALTH AND GOOD LOOKS. 



Mme. Patti says : Good looks; which are 
nothing more than perfect bodily heaUh, are 
woman's stock in trade, while her talent, what 
ever it may be, is her capital. I have treasured 
both, but in doing so I had to forego many of 
the pleasures that the multitude of women 
enjoy. When I do not sing I go to bed as 
early as an infant, and I always sleep in a 
room without a fire. I have the window wide 
open because I do not think it wise or safe to 
breathe again the same air. Then I rest, not 
momentarily, but whole days at a time. I 
don't rock. I don't fret. I never read or allow 
people to tell me about the horriljle or grue- 
some, for those things distress aud worry me, 
which agitation can do nobody any good, and 
does me a great deal of injury. I not only be- 
lieve, but know for a certainty, that women 
fret away their youth and beauty. Care is a 
disease of the mind, and preys upon the body. 
I have no home cares to bother me, and I don't 
permit my friends to provide any. Mind, I 
like women and I love society, but one can 
pay very dearly for social intercourse and 
friendship." 



* STEINWAY PIANOS * 

The Acknowledged Standard of the World. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 



-f SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Claris B-o.ild.in.g', -iSS Ivv^aixi St. 

Room 43. Take Elevator. 

Next Term Begins .^pril 24. 

Instruction given in Elocution, Vocal Technique and 
Physical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
taught. Call, or send tor circular. Address Miss Stella 
M.Haynes, principal, graduate of N. E. Conservatory 
School of Oratory. 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

2-^5 ^.4:a,ii3. St., I^ooxn 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 

If ynn want a piano that will last a life-time, 
get the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all kading artists 

C. F. HANSON & CO, 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 
(Formerly with Hr. Cole. I 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FOR L.^DIES AND CHILDREN CiNI.V. 

3M Main Street, Corner Maple, « orce.ster. Mass. 

S^'Office hours— 9 to 12 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 
ment at the homes of patients by appointment if desired. 



BELLE E. BROWN, 

S3S ILvCs-iii St., 
Fasti ic^nalDle IVIillinery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long e.\peri- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 



L I (i HT 

Some Lines of Fashion. 

— Mrs. Frank Leslie says : Every woman 
has her own style, and she will never be well 
dressed until she has learned what it is, and 
learned to humor and encourage it. Are you 
tall, straight and of painful thinness.' Don't 
wear stripes or redingotes or tailor made wraps ? 
Are you quite tlie reverse ? Kscliew draperies 
and fiuffiness about the shoulders, and hori- 
zontal trimmings. I walked a little way yester- 
day behind an unfortunate lady, very sliort and 
very broad, who wore a velvet dolman reach- 
ing only to the waist in the back and very high 
upon the shoulders, and I was sorry for her. 

—In fitting high collars care must be taken 
not to cut the neck of the bodice too low when 
the person is thin, or the collar will wrinkle 
and break in front. A full neck and throat 
require a higher cut neck and lower collar. 
It is in such apparently trifling matters as this 
that the success of a dress and dressmaker 
greatly depends. New costumes have the 
sleeves either very full at the top or plainly 
fitted; no "happy medium" is allowed. 

— There is a great variety of leghorn hats 
this year. They are used at the seaside and 
mountains, and some ladies consider their 
wardrobe incomplete without half a dozen. It 
is not considered good form for a married 
woman to wear a hat with a calling costume, 
unless on rare occasions when her dress is of 
cloth, and then she must be a youthful married 
woman. 

— There is a tendency towards the revival of 
frills of lace falling deep over the hand from 
the very long sleeves now worn. 

— Turned-over collars and deep cuffs are 
made of colored batiste, ^cru, pale blue or rose, 
with knife-plaited ruffles of white linen lawn 
on the edge. 

— There is already noted a tendency to 
lengthen the Spring mantle, holding the ful- 
ness in a very few plaits at the wai.st-line in the 
back, and extending a few inches below. They 
are usually braided in self-colors, and have 
high, braided collars, or else there is a wired 
Medici collar formed of the new corded lace- 
like passementerie. 

— Liberty frocks for little girls, so-called be- 
cause of the famous fi,-ms who first introduced 
them, are charming because of their simplicity. 
They are quite straight from the neck to hem, 
and have full sleeves. Smocking at the neck 
in form of a yoke, and again at the wrists, is 
their only ornamentation, except, perhaps, a 
tuck. A broad, soft sash is tied loosely just 
below the waist, 

— .Sleeves of the new spring dresses are 
made very long, entirely covering the wrist. 

— Black hats and bonnets are almost univer. 
sal this spring. Grey straws are frequently 
seen in the milliners' windows, also hats in 
browns, greens, etc., but on the street, and at 
afternoon entertainments,as yet, one sees little 
but black. 

— Bags to match the dress are worn for even- 
ing as well as day use and are hung on the arm. 
The chatelaine bag at the side, with a hand- 
some clasp of oxidized silver, is a great favor- 
ite, for the useful purpose it serves, now that 
pockets in the dress are almost a forbidden 
luxury. 



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K. SiMMONDS, 

FINE MILLINERY GOODS, 



294 Main Street. 



Ladies thinking of purchasing 
Spring Millinery would do well to 
in.si)ect the stock of Trimmed and 
Untrimmed Goods and Millinery 
Novelties at 

K. 5innoNb5, 

294 Main Street, opp. Bay State House. 

Order Easter Hats now. 



A sunny, well-appointed Dining Room 
makes cheery the whole house. The best 
investment you ever make in house furnish- 
ing provides substantial and handsome Side- 
board, Table and Chairs for your Dining 
Room. Artistic merit, solidity, convenience 
and variety mark the new designs for 1890. 
Solid Oak Dining Room Sets, including a 
Sideboard, from $40 up. It will please you 
to look them over in our spacious ware- 
rooms. If you buy, we guarantee satisfac- 
tion, and deliver free in Boston and its 
suburbs, and the depots. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, 
139 Friend Street, 



oston, 



T. D. GARD, 

^•i> Worker in Gold and Silver * 

AND ISEGALIA M'F'G'K, 

393 Main St., Up One Flight, Worcester, Mass. 



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Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 3, ,890. 



No. 



It costs money to run a city like Worcester, 
taxes are high enough, and municipal econ- 
omy is to be practised in every possible direc- 
tion. The strictest economy, however, per- 
mits the expenditure of reasonable sums of 
money for pulilic convenience. Worcester is 
not laid out like a prairie city. The arrangement 
of her streets scorns geometrical angles. Wor- 
cester, from the eagle's eye, would look like 
Boston, a valley dotted with houses, a laby- 
rinth of roads. To find one's way in Worces- 
ter may be an easy matter for the letter-carrier 
or the policeman ; but the wayfarer, though 
wise, is liable to err in several directions. Few 
of the streets are labelled at the crossings, and 
none of the numbers are indicated, save on the 
house doors, which generally are so distant 
from the sidewalk as to forbid translation 
without a trip through yard and over steps. 
And the numbers — they play havoc with the 
laws of regularity. For instance, Pleasant 
street and Elm street run parallel from Main 
street, and their numbers begin at the same 
place, yet No. loo Elm street is twice as far dis- 
tant from Main street as is No. loo Pleasant 
street. The present system of number- 
ing houses, instead of spaces of desig- 
nated number of front feet, is annoying, 
especially when intervening houses are 
erected. Light suggests that every street in 
Worcester be indicated by a sign at the cross- 
ing; that sign, if possible, to be upon the glass 
of the street lantern, and that every street lan- 
tern bear the number of the house nearest to 
it. To do this would cost very little, and 
nothing in comparison to the resulting public 
convenience. 



Mr. Henry Clews, of the great banking 
house of Henry Clews & Co., of New York, 
writing to the Troy Budget upon "How to 
Become a Millionaire," says: "In order to 
become rich the young man just starting in 
life should choose that occupation or avoca- 
tion for which he has the most decided pref- 
erence. Many a man has his 'nose to the 
grindstone,' so to speak, throughout life, simply 
because he has chosen, or his relatives and 
friends have chosen for him, some business or 
profession to which he is not adapted, and 
which he finds is not congenial to him, while 
in a career for which nature and education 
had fitted him he might not only be happy and 
successful, but make his mark as a star of the 
first magnitude." One of the most mysterious 
dispensations of Providence is that which per- 
mits fathers to drive their sons into any busi- 
ness or profession, whether the boy has any 
ability in the chosen direction or not. While 
the father should exercise over the child a 
wholesome influence, and while he should di- 
rect in general, he has no right to assume 
monarchical power. Many a boy has reached 
his maiority,with theology pounded into him by 
a Puritanic mother and a hard-shelled father, 
when the love of mechanics was really a part 
of the young man's soul. Many a boy has 
been driven from the farm because his father 



made poor success of farming, and many a 
girl, who was a natural housekeeper, has been 
educated in flimsy art and skimmed-over lan- 
guage, which .she knew less about when she 
got through studying them, than she did be- 
fore she began. Besides taking care of the 
child's health, the parent has another great 
good to do for him— to discover what the child 
is good for, and to place favorable oppor- 
tunity for development in that direction con- 
stantly in the child's way, that he may not 
waste the most precious years of his life in go- 
ing in a dozen different directions, when he 
might just as well have begun and followed 
one line of thought and vocation. 



The newly-organized society, the Associated 
Charities of Worcester, starts out with every 
prospect of practical success. The recent 
meeting at Association Hall indicated en- 
thusiasm backed by willingness to work. 
President Stephen Salisbury very appropri- 
ately placed special stress upon that article in 
the by-laws which reads : "Persons connected 
with this society shall be bound by the follow- 
ing general and imperative principle of action: 
to wit, the complete severance of charitable 
relief and other charitable work of this society 
from all questions of religion, politics or 
nationality; and no visitor appointed by any 
district committee shall under any circum- 
stances use his or her position for purposes of 
proselytism." The key-note, the real founda- 
tion, the whole sum and substance of honest 
charitable work depends entirely upon a strict 
adherence to the principles in this brief arti- 
cle. The denominational philanthropist may 
accomplish good, but the fundamental princi- 
ple of his charity is wholly wrong. Well did 
Rev. W. H. Thomas of Cambridge put it, in 
relating a case of a family in his city, 
aided by a similar society, all the mem- 
bers of which were lifted from struggling 
poverty into respectable situations, that "it 
was only when they were all in their situations 
that I discovered that they were Catholic." 
In the great Book of Life it is cjuite probable 
that the Divine Book-keeper has ruled off no 
space for denominational preference. De- 
nominationalism is simply acting as a con- 
venience ; for that, it is worth supporting, for 
more than that, it has no claim in the economy 
of religion. 

Now is not the time to discuss the objects 
to be gained by no-license, or the legal justice 
of free rum, if such idea of justice exists. The 
salient points presented by both the liquor 
party and the prohibitionists, so far as present 
Worcester is concerned, belong in the dust. 
Worcester has legally, and with full intent, 
voted for the absolute abolishment of license. 
Now let the law take its course. The autlior- 
ities were chosen to follow the simple letter of 
the law. That letter stands before them in 
unmistakable plainness. The law, and notli- 
ing but the law, is what the voters voted for. 
Let them have it. 



There is a moral or something like it some 
where here. There is on exhibition at Asso- 
ciation Hall a copy of Munkacsy's wonderful 
painting of "Christ Before Pilate." The pic- 
ture is by a colored artist. It was exhibited in 
Boston, and Boston admired it. Of it the Bos- 
ton /Avv?/;/ said: "The work is pronounced 
by critics a perfect copy, and by some as ex- 
celling the original in coloring and expression." 
Professor Munsel, of the Normal Art School, 
is said to have said that he considered it su- 
perior to the original in tone of coloring. This 
picture has been upon exhibition just two 
weeks, lacking a day, and less than one hun- 
dred and fifty Worcesterians have viewed it. 
When it is considered that probably less than 
that number have seen the original painting, 
and that both the original and the copy por- 
tray the greatest event in the Volume of the 
Book, it is quite obvious that the religious 
art of Worcester is indisposed. 



Next Tuesday evening musical Worcester 
will be given opportunity to prove that her 
reputation is founded in fact. 



Sergeant Dunn, who is supposed to know 
all there is knowable about high pressures and 
low ones, and the variable variations of the 
atmosphere, says that the coming summer will 
be delightfully cool. His given reason is that 
the summer will be cool because the past 
winter was warm. If the weather scientist 
desires a more technical reason, he has it in 
the Sergeant's own words : "Since the first 
meteorological reports were tabulated, the 
weather average for a year has maintained 
itself within a variation limit of but five de- 
grees. Since the weather may be expected to 
keep within these bounds, an excess of heat 
in one season is counterbalanced by a corre- 
sponding excess of cold in another sea.son." 
Lk;ht isn't just now of a scientific turn, but 
under the old adage that fools sometimes hit 
the truth, it suggests that it would be just as 
well for Worcesterians to order light summer 
clothing this year, and to camphorize their 
furs. 

One of the editors of Light enjoyed a 
buggy ride the other day. There may be 
nothing particularly strange about it, save the 
usual light-hearted suggestion that editors and 
beggars generally travel by other convey- 
ances. The ride briefly covered the close-by 
residence portion of Worcester. Three times 
it became necessary to turn the buggy around 
in close or dangerous quarters, because the 
street ended at a stone wall or fence. The 
driver entered these streets quite naturally, for 
no sign or condition of the roads indicated that 
their termination was but a few rods from the 
entrance. It would seem advisable to prop- 
erly sign-mark such streets, so that annoyance 
as well as positive danger might be avoided. 
.-\ good beginning doesn't always mean a good 
ending in all of Worcester's supposed-to-be 
public highways. 



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-/7^C>(?CESTER.A\A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
1^~ Advertising rates upon application. 



NATH'L C. FOWLER, Jr., 
F. E. KENNEDY, 



Editors and 
Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 
Telephone No. 141-5. 

Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Readers of Light will be interested to know tiiat at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclop.Tdia. 

Worcester, Saturday, May 3, 1890. 
AN EXPLANATION. 



The engraving of the Worcester Armory, on 
the first page of this number of Light, is not 
up to the standard. The blame lies with the 
photographer, who by under exposure of the 
plate made it impossible for the engraver to 
produce the desired result. Unfortunately 
the mistake was not discovered until too late 
to rephotograph the building, or to substitute 
another engraving in its place. It is not likely 
a similar accident will occur again. 

About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



May 3 : Sun rises at 4.37 A. M.; sets at 
6.46 P. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 9 minutes. 
Full moon, May 4, 4 hours, 9 minutes, even- 
ing, E. 

Eben Francis Thompson, Esq., spent last 
Sunday with his friend, Mr. John A. Farley, at 
Newton. Mr. Farley is remembered as one of 
the brightest newspaper men whom Worcester 
has ever produced. He is now on the staff of 
the Boston Record. 



In Fulton, Oswego County, N. Y., last Tues 
day, Miss Mary Hamilton, a daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. William Hamilton, formerly of Wor- 
cester, was married to Mr. C. M. Allen, Rev 
Dr. D. M. Rankin of the Episcopal Church 
performing the ceremony. Miss Helen Kins- 
ley of this city was one of the bridesmaids, the 
others being Mi.ss Bertha Ballantyne of New 
ton, Mass., and Miss Abby Stephens of Ful 
ton. All the appointments of the wedding 
were very elegant. 



It was rather a small audience that greeted 
Emma Abbot and her opera company in 
"Ernani," last week, but they listened to a much 
better and stronger company than most on the 
road. "Honest Emma" has done much for her 



art and the stage, championing it when un- 
kindly assailed and always proving herself a 
woman of pluck and capacity. Her voice is 
not even good throughout, but she surely makes 
the most of it, and every summer finds her in 
Europe with V'iardot, having it patched and 
repaired with e.xercises and restoratives. 
Purette is a fine baritone and leads easily in 
the ranks of the other good artists composing 
the company. The chorus and orchestra were 
good, and were it not the fashion to laugh at 
Abbott, people would willingly and thought- 
fully call the presentation a success. It surely 
was much better than none. 



Marvin M. Taylor, Esq., was among the 
May-day movers. He has become a South- 
ender, changing his residence from Oread 
street to 18 Tirrell street. 



Senators Henry L. Parker and Alfred S. 
Pinkerton, of the First and Fourth Worcester 
Districts, attended a dinner given by Senator 
Edwin D. Metcalf, of the First Hampden Dis- 
trict, to his republican colleagues in the Senate, 
at the Tremont House, in Boston, Wednesday 
evening. The design was to bring the republican 
members together for a social conference on 
political matters. There was some informal 
talking, but no set speeches were delivered. 
A very pretty menu card bore on its first page 
the facetious legend : "The 12th joint rule will 
be suspended for the purpose of admitting this 
bill." The dinner was an elaborate one, and 
the gathering, while having no special political 
significance, was a very pleasant affair. 



The Matinee Whist Club met at the resi- 
dence of Mr. John B. Watson, 129 Pleasant 
street, Monday afternoon and played a num- 
ber of hands, Mrs. Hastings winning the first 
prize and Mrs. Wright the second. The club 
includes sixteen ladies, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Bick- 
nell, Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. Flagg, Mrs. Gariand, 
Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Hollis, Mrs. Hastings, Mrs. 
Pinkham, Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs. Sessions, Mrs. 
Seaver, Mrs. Ruggles, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. 
White and Mrs. Wright. 

Four gentlemen who are among the old res- 
idents of Worcester and can remember when 
the present generation of prominent men were 
schoolboys — one of them can certainly, for 
some of them went to school to him! — enjoy 
an hour or two every Saturday afternoon in 
playing euchre. What makes this quartet a 
particularly interesting one is the fact that the 
combined ages of the four gentlemen give an 
aggregate of 323 years, the oldest being 87 
years old, the next 82, the third 78, and the 
youngest 76. Quite a quartet of gray-haired 
and sociable old gentlemen. 



Next Tuesday evening, musical Worcester 
will have a rare musical treat. Almost un- 
hoped for, Mr. Abbey has announced to us 
that we are to have an opportunity to hear 
d'Albert and Sarasate. "Wizard of the Piano" 
has long been d'Albert's title and surely his 
marvellous technique and abandon, coupled 
with superb finish and elegance in his inter- 
pretations of the great masters, is beyond com- 
prehension till one has heard him. A veritable 
pupil — and, gossip says, a grandson — of the 
great Liszt himself, d'Albert equals or excels 
all other pianists. Sarasate might be called 



the Patti of the violin, for he e.xecutes as easily 
and as faultlessly upon his Stradavarius, 
loaned him by the Queen Regent of Spain for as 
long as he cares to use it, the difficult runs, 
roulades and cadenzas, as does la Diva similar 
passages in her various roles. His harmonics 
are exact and firm, no false tones or scrapes 
ever being heard. Mme. Marx, Senor Sar- 
aste's accompanist, is a soloist of reputation in 
European concert rooms, and Worcester has 
often raved over solo pianists who do not 
nearly equal her. As artists in their particular 
callings, Worcester has never heard their 
equals, except possibly in 1872 or '73, when 
Rubinstein and Weiniawski gave us a similar 
treat. Let the hall be filled, for the music 
lovers will enjoy it, while students will get a 
condensed course of lessons in each number of 
the program. Mechanics hall's capacity has 
been tested once this winter and the low prices, 
$1.50, $\, and 75 cents, ought to fill every seat. 
To hear Sarasate and d'Albert is an honor 
which many cities have striven for, but of the 
few dates left open before the expiration of 
Mr. Abbey's contracts, one was given to Wor- 
cester, but not until after great personal effort. 
Let Worcester prove herself a musical city and 
welcome these distinguished visitors with an 
audience worthy in size of a city like this. The 
scale of prices adopted for Worcester is about 
half that paid by the Boston, New York, and 
other publics. The program will be the one 
considered most attractive in these cities. The 
sale of seats is now in progress at Gorham's 
music store. It may be said that the smallest 
number of seats are held at J1.50, while there 
is a large number at 75 cents. Everybody can 
"afford'" to go. 



Mr. George S. Davis, Dr. J. M. Barton and 
Mr. George H. Harlow spent Thursday and 
yesterday in Connecticut, on a fishing trip. 



Trinity church had a very pretty May festi- 
tival, Thursday evening, with a sale of flowers 
and fancy articles, an entertainment by the 
children, and, finally, an expression of the 
people's regard for Dr. Thomas, the pastor. 
After the entertainment program, Mr. Charles 
W. Wood, who gracefully presided, called 
upon Dr. Emerson Warner to bring fonvard 
the pastor, and Dr. Thomas was presented 
with a beautiful etching, "The Gate of Venice." 
There was some pleasant speechmaking and a 
happy social time all round. 



Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mattoon lias taken 
rooms at the Aldrich House. 



Miss Florence M. Dodge, valedictorian of 
the twenty-sixth class of the State Normal 
School, has compiled a neat souvenir, of 
thirty-two pages, giving the program of the 
class supper exercises, class poem, class proph- 
ecy, etc. 

This has been a great week for Worcester 
Odd Fellowship, the special interest turning 
upon the celebrations of the seventy-first anni- 
versary of the founding of the order. Ridge- 
ley Lodge had a celebration Tuesday evening, 
with a pleasing entertainment, in which 
Messrs. Fred and Edward Crierie, C. W. 
Flynn, Mrs. F. D. Whipple and C. P. Johnson 
participated, the committee in charge including 
Messrs. C. P. Johnson, F. R. Crierie and 



Geori;e F. Stearns. Worcester Lodge cele- 
brated Wednesday evening, witli an entertain- 
ment and a social dance. The Odd Fellows' 
Quartet, including Messrs. W. F. Little, James 
A. Brennan, James H. Cafferty and Charles I. 
Rice, furnished music, as did Mrs. H. M. 
Johnson, soprano, and Miss SteUa M. Haynes, 
reader, Mr. Charles Ludwig, harmonica solo- 
ist, and Mr. L. C. Havener, with fancy club 
swinging, rendered further assistance. The 
committee in charge of the entertainment in- 
cluded Messrs. George J. Merritt, Theodore 
H. Day and Edward W. Dodge. On Wednes- 
day and Thursday the Daughters of Rebekah 
held a fair at Horticultural Hall, which proved 
a decided success. Altogether, the wearers of 
regalia have had a busy week. 



Mr. George Walker, formerly with E. 1!. 
Clapp, later with the Ouinsigamond Clothing 
Company, and later yet with J. William Smith 
and company, Boston, has returned to a posi- 
tion with Mr. Clapp. 



The last concert of the Gounod Club's fourth 
season will be given at Association Hall, Tues- 
day evening. May 13, Mr. Perry Averill being 
the assisting vocalist, while Mr. Ewald Wiess 
will appear as violinist. Mendelssohn's 
"Psalm XXIII.," a work occupying about 
twenty minutes, will be the chief work per- 
formed, Mrs. J. H. Howell, alto, taking the 
solo part. The numbers for ladies' voices 
will be "Ave Maria," Saint Saens, "Italian 
Barcarolle," Brahms, and "Maybells and 
Flowers" Mendelssohn; the gentlemen will 
sing Mr. Anderson's "Before the Dawn," Mr. 
Benjamin A. Barber singing the solo ; and for 
mixed voices the numbers are "Goodnight, 
Beloved," and "Spring Song," Pinsuti, 
Dvorak's "Woodland Angelus," "Good mor- 
row," Cowen, and "Come and Trip It O'er the 
Fallow," Marzials. Mr. Averill will sing for 
one number a recitative and aria from Verdi's 
"Un ballo in Maschera" and for his second 
number, two songs, "Apart," Van de Water 
and "Fair is my Love," Hatton. Mr. Weiss' 
numbers are not yet announced. A limited 
number of single admission tickets to the con- 
cert can be obtained at Gorham's. 



Mr. Fred W. Lamb has left a position with 
Edward B. Clapp to enter the employ of 
Marsli and Royce, the confectioners. 



Mr. Frank H. Mason, the tenor of Plymouth 
Church choir, is quite seriously inconvenienced 
by an attack of bronchitis, which confines him 
to his home, at 9 John street. Last Sunday 
Mr. W. F. Merrill sang in his place. Mr 
Mason's friends will be an.xious to see him in 
health again. 

Rev. M. H. Harris has really gone from 
among us and is now in Chicago, where he will 
preach his first sermon as pastor of the Church 
of the Redeemer, to-morrow. The last week of 
his stay in Worcester was made one of pleas- 
ant and yet regretful leave-takings, Mrs. Harris 
being a sharer with him in the regard of the 
people. Last Monday evening. Rev. Mr. 
Harris was tendered a reception at the First 
Universalist church vestry, by the members of 
his Sabbath school class, and they presented 
him with an album containing their photo- 
graphs, 80 in number, and an accompanying 



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album of autographs. That same afternoon 
the ladies of the church surprised Mrs. Harris 
with a gift of several fine pieces of jewelry. 
Tuesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Harris held 
an informal reception in the church vestry and 
parlors, being assisted in receiving by Rev. 
and Mrs. Francis A. Gray of All Souls church. 
Wednesday morning, Mr. and Mrs. Harris 
started for Chicago. They will be missed and 
affectionately remembered by hundreds of 
friends outside as well as within the churcli 
where they have labored. 



Mr. Fred liartlett of Worcester took part in 
concert at LJpton, last week Friday evening. 



It seems odd in these days to read aljout 
girls taking prizes for excellence in cooking. 
Our grandmothers used to do that, and our old 
town traditions have yielded our story-writers 
a deep fund of such reminiscences; but to-day 
it is something unusual. The cooking school 
of All Saints' Church, however, had an enter- 
tainment, Tuesday evening, and awarded prizes 
for e.xcellence in cooking to Miss Emma Waite, 
for bread; Miss Bertha Whipple, for muffins; 
and Miss Annie Newhall, for cake. 



Hon. Velorous Taft of Upton has been 
somewhat indisposed of late. His friends in 
Worcester will expect that these pleasant days 
may bring him to Worcester streets again soon. 



Membership Secretary George H. Robbins 
left Thursday for Philadelphia, and will return 
sometime next week. 



Major Nathan Taylor attended the meeting 
of the trustees of the Odd Fellows Home, at 
Boston, Tuesday. The trustees will acton the 
plans for the Home as soon as the city council 
takes action concerning the^highway which it 
is proposed to construct to the Home. 



Mr. W. A. Denholm and his son, William J. 
Denholm, have been in Washington for several 
days this week. 

A party of Miss Nellie Gilson's friends gave 
her a quiet little surprise at her home, 13 Fair- 
held street, on Friday evening of last week, 
and offered congratulations appropriate to a 
birthday anniversary, which she celebrated the 
next day. The evening was spent in a very 
pleasant way and before leaving, Mr. Charles 
D. Sherman, speaking for the friends present, 
presented Miss Gilson with a willow rocker. 
Those present included Messrs. Charles D. 
Sherman, Edward F. Sherman of Boston, J. 
William Jernberg, Walter A. Smith, E. H. 
Robinson, H. L. Jillson, E. H. Rockwell, 
George A. Lackey, Willie Rice, George Ban- 
croft, and Mr. Kent, Mrs. J. W. Jernberg, 
Misses Jessie E. Upson, Lena H. Warfield, 
Cora A. Durgin, Minnie F. Adams, Minnie A. 
Farnsworth, Bertha L. Lackey, Ruth Dev- 
ereaux, Ida M. Brownhill, and Flora Curtis. 



The Pilgrim Ladies' Aid Society especially 
invited the mothers to bring their babies to 
their regular Tuesday afternoon meeting, 
which was responded to by twenty babies un- 
der five years, the youngest being four months. 
Besides these there were five under ten years, 
and these with fifty-one adults caused 
the church parlor to put on a merry ap- 
pearance. There were babies with eyes as 



tilack as black can be, and babies with eyes 
as blue as summer skies, babies that have just 
found what feet are for, and full of fun that 
keeps their mamas busy, and the quiet babies 
that sat still and surveyed the scene with calm 
and seemingly thouglitful wonder, the babies 
that were willing to go to any who talked to 
them, and those whose mamma was the only 
one to them. I'^ery baby seemed to enjoy the 
time riglit well, tlie only protest being when 
tlieir bonnets were put on. The hour set for 
coming was three o'clock, and it was nearly 
six when the parlor was left alone. It was an 
afternoon full of good will and sociability, and 
all said it was a success. 



JuneS will lie Children's Sunday in the 
churches, this year. 



Class No. 4 of St. John's Episcopal church 
is to present a very pretty little operetta, 
"Anita's Trial," at the parish hall, Lincoln 
street, next Wednesday evening. It deserves 
a generous patronage. 



One of our Worcester mechanics, Mr. 
Charles H. Wooilcock, of the West Side 
Machine Company, has an application pend- 
ing for a patent on his recent invention, the 
Woodcock Universal Door Opener. This de- 
vice is very ingenious and at the same time so 
simple that its advantages can readily be seen. 
It is the principle of the gun-lock applied to 
any door, and consists in a simple knob, re- 
sembling an electric bell knob, in the casing 
of the door. A pressure upon the knob on 
either side opens the door, a benefit which will 
be appreciated by anyone with an armful of 
bundles. Mr. Woodcock claims it cannot 
wear out or pull off, and Light is greatly mis- 
taken if the builders of Worcester do not .soon 
e(|uip their houses with this useful invention. 



LlOHT was misinformed last week, regarding 
the pleasing concert given in Leominster by 
Worcester talent, to the extent of reporting 
Mrs. Cornelia M. Coxe as one of the pianists 
of the evening. Mrs. Coxe had intended 
to play, but a recent affliction obliged her to 
cancel the engagement, and Mrs. Georgie 
Bacon Pickett and Mrs. Frank W. Ruggles 
supplied her place in the program. 



Capt. Frank L. Child has returned from a 
three weeks trip to Washington. 



A representative Worcester audience was 
present at Association Hall, Thursday evening, 
to listen to dramatic readings by Mr. Franklin 
McLeay, the leading support of Wilson Bar- 
rett. The program was of varied character, 
well calculated to present the versatile talents 
of the actor-reader. It would be difficult to 
render more touchingly Sarah Winter Kell- 
ogg's "Second Trial," than did Mr. McLeay. 
Tears glistened in the eyes of more than one 
of the audience, and they were not ashamed 
of them. Mark Antony's oration was both 
read and acted with strong effect. The hum- 
orous numbers were extremely well given. Mr. 
McLeay is to be congratulated. Mrs. Piper's 
piano solos were much enjoyed. The pro- 
ceeds are for the benefit of Mrs. J. C. Cutter's 
ladies' gymnasium. 

Miss Nannie Bartlett of Boylston has been 
spending the week with friends in this city. 



Worcester's New Armory. 

Worcester has not to-day nor is it likely to 
have in the immediate future, a public build- 
ing more sasisfactorily designed and con- 
structed, for the uses it is to serve, than the 
new home provided for the local companies of 
the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Light 
has already had something to say about Wor- 
cester's militia men, and its readers will not 
be surprised to find it asserting that the boys 
who carry the guns deserve their new quarters. 
They have been cooped up in seven by nine 
rooms long enough. Their enthusiasm hasn't 
had a chance to expand. But they have little 
more time in which to grumble, and when they 
actually come into possession of the new quar- 
ters, they will have reason to feel grateful for 
the provisions made for their comfort. 

The new Armory building is, in fact, one of 
the finest of its sort ever erected, certainly in 
this section, probably in the whole country. It 
is an ornament to the city and a credit to the 
Armory Commission. It has been built rapidly 
and well. 

In September, i88S, the city council accepted 
the armory act,which provides that cities having 
two or more companies of militia may build 
armories under the provision of the enactment. 
Worcester thought it could put ^125,000 into 
an armory, and the Armory commission at 
once began work on that basis. It should be 
understood that in building armories, the state 
furnishes the cash, which the city refunds by in- 
stalments, so to speak, creating a sinking fund 
to wipe out the debt. When the building is 
thus paid for, it becomes the city's property, 
but must be used for military purposes, and no 
rent can be charged the state. 

The Armory commission's first work was to 
select a site, and they had a hard time of it. 
The advice they received would have been suf- 
ficient to start the world over on a new and 
improved plan. General Pickett, the Worces- 
ter member of the commission, was in the thick 
of it, but he kept very cool and smoked his 
cigar just as calmly as ever, and through all 
the pulling and hauling knew how to do just 
the right thing. The commission really knew 
a little more about building armories than their 
advisers did, and they chose the site at the 
junction of Grove and Salisbury streets. There 
were several good reasons for this choice, and 
the chief one was that the building could never 
be surrounded by other buildings which would 
shut out its light or render it indefensible in 
case of riot. For since it is the unexpected 
that always happens, Worcester may have a 
riot some day. We do not expect it, but then, 
the Injun who sat down on the site of Chicago 
a hundred years ago, and smoked a pipe of 
peace, never expected that in 1S92 there would 
be a World's Fair there. As it stands, the new 
Armory is a perfect fortress. On three sides 
it has only the roadway ; on the other is public 
land — the Salisbury street schoolhouse lot. 
No chance for big blocks to creep up under 
the eaves. 

The site was chosen in November, iSSS, and 
the building was commenced in April, 1889. 

And the Armory is a piece of Worcester 
work, throughout. Fuller and Delano made 
the plans, and Cutting and Bishop assumed 
the work of building, brick and brownstone 
being their materials. The land cost $23,000, 



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leaving $102,000 for the building, and the cost 
will come inside the appropriation. 

In a very few days it will be turned over to 
the state. There remains a little "slicking up" 
to do, but practically the building is finished, 
and only awaits the furniture. It repays a vis- 
itor for his inspection, especially if he makes it 
under the agreeable pilotage of General 
Pickett, as one of Light's staff did a day or 
two since. 

Looking up Salisbury street from Lincoln 
Square, the Armory has a most imposing front 
and the unobstructed view is a fine one. 
Nearing the building, the carved stonework 
over the main entrance catches the eye. In 
the center is the seal of the city, and the heart 
surrounded by the brief words of history never 
looked better. To the left and right are 
carved heads representing, one a battery man, 
and the other an infantry soldier — the two 
branches of the service. 

Beeind the great iron gates is a massive 
door, which swings outward to admit the visi- 
tor, and then he steps into the corridor. Set 
in the left wall is a pretty marble drinking foun- 
tain, and over it is a bronze tablet, whereon is 
lettered: — 

WORCESTER ARMORY. 

ERECTED A. D. 18S9. 
OLIVER AMES 

GOVERNOR 

SAMUEL DALTON 

ADJUTANT GENERAL 

JOHN W. LEIGHTON 

BOSTON 

GEN'L JOSIAH PICKETT 

WORCESTER 

JOSEPH N. PETERSON 

SALEM 
COMMISSIONERS 
FULLER AND DELANO CUTTING AND BISHOP 

ARCHITECTS BUILDERS 

The corridors and the rooms of the building 
are wainscoted in oak, beautifully finished. 
Not the least impressive thing about the build- 
ing is the iron work. All the trimmings are in 
dull black iron— chandeliers, door-knobs, etc., 
and its appropriateness in such a building, in 
preference to brass or other metal, strikes one 
at once, and very pleasantly. Another thing 
to be noted is that every door-knob bears the 
state arms, in relief. 

All the rooms are plain, but lighted to per- 
fection, and ever)' room in the building has a 
fireplace. On the lower floor, to the right of 
the corridor, are the reception room, the regi- 
mental headquarters and the ofificers' rooms. 
On the opposite side of the corridor is the 
battery company room and rooms for the com- 
missioned and non-commissioned officers. On 
the second floor are two infantry rooms with 
officers rooms and rooms for dress and undress 
uniforms, etc., and on the third floor are two 
more similiarly arranged. The fourth floor 
makes a large hall, designed for a mess room, 
and has a kitchen adjoining. If the compa- 
nies were to have a ball or a fete of any sort, 
and wanted supper served, here would be the 
caterer's paradise. 

It will be noted that there are four rooms, 
finished alike, designed for infantry. The 
local companies are wondering which ones 
they will get. Of course, there will be one 
vacant room, but that is a wise provision for 
the future. As it is, one company will have to 
go up one flight above the others. Will it be 
the Infantry, the City Guards, or the Emmets? 



The Battery boys, of course, are provided for 
below, and so are out of it. It all rests with 
Adjutant General Dalton, When the building 
is placed in his care, he will decide it, and 
probably he will let the companies draw lots 
for the rooms. There is no choice save as 
between upstairs and downstairs. 

In the basement are the lavatories, gotten 
up in hotel style, "regardless of e.xpense." 
They are certainly models of their kind and 
leave no excuse for untidiness. Each company 
also has a storeroom. The division of the ar- 
tillerj- from the infantrj' is carried out below as 
it is above, the battery having its lavatory on 
the west side, while that of the infantry, natur- 
ally more extensive, is on the east. Each side 
has its own stairway to the floor above. 

The target range, also on the ground floor, is 
something having special interest. The firing 
room is at the front end of the building and has 
two narrow openings on the side of the range. 
Then comes a second room or compartment, 
with two similar openings. Through the first 
the rifle barrel is pointed. The bullet must 
pass through the second. It speeds through a 
square, dark tunnel to the target at the farther 
end, the range being i6o feet. The target ar- 
rangement is perfect. By means of reflectors, 
a brilliant light is thrown upon the targets, of 
which there are two. The man in charge, 
though entirely out of range, has, as an addi- 
tional precaution, a large shield of boiler iron, 
with a narrow peep-hole through which he 
looks at the target. He notes the effect of the 
shot and then,turning to a convenient speaking- 
tube, communicates with the firing room. Then 
he attends to the targets. These are arranged 
to work in grooves, by pulleys and ropes, and, 
standing far outside the range, the target man 
pulls the target to him, does whatever he wishes 
with it and then, by means of the rope, returns 
it to its original position. An electric bell, 
whose button he presses, announces his readi- 
ness for renewed firing. He has never any 
need to go within range. The safety is abso- 
lute, and it is an important thing. Behind the 
targets, which are of thin boards, is a sloping 
steel plate to shed the bullets. 

Mention has been made of the compartment 
next the firing-room. It would, naturally, be 
filled with smoke, obstructing the marksman's 
sight, and the remedy is found in a large hori- 
zontal shaft of iron, connecting with a flue in 
the adjoining room. A fan, operated by a 
water motor at will, creates a tremendous 
draft, and keeps the closed room always free 
from smoke. 

So much for the main building; but the drill 
shed awakens still more admiration. A room 
160 feet long and 72 feet wide, with a floor of 
narrow matched maple boards : splendid iron 
girders overhead, and a roof painted a light '- 
yellow, with windows letting in a flood of light ; 
all this is what you admire when you step in 
from the first corridor of the main building. It 
is a magnificent room. No wonder the boys 
wanted to dance on that floor. Above, reached 
from the second floor of the Armor)- proper, is 
the reviewing stand, a comfortable balcony 
made of southern pine, the same wood, by the 
way, being used for finish below stairs. Very 
handsome it is, too. There are twelve of the 
great iron chandeliers, but three electric lights 
will be introduced, also. A dozen radiators ] 
are set next the walls, and between them seats j 



are to be placed. A gate on the west side, at 
the north end, affords entrance to the artillery 
park, and from a wide door on the same side, 
near the center of the shed, the artillery finds 
egress to Salisbury street. 

If the visitor cares to climb up some very 
steep ladders in the tower, which looks so im- 
posing from the street, he will get a magnifi- 
cent view, but it will be through narrow embra- 
sures, a little at a time. He must remember 
that this building is actually a fort. In the 
drill shed below are small port-holes ; on the 
main building frequently occur narrow embra- 
sures, so that the building is enfiladed on all 
sides, and from the roof of the main building 
and the tower, where the ramparts rise high 
above a man's head, the besieged could readily 
pick off insurgents below. There are two 
small towers at the north end of the drill shed, 
which serve the same purpose. 

The building is perfect in all its appoint- 
ments. Of the four armories which Massachu- 
setts has, two in Boston, one in Lowell and one 
in Worcester, it is easy to believe that the last 
named is the best. 

And Worcester should not forget the part 
that her own Commissioner has had in giving 
to the city so noble a structure. No name 
upon that bronze tablet is entitled to a more 
honorable position there than that of General 
Josiah Pickett. He has made himself a per- 
sonal superintendent of the work. Every day 
has found him at the new building, serving the 
state as faithfully as he has served his country 
and his country's government, and always 
doing it quietly and unostentatiously. 

There will be no "opening ball" such as the 
militia-men hoped to have, for there have been 
delays in preparing for the opening. But 
when the commissioners turn the building over 
to the state, perhaps Gov. Brackett and his 
staff may come up and inspect the new build- 
ing, and see how well the work has been done. 

America ought never to have need of stand- 
ing armies when it provides such quarters as 
these for its volunteer soldiers ; and it never 
will. Such a work can never fail of apprecia. 
tion among the citizens of the republic. 



Mr. E. N. Anderson's work was appreciated 
at the last concert given by the New York 
Rubinstein Club, at Chickering Hall, April 17. 
His "Wind of Evening" proved interestingly 
original and descriptive. Of the other number 
we quote from Freund's Music and Drama, 
the standard musical authority : "But, un- 
doubtedly, the greatest sensation of the even- 
ing was created by the singing of Anderson's 
arrangement of Sullivan's 'Lost Chord,' ren- 
dered with wonderful taste and precision, and 
accompanied on the organ by Louis Dressier. 
Both in arrangement and execution this selec- 
tion was faultless, and left a memory long to be 
cherished by all who heard it. The enthus- 
iasm was great and an encore was strenuously 
demanded, only to be accorded after a long de- 
lay. The ladies of the Rubinstein chorus, by 
the way, include a number of our very best 
church soloists. The altos are led by Mrs. 
Raymond (Annie Louise Gary.) That they 
should sing so well therefore, is not surprising." 



At the druggists':— April 30, BIRCH beer; 
-May I, birch BEER. 



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From College Corridors, 

Harvard University. 

Col. Samuel E. Winslow was in Cambridge, 
Tuesday, an interested witness of the bal 
playing of the Varsity Nine. Col. Winslow's 
success in the captaincy of the famous '85 
nine has not been forgotten and his criticisms 
have a decided interest for the players. 

Mr. George E. Partridge, who entered col- 
lege last fall with many honors, is receiving tlie 
benefit of a $250 scholarship which he has won 
Ijy his brilliant work. 

Mr. Arthur C. Higgins has resigned from 
the Varsity Glee Club. 

Mr. Harry A. Plympton, formerly of Wor- 
cester, is a student at the Harvard Law School. 

The final examinations begin Saturday, May 
31, and end Thursday, June 19. 

The most exciting game of base ball yet 
played on home grounds was that of Monday, 
when Harvard beat Brown University by a 
score of 7-5. 

Yale. 

Thomas G. Shearman, '89, who is not a 
Worcester man, to be sure, but has friends in 
Worcester and has frequently visited here, has 
broken the record of 5 feet, 8 inches, in high 
jumping, made by himself, by jumping 5 feet, 
lo's inches. 
Cornell. 

Four representatives of Worcester call Cor- 
nell their Alma Mater, and they succeed in 
doing their share in various ways in booming 
college matters. Miss Mary Goddard is one 
of the most popular young ladies in the fresh- 
men class and is a leader in all Sage College 
events. 

George C. and Herbert F. Burrage are very 
active workers in the College Christian Asso- 
ciation, occupying important positions on com- 
mittees. L. E. Ware is one of the editors of 
the Cornell Daily Sun, and is interested in the 
Tennis Association. 

Two Worcester school teachers are taking 
advanced work here now. They spent a term 
at Oberlin but decided to change to Cornell. 
Tlie ladies referred to are Miss S. M. Averett 
and Miss A. P. Smith. 

The new athletic field has just been opened, 
and the ball team plays there regularly. We 
have not lost a game yet this season. Lafay- 
ette is here ne.xt week, and we await them an.x- 
iously. 

Cornell is justly famous for its fine crews. 
This year's crew is the best ever sent out. The 
freshmen crew is the first organized since 1878, 
when the Cornell freshmen beat the Harvard 
freshmen. The men are light, but row in good 
form. 

The \'arsity's first race is with Bowdoin, on 
June I S, on our own course. This is the first 
time the crews have met since the great race 
on Lake Ouinsigamond in 1887. 

Psotta, champion single sculler of America 
left for Europe Wednesday. He will wear 
Cornell's colors in the Henley regetta, July 2. 
Mr. Psotta has many friends in Worcester, 
where he won a race in 18S8. 
Amherst College. 

The announcement of the Kellogg Fifteens 
found all of the Worcester boys in the two 
classes upon the list, Messrs. C. E. Burbank, 



C. E. Hildreth and W. H. Hildrelh from '92, 
and L. T. Reed from '93. The preliminary 
contest for the Kellogg Fives will be held 
May 12. Worcester seems to be well repre- 
.sented, as usual, in the oratorical department. 

President Seelye has resumed his duties in 
the college, but his health is but little, if any, 
better than when he left in the Fall term. 

Mr. G. Henry Whitcomb, of the Board of 
Trustees, was present at Prof. Mather's 
funeral, two weeks ago. 

Mr. (ieorge B. Churcliill, 'Sy, has been in 
town for a few days this week. 

Wednesday, May 7, will be a gala day at 
Amherst. The light gymnastic exhibition 
will be held in the afternoon, followed immedi- 
ately by the opening game in the champion- 
sliip series between Amherst and Williams. 
In the evening the Lester prize speaking will 
take place. 
Wellesley College. 

Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, formerly the 
president of Wellesley College, is to deliver 
the annual address for Commencement, at the 
Worcester Normal School, Thursday, June 26. 
From Williams. 

Williams is slowly getting into condition for 
the Worcester sports. 

Our nine out-batted and out-fielded Vale on 
Wednesday, but were beaten 5 to 2. Yale 
made but three hits off Spaulding. 

The college base ball championship sea.son 
opens at .Amherst on Wednesday, when the 
home team will play our boys. We will work 
hard for another pennant. 

The Williams nine will make its first ap- 
pearance in Worcester on the day following 
the Amherst game. They will play Holy 
Cross. 

Last Sunday was the first unpleasant one 
which we have had in some time ; but the rain 
could not interfere with the specially interest- 
ing services arranged by some of the churches 
for that day. The Pleasant Street Baptist 
people held their last services in the old 
house. Rev. H. J. White, the pastor, preaching 
a historical sermon, beside which the Sunday 
School held exercises of its own. At the 
South Baptist, Rev. A. T. Raymond, of Mont- 
pelier, Vt., occupied the pulpit, which is still 
wanting a settled pastor. Rev. J. F. Lovering 
and Rev. W. V. W. Davis exchanged pulpits, 
the former preaching at Union Church, and 
the latter at the Old South. Rev. George E 
Lovejoy, of Franklin, preached at Salem 
Street Church, and Rev. 1. J. Lansing 
preached at Franklin. Rev. George H. Gould, 
D. D., preached at Park Church in the morn- 
ing, and Rev. George Morton in the evening. 
Rev. Mr. Morton also preached at Summer 
Street Church, in the morning. Rev. C. M. 
Southgate repeated his Fast Day sermon to 
boys, in the evening, the Worcester Academy 
cjuartet assisting, and a large delegation of 
Highland cadets was present, as well as a 
considerable number of students from Worces- 
ter ."Xcademy. At Plymouth Church, Rev. 
Arthur Little, D. D., of Boston, occupied the 
pulpit. Rev. Eugene Rodman Shippen, of 
Washington, D. C, preached at the Church of 
the Unity, where his father, Rev. Rush R. 
Shippen, was formerly pastor. Rev. Francis 
A. Gray preached to the South Unitarians at 
their afternoon service. To-morrow will be 
communion Sunday in the Congregational 
churches, and some of the others as well. 



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About Folks. 



Light wishes it had a whole page in which 
to tell about the gathering at Continental hall, 
Thursday afternoon, when about 200 ladies 
representing the Ladies' Aid Association of 
Boston, of the Soldiers' Home of Massachu- 
setts, were entertained by Worcester ladies. 
A dinner was served on attractively arranged 
tables and there was a business meeting, with 
a number of very interesting speeches by ladies 
in attendance. The "lady residents" of this 
city are Mrs. Fred W. W'ellington, Mrs. 
Charles H. Pinkham, Mrs. B. F. Clough, Mrs. 
E. W. Woodis, Mrs. S. A. Davenport, Mrs. 
O. W. Norcross, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Mrs. 
Samuel R. Heywood, Mrs. Emily Ward, Mrs. 
Woodbury Smith, Mrs. J. A. Clemence, Mrs. 
D. E. Burbank, Mrs. S. J. Bullardand Mrs. A. 
B. F. Kinney, and the affair was under their 
direction. Mrs. Wellington, to whom is due a 
large share of the credit for the great success 
of the affair, was given three rousing cheers 
and a tiger, by the ladies present. 



Mr. Frank W. Chaffin, the cornetist, is to 
study with Prof. Shuetuk of Boston, devoting 
all his time to the study of that instrument. 



It has been hard work; Manager Rock 
has worked day and night ; the work is nearly 
acomplished ; the new theatre opens, with about 
everything in place, Monday evening; and all 
who can get there will be there. It will be the 
event of dramatic Worcester. 



Ivers Phillips, whom the old residents of 
Worcester know well, writes from Boulder, 
Col., that he has enjoyed the reading of Light 
greatly and wants to know if he was forgotten 
when Light talked about Worcester's militia 
companies and their history. He was not for- 
gotten, however, although through some acci- 
dent his name was omitted from the list of for- 
mer captains of the Worcester Light Infantry. 
Captain Phillips has an honorable record in 
the militia. 

The program of music at the Old South 
Church, to-morrow evening, will include a so- 
prano solo and chorus, "Oh for the wings of 
a dove," Mendelssohn, the solo by Mrs. J. W. 
Mitchell; a quartet for mixed voices, "Come 
Holy Spirit," Millard ; quartet for male voices, 
"Lead Kindly Light," Dyke, the quartet includ- 
ing Messrs. Thomas B. Hamilton, Harry A. 
Cook, Charles J. Marshall and John W. 
Mitchell. The services begin at 7 o'clock. 



State Inspector of Buildings J. B. Willard 
spent Monday in Fitchburg, looking over 
buildings in that city. 



The copy of Munkacsy's painting, "Christ 
Before Pilate," by Primus, the colored artist, 
has attracted considerable attention since it 
was placed on exhibition at the Y. M. C. A. 
building, and is pronounced by those who have 
seen the original to be an excellent work. It 
certainly seems to be such to the ordinary ob- 
server. 

Light suggests that the sweep-boys of 
Main street do not include in their sidewalk 
sweepings paper and boxes, which are swept 
into the street. 



The annual meeting of the Worcester Con- 
tinentals will occur on Wednesday evening. 
May I, at their armory, for the election of offi- 
cers. Gentlemen, intending to join the com- 
mand at this time can obtain enlistment blanks 
of chairman of the membership committee, 
Captain Charles E. Davis, 436 Main street, or 
of any other member of the corps. 



Mr. Ben T. Hammond gave his 36th pupils' 
recital at his rooms, 452 Main street, last Wed- 
nesday evening, Mr. Charles H. Grout furnish, 
ing most acceptable assistance as pianist. Mr 
Hammond's closing recitals for the season will 
take place at Horticultural Hall, June 26 and 
27. The program Wednesday evening was 
made up of operatic numbers, which the pupils 
rendered in a most satisfactory way. The 
program : 

DUETT. "Holy Mother, Guide His Foot- 
steps. " (Maritana) Wallace 
Miss Webber and Miss Warren. 
ROMANZA. "Deh non Voler Costringere." 

(Anna Bolena) Donizetti 

Miss Maud A. Knowlton. 
ROMANCE. "In My Wild Mountain Valley." 

(Lily of Killarney) Benedict 

Miss Agnes B. Gallagher. 
SONG. "When Other Lips." (Bohemian 

Girl) Batfe 

Mr. J. Edward Fuller, Jr. 
CAVATINA. DoveSono." (Le Nozze di 

Figaro) Mozart 

Miss Jennie I. Webl^er. 
SCENA ED ARIA. "Tu Che la Vanita." 

(Don Carlo) Verdi 

Miss Lilla B. Houghton. 
SONG. "In Happy Moments." Wallace 

Mr. Eugene A. O'Connor. 
PIANO SOLO. Eleventh Rhapsodie Hon- 

groise. Liszt 

Mr. Charles H. Grout. 
REGIT. AND ARIA. "Lasciach'io Pianga." 

(Rinaldo) Handel 

Miss Mary E. McLaughlin. 
REGIT. AND ARIA. "Oh Happy Days." 

(Star of the North) Meyerbeer 

Mr. Addison E. McGaffey. 
SCENA E ROMANZA. "Involontaria 

vittima." (I PromessiSposi) Ponchielli 

Miss M. Annie Warren. 
SONG. "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble 

Halls." (Bohemian Girl) Balfe 

Miss Jessie L. Pond. 
REGIT. AND CAVATINA. "Salve Dimora." 

(Faust) Gounod 

Mr. John B. Ratigan. 
ARIA. "O don Fatale." (Don Carlo) Verdi 

Miss .^gnes Mannix. 

TRIO. "Life has no Power." (Behsario) Donizetti 

Miss Houghton, Mr. Fuller and Mr. Hammond. 



Miss Stella M. Haynes's School of Elocu- 
tion was well represented by the pupils who 
participated in the first recital, given at Curtis 
Hall on Friday evening of last week. The 
pupils participating were Mrs. Charles A. 
Richardson, Mrs. W. A. Newgent, Mrs. Hattie 
E. Price, Miss Ida Fitch, Miss Ada M. White 
and Miss Corinna Reubin. The Cecilia Quar- 
tet of ladies assisted. 



Rev. A. H. Vinton and Rev. Austin S. 
Garver have made plans to spend their vaca- 
tions in Europe, this summer. The former 
will sail June 26, and the latter one week 
earlier. 



Messrs. Clifford & Johnson have on exhibi- 
tion one of the most exquisite sets of parlor 
furniture. It was manufactured by them for 
one of Worcester's handsome residences. The 
set consists of a sofa and arm-chair of Turk- 
ish design, upholstered with salmon and 



peach-colored silk brocatelle, with heavy silk 
fringes. A parlor and fancy reception chair 
complete the four pieces. The portieres and 
other hangings are of silk, with gold fringes, 
and of colors to match the furniture. The 
same firm have also on exhibition the uphols- 
tered chairs for the boxes at the new theatre. 
Nothing has yet been seen in any of Worces- 
ter's places of amusement to compare with 
them. They are of "shell" design, covered with 
a bouquet pattern brocade in the two combin- 
ations of cream and rose, and cream and elec- 
tric blue. 

Miss Ada M. Hill, the popular local reader, 
scored a distinct success at the Odd Fellows 
anniversary celebration in Fitchburg, last week. 

Greendale Lodge, No, 153, Independent 
Order of Good Templars, has elected officers 
as follows: C. T., Mary E. Lovejoy; V. 
T., Luta B. Lincoln; Sec, Charles M. 
Edwards ; Treas., Walter Gleason ; Fin. Sec, 
F. Allen Clarke; Marshal, Lewis Peters; 
Chaplain, William A. Fields; guard, Walter 
Adams; Sentinel, Herbert Gilmore ; S. of J. 
T., Lucinda S. Hunting; Dep. Marshal, M. i 
Louisa Lovejoy; Assist. Sec, Nellie M. Paine; 
P. C. T., Charles E. Lovejoy. 

Mr. Ben T. Hammond is to give a concert 
at Summer Street Church next Tuesday even- 
ing. 

Congressman Joseph H. Walker's visit to 
Worcester was not a lengthy one. He arrived 
home Thursday and returned Monday after- 
noon. Saturday afternoon, Mr. Walker dined 
with the Massachusetts Club, in Boston, and 
talked about the silver bill in an interesting 
way. Mrs. Walker accompanied her husband 
on his trip home and on the return journey. 1 

Mr. Frank Newton and wife, formerly of this ^ 
city, are spending a few days with Mr. Charles 
S. Day. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Shaw entertained 
friends at their residence, 19 Benefit street, on 
Friday evening of last week. Mr. Shaw is 
president of the Christian Endeavor Union 
and among those present was a considerable 
number of members of the local societies of 
Christian Endeavor, as well as a generous 
sprinkling of Salem Street church people. 

The Worcester Charitable Association met 
with Mrs. George W. Tourtellotte,76 Chandler 
street, Wednesday afternoon. 

Athletics at the Polytechnic Institute are in 
lively condition just at present. The cross- 
country run this afternoon will bring out a 
large crowd. The field sports next Saturday 
promise to furnish one of the most interesting 
contests ever held in the school, special prizes 
having been offered to all contestants breaking 
a school record. 

A Boston audience, completely filling Music 
Hall, and paying critical attention to the pro- 
gram presented, last Wednesday evening, gave 
Miss Mary Howe an enthusiastic and appre- 
ciative reception. The Apollo Club concert, 
at which she sang, was a delightful one, and 
the Boston press next day said many compli- 
mentary things of Miss Howe. She sings at 
Springfield next week, and at Southbridge; 
May 15. 



h I Ci n T 



A Ruse de Guerre. 



BV .MAKV. 



Monday. — My twenty-third birthday, and 
mamma has given me a diary. It is tlie first I 
ever had, except one received when a small 
girl of thirteen. Ten years ago ! Goodness, 
how old I am getting ! I thought that diaries 
were always begun on the first day of January, 
but mamma says .she wishes me to be "literary" 
and that there is no time like the present to 
begin the cultivation of a good style and no 
opportunity better than a diary. I think I 
shall call this "my journal," just as if I were 
some heavy literary prodigy, and record my 
sensations, emotions, etc., in real Marie 
What's-her-name style, only not so intense, for 
after I am dead I should hate to be scoffed at 
as a sort of misfit on this earth. * * * « 
It rained all day and I staid in my room and 
read "Household Rules for Young Wives.'' 
Nobody knows when I shall have a chance to 
put these rules into practical operation, but it 
is well to be prepared, even for the unexpected. 
I^apa, I am sure, has just about given up all 
hopes of getting me married and I'm truly 
sorry for him, for I know I am a great expense 
and take dancing and piano lessons and other 
accomplishments right out of my young 
brothers' and sisters' mouths. (That last sen- 
tence doesn't sound grammatical, but its the 
truth, nevertheless.) 1 know I've done my best 
to be agreeable at church sociables and pic- 
nics, but tlie only really eligible young man 
with whom I am intimately acquainted is 
Charlie Algernon. He seems to be crushed 
on me, but he has that same way with all the 
girls and I have no reason to feel more en- 
couraged than they. If my twenty-fourth 
birthday comes around next year without my 
having made any progress in the matrimonial 
direction, I shall plan a desperate elopement 
with some wild Tech student. * * I am 
going to bed now. It is warm and clear and 
the moon is just rising. 

Tuesday. — It is almost midnight, but I am 
determined to write in my journal before 
another day intervenes. Charlie called this 
evening. It was rather unexpected, for he 
usually comes Fridays, when he comes at all. 
He was st? entertaining, to-night. I am sure I 
could learn to love him, if 1 could only break 
him of the habit of talking base ball. We 
were in the parlor alone all the evening, except 
when Tommy came in suddenly to look for a 
piece of molasses candy which he had thought- 
fully placed on one of the chairs during the 
afternoon. There is only a sofa and one arm- 
chair in active use in the cosy corner of our 
parlor and the candy was found intact on the 
sofa. It was dreadfully embarassing for 
Charlie. He asked me if Tommy usually 
talked much to his father and motlier about 
visitors. It was a splendid opportunity for me 
to answer an emphatic yes, and I improved it. 
When he left, at 11.30, he asked "if he could 
come again to-morrow night.? "Yes, indeed," 
I answered, with a strong accent on the 
"indeed." What can he mean by calling two 
nights in succession ? 

Wednesday. — Charlie came to-night, ac- 
cording to agreement, and we had s/ic/i a 
a happy time ! He is so clever, even if he is a 
clerk in a dry-goods store. During the first 



part of the evening he talked about the 
Brotherhood and the League and told me confi- 
dentially that Mike Kelly was a bigger man than 
old Harrison. In one of his facetious moods, 
he placed his arm around me, "to illustrate a 
joke," he apologized, and asked me what was 
the difference "between this'" and his "measur- 
ing off two extra yards of tape for a customer, 
by mistake." I gave it up and he replied that 
one was a taper waist and the other a waste of 
tape. It was a splendid conundrum. Tlicn 
we talked about jewels and pre- 
cious stones and other things. I 
wish he would say something interesting 
about a diamond ring. When he was about to 
leave, at 11.45, ' invited him to tome again 
and was dumb for an instant when he asked if 
I would be at home to-morrow night. But I 
recovered my composure immediately. I 
wonder if he means business. 

Thursday. — Mamma was surprised, this 
morning, when 1 told her who the caller was 
last evening, and was quite speechless when 1 
added that Charlie was coming again to-night. 
Papa looked up from the paper in an interested 
manner and warned me that illuminating gas 
was an expensive luxury and .should be used 
with moderation. Very well, I will be econ- 
omical this evening and turn it out altogether. 
* * * * Charlie seemed to like the innova- 
tion, though I could judge only indirectly, for 
he was nearly invisible. He talked home- 
plates, three base hits, foul flies and catchers' 
masks all the evening. Good gracious! I 
suppose I shall have to tolerate this kind of 
conversation, if it will only lead up to .some- 
thing more tangible. He mus/ have serious 
thoughts, or else he is trifling much more than 
usual. I see no other reason for his calling 
three nights in succession. He evidently in- 
tends to come every evening this week, for he 
asked me if I had engagements for Friday and 
Saturday evenings. I told him I had none, 
for I think this should be worked up to some 
conclusion, if that is possible. He asked me 
to-night what I would do as a sort of prelimin- 
ary to carrying into execution some bold under- 
taking. I advised him to drop the prelimi- 
naries and plunge into the undertaking courage- 
ously without delay. Perhaps — well, I hope 
so! 

Friday. — A dreadful thing happened this 
evening. Charlie came, as usual, only an hour 
earlier, and we looked at the album and my 
class pictures until about 9 o'clock. Then, 
while I was looking in the family bible to see 
if Uncle Henry had a middle name, Charlie 
fell asleep! He had been on the bargain 
counter all day, selling a special line of thumb- 
less mittens, and, poor fellow, I suppose he 
was dreadfully tired. I did nothing to arouse 
him, thinking he was shamming, but at the end 
of ten minutes he waved his arms around ex- 
citedly and exclaimed: "How is that, Mr. Um- 
pire ? I claim he is safe. Take your base ! How 
much, please ? Two yards.' Cash!!" Then 
he awoke with a start and blushed confusedly. 
He begged my forgiveness for so far forgetting 
himself; I laughingly hinted that he had said 
something compromising in his state of tempo- 
rary unconciousness. He appeared so per- 
turbed that I thought he would open his whole 
heart to me, but he didn't. He left soon after 
and I went to my room. If there were only 
some way — I wonder — happy thought ! — the 



very thing— O, Charles Algernon, I will have 
you at last ! 

Saturday.— See Sunday. 

.Sunday. — Well, it is all over, and in dear 
Charlie's language, I have scored a home run ! 
It was arranged in a very diplomatic way, with 
the exercise of considerable ingenuity on my 
part, I pride myself, and Charlie has nobody 
to blame but me. I know I am a dreadfully 
bold and bra.ssy girl and 1 am almost ashamed 
'o tell how it happened. Saturday night, 
Charlie did not come until 8.30 because of an 
unusual delay at the store. He was very tired 
and in this condition rendered the absolutely 
successful carrying-out of the plan which I 
conceived Friday niglit. lie complained of 
being thir.sty, (How much like an ante-mortem 
diagnosis this reads ! I don't care. Charlie 
is the victim !), and I left the room to procure 
a glass of water. Having obtained that, I 
slipped into the liquid, very quickly and wholly 
unperceived by Charlie, a sleeping powder, 
warranted to work for eight hours, which I had 
obtained that morning at the drug store. I 
handed the glass to him and he drained it at a 
single draught. He talked base ball for ten 
minutes and then the potion began to get in its 
work. In five minutes he was sound asleep ! 
Everything was working to a charm! Then I, 
too, took a big drink of another solution of the 
powder, clasped my arms around Charlie's 
neck, and fell asleep. * * * * At four 
o'clock this morning papa came down and 
found us. While he was standing in speech- 
less contemplation of the tableau, Charlie 
awoke. ***** Light will announce 
the engagement next week. 

1 shall not keep this journal longer, because 
I don't want to be "literary," now. I must de- 
stroy these pages, for, if Charlie dear should 
ever learn the truth, he would shun all contact 
with human beings, and go into voluntary exile 
as a member of some league base ball team. 



Oskaloosa, Kan., has lived under "petticoat 
government" for a year. The mayor and all 
tlie members of the city council were women. 
Now they have retired from office, giving way 
to masculine successors whom they helped to 
elect. A dispatch from Oskaloosa says that 
the women "leave the city with improved 
streets, better walks and more of them, a better 
moral sentiment as to Sunday observance, a 
prohibition of offensive stock e.xhibitions, and 
a full treasury instead of an empty one." Other 
cities in Kansas have reason to be thankful 
this spring that women have the right to vote 
at municipal elections. Their ballots were 
given to the best candidates in almost every 
instance. At Russell, the women defeated the 
whisky element's candidate for police justice 
and selected a prohibitionist. Though Oska- 
loosa has reluctantly said farewell to its "alder- 
women," the city of Edgerton has chosen a 
complete set of female officers after a hotly 
contested fight. Probably they will follow the 
example of their sisters of Oskaloosa and add 
to the glory of their sex by demonstrating the 
value of a municipal government run by 
woman power. If Chicago had a woman for 
its mayor it is not likely that the gamblers and 
the proprietors of whisky-shops would be able 
to control her.— C/iuii^o jVe-ws. 



10 

The Worcester Coal Mine. 



ISV H. H. CHAMHERLIN. 



CHAPTER III. 

Lincoln's History, after the account of tlie 
silver mine quoted in Cliapter I, goes on to say : 
"A much more valuable source of wealth is in 
the anthracite coal, a deposit of which mineral 
exists about two miles north-east from the 
town. It was long converted into a paint, 
under the name of black lead, and furnished a 
cheap and durable covering for roofs, and for 
the exterior of buildings e.\posed to the 
weather." After it had lain forgotten for 
many years, public attention was called to it in 
1823, and in the columns of the Massachusetts 
Spy of December of that year, we find the 
following: "Our coal mine is in abed of con- 
siderable depth and of great extent. 

"At the place where it is now open it appears 
above the surface, and may be procured in 
vast quantities at an expense almost nominal. 
It is of the species called anthracite, and is of 
the same kind'as Liverpool glance coal, Rhode 
Island coal, and Schuylkill and Lehigh coal, 
etc. ****** We have burnt 
some of it, and found it to ignite readily and 
produce great heat. It is found to ignite easier 
than the Rhode Island and Lehigh, but leaves 
a greater residuum." 

Again, in the Spy of January 7, 1824, is the 
following : "An experiment was tried with an 
equal quantity of the Worcester, Lehigh and 
Rhode Island coal, with the following result: 
The Worcester maintained combustion five 
hours; the Lehigh, four hours, twenty-five min- 
utes; the Rhode Island, three hours, thirty-six 
minutes. The thermometer registered in the 
Worcester, 179°; in the Lehigh, 160°; in the 
Rhode Island, 134°; the Worcester maintaining 
its high temperature longer than the others." 
The above and other experiments were so en- 
couraging that an application was made to the 
legislature for a charter of the Worcester Coal 
Company at the session of 1824. But the en- 
terprise slumbered till 1826, when Colonel 
Amos Binney, of Boston, purchased the farm 
where the mine was situated, and began mining 
operations under the superintendence of Mr. 
Charles Brigham, of Grafton. In that and the 
two years following, several hundred tons were 
mined and sold at $3 per ton; this was used 
largely by the Worcester Brewery of Trumbull 
& Ward, for converting barley into malt and 
for other purposes of their works — it was also 
used by the Grafton Manufacturing Company 
at New England Village — and at nearly all the 
hotels in town, especially by Capt. Samuel B. 
Thomas, of the "Exchange Coffee House," 
who burned it longer than any of his neighbors, 
and took a great interest in the subject, as will 
be seen. 

In 1827, the brewery above mentioned, 
burned some coal taken from the land of Wm. 
E. Greene, adjoining the land of Col. Binney, 
and probably a part of the same vein. In 
January, 1829, Samuel B. Thomas, Asahel 
Bellows, William E. Greene, Isaac Davis, 
George A. Trumbull, Nathaniel Paine and 
Benjamin Butman,their successors and assigns, 
were incorporated under the name of the 
"Massachusetts Coal Company" with a capital 
of jS6oo,ooo. 

At the same session of the legislature in June 



L I(i HT 

a charter was granted to "Samuel B. Thomas, 
William E. Green and Isaac Davis, their asso- 
ciates and successors, to incorporate the Wor- 
cester Railroad Company for the purpose of 
locating, constructing and maintaining a rail- 
road from the lands called the Coal Mines of 
Worcester to the waters of Quinsigamond 
Pond in said Worcester; and also from said 
lands to the banks of the Blackstone Canal in 
said town. The Corporation was impowered to 
be lawfully seized and possessed of real and 
personal estate not exceeding $50,000. One of 
said roads to be constructed within three years 
from the act of incorporation." 

After Col. Binney abandoned the work, and 
some unsuccessful attempts had been made 
by the corporation to get possession of the 
mine and its surroundings, the corporators 
became tired of the business, and the $650,000 
proposed by theircharters failed to materialize. 



Massage was practised among the Chinese 
before the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. 

A mother and a dog are the only two things 
in the world that seem to have absolutely dis- 
interested love. 

Faith and obedience are bound up in the 
same bundle. He that obeys God, trusts God, 
and he that trusts God obeys God. — Spurgeon. 

A Danbury, Ct., lady has a dress, worn by a 
bride in the year 1700, that weighs only three 
ounces. It is white, cut low in the neck, sleeve- 
less and well preserved. 

Many mean things are done in the family, 
for which moods are put forward as the excuse, 
when the moods themselves are the most inex- 
cusable things of all. A man or woman in 
tolerable health has no moral right to indulge 
in an unpleasant mood.— y. G. Hollaiid. 

In some regions of France an old custom 
was that of scattering a hundred eggs on a 
level place, covered by sand. Then a lad and 
lass, hand in hand, would execute the dance of 
the country. If they succeeded without break- 
ing an egg, they were considered affianced. 

The abundance of remains of the mammoth 
in Siberia is almost incredible. Middendorff 
reckoned that at least 100 pairs of tusks had 
been put upon the market yearly during the 
last two centuries, and from personal observa- 
tion Nordenskjold is inclined to regard this 
estimate as too small. It thus appears that in 
the recent modern trade useful tusks of more 
than 20,000 of these animals of past ages have 
been collected. 

Ruskin says : "An educated man ought to 
know three things : First, where he is, that is 
to say, what kind of a world he has got into, 
how large it is, what kind of creatures live in 
it, and how; what it is made of, and what may 
be made of it. Secondly, where he is going, 
that is to say, what chances or reports there 
are of any world besides this ; and what seems 
to be the nature of the other world. Thirdly, 
what he had better do under the circumstan- 
ces, what are the readiest means in his power 
of attaining happiness and diffusing it. The 
man who knows these things, and has his will 
so subdued that he is ready to do what he 
knows he ought, is an educated man, and the 
man who knows them not, is uneducated, 
although he could talk all the tongues of 
Babel." 



Quester and Answerer, 

[Communications to tliis department are solicited. 
Tliey siiould be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Simplicity Desirable. — Miss Alice asks: 
"What kind of note paper is most fashionable 
for ladies' use ?" Clear white paper in double 
sheets is always preferable. There is no ob- 
jection to a monogram being stamped upon it. 
Very rough-finished paper, or paper with gilt 
edges or fancy borders, is not in good taste. 
An odd size of paper or of envelope is not a 
mark of originality, and should not be used. 

Pastoral Salaries. — Deacon asks: 

"What ministers receive the highest salaries?" 
The highest salaries are undoubtedly paid by 
New York congregations. A recent issue of 
the Epoch says : The bishop of New York 
receives $5000. The bishop of the diocese of 
New York is paid $15,000. Dr. Rainsford of 
St. George's receives $io,ooc a year. Dr. 
John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Church, draws 
a salary of $50,000. The Rev. Robert Collyer, 
of the Park Avenue Unitarian Church, re- 
ceives $10,000. Dr. Paxton is said to receive 
$10,000, Dr. Parkhurst $8000 and Dr. C. C. 
Thompson $8000. T. De Witt Talmage, 
whose influence is as great in New York as it 
is in Brooklyn, is paid $12,000. The last rec- 
tor of St. Thomas's was paid $18,000. Dr. 
Brown, who fills the pulpit at piesent, gets 
$15,000. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Old 
Trinity, exercises a general supervision over 
the parish chapels, and gets a salary of $15,- 
000 per annum. Dr. Greer, rector of St. 
Bartholomew's Church, is paid $15,000 a 
year. Dr. Huntington, of Grace Church, gets 
a salary of $15,000 per annum, and he occu- 
pies a beautiful parsonage, rent free, next to 
his church, which is architecturally one of the 
handsomest residences in the city, and is cer- 
tainly worth an extra $5000 a year. 

The Nation's Capital. — W. G. H. asks: 
"When was the city of Washington made the 
Capital of the United States?" New York 
city was the seat of the United States govern- 
ment from March, 1789, to 1790, Philadelphia 
from 1790 to 1800, and Washington has been 
the Capital since that time. 

Death by Electricity. — Mr. G. T. C. 
asks: "What strength of current is necessary 
to immediately produce death?" Five hun- 
dred volts may do it, and yet some men can 
withstand double that number. Generally, 
one thousand volts will instantly produce 
death, if everything is favorable for it. One 
thousand volts of an alternating current, pass- 
ing directly into the brain, would probably 
produce death without sensibility to pain. 

Light Must Not Tell. — Mrs. W. says: 
"I read with much interest the article entitled 
'Some Pretty Pictures,' in the last number of 
Light. The sketch has been freely com- 
mented upon by several of the art society 
members, and much curiosity is shown in the 
attempts to discover the name of the author, 
who signs himself or herself 'R.' Will you 
kindly give the name?" Light would be very 
happy indeed to oblige Mrs. W., but an in- 
variable rule forbids the giving of the real 
name of a writer, without the writer's consent, 
and the author of "Some Pretty Pictures" pos- 
itively refuses such consent. 



Light's Prize Article. 



NEWSPAPER READING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 



[The following article, written by John 
Devvell Swain of Worcester Academy, has 
been awarded the prize offered by LuiHT for 
the best article on "Newspaper Reading for 
Young People." The article is printed e.xact- 
ly as written. — Ed.] 

A sympathetic interest in the doings of the 
great human family to which we belong, a 
tendency to observe the motives which inspire 
nations and individuals, coupled with an earn- 
est desire to profit by their examples, is the 
best indication of a sound mental and moral 
condition. 

Great events, in our century, are taking 
place with startling rapidity. Movements 
which once would have required a decade at 
least, are now consummated in a day. Such 
changes as we constantly witness are fairly be- 
wildering; we can only compare them to the 
sudden combinations of a chess board, where 
the little ivory men pass through an exciting 
life-time in the course of a game of one short 
hour. 

The newspaper is the only agent which care- 
fully reports each day's events : technical lore, 
useful as it is, cannot be compared to it in its 
broadening influence upon the mind. In- 
deed, it may fitly be called the pulse of the 
earth, by noting which, we obtain a correct 
idea of the condition of the whole globe. 

How necessary it is, then, for young people 
to devote some of their time to it, and thus be en- 
abled to answer intelligently such questions as 
well-informed people are constantly asking. 
A young man who can discuss modestly and 
understandingly the topics of the day, as 
found in the papers, will win more popularity 
than one who lacks this power, be he ever so 
much of a "society man." Modern parents 
are exceedingly anxious for their children to 
appear well informed, and yet many forbid 
their boys and girls, when of tender years, to 
read the newspapers, because of the sensa- 
tional matter therein. These same parents 
would not think of denying them the use of a 
public librarj- ; yet a public library contains 
many books unfit for them to read. These 
people would look over the catalogue, select 
proper books, and bid the children read them. 
Now a newspaper is a miniature library; it 
has its index, or catalogue, guided by which 
we can find either solid or light reading ; and 
with little trouble parents might select such 
matter as children should be taught to enjoy. 
I, when small, was required to read the 
"Events of the Week" in each paper before I 
could look at the stories ; and to this day I 
have a love for those same "events," which I 
should not have acquired if left to myself. 

Few people know how to read a paper, be- 
cause they never learned when young. How 
many boys and girls are chided when they eat 
out the .soft parts of a slice of bread, and 
throw the crust away! When they devour the 
"stories" in a paper and throw aw ay the edi- 
torials, they are fully as wasteful. 

One of the great reasons why our young 
people should read the papers is that they may 
obtain a clear view of the political situation. 
Some time they will hold the reins of govern- 



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ment. (Young women will have their share in 
time.) 

Too many men vote "by tradition." One 
votes Republican because his father did; 
another belongs to a long line of Democrats. 
This is wrong. No young man should vote 
until he has carefully examined both sides, as 
-set forth in their respective organs. I know a 
young man, twenty-one, an intense "party 
man," yet he is so wrapped up in his Latin and 
Greek that he scarcely ever looks at a new.s- 
paper, and is greatly surprised when, by 
chance, he hears of some great event the world 
has been discussing for a week. He belongs 
to a large class who are so engaged in "the 
petty squabbles of a far-distant past, or trying 
to master languages which are dead," that 
they have no opportunity to examine their own 
times. 

There are wonderful men in our parties, 
men of undoubted genius; and their speeches, 
printed daily, give one a splendid idea of the 
great political questions. 

Then in literature, what a chance young 
people have offered them ! Gifted authors are 
constantly writing brilliant books on various 
subjects, with which, in order to appear well 
informed in the best society, one should have 
a certain amount of familiarity. Even with no 
other task, a young person could not begin to 
read all these works; and here again the 
newspaper comes to the rescue. Our best 
dailies contain literary columns, where are to 
be found able reviews and criticisms of the 
new books, with selections from them, often 
coupled with a sketch of the author's life. 
Thus, in a brief time, a tolerably correct idea 
of the entire work may be obtained. 

See the strides science is making in all her 
departments. Young people surely wish to 
know something of the wonderful inventions 
master minds are bringing forth ! An accurate 
understanding of them all is impossible. A 
few minutes devoted each day to the scientific 
department of a newspaper, will give one at 
least a general knowledge and keep up his 
interest. 

The newspaper takes young people by the 
hand and leads them to Edison's laboratory, 
and explains his mysterious labors with coils 
of wire, and batteries, large and small ; it 
guides them to the halls of Congress, and 
points out to them the great leaders; it hastens 
with them over the ocean, and indulges in 
bits of travel here and there ; all this, and 
more it does if it is given a little time each 
day. The speculator scans the short para- 
graph which gives the market prices, for there- 
by he wins or loses. May the time come 
when the young people shall read the papers 
as earnestly, knowing that their fortune of 
common sense and general intelligence de- 
pends upon so doing. 

I have not indicated the great value of the 
newspaper; I cannot. Its work is incalcul- 
able. It moulds public opinion. Few care to 
brave its censure. It is important for every- 
one to understand the things it teaches, but 
how vastly important for young people, whose 
ideas are being formed, and who are at the 
age when anything once learned remains for- 
ever, and a start in the right direction means 
everything ! 

If parents will teach their small children to 
choose the solid matter and leave the sensa- 



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tional items alone, and if young people will 
earnestly strive to cultivate a love for "Events 
of the Week," we shall not witness many such 
occurrences as the vast sale of papers on the 
day of the Sullivan-Kilrain prize-fight. Love 
for such reading cannot exist in a wholesome 
mind. 

Let us not fail to embrace our opportunity; 
events like the Pan-American Congress and 
the peaceful revolution in lirazil are fraught 
with importance. Let us draw our lessons 
from them, and proclaim by our example that 
we thorouglily believe in "newspaper reading 
for young people." 



SPRING CLEANING. 



Begin in the chambers, cleaning out the 
closets first. All clothing should be taken out, 
put on the lines out of doors, to be brushed 
and aired. If to be put away for the season, 
let them be laid one side. If not to be worn 
any more, put them into the "charity box," to 
be attended to later. As to boots and shoes, 
if too much worn to be useful, have the buttons 
cut out, and the rest burned. The buttons go 
into the button box, the strips of leather into 
the "handy-box," where hammer, tacks and 
screws are kept, and are ready for the garden, 
to tack up the grape vine and the climber with, 
or make hinges for a box. The closets cleaned, 
things put back, and we are ready for the next 
thing. The bureau drawers are taken out, the 
contents also, and looked over. L'ndercloth- 
ing too worn to be useful may be cut into suit- 
able pieces, hems and seams cut off, and it 
then goes into the sick-box. Worn flannels go 
into the same box. These will furnish plenty 
for sickness when needed, and provide some 
to give away. The stockings, if the feet are 
past darning, may be cut off, put into the 
kitchen-bag, and used for wiping off the stove 
and for other purposes. The legs are often 
good when the feet are beyond repair. These 
are put into the "charity-bag," to make over 
for small feet. It is easily done if the child's 
stocking is carefully pinned on and cut out, 
allowing for seams. The bottoms of the feet 
may be made of flannel or cut from another 
pair of legs. The handkerchiefs should be 
looked over. If worn, thehem.stitched borders 
may be cut oft', and the rest cut into pieces. 
The narrow strips make the nicest kind of a 
"rag'' for a cut or sore finger. These roll up 
and put into the sick-bag. Kid gloves no 
longer useful may have the thumb and fingers 
cut off for "cots" for sore fingers. The hand, 
cut open on the side, makes a good silver 
polisher, especially if the glove is an "undressed 
kid." The buttons may go to the button-box, 
and are useful when an extra button is 
wanted. — Good Housekeeping. 



The ability to write equally well in two lan- 
guages is a rare one, but it .seems to be pos- 
sessed by Mme. Charles Bigot of Paris, for- 
merly Miss Mary Healy, daughter of the well- 
known American portrait painter. Mme. 
Bigot has recently completed another short 
story, which is about to be published by 
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co., with the title, 
"A Foreign Match." The same publishers 
announces "Russia; Its People and its Litera- 
ture," by a distinguished Spanish lady, Senora 
Dona Emilia Pardo Bazan. 



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Warwickshire. 



Cosy Warwickshire ! From tlie time one 
sets one's foot inside your borders until one 
leaves you, your incomparable beauty and 
homeliness quietly force themselves upon one. 
We will never forget how, when dusty and 
tired from travel, we chose your Leamington 
for our home, from which to make the many 
interesting trips to the many superb ruins 
and well-kept places you possess ! 

Just after tea, friends come to take us for a 
drive, a sort of survey of the sights we are to 
become more familiar with to-morrow. Seated 
in the high cart we skim over the chosen road 
by more vine-covered cottages of browner 
stone than we've seen before, and we notice, 
too, a change in the style of the chimney-pots 
arranged in such disorder along the ridge- 
poles which seem to be suffering from curva- 
ture. A house more pretentious boasts a 
tinned roof, but somehow it seems out of place. 
Now and then glimpses of distant towers and 
spires tell us how far or how near we are to 
Warwick Castle or some village church. 

Leaving the highway and choosing a quiet 
lane, we approach a widening of the river and 
then, as if its foundation were in the water, 
rises Guy's Cliffe. For a better view of this 
fine reminder of feudal times, we climb the 
little brown oak balcony adorning the 
front of the stone mill, and from which 
Elizabeth, when a guest of this house, ad- 
dressed the yeomanry of the surrounding 
country. While here, let us remember the 
story of the place : Guy, Earl of Warwick, in 
926, "laid low" the Dane Colbrand, as he had 
done the chapel dedicated here to Saint Mary 
Magadelene, years before. After securing the 
site, he chose it for his stronghold, digging 
into the rock and building upon it so well that 
there are yet parts of his work remaining in 
the more recent structure. This powerful man 
had everj'thing his own way, conquering and 
subduing right and left, until love finally upset 
him and he became the founder of that truly 
noble family now owning the vast estates. 
In an old record I found this ciuaint descrip- 
tion of the place: "Here have yea a shady 
little wood, cleere and cristal springs, mossie 
bottoms and caves, niedowes alwaies fresh and 
green, the river Avon rumbling here and theere 
among the stones with his streame making a 
mild noise and gentle whispering, and besides 
all, the solitary and still quietness most grate- 
full to the muses." 

Out we drive again, past the gate of War- 
wick Castle, by several fine public buildings, 
over the well-made road back into Leaming- 
ton, to make our plans for the morrow. 

An organ recital in the parish church, un- 
lighted save by the fading twilight, was very 
well done. An "early to bed and early to 
rise" plan is the best one to adopt, even in this 
country, and so we were quite ready at half- 
past nine to leave the station for Coventry. 

Why so many people leave this home of 
Lady Godiva unvisited I cannot see. Let us 
go first to the oldest building in 
its unrepaired strength and beauty in town 
— the almshouse for women. It was erected 
in 1209 on the spot where probably the first 
house for that purpo.se in England had been 



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in 800. It is built of oak, with filling of plas- 
ter between the timbers. Little care was given 
to the decorations of the building, though the 
frieze and casement windows looking into the 
courtyard bear rude efforts in can-ing. The 
yard is paved and forms a central vestibule 
to the living and dining rooms of the establish- 
ment. Above stairs the rooms are cared for 
and fitted up partially by their occupants. 
One little old lady living in this clean, cottage- 
like home, said : "I count only eighty years 
yet; there's money fair older here than I, an' 
may we a' live to view you again." All this is 
kind and catching, and serves to keep them 
in tea. 

She took great pride in showing her apart- 
ment and then took us to her bit of garden 
"with cockle shells and silver bells," but alas ! 
there was a lack of pretty maids, their places 
being filled with fox-gloves and other bright 
old-fashioned plants. Each old lady has her 
garden, and great rivalry there is among then: 
as to whose shall make the best show. 

From here to St. Mary's Hall! The fine 
carvings and sharp angles of the brown stone 
have been surely though slowly gnawed 
away, but when once inside we can almost see 
the musicians in their narrow balcony, as they 
send down their music to the people on the fine 
old floor to be trampled down in a hearty way. 
No minuet served for them ! The oak beams 
are black now and we pity them when we 
think how lonesome they must be in the prose 
and rush of modern times. Below the main 
hall, at the rear, is the large fire-place, still 
containing a spit for barbecuing the boars 
that used to grace the feast in Henry VI 1 1. 's 
time. In the vestibule of the building, a 
placard tells us that "the muniments may be 
seen by applying to the clerk," and we won- 
der now if the old gentleman who inquired of 
us has found the "monuments" yet. 

Across the way is St. Michael's, where 
"merrily, merrily rang the bells." 'Twas in 
this church I first heard the legend of the 
"crooked choir." In many old cathedrals and 
churches, one will notice that the choir and 
lady chapel are not continuations of the 
nave, but that their walls turn either to right 
or left, generally to the left. The poetic idea 
is that it represents the drooping of Christ's 
head upon the cross, while nowadays we hear 
that the line of the upper member of the cross 
was formerly, for some reason, built par- 
allel to a shadow cast by a pole, on the pat- 
ron saint's midday, situated centrally where 
the nave and transepts meet. 

A leper's window is an interesting feature of 
.St. Michael's Church. The remains of it now 
are within the vestry, but through it, from out- 
side the church, in former times, the poor un- 
fortunates were allowed a peep at the altar. 

Of course interest centres at Coventry in 
the few foundation stones left of the Abbey 
founded by the noble Lady Godiva. We 
could readily imagine the wild Hereward's 
companions carousing about, to the broken- 
hearted mother's distraction. The path the 
wonderful woman probably took upon her his- 
toric equestrian venture we followed, and from 
above us, on a prominent corner, stared a 
carved "peeping-Tom." What an immortality! 
A dispute once arose in a London club as to 
which was the most charming drive in Eng- 
land, and when the votes were counted it was 



found that while half were strong in the praise 
of the drive from Coventry to Kenihvorth, the 
rest were for that from Kenihvorth to Coventry. 
As we are in Coventry and want to see Ken- 
ilworth, we'll take the former. The si.\ or 
eight miles of road are as smooth as one can 
well imagine, and the gentle slope finally 
brings one to the top of the hill so easily that 
the ascent is not noticed. Either side of the 
road is lined with rows of stately, respected 
trees, and for most of the way the country far 
back on either side is well kept forest land. 
Flowers bright and fresh make the rich grass 
greener; the trees meeting overhead shut out 
all save glimpses of blue sky and clouds — 
waterscapes in original frames — and so for the 
whole way we drive, the interesting and silvan 
monotony broken only by a hare, deer or an 
occasional bird or a passing coach or cart. 
England in May and June surely more than 
makes up for her rainy season, and two or 
three days in Warwickshire make one forget 
the fogs and blacks of London. 

We'll drive direct to Kenilworth's ruins. A 
certain lack of something may disappoint us 
here. The fine remains of fireplace and win- 
dows in the dining-hall show the very interest- 
ing style of decoration as it was in "the times 
of good Queen Bess," but other than the mem- 
ories of Scott, the views of the surrounding 
hills and valleys from these broken towers and 
walls, through the remains of the grand old 
arches, interest us more than the old castle it- 
self. 

Csesar's tower (Why his ? Every castle has 
a tower of his), the deep well and the distant 
lines showing the immensity of the original 
moat, are impressive in a way, but ivy, the 
double-faced friend of time in England, is fast 
being killed here, thus destroying the effect of 
the ruin. 



Light can be found on sale at the following 
news-stands : — 
F. A. Easton, post-office. 
J. H. Sullivan, depot. 
L. H. Browning, 56S Main street. 
Boston Store, 490 Main street. 
H. L. Hopkins. 190 Pleasant street. 
C. H. Fisher, 201 Main street. 
A. F. Bragg, 332 Main street. 
A. W. Barber, 7 Main street. 
(;. K. Mellor, 432 Main street. 
P. H. Murptiy, 15S Front street. 
A. M. DriscoU, 78'A Front street. 
A. C. Woodward, 887 Main street 

F. O.xley, 64S Main street. 

Prentiss & Bowler, 120 Chandler street. 
M. Schlesinger, 238 Front street. 
Sullivan Bros., 164 J4 Front street. 
M. J. Twomey, 38 Green street. 

G. M. Richards, 23 Ash street. 

F. M. Harris & Co., 814 Main street. 
Iliggins & Kneeland, 1S5 Lincoln street. 
F. M. Marble, 9 Mechanic street. 
C. H. Gates, Quinsigamond. 
S. W. Hayden, 150 Eastern avenue. 
E. H. Brandes, 18 Washington square. 
Whittaker & Johnson, 160^ Chandler street. 
Wni. Anderson Barrows, Webster street. 
W. H. Willard, 133 Chandler street. 
Mrs. Corben, Wilson street. 
Forest Beal, South Worcester. 
Charles Bruso, New Worcester. 
Mr. Johnson, New Worcester. 
H. F. Chamberlin, Westboro. 
Boston & Albany R. R. depot, Boston. 
On the trains. 

At the office of Light, 339 Main street. 
A limited number of back copies can be hfid by apply- 
ing at the LiOHT office. 



Wedded Through Ice. 



3V CHARLES W. LINNELL. 



John Higgins and Hiram Williams were the 
two rival ice-dealers in the small coast city of 
Freeport. Mutual interest induced them to 
unite in fixing the annual price of ice as high 
as possible, but this important matter once 
settled, they parted to voluntarily meet no more 
until the next season. Perhaps the mere fact 
of being business rivals would not have ac- 
counted for the existing enmity, but they were 
also rivals in another sphere, and one that con- 
cerned their hearts much more than their 
pockets. Both worshipped at the shrine of 
Miss Mabel Tompkins, who was the only 
daughter of a retired oil merchant, and who, 
after two years wooing, had not been able to 
choose between them. 

Mr. Higgins w-as undeniably homely, but he 
was a deacon in the Baptist church, and a 
teacher in the Sunday-school; while Mr. Wil- 
liams was undeniably handsome, but was pro- 
ficient with a billiard cue, and it was even 
whispered that he sometimes played poker. 

Miss Tompkins had finally promised, under 
the advice of her father, who favored Higgins, 
that she would bestow her hand upon the 
suitor who should first become worth twenty 
thousand dollars, hoping in her secret heart 
that Williams would win in the race, for when 
did a woman fail to be moved by a handsome 
face? 

The winter preceeding the spring of i8S — 
had been an unusually mild one. Both the ice 
dealers owned rights in ponds near the city, 
and had hitherto found no difficulty in secur- 
ing a sufficent supply from them, but that win- 
ter only Mr. Higgins had succeeded in doing 
.so. Whether warned by the weather prophets, 
or only following the dictates of a cautious 
temperament, he had filled his ice-houses from 
the first solid ice of the season, barely four 
inches thick, and as the days grew longer and 
also warmer, with no signs of a cold snap, he 
regarded the increasing anxiety of Mr. Wil- 
liams with a placid content. 

February had glided by, and March was 
half gone, before Hiram could make up his 
mind to commence cutting the thin, soft apol- 
ogy for ice that covered his lake. He had 
made a trip to Boston, and visited the great 
ice operators there, but the figure at which 
they were holding their northern ice almost 
made his hair stand on end. In desperation 
he had gone to Canada, but the same state of 
affairs confronted him there, and hurrying 
back to Freeport, he set his men to work, de- 
termined to do the best he could with his mis- 
erable ice. 

Spring came on leaden wings to John Hig- 
gins, exulting in his prospective triumph over 
his rival in both arenas, and came with incred- 
ible rapidity to poor Hiram, sitting in his office, 
surrounded by the ashes of his hopes and of 
numerous consolatory cigars. He had filled 
his houses with spongy ice, not half enough in 
amount to carry him through the season, even 
if his customers did not rebel at taking the use- 
less stuff, which he was sure they would do, 
and transfer their trade to Higgins. 

When his small stock was exhausted he 
could see but two courses to pursue — a choice 
of evils, One was to purchase a supply from 



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the great city dealers, paying ruinous prices, 
and the other was to close his office and go out 
of the business until the next season, which 
would give his trade a shock it would never re- 
cover from. 

One day, sitting in his office brooding over 
his misfortunes and imagining Mabel in the 
arms of his successful rival, he picked up a 
daily p.nper. 

A headline caught his eye, and he read the 
paragraph through. It was an account of the 
perilous passage of the Atlantic liner Helvetia 
through an enormous number of icebergs, that, 
released from their Arctic moorings by tlie 
early spring, had drifted down into the path of 
navigation. A brilliant idea dawned upon 
Hiram as he read, dazzling him with its bright 
possibilities. 

For hours he thought over the daring plan, 
weighing the chances of success against the 
ab.solute ruin of defeat, and finally resolved to 
stake his chances of life, wealth and love upon 
one desperate throw. 

During the next week he mortgaged his 
entire property for every cent he could raise 
upon it, instructed his foreman how to carry on 
the business in his absence, and departed for 
Boston. Three days later a large tug-boat 
steamed down Boston harbor, loaded with 
chains and grappling irons, and with our friend 
Hiram in the pilot house, headed out to sea. 

Mr. Williams's continued absence was com- 
mented upon as the days went by without his 
appearance, and the public opinion seemed to 
be that he had purposely left the city to avoid 
witnessing the triumph of his rival, who was 
now selling ice at seventy-five cents per hun- 
dred pounds. 

Mabel of course had heard of Higgins' great 
success, and although resolved to remain true 
to her word and marry him when he could 
come to her with twenty thousand dollars in 
his pocket, she wept many bitter tears in secret 
over the defeat of Hiram, whom, she now owned 
to herself, she loved with all her heart. 

One warm morning in June, just six weeks 
after Hiram's departure, there was a great ex- 
citement along the water front of Freeport. 
Away out to sea, as far as the eye could reach, 
the sun shone upon a great, white, sparkling 
mass that telescopes had made out to be an 
iceberg. Quite a distance in front of it, but 
fastened to it by many and strong chains, 
puffed a tug that was steering directly into the 
harbor. 

The exciting news flew along the city streets, 
and nearly all the population of the town, 
including John Higgins, hurried to the 
wharves. 

Slowly the tug approached the city, and 
nearer came the ponderous berg revealing its 
magnificent proportions and beautiful outlines. 
When it came near enough to be easily seen 
in all its wonderful grandeur by the great crowd 
of on-lookers, a boat was seen to leave the side 
of the tug and row up to the iceberg. A man 
stepped from the boat upon a ledge of the 
berg, and gave a strong pull upon a rope that 
hung dangling from above. Then a surprising 
thing happened. A great canvas fell down 
from the topmost pinnacle of the berg, and un- 
rolled itself along the side towards the city. 
Upon it in letters of enormous size, plainly vis- 
ible to all, were these words of happy import 
to everj-body but John Higgins ; 



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FOR SALE, 

PURE ARCTIC ICE, 

AT 25 CENTS PER 100 POl'NnS, 

)iV HIRAM WILLIAMS. 

When the people read the announcement and 
realized what it meant, a deafening shout of 
applause for the bold deed and its daring exe- 
cutor rose upon the air. 

When Hiram landed, the reporters of the 
^^Cryptofpam"^ and the "Eye" fell over each 
other in their eagerness to secure the first in- 
terview, and he was obliged to yield to the 
demands of the people for a speech. 

It is needless to say that Higgins was 
driven out of the market entirely, or that 
Hiram reaped the just reward of his adventu- 
rous spirit in securing the hand of the fair 
Mabel and realizing much more tlian twenty 
thousand dollars by his capture of the floating 
iceberg. 



Words of O thers. 

Death-rate in City and Country. 

The following death-rate per i.ooo is taken 
from the last United .States census : United 
.States, iS.o: England, 20.5: German Empire, 
26.1. The following comment is made upon 
these figures by Dr. Billings in \'ol. .\I. of the 
same census; "From this it will be seen that 
the death-rate in the United States compares 
favorably with that of all other civilized coun- 
tries, and this .should be the case, since poverty 
and overcrowding are the chief causes of e.\- 
cessive mortality, and in this country there is a 
more general and equal distribution of the 
means of supporting life, including especially 
a food supply of good ciuality, and more room 
than in European countries. Nevertheless, 
our mortality rate is not as low as it should be, 
especially if we take into consideration the fact 
that our population is being largely added to 
by the immigration of persons of those ages 
which have the lowest death-rates. At present 
the average annual mortality rate for the 
whole countr)- should not e.xceed 16, or at the 
utmost 16.5 per i.ooo; in other words, nearly 
100,000 deaths occurred during the census 
year, chiefly among infants in cities and in the 
colored population, which were, in one sense, 
unnecessary and preventable." 
Edison's Kintograph. 

The kintograph is a most astonishing affair, 
which may possibly become a wonderful ad- 
junct to the phonograph. When it is com- 
pleted, and Edison is perfectly convinced that 
it is now merely a question of detail and ex- 
periment, it will be possible not only to hear 
the voice of a person coming from the tele- 
phone, but to see the person's face just as it 
was at the time the w^ords were spoken, with 
every change of expression, the movement of 
the lips, etc. If it is a reproduction of a scene 
upon the stage, the picture will be seen, the 
actors moving about and making the proper 
gestures as they speak. It will be a small 
picture, but it w^ill be perfectly distinct ; and in 
the case of the head of a person talking to you 
through the telephone, it will be life-size if nec- 
essary. The mechanism by which this is ac- 
complished is extremely simple, and the thing 
has been made possible by the discovery of the 
instantaneous process of photography, by which 
animals in motion or a cannon ball flying 
through the air have been photographed. — 
Correspondence Philadelphia Times. 



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Fashions and Fancies. 



BV EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



New York, April 29, 1S90. 

Dame Fashion no longer plays the part of 
the stern parent exacting implicit obedience to 
an arbitrary standard, but exhibits a disposi 
tion of gracious pliancy, allowing many relax- 
ing privileges while maintaining a general au- 
thority in salient features. 

Present styles lend themselves equally to the 
tall or short, thin or stout figures, only requir- 
ing a sense of the consistent and proper fit- 
ness of things to produce satisfactory results. 
When a woman is ill-dressed it is through 
ignorance or indolence, because she blindly 
copies instead of adapting the modes to her 
personality. The truly stylish woman takes 
into consideration her size, color of her hair 
and eyes and complexion. This does not 
not necessarily require a large income. A 
girl so dressed may attract attention any- 
where, yet n.ay not be arrayed according to 
the latest dictates of fashion. It seems to me 
the word "stylish" is often misused and con- 
founded with fashion, whereas there is a de- 
cided distinction between the two adjectives. 
The most fashionably dressed lady may not 
have a particle of style about her, while the 
stylish girl may not have a bit of fashion. 
There is about the same difference as between 
manner and manners. Swift's saying, "Proper 
words in proper places make the true defini- 
tion of style," may be aptly applied to the art 
of being well dressed on all occasions which 
gives that tranquility of mind to all woman- 
kind. If one does not possess the instinctive 
faculty of know'ng what is right in color, cut 
and material, she should cultivate her inner 
consciousness to outward expression of the 
becoming. This is a good rule to adopt, that 
if one cannot afford the best or real thing, to 
dress simply, eschewing the cheap imitation, 
for then a woman can be sure of being in bet- 
ter form, and being in good taste while con- 
forming to the limit of the purse. At present 
prices it would seem possible for all women to 
go in dainty habit, if not in silk attire. One 
of the large dry-goods houses this past week 
was selling exquisite Canton silks of graceful 
design and good coloring at forty-two cents 
per yard, though they cost the firm fifty. 
These bargains are of frequent occurrence. 
The wise woman with moderate income in 
New York keeps posted by the daily papers 
and makes it a point to be versed in the 
specialties of the various shops. New York 
women have the reputation of being the best 
dressed women on the continent. They wear 
colors and adopt styles that are becoming and 
refuse to be made guys by passing whims of 
fashion. The transition from heavy furs and 
rich draperies of winter to the freshness and 
delicacy of spring clothes has been accomp- 
lished to the general satisfaction. Most of the 
imported dresses at the openings showed 
princess backs wi h long skirt lines which give 
effect of height. The tendency is toward long 
flowing lines in all styles of gowns. The 
Directoire was the beginning of the artistic 
epoch in dress, an attempt to adapt different 
materials and drapery to different figures. 
This spring shows a modification in this style 
that is specially suited to stout forms. For 



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slender figures are many pufiSngs and shirrings 
about the waist and falling over the hips. 
Color is an essential to be carefully consid- 
ered in the study of the different beauty 
points, color and material. 

On Fifth avenue one bright day recently 1 
observed tliat the gray and heliotrope shades 
predominated in the noticeable costumes. 
They are trying shades to most women and 
care should be exercised in their selection. 
The fair, clear blonde revels in all the shades 
of green. She also can wear the greys with- 
out any touch of color, otherwise they should 
be associated with rose-pink, ruby-red or green. 
Aubergine and mushroom-grey, like sudde, re- 
quire youthful freshness of skin to look well. 
Golden brown is a color that wears well and is 
generally becoming to either blonde or bru- 
nette. A dainty combination of color this sea- 
son is Parma violet, with pale Spanish yel- 
low, the bled'or of the French. A charming 
little gown I lately saw was made of black 
silk, figured with voilets, and combined with 
pale yellow silk, veiled with black flscurial 
lace. 

Many India shawls, crepes de chine, and 
sheer woolens, including nun's veiling and the 
old-fashioned hernani grenadines, are being 
made up at present. The soft wool and silk 
weaves are light in weight, dainty in tint and 
exquisite in texture. The priestly batiste in 
sage greens, dark and light mixed grays, is 
about the finest material for summer wear one 
can find. It is forty inches wide and one dol- 
lar per yard. Then the pretty cool ginghams 
and zephyrs to be had at sixteen and nineteen 
cents per yard, in all shades, in stripes, checks 
and plaids, made simply with English skirt, 
mutton-leg sleeves and round bodice, with per- 
haps a touch of white lace or embroidery, fin- 
ished with a low-crowned, broad-brimmed 
straw hat, bound about with a bunch of field 
flowers, the long stems braided and encircling 
the crown being sufficient decoration, consti- 
tutes as bewitching a make-up as a pretty girl 
need desire. As to the parasols, those fascin- 
ating excuses for extravagance, never before 
was such an infinite variety at everyone's 
price. One that I saw made an impression. 
It certainly was a lovely bit of frivolity, but 
deserves respectful mention, as the price at- 
tached was three hundred and ninety-five dol- 
lars. Lace, of course, cream-tinted and very 
real. 

A noteworthy feature of the gowns this sea- 
son is the absence of the waist seams, only the 
two side seams under the arms being visible. 
These are often hidden by trimming or by the 
favorite Spanish jacket. The outside of the 
waist is drawn and fitted over a perfect-fitting 
lining and held so as to insure a proper result, 
and appears moulded to the figure. It requires 
an expert fitter to do this properly, and as 
there are few who have mastered this method, 
it is safer to adhere to the old way. 

Sleeves continue high and full, pads are 
even beginning to be necessary to support 
their ample dimensions at the shoulder, while 
scarcely enough material is .spared to make a 
skin-tight fit about the forearm. I am glad to 
say that there is a rumor that after the sum- 
mer days are past, the much repuffed sleeves 
will have had their fling. 

Mrs. McKee of the White House, has three 
suits in progress of construction at a Fifth av- 



enue modiste's, which are at once simple and 
becoming. The skirt of one is of challie, the 
waist of figured wash silk, has jacket points 
and is belted with ribbons, and the sleeves 
have jockey capes. The second is silk of 
pinkish heliotrope and straw yellow, combined 
with pink skirt, yellow sash, and Eaton jacket 
with small gold buttons. The third is in polo- 
naise form, of yellowish gray, grenadine jacket 
fronts, and revers with blue silk, worn with 
shirt of cream linen and gold buttons, and 
belt with gold buckle. 

We have returned to the golden age. Gold 
is a favorite trimming in metal gleams and 
threads, sparkling through the wrought em- 
broideries and multifarious garnitures. There 
is a pliable gold texture used tor vests on white 
cloth costumes and jackets that is'very beauti- 
ful and luxurious. White cloth is the extreme 
of elegance, but not to walk in. A charming 
house dress in white nun's veiling, trimmed 
with gold and white, is noteworthy for the ar- 
tistic ease and simple material. Rosettes of 
soft silk or picot ribbon are much used. 

The new Japanese cottons and Chinese ' 
silks are to have a great run this season. 

Stripes with interlaced sprigs of flowers are 
favorite designs. Spots are also very fashion- 
able. Both these and circles are seen thrown 
on stripes and brocades. Some cloudy bro- 
cades, with plain satin grounds, are powdered 
with silver stais. Another striking costume 
was a wool of turquoise blue, flecked with 
dcru threads and wrought black silk spots 
combined with a shirt blouse front, box- 
pleated, of black Sicillian, turned over collar 
and full sleeves of black. The finishing touch 
was a black Neapolitan hat, trimmed with 
blue corn flowers. The tournure is flat, some- 
times a small reed being used to prevent too 
clinging an effect. 

Sensible Mrs. Cleveland builded better than 
she knew in banishing the bustle. She built 
the fashion largely by pulling down the useless 
structure. By the way, this young and hand- 
some wife of the ex-president, is the same 
beautiful woman of tact and diplomacy that 
characterized her when she was in the White 
House — to quote from a New York journal. 
Just at present she is the leading figure in the 
Mission Kindergarten Organization which has 
opened on the corner of First avenue and 
Fifty-third street, of which she is vice-president. 
She gives them personal attention, clothing 
and food, and is as delightful as any Lady 
Bountiful. 

It would take much more than the space al- 
lotted to this letter to exhaust the subject of 
the fashions. But a word more concerning 
general features. Skirts are about the same 
width as last season, and are draped in various 
graceful ways. The straight English drapery, 
severely simple, is largely used for street 
gowns. There seems to be a reaction against 
the flower-bedizened bonnet everywhere seen. 
Simpler bonnets with a few choice fine flowers 
mingled with other trimmings are preferred by 
ladies of the best taste. Take a fragment of 
silver or gold brocade, add a fold of velvet at 
the edge and a tuft of flowers orsmall feathers, 
and you have in this light and airy nothing an 
apology for a head covering ; or convert a sin- 
gle rose with flattened mobile petals, a trifle of 
crepe or tissue and strings if you like of narrow 
velvet into a Farusian creation, and you may 



walk serene in the consciousness of an iiic- 
proachable bonnet. Hats defy description. 
There is real coquetry in the picturescpie 
gauze-covered hats. Through the meshes of 
point d'esprit the sun-beams dance, while 
briglit eyes increase in brilliancy and mischief 
as they peer through the flounce of lace edging 
in the hat brim. Nothing is prettier than a 
mastof soft nodding tips on alargehat. Again, 
are great gaudy golden butterfles hovering 
over the inviting flowers, as natural as life. 
The newest veil is a plain thin black tulle, 
with here and there a dot, not more than two 
or three on a veil to simulate beauty spots. 
They look bewitching on a peachy comple.xion. 
But avoid getting one on the tip of the nose. 
Short gloves are thrust inside the long wristed 
sleeve. While dresses are much longer, the 
correct thing being to show the toe-end of the 
shoe in front, New York has yet to display any 
servile following of the foreign fashion of 
sweeping the sidewalks, a fasijion at once op- 
posed to good taste and comman sense. 

Photography has apparently disproved the 
theories of the old-school meteorologists, who 
maintained that lightning never turned back in 
its path. An e.\amination of lightning photog- 
raphy shows that a flash not only turns back 
sometimes, but tangles itself into a kind of 
knot. 

Every one is aware that the rate of interest 
has rapidly declined the last few years, but just 
what this means to the investing public is per- 
haps something that has not been carefully 
thought out. George lies, in Popular Scicme 
Monthly, in discussing this point, presents 
some facts which are of interest to our readers 
in general. He says: "While the rate of 
interest on government bonds and city and 
railroad debentures has been steadily falling 
within the past two decades, the rates payable 
on real estate mortgages have declined in sym- 
pathy. This year, in New York and Boston, 
liens on the best city property have been placed 
at four per cent., two per cent, less than the 
rates current in 1869. In other large cities of 
the Union a similar decline is observable; and, 
as between newly-settled States and Territories 
and the financial centers of the nation, the 
disparity in the rates payable on well-secured 
loans is much less to-day than it was 20 years 
ago. The significant point in the matter under 
consideration is not so much that the rate of in- 
terest has been falling as that interest has be- 
come distinctly separated from the wages of 
superintendence and the premium for incurred 
risk,which used to be combined with it. The re. 
turn on a government bond represents the bare 
remuneration of capital employed, without 
hazard or care. An investor in first-class city 
mortgages receives a larger income than if he 
had bought government bonds with his money, 
but he has not .so easy a time of it. He must have 
titles carefully and responsibly e.xamined; his 
creditors may be unpunctual ; occasionally he 
may have the trouble of a foreclosure on his 
hands. His investments are for comparatively 
short terms of years, and between one invest- 
ment and another, part of his capital may be 
unproductive ; or, in reinvesting, he may be 
obliged to accept a reduced rate. Hence the 
competition for securities eliminating hazard 
and bother, which is one of the notable facts 
in the modern world of finance." 



lylCiHT 

Literary Leaves. 

The St. James Gazette says: "Messrs. 
Sampson, Low & Co. are going to press with 
one of the very saddest books in the Knglish 
language — the 'English Catalogue of Books' for 
the preceding year. It is heart-breaking to 
read through name after name in these cata- 
logues, and to reflect on the time misspent, the 
wasted effort, the vain hopes, the slow despair 
of the great majority of this multitude." 



15 



Of the 250 copies of the edition de luxe of 
Mr. Stanley's forthcoming book, each copy will 
be numbered and signed by Stanley himself. 
It will be printed on the best hand-made paper, 
and the illustrations — some of which will not 
be found in the other edition — will be specially 
printed on Japanese paper and mounted. The 
price of the English lie luxe copies will be 550. 



"Makers of America" is the general title of 
duodecimo volumes of biography to be issued 
by Dodd, Mead & Co., of this city. The editor 
of the series is Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie. It is 
proposed to include in this series lives of dis- 
covers, colonizers, statesmen, men of war, of 
letters, theologians, inventors — in short, "men 
who, in every walk of life, have been of suffi- 
cient force to stamp their impress on their 
times, and to help shape the affairs of the con- 
tinent." Among the subjects and authors 
already arranged for are: "Christopher Co- 
lumbus," by President C. K. Adams; "Robert 
Morris " and "Ale.xander Hamilton," by Pro- 
fessor W. S. Sumner; "Thomas Jefferson," 
by James Schouler; "Francis Higginson," by 
T. W. Higginson; "Peter Stuyvfsant," by 
Bayard Tuckerman ; "Charles Sumner," by 
Anna L. Dawes; and "William White," by the 
Rev. J. H. Ward, with an introduction by 
Bishop Potter. 



A book which will be read with equal in- 
terest, amusement, and satisfaction by the cook 
and the epicure is Theodore Child's "Delicate 
Feasting," which is in press for early publica- 
tion. 



Edward W. Bok says : "Do actors buy 
many books ? Some of them. Edwin Booth 
comes in once in a while, but generally for 
for some special book, and when he gets it he 
goes right out. Fannie Davenport likes books, 
and I have several times sold her a good bill 
of books. She likes fiction — especially relig- 
ious and historical novels. Joseph Jefferson 
will drop in about twice a year, looks around 
and buys what pleases his fancy. Mrs. Ken- 
dal bought considerable while she was here. 
The most prolific buyer of books among actors 
was Mr. John Gilbert, and two or three times 
a week he would saunter down and 'see what 
was new.' William J. Florence likes books 
and will generally buy what is recommended 
to him. Julia Marlowe has a strong tendency 
for modem novels, and lays in a good supply 
whenever she is in New York. Augustin Daly 
buys Shakespeare almost exclusively, and he 
has one of the finest Shakespearian libraries in 
New York city. Ada Rehan sometimes buys, 
but not much. Georgia Cayvan is quite a 
reader, and buys the popular authors. Law- 
rence Barrett used to buy very liberally, and I 
imagine he has quite a library." 



All Out Doors. 



And now for out-door sports. So runs the 
head-line of a description of the conclusion of 
the winter's work in one of our large city's 
gynin;isiums, and in its cpigramatic way voic- 
ing the thoughts of the hundreds of young 
men and maidens who are longing for a freer 
action of body and limbs that is to come with 
exercise in the open ;iir and warmer weather. 
A glance through the daily papers will con- 
vince the pessimist that, with Othello, his oc- 
cupation's gone. He can no longer bewail the 
want of interest that Young America should 
take in field .sports, when hardly a day goes by 
but some two and three announcements are 
made of definite moves towards the purchase of 
large area of sports a-field. The oft-quoted 
old Greeks and Romans are banished to the 
oljlivion of contempt, when a city of modern 
times, presumably absorbed in greed and gain, 
by right of just consideration for its children's 
welfare, appropriates large sums of money for 
an out-door gymnasium for its women and 
girls, so well satisfied has it become of the 
value of that already spent in the same way 
for the other and physically stronger sex. And 
the worth of this growing interest in out-door 
athletics cannot be estimated too highly. Any 
exercise in air not bounded by wood, brick or 
stone is worth double that taken in-doors. 
The worker at the forge or bench, though he 
call every muscle into action in his daily 
routine, physically is not a gainer thereby, and 
realizing it seeks needed recreation in some 
out-door game. If this is true of the actively 
employed, how much more so of those in occu- 
pations so sedentary that even the vital parts 
of the body are clogged and hampered in their 
action by a ten-hour-a-day confinement, with 
breathing areas a little better than ten by ten 
feet of space. We have labor-saving devices, 
but are they not at the expense of health ? 
Ask your hurried merchant how much less e.x- 
hausted he is after he has dictated an hour, 
than when he found spare moments to write, 
himself, the answers to his daily mail, limited 
then in its amout by the non-existence of the 
handy stenographer and her many-keyed 
machines. Illustrations might be multiplied, 
but all would demonstrate the fact that nine- 
teenth century living, all sorts and conditions 
of men, is at the expense of the physical or- 
ganization. That to keep this in well-balanced 
condition is a question that right-thinking 
women and men, young and old, are consider- 
ing. That to be a Gladstone and merit, men- 
tally and physically, the title, (irand Old Man, 
being able at eighty to retire to Oxford for 
study, one must be fit to meet any tree of the 
forest and lay it low, and think ten-mile jaunts 
a-foot but pastime. The coming months, with 
brighter skies, are ahead, and full of promise 
in the po.ssibility of plenty of exercise, with 
out-door games and sports. And with this 
will result a stronger and healthier race, and 
the corresponding fact, too seldom thought of 
in this connection, a higher rate of longevity 
to those who practice as well as preach of the 
value of out-door exercise. 



Flowers are the grandest things that God 
ever made without putting an immortal soul 
into them. — Beecher. 



16 

The Swedes of Worcester. 



BY H. N. ORUP. 



SECOND PAPER. 

The writer does not know when the first 
Swede came to Worcester, but the greatest 
number have come here within the last ten 
years. Previous to that time there had been a 
few, and feeble attempts toward organization, 
but the first permanent society was that of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. They met in a 
hall on Main street, and shortly afterwards in 
Natural History building. They gained a 
large membership, under the labors ot the late 
Rev. Mr. Sorlin, which has been steadily in- 
creasing since the popular and respected pres- 
ent pastor, Rev. Mr. Eklund, took charge of 
the parish. They have a neat church on 
Thomas street, and a flourishing congregation 
in Quinsigamond. 

The Baptist Society was formed shortly 
after the Methodist, and though not so large, 
is quite well represented. Last year there was 
a division, and part of the congregation went 
out from the mother church, and now meets at 
the corner of Main and Pleasant streets. 

Strange as it may seem, there has never been 
a regular Congregational denomination known 
in Sweden, until Rev. Mr. Waldenstrom, a 
Lutheran minister, began to oppose the doc- 
trines of the State Church, and on gaining a 
large number of followers, who met outside the 
regular church, and by the practice of reading 
the Bible frequently, were known as "lasare," 
(literally "readers,") almost formed a new re- 
ligious sect. When the adherents of this new 
sect found that the Congregationalist Church 
of this country stood nearest to them in point 
of belief, they readily joined hands, and so the 
the first Swedish Congregationalist Church 
was formed. The Lutheran Church in the 
United States is under the guidance of the 
Augustana Synod, and though it is practically 
the same as the State Church, is not so well 
supported as the dissenting churches. Here 
in Worcester they ow^n a fine little church on 
Mulberry street, and have some of the oldest 
Swedish inhabitants as members. 

The Swedish L'nitarian Churcli is a lately 
formed society which seems to have a strong 
and vigorous growth, especially among the 
young people, and will undoubtedly fill a want 
hitherto unsupplied. They meet in St. 
George's Hall. 

Among the secular societies there are sev- 
eral combining temperance and aid in sick- 
ness. The oldest is Nordstjernan, (The North 
Star.) A tribe of the Improved Order of Red 
Men, known as Massasoit Tribe, No. 6, is 
composed largely of Swedes. A peculiar or- 
ganization e.xists in Quinsigamond. Every 
member, of which there are one hundred, pays 
ten cents a week to any one of their number 
who is sick. Some member collects the money, 
and pays it over, and the expenses are reduced 
to a minimum. "The Brigade Band" is well 
known as a dispenser of music, and in spite of 
its name, is an original Swedish institution. 
Svea Gille is a society of young men for 
amusement. They arrange society plays and 
dances, and as the Swedes are very fond of 
dancing, their efforts are appreciated. 

The Swedes are very fond of outdoor life, 
and in the mother country it is the universal 



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custom for the family to pack their luncheon 
boxes in the morning, and spreading a cloth on 
the emerald green, take their meals in the open 
air. Coffee and supper are generally served 
in the garden, weather permitting, and no dis- 
astrous effect follows a night's sleep with the 
green sward as a mattress, under the blue can- 
opy of heaven. The public parks, of which 
the larger cities have many, are always filled, 
while the streets are deserted. Flowers are 
found on the tables of both the rich and poor, 
and the price of a fine bouquet is only ten 
cents. Even in this country a casual observer 
will see many more Swedes, in proportion to 
their numbers, than other nationalities at the 
lake or in the parks. 

The reason so many Swedish girls seek em- 
ployment as house-servants, is that such a posi- 
tion is considered in Sweden to be more respec- 
table than to work in a factory or mill. Fami- 
lies employing Swedish servants are apt to 
think that the science of cooking is at a low 
standpoint in Sweden, but such is not the 
fact, as a large number of travelers can testify, 
but the majority of the girls that come here 
are unused to cooking delicacies, being mainly 
from "the country," where the dishes are few 
and the palate easily satisfied. They manage 
to learn, however, and many Swedish girls 
occupy positions as cooks in first-class hotels 
and families, where their desire to keep things 
clean and orderly is universally commended. 
With their adaptability to surroundings, the 
Swede girls strike out in other directions, and 
seek work in factories as well as other places, 
and the days of the Swede servant are slowly 
passing away. 

It takes several years for the average Swede 
togetusedto the country. He is astonished 
at the rush and the hurry and his nerves are 
unused to the pressure. He wonders at the 
large crowds parading tlie streets in the even- 
ings. He tries to read the current literature 
thrust upon him at the corner, and makes up 
his mind that American detectives are the 
smartest men on the eartli. He fails to appre- 
ciate the humor that pokes fun at his short- 
comings. He goes to the "show," and tries to 
enjoy the revolver practice, and the high C of 
the prima donna. Perhaps he cannot see why 
the King of Scotland should be obliged to 
have his banquet spread on a kitchen table, 
and sit on a throne made of a sixty-cent chair, 
with a red cloth over it, but he is not sure to 
find fault with the .American dramatic art. 
He is not edified by the spectacle of people 
throwing articles of food at one another as is 
done in the great "family resorts," known as 
the dime show. But he loves sport, and many 
of the young men are enthusiastic admirers of 
base ball and the various other forms of ath- 
letic e.xercise. 

The Swedes have come to stay, to make 
this country their home, and they are willing to 
join the great .American nation. They spend 
most of their money where it is earned, though 
not forgetting the old folks at home. They 
are loyal to the constitution and respect the 
flag and law of the country that has welcomed 
them. They have deep feelings, and a kind word 
or a noble deed is remembered with gratitude. 

May the encouragement of the past be con- 
tinued in the future, and the people of New 
England will not regret the advent of the 
Swedes among them. 



Hid(ien Tears. 



S.MITH .MIDDLETOiN 



Hast thou not seen brigfit eyes liiding 
liitter depths of sadness there ? 

Which, though gay, were still confiding 
Something of the heart's despair } 

When the heart is full to breaking, 
Brave eyes still will gladly smile. 

But the battle grief is making, 
Shows beneath the tender guile. 

When young hearts with love are teaming. 
Pride and doubt may hold apart. 

Bright may be the outward seeming 
But the eyes betray the heart. 

Tears reveal the deepest feeling. 

Hidden tears of young hearts broken 
Speak an anguish more appealing 

Than by words could e'er be spoken. 
nsh-r, A/„ss. 



HOW TO BE HEALTHY. 

Be cheerful. "A light heart lives long." 

Don't worry. "Seek peace and pursue it." 

N ever despair. "Lost hope is a fatal disease. 

"Work like a man, but don't be worked to 
death." 

Don't hurrj\ "Too swift arrives as tardy as 
too slow." 

Sleep and rest abundantly. Sleep is nature's 
benediction. 

Avoid passion and excitement. A moment's 
anger may be fatal. 

Associate with healthy people. Health is 
contagious as well as disease. 

Court the fresh air day and night. "O if you 
knew what was in the air!" 

Don't overeat. Don't starve. "Let your 
moderation be known to all men." 

Think only healthful thoughts. "As a man 
thinketh in his heart so is he." 



A SUCCESSFUL PAPER. 
A few weeks ago, Mr. N. C. Fowler, Jr., of 
the Daify/oi/riia/, conceived the idea of a 
Saturday journal of a high class, folded and 
stitched and containing 24 pages, to which he 
gave the unique title of Light. Mr. Fowler 
is a journalist of experience, enterprise and 
plenty of push, and his newspaper has come to 
be a great success already. Its pages are filled 
with social, literar)- and other matter of that 
class, and Light has found a good field and 
just stepped right into it successfully. It is a 
welcome visitor to the Cull's sanctum, not 
more because our friend Fowler is at the head, 
than because it contains something every week 
to interest ; and this is saying a good deal of a 
publication in whose territory, locally, we have 
but little interest. Light is a model of typo- 
graphical neatness and make-up and bears the 
stamp of the ingenious editor on every page. — 
Pitlsfichl, Mass., Call. 



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Of Coming Things. 

Sunday, May 4. 
First Universalist Church.— Rev. Almon Gun- 
nison, D. D., preaches his first sermon as pastor of the 
church. 10.30 a. m. 

Y. M. C. A.— Young Men's Meeting. J. \V. Cook, 
assistant state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Massa- 
chusetts and Khode Island, speaks. 4 p. m. 

Kink.— No-License Mass Meeting, to endorse the ac- 
tion of the aldermen. 3 p. m. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of 
Wellesley, preaches. 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. 
Monday, May 5. 
New Theatre.— Opening night. "Shenandoah.'" 
Evenings at 8. Wednesday and Saturday at 2. 
Tuesday, May 6. 
Pilgrim Hall.— Last entertainment for the Ix-nefit 
of the g>-mnasium. 8 p. m. 

Mechanics Hall.— Grand Concert by Sarasate and 
d' Albert. 8 p. m. 

Summer Street Church.— Concert by Mr. Ben T. 
Hammond. 8 p. m. 

Wednesday, May 7. 
Bay State House.— Second annual banquet of the 
Builder's Exchange. 8 p. m. 

Continental Hall. — Annual meeting and election 
of officers of the Worcester Continentals. 8 p. m. 

St. John's Parish Hall, Lincoln Street.— 
Operetta, ".\nita's Trial." 8 p. m. 

Thursday, May 8. 
Association Hall.— Lecture on "The Queen's 
Daughters, or the Women of England," by Mrs. Ormis- 
tan Chant. 7.45 p. m. 

Friday, May g. 
Salem Street Church.— Concert and readings: 
"The Golden Legend." Evening. 

Grand Army Hall.— Friday Night Club of the 
South Unitarian Church presents "Woodcock's Little 
Game." 8 p. m. 

Saturday, May 10. 
Agricultural Park.— Polytechnic Institute field 
sports. 2 p. m. 

Tuesday, May 13. 
Curtis Hall.— Y. M. C. A. monthly members' 
meeting. Rev. George G. Craft speaics on "Athletics." 
7.45 P- n>- 

Thursday, May 22. 
Mechanics Hall.— Battery B Band concert. S p.m. 

■Wednesday, May 28. 
Worcester Continentals.— Field day. 

Thursday, June 26. 
Horticultural Hall.— First of .Mr. Ben T. Ham- 
mond's closing recitals. 8 p. m. 

State Normal School. — Commencement Day ex- 
ercises. 9.30 a. m. and 2.15 p. m. 



The establishment at the corner of Main 
and Market streets, long run by "Sam" Strat- 
ton, has passed into the control of a Leomin- 
ster man, also named Stratton, who is to run it 
as a strictly temperance restaurant. The names 
of the two proprietors furnish quite a coinci- 
dence. 

MRS. ORMISTON CHANT 



Will lecture, under the auspices of the Wi 
frage League, on 

The Queen's Daughters, 

OK THE 

Women of England, 

ON THIKSD.W, M.\Y 8, 1890, AT .\SSOCI.\- 
TION H.A.LL, Y. M. C. A. BllLDlXG. 

QTiclsets, SO Cea3.ts. 
For sale at Leland's Music Store, 446 Main St. 



MECHANICS HALL 

GRAND CONCERT 

Tuesday Evening, May 6, at 8 O'clock. 






SARASATE-D' ALBERT - 



Messrs. Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau beg respectfully to 
call your attention to the Grand Concert to be given by 

PABLO DE SARASATE, 

I \ idlin.) 

EUGEN D'ALBERT, 

(Piano.) 

MME. BERTHE MARX, 

(Pianistc.) 

ForiniiiK the M.i-t N.ital.l.- < ..iiil.iiiHtio.i i.f Mii^^iciaii. F;ver Heard in Tlii- (oiintrv. 



The following are actual expressions referring 
to these wonderful artists, their stupendous genius 
and remarkable attainments : — 

PABLO DE SARASATE. 

There can be little doubt that he is the greatest of li\ing vio- 
linists.— /-oh ^/ow Observer. October jy, liSq. 

I have never heard Paganini play htWar.—Manuei Garcia. 

What, however, does the subject matter, when Sarasate is 
the player ? In a work of his own composition he could not but 
take care to provide himself with opportunities for the displa\' of 
his many and wonderful ^Xs.— London St. James Gazette, Octo- 
ber 2H. rS.SQ. 

The purity of his tones is the purity of a dew-drop or a dia- 
mond, crystalline, scintillant. dazzling: their sensuous charm Is 
irresistible. But the music that is native to him is music of the 
kind he writes, music designed to astound. He is a most lovable 
wizard.— A'ra' Vor^ Tribune. November iq^ /S&q. 

Not to hear Sarasate is to miss the opportunity of a life- 
time. After hearing him, one has reached a standard to judge 
others by. 




EUGEN D'ALBERT. 

Carl Tausig has arisen from the dead ; now he calls himself 
Eugen D'.Albert. — Berlin Tageblatt. 

Eugen D'.^lbert, it is safe to say, is the greatest living pianist. 
Rubinstein is probably a greater musical genius, but it is extreme- 
ly unlikely that he can, at the present time, say as much through a 
piano as D'.\lbert.—jWit' Ki>« Times. N<K'ember 24. likq 

There are but three great pianists in the world, Rubinstein, 
myself and D'.Albert, but the last is young, and bids fair to surpass 
M'i2}\.— Von Bulorw. 

.•\h. youth is everything. D'Albert is the greatest of us all, 
for he begins where we leave off. — Rubi7istein. 

Of D- Albert it is ahnost impossible to speak at all: evei>thing 
he plays is so superb a product of both mind and fingers that cnt- 
icisms became absurd, and extensive comment would use up all 
complimentary adjectives in the language.— .SurfoM Post, Decem- 
ber 12, liiq. 

To the musical amateur, and principally to the student, the 
performances of D'.^Ibert are a ventable God-send. To say "I can 
play" and not to have heard D' Albert when the opportunity offers, 
IS to miss the one priceless lesson of a life-time of study.— .fiorfon 
Gtcbc. 




STEINWAY PIANO USED AT ALL SARASATE--D ALBERT CONCERTS. 



13 



L I d M T 



About Folks. 



Rev. I. J. Lansing speaks in Cambridge, 
next Thursday. 

The Worcester Board of Underwriters have 
elected officers for the ensuing year, as follows , 
President, Mr. A. C. Munroe ; First Vice-Presi- 
dent, Mr. N. A. Harrington: Second Vice- 
President, Mr. Lucius E. Eldred; Secretary, 
Mr. Edward D. Ingraham; Treasurer, Mr. 
John F. Crowell : Stamping Officer, Captain 
Hiram R. Williamson. 



Col. Fred W. Wellington inspected Battery 
B, Light Artillery, last .Monday evening. 
Captain Allen has his command in the pink of 
condition. 

The ladies of St. Marks Aid Society have 
elected as officers for 1S90-91 : President, Mrs. 
A. A. Bigelow; Secretary, Mrs. Mary E. Dad- 
mun ; Treasurer, Mrs. Grace F. .Allen ; Auditor, 
Mrs. Ellen T. Norcross; Directors, Mrs. 
Frank Munroe, Mrs. John Bowler, Mrs. 
Charles Gates. 

Mr. Ira G. Blake is enjoying the compli- 
ment of having one of his ZioiCs Herald arti- 
cles copied entire in the Sunday School Chron- 
icle, of London, the largest circulated religious 
newspaper in the world. 



The Choral Society of the Salem Street 
Congregational Church will present the cantata 
of the "Golden Legend," on next Friday even- 
ing. Miss Evangeline Houghton, of Somer- 
ville, the new soprano at Piedmont Church, 
will assume the role of Elsie. Miss Houghton 
has already won much favorable comment for 
her very sweet voice, and local prophets 
prophesy for her a brilliant musical future. 
Considerable interest is manifested to hear her 
in cantata music. Mr. E. N. Anderson, 
director of music at Central Church, will ap- 
pear as Prince Henry. Mrs. F. W. Ruggles 
will take the part of Ursula. The chorus has 
been enlarged, and the rehearsals have famil- 
iarized the voices with the beautiful choruses 
selected. An additional attraction will be the 
readings from the poem by Rev. I. J. Lansing. 
The society will present to the public not 
merely selections from Sullivan's music, but 
also from the very beautiful work of Dudley 
Buck, which has perhaps never been given in 
Worcester. 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Kenson were called 
upon by friends, at their home, 15 Piedmont 
street, on Friday evening of last week, and 
presented with some substantial tokens of 
regards. Mr. F. T. .Andrews did the necessar\' 
speech-making for the company and every- 
body had a good time. 



Mrs. Clara H. Bliss and Florence Everett, 
pianists. Miss Margaret H. Griggs, soprano, 
and .Mr. Ewald Weiss, violinist, were the par- 
ticipants m the Worcester County Music 
School recital of Friday evening of last week. 



Sale.sladv : — Really, madam, the vases in 
brighter colors are less artistic. This piece of 
of Royal Worcester is the finest thing we have. 

Mrs. Caldro.x: — You can't tell me any- 
thing about Worcester! I've lived there all 
my life. — Puck. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CHARLES H. WOODCOCK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

The "WriKht ('<nint«T Shaft and flutch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
scarcely perceptible shock or jar, and decidedly the best device for the purpose ever in the market. Every one inter- 
ested is cordially invited to come and see it. The "Woiidcock rniversal Door Opener." By simply pressing 
a button on either side of the door, it causes the door to swing open. Can be quickly and cheaply applied to any 
door. Must be seen to be appreciated. A Carpenter';* Guage for Hanj;;in|; Doors accurately and very quickly. 
No carpenter can afford to be without it. "The Swivel Crotoh Center." No more broken drills by work catch- 
ing. Hundreds of dollars saved. ".4. Cwtt Holder." The cheapest and best ever seen. We are prepared to make 
the most reasonable terms for all kinds of special machinery. Repairs promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 

No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



Famous OilRangb 




For Family Use. 



The "l-'.'^.MUUS," as its name implies, is an Oil Range, and is fully the equivalent 
of the coal range. It stands firmly on legs, at the right height to work over. Is is cleanly 
and free from odor. Its tank is of .Seamless Lead and is at the rear, where it does not 
get heated. The wicks can be burned as long as there is a drop of oil m the tank. It has 
sufficient power to do all the cooking and laundry work of the family the year round, at 
less than half the cost of the coal stove. Thousands are in use in all parts of the country. 
Write us for further information and name of nearest agent. 

SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

M.VKEKS, BOSTON. M.VSS. FOli S.ALK BY 

J. W. GREENE, 51 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 

EAST TENNESSEE LAND CO. 



$750,000 

AGGEEOATE 

SALES 
TO DATE OP 
TOWN LOTS ! ! 



ONLY 

$3,000,000 

OP CAPITAL 

STOCK ! 1 
SHAKES $50 

EACH, 
Only Sold at Par. 



*T()N n. FiSK. 

President. 
1 J. IlDi'F.WEIi, Jr., 

1st Vice-President 
1 A. W. WAGNALL6, 

Treasurer. 
.\. IIorKlst 

Secretary, 



ID(rettocs. 



F. W. Breed. 
Frederick Galea. 
Philip S. aiason. 




; ]\I .\ I, L c .\ r I T A L I Z .4 T 1 O N I 



1 JI 31 K N S K A .V L r E S ! 



SECOND EXCURSION TO HARRIMAN, MAY 5, 1890. 

Spe.ial Train, SpiTial Bates, and Special Indue, iiitnts fo see the Newest City 

i>f the New Sonth. Full Tarlieulars <iiven. 

NEW ENGLAND HEADQUARTERS, 54 EQUITABLE BLDG., BOSTON, MASS. 




A Great Advance over all Lawn Mowers 
on the market. Call and see them before 
you 

NEALE & GOULDING, 171 MAIN ST. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

AVhen you ^vant a good mattress of any grra<le 
or your old one made over, send ub your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 Parlv St., Worcester. 



T. D. GARD, 

^iV Worker in Gold and Silver « 

AND KEGALIA M'F'G'R, 

393 Main St., Up One Flight, Worcesier, Mass. 



-^ PANSIES 4- 

We have a fine assortment of pansies now ready. Bed- 
ding plants in variety. Fresh Cut Flowers at all times. 
Floral Designs for all occasions. 

JoimsonS Wood, 13 Loudon Street. 



Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS « MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

2^5 Ix^aiii. St., ^^oona. 1, 
Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
an d guarantee satisfaction. 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.*s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-llEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS-f 

No. 3S7 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

^^^^WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL^^^^v 

527 MAIN ST. 
Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. AVALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK KESIDEXCE, 39 MAV ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Kstablished 18G5.) 

The best goods, the most honorable deahng, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS AND MUSIC. 

454 MAIN STISEET. 

« NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

ClaSin's best Cabinet Photographs, .*3 a cloz. 

until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 



FOR NURSERY STOCK 



THAYER'S, 

S TtL-pls-y Street, T7\7"orcester. 

The nearest place, a lar§:e stock and low prices. One 
thousand apple trees to sell very low ; also pear, cherry 
andplum trees. Flowering shrubs, .\lmonds, Hydrangeas, 
Lilacs. Spireas, Deutzias, Forsythias, etc. One thou- 
sand Hybrid Perpetual Roses, at $2 per dozen and up- 
wards—the cream of 500 varieties. .\lso flower seeds, 
flowers and funereal designs. 

Store, 330 Main Street, opp. Burnside Building. 
Telephone, CHAS. D. THAYER. 

A large stock of pansies and daisies for beds and 
vases. Call at greenhouses. 



L I Ci M T 

Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street. Worcester, Mass.] 

Ti> The Editor of Light : I encIo.se these 
cooking receipts, which I have proven to be 
good. Mu.s. C. K. '1". 

Cabbage Salad. 

Chop up the cabbage and put in layers in a 
deep dish, sprinkling salt and pepper over eacli 
layer. For the dressing mi.\ one tablespoonful 
of Hour, one tablespoonful of butter, one-half 
tablespoonful of mustard, one-half cup of sugar. 
.Set in a dish of boiling water, and boil as 
thick as custard ; then add a well-beaten egg. 
Pour over the cabbage boiling hot. 
Brown Bread. 

One cup of Indian meal, one and one-half 
cups rye meal, one-half cup molasses, tea- 
spoonful of soda, teaspoonful of salt and pint 
of sour milk. Bake one hour in slow oven. 
Marbled Chocolate Cake. 

Grate or scrape five teaspoonfuls of choco- 
late, and moisten it with a little vanilla. Make 
a cake batter of two cups Hour, one cup sugar, 
one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of butter, one 
egg, one teaspoonful of baking powder. Stir 
the chocolate into a cupful of the cake batter 
and put in the tin alternately, first with white^ 
then with chocolate. 



19 



Clam Fritters. 

Make a batter of one pint of milk, one pint 
of flour, three eggs, a pinch of salt and a very 
little grated nutmeg ; beat the whites of the 
eggs very stiff first, then add one yolk at a 
time and beat, adding alternately flour and 
milk ; add also a teaspoonful of melted butter, 
then add the clams, either whole or chopped ; 
if chopped use care not to break them when 
nii.xing them with the batter; drop tliem by 
spoonfuls into boiling fat and brown well. 
Cottage Pudding. 

One cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of 
butter, two eggs, one cupful of sweet milk, 
three cupfuls of flour, or enough to make tol- 
erably stiff batter, one-half teaspoonful of 
soda, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar sifted 
with the flour, one teaspoonful of salt. Rub 
the butter and sugar together, beat in the 
yolks, then the milk and soda, the salt, and the 
beaten whites alternately with the flour. Hake 
in a buttered mold ; turn out upon a dish ; cut 
in slices and eat with licjuid sauce. 
Strawberry Short Cake. 

One quart of flour, three heaping teaspoon- 
fuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of 
salt, sifted together ; add one-half or two-thirds 
of a cup of cold butter. Chop the butter into 
the flour until it is fine like meal. Add sweet 
milk slowly, mi.\ing with a knife, until the 
dough is just right to roll out. Roll out rather 
thin and fit into Washington pie tins. Bake a 
light brown. When done split with warm 
knife, butter each half lightly, spread the 
strawberries mashed and sweetened on the 
under side, cover, and sift sugar over the top. 
Apple sauce or peaches can be used instead of 
strawberries. This is a very simple and whole- 
some desert, or it may be used as a breakf2St 
or tea dish. 



PLEASE NOTICE 



MISS HACKKTT'S 

Home-Made Ginger Snaps. 

MRS. IIUMI'HRKY'S 

Home-Made Cake and Salted Almonds. 

HON. J. H. WALKER'S 

Jersey liutter, fresh from liis farm. 

W. S. LINCOLN'S 

Jersey Cream, fresh every day. 

THE OLD "JERSEY CREAM" FLOUR, 
Unsurpa.ssed by any, at 

EBEN W. HOXIE'S, 

816, 818 and 305 Main Sired. 

••Good Bread aixl Cake l»oth Whel tlic .\p- 
petite." 

KiNE Bakerv ! ! 

HKJHKST Ol .\I.1TY OXI.Y. 

GEORGE G. FOX k CO,, 15 PLEASANT ST, 

A11(^....<1» Hoi at :!.:»>. 

TURKIJH BflTH5. 

F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hour 
2 to 9 p. M. Sundays, 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House, 
Worcester, Mass. 




ACME PLATING CO., 

Oold, Silver and Nickel IMatillg, 

Polishing, Bronzing and Lacquering, 

lieplating Table-ware a Specialty. 

.-\11 work hand-polished. liest work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. M.4SSI(OTT, PROP. 

Over Collar Laundry. Barton Place. Worcester. Mass. 

WHEELS AT LOW PRICES « 

L M. ALEXANDER, 

.\t llill& Tullmans old stand, 
195 FRONT ST. 



WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Place. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDKKKl) IN Sf- 
PERIOK STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C.B.COOK& Co., PR<M'S;. 

W. A. ENGLAND, 

Iti:,\l.KH IN 

FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

KEP.vii:iN<; rr.oMi'Ti.Y donk. 

394 Main Street. 



zo 

E. Boyden & Son, 

ARCHITECTS ! 

M. A. Boyden, 

CIVIL ENOINEER, 

40G Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

4- WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. iSatisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAX4S & SON. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Kranne IVI'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
£ng:raTings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc, 

■4Y Parl-c St., Worcester. 
JOHN G. SMITH, 

DEALER IN 

ANTIQUE FURNITURE, CROCKERY 
AND BRIC-A-BRAC. 

Special attention given to repairing after the original 
design. Also old books and pamphlets bought. 

53 LINCOLN ST., WOKCESTEK, MASS. 

CHAS. K. REED, 
TAXIDERIvIIST, 

AND DE/LER IN 
NATUKALISTS- SUPPLIES, SHELLS, ETC. 

White Doves Wanted. 

262 MAIN STREET. 



Tlie best and 1 
sell no cheap ffti 



st grade pianos only. We 



C. L Gill k CO 



E. L. S U M N E R, 

-- KROEGER&SONS S 
I WHEELOCK&CO. i 

379 Main St., Worcester, (Over Putnam & Thurs- 
ton's Kestaurant.) 

L. MERRIFIELD, 

AGENT FOK AM) DEALER IN 

First-Class Pianos and Organs, 

Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise of every de- 
scription. 
LAMB'S BLOCK, 43 PLEASANT STKEET. 

LE i JOLLY ■ FRENCH * DYEING 

AND » CLEANSING - HOUSE. 

First-riass Work at Short Notice. 

Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro s & Strauss. 

Cut out this coiipou fr<tn 

LIGHT, and bring it witl 

you an<l «;et 10 per cent tlis 

count iroui regular prices. 

C. T. MKLVIN, i'KOI' KIETOK, "WAI.Nl T ST. 



PICTURES AND FRAMES 

Of every description on hand or to order at 

I. REU B I N'S 

Picture Frame Manufactory & General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Prompt attention, first-class work 
and low prices are some of the good features of my bus- 
iness. Call and investigate. 

330 Main St., AVorcester, Mass. 



L I (i H T 

About Folks. 



The closing exhibition for the benefit of Pil- 
grim gymnasium will occur next Tuesday eve- 
ning. The exhibition will be given wholly 
upon the platform. Among the attractions 
will be pyramid building, forming living pic- 
tures of art and beauty ; new and difficult 
tuiTibling feats by seniors, and unique class 
work by juniors; Prof. Havener, in character 
costume, in his famous fancy club swinging; 
piano selections by Bert Fairbanks, the blind 
pianist ; selections by the Elberon Club ; banjo 
selections by the Arlington Quintet ; charac- 
ter sketches by W. D. Powers and F. P. Dean. 

Mr. Henr>' A. Hancox, C. E., is at St. Payne, 
,\la., with the "business men's excursion" rep- 
resenting the American Lock Switch Company. 

Rev. John Galbraith's people gave him a 
warm welcome back to Grace church, Thurs- 
day evening, and beside speechmaking there 
was a social time, and the pastor and his fam- 
ily were bountifully provided with roses. 

Mrs. Omiston Chant's lecture on "The 
Women of England, or, the Queen's daughters," 
at Association Hall, next Thursday evening, 
will undoubtedly be heard by a large audience. 
Light has already said something about Mrs. 
Chant, and can reiterate its praise at this time. 

At the young mens meeting at Association 
Hall, to-morrow afternoon, Mr. J. W. Cook, as- 
sistant state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of 
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, will speak 
on "The Greatest Thing in the World." Mr. 
C. C. Kenyon, now a member of the local as- 
sociation, formerly Mr. Cook's assistant at 
Springfield, when the latter was general secre- 
tary of the Springfield association, will sing 
solos. 

Mr. Edward O. Parker, now resident in 
Chicago, paid Worcester a day's visit last 
Sunday. He went at night to Boston, and 
thence home to Chicago. 

The Schubert Ladies' Quartet is to give a 
concert at the religious service at Mechanics 
Hall, Sunday evening. 

Major Edward T. Raymond and P. F. Mur- 
ray have received appointments on the staff of 
Department Commander George H. Innis, 
G. A. R. 

Mrs. Adaline A. Hitchcock, of Summer 
street, who has been confined to the house all 
winter, has sufficiently recovered to enjoy an 
occasional outing. 

Dr. Albert P. Marble, superintendent of 
schools, addressed the Schoolmasters' Club, 
at the Brunswick, in Boston, last Saturday af- 
ernoon, on "Literature." 




MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 



FURNITURE * 

* AND CARPETS. 

Our large spring stock is complete. Latest designs in 
all gra.des, and the best to be had for the money. 



# BEDROOM SUITES * 

Over a hundred different styles of the latest designs, 
made by the most skilled worKmen. A SoUd Ash Suite 
for $18.75. '^ handsomely finished suite, well made, hard 
wood, for $2A. A Solid Oak Suite, an extra bargain, at 
J30. A handsome, magnificent suite at $65, complete. 
And we could enumerate more than a hundred of these, 
every one a great bargain, and you will say so when you 



* PARLOR SUITES * 

We carry a variety of styles. A nice suite at S30, Hair 
Cloth or Plush. A handsome suite at $60. We could 
mention many positive bargains in these, but prefer that 
you would see them. 



* BABY CARRIAGES * 

Certainly our assortment of Baby Carriages cannot be 
excelled. We have positive beauties at very reasonable 

8 rices. It will pay you to see these before you purchase, 
lur Baby Sleeping Coach is now in stock, and we guar- 
antee that every little one so fortunate as to ride in one 
of these will be exceedingly happy. 



^^ REFRIGERATORS * 



of the best makes. Call and examine ( 



THE C. F. ADAMS 

HOME FURNISHING HOUSE, 

25e-2SS l^v^ain. St. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES, 



Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 33 PEARI. STREET. 

C- L- Gorham & Co- 

The Largest Store and Stock 

I N W O R C E S T K R. 
HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLI> FRAMES KE-GILDED. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

.•iO Foster Street. Opp. Rink, Worcester, Maas. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Grold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
isfiing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 



* STEINWAY PIANOS * 

The Acknowledged Standard of the Worhl. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 



-f SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Claris B-u-ild-ixigr, -^32 I^a^in St. 

Ko.mi 4*^. Take Klevator. 

Next Ter.m Bki;ins Aprii 24. 

Instruction given in Elocution. Vocal Technique and 
Physical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
taught. Call, or send tor circular. Address Miss Stella 
^I.Haynes, principal, graduate of N. E. Conservatory 
School of Oratory. 

MEDICATED,^ VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FwR LAlilES .A.NU CHILUKHN UNLV. 

:\r>i Main Street, Corner Maple, Worrester, Mass. 

Li^^Olfice hours— 9 to 12 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 
ment at the homes of patients by appointment if desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

33S 3^^a,in St., 
Fasliionat^le Nlillinerx-. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long experi- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 

MRS. S. E. LAWTON, 

* 19 MAIN STREET * 



Honrs O to 12 and 2 to (>, every tlay 
except Friday. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Pupils should enter now in order to graduate in time 
for a position ne.xt fall or early winter. Terms reasonable. 
A limited number of pupils can be accommodated. Call 
nr write for terms. 

44 FK<»T ST., AVOlU KSTKi;, MA^S. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-4-Ladies' • Hair • Dressing^*- 

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.\nd all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 
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Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— A M ' — 

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Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
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Worcester, Mass.] 

— Nothing is better than a glass fruit jar for 
keeping cooking raisins moist. 

— When acid of any kind gets on clothing, 
spirits of ammonia will kill it. Apply chloro- 
form to restore the color. 

— Keep nickel, silver ornanicnt>( and mounts 
bright by rubbing with woolen cloth saturated 
in spirits of ammonia. 

— A small box filled with lime and placed 
on a shelf in the pantry or closet will absorb 
dampness and keep the air in the closet dry 
and sweet. 

— A old recommendation often given young 
housekeepers is to use tea leaves in sweeping 
carpets, but their use on delicate colors should 
be avoided, as they will surely stain light 
carpets. 

— Water should come to the boiling point for 
making tea or coffee, and not be allowed to 
boil for even five minutes. If you are a 
doubter, try it and convince yourself of the 
difference in flavor. 

— If a new broom be immtrsed in lioiling 
water until it is quite cold, then thoroughly 
dried in the air, it will be far more pleasant to 
use, and will last much longer. Frecju.nt 
moistening of the broom is conductive to its 
usefulness, and also saves the carpet. 

— The creaking screw of a piano stool may 
be relieved by taking a lead pencil and rubbing 
tlie surface until it shines. It will work 
smoothly and without noise. The graphite in 
the pencil has the same effect as oil, and is 
much cleaner for handling. The stiff bell-pull 
treated in this way will work like a charm. 



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New England. Let us welcome 
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Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY lo, 1890. 



No. II 



According to the experiments made by scien- 
tific men who have given much attention to 
the laws of traction, the force required to draw 
a given load varies from 1-20 to 1-133 
of the load, depending upon tlie sur- 
face of the road-bed. The result shows 
that to draw one ton over an iron road requires 
the force of ten pounds ; asphalt, fifteen 
pounds; wood, twenty-one pounds ; best stone 
blocks, thirty-three pounds; inferior stone 
blocks, fifty pounds ; average cobble stone, 
ninety pounds ; macadam, one hundred pounds, 
earth, two hundred pounds. By these figures 
it would seem that apparent extravagance in 
road-building may mean business economy of 
the highest order. 



The new theatre opened with "Shenandoah," 
following it comes "Little Lord Fauntleroy," 
the "Still Alarm," and Barry & Fay. The 
classical audiences of Worcester are having a 
hard time of it. 



An honest compliment was paid Worcester 
the other day, by a well-known Bostonian, 
whose knowledge of American cities was 
gained by personal visits to them, and there- 
fore he spoke with authority. While standing 
on Newton Hill, in the waning of a bright 
afternoon, he said : "I have never visited a 
city which more impressed me than does this 
view of Worcester. To me it seems a city of 
homes, comfortably resting amid the hills, a 
place where city and country seem to meet in 
happy fellowship." 



Let Worcester keep out of doors these beau- 
tiful spring days. It will do her good. There 
is nothing like the open air to aid good digestion, 
and good digestion begets good temper. 



The Saturday Evening Gazette is the oldest 
society paper in Boston, and claims to be the 
bluest of the blue, yet once in a while it hits 
at its constitutents from the shoulder. For in- 
stance the other day, it said : "What is so- 
ciety? It is a place where people who were 
poor twenty-five years ago tell of the plebeian 
origin of their neighbors and conceal their own 
humble beginnings." There is, however, 
such a thing as true society, — a charmed circle 
of a few generally wealthy and always educ.i- 
ted people, who do not exclude from their par- 
lors any intelligent man or woman because he 
or she be poor. Within their doors one finds no 
haughtiness, no false display, no vulgar show, 
and no desire to be over-exclusive. Genuine 
society recognizes worth wherever it exists. 
The West Sliore, of Oregon, tells a true story 
of a real woman. It runs as follows : "A very 
wealthy lady went to a rough, new town to 
spend a few weeks. One of the newly-rich 
residents, who had been a domestic before her 
marriage, called upon her, and in course of 
conversation said, in an affected tone : 'I 
almost died of horrors when I came here. 
There is no society, and not 3 bit of style. I 



suppose you find it fearfully dull.' 'Oh, no,' 
replied the other lady quietly; '1 always find 
something to do. But, then, 1 am used to 
working ; I was a printer before my mar- 
riage.' " Wealth is a good thing to possess, 
but money alone will not make a man or 
woman. A fool without money is as big a fool 
with it, while a despotic money-bagged fossil, 
without his money, would be a common side- 
walk loafer. A man is a man with money or 
without it. 

The editor of that bright .St. Louis paper, 
the Spectator, has a way of expressing himself 
with a point at both ends of the sentence. Re- 
cently he remarked : "It is a sort of a fad for 
some folks to have a library. In many such 
cases the books are bought in contracts with- 
out regard to topic, only so the bindings match 
the library carpet." There is undeniable 
truth in this statement. Even in Worcester 
there are private libraries, the books of which 
were purchased in lumps. The best libraries 
are frequently the smallest. A man is known 
by his books, if his books show signs of slow 
and careful selection, and there are few of them. 
A man of many books is generally a man of 
superficial learning and of bigoted mind, who 
buys books as he does bric-a-brac, by their 
outward appearance. 



Hens are innocent little animals, or birds, as 
one may choose to classify them. Their merry 
cackle is pleasant morning music, and the 
little chickens are pretty objects of animated 
life. But hens are not good neighbors, partic- 
ularly if they are neighbor's hens. Some 
Worcester families keep hens. Hens are all 
riglit in the right place, which place, by the 
way, is inside their own yard. 



It may be dreadfully vulgar to be in trade, 
as the try-to-be-blue-blood attempt to have you 
think, but if it was not for this mean thing 
called business there would not be enough of 
Worcester to populate an Indian wigwam. 



It is said that the Louisiana Lottery Com- 
pany offered to pay into the state treasury, an- 
nually for twenty-five years, half a million dol- 
lars, if the legislature would grant it a renewal 
of its charter. The company is a business in- 
stitution organized to make money, and the 
fact that it can afford to pay $500,000 bonu.s, 
proves that the Fool Killer has not been attend- 
ing to business. 

Here is a picture : Messrs. Henry E. .'\bbey 
and Maurice Grau, influenced by the earnest 
efforts of one of Worcester's real patrons of 
music, complimented Worcester by bringing 
to her Pablo De Sarasate and Eugen D'Albert. 
Of the quality of these artists the musical 
world has made answer. Mechanics Hall 
comfortaljly seats nineteen hundred people. 
Less than one third of that number were there. 
The prices topped at gi.50, and went down to 



seventy-five cents. A good seat cost a dol- 
lar. The prices were no higher than the qual- 
ity of the concert warranted, and about one- 
half that which is charged in the larger cities. 
Yet the price was above the sum which the 
average Worcester man could afford to pay, 
with a family of from a quarter to a half of a 
dozen about him. The massive residences of 
Worcester would .seem to be able to supply 
more than six hundred seat-buyers ; in reality 
they filled less than three hundred of the ex- 
pensive seats. Over half the audience were of 
the musical middle cla.ss, to whom two times a 
dollar was a recognizable amount. Had the 
best seats been one dollar, good seats seventy- 
five cents, and the cheapest seats fifty cents, 
there would have been a hall full of really 
musical people, the majority from the average 
walks of life, — people who patronize the best 
because they appreciate it, not because they 
have been told that they ought to admire it. 
It is obvious that the management, even with 
the hall well filled, could not have materially 
reduced the prices with profit. A good audi- 
ence, at from fifty cents to a dollar apiece, 
would not have been particularly profitable, 
and no one can ask business managers to be 
philanthropic enough to do business in Wor- 
cester for small profits when they can make 
large profits somewhere else. It is unfortunate 
that Messrs. Abbey & Grau, the red-letter 
managers of the country, should be pemiitted 
to give apparently reasonable excuse to 
blacken Worcester's musical reputation. Are 
the hangers-on to the FoRTV of Worcester 
musical.'' Read the answer in the empty 
chairs. 

Professor Taylor, of Vassar College, in 
speaking on the subject of women, said : 
"that if boys and girls were placed together in 
the same college with exactly the same chances 
and opportunities, the girls would not only 
compete with but surpass the boys." He at- 
tributes this to equal brain ability as well as to 
superior application on the part of the girls. 
"Girls," says he, "will devote the evenings to 
study while boys are frolicking." Professor 
Taylor's experience gives him the right to 
speak with authority, and no Worcesteriancan 
deny that loafing among the boys of Worces- 
ter is at all uncommon. The tendency to loaf 
appears to be on the increase. The loafing 
hours begin at the closing hours of business 
and last until after midnight. Main street, 
between eleven and one o'clock, is the stamp- 
ing ground of the loafers, and not all of them 
are loafers, for among them are many 
supposed-to-be respectable young men who are 
allowed to move in good society. 



The Athol Transcript presents this nice 
little sum in arithmetic : If the iceman leaves 
35 pounds of ice for 20 cents' worth, when ice 
is 40 cents per 100 pounds, what will home- 
made ice cream cost when he leaves 25 pounds 
for 40 cents' worth, when ice is 50 cents per 
pound ,''" 




yv^6RCESTER>\A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 

HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
^^ Advertising rates upon application. 



Editors and 
Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 
Telephone No. 141-5. 

Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopa;dia. 

Worcester, Saturday, May 10, 1890. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



May 10 : Sun rises at 4. 28 a. m. ; sets at 
6.54 p. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 36 min- 
utes. Moon, last quarter, May 11, 11 hours, 
22 minutes, morning, W. 



Col. W. S. B. Hopkins will be the De- 
coration Day orator at Monson. 



The Art Students Club is to have an e.xhibi- 
tion at the rooms in Walker Building, this 
evening, of the works of Mr. W. Dodge Mac- 
knight. The pictures were recently on 
exhibition in Boston, at the gallery of Doll & 
Richards, where they made such a favorable 
impression that the exhibition was continued a 
week beyond the time planned for it. The 
pictures are loaned to tlie club as a special 
favor by Doll & Richards. They comprise 
works in pastels, water-color and charcoal, 
there being thirty-one in all. Mr. Macknight 
lives on the coast of France and these pictures 
were mostly done in that vicinity. There are 
a few which were made while on a trip to the 
Soudan. He is a man of great originality in 
that line of work which is having the greatest 
influence upon all the leading painters of the 
present day. All of the pictures are for sale, 
and it is hoped many may remain in Wor- 
cester permanently. There is great variety in 
the subjects, landscapes, still-life, marines and 
figure pieces being represented, and the color 
is very beautiful in all. The e.xhibition willbe 
open to the public next week from 10 a. m. to 6 
p. M. 



Miss Alma L. Collins, the popular young 
contralto of the church of the Unity, has been 
tendered a complimentary concert at Blanchard 
Hall, Millbury, next Thursday evening, by the 
people of the Second Congregational church 
of that town, The talent will include the no- 



LICi HT 

table assistance of Mrs. Alia Woodford, Mr. 
Frederic Howard, Miss Collins, and Mr. Wal- 
ter Scott Kennedy, under whose direction the 
musicale will be given. Worcester friends 
will probably attend in large mumbers, and 
tickets including car fare are on sale at Gor- 
ham's music store at fifty cents each. The 
train leaving at 7.35 will arrive in time. Other 
talent will be announced later. 



Mr. and Mrs. Edward I. Comins gave a small 
reception at their residence, 50 Leicester street, 
Tuesday evening, for the new pastor of the 
First Universalist Church, Rev. Almon Gunni- 
son, and his wife, and invited the officers and 
teachers in the church and Sunday School to 
meet them. 

In the series of "Smoke-talks," Nathaniel 
Paine, Esq., entertained the gentlemen at the 
Worcester Club, last Saturday evening, with 
a talk on Worcester's past, showing some 
ninety pictures. Dr. George E. Francis attend- 
ing to the stereopticon. 



Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., now of Worces- 
ter, formerly of Cambridge, was by error 
printed as "of Cambridge" in the last issue of 
Light. 

A quiet and very pretty wedding took place 
Tuesday afternoon at No. 14 Kilby street. It 
was attended only by the immediate friends 
and relatives of the contracting parties, who 
were Miss M. Etta Alton and Mr. Eugene C. 
Hall, foreman of the Forehand & Wads- 
worth Pistol Manufactory. The marriage cer- 
emony was performed by Rev. C. H. Pendle- 
ton of the Main Street Baptist church. The 
bride was tastefully attired in a traveling suit 
of blue, with a large corsage bouquet of roses. 
Misses Sarah B. Crosby of Thompson, and 
Emma Louise Case of Norwick, Conn., two 
little nieces of the bride, were bridesmaids. 
The little Misses were dressed in white and 
carried rose-buds in their hands. Messrs. 
Walter Lincoln Brown, Frank B. Knight and 
John J. Alton, assisted by Master Harry 
Joslyn, acted as ushers. The wedding gifts 
were numerous and beautiful. Refresh- 
ments were served, and Mr. and .Mrs. Hall de- 
parted early in the evening, amid a shower of 
slippers and rice, on their wedding trip. On 
their return they will reside at No. 14 Kilby 
street, where they have a handsomely furnished 
home. That happiness and prosperity may 
ever attend them is the wish of a large circle 
of friends. 

The second Millbury bicycle road race, for 
the three-times-to-win silver cup,will occur next 
Saturday. 

Mrs. S. E. Lawton, whose abilities as a 
harpist have been attracting great attention 
among musicians, wherever she has been heard, 
began last .Sunday a regular engagement in 
assisting the choir of the First Unitarian 
Church. 

Wednesday evening, D. D. G. C. Templar, 
Edward E. Maynard, of Northboro, assisted 
by Joseph B. Damon as G. M., and Ernest 
Hardy as D. G. M., installed the following offi- 
cers of Greendale Lodge : Chief templar, Mary 
E. Lovejoy; vice templar, Luta B. Lincoln; 
secretary, Charles M. Edwards; finantial sec- 
retary, F. Allen Clark; treasurer, Walter 



Gleason ; chaplain, William H. Field ; marshal, 
Louis A. Peters; guard, Walter G. Adams; 
sentinel, Herbert Gilmore ; superintendent, J. 
Templars, Lucinda S. Hunting; deputy mar- 
shal, M. Louise Lovejoy ; assistant secretary, 
Helen M. Paine; P. C. Templar, Charles E. 
Lovejoy. 



Thursday night. Manager Fred Knight met 
the young men of Pilgrim Gymnasium, at the 
reading room in Pilgrim Church, to receive 
the locker-keys of the dressing rooms. He 
also received a surprise when Mr. George E. 
Hubbard advanced, and in a few well chosen 
words expressed the appeciative feeling for 
the manager, and presented him with a beau- 
tiful gold-mounted silk umbrella. Mr. Knight 
taken completely by surprise, responded in a 
few words, feelingly expressing his apprecia- 
tion, being particularly careful not to mention 
any willingness to lend his new present. 



The sewing schools in the various churches 
are one by one folding up the pillow cases and 
aprons and other useful articles which the 
small fingers are taught to fashion, and putting 
them away for the summer. The schools at 
All Saints, the First Unitarian, and Union 
Churches have closed their sessions, and Pied- 
mont expects to have its last meeting for 
work, today, with a little entertainment and 
exhibition next Saturday afternoon, to which 
the mammas, at any rate, will be invited. 



The Worcester Light Infantry is rapidly 
raising its standard, and Captain Child's hard 
work is having its result. The latest recruits 
mustered in are Messrs. Lud C. Havener, Tom 
Walters, Jr., Fred A. Keyes and George O. 
Bridges. The company has a handsome set 
of men in the ranks and is likely to make at the 
next muster a remarkably fine showing, 



Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rand's friends called 
on them at their home, 37 Hudson street, a 
week ago last night, and helped them celebrate 
their fortieth wedding anniversary, leaving 
several valuable gifts when they departed. 
The merriment was universal. 



Rev. W. V. W. Davis speaks to the young 
men at Association Hall to-morrow afternoon. 



The concert at .Southbridge ne.xt Thursday 
evening, at which Miss Mary Howe is to sing, 
the rest of the program being furnished by the 
Beethoven Orchestral Club, is for the benefit of 
the Y. M. C. A., and was arranged by Mr. C. 
D. Munroe of .Southbridge and manager Alfred 
Clifford of the Boston Y. M. C. A. Entertain- 
ment Bureau. Special train arrangements will 
be made for Worcester people if a sufficient 
number leave their names at Gorham's before 
Wednesday morning. 



It is understood that the Telegi-ain's friend, 
the /f'/>(z/v/, started to walk back to Boston 
early this week. 



Arbutus Council, Home Circle, will celebrate 
its third anniversary next Monday evening at 
Knights of Honor Hall. The grand offcers 
are expected to be present, also a delegation 
from Spencer Council. After the banquet, 
which will be served at seven o'clock, to mem- 
bers and invited guests, there will be a public 



entert;unment, consisting of vocal and instru- 
mental music, readings, banjo and liarmonica 
solos, etc. 

Mr. Charles E. Fassmore has on exhibition 
at F. A. Knowlton's jewelry store, 350 Main 
street, a collection of shells from the Pacific 
coast. They are for parlor ornaments, some 
being decorated with oil paintings. Pearl 
jewelry is also a feature of the exhibit. Visi- 
tors are welcome, whether they become pur- 
cha.sers or not ; but it is likely that many of 
these beautiful works of nature and art com- 
bined will remain in Worcester permanently. 



The Misses Burnside gave at Insurance and 
Ideal Halls, Thursday evening, the most nota- 
ble reception that Worcester has known for 
several years. No out of town people were 
invited, and only the very elect of Worcester 
society recieved cards. The most elaborate 
preparations were made. Ideal Hall was 
furnished as a drawing-room and both here 
and in Insurance Hall the floral decoration 
was something magnificent. Hydrangea, 
roses. Annunciation lilies, apple blossoms. 
tulips, ferns and palms, with an endless profu- 
sion of cut flowers, were used. The fire 
places were banked with flowers, and the 
tables for the refreshments were beautifully de- 
corated. The stairways to Insurance Hall 
were also banked with greenery. The west 
dressing room of Ideal Hall was made into a 
card-room ; the piano stood at the west side 
of the hall ; the supper table at the south end ; 
and in the east alcove the liciuid refreshments. 
The ladies dressing-room was down stairs, the 
gentlemen's that next Insurance Hall. The 
supper was very elaborate. The Misses 
Burnside stood at the east side of the hall, and 
were assisted in receiving by Mrs. Dr. Leonard 
P. Kinnicutt and Mrs. Joseph Mason. Miss 
Burnside wore black velvet, with bodice 
trimmed with rare old lace ; Miss Elizabeth D. 
Burnside wore a combination of white satin 
and white velvet brocade, with beautiful em- 
broidery, and magnificent Jacqueminot roses ; 
Mrs. Kinnicutt wore pink silk, with covering 
of pink gauze: Mrs. Mason wore black silk. 
The ushers were Col. Rockwood Hoar, Dr. 
Homer Gage, Mr. Charles F. Aldrich, Mr. 
Walter Scott Kennedy, Mr. Harry W. Smith. 
In Insurance Hall the dancing was done, and 
six picked men from the Boston Symphony 
Orchestra furnished music. From 9 to 11 
there was general dancing, then supper, and 
towards 12 o'clock the cotillion began. It was 
led by Mr. Frank Bulkeley Smith, and Mrs. 
Preston Player and Mrs. Waldo Lincoln dis- 
tibuted the favors. The favors were carefully 
selected in Boston, the fruit favors being 
something entirely new, while the flower favors 
were very beautiful. Fans and sashes were 
also included. Those present were as follows : 
Mr. Stephen Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
F. Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Wash- 
burn, Miss Washburn, Mr. Philip W. Moen, 
Miss Moen, Miss Alice Moen, Mr. and Mrs. 
Waldo Lincoln, Dr. and Mrs. Leonard P. Kin- 
nicutt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Marsh, Miss 
Marsh, Mr. Charles A. Chase, Miss Chase, 
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Brown, Mr. Lincoln N. 
Kinnicutt, Mr. and Mrs. Halleck Bartlett, Mr. 
and Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam S. Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund M. 



LIGHT 

Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ward (Jreenc. 
Dr. and Mrs. George Chandler, Dr. and Mrs. 
C;eorge K. Francis, Dr. and Mrs. O. II. Ever- 
ett, Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Dewey, Mrs. Bo- 
gert of Statcn Island, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Kent, 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Doe, Mr. Harry W. 
Doe, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Baldwin, Mr. Rob- 
ert Stanton Baldwin, Miss Alice Hathaway 
Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Baldwin, 
Mr. and Mrs. Horace W. Wyman, Judge Ham- 
ilton B. Staples, Miss Dewey, Mr. D. F. Dunn, 
Mr. Samuel G. McConaughy, Mr. Samuel S. 
Green, Mr. and Mrs. James Green, Mr. John 
M. Barker, Col. Edward B. Glasgow, Prof, 
and Mrs. J. P. McMurrich, Prof, and Mrs. W. 
E. Story, Mr. John G. Heywood, Rev. Austin 
S. Gar\'er, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mason, Mrs. 
Dr. David Harrower, Mrs. W. S. B. Hopkin.s, 
Miss Hopkins, Miss Bessie Hopkins, Mrs. 
Lucy B. Bigelow, Mrs. M. J. C. Throop, Miss 
.Susie Throop, Miss Lulu Throop, Dr. and 
Mrs. S. B. Woodward, Dr. and Mrs. Charles 
H. Nichols, Miss Frances M. Lincoln, 
Col. Calvin Foster, Col. A. George Bullock, 
Miss Barnard, Miss Adeline Lincoln, Mr. 
Frank R. Macullar, Mr. Charles A. Williams, 
Misses Lulu and Nellie Blake, Miss Francis, 
Mr. Will L. Smith, Mr. Harry W. Smith, Miss 
Clarissa Smith, Miss Josephine Smith, Mr. 
Rufus S. Woodward, Miss Jane Woodward, 
Miss Nannie Earle, Miss Madge Earle, Miss 
Ranlet of Holyoke, Mr. Charles Ranlet, Mr. 
George T. Dewey, Mr. Ernest L. Thayer, 
Miss Crompton, Miss Mildred Crompton, 
Miss Georgie Crompton, Mr. George S. Taft, 
Mr. George T. Dewey' Mr. Eben Francis 
Thompson, Mr. Fred S. Pratt, Miss Harriet 
E. Clarke, Mr. George D. Moore, Mr. George 
A. Stearns, Jr., Mr. Charles D. Wheeler, Mr. 
I. C. Bates Dana. 



Our neighbors in Springfield have held this 
week their second music festival, and it may 
be said to their credit that it has been a great 
success, not, to be sure, as compared with 
others which look back upon a cjuarter of a 
century, perhaps, or more, but considered by 
itself and in the light of a beginning of some- 
thing which recjuires time to reach its greatest 
usefulness, as, indeed, does nearly everything 
else in this world of evolution. The Hampden 
County Musical Association clearly has a 
roseate future before it. It might occur to the 
outsider to criticize the makeup of the pro- 
grams as being largely of a popular rather 
than an educational nature; but it should be 
considered that it is necessary for any new ed- 
ucational force to first secure audience of those 
whom it hopes to reach. The Springfield 
chorus sings well, and of the conductor, Mr. 
(jeorge W. Chadwick, the warmest praise 
may be spoken. Miss Mary Howe, it appears, 
won the favor of the festival audiences at each 
of her several appearances, and was repeatedly 
recalled, amid great enthusiasm. Mrs. Corinne 
Moore-Lawson, another singer not a stranger 
to us, was equally well received. Mrs. Jennie 
Patrick Walker sang in a way to indicate visi- 
ble improvement over the past. Gounod's 
'Redemption," with which the festival was 
brought to a close, was excellently performed. 
Perhaps particular mention should be made of 
the singing of the solo and chorus, "The Wave 
That Sweeps my Breast," from Gade's "Cru- 
saders," by Mr. William J. Winch (tenor). 



with a chorus of women and orchestra, and 
al.so of Mr. Chadwick's ballad for chorus and 
orchestra, "Lovely Rosabelle." Mr. Victor 
llerljcrt sustained an important part in the 
work of the festival. LiciiT is glad that our 
Springfield friends met with so large a measure 
of success. When their association is a little 
older, it will be time to look for fewer miscel- 
laneous programs and more of the important 
and loftier works of the masters. Meantime, 
"Let the toast pass!" 



The men who built Worcester, to the num- 
ber of over one hundred, exchanged compli- 
ments and ate little neck clams together, 
last Wednesday evening, at the Bay .State 
House. At this second annual dinner of the 
Builders' Exchange were just three times as 
many as there were a year ago. At the head 
table were President H. W. Eddy; Mr. W. H. 
Sayward, secretary of National Association of 
Builders; Col. W. S. B. Hopkins, the toast- 
master; Mr. John Hopkins; Mr. 11. B. Verry ; 
Mr. W. F. Dearborn; Hon. C. B. Pratt ; Mr. 
I. S. Hudson; president of the Providence Ex- 
change; Mr. O. S. Kendall; Vice President C. 

D. Morse; Alderman George C. Whitney ; 
Mr. George B. Cutting; Mr. J. Arthur Jacobs, 
Boston; Mr. O. W. Norcross; Mr. Frank 
Huckins, Boston; Mr. John R. Thayer. 
Among others present were : Messrs. Fred .S. 
Dearborn, Thomas J. Smith, Frank H. God- 
dard, C. W. Walls, A. H. Carr, A. Brigham' 
J. A. Brigham, William Knowles, B. F. Marsh, 
C. A. Vaughan, Martin Wilson, G. L. Robbins, 
Henry Mellen, Charles H. Baldwin, John R. 
Burgess, P. M. Grim, E. Roscoe McAfee, 
George R. Davis, H. L. Billings, W. S. Smith, 

E. Adams, T. J. Miller, E. E. Carpenter, Dun- 
can Murray, F. C. Markham, James H. Hart- 
well, P. F. Murray, Howell R. Griflin, Will E. 
Griffin, Frank D. Stevens, Thomas O'Gara, 
Albert F O'Gara, Robert S. Griffin, Frank 
Chamberlin, Fred H. Davis, John R. Thayer, 
P. D. Sexton, James E. Fuller, C. W. Bemis, 
J. E. Benchley, H. A. Green, Charles A. Rich- 
ardson, Charles O. Richardson, Frank J. Carr, 
George W. Carr, A. H. Burton, M. R. Colvin, 
J. H. Pickford, Thomas Barrett, Lewis C. 
Clark, Horace M. Waite, P. L. Paquette, C. L. 
Chamberlin, Howard Frost, George W. Cowell, 

B. W. Stone, D. W. Dariing, William E. 
Coffery, George Kingston, C. S. Stoughton, J 
A. Brennan, J. H. Howell, J. H. Cafferty, El- 
liot K. Wheelock, A. F. Tower, Erving T. 
Rice, Pliny W. Word, W. E Hartwell, C. F. 
Batchelder, W. P. Delano, J. F. Adams, 
George D. Webb, George Bouchard, 
E. H. Crane, Charles Baker, Cap- 
tain H. R. Williamson, Stephen C. 
Earle, E. Boyden, Joseph Lovell, A. M. Kel- 
logg. J. T. Dariing, Charles Adams, J. William 
Patston, Charles H. Peck. The cjuartet, com- 
posed of C. S. Stoughton, J. A. Brennan, John 
E. Howell and J. H. Cafferty, sang several se- 
lections to the edification of the company, and 
were heartily applauded. Colonel W. S. B. 
Hopkins acted as toastmaster, and graced the 
ofiice. The speakers were Alderman George 

C. Whitney, Messrs. W. H. Sayward of Boston, 
J. H. Hudson of Providence, John Hopkins of 
Millbury, Hon. C. B. Pratt, Messrs. John R. 
Thayer, O. W. Norcross, J. T. Dariing, El- 
dridge Boyden, Horace B. \'erry, W. F. Dear- 
born. 



The Worcester Theatre. 



Worcester has been waiting a year for its 
new play house, and its expectations have been 
realized. The people had their first chance to 
see their new dramatic shrine last Monday 
night. So much has been said descriptive of 
the new theatre that a description of it to-day 
would be unnecessary repetition. With the 
aid of gun-cotton and magnesium flash lights, 
Light was able to obtain a photograph of the 
interior, from which was engraved the picture 
which appears upon the first page of this week's 
Light. 

The new Worcester theatre is without ex- 
ception the best appointed play house in New 
England, outside of Boston. It is roomy, yet 
cosy ; its style of architecture and plan of dec- 
orating are worthy of the highest commenda- 
tion. The decorations should be noticed par- 
ticularly ; they are modest yet rich, of white 
and gold, pleasing to the aesthetic eye and 
home-like and bright to everybody. When 
the hundreds of electric burners sprang into 
wreaths of light, on the opening night, the rep- 
resentative Worcester audience which filled 
the auditorium found itself within a dra- 
matic building, of which Worcester, or any 
other city, might well be proud. The stage is 
large, the scenery is well painted, and all the 
stage fixtures are up to the perfection of mod- 
ern stage mechanism. The building is prob- 
ably as near fire-proof as a theatre building 
can be ; the exits are numerous, the aisles 
broad, the ante-rooms large and comfortable. 
In a word, the new Worcester theatre is a 
model play house. 

The audience was one to be remembered. 
The best view of it was obtainable from one of 
the upper boxes. Looking down upon the 
orchestra and orchestra circle, there were the 
dazzling rows of white shirt-fronts, and in the 
balcony, also, the conventional evening dress 
was not absent. Up in the crowded gallery — 
and it is tremendously high up in the air, that 
gallery — there was also a — well, not exactly a 
"glitter" of shirt-fronts, but there was more or 
less white cotton visible, for some of the "gods," 
doubtless because of the heated atmosphere, 
had removed their coats. But below stairs it 
was a very brilliant audience. 

The boxes were centers of attraction and 
presented a beautiful sight, filled with some of 
the fairest of Worcester's daughters, in even- 
ing attire, with the gentlemen in the back- 
ground. The four lower boxes were occupied 
by a single theater party. In those to the 
right sat Miss Mildred Crompton, Miss Helen 
Barnard, Miss Bessie Hopkins, Miss Helen 
Lincoln, Miss Clarissa Smith, Miss Minnie 
Crompton, Mr. Horace W. Wyman, Mr. 
Charies M. Rice, Mr. George S. Taft, Mr. 
Frank L. Hale, Mr. Ernest L.Thayer. Inthe 
boxes on the left sat the other members of the 
party, Mrs. Horace W. Wyman, Miss Josie 
Smith, Miss Georgie McClure, Miss Fanny 
Clarke, Miss Georgie Crompton, Miss Mary 
Barnard, Mr. Harry W. Smith, Mr. W. L. 
Smith, Mr. William B. Scofield, Col. Rock- 
wood Hoar, Mr. Charles Ranlet, Mr. Charles 
F. Aldrich. 

In the second tier of boxes, on the right, sat 
a party including the builders. Darling Broth- 
ers, and their friends, consisting of Mr. and 



L I Ci HT 

Mrs. Daniel W. Darling, Miss Ida M. Dar- 
ling, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Darting, Mr. 
Edwin G. Penniman, Miss Mabel C. Streeter, 
Mr. J. Edward Fuller, Jr., Miss Grace L. 
Crawford, Miss Abbie Shute, Miss Alice 
Bainbridge. In the second tier, on the left, 
was the architects' party, including Mr. and 
Mrs. James E. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Ward P. 
Delano, Miss Sallie H. Delano, Aliss Sophie 
Delano, Mr. B. F. Delano, Mr. Robert L. 
Fuller, Miss M. G. Tibbetts, Mrs. E. S. Doug- 
las, Mr. J. C. Baird and Mr. W. H.Clafiin of 
Boston. 

A party of insurance men occupied the sky 
parlor box on the left, that on the right being 
unoccupied. Those in the party were Messrs. 
R. James Tatman, Edward E. Longley, 
Charles E. Grant, Lucius E. Eldred, Norman 
A. Harrington, Charles L. Gates, Edward P. 
Ingraham, Charles M. Booth and George A. 
Park. 

When it comes to specifying as to the peo- 
ple who were present in the house, Light 
finds that its columns have not the required 
elasticity. "Everybody" was there and to give 
the names would require not one column, nor' 
two, but as many pages. Certainly it was a 
handsome audience. 

The attraction for the opening night and the 
week was Bronson Howard's play of "Shenan- 
doah." Mr. Howard has written many plays. 
Shenandoah is not the poorest of them, and it 
is certainly not the best. It is a sort of drama- 
tic chestnut — a harmless thing whose chief 
merit consists of cannonading, battlefield 
glories, with conventional sentiment dragged 
through the whole. The regular "Shenandoah" 
traveling company furnished the caste. The 
less said of the company the better. 



About Folks. 



Rev. D. O. Mears. D. D., is the leader of an 
important movement, now being pushed for- 
ward by the Boston ministers meeting. Congre- 
gational, which contemplates a general conven- 
tion in 1892, to rehearse and estimate the in- 
fluence of the Protestant clergy upon this 
nation. It was at first intended to include 
only the New England states in this gathering, 
but the interest is so general that it is now pro- 
posed to give it a national character. The 
plan has.been presented to the Boston minis- 
ters meeting of the Baptist, Methodist, Unita- 
rian and LIniversalist churches, all of which 
have heartily indorsed it and appointed com- 
mittees to co-operate with the committee of 
Congregationalists which is headed by Dr. 
Mears. The details are of course not yet ar- 
ranged, but there will certainly be one great 
convention in New York or Boston, and possi- 
ble others in more distant parts of the country. 
The topic on which the discussion is to turn is 
"The Democratic Religious Principle in Gov- 
ernment and Education." This is likely to be 
one of the most important and most notable 
religious conventions ever held in this country. 

Commencing next Monday, the Providence 
Line will resume passenger service for the 
season. The train, with through cars direct to 
the wharf in Providence, will leave Union Sta- 
tion, Worcester, at 6.15 p. m., connecting with 
steamers "Massachusetts" or "Connecticut." 
Service is resumed earlier than usual in re- 
sponse to demands of the numerous patrons of 
this favorite route to New York. 



Last week came to a close with quite a num. 
ber of social festivities, all of them quiet 
affairs, but reflecting Worcester's social side 
to advantage. 



The most notable event was a dancing party 
given by Mrs. John S. Baldwin at 81 Chat- 
ham street, Friday evening, for Miss Walker 
of Jamaica Plain. Mrs. Baldwin, Misses May 
and Alice Baldwin and Miss Walker received. 
The lower floor of the house was thrown open, 
and the polished floors afforded excellent op- 
portunity for dancing, an orchestra being in 
attendance. Flowers were used in beautiful 
decorative effects, particidarly in the dining- 
room, and an elegant supper was provided. 
The party was not an unusually large one. 
Mr. John S. Baldwin was of course present, 
and Mr. Robert S. Baldwin. The ushers were 
Messrs. John D. Baldwin, A. Bowman Wood, 
Henry P. Nye, H. M. Witter, Jr., and Ernest 
H. Wood. Those present included Messrs. 
Rogers, Sullivan and Converse from Harvard, 
Mr. Decamp of Yale and Mr. Dell from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mr. 
and Mrs. Reuben Colton, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 
H. Torrey, Col. and Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, 
Mr. and Mrs. Horace W. Wyman, Mr. Philip 
W. Moen, Miss Moen, Miss Alice Moen, Mr. 
George A. Stearns, Jr., Mr. Charles Cromp- 
ton, Misses Mildred, Georgie, Cora and Stella 
Crompton, Mr. Frank B. Smith, Miss Jose- 
phine Smith, Mr. Frank L. Hale, Miss Helen 
Blake, Miss Lulu Blake, Eben Francis 
Thompson, Esq., Miss Mary Eaton, Miss 
Brooks of Boston, Mr. Charles F. Aldrich, 
Miss Clarissa Smith, Mr. Newton Darling, 
Miss Georgie Stone, Miss Fannie Hamilton, 
Mr. Rufus S. Woodward, Miss Jennie Wood- 
ward, Miss Williams, Miss Whitman, Mr. 
Charles D. Wheeler, Miss Fannie Foster, Mr. 
Charles J. Dyer, Miss Mabel Knowles, Miss 
Miriam Washburn, Miss Chase, Miss Helen 
Lincoln, Miss Liscomb, Miss Nellie Cur- 
tis, Miss Colvin, Mr. Charies Ranlet, Mr. 
Charies M. Rice, Mr. William B. Scofield, 
Mr. Walter S. Kennedy, Miss Hopkins, Mr. 
Ernest L. Thayer, Miss Nannie Earle, Miss 
Madge Earle, Miss Sumner, Miss Wyman, 
Mr. Philip Adams, Miss Mary Adams, Mr. 
Charles B. Earle, Mr. George T. Dewey and 
Mr. James W. Allen. 



Cards had also been sent out for that same 
evening by the young ladies of Miss Kimball's 
Home School, 58 Woodland street, and they 
received from eight to ten. The pupils were 
assisted in receiving by Miss Kimball, 
Mrs. Julia Thrall, and Miss M. Isabella 
Goldthwaite, of the corps of instructors of the 
school. Dancing was indulged in and other 
entertainment gave agreeable diversion, while 
the usual refreshments were provided, and 
gracefully served by the young ladies enter- 
taining. The party was made up altogether of 
young people. Miss Kimball's plan of a 
"home school" embodies the correct idea ol 
the local social relations into which her pupils 
should enter, while in the school, and inpursu 
ance of this idea she provides for occasional 
receptions of this sort, to which the pupils may 
invite their friends and meet them in the mosi 
desirable way. It was a delightful party and 



the charming young hostesses of the evening, 
with very appreciable aid from tlieir instruct- 
ors, made it very pleasant for everybody there. 
Those present included Messrs. Eben H. Rob- 
inson, Walter A. Sweet, Charles C. Milton, 
Stanley C. Brennan, Arthur Ware, Walter E. 
Smith, Arthur Kent, Fred Curtis, Fred Knowl- 
ton, George E. Miller, Henry Smith, flarry 
Billings, George T. Woodward, Wilton W. 
Dadmun, Fred Lowe, George A. Clark, Arthur 
K. Haven, Arthur W. Eldred, George A. 
Lackey, Herbert L. Jillson, Judson B. Wither- 
by, Allan D. Laird, Frank R. Batchelder, Mr. 
and Mrs. B. F. Curtis, Miss Ruth Stone, Miss 
Allie Jillson, Miss Jessie L'pson, Miss Mabel 
Norcross, Miss Annie M. Lawrence, Miss 
Nellie Gilson, Miss Hattie E. Dunn, Miss 
French, Miss Brierly, Miss Susie Taft, Miss 
Blanche Hill, Miss Mollie Day, Miss Alice E. 
Green, Miss Minnie L. Rice, Miss Florence E. 
White, Miss Florence J. Peacock, Miss Katie 
S. Fay, Miss Edith Goodell, Miss Helen L. 
Burtis, Miss Nellie W. Lincoln, Miss Nettie 
Orr, Miss Grace Laird, Miss Josephine Whit- 
tier, Miss Josie Matthews, Miss Florence L. 
Putnam, Miss Florence Osborn, Miss Mary 
K. V'aill, Miss Edith J. Patch, Miss Daisy 
Day, Miss Mabel Taft, Miss Florence Shaf- 
fer, Miss Ida Smith. 



There were two or three modest little card 
parties, that evening, also, and one of them 
was at the pleasant residence of Mr. Charles 
F. Hanson, 37 Kendall street. It was a pro- 
gressive whist party, given by Mr. Charles 
Arthur Hanson, and Miss Lillie Anne Han- 
son for some of their friends. There were 
people present to fill si.x tables, and one or two 
who did not play. The party included Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank N. Houghton, Dr. and Mrs. E. V. 
Scribner, Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Stoddard, 
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. San- 
ford C. Kendall, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. 
Mason, Mr. Alvin J. Daniels, Miss Mary 
Daniels, Miss Alice Daniels, Mr. Herbert F. 
Blood, Miss Molly W. Waite, Miss Katie 
Hall, Mr. J. Edward Fuller, Jr., Miss Grace 
L. Crawford, Mr. George Lauder of Concord, 
N. H., Mr. Fred Maynard and Miss Hattie L. 
Bruce. Play was begun at 8.30, and at 10 
o'clock refreshments were served, after which 
play was continued until midnight. Some 
very pretty prizes were provided, and they 
were won by Mrs. Houghton and Mr. Fuller, 
who took first honors, and Miss Crawford and 
Mr. Hill, who figured as tlie least successful 
of the players. All those present, both ladies 
and gentlemen, appeared in evening dress. 



Another pleasant party was that given the 
same evening by Miss Alice M. Watson, 8 
Westminster street. Four tables were in use, 
and twenty hands of whist were played. Those 
present were Messrs. Fred A. Bigelow, Henry 
J. Kettell, Foster H. Goodwin, Lawrence P. 
Greenman, Frank E. Buxton, Arthur Burtelle, 
Frank B. Hall, Misses Jessie A. Morse, Helen 
R. Merrill, Kate L. Clark, Alice G. Merrill, 
Alice M. Watson, Mabel G. Merrill, Kate 
Bradford and Cora J. Goodwin. The prizes 
went to Miss Mabel Merrill and Mr. Green- 
man, who won the first places, and Miss Good- 
win and Mr. Bigelow won the "boobies." The 
same party will be entertained next Friday 



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evening by Miss Kate L. Clark, at her home in 
Auburn. 



Saturday evening Mi.ss Grace Whitman 
gave a select gernuin to her friends, chieHy 
young people, at Insurance and Ideal halls. 
The latter was artistically furnished as a 
drawing-room, the dancing being confined to 
the large hall. Mrs. Jared Whitman, Mi.ss 
Grace Whitman, and Miss Margaret Chapin 
of Northampton received, and there were also 
present Mrs. M. J. C. Throop, Mr. and Mrs. 
C. H. Bowker and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cur- 
tis. The dancers included Miss Nellie Whit- 
man and her friend. Miss Jones, from North- 
ampton, Miss Eaton, Miss Liscomb, Miss Lu 
Throop, Miss Grace Colvin, Miss Anna Col- 
vin, Miss Carrie Earle, Miss May Doe, Miss 
Grace Marsh, Miss Susie Throop, Miss Flor- 
ence White, Miss Helen White, Miss Try- 
phosa Bates, Miss Edith Goodell, Miss Fan- 
nie Knowles, Miss Mabel Norcross, Miss 
Maidie Woodward, Miss Helen Goulding, 
Miss Millie Eaton, Miss Alice Paine, Miss 
Louise Wood, Miss Mary Stone, Miss Grace 
Baldwin, Messrs. John D. Baldwin, Ernest H. 
Wood, Harry W. Doe, Reginald H. Wash- 
burn, George Crompton, Randolph Crompton, 
Chetwood Smith, Edward Melius, Alexander 
H. Bullock, William H. Morse, Jr., Arthur 
Morse, Henry H. Chamberlin, John Adams, 
Pelham Lincoln, Albert Warren, John Thayer, 
Frank Staples, Joseph Clark, Harry Thayer, 
William S. Hogg, George Hogg, W. S. B. 
Hopkins, Jr., Earle Brown and Charles B. 
Earle. There was general dancing until 9.30, 
and refreshments were served, the german 
beginning at 10. The german was led by Mr. 
Ernest H. Wood, and Miss Grace Whitman 
danced with Mr. John D. Baldwin. The 
favors, which were extremely pretty, were dis- 
tributed by Miss Whitman, Miss Nellie Whit- 
man, Miss Jones, Miss Mae Liscomb, Miss 
Mary Eaton and Miss Lulu Throop. The 
ushers were Reginald H. Washburn, Chet- 
wood Smith, William S. B. Hopkins, Jr., and 
Earle Brown. Altogether, it was one of the 
prettiest young people's parties ever given in 
Worcester. 

Mr. Ira G. Blake, the Main street jeweler, 
has a three-page article on "Reminiscences of 
Watch Springing" in the American Jeweler. 

There was one pretty party of sixteen at the 
opening night performance of the new theater, 
which, though not occupying a box, made a 
noticeable group in the house. It included 
Mr. and Mrs. William Munn, Mr. Frank D. 
Freeman, Miss E. Maud Clarke, Mr. Fred D. 
Sibley, Miss Jennie L. Ross, Mr. William E. 
Fairbanks, Miss Villroy Goulding, Mr. Frank 

A. Clark, Miss Anna Y. Milliken, Mr. Frank 

B. Waite, Miss Berry of Camden, Me., Mr. H. 
Ward Bates, Miss Fletcher, Mr. Fred M, 
Clark, Jr., Mr. William T. Sibley. After the 
performance, the party was pleasantly enter- 
tained by Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Clark, at their 
West street residence. 



The meeting of Bryant Circle, C. L. S. C. 
which was to have been held last Tuesday 
evening, was postponed on account of the con- 
cert, and will take place ne.xt Tuesday evening, 
in the laboratory of the new Worcester Acad- 
emy building. Prof. Vernon P. .Squires of the 
Academy will talk on Physics. 



Letters of Light. 

To the Editor of Light : 

If you will permit a mixture, the Ll<;nT of 
Worcester is breezy. I do not know of .so 
sudden and solid a success as your paper. 
Notwith.standing its youth, it seems to be an 
indispensable factor in the life of this busy 
city. Very respectfully, 

D. O. Mkars. 

/'(' the Editor of Light : 

Let me take this opportunity of expressing 
my thorough appreciation of the high charac- 
ter LicHT has established for itself. If you 
maintain the high tone and spirit in which you 
have begun, you will prove a genuine co- 
worker with those of us who are called to shape 
and guide the thought of the community to 
the higher levels. It will be a pleasure to .see 
LuiHT in every home of my congregation and 
to speak any helpful words I can to have it so. 

\'cry cordially yours, 

Wii.Li.\.\i V. W. Davis. 

To the Editor of Light : 

A clean, beautiful paper, non-partisan, free 
from scandal and slang, well edited, tells all 
the social news, and is such a paper as we 
want our wives, sons and daughters to read. 

Very truly yours, E. C. A. Becker. 

To the Editor of Light : 

A busy parish priest has little time to read 
a journal of society, but what I have seen of 
Ll(;nT has impressed me favorably. The 
tone is good, and the desire to provide our 
city with a chronicle of social events that shall 
not be impertinent nor intrusive, highly com- 
mendable. In a day of such unwholesome, 
sensational and demoralizing print, every 
effort to supply a bright, attractive nnd read- 
able journal for the family and the public, 
ought to meet with commensurate support. I 
heartily wish for Light such encouragement 
in well-doing as may redound to the edification 
of our people and the emolument of its man- 
agement. Very sincerely yours, 

ALEXA.NDEK H. V^l.NTON 



Editor off-ight: 

Light seems to have taken a place of its 
own in our life naturally and without friction, 
and it is superfiuous to say that a good thing 
is a good thing. .Sincerely yours, 

Cai.vin Stebhi.vs. 

To the Editor of Light : 

Accept congratulations for presenting to 
Worcester a bright, clean, readable society 
and home paper. \'ery truly yours, 

Arthur E. Grav. 



To the Editor of Light : 

I have watched with no little interest your 
new venture, and can sincerely compliment 
you on the excellent appearance of your publi- 
cation. The contents of Light are fresh and 
full of interest, and the paper shows much lit- 
erary merit. The motto of its local news, "To 
reflect the good doings of good people," is an 
admirable one. Good taste and nerve are 
shown throughout, and the standard is high — 
an effect as gratifying as it is rare in these 
days of sensational newspapers. 

Very sincerely yours, Fr.v.nk A.MrxsEV, 
Proprietor aud Editor of The Argosy and 

Munsefs Weekly, New York. 



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The Last Gounod Concert. 



The Thirteenth Psalm, paraphrased by Rev. 
J. Troutbeck, D. D., and set to music by Men- 
delssohn, wnll be the chief work given by the 
Gounod club at the closing concert of its 
fourth season, in Association Hall, next Tues- 
day evening. This Psalm is much less familiar 
than any of the other Psalms composed by this 
master, and, therefore, will be listened to with 
great interest. The text of the psalm is of an 
excellent nature for musical treatment, begin- 
ning as it does in an exceedingly sombre 
tone, with the words, "Lord, how long wilt 
thou forget me ?" and with a gradual rise in its 
expression of human emotion, until it finally 
reaches the climax in the massive fugue set to 
the words, "Lord, with thankful exaltation." 

Of the music in detail it is interesting to 
notice with what artistic spirit Mendelssohn 
has caught the meaning of the text and breathed 
it forth in musical soimds. The strong 
constrast between the manner in which Men- 
delssohn reaches his climax and that pursued 
by a disciple of Wagner, may in this psalm, as 
far as the Mendelssohn side is concerned, be 
noted. Not only is the sense element in the 
music strongly drawn upon, but also the intel- 
lect of the listener in the working out of the 
fugal passages which are ingenious and inter- 
esting in a marked degree. 

The ladies of the club are to sing three 
gems, the first a charming setting of the "Ave 
Maria," by .Saint Saens, which so thoroughly 
speaks for itself that no word of analysis is 
necessary ; the second, a specimen of composi- 
tion in which Brahms comes down to the region 
of ordinar>' mortals and shows himself pos- 
sessed of a tender, poetic character which is 
too often not appreciated by the listener to his 
larger works ; the third, a familiar two-part 
song of Mendelssohn, the "May-bells and 
Flowers," with its charming and suggestive 
accompaniment — suggestive, no doubt, of the 
ringing of the .May-bells. 

The musical public will appreciate the hear- 
ing of two such familiar songs as the "Good 
Night, Beloved," and ".Spring Song," by Pin- 
suti, performed by this choir of singers. 

The male voices will sing a new serenade 
by Mr. Anderson, his Op. 5, No. i, lately pub- 
lished. The poem, by Samuel Minturn Peck, 
is a delicate and choice bit of writing. The 
music is in two colors, if such expression may 
be used, the first being of darker, sombre 
shade, while the second part, with baritone 
solo, is in marked contrast. 

One of the most characteristic and beautiful 
compositions which the club has ever sung is 
the "Woodland Angelus," by Dvorak, Op. 63. 
The listener should note carefully the melodic 
beauty of the first phrase. The whole song is 
highly sugge.stive of the calm silence of the 
night in the woodland. A more exquisite part- 
song hardly exists, and if the club has its 
usual success in bringing out its beauties, it 
will prove a very attractive feature of the pro- 
gram. 

But a word remains to be said regarding the 
closing number, two part-songs, the first, by 
Cowen, written some years ago, but neverthe- 
less unfamiliarto the musical public. It shows 
the composer at his best in vocal writing, deli- 
cate and poetical. The second is an old Eng- 



lish country dance in canon form, by Marzials, 
ending as it does with its queer attempt to imi- 
tate the droning of the bag-pipe. The whole 
of this little piece is quite ingenious in its coa- 
struction. 

Of the program as a whole, musically, it 
may be said that the club has never offered a 
more carefully selected list of part-songs, and 
much pleasant anticipation will arise with 
reference to its performance next Tuesday 
evening. 

The complete program follows : 
PSALM XIII. Mendelssohn 

Mixed Voices. Solo by Mrs. J. H. HowelL 
VIOLIN SOLO. 

Mr. Ewald Weiss, 
(a) "Good Night, Beloved." 
(*) "A Spring Song." Pinsuti 

Mixed Voices. 

REGIT. AND ARIA. (Un ballo in Mascbera) Verdi 

Mr. Perry AverilL 

(a) "Ave Maria." Saint Saens 

(b) "Italian Barcarolle." Brahms 

(c) "May-bells and Flowers." Mendelssohn 

Ladies' Voices. 
SONG. "Before Dawn." Anderson 

Male Chorus, Solo by Mr. B. A. Barber. 
VIOLIN SOLO. 

Mr. Weiss. 

SONG. "Woodland Angelus." Dvorak 

Mixed Voices- 

!(d) "Apart." (Composed for 
Mr. AverilL) Van De Water 

(i) "Fair is My Love." Hatton 

Mr. AverilL 

(a) "Good-morrow." 

(b) "Old English Country Dance." 

Mixed Voices. 



Cowen 
Marzials 



Campus and Class-room. 

Wellesley College. 

Miss Charlotte J. Allen is captain of her 
class crew. 

Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles, '86, has written 
a musical "yell" for the college. It runs like 
this : "Tra, la, la, la ; tra, la, la, la ; tra, la, la, 
la ; la, la, la; W E L; L E S ; LEY; Welles- 
ley !" It is written in 3-8 time, and in the first 
three bars, the "Tra" and final "la" are eighth- 
notes, the intervening "la's" being sixteenth- 
notes ; all the others are eighth-notes, except 
those for "Wellesley," which are dotted quar- 
ter-notes, with a hold over the first one. 
The Boys at Cambridge. 

Mr. Henry B. Washburn was one of the 
contestants in the Boylston prizes for elocu- 
tion, last Thursday. Thirty-five men in the 
senior and junior classes contested in the pre- 
liminary trial. 

The Worcester men in college are to have a 
group photograph taken. 

The officers of the Worcester Harvard Club 
are: President and toast master, Henry B. 
Washburn; secretary and treasurer, John D. 
Baldwin. The club has a dinner in March of 
each year. 

Mr. Albert Bowman Wood is assistant man- 
ager of the Harvard Freshman crew. 

Mr. Henry W. Doe has written many bright 
articles for the Harvard Latnpoon, which 
have been copied in New York and Boston 
papers. 

The Worcester base ball team play Harvard 
at Cambridge, Wednesday, May 14. 

Mr. Chandler Bullock and Messrs. William 
S. and George Hogg were the only fortunate 
Worcester men of the class of '94 who drew 
rooms in college buildings. 

Mr. Stephen M. Gates is an interested pro- 



moter of a society in Camljridge for the bene- 
fit of poor children. Mr. Gates deserves much 
praise for his noble work. 

The Harvard class day takes place on Fri- 
day, June 20. 
Worcester at Amherst, 

Worcester is to become better acquainted 
with Amherst College students during the 
next summer vacation, as the Natural History 
Society has selected, in addition to Mr. Bufr 
bank, the following Amherst students as 
officers of the camp: Henry L. Ballou, '92, 
adjutant; A. A, Ewing, '92, quartermaster; 
and Dr. Hitchcock will deliver lectures on 
Physical Culture. 

A large delegation from Amherst will attend 
the sports at Worcester the 28th of this month. 
The excellent work of the base-ball team has 
increased the interest in all kinds of athletics. 
Au abundance of red paint, bon-fires, tin- 
horns and free lemonade, for the college cele- 
brated the victory of the Amherst Freshmen 
over the Yale Freshmen last Saturday. 

Last Wednesday was a day of excitement 
and rejoicing at Amherst The dumb-bell 
drills by the junior, sophomore and freshman 
classes for a first prize of ^100 and a second 
prize of $25 took place at 1.30 p.m. The . 
Juniors won first prize, closely followed by the 
Sophomore class, of which Mr. C. E. Burbank 
is gym. captain. The result of the Williams- 
Amherst game, which followed immediately 
after the gymnasium events, was a happy sur- j 
prise to the college. The Lester prize exhibi- j 
tion in oratory followed in the evening. j 

Hon. S. E. Hildreth was in town Wednesday. 
Several of the Worcester boys at Williams 
came to Amherst with their team Wednesday. ' 
Williams. 

Williams opened its championship season at l 
Amherst on Wednesday, and for the first time 
in many years, lost the opening game. Am- 
herst won by a score of 4 to 2. We usually 
lose one game a season to Amherst, and we ' 
will now try to win the rest. 

President G. Stanley Hall, who was gradu- 
ated from Williams in '67, is a member of the 
alumni committee which has the supervisionij 
of instruction. | 



Mr. Caleb A. Wall will hold a historical 
field meeting on the farm of .Mr. Charles H. 
Whitcomb, at the corner of Burncoat and 
Clark streets, on Saturday afternoon. May 24. 
when he will give an account of the first set- 
tlers and old farms in the north-easterly sectioc 
of the city, covering the ground between tha! 
referred to in the North Worcester address^ 
and the Shrewsbury line on the east. \ 



The spring meeting of the Worcester Cen' 
tral Conference of Congregational churches i 
to be held at the church in Berlin, next Tues 
day at 10 A. .m. Mr. Edward Whitney will b 
the moderator, and Evangelist Rufus M. Tal 
will conduct the devotional exercises. Ther 
wiU be a business session for the election c 
officers, etc., and Rev. Edward G. FuUerto 
will give an address on "Suggestions in Bibl 
Study." In the afternoon will come anothe 
business session and Secretary McConaugh 
of the Y. M. C. A. will give an address on Aj 
sociation work. Discussion will follow botj 
addresses. i 



An Island City. 



3V LOUISA TRl'MIiULL CO(iS\VELL. 



In summer Atlantic City swarms with the 
Jew and the mosquito. The American 
variety — male and female — of that cele- 
brated species of the genus homo dubbed 
by Punch 'Arry and 'Arriet, may be 
found here in full development, and its dress, 
manners and customs observed under favor- 
able conditions by the student of anthropology. 
What Coney Island is to New York, what 
Nantasket or the Point of Pines is to Boston, 
that is Atlantic City to Philadelphia. But the 
hot season once past a change comes over the 
place. Its mild healthful climate attracts in- 
valids thither during the winter, while in the 
spring it becomes a fashionable resort for the 
neighboring cities, and a sunburned cheek at 
this time of year is considered a mark of dis- 
tinction. 

J'rom an ssthetic point of view, Atlantic City 
is one of the ugliest places on earth. The 
business archictecture on Atlantic avenue, 
the main thoroughfare, is commonplace, 
the sole exception being the small 
but artistic building of the Second National 
Bank. The branches of the infrequent trees 
are lopped, and their unsightly stumps, as yet 
unclothed with foliage, present a forlorn ap- 
pearance to New England eyes accustomed to 
tall trunks crowned with waving boughs. This 
manner of trimming trees may be a precaution 
against the east winds, yet it seems to prevail 
further inland in this latitude. Arctic, Atlantic 
and Pacific avenues run parallel the length of 
the town ; the cross avenues leading to the sea 
bear the names of the United States, and are 
closely built up with bo.x-Iike wooden struct- 
ures, large and small, painted in every variety 
of crude color, but all alike hideous. Many of 
these hotels and cottages are comfortable and 
tasteful within ; those on the beach are often 
provided with a "sun parlor," a "sand parlor" 
and breezy pavilions. Private residences there 
are somewhere, no doubt, but they are not ap- 
parent to the sojourner, and seem an anomaly 
in this city of caravansaries. The e.\terior of 
one's domicile, however, matters but little ; it 
is but a place to eat and sleep ; when not thus 
engaged everyone is on the beach. A wide 
board walk overlookmg the ocean is in process 
of construction, the scent of new wood ming- 
ling pleasantly with the faint sea smell. Even 
in its unfinished state it forms a fine prome- 
nade, where one may study the fashions as well 
as on Fifth avenue. One is struck with the 
number of pretty faces, — an impression quite 
the reverse of that afforded by Boston streets. 
Is it the climate which fosters the beauty of 
these Philadelphia and Baltimore girls ? If so 
let us be thankful that the Gulf Stream is said 
to be turning its course toward our rugged 
coast. Moreover you will hardly see one 
j homely child among the hundreds playing 
I merrily in charge of their colored nurses, 
digging in the sand, or riding on the merry-go- 
. round. 

i What is there to do at .Atlantic City ? you 
I ask. Well, there is of course no surf bathing 
, at this season, though the long rows of red 
, and green bath-houses testify to its popularity 
, in summer; but "Hot Sea Baths" ?re adver- 
tised at every turn. You can sail or make an 



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excursion in a tug; the hard clean sands are 
excellent for riding or driving. If indolent, 
you can sit in a rocking-chair on the broad 
platform and enjoy your Century in the open 
air, while your Massachusetts friends are still 
cowering over the fire. The two merry-go- 
rounds are patronized by every age, sex and 
condition. An elderly woman perched upon 
an Arab charger is as eager as the curly- 
haired youngster behind her to catch the brass 
ring that entitles her to a free ride. A name- 
less, ear-piercing instrument of noise furnishes 
the lively tunes to which these extraordinary 
beasts — horses, ostriches, lions,— spin around. 
When you have watched them until your own 
brain whirls, you go out on the old board walk, 
much of which is in ruins, and buy sea-shells 
or Japanese gim-cracks at the little bazaars 
built upon it. The new board walk is to be 
entirely free from these shabby shops. 

A toboggan slide is building and the piers 
and pavilions are numberless, conspicuous 
among them the "Great Four-Story Pier," 
which is doubtless very inviting in hot July, but 
to-day you are getting as much as you desire 
of this bracing sea-gale on terra firma. 

The cable cars will take you to the end of 
Atlantic avenue, where you may gain an idea 
of what the island was before its invasion by 
summer visitors. On one hand the beach and 
its noisy waves ; on the other the dreary salt 
marshes, which yet are not devoid of pic- 
turesqueness in their autumn tints; and 
between, a stretch of sandy plain with an oc- 
casional clump of stunted pines ; altogether a 
landscape verj' much like Cape Cod. The 
railroad runs to the southern point of this long 
narrow island, and, unless in the transit you 
are blown bodily out of the open car, or blinded 
by the whirlwind of dust that rises from the 
Jersey sand, you can look across the waters of 
Great Egg Harbor to the neighboring resort of 
Ocean City. There are at present only a few 
scattered houses on this peninusula, but before 
many years it will doubtless be as thickly pop- 
ulated as the northern part. At one of the 
stations on this road is an edifice in the shape 
of a gigantic white elephant, visible for miles 
around on a clear day. Here and there in his 
huge body windows are cut, and a stair-case 
within leads up to the howdah on his back, 
whence a fine view is obtained. 

In the evening you can go to the firemen's 
drill, or you may find yourself at the mercy of 
one of those itinerant elocutionists or musi- 
cians who give a "free entertainment" in the 
hotel parlor, and then pass round the hat. 
But evenings are of little account, for this 
bracing air is productive of somnolence ; after 
prodigious yawns, you seek your couch at an 
early hour, and — to u.se the phrase without 
which no letter from the sea shore is complete 
— you are presently lulled to sleep by the 
sound of distant breakers. 

Worcester, Mass. 



Pity and need make all flesh kin. — Edwin 
A mold. 

The turmoil of the world will always die if 
we set our faces to climb heavenward. — Haw- 
thorne. 

"If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind 
word; if you cannot speak a kind word, think 
a kind thought." 



Gilded Bars. 



BV CORNFI.IA WESSON IIOYDK.N. 



A Kilded cage, behind whose bars so bright, 
Within a curtained window hanging high, 

A sweet-voiced songster felt the warm sunlight. 
And gazed with longing at the clear blue sky. 

.\ stattly elm with swaying branches green, 
lle^idl■ the window grew, and 'gainst its lireast, 

.■\ littU- rubin happy as a queen, 
ll.id built herself a tiny cosy nest. 

And from his cage the songster sees her there. 
And 'gainst the bars oft beats his yellow wings, 

.Sighing for freedom in the summer air,— 
.Sijeaking his longing in the songs he sings. 

Within the stately room the sunlight sweeps. 
Touching with gold the mistress' bonny hair, 

And seeks to dry the tear that slowly creeps 
Across her dainty cheek so round and fair. 

And as she treads the velvet -covered halls, 
Her heart is filled with bitter discontent. 

And like a prison seem the painted walls, 
For with her gold are many sorrows blent. 

And from her window, down the shady street. 
Her longing eyes oft wander 'gainst her will, 

Where stands a cottage hung with roses sweet. 
A home where joy its inmates' hearts doth fill. 

And as she watches, 'round its humble door 
A group of happy children romp and play, 

.She hears their merry laughter rise once more ; 
Her eyes are filled with tears, ere turned away. 

For silent now the silvery, lisping voice. 
And hushed the patter of the baby feet. 

The clinging arms that made her heart rejoice, 
The kisses that each day had seemed more sweet. 

And through her empty rooms she wanders lone, 
And like the songster in his cage of gold, 

.She longs to break the bars, with sigh and moan. 
And loathes her dreary Ufe so bare and cold. 

p'or happiness and joy she cannot buv : 
And riches that we all so long to grasp 

Are often mixed with tears and sorrow's sigh. 
And hide a sting within their golden clasp. 
M 'ori.ester. Mass. 



Care of Ashes. 

Statistics of insurance companies show that 
the cause of an a.stonishing number of fires in 
country places is carelessness with ashes. In 
localities where wood is still the fuel, every one 
knows that covering a few live coals with fine 
ashes will preserve fire for a very long time. 
Live coals, covered in a wooden ash-barrel or 
bin, will keep fire as long as in the fire-place, 
and their presence is not rarely manifested by 
the burning of the barrel and the shed that con- 
tained it, if no greater loss result. Wood a.shes 
are in themselves of sufficient value to warrant 
care in keeping from becoming injured l)y ex- 
posure to the weather, and at a distance suffi- 
cient from buildings to prevent any possible 
danger. Ashes should always be taken up in 
iron vessels. The best ash-house we have seen 
was built of brick, and covered with an arch 
of brick. An opening was left in one end for 
the introduction of ashes, and another at the 
ground level, closed by an iron door, for the 
removal of the contents. Better let the ashes 
go to waste than to try to preserve them in any 
shed or other out-building connected with the 
dwelling. Coal ashes are worth very little as 
a fertilizer, but they are worth saving. They 
should be sifted daily, and the cinders and the 
fine ashes saved separately. The cinders as a 
foundation, to be covered by the ashes and 
rolled, make a most excellent path or road. 



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D'Albert— Sarasate. 



Although rather more than "a day after the 
Fair," we cannot allow the D'Albert-Sarasate, 
or, as it is billed, the Sarasate-D'Albert con- 
cert, to go unnoticed in Light. That one of 
the few perfect concerts Worcester has been 
honored by should be dishonored by such a 
small audience as greeted these superb musi- 
cians, last Tuesday, is only an added thorn in 
the flesh of those who honestly and unaffect- 
edly love music for itself, in our city. The 
receipts were only about one-fourth the ex- 
penses of the concert, so in a way we received 
it as a charity from Messrs. Abbey and Grau. 

It is usual in all small towns to give what is 
called the first night program, but Worcester's 
unfortunate musical reputation decided the 
management in favor of the third night pro- 
gram, one of their most classical ones. The 
conclusion is obvious. 

The program was a gem in selections and 
was performed in a faultless manner, even the 
empty seats in the hall having no cooling 
effect upon the hot impetuous playing of 
Sarasate. 

That he is the greatest violin virtuoso 
living there is no doubt. His presence de- 
mands attention, and his playing is so full of 
artistic abandon as to be startling even in the 
andante movements. His finale in the Men- 
delssohn seemed taken at a more rapid rate 
than ever before and yet each tone was true, 
clear and complete. His command of 
technique was marvellously displayed in this 
movement where harmonics and chromatics 
seem to beg for some slight fault — a scrape or 
a false tone. In this great Mendelssohn con- 
cert, as well as in the rendering of his own 
Spanish dances, the reckless perfection of his 
playing holds his hearers spellbound. One can 
see why the Southern European countries have 
made him their idol. His dances embody the 
Spanish thought of subdued, sensuous rhythm, 
and the wild natural outbreaks of their quick 
natures. Queen Isabella became his patroness 
early in his career and sent him to the Paris 
Conservatoire, where he soon surpassed the 
technical abilities of his masters. The violin 
used Tuesday evening was not the Stradiva- 
rius belonging to the Queen Regent of .Spain, 
but one of his own choice collection. 

That D'Albert is such a consummate artist 
is not much of a surprise when one thinks that 
the greatest musical natures of the world are 
blended in him. In his music room at Eis- 
nach is a triple frame containing photographs 
of Klindworth, Tausig and Biilow. His like- 
ness to the middle portrait is startling, and 
those who have heard this great son of Liszt 
play, say the musical style and pose at the 
piano are almost as striking. This "young 
Tausig" has held Berlin, Vienna and London 
at his feet since his first concert tour, and be- 
ginning, as Billow says, "where we leave off, 
is sure to outdo us all." 

This great director's enthusiasm for the 
young pianist as he conducts the orchestral 
part of some grand concerto for the piano, is a 
most interesting sight. For one genius to ad- 
mire another as great as himself, is a rare 
occurrence, and to give way to that admiration 
with hand shakes and shouts of bravo, is rarer 
still. 

Though a more satisfactory interpreter than 



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any other of Chopin, his great ability shines 
more conspicuously in Liszt, where nature 
seems to help him divine the thoughts and in- 
tents so clearly. The Rhapsodie (XII.) was 
interpreted with a new meaning by him, dash 
and brilliant power varying the wild and some- 
times plaintive strains of the work in strange 
lights and shadows. As a Beethoven inter- 
preter, we must entirely forget the Biilow of a 
little time ago, before giving unqualified 
praise. The caressing tendencies with which 
Biilow teased the keys into singing Beetho- 
ven's quieter numbers is surely lacking in a 
way that is not felt in the allegro vivace of the 
sonata given to us the other evening. The 
Rubinstein barcarolle was one of the evening's 
gems, but "it's carrying coals to Newcastle" to 
sing the praises of either of these artists. 

Madame Marx was an artist in her work. 
Many times has far less ability been raved and 
rhap.sodized over. The peculiar crispness of 
her touch makes her playing a perfection in 
violin accompaniment. 

That those who were in the hall more than 
enjoyed and benefitted by the concert, goes 
without saying, but where were the rest of 
"Worcester's music lovers".' Where were our 
ten hundred piano pupils who pay from seventy- 
five cents to two dollars and a half for their 
lessons .' 

Where were our violinists, the chorus mem- 
bers of the Festival, as well as their directors, 
the members of other clubs, the instrumental 
and vocal teachers.' 

"High prices" cannot be the reason, for 
seats were half what they were in Boston. 
The truth is that we are musical only by repu- 
tation and soon, if we do not arrive at what we 
profess, we shall be forgotten by artists and 
shunned by managers as we deserve and are 
promised to be. Revb. 



Musical Worcester had a considerable num- 
ber of representatives at the concert, however, 
along with others who, though not "musical," 
could enjoy good music. Among those pres- 
ent were: Mrs. Edward L. Davis, the Misses 
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. C Henry Hutchins, Mr. 
Waldo Lincoln, Mr. Samuel S. Green, Mr. 
James Green, Mrs. H. F. A. Schmidt, Mrs. 
Georgia Bacon Pickett, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben 
Colton, Miss Clarissa Smith, Miss Earle, Mr. 
Frank B. Smith, the Misses Crompton, Mr. 
and Mrs. Richard Ward Greene, Mr. C. C. 
Stearns, Mr. B. D. Allen, Mr. Charles H. 
Grout, Mr. Walter G. IngalLs, Mr. George N. 
Morse, Mr. W. H. Gaylord, Rev. D. O. Mears, 
D; D., Dr. G. Stanley Hall, Rev. George G. 
Craft, Rev. I. J. Lansing, Rev. W. W. Sleeper, 
Rev. Leon D. Bliss, Dr. Arthur Michael, Miss 
Mary Sargent, Mr. E. J. Cutting, Mr. William 
A. Anthony, Mr. C. L. Gorham, Mr Fred L. 
Gorham, Mr. Charles A. Williams, Mr. and 
Mrs. Fred L. Coes, Miss Amy Dean, Mr. 
Robert S. Baldwin, Miss Alice Hathaway 
Baldwin, Mr. C. M. Dyer, Mr. Charies J. 
Dyer, Mr. J. Stewart Brown, Mr. Lincoln N. 
Kinnicutt, Mr. Ale.xander DeWitt, Mr. A. M. 
Stone, Miss Ruth Stone, Mr. Charles Ranlet, 
Miss Mabel Knowles, Miss Fannie Knowles, 
Mr. John F. Orr, Miss Henrietta M. Ager, Mr. 
Edward P. Sumner, Miss Bertha L. Perry, Mr. 
Frederic Howard, Mr. Henry J. Gross, Miss 
E. A. Kimball, Frank P. Goulding, Esq., Mr. 
Edward L. Sumner, Mr. Seth Richards, Mr. 



Charies S. Hale, Mr. Charies A. Chase, Mr. 
and Mrs. C. A. Merrill, Mr. J. M. Bassett, Mr. 
and Mrs. George M. Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. E. 
M. Overholser, Col. W. A. Williams, Eben 
Francis Thompson, Esq., Miss Nella Marble, 
Miss Olive Marble. 



Is Worcester a Musical City? 

To the Editor of Light: 

It may be presumptous for me to attempt an 
answer to this question that has so often been 
asked, yet a few suggestions may not be out 
of place. Two concerts have recently been 
given in our city that may serve as a basis of 
remark; the "Mary Howe Concert," and that 
of last Tuesday evening, advertised as the 
"Sarasate-D'Albert Concert." The former 
crowded our Mechanics Hall, while the latter, 
with its superb artists, could hardly banish 
the crowding regrets that such artists should 
meet so few people desirous of enjoying so 
rare a treat. There must be a reason some- 
where; what is it? Is the fault with Worces- 
ter? I love the city too well to think it. Is it 
because we know so little of the good talent 
that comes here ? Again, I think this is not 
the case. 

Why not a crowded hall at each of 
the above concerts? The advertising has 
been equally good, but the same people have 
not responded. Were they musical at one 
time and not the other ? Two facts were 
prominent at the first named entertainment; 
viz: the moderate price of admission and a 
consequent throng in attendance. Two facts 
were just as prominent in the second; viz: the 
the high price of admission and a relative few 
to enjoy what ought to have been enjoyed by 
just as many as at the first. 

Now, leaving out of account any other enter- 
tainments, what shall be said ? Were there not 
well-to-do people enough to have filled the hall at 
the second ? Yes, provided they could all have 
found it convenient to convene in the hall on 
just such an evening. 

But this is never true of any city. Several 
of our most prominent musical leaders 
were unavoidably absent. Worcester's 
population bears no comparison with that 
of Boston with its half a million people closely 
surrounding Music Hall, with a yet larger 
constituency brought even from such distances 
as Worcester itself by the accommodations of 
the railroads. No such arrangements are 
made toward Worcester. 

We mistake if we suppose musical tal- 
ent belongs to the wealthy alone. Many 
of our best critics may find it inconven- 
ient to spare the high price of admis- 
sion even for that which would give them the 
greatest pleasure. The possession of wealth 
does not of itself include "a musical ear;" 
while many of the greatest artists the world 
has ever known have been compelled to prac- 
tice economy. A dollar-and-a-half ticket 
means almost, if not quite, a whole day's work 
to some competent judge of the highest art. 
There were times when Mozart himself could 
not afford to attend a performance of his own 
works, if he were compelled to pay even the 
lowest price. The price of the ticket often 
has something to do with the attendance. It 
may be said there are lower prices for the gal- 
leries; but in an artistic performance there are 



many who do not wish to vote themselves 
third class. It may be said, one ticket does 
not cost a great deal; but who is there would 
advocate one ticket in a family ? In that case, 
who of the family should go ? The man who 
would take his ticket and willingly leave his 
family at home might possibly have a musical 
ear, but his selfish room would be much better 
than his company. If art like this has a place, 
it is for the family, and not simply for the in- 
dividual. 

Our conclusions then are these : Popu- 
lar prices will bring the people; wliile ex- 
orbitant fees for admittance will defeat the 
aims of the highest art. The peerless singer, 
Jenny Lind, more quickly became the people's 
idol, because the charge for admission to her 
concerts was placed so low that the "common 
people" could crowd every hall where slie 
sang, and they could judge from their own 
hearing. There is sometimes a mistaken idea 
among artists that popular prices imply a dis- 
count on their accomplishments, — a pure 
fallacy. In a parlor entertainment such a 
theory would apply, but not in a commodious 
hall whose very accommodations means the 
greatest number at a price fair to all. 

We must grant that other considerations 
doubtless entered into the relative popular 
success or failure, financially, of these 
two concerts, but not so as to contro- 
vert the main facts of this paper. 
Last evening conspicuously demonstrated 
one fact ; many of the most accom- 
plished musical artists were in the lower priced 
seats, — an unconscious testimony that even 
artists themselves amongst us recognize the 
principles of economy even in their art. 

Is Worcester musical .'' Itis lavish withits pat- 
ronage of the best Festival in New England. 
Can an unmusical city support and furnish an 
unsurpassed chorus for such a festival ? By 
no means. At the same time, the critical 
judgment of the patrons of that festival is sub- 
stantially in line with the highest criticism. 
What Worcester specially needs today is 
some public spirited man or men, like Mr. 
Higginson of Boston, who shall organize for 
the development and satisfying of such a senti- 
ment, rather than leave us to tlie sporadic 
efforts coming almost at hap-hazard. The 
purpose of all art is educational, and the lovers 
of art ought to have such access to its enjoy- 
ment as belongs to people across the seas. 
Believing in Worcester's more than average 
musical ability and appreciation, this letter 
has been written. I have long been weary of 
hearing the talent of the city cried down, even 
when greeting a half-empty hall in a first-class 
entertainment. Give the people a chance, — a 
fair chance, — and they will prove themselves 
not deficient in appreciating the divinest of 
arts. Very Respectfully, 

D. O. Me.^ks. 
Worcester, May yth, 1S90. 



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About Folks. 



"Little Lord Fauntleroy," which will be given 
j ; at the new theatre, next week, is rapidly 
j( I gaining an international reputation and a poly- 
( ■ glot character. Preparations are being made 
J I for producing it in Germany, France, Spain, 
j) I Italy, Holland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway 
i ( in the language of those countries, and it will 
j! I probably not stop short of translation into the 
Sanscrit, Zulu and Patagonian tongues. 



One of the Main street druggists reports 
that the call for soda water has trebled since 
the first of May. Of course the warm weather 
has something to do with it, l)ut that alone 
does not account of the increase of soda-foun- 
tain drinkers. 

Mr. Alfred S. Roe's annotated edition of the 
Sir Roger de Coverly papers, to which Lk;iit 
made reference, recently, is receiving highly 
favoralile notice from the reviewers. The 
(7// ///•(///;/«;/, which, beside being the exponent 
of the Episcopal Church, is a standard authority 
in literary matters and rather chary of praise, 
says of the book, in its issue of May 3 : "We do 
not as a rule like books of extracts, and we 
have frequently said .so, but there are except- 
ions, and this is one of them. The Coverly 
Papers are complete in themselves, almost as 
much so as a serial novel in a magazine, or, to 
come nearer the mark, the 'Autocrat of the 
Breakfast Table.' Hence there is no reason 
why they should not be published by them- 
selves and Mr. Roe has done a grand service 
in editing this collection and appending to it 
such information as might help the young read- 
ers for whom it is intended, and we still more 
praise his considerate forbearance in not put- 
ting in them anything which a pupil could be 
rea.sonably expected to find out. It is not every 
'principal of a high school' who can thus ap- 
preciate tlie pleasure of discovery or under- 
stand that education means study rather than 
cram." 

Tuesday was rhetorical day at the High 
School, and the platform exercises in the hall 
included the reading of an essay on "A Journey 
to the Moon," liy Melvin T. Hubbard, and a 
reading of the introduction to Irving's "Knick- 
erbocker's History ot New York," by Miss 
Lizzie H. Boyd. Both are pupils of the junior 
class. 

The New York It 'c»Mrecent\y asked for bal. 
lots on the cjuestion as to which is the best town 
to live in in Massachusetts, and the result is a 
large preponderance of votes in favor of Barre. 
The I5oston Heraldy in commenting on this 
verdict, says there is plenty of evidence to jus- 
tify it : "It would be hard to find a more 
delightfully located or a more charmingly 
peopled town than this beautiful section of 
Worcester county, particularly in summer 
time." True enough ! Barre is delightfully lo- 
cated, being charmingly near Petersham, that 
summer Mecca of metropolitan culture and 
wealth— the Lenox of Worcester Northwest. 
One who could not live in Petersham in the 
summer, would naturally prefer Barre, 
especially if he owns a good horse. A more 
magnificent drive than that from Barre to 
Petersham does not e.xist in Massachusetts. 



Mr. George L. Hyde, who is the basso at 
Piedmont church this year, has been chosen 
secretary of the West Boylston board of li- 
brary directors. 

The closing recital of the spring series of 
tlie Worcester County Music School was given 
last Friday evening, 2d, by Misses Bessie K. 
Pelton and Margaret H. Griggs, pianists, as- 
sisted by Miss Mary E. Convery and Mr. 



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Charles H. Orcutt, vocalists, and Mr. Ewald 
Weiss, violinist. There will probably be one 
or two general recitals given, before the clos- 
ing recitals, which Mr. Sumner expects to an- 
nounce for Monday and Tuesday, June 16 and 
17- 

The fifty-first anniversary of the Worcester 
Baptist Sabbath-School Convention will be 
held witli the first Baptist church and Sabbath- 
.scliool at (irafton, next Thur.sday, at 10.30 A. 
M. The Worcester Academy Quartet is to 
sing. Rev. J. J. Miller of the Lincoln Square 
Baptist church is to open the discussion on 
"Tlie Human Agency in the Salvation of 
Souls." There will be discu.ssions on other 
timely topics. 

Mr. Arthur E. Davis has bought the photo- 
graphic business of A. H. Lane in Westboro. 

The Worcester Boat Club has elected to 
honorary membership Messrs. Charles M. 
Harrington and Moses M. Garfield, and to 
active membership Messrs. Robert L. Dyson, 
Edward L. Brigham, Jr., George M. Coe, Nor- 
man A. Harrington and L. E. Marks. 



The Athol Transcript says: "Look out for 
swindlers. Two swindlers have been operating 
lately in Greenfield and other towns in a novel 
way, and have victimized many servant girls 
and families. Their scheme is to offer a box 
of stationery for 25 cents, in which they say 
there is sure to be money, sometimes one dollar 
and oftener two dollars. To prove their state- 
ments they open a box or two, and show the 
money. Then they offer another lot of 
boxes, and if the victim buys one she is sure 
to find it empty. The swindlers lately per- 
suaded a Greenfield domestic to pay four dol 
larsfor 12 boxes, telling her not to open them 
until the next day." 



The Young Peoples Christian Endeavor So- 
ciety of Piedmont church is arranging for an 
entertainment to be given at the chapel, Tues- 
day evening, May 20. The plan is to represent 
famous autliors by taUeaux drawn from their 
works. 



Dr. A. H. Stoddard, demonstrator of me- 
chanical dentistry at the Harvard Dental 
School, spent Sunday with Mr. Samuel L. 
Stone's people. 

Nous constatons avec plaisir que les divers 
c^lements de la population de langue anglaise 
de Worcester ont fait un accueil chaleureux 
au nouveau journal The Light. Cette marque 
d'approbation assure I'existence de cette im- 
portante publication qui paraitra ddsormais 
tous les samedis. Nous lui souhaitons, k I'in- 
star de nos confreres de langue anglaise, tout 
le succds quemifrite une publication hebdoma- 
daire qui renferme une aussi grande abon- 
dance de mati&res saines et instructives et 
dont le but primordial est d'instruire la jeun- 
esse, lui faire prendre goiit de la belle littera- 
ture, tout en plaisant excessivement aux per- 
sonnes quasi arrivdes au terme de leur voyage. 
Puisse notre nouveau confrere marcher sans 
interruption dans la vole du progrfes et etre 
toujours une licmiere brillante pour la jeune 
gdndration qui se Ifeve.— Zt- Courrier de H'or- 
cester. 



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"Keep Off the Grass. 



BY ALFRED S. ROE. 



Of course, grass can't grow if many feet 
walk over it. To the eye beauty is lost, but 
the question, sometimes, is whether it is worth 
the while to maintain great grass preserves. 
Or, if these patches of verdure are to be held, 
can there not be prepared some cleared spaces 
on which juvenile humanity can sport and 
play at will? Far be it from me to express a 
word against the cultivation of all that may 
gladden the eye, but the eye is not all of the 
man or boy, and there is in every boyish na- 
ture an amount of vitality that whole acres of 
cleanly-shaved lawn only tempt to the viola- 
tion of the adage so prominently displayed on 
the borders. Dogs may run and sport at their 
pleasure, but woe to the small boy who, lured 
by the promise of coolness held forth by the 
inviting level, essays to romp upon it ! Scarce- 
ly will the fun begin before an argus-eyed 
keeper will seize him, and lucky will he be if 
he gets off with just a pull of the ear. To the 
average small boy, the expansive beauty of a 
well-kept lawn is vastly more suggestive of a 
chance to play base-ball than of dissertations 
on the beautiful. This is not the place to dis- 
cuss just when the sense of the beautiful has 
its development ; in fact, in many, it is never 
developed, but this is certain, that the small 
boy, and the large boy, too, prefers physical 
exercise to whole hours of rhapsody on ab- 
stract beauty. To his practical mind the 
question is, "Can I eat it? Can I wear it? 
Can I get any fun out of it, and if I can't why 
what's the use ?" Teachers and preachers 
may talk and argue themselves hoarse ; city 
governments may, in the language of Col. 
John Hay, "Resolute till the cows come 
home," but they will not lessen the disposition 
on the part of youth to get all the activity pos- 
sible out of childhood. 

When we contemplate the repression that is 
exercised towards a city boy from his birth 
till he ceases to be a boy, there can be no 
wonder that his country cousin outstrips him 
in the race of life. In our own Worcester, the 
men who have been the architects of their own 
fortunes did not make a start in town, where 
on every hand they were confronted with 
"Keep off the grass." They had the range of 
the farm, and there learned self-reliance and 
gained the power of turning themselves to any 
desired end. Manual training was had insen- 
sibly from the cradle, and when the time came 
for them to better themselves in the city, they 
were ready for the chance. Not so the boy 
whose eyes first looked out on a dusty street, 
or, at the best, upon a few square rods of door- 
yard. The moment that the yard became too 
small for him, and he ventured beyond its pre- 
cincts, he was informed that passing a ball, 
rolling a hoop, playing at marbles, and, in 
short, everything that his soul delighted in, 
were forbidden by law. What shall he do? 
Play he must. There are kinks in his legs 
that only vigorous exercise will relieve. He 
cannot play near his home. He must not 
stray upon an inch of lawn. Stop where he 
may, he is likely to hear the order, "Move on." 
If he goes to the neigboring country and un- 
dertakes a game on the land of the good 
farmer, he is promptly reminded that he is 



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trespassing, and he has to get away from that 
spot as quickly as possible. There is only 
one place where he is always heartily wel- 
comed, and that is the saloon. Is it at all 
strange that he goes in thereat ? Is it not an 
inevitable ending to the matter so miserably 
begun? The good church-goer who casts his 
eye to the summit of Reservoir Hill, as he 
wends his way to service on some warm Sun- 
day afternoon, will see it covered with moving 
figures. They are boys, bound to have their 
game in some way. I have seen fifty boys 
making their way through the back part of 
Hope Cemetery on such a day, on their route 
to the outskirts of the city that they might 
have their play. The most interesting sight 
that the Common in Boston ever affords is 
when several hundred boys are utilizing every 
available inch of it in the pursuit of the ball. 
Glorious as are the memories of the place, 
there is no part of it that is better subserving 
the end for which it was reserved, that is 
better keeping up the tradition of the enclosure, 
than that portion on which boys are allowed to 
play ball. 

The lawn with all its symmetry and verdure 
was made for man, not man for the lawn. 
Every dollar expended in making childhood 
happier and busier, is a saving in the subse- 
quent care of the man. The boy who has 
grown thoroughly tired at his game will go to 
his home weary enough to sleep the slumber 
of innocence, and with a mind refreshed suf- 
ficiently to send him with relish to his studies 
on the following day. "All work and no play 
make Jack a dull boy," and a system that 
makes no provision for this inevitable char- 
acteristic is radically defective. Not one cent 
less for the walks and the ponds and the flow- 
ers ; not a word less of praise for the beauteous 
work of E. W. Lincoln, but let us have some- 
thing for the boys, to whose semi-barbaric 
natures all these are only so many more 
avenues for exhibitions of mischief. Give his 
legs a chance to stretch themselves, his arms 
an opportunity to swing, and his lungs a 
place for development. Make the con- 
veniences for swimming the best possible. Not 
merely a tub where he may wash and be 
clean, but a good big place where he may dis- 
robe and sport to his heart's and body's con- 
tent. With abstract cleanliness, the boy has 
no sympathy. If incidentally he is made 
cleaner, he will not object ; but the real end of 
"Going in swimming," is the fun and exercise 
he gets out of it. His country friend lays off 
his clothing at the water's edge, and swims or 
runs up and down the banks till the dinner- 
horn or the smart of his sun-burned back re- 
minds him that it is time for him to be getting 
along home. 

These are wants to which the attention of 
the powers that be is invited. It is not enough 
to say that no other city has taken steps in 
this matter. Why should not Worcester be a 
pioneer in this as well as in many other direc- 
tions ? There are fields lying in and around 
the city that can be made available by the out- 
lay of an inconsiderable sum in the way of 
draining and fencing. There need be no 
beautifying whatever. To the boy, this would 
be a case of beauty unadorned being adorned 
the most. Like the child upon the seashore 
he will wish for nothing but a good letting 
alone. Half a dozen such spaces properly lo- 



cated about our city would do more towards 
settling the prospect of the Worcester of the 
future than would whole volumes of state and 
city legislation. 

Will our city fathers take the matter in 
hand ? Will they see to it that their boys 
have a healthy offset to that provoking notice, 
so long seen, and everywhere so prominent, 
"Keep off the grass." 



Other Worlds than Ours. 
By means of the spectroscope a very won- 
berful discovery has been made respecting 
Sirius. Astronomers had noticed that this 
star was in rapid motion through space, as it 
was found that year by year it was changing 
its position in the heavens, traversing in about 
1500 years a space equal.to the apparent diam- 
eter of the moon. Dr. Huggins, our greatest 
authority on this subject, having identified 
certain lines in the spectrum of Sirius as those 
of hydrogen, found on comparison that these 
were displaced in such a manner as to indicate 
that the star was receding from us. There 
seems to be no reason to doubt that, in com- 
mon with other suns, he has his system of 
planets circling round him after the manner of 
our own sun. \'ast as ours appears, it is 
dwarfed into insignificance compared with a 
system whose ruling orb is 5000 times larger 
than that which does duty for us. There seems, 
also, no reason to doubt that these planets are 
intended to be the abode of life; it may be that 
at the present moment none of them present 
any signs of life, but we think we may safely 
infer, without improbability, that each one of 
those worlds has a destined period in its devel- 
opment, during which life, similar to that 
which now prevails on our planet, would be in 
existence. What a world such a one would be, 
in size perhaps not inferior to that of our sun, 
himself a million times larger than our earth. 
— Chambers Jotirnal. 



Some New Spring Toilettes. 
Beautiful, soft woolen fabrics never had 
such vogue as is given them now, says the 
fashion writer of the Ladies' Ho»ie Journal. 
In addition to the \'enetian wool fabrics, clair- 
ettes, buntings, henriettas, chuddahs, etc, 
there are many new weaves. Piccadilly woolens 
have an ombr^ effect. Carnivan stripes of 
soft English wool are outlined with bands of 
bengaline. Meltons and French washing 
cheviots are desirable for traveling dresses. 
Rosebury woolens are in neutral colors, with 
Persian designs forming diagonal stripes, so 
that, though made straight, they give the fash- 
ionable bias effect. A lovely costume is in 
resida bunting and heliotrope faille, a color 
combination much affected this season ; the 
bunting has a narrow ribbon border, showing 
stripes in Persian colors, in which the green 
and purple predominate ; there are sash ends 
of the faille falling on each side of the back 
drapery quite to the foot, edged all round with 
a narrow passementerie in which the colors of 
the border are reproduced ; slashed jacket of 
the faille, with loose fronts which are edged 
with passementerie, as are also the arm-holes 
and collar; vest of folds of the bunting show- 
ing the bordering between, and gigot sleeves, of 
the bunting to the elbow, from there to the 
wrist of the failld, trimmed with several rows 
of bordering. 



Warwick's Treasures. 



Warwick, with her fine castle, her homely 
Leycester's Hospital, and the famous, beau- 
tiful I5eauchanip (pronounced by the Eng- 
lish Beecliam) Chapel, will afford us another 
interesting day. 

On from Kenilworth, passing through more 
of England's continuous garden, we approach 
the great gate of the castle. Across the street, 
in a white diniitied window, set like some odd 
jewel in the green enamel of the ivied wall, is a 
fetching card displayed. The mystic words 
upon it are "Iced Pop." .Stepping inside the 
little cottage's front room, our eyes are regaled 
with the sight of a glorious fireplace, comfor- 
table old chairs and tables cozily surrounding 
it, while the inner man is soothed by the famous 
beverage ser\'ed in pewter mugs. The interest- 
ing brewer might have kept us with her tales 
till now had not the hour appointed for doing 
the castle arrived. 

Up the avenue, between huge walls of 
blasted rock, cool and green with nio.ss and 
creepers, and lined farther on by the Iiuge trees, 
which, though beautiful, are becoming common 
sights to us, we finally reach the smaller park, 
where the landscape gardener's work shows to 
advantage or disadvantage as each person 
may decide for himself. A large party is going 
into the castle, and so we wait with our card 
till later, as we are to see special sights. 

Across the well-kept tennis courts and bowl- 
ing ground, over the cricket field and lawns we 
go, to the orangerie, for a call upon the War- 
wick vase. Here the immense vine-carved 
marble bowl rests as quietly and supremely as 
though it were made for its position rather 
than for Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, two thousand 
years ago. Its beauty of outline and simpli- 
city of design are remarkable, but we could 
not forbear the wish that we might have seen 
it in the library on the veritable pedestal still 
standing, for which it was designed. 

Back through the flower garden, by the white 
peacocks, we go, to one of the small doors of 
the castle. We are allowed to pass through 
the hallway and finally, after waiting for a 
time in the cedar drawing room, resplendent 
with the carved wood from which it takes its 
name, and hung with the more private por- 
traits and tapestries, we receive our guide — one 
of the Earl's own footmen — and start on our 
exploration of the private state apartments. 
This part of the castle was built during Ed- 
ward Ill.'s time and furnished with the wildest 
imaginable jumble of four-posters, shell-clocks, 
and uncomfortable overgrown furniture. 
Some rooms are homely and in quiet good 
taste, the breakfast rooms and some of the 
family rooms being particularly so. 

Now we enter the new part, built in 1S70, in 
the style of the portion destroyed by fire the 
year previous. The great hall serves for the 
armory. On the wall are glories of spears, 
spikes and armor tastefully arranged above the 
heavy oak panelling, against which fine old 
chairs, chests and tables are set in stiff and 
tiresome order. In one casement window is a 
huge bronze affair, maybe three feet in diam- 
eter and glorying in the nameof "Guys porridge 
basin" (.Should we call it somebody's punch- 
bowl if we had it in America ?) It is in reality 



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the venerable tocsin which stood upon Caesar's 
tower, a few hundred years ago, and, when 
struck witli the spear handles, became the 
alarum bell. It stood for war, at first, to us, 
but a tray of delicious strawberries and the at- 
tendant tea things soon transformed it into a 
most peaceful table, and this memory will last 
the longer to us. The picturc-gallerie.s, with 
the smaller armory and mu.sevmi, contain many 
things of great interest, but are catalogued 
already. 

A good word picture of the castle's exterior 
is given by Mr. Sumner: "Seen from the 
park it might be the spell-!)ound palace of 
'.Sleeping Beauty,' for it rises out of great 
banks of trees ; some growing close up to the 
walls and all closing round, so that from a very 
little distance only the high outline of the 
castle and its towers can be seen. .So, too, 
from the bridge which with a single arch spans 
the Avon, when you see Ca;sar's tower rising 
above the trees and the southern wing of the 
castle set in a leafy frame and reflected below 
in the water." 

As interesting as is this old home of the 
Earls of Warwickshire, we must leave it and 
turn to .St. Mary's church, designed by .Sir 
Christopher Wren. Interest in this church 
centers in the Beauchamp Chapel, a part of 
the original edifice .so nearly destroyed by fire 
in 1694. This chapel was in 1 123 incorporated 
with All Saints College, and at that time its 
site was included within the precints of the 
castle. Beauchamp, his father, and the poor 
deformed Earl, all re.st here beneath three of 
tlie most beautiful monuments in England, 
within this richly ornamented chapel. 

The Leycester Hospital was built in 1671, 
by Robert Dudley, Earl. A chapel was added 
to the social row of cottages during thejfollow- 
ing year, and as new roads and different grades 
have been established since then, the little .St. 
James Chapel is left perched on the high wall 
above the West gate. 

The row of houses constituting the infirmary 
is picturesque indeed, gables and dormer 
windows at different angles and heights giving 
an independent and social aspect to the row. 
Small bow windows project into the walk, 
while an occasional porch takes space enough 
for two. Within, the kitchen and dining 
rooms are left much as they were originally. 
The fire place is ably seconded by a modern 
range, but oak chairs and settles still do their' 
several duties, as do also various high and 
mighty copper tankards and immense pewter 
platters. Snuff and pipe bo.xes adorn the 
walls and lucky indeed the pensioner who gets 
a suite in this charming little nest of nests. 

The inner court is paved and .sodded, and 
again Virginia creeper drapes the oak-barred 
plaster walls. One porch was decorated with 
an oaken shield emblazoned with the standing 
bear and post, crest of the Leycester family. 
A man was busily at work cutting away the 
muzzle and chain carved on the bear so many 
years ago. In Henry VIII.'s time, some 
thoughtless Leycester criticised a royal act, and 
for the four hundred years following the ram- 
pant bear was doomed to appear muzzled and 
chained upon the family shield. The time had 
e-xpired and family pride was ridding itself of 
even this interesting reminder of the indepen- 
dent spirit of an early ancestor. 

Through some of the streets, with bright 



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clean cottages, surrounded by well kept gar- 
dens, we walk to the tram-.station, taking this 
means of reaching Leamington again in pre- 
ference to others, for the roof seats are high 
above obstructing walls and give us distant 
views of woods and hills as backgrounds for 
the life in the foreground, tennis and cricket 
particularly. 

Leamington ai)proached from Warwick is a 
pretty place, the fine public buildings and 
park showing to cool and comfortable advan- 
tage from the unshaded top of a dusty car. 
The day is ended by a band concert in the new 
part of the park. Of the music we cannot say 
much, for outside London, band music in Eng- 
land is rather an ordinary jumble of noise. 
The band stand, however, was decorated in 
our honor. Kows of red and white lanterns 
hung at the back, and at the wrong upper cor- 
ner hung a blue one covered with stars, a noble 
attempt to compliment the American visitors. 
The concert ended with " The Star Spangbd 
Banner" and we were only sorry we were not 
enough to raise even a feeble cheer in response 
to this added show of good feeling. 



An Interesting People. 

/() //u- Eiiitor of Light : 

Although we as a nation have taken a differ- 
ent position regarding that interesting people, 
the Jews, than has Russia, do vve[as individ- 
uals regard them in the honest broad light we 
profess to give all people in this "Land of the 
Free ?" To be sure they are successful gener- 
ally in business but not because we allow it. 
Their minds are getting to be the leading ones 
of the world, but even th's does not prevent 
nariow-minded men from turning up their 
noses either visably or figuratively whenever a 
Jew is mentioned. A fire set carelessly by a 
peddler — a man who is supporting himself by 
license, and who can trace his ancestry back 
to the division of the tribes — is mentioned in 
derision as a "Jew peddler." We never hear of 
an "Irish peddler," or an "English peddler," 
simply because it is not the fashion to be pre- 
judiced against them. Our bigotry has driven 
the Jews into the lower walks of life and noth- 
ing but their thrift has enabled them to rise. 
They don't want our pity or even our sympa- 
thy. They've as much right to think — more — 
than have some of us. If a murder is com- 
mitted by a man, do we blame or even know of 
the crime when we meet his twentieth cousin ? 

A few weeks ago a young Jew — not 
thoroughly Orthodo.x— knelt near me at morn- 
ing prayer in chapel. To my question after 
service, "How could you kneel .''" he replied : 
"My religion provides joints in the knees, and 
I find prayer ascends as readily from one atti- 
tude as another." Disraeli, Montifiore, Men- 
delssohn and scores of our greatest men were 
Jews, broad kind philanthropic men. Another 
lesson was taught me by a little Israelite. He 
said "Christianity doesn't stop boys pulling 
wings and legs off from flies, and stoning 
dogs. While we never want to, we wouldn't." 
There are more Jews possessing the virtues we 
selfishly claim as Christian in proportion to 
their number than there are those outside the 
wall some try so hard to build. They are 
much more healthful, moral and intellectual as 
a people than any other. Star. 



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Where is the Hat 



[A French story translated into the universal 
language— Volapiik— by Paul Champ-Rigot, 
Paris, France. Retranslated from Volapiik to 
English by F. L. Hutchins, of Worcester.] 

My friend, Celestin, always has a good 
cigar, and I do not remember of ever meeting 
him without a lighted cigar in his mouth. 
Sometimes I have entered his room very early, 
about six o'clock in the morning, and while I 
was being admitted he lighted a cigar, and 
upon approaching his bed — for he was still in 
bed — I have found it enveloped by a cloud of 
smoke. 

At another time he had gone to sleep with a 
cigar in his mouth, and had set his furniture 
on fire, and was barely conscious when res- 
cued by his neighbors. 

Celestin never went into houses or places 
where smoking was prohibited, and I know he 
is in disfavor with one of his aunts, an old 
and rich lady, whom he will not visit because 
she cannot tolerate smoke, and this aunt also 
says she will disinherit this ungrateful nephew 
of hers. 

In France particular cars are reserved for 
smokers, who are not allowed to smoke in 
other cars. I need not say that when Celestin 
traveled he always chose the smoking-car. 

Last year he was invited by a friend to hunt 
in the forests near Orleans, and he remained 
there many days. The estate of his friend 
was situated near the bank of the river Loire, 
and contained much game. Celestin, without 
omitting his cigars, lighting another as soon as 
one was finished, shot hares, rabbits and part- 
ridges without number. He eat and drank 
equal to four persons, and slept like a deaf 
man — as the French proverb says. Neverthe- 
less the end of all things comes, and Celestin 
was obliged to return to Paris. The nearest 
railway station to the house of his friend was 
in the village of Menug, and when the weary 
hunter arrived there it was eleven o'clock at 
night. The train to Orleans and Paris had 
already arrived at the station. Celestin had 
only time to buy his ticket, when he was 
pushed by an official of the railroad into a car 
of the train, which, alas ! had no smokers' car. 
The train started immediately. 

My unhappy friend was in a dark corner, 
because one of the lamps was not lighted, and 
the other gave a very dim, useless light. 

In one corner an old man noisily slept, in 
another corner a woman slept. Celestin did 
not particularly notice them and seated him- 
self opposite the man. 

"Zounds !" he said softly to himself, "it ap- 
pears as though I had sit upon something." 

Alas! he had seated himself on the hat of 
the traveler, and under my friend's weight, the 
hat had become very flat. What could he do ? 
After meditating a short time, Celestin re- 
solved to softly open the glass of the door and 
to throw the hat out of the car. 

With great caution, because he dreaded the 
awakening of the old man, he began to let 
down the glass, when the cold air blew in and 
the woman began to sneeze loudly. 

"Heavens!" she cried, "the glass is being 
opened. 1 will surely catch a cold. Please 
close the glass immediately, sir." 

"Lady," Celestin said politely, "I wish to 



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smoke a cigar and I feared the smoke might 
annoy you." 

".Smoke, sir I You wish to smoke? Is it 
possible ? No, no ! I beg you not to do it, 
because smoke always makes me sick. If you 
wish to smoke please wait a few moments, the 
train will soon arrive at Les Aubrais, and 
there 1 leave you. When I am gone you can 
smoke as much as you wish." 

This conversation had awakened the old 
traveler. The name of the station Les Au- 
brais particularly caused him to stand. 

"Les Aubrais!" he cried, "have we arrived 
at Les Aubrais? I have not been carried far- 
ther ?" 

"Not yet, sir," the woman replied, "but it is 
the nearest station and we will be there soon." 
The traveler then began to collect his pack- 
ages. 

He had two baskets under the seat, three 
small packages in a rack over his head, two 
umbrellas and a cane. He removed his trav- 
eling hat and — he hunted for his hat. 

Lfnhappy Celestin did not dare to move be- 
cause he feared that the old man would see the 
hat which had become — alas, so very fiat. 

"Where can my hat be ?"the traveler asked, 
beginning to become anxious because the 
train neared the station. He sought every- 
where and naturally found nothing. 

Celestin was begged to move a little to show 
that the hat was not be found in his corner. 

My friend moved, but he took care to move 
the crushed hat under him, so that the traveler 
found nothing upon the seat. 

"Did you have your hat when you came into 
the car?" the woman asked. 

The man faced her angrily, and was about 
to speak impolitely to her, when the train 
stopped. 

"Les Aubrais I Les Aubrais !" cried the train 
men. "Travelers for Orleans change train." 

The old lady descended from the car, after 
another search for the hat had been made 
without result, and the traveler, who had re- 
placed his traveling cap upon his head, ought 
to have gone, because the time of stopping 
had expired. 

As soon as both had left the car, the train 
began to move away, and Celestin, who was 
very angry with the lady traveler who would 
not allow him to smoke, resolved to revenge 
himself. He took the crushed hat, and show- 
ing it the traveler who had remained on the 
step, cried : 

"Dear sir, is this your hat?" 
"Yes, indeed," the man replied, "where was 
it?" 

"That lady had seated herself upon it." 
The traveler became red with anger, and be- 
fore the train had left the station, Celestin had 
the satisfaction of seeing the man strike with 
his two umbrellas the unhappy woman who 
could not understand why the traveler should 
strike her. 



He whose days pass without imparting and 
enjoying is like the bellows of a smith ; he 
breathes, indeed, but he does not live. — Hindu 
Proverb. 



Literary Leaves. 

The Scribners have in press a new novel by 
Marion Harland. 

"Robert Elsmere" and "Looking Backward" 
find an appreciative market in Germany. 



The present emperor of Germany is soon to 
suffer by a biography written by an American 
who knows about as little about him as a New 
Orleans school teacher knows about Worcester 
High School. 

Chicago is to have a new magazine, called 
"Home, School and Nation." Its aim is to 
furnish material for parents and teachers in 
the training of children, that they may become 
patriotic citizens. 

Light takes pleasure in announcing that 
the deluge of summer fiction will be of hardly 
half the volume of that of previous years. 



A man should never be ashamed to own he 
has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in 
other words, that he is wiser to-day than he 
was yesterday. — Pope. 



A novel and striking plan of extending the 
'•Gospel of Recreation" has been entered into 
by The Christian Union. It proposes to pro- 
vide a free six weeks' tour in Europe (including 
passage, traveling, and hotel bills) to every 
pastor of a church whose members will furnish 
it a list of two hundred new subscribers. A 
large portion of the subscription money will be 
applied in procuring for the pastor a ticket en- 
titling the holder to a tour through England, 
France, Belgium, up the Rhine, and in Switz- 
erland. 

The "Philosopher of Driftwood," by Mrs. 
Jenness-Miller, in the May number of her 
magazine, contains a promise of a clear origi- 
nal discussion upon social questions. 

A letter from Chicago tells all about the 
kinds of ink and pens and paper that Eugene 
Field uses when he writes his poems ; but it 
would be a good deal more useful to the scrib- 
bling fraternity to know how to get at a supply 
of the brain quality that Mr. Fields mingles 
with his ink. 

The total sales of E. P. Roe's books amount 
to 2,027,000 copies. This has been divided 
nearly equally between the cloth-bound and 
the limited editions in paper covers. These 
cheap editions have been issued from time to 
time in limited numbers — usually of 100,000 
copies of each book— and, as a rule, only one 
book has been in the market at a time. "We 
are now printing," said the publishers, "a 
limited edition of 350,000 of fourteen of his 
more popular books — that is, an average of 
25,000 of each ; and it is a fact quite remark- 
able as any other in the history of the Roe 
books that the entire edition was subscribed 
in advance of publication by the trade. 




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15 



Out and About. 

A Harvard freshman in a Paris restaurant 
called for "cafe' an lait without milk." 



In a town not far from Worcester there once 
lived a clergyman, very worthy but rather 
short in statue. One Sunday he was invited 
by the pastor of a church in a neighboring town 
to "fill his pulpit" for the day. This pulpit, as 
it happened, was a very high one, and nearly 
hid the poor man from view. When it came 
time for the sermon, a nose and two little eyes 
suddenly appeared over the top of the pulpit, 
and a small, piping voice proclaimed in nasal 
tones the text, "Be of good cheer: it is I, be 
not afraid !" 

Stanley thinks that Africa will in the future 
become what America is to-day. If that be so, 
Europe and Asia will have to hurry up and 
change their ways, or they will be of little ac- 
count in the affairs of this mundane sphere. 



"Why don't you wash and dress yourself 
when yon come into a court of justice?" asked 
a pompous London judge of a chimney-sweep, 
who was being examined as a witness. "Dress 
myself, my lord .'" said the lad, "I am dressed, 
as much as your lordship. You are in your 
working clothes, and so am I." 

When Josiah Quincy was mayor of Boston, 
a Mr. Evans, who had a contract with the city 
for filling up "the flats" at South Boston, in- 
vited the members of the city government to 
examine the digging machine with which the 
operations were carried on. After their curi- 
osity had been satisfied and they had admired 
the wonderful machine, they sat down to a 
bountiful collation which Mr. Evans had pro- 
vided for them. Mr. Quincy, taking his seat 
at the head of the table, gravely observed: 
"Gentlemen, your attention is requested to the 
process which Mr. Evans has here prepared 
for filling the flats of the city." The "filling" 
process at once commenced. 

The Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford is almost as 
well known for his interest in athletics and 
healthful country life as for his parish work 
and preaching, remarkable as the latter are. 
He has just been chosen president of the Met- 
ropolitan Cricket League, and it is said that 
this fact has largely increased the interest in 
cricket-playing among New York people. 



Ella Wheeler Wilcox says, in her description 
of the national game, that it is the splendid 
physique of the average Englishman that 
makes him so attractive to our American girls. 
Ella should come to Worcester next June and 
take a look at the dry goods clerks' physique, 
at the end of a business base ball game, 
when she can then speak more understandingly, 
and from the bottom facts. 



Worcester isn't such a hard place to live in, 
even in summer's hottest days. For compari- 
son note the extreme heat in some other 
countries: Bengal and the African deserts, 
150°; Persia, 125°; Calcutta, India and the 
Central American States, 120° ; Cape of Good 
Hope, 105°; Greece. 102°; Arabia,io5°; to 
110°; New York, 102°; Spain, China and 
Jamaica, 100°; France, Denmark, Russia and 
the Sandwich Islands, 90°. 



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STONE LAWN AND CEMETERY VASES. 

Objections are made to Iron, as it draws the heat of 
the sun, and consequently dries the earth, while the iron 
destroys the life of the plants. Iron also necessitates fre- 
quent painting. These great objections are entirely over- 
come by this material, the nature being such that it ad- 
mits the air to the roots and retains the moisture. 

f They are made in beautiful patterns, as shown in the 
annexed cut, and in color closely resemble light granite. 

f They are warranted not to be injuriously affected by 
the heat in summer, or frost in winter, and they continually 
harden|by exposure. 

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171 Main Street. 

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A Public Necessity. 



To the Editor of Light : — 

The professional legal centre of the city is 
living apart from the established court centre, 
with its one hundred and fifty years of contin- 
uous location, not from alienated affections, 
incompatibility of temper, nor non-support, but 
divorced on account of the delay of some 
enterprising capitalist in providing a modern 
metropolitan structure for its use contiguous to 
the court chamber. The linking of identical 
centres is as natural as their separation is un- 
natural. In London we find the French centre 
in the neighborhood of Leicester .Square and 
Soho; the Italian in Hatton's Garden; the 
German in the east of London ; the legal cen- 
tre in Lincoln's Inn and the Temple ; the med- 
ical centre in George and Burlington streets; 
the booksellers in Paternoster Row ; the clock- 
makers in Clerkenwell; butchers in Newgate 
and Smithfield ; furniture dealers in Totten- 
ham Court road; hat-makers in Southwark; 
tanners in Bermondsey ; birds and cages near 
The Seven Dials ; statuaries in the Eastern 
road, and artists at the Boltons. This method- 
ical classification of identical interests about a 
common center has for its foundation, public 
necessity and convenience. It is a significant 
fact, that throughout the world, the established 
court centre of a community is the recognized 
professional legal centre. This is a natural 
affinity, identical in interest, hence should be 
identical in location. The peculiar and in- 
herent relations between these centres are so 
closely allied that the interests of each would 
be best served under one and the same roof, 
and the personal and public inconvenience is 
borne in direct ratio in increase of distance in 
their separation. Any and every argument 
against this grouping clearly opposes the 
fundamental principle on which rests the city's 
material development and prosperity. The city 
has ever opposed a division of the county, and 
keeps both eyes on Fitchburg lest she snap 
her chalk-line upon a northern portion of it. 
Why? Because the city's interest is in cen- 
tralization and not in disintegration. For the 
same reason one might have seen a sisterly 
pout on the inviting lips of the city when 
Fitchburg asked for a Registry of Deeds, 
necessitating a division of the records ; be 
cause ever since 1734, when Chief Justice 
John Chandler opened with an elegant dedica- 
tory address the first court-house on Court 
Hill, that locality has been the established 
centre for the public records. It has been 
said that a manufacturer arriving in the city in 
the morning can place his orders for a com- 
plete outfit for a cotton or woolen mill, or 
wood or iron working establishment, and re- 
turn in the afternoon, there being such a 
grouping of like interests that the city is an all- 
important industrial centre. The largest busi- 
ness interest in the city is carrying a colossal 
burden — a serious business disadvantage — in 
the isolation of its identical business centres, 
and could results have been anticipated, wise 
management, undoubtedly, would have con- 
solidated its interests at a given point many 
years ago. On the theory of the centraliza- 
tion of identical interests the New South is 
being developed, and by the side of her great 
cotton fields, have been erected some of the 
finest cotton mills in the world. At her mines. 



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her coal fields and her inexhaustible forests, 
mammoth manufactories have sprung into 
material existence as if by magic, simply to 
obtain the practical business leverage that is 
in the centralization of mutually dependent 
interests The isolation of the centres in issue 
affect the entire county population of about 
250,000, and recoils upon a property interest of 
about §150,000,000, being an excess of over 
$40,000,000 of the valuation of the state of 
Vermont. Upon the attorney this burden has 
the weight of a direct personal loss ; there is 
no part of his professional work that is not 
directly connected with the court centre. The 
investigation of every important question of 
law begins in the law library and ends in the 
court room ; here also must the examination 
of all the" records be had. To an attorney, the 
trial list is a very uncertain quantity, and only 
to his vigilance in persistent watching can he 
protect his client's interests; with a remote 
oflice he is at a serious disadvantage. This 
disadvantage has increased with the addi- 
tional sessions of court. We need anticipate 
to the future but very little, when there will be 
continuous sessions of all the courts, divided 
into "parts" or "sessions," having simultaneous 
sittings in order to meet increasing public de- 
mands. This will necessitate more frequent 
attendance in court and greatly add to the in- 
convenience of the attorney's remote office. 
In the progressive business world of to-day, 
time is money, and a waste of time is a waste 
of money. The great economic questions of 
the day are dealing in the problems of waste. 
The business man accurately weighs the loss 
of waste, and the same business prudence 
which builds up and protests a business inter- 
est, should characterize the transaction of all 
legal business. If these are wastes peculiarto 
itself, why should they not be stopped .' The 
court centre, undoubtedly, will remain as es- 
tablished, through another century and a half. 
It is not a whimsical center, nor an itinerant 
one, and is not swayed by the tides of real es- 
tate values. Its permanency is a historical 
fact. In marked contrast with this stability 
of purpose, is the vacillating inconstancy of 
the professional legal centre. So it will ever 
be, until this centre is indissolubly linked with 
the unchanging and unchangeable court cen- 
tre which is, and always has been and will be 
for centuries, the geographical centre of the 
city. This legal building should be an archi- 
tecturally imposing structure, with unob- 
structed light on four sides, having broad cor- 
ridors, with the highest possible sanitary pro- 
tection, including all those modern practical 
adjuncts which make the ideal ofiice building, 
the ideal oflSce home. 

In practical utility it should be one of the 
best examples of its class, and specially 
adapted, from foundation to turret, to the 
necessities of the bar. Here is the necessity, 
and here is the opportunity. There need be 
no philanthropy about this. It is a plain 
ciuestion of the coin of the realm. Have we 
not within our gates a progressive capitalist 
equal to the emergencey.'' M. 



He had a smile that was worth watching, for 
it was so sunny and tender, such a strange 
contrast to the grave cast of his features, the 
steady manliness of his demeanor, and the 
somewhat masterful way in which he worked 
and ruled.—Ojfth,' Skeiligs. 



AbcLit Business. 



The Making of Fortunes. 

Why do men succeed in business, and why 
do men fail, with the equal advantage of being 
born poor ? In this country of abundant oppor- 
tunity, the chance of success for a business 
man would seem to be so great that failure is 
almost inexcusable. Yet the percentage of 
failures to that of success in a series of years 
is always surprisingly large, and it is a most 
natural and interesting subject of inquiry why 
it should be so. The ordinary estimate of 
what real business is would make it to appear 
to consist almost solely in supplying each 
other's wants. The vast aggregation of people 
in the civilized world would seem to be either 
producing, handling, buying, selling, paying, 
distributing, or in some other sense employed 
in the supplying of some want in the human 
family, each thus employed being at the same 
time the recipient of a like service from his 
fellow-beings. 

Why should disaster and loss and failure be 
constantly met with in this attempt to supply 
these wants? Why should not the sources of 
supply be .so perfectly understood or regulated 
as precisely to suit the demand that the excess 
would never be created by which profit would 
be destroyed, or loss incurred ? It would seem 
as if a period had arrived in the education of 
the human race when the class to wliom had 
been committed, by the law of natural selection, 
the duty of transferring merchandise and 
money from one hand to another, would so 
thoroughly fathom all the possibilities, that 
profit would be certain and failure impossible. 

The vast commerce of the world seems to 
be an utterly unregulated cjuantity. Competi- 
tion is the most potent force of the hour. 
Whether it is trading muskrat skins for food in 
a remote settlement, or obtaining on credit a 
year's supply for a farmer's family from the 
country store; whether it is the millions of 
annual sales in a jobbing house in New York 
or Chicago, or the building of a thousand miles 
of railroad; whether it is the importation from 
foreign lands of cargoes for the supply of 
known wants, or the baseless operations in op- 
tions or futures in purely speculative markets — 
all these operations, little or big, are in direct 
competition, one with another, without orga- 
nization, without accuracy of knowledge, and 
without certainty of profit in the long run. 
True, distinctive transactions are consum- 
mated with a knowledge of prices — oftentimes 
with an accurate acquaintance with the extent 
of the supply and the probability of demand, 
and if there was nothing to consider but the 
act of buying at one price and selling at another, 
the business of the trader would not be so com- 
plex as to involve disaster and loss. Yet, 
simple as exchange and barter seem to be, the 
laws which regulate it, the circumstances which 
surround it, and the difiiculties which stand in 
the way of universal success, make the really 
successful business man as rare as the great 
scholar, the astute statesman or the most in- 
genious inventor. 

Says a Philadelphia jeweler: "I had a man 
in here lately, whose watch would not run 
properly just because he wore it over his heart. 
It's odd, but if a man is of active temperament 
it makes his watch run slow." 



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ty 



01 Coming Things. 

Saturday, May lo. 

Agricultural Park. — Polytechnic Institute field 
sports. 2 p. m. 

Art Students' Rooms, Walker Buildinc..— 
Works of W. Dodge McKnight exhibited. Open to 
tlie public next week, lo a. m. to 6 p. m. 
Sunday, May n. 

Trinity Church.— Epworth League celebrates its 
anniversary. All day. 

Dewey Street Baptist Church.— Mrs. Helen G. 
Rice, superintendent of Loyal Temperance Legion 
work, speaks on "Our Duty to the Child in Our Midst." 
10.30 a.m. (In the evening, Mrs. Kice speaks at P'il- 
grim Church.) 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. \V. M. Barbour, D. D., 
of Montreal, Quebec, principal of the Congregational 
College, preaches. 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. 
Monday, May 12. 

State Mutual Life Insurance Co. Office, 240 
Main Street. — Annual meeting of stockholders of 
Worcester Theatre Association. 2.30 p. ni. 

Knights of Honor Hall.— Arbutus Council, Home 
Circle; third anniversary celebration. Banquet at 7 
p. m. 

Tuesday, May 13. 

Curtis Hall.— Y. M. C. A. monthly members' 
meeting. Rev. George G. Craft speaks on "Athletics." 
7.45 p. m. 

Association Hall.— Third and last concert of the 
Gounod Club. 8 p. m. 

Odd Fellows' Hall.— Annual meeting. Grand 
Chapter of Massachusetts, Order of the Eastern Star. 
10 a. m. 

Insurance Hall.— Worcester Art Society lectures : 
Mr. John G. Heywood on "Some Eminent Caricatur- 
ists." 7.45 p. m. 

Worcester Ac.\demy (new building).— Bryant Cir- 
cle C. L. S. C. Prof. Squires on "Physics." 

At Berlin.— Worcester Central Conference of Con- 
gregational Churches ; spring meeting. 10 a. m. 

Park Chuch.— Young People's entertainment. Even- 
ing. 

Wednesday, May 14. 

Old South Chapel.— Miss Grace Dodge, of the 
Working Girls' Club of New York, speaks before the 
Y. W. C. A. 7.30 p. m. 

At Lancaster. — Worcester Unitarian Conference; 
spring meeting. Evening session, followed by meeting 
on Thursday. 

Tuesday, May 20. 

Piedmont Church.— Entertainment by the Y. P. S. 
C. E. 7.45 p. m. 

Bay State House. — Worcester Episcopal Club. 
Dinner and meeting. Evening. 

Saturday, May 24. 

Agricultural Park.,— Worcester Academy Ath- 
letic Association ; spring games. 2 p. m. 

At Mr. Charles H. Whitcomb's Farm. — Histori- 
cal meeting; address by Mr. Caleb A. Wall. 

A Splendid 14-inch 

Lawn Mower 



$5 



For 



At 



$5 



WHITE & CONANT'S, 

542 Main St., Franklin Sq. 



('IIAKI.ICS L. WKIIill 1. 



IIAKI.ES 11. WnoDi IKK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "^A^right Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 



SCartflv li.l,r|.I ! :. • ■ ' ' , . 

ested i-,... Mil. ill . . ' ' : 1 Im ' w i, ,.. 

a button ..m-itli.'i !.i. ,.: i K, .i , it ,,; ., , i!, ,i,.,., i,, .,, ; 

door. Must Ix- Mill til Ik- ai>iin-ri,ited. .\ <'iir|i<'iil<'i''M <;iih| 
No carpenter can afford to be without it. "The s-ivlvcl <'roi 
ing. Hundreds of dollars saved. "A Cuff Hi.Ulcr." The i 
the most reasonable terms for all kinds of special machinery. 



\'r in the market. ICvery one inter- 
I i.H.r Oi,.-ii.T." By simply iiressing 

iiickly and clieaply applied to any 
11; l>(M>rH accurately anci very ciuickly. 
'■■<> more broken drills by work catch- 



F'actory less than two minute 



alk from I'leasant-stri 



No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



AMERICAN -«- TATE -«- TENNIS -•- RACKET 




Our N.u SliiiHliii.l l;n<li.t. iroo.l .pialilv, r.-<l 

aiicl uhili- sf linciiiu-. t;ii:iriiiil.-.il Iv *:!. Kasilv 

u.iilli SSI < oiiipl.!.- Illn^tiiil.il Ti-iMiiK <iila'- 

lo!,M tlf ..11 Al.pli.ali,,,,. N|M.,(i„K lllKt Ath- 

li'li.'Cioo.U of .v.ivdev, liptiori. 



HORACE PARTRIDGE & CO., 

-a s T T^7" -,^sm3src3-'X'03^ st., e o s t o isr. 



LE i JOLLY * FRENCH * DYEING 
AND i CLEANSING 

First-CIass Work at Sliort Notice. 
Reference for Lacesand Lace Curtains, Gro s^: Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from I CT> I 
LIGHT, and bring it with g 
yoxi and get 10 per cent dis- n^ 
count from regular prices. g ' 

C. T. MELVIN. PROPRIETOK, WAI.MT ST. 



MY LADY'S BOUDOIR 



Is not suitably furnished without a Writing 
Desk. 'We offer some exquisite new de- 
signs this spring at prices that need not 
startle anybody. The Sixteenth Century 
finish is the popular fad just now, and is 
really artistic. Antique Oak is as rich and 
handsome as ever. We have the Desks in 
either finish. It is -a specialty with us to 
harmonize your cultivated desire for ar- 
tistic furniture with the possibilities of your 
purse. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, DAntAn 
139 Friend Street, DUblUU. 



CHAS. K. REED, 
XAXIUERIVIIST, 

AND DE/ LKR IN 
N,\Ti;HAI.IST.S' SUPI'LIKS, SHKLLS, ETC. 

White Doves Wanted. 

262 MAIN STREET. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

<»i.i) ^■|;.v.■MK^s kk-gildkd. 

OLD KXiliAVINfiS 15I.KA(HKI>. 

30 Foster Slri-et. Opp. lihik, Worcester. Maaa. 

CALIGRAPH ! 

I'AKIS EXPOSITION I 

HIGHEST AW.VI;I)!! 

<i01.I> MED.AI, !!! 

Secured by the Caligraph ! 
100,000 
DAILY USERS. 




The American Writing Machine Company, 

HAKTFOKD, CONN. 

Branch Offlces :— 227 Broadway, N. Y.; 14 W.4th 

Street, Cincinnati, O.; 1002 Arch Street, Philadelphia 



15 



STEINWAY PIANOS * 



-rii<: .\- Itl, 



;l rl.r \*.,d/l. 



C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

-4. SCHOOL OP ELOCUTIOI -^ 



taUU'*'- - I - — -■ - 

7 /rT<= <= XEIITIE 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AID ELECTRIC BATHS, 

kijk- LAI^lfcS AHL, i.HlLl-SutLM OSH-Y. 

3fta Main ntn^t, Cnrnir iMspU, Wwrrirtrt**, Maa*. 

tyoffirj: hwir*-', rj, II A, M. 2 n<i 4 r. «. Tteat- 
OiKnt it the IujOUis .j( c-vauTfir.) 1,/ if,f',..'-.r.aj:nt if 'irsirwJ. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

e3s X/Cg.i2i St., 



MRS. S. E. LAWTON, 

* 19 MAIK STREET * 

I.M*«rB» <tn th« Uixrv, I'tan/.. Oailar siui Vi«l««. 
Hour* II t'< 13 ai'l ^ to *i, •rvarrjr ■lit)' 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OP 

:■' • "IHD AID TYPEiRiTIIfi. 



Pnpib n 



.t'itrt lit ^'mUiAU: in timi; 
... : jin l> i/;i:',mmi,rlitoi- '..ill 

-il-., WOI;rE!^TKIi, MAHfi. 



MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^Ladies' ' Hair « Dressing*^ 

•.HII.UKfcS'W HAIE-<,lTTI><i, 

Aiui ill lumis tii lUir-W'.tk ni.-i/l«: ti, orlirt, Wiij-m.alang 

i spw-ialtsr. 
.WT Main St., firnaft Bl/x-k. W<we«it«r, Mjumc. 

[.'.uiu^ li.u/- .l/'r:»;'I it tliiri/ ri^.uU-.r.ai. 



MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 

^ART lEEDLEWORK AUD STAMPIHG^ 

iTc. 2 TTs.lXL^j.': Street, 
H«sl<!an Work, *;iwl.r.,f.i«ry. *'««• Sie«<U«-«»«rk, 

i : . LOii material furaehiwl GowJe «fjlfl 

M :-■!. Mfe-S. S. L. HOLT, 



Ilr8.DT.Win.L(!(i. 

.-530 Mala M., 

GamnirlK Buiklin;;. 
Rnijm S, 

OSia: hfiuns: <J t/i r 
a to 5, SanrfayH, it. y- 
t" 1 



L I Q H T 

Something to Wtdr. 



--nrw =t 



-'i'rnr-- n'TJC t-y »rfm th<f bark 




t;,.:-: lip tfi vof. ttuoat. A dr««» of black 

. : th* 

.; _ _ . : .. ,-■: i'jUi. 

^A 'grt-axti vari<rty of co6Uira*s are nAted. 

number of tiessoas pa«t, elaborate co«um«*, 

profusely decorated with la/;e and ribbons, 

.! .1 ._ ^^f^ tailor- 

.■T.r<«n«» are 

, '.amftl»-hair 

iiit ti»«: f.u^£j;i:ijii.i Li.La.'j LfjCiU^rizd fabric* 

which dK^ad for effect upon fit and a nieat 

arran;jemefit of draperies, rather than upoo 

any device to catch the eye. 

— Crepe de Chine will be the favored ma- 
terial for dreasy wear thie cotBing summer. 
If «eem« to have aoirpedth* place of the (odia 
•: patterns, draped over 
: tsprit veiliag on colored 
.inning, 

— Amflog the nitir bloen are the dark shades 
used by array ziid na.vy officers, and known as 
6/iu lU FraKCn, Etatf-C/nif, drapeau and 
Pologm. The lijjbter hues, whi/:h have raetal' 
lir; or water effiects of shading are designated 
as Chartres and Orleans blue. Spahi is the 
pale water bine resembling the color of the 
uniform worn by Turkish officers. 

— A very pretty band, to wear with a plain 



narrow ijiodiog ul lli«: fibUia iju Uuc »iriigtc 

edge, and a scant plaiting of narrow lace at 

" ' ' : with staftding kjops of 

regular intervals. Tht<8 

: collar and sleeves, the 

oUiigiiC ctij^K ijeifig placed at the bottom of 

the collar and on the lower edge of the sleeves. 

— The preference for tan and yellowish 
browTi glo^res for street wear does not seem to 
abate in the least. 

— A perfectly plain corsage is so rare as to 
cau-iie remark. Chirrings, gathers, tucks and 
plaits are all used to produce the fashionable 
full effect, being arranged to %ait individual 
taste. Rotaid, sr^uare and Vandyked yokes 
are all very prjpnlzr. 

— The newest designs for <imB waists dis- 
pense with many of the fOira* with which we 
have been so Irjrrr f,imi!;ar. In «OTr!e rmly 
sVirM\At^ aru: : 

the icoCiti ar 
IxatrXUzA at t:. . . - — - - -. . ; - ._ j 

Invisible hooks and ioo^. The usual seam.-. 
are present, though, but only in the lining. 

— The fashionable sleeve cootiaoes to grow 
higher at the top and closer below the elbow. 

'- -;- -; : ; • •r-.cnd.'i into the long Tudor 
;/er the hand, and L» .'slight- 
!.. ; 1. ; .;(1 at the wrist Sometimes 
tlic Iii*':f piTt of a very long sleeve is faced 
with a contrasting material, and turned op 
loo^ily on the outside, like a cuff. 



f. [. 11111)1 k fO. 

A. E. PECK. 

;';-r bFJ.f.i.tAj \ /.h.'. i.; .;-. or 

Pine Etchiings. 



If ytfii wa.nt at pi»^$ thstX tviJi U*t a Utt-tUt.- 

SOHMER & CO., 

C. P. HAISOI A CO., 317 MAU ST., 

l4. 19 Hiicluir St., a MUt Cottiij^ Hoa.' 

nf Ti rturaiM ist «*rlt tKn^ntumt* Cnnucr UK, 

V«7 'ii^ir^ii'jit^ t'tt 5. h/.m*c or a:s iis ift-ir«ttnwrtit, 
MAr Ui, UtSO, AT Z irCiJUCIC, V. n. 

iKmut—ftrj; lirimiL, uui mnet at the Best cui br u 
1S« -SBtt. W. C. BAit3(.».BD. 

H. M. CLEVfETVCE. Aiirficoeer. 



HLec-tric Xeeclle i 



T. D. GARD, 

^^ Worker in Cold and Sil?er 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

«»r yorar t»W «y«w; tnsusU: trv^rr, **riul tut juar •.fi^-.r. 

13 FarU St,, Worcester, 





LL. PIERCE & CO, 



* CORSETS "iS) WAISTS* 

< .,n.pr.,ml«, Bo.lI<^<!, 
.f,^niu-M HIilxr 
tS<><ll<:«» ;tiul 
„ .. !«•»,« I'att.r^- 

•CfllttSS HilMf HlXL,'i1:Aktd.»:i I'^l 



r;fwwf •MTBi** Wai«t. 



L I Ci H T 



19 



-f PANSIES 4- 

W'e have a fine assortment of pansies now ready, bed- 
ding plants in variety. Fresh Cut Flowers at all times. 
Floral Designs for all occasions. 

JoimsoD & Wood, 13 London Street. 

J iii|>i>rt<-U J'towt-r KmxIk. 

Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS * MAKING ^ PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MAUK, A liyii.CIAl.Ty. 

Koom 23, Knowles Building. 'Jake Klevatw. 

BEAU & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. bean and Mrs. L. E. Soutliworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

S'iS 3i»Ca,i3a. St., Roozaa. 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sunmer & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-llEW DRESS-MAKISG ROOMS-4 

No. 387 Main street, Grout'b block- Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

*^^WORCESTER DRESS CUHIUG SCHOOL^^-^ 

527 MAIN ST. 
: .. , V ■ .site the Imuruved Tailor Rule 

;'.. SO called from the method of 
■ g. Pupils have free access tu 
iw. \' ■■ ' ■_. ■■ - -r themselves the practical work- 

ing o! the sjsteni. Kach pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not linuted. 

M K 8. L. F. M' A I. C H , Sul« Proprietor. 

— AGENTS TAUGHT FKtE.— 

MISS EDITH L SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston) , 

WILL RtCElVE rUflLS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HKK KKBIXHSJ.XK, 2» MAV ST. 

Instruction private!) or in classes. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(£titabUKlM;d 180S.) 

The best goods, the most honorable dealing, and the 
fairest prices in tlie city. 

HIAXOS ANU MUSIC. 

454 MAIN STIiKKT. 



* MOW IS YOUR TIME * 

lie sure that you don't get left. 

CUfliu*iit b«i>it Cabinet Fbotu^raplis, »2 n duz. 

until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 

FOR NURSERY STOCK 



THAYHK'S, 

S S-iple^r Street, "^T^crcester. 

The nearest place, a large stock and low prices. One 
thoasand apple trees to sell very low ; also pear, cherry 
and plum trees. Flowering shrubs. Almonds,Hydrangeas, 
Lilacs. Spireas, Deutzias, Forsytliias, etc. One thou- 
sand H ybrid Perpetual Koses. at $2 per dozen and up- 
wards — the cream of 500 varieties. Also flower seeds, 
iiowers and funereal designs. 

Htun, xsm Msiu f>tre«t, upp. KuruKide fSoildiue- 
Tel«|>huue, CHAS. I>. THAY£B. 

A large stock of pansies and daisies for beds and 
vases. Call at greenhouses. 



Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of tlie pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester. Mass.j 



Tea Bread. 

Three eggs, one tablespoonful of sugar, one 
coffee-cup of flour, two coffee-cups of Indian 
n\eal, 2>^ cups of buttermilk, one leaspoonful 
of soda and one leaspoonful of lard. 
Good Common Doughnuts. 

One quart of flour, one egg, one cupful each 
of sugar and sweet milk, two teaspoonf uls of 
baking powder, a pinch of salt, spice to tast^, 
and fry in hot lard. 
Honiton Sponge Pudding. 

Take three eggs, their weight in the shell in 
fioui, butter and sugar, and grate the rind of 
one lemon, lieat the butter to a cream, and 
the eggs. 3'olks and whites separately, and then 
together; add the butter, and keep on the 
beating, then the sugar and flour, and beat the 
whole till light; put into a mould and boil one 
and one-half hours. Serve with any fruit 
sauce or with lemon sauce. 
Coffee Jelly. 

Soak half an ounce of gelatine in half a pint 
of cold water: dissolve it in half a pint of very 
strong coffee, sweetened to the taste. Extract 
of coffee can be used to flavor this jelly, and 
answers well. 
Potato Soup. 

Four large potatoes, one onion. Boil in two 
quarts of water tiU soft, press through a sieve, 
and add one pint of sweet milk, one table- 
spoonful of butter, salt and pepper ; boil it up 
again and serve. 
Lyonnaise Potatoes. 

Twelve potatoes boiled until nearly done; 
when cold, slice or cut into dice. Chop fine 
one onion. Put a tablespoonful of butter into 
the frying-pan, put in the onioru and let it fry 
two minutes; add the potato dice and fry five 
minutes, stirring constantly ; then add butter, 
salt and pepper to taste. 
Scotch Scones. 

One pint buttermilk, one-half cup butter or 
lard, one-half teaspoon soda dissolved in the 
milk, one-half teaspoon baking powder mixed 
in the flour, enough flour to make a stiff dough. 
Roll out quite thin and bake in frying-pans on 
the top of the stove. 
An Excellent Plain Omelet. 

Six eggs beaten separately, one tumbler of 
new milk, reserving one-fourth, into which 
stir one tablespoonful of flour until perfectly 
smooth. When the milk boils stir in the 
thickening, add salt and pepper, also a table- 
spoonful of butter; put aside to cool. Stir in 
the yolks, adding lastly the well-beaten whites, 
i-'our into a hot, wxU-greased skillet and cool: 
in the oven. It will be very light and puffy. 
Parker House Rolls. 

Take two quarts of flour and thorougl > 
rub into it two tablespoonfuls of lard or old- • 
shortening, one pint of cool boiled mi. 
two tablespoonfuls of brown suf 
one-half cup yeast and a little salt If 
tended for breakfast mix at noon, knead 
the afternoon, and at night. In the morr.;:.. 
knead again. Roll half an inch thick, cut oj-- 
butter one half, and turn them over even. Put 
in pans, let them rise fifteen minutes and then 
bake. 



PLEASE NOTICE! 

iMISS HACKETT'S 

Home-Made Ginger Snaps. 

MRS. HUiMPHREY'S 

Home-Made Cake and Salted Almonds. 

H0.\. J. H.WALKER'S 

Jersey }3utter, fresh from his farm. 

W. S. LINCOLN'S 

Jersey Cream, fresh every day. 

THE OLD "JERSEY CREAM" FLOUR, 
Unsurpassed by any, at 

EBEN W. HOXIE'S, 

816, 818 apd 305 Maip Street. 

"Good liieifcd uiid Cak*- l>i»tli Wl»«t the Ap- 
pvtit*." 

Pine Bakery ! ! 

HJ'JHKKT Ol ALJTV ONLV. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASMIT ST. 

All <.i>ii<l> Hoi at 3.:«l. 

TURKIJH BflTn5. 

I-. w. J JJb:Li>. 

Pruffssiuiial Manipulatar, 

Ma»sat;e. 
Peniunal att*;ntiuu. Huur^ 



2 to 9 I'. M. Sundays. 

9 to 12 A. M. 



Jo. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House. 
WoRCESTiiK, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from tin- -New 'i'url: 'Jmiiiini; S-Juh.I. gives 

^^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and ditiereiit baths at !i»:r uffict for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their hunieit. 

43K Main St,. ArurettHUr. Mhhh. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold. Silver uud M< k<!l i'luUuc. 

Fuliifluu);, Brouziui; tiud l..iu-<iu«^rili|:, 

Itfplatiiii? Tabl4^wur« h Kp*i<!ialty. 

AU work hind-polislied. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try nie and be convinced, 

J. >•. MAHSKlOTT. FIIOP. 

Over Collar I^aundry. Barton J'lace, Worcester. Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Hlace. 

COLLAltS AND t 11 rs LAINUEKED LN SU- 
I'UUIOK STVLJi. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK ik. Co., HKOI-S. 



;^ W. A. ENGLAND, 

.f FIKE WATCHES, 

V CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

l & OPTICAL GOODS. 

■.i;i-.\II:IN<. J-I10M1-TI.Y l)ONE. 




394 MaiD Street. 



20 



NEW KODAKS! 




"You press tli 

button, 
we do the rest. 



Seven New Sl.vles and Sizes, all Loaeleil with 
Transparent Films. 

For sale by all Photo Stock Pc.il. is. 

THK KASTM AN ( <):Mr.\NY, 
Send for catalogue. l;<)< 11 l-:.s'ri':K. N. Y. 

4- WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. AIDAIVIS & SON. 
E. L. S U M N E R, 

g KROEGER&SONS g 
I WHEELOCK & CO. i 

379 Main St., Wort-ester, (Over Futnam & Thurs- 
toii's Kestaurant.) 

L. MERRIFIELD, 

AGENT FOR AND UEALliR IN 

First-Class Pianos and Organs, 

Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise of every de- 
scription. 
LAMIVS IU.OCK. 4:t I'l-KASANT STREET. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needleworl(. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

ILviEiss S. Xj. IljaTS7-ren.ce, 
ROOM 30, - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, f 8 per set. 
All work warranted. 

E. A. RICH, 

(Successor to H. M. IVttisirew .) 

WOOD YARD, NO. 731 MAIN STREET. 
Cut Wood and Kind- 
lings of All Kinds. 

All orders promptly attended to. Postal cards furnished 

* GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES « 

L. M. ALEXANDER, 

At Hill &: Tollman's old stand, 

195 FRONT ST. 
Ladies' Safeties a Specialty. 

to purchasers. Lady instructor 
attendance. Send for illustrated catalogue. 




PICTURES AND FRAMES 

Of every description on hand or to order at 

I. REUBIN'S 

Picture Frame Manufactory & General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Prompt attention, first-class work 
and low prices are some of the good features of my bus- 
iness. Call and investigate. 

330 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



LIGHT 

Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Thh Tower at Lake Park. — Mr. Querist 
asks: "About what is the weight of the Lake 
Tower?" Entire weight, aljove and below 
ground, i,68o tons. 

Paris Green. — IVlrs. T. asks : "What is 
Paris Green .'" A chemical combination of 
arsenic and copper, containing about fifty-five 
per cent, of arsenic. 

Jamaica Ginger. — Mrs. H. asks the An- 
swerer to state the country from which Jamaica 
ginger comes. The native country of ginger 
is not positively known, but it is supposed to 
be India. It is now cultivated in nearly all 
tropical countries. It is readily grown in pots 
kept in a warm room or greenhouse. As the 
island of Jamaica produces the best quality of 
ginger known in commerce, the name "Jamaica 
Ginger" has become the favorite name for all 
the varieties and qualities sold. 

Plaster Casts. — Mrs. G. asks for di- 
rections for mending plaster casts. An excel- 
lent and quick way is to paint the broken sur- 
faces over two or three times with very thick 
shellac varnish, and at each application to 
burn out the alcohol over a flame. When the 
shellac is sufificiently soft, press the parts 
together, and hold in position till cool. 

ToHACCO. — T. H. W. asks for the amount 
of tobacco annually consumed in the United 
States. It is estimated by an apparently com- 
petent authority at 310,000,000 pounds. Seventy 
million pounds in the production of domestic 
cigars ; 222,000,000 pounds of chewing and 
smoking; 8,000,000 pounds in the manufacture 
of snuff ; 6,000,000 pounds in the production 
of cigarettes ; and 4,000,000 pounds of cigars 
are imported; an average annual consumption 
of five pounds for every person in the country. 

See A Doctor.— M. W. H. asks: "What 
is the best proprietary medicine for a hacking 
cough ?" There is none. Any one suffer- 
ing from a hacking cough had better consult a 
skillful physician at once. 

Consult Yourself. — Miss Nellie asks: 
"What is the most appropriate dress to wear 
at asocial party?" Wear anything you look 
well in, provided it is neat and modest. 

Perfectly Good. — Mr. T. asks : "Are 
signatures made with lead pencil good in 
law ?" They are legal, but it is better to use 
ink in all legal signatures. 



A young lady of good address and education, 
21 years of age, is at liberty to make an en- 
gagement as a lady's companion. No objec 
tion to residing out of the city. Address M. B., 
Box 1002, Worcester, Mass. 




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* AND CARPETS. 

Our large spring stock is complete. Latest designs in 
all grades, and the best to be had for the money. '^ 

* BEDROOM SUITES * I 

Over a hundred different styles of the latest designs, ^B[ 
made by the most skilled workmen. A Solid Ash Suite ^^ 
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wood, for $24. A Solid Oak Suite, an extra bargain, at 
$30. A handsome, magnificent suite at $65, complete. 
And we could enumerate more than a hundred of these, 
every one a great bargain, and you will say so when you 
see tnem. 



* PARLOR SUITES * 

We carry a variety of styles. A nice suite at $30, Hair 
Cloth or Plush. A handsome suite at $60. \Ve could 
mention many positive bargains in these, but prefer that 
you would see them. 



* BABY CARRIAGES * 

Certainly our assortment of Baby Carriages cannot be 
excelled. We have positive beauties at very reasonable 
prices. It will pay you to see these before you purchase. 
Our Baby Sleeping Coach is now in stock, and we guar- 
antee that every little one so fortunate as to ride in one 
of these will be exceedingly happy. 



* REFRIGERATORS 

of the best makes. Call and examine our goods, 



THE C. F. ADAMS 

HOME FURNISHING HOUSE, 

25S-2SS 3^/£a.i3a St. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 23 PEARL STREET. 

C- L- Gorham & Co- 

The Largest Store and Stock 

IN VVOKCESTER. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Pictixre Kran^e IVI'f' g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Kii^raviiig;H, £tcliiiig:s. and Art Goods. 

Cameras, I.ense8, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

4T Park St., Worcester. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and 0.\idizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St.. AVorcester. mass. 



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during the winter has collected in and about the house, 
store, stable or warehouse begins to make its presence 
known, causing nine-tenths of the spring diseases. 

Take warning in time. Apply Ozonos at once. 

It is economical. Never fails. No tidy housekeeper 
should do her spring cleaning without it. 



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GEO. E. FAIRBANKS. 



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Slumld be without Ozonos. By its use the air is ren- 
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odors which usually hang about a sick room. 

A small quantity of the fluid sprayed about the room 
with an ordinary atomizer will jiurify the air almost im- 
mediately. 

Bed pans.utensils, etc., slionldlH- cleansed with Ozonos. 



E. T. SMITH & CO. 
W. ARMINGTON. 



DANIELS, CORNELL & CO. 
PROTECTIVE UNION, DIV. NO 42. 



One Bottle Diluted Makes 2S to loo Gallons. AH Druceists and Grocers. Send for Circular. 

BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 26 INDIA SQUARE, BOSTON. 



Fire Insurance ! 

EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., W^orcester. 

We tnake a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
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latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



E. Boyden & Son, 

ARCHITECTS ! 

M. A. Boyden, 

CIVIL ENQINEER, 

406 Main St., Worcester, Mass, 



^^FamousOilRaneb 




For Family Use. 



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of the coal range. It stands firmly on legs, at the right height to work over. Is is cleanly 
and free from odor. Its tank is of^ Seamless Lead and is at tlie rear, where it does not 
get heated. Tlie wicks can be burned as long as there is a drop of oil in the tank. It has 
sufficient power to do all the cooking and laundry work of the family the year round, at 
less than half the cost of the coal stove. Thousands are in use in all parts of the country. 
Write us for further information and name of nearest agent. 

SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

M.\Ki:i:S. liOSTON. IM.ASS. KOK SAI.K I!Y 

J. W. GREENE, 51 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 



All Kinds of Fine Cake and I'.astry, Kol 



IN \\'OKCESTEK. 

s, liuns. Biscuit, Etc. 



CAKE 



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Brown Bread and Beans, not to Ix' equalled. 
J. ^' TU I^ S E "2". 
Parties supplied at reasonable prices. 



A « SPECIALTY^- 

ry Snturday evening and Sunday niurniiiL;. 

5S^ 3!v£.A.IlT ST. 



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WHITNEY'S 



LINEN STORE. 



Fringed Linen Tray Cloths, all stamped, $1.50 per doz., 
or 12 1-2 cents each. 



STAMPING FREE 
ON ALL GOODS 
PURCHASED OF US. 




EXPRESS AND MAIL 
CHARGES PREPAID 
TO WORCESTER. 



Linen Pillow Cases, size 22^x36 inches. $1 per pair. 
They are hemstitched. 



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CORDLEY & CO. 



Bankers, 



121 Devonshire Street, 



p. O.Box 
MEMBERS OF 
NEW YORK, BOSTON and CHICAGO 
STOCK EXCHANGES, 
mchi 3m 



Boston. 



Frank R. Coriiley. 
Albert G. Browne. 
Charles L. James. 
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W. P. RICE, Pres. 



O. F. PAGE, Sec'y k Treas. 



Union Investn^ient Co., 

Paid Up CB|iitnl, Wl, 000,000. RanHas CKy, Mo. 

SPKCIAI, OFFKK TO INVESTORS. 

A Guar,inteed 7 per cent. Investment, secured by Business Property centrally located 

in Kansas City, with 50 per cent, of the net profits additional. 

IndorKcd by ITomlneut B,i»l,.eHH Men, ll«„k..r» and CapHallHtH, vl/.: 

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Bank; Hon. T. B. BUI.I.ENE, ExM.iyor; It. T. WIIIPPI.E & CO., Real Pst.atc 
and Investment Securities; Hon. WILLIAM WARNER, L.ate Commander-in-Chief 
G. A. R. and Kx-Member of Congress; WALTON H. HOLMES, Pres. G. A. Cable 
RyCo.; L. R. MOORE, Director Nat. Bank of Kansas City; E. C. SATTLEY 
Cashier Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. 

By permission we refer to any of the above gentlemen. 

Send for circulars containing description of propertyand full particulars, mchi 3m 



A. W. TIFFANY, 



-^ Oculist i and ^ Optician ^ 

Kxaiiiiiiatioti free. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

With Clias. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

THE SAN MIGUEL 
GOLD PLACERS CO. 

(OF COI.OR.4DO.) 

Gen. Benj. F. Butler, Pres. 
James Gilfillan, Treasurer, 

(Ex-Treasurer of U. S.) 

For the purpose of thoroughly 
equipping the property, will con- 
tinue for a brief period only to sell 
at 54.50 per share. Stock full paid 
and non-assessable. Par value, 
$10. 

The price will be advanced dur- 
ing the present month. With the 
completion of the proposed addi- 
tions to the presentworking plant, 
the best authorities report that 
$600,000 net annual profit is en- 
tirely practicable — equal to $2 per 
share yearly dividends. 



James Gilfillan, Treas., 

^.Congress St., Boston. 




EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fashionable Hat, 
Fine Furnishing 
& Athletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3. 



S. H. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



Worcester 
Illuminated 
Advertising 
Company, 

General Office, 311 N4ain 
Street, Roon:i 13. 

C. E. SQUIER. F. H. BEALS. 



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powerful Electric Light upon 600 

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DISPLAY: 

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Springfield, Opposite opera house. 
Providence, Turks Head. 



* STORAGE * 

Metropolitan Storage Company, corner Southbridge 
and Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for Sleighs, 
Carriages, Furniture, Merchandise, and all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and well ventilated. Apply 
at building. J. h. DICKIE, M'k r. 



Tze medal 
1S79. 
ivarded Wr 



Silver Gold Grand Diploma 

iSSo. iSSi. 1S82. 

Laugher for upholstery and drapery. 



Wm. Laugh kr, 
upholsterer, 

HAS REMOVEll TO 

677 MAIN ST., COR SYCAMORE, 

where he is prepared to e.Necute orders in the same first- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 
the past. 

Bedding, Shades and Draperies * 

V-' Furniture Repairing and Carpet Work, 



LIFE AND ENDOWMENT 

l^OLICIKS. 

-^COMBINED ' LIFE « AND < ACCIDENTS* 

Term Annuity and Coupon 

Annuity Endowments. 

Jiastus E. Allen, 
Agent: The Travelers Insurance Company. 



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i FKINTINQ 

O. B. Wood, 

No. 3 Maple St. 



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THE 

BAY STATE 

4' Clothing Company I- 

46 iHB 48 FRONT 5T. 

James E^. Dennis, IVE'g'r. 



4- ATHLETIC, TENNIS AND BASE-BALL GOODS-4^ 



Boys and Girls' 
Safety Bicycles. 
Children's Tricy- 
cle s. Athletic 
Goods, Gymna- j 
slum Apparatus, j 
Sporting Outfits, t 
Victor and Co- ^ 
lumbia Agency. 
Diamond Safety, 
all steel and all 
hall bearings, 
only $85. 




We are on the 
ground Door. No 
stairs to climb. 
No dangerous el- 
evator. Private 
Instruction i n 
Body Building, 
Fencing, Club 
Swinging, Spar- 
ring, etc, Gym- 
nasium, Shower 
Baths, Etc. 



Holland & Havenbr, 



"Phone" 377-4. 



Successors to Hill A- Tolinaii, 

No. 507 IV'lain Street., Worcester. 




PROGRESSIVE ! PRACTICAL ! THOROUGH ! 

Has placed during the past two weeks a large number of pupils in positions, and has refused not less t 
applications for help tecause students could not be fitted fast enough. The surest guarantee of the 
your son or daughter, in securing lucrative employment, is a course at 

Beclver's College, 402 Ndain St. 

liar"Cir<lllars free. Spring; term beRins April 1. 



Get the Best. 



-f THE GARLAND OIL ST0YE4- 

- .\T - 

O. S. Kendall & Co., 

466 MAIN STRKKT, WORCESTER. 



MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Iktween Elm and Maple .^ts. 




THE SALOON CAN BE SPARED, 

ISL T 

BUTTERFLY FLOUR 

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SMITH, AO^MS & CO 

AGENTS. 

G. S. BOUTELLE & CO, 
niRROR AND 

PICTURE FRflnE5 

At Manufacturers' Prices, 

FROM A LARGE STOCK OF ALL NEW STYLES. 

No. 92 Foster Street. 




HON. JOSEPH H. WALKER, 
Representative in Congress from the Tenth Massachusetts District. 



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LIGHT 



Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1890. 



No. 



If Shakespeare had lived in Worcester a 
couple of years, he never would have made 
Mark Antony remark, "The evil that men do 
lives after them." He would ratlier have made 
the orator to have said, "The evil that men do 
lives with them." The history of local genera- 
tions and of national characters proves conclu- 
sively that ninety per cent, of the good things 
said aliout a man are said when he is no longer 
in a condition to hear them. Many a man 
dies to be appreciated. 



It is estimated that the population of the 
United States has increased to sixteen times 
what it was a century ago. It is further stated 
that the growth in the cities shows an increase 
of one hundred and fifty — a vast disproportion 
between the filling up of city and country. 
Fifty years ago began the exodus from country 
to city, when the farm offered little induce- 
ment to the growing boy, while the city fairly 
drew him cityward. The prestige given the 
city in those days when the city had something 
for the country boy to do has been handed 
down to the present and thousands of country 
lads and lasses rush pell-mell into the crowded 
city to live crowded lives of uselessness. To- 
day the country needs the boy. 

It has been said with truth that the religion 
of William Lloyd Garrison was far ahead of the 
unnatural and inhuman religion taught in many 
of the churches of his day. Garrison believed 
in God and man, the conservatives believed in 
God. So far as the color line is concerned, the 
South of to-day is about on a par with what 
the North used to be in anti-war times. The 
South Carolina theologians are still wrestling 
with the negro question. In a recent diocesan 
convention of the Episcopalians, the question 
of ordaining colored ministers was brought 
under discussion, when Rev. Dr. W. W. Ander- 
son declared "That color prejudice is a divinely 
inspired sentiment which God himself shares 
with his children in .South Carolina and else- 
where. God has shown, in his revealed word, 
the Scripture of truth, that he has not endowed 
equally all the races of men, nor does he hold 
them all in equal estimation." It is quite evi- 
dent that some of the missionary' work now 
being applied to the purification of Southern 
politics might be switched in the direction of 
aiding the so-called Christian Church of the 
South to recognize humanity. 



The Boston public scholars are to be taught 
; good manners and good morals. In the lower 
section of the grammar schools these impor- 
|tant things will be instilled into the youthful 
,mind in a conversational way, while in the 
upper classes lioth the conversational and 
written exercises will be required. It is quite 
remarkable that these two fundamental ac- 
complishments, upon which rest all that is of 
refinement and of outward character, have 
never been taught in the public schools, the 
private schools and academies alone consider- 



ing the subject in their plan of education. 
C;ood behavior and good morals should be 
taught in the home, for they can be better un- 
derstood there than in any other place, and in 
the good home they are given to the child with 
its first lesson of speech. It is unfortunately 
true, that one quarter of the parents in Wor- 
cester, or anywhere else, do not appear to be 
intellectually or morally equal to teaching their 
children the higher principles of character. 
Many a mother has loved her child with as 
pure a love as is possible for the human heart 
to give, and yet has been wofully insufficient 
in the bringing up of the child. It has been 
remarked, and with truth, that it seems strange 
that some people are allowed to have children, 
and it is remarkable that a good proportion of 
those who ought to have children do not have 
them, while those who ought not to have child- 
dren are doubly represented. With these in- 
consistencies staring people in the face it is 
not only proper, but absolutely necessary, that 
the public crib should pay for educating the 
young in every direction which will make them 
better citizens. The eyes of the people should 
be upon the young; the old are outliving their 
usefulness; the young are growing into useful- 
ness. The intelligence of the world to-day is 
turned toward the education of the next gener- 
ation, and in no other direction can it afford to 
give more time to and spend more money. 



Mrs. Hal-rison, the President's wife, lias 
proven herself to be worthy of the grand old 
name of woman. In many ways she has shown 
her generous and sensible character. In ask- 
ing her husband's stenographer to assi.st at a 
reception she has slapped snobbyism fairly in 
the face, and merits the respect of every work- 
ing woman in America. In these days of ped- 
igree it is indeed refreshing to chronicle a sim- 
ple action which under the condition of things 
carries weight with it into the boudoirs of al- 
leged fashion. So far as stenographers are 
concerned, the average one of them is more 
intelligent and more self-reliant than half the 
wives of their employers. iM any of the work- 
ing women of to-day only lack one thing to 
keep them out of so-called society — money. 



The Philadelphia Lfilger wisely says: "To 
the habit of insincere admiration may be 
traced the fact that so many people grow up 
with .so little real and sound thought of their 
own, with so littl» true appreciation of beauty, 
with so little power of discrimination and judg- 
ment. There is no true development without 
sincerity, and there can be no sincerity while 
we copy others." Light is of tlie opinion that 
if HarpcT^s or the Ceiitury for June was bound 
in indifferent covers, under an unknown name, 
and placed on sale in Worcester, or in Boston 
for that matter, that the newstands would have 
difficulty in getting rid of one-tenth of the 
copies. A thing may be before the public for 
years, to be appreciated in its old age simply 
because some one has pushed it into the 



swim. Outside of looking out for the necessi- 
ties, comparatively few people really think for 
tlienisclves. If they did .some of our occupa- 
tions would be gone. A prominent lioston 
journalist at a banquet well said to the gentle- 
men present who expected to perfectly regulate 
the tariff between drinks : "Don't do it, gentle- 
men ; for if you do my occupation is gone. I 
don't know anything about it myself, but so 
long as the majority of the balance of humanity 
know about the same, I can make money tell- 
ing what I think I don't know." 



There were one hundred and seventy thousand 
men in line and a mass meeting of half a mil- 
lion, no disturbance of any kind, and no nec- 
essity of uneasiness on the part of the authori- 
ties. It was the Labor May Day in London; 
—a clean record of order and an honest de 
monstration of intelligent labor. Whenever 
the laboring man is as respectable as is his 
labor he commands the admiration of civiliza- 
tion. 



Somebody is making a canvass among the 
Boston school teachers towards gaining opin- 
ion on the advisability of not maintaining sep- 
arate .schools for the sexes, like the Boys Latin 
.School and the Girls Latin School. The pre- 
ponderance of opinion so far expressed is em- 
phatically in favor of co-education, the masters 
and teachers of the boys' schools being almost 
unanimously in favor of it, while those who 
preside over the girls' schools do not favor it 
strongly. It is not a battle of the sexes, 't is a 
preliminary struggle of those who teach both 
sexes. The outcome will be watched for with 
interest. 



There has been a woeful lack of interest in 
floriculture among the owners of Worcester's 
finest residences, and it was not until recently 
that the ladies-of-thehouses began to realize 
that a woman's heart is known by the flowers 
she rears. If the interest continues Worcester 
will be a city of flowers, the proudest distinct- 
ion to give any city of houses. 



The men of Worcester are equestrians, are 
boatmen, are ball players, and athletes, and 
they enjoy splendid health. The women of 
Worcester, as a whole, do not take sufficient 
exercise in the open air. The out-of-door ave- 
nues open to women are nearly as numerous as 
those given to their brother.s, and there is no 
reason why they should not enjoy them to the 
full. 



According to Hon. George S. Boutwell there 
are more trees in Massachusetts to-day than 
there were three hundred years ago. It is 
claimed that in Indian days the natives burned 
off the trees so as to easily discern an ap- 
proaching enemy. Be that as it may it will 
not injure Worcester's attractiveness to have a 
general observance of Arlwr Day, which 
hitherto has passed as unnoticed as the ocean 
tides in the almanac. 



I 




' /7^(MtCESTER^A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
8^* Advertising rates upon application. 



Editors and 
Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 
Telephone No. 141-5. 

Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book, — a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 

Worcester. Saturday, May 17, 1890. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



May 17: Sun rises at 4.21 a. m.; sets at 
7.01 p. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 40 minutes. 
New moon. May 18, 3 hours, 18 minutes, even- 
ing, W. 

The engagement of Mr. Joseph Walker, the 
eldest son of Congressman Walker, has been 
announced. The lady is Miss Caroline Rich- 
mond, of Providence, a daughter of Mr. Wal- 
ter Richmond, a retired cotton manufacturer. 
Mr. Walker will be graduated from the Harvard 
Law School ne.\t month, and the wedding will 
occur during tlie last week in June, after which 
they will go abroad for a si.x months tour. 
On their return home they will reside in Provi- 
dence, where Mr. Walker will engage in the 
practice of law. 

Mme. Blanche Stone-Barton is to sing at the 
third concert of the Berkshire Musical Society, 
at Pittsfield, May 22. 



Wednesday's rhetorical day exercises at the 
High School had the usual fifteen minutes de- 
voted to platform appearances in the main 
hall. Miss Etta Matthews read an essay on 
"A Week in Newport" and Miss Alice H. Fos- 
ter gave a reading of "The Boljolink" from 
Irving's "Woolfert's Roost." 

A very pretty entertainment was given by 
members of the Second Parish Club at the hall 
of the First Unitarian Church, last Wednes- 
day evening, the program consisting of tab- 
leaux, with accompanying music. Mr. Walter 
G. I ngalls served as pianist, and Mrs. H. M. 
Johnson and Miss Luella Flagg rendered the 
vocal music which accompanied the entire pro- 
gram of tableaux. Mr. J. Stewart Brown was 
the stage manager. The plan of the tableaux 
was excellent, and the costumes were in all 
cases very pretty. The first tableau was 'The 



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Death of Cock Robin," and the boys taking 
part were : Edwin H. Brown, sparrow; Cas- 
par M. Brown, fish; Lloyd T. Brown, fly; 
Charles Hamilton, kite; Everett Throop, 
rooster; Fred Butler, owl; Herbert Wesby, 
hen; Albert Brown, thrush ; Fred Mason, bull. 
Mrs. H. M. Johnson was Mother Goose. Then 
came "The Owl and the Pussy Cat," in which 
Caspar Brown was the pussy cat, Lloyd Brown 
the owl, and Albert Brown the turkey. "The 
Two Marionettes" followed, Miss Anna D. 
Hackett and Mr. H. F. A. Schmidt taking the 
parts. One of the best and most heartily ap- 
plauded was "The Gap in the Hedge," in 
which Miss Mary Davis and Mr. George A. 
Stearns, Jr., appeared otherwise than as brother 
and sister. While Miss Flagg sang James 
Whitcomb Riley's words and Lynes's music 
for "A Life Lesson" ("There, little girl, don't 
cry), little Miss Katie Butler, with her doll. 
Miss Ethel Davis, with the broken slate, and 
Miss Susie Throop, apparently with the 
"broken heart," appeared for the three char- 
acters of the poem. For "A Tale of Woe," 
which brought to mind Francis Wilson and 
his "Oolah," Ned Brown and Everett Throop 
appeared as the small pilferers of green apples 
and Albert Brown as the doctor who "fixed'em 
up." It was all a very, very pretty entertain- 
ment, and there was hearty applause and 
laughter throughout. The club will meet next 
Tuesday evening to close the season's work. 



Mrs.Edward L. Davis and Miss Davis issued 
cards for receptions on Tuesday and Friday of 
this week, and on both days received large 
numbers of friends. On Tuesday, in receiving, 
Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, Mrs. A. George Bullock, 
Mrs. James H. Howe, Mrs. Richard Ward 
Greene, Mrs. Charles G. Washburn, Miss 
Harriet L. Clarke, Miss Lincoln, Miss Miriam 
Washburn, Miss Elizabeth Hopkins, Miss 
Elsie Francis and Miss Sidney Howe, assisted. 
The appointments were delightful. 



Mr. Walter M. Lancaster, the musical editor 
of the Spy, lectured on "Beethoven" at St. 
Mary's School, Concord, N. H., Thursday 
night. 

Light joins the people of Worcester in a 
sincere expression of sympathy for Dr. G. 
Stanley Hall, the president of Clark Llniver- 
sity, whose affliction in the death of his wife 
and daughter is a most grievous one. Dr. and 
Mrs. Hall have made many friends since 
coming to Worcester, and that their pleasant 
relations should be so soon severed seems par- 
ticularly distressing. Dr. and Mrs. Hall have 
attended Piedmont Church and in March Mrs. 
Hall was received in membership there. She 
will be remembered for her pleasant, womanly 
ways, and her expressions of liking for 
Worcester. 

Private Lucius W. White, Co. C. , second 
regiment, M. V. M. , is to act as the regimental 
bugler at the State Encampment in June. 



Miss Fanny Mae Hogg, the little daughter 
of Mr. William J. Hogg, received her young 
friends at her home, 941 Main street, last 
Monday, it being her tenth birthday anniver- 
sary. The house was beautifully decorated 
and music was furnished during the entire 
evening. Messrs. W. F. Hogg and George 



Hogg, brothers of Miss Hogg, had general 
charge of the arrangements. The ger- 
man was led by Miss Hogg and Mas- 
ter Albert Brown. Miss Fanny Knowles, 
Miss Edith Winslow and Miss An- 
nie Colvin presided over the favor table. 
Supper came at 9 o'clock, and the dancing 
ceased at 10.30. The young ladies present in- 
cluded Miss Ethel Davis, Miss Ruth Barnard, 
Miss Lara Fish, Miss Elizabeth Fish, Miss 
Helen Blacker, Miss Anna Barnard, Miss Edith 
Barton, Miss Dorothy Colvin, Miss Helen 
Goulding, Miss Florence Davenport, Miss May 
Davenport, Miss Margaret Davenport, Miss 
Marion Drury, Miss Mabel Freeman, Miss 
Ethel Bartlett, Miss Florence Aniisby, Miss 
Hattie May Leland, Miss Myrtis Happoldt, 
Miss Charlotte Thayer, Miss Margaret Thayer, 
Miss Carrie Nichols, Miss Emma Otis, Miss 
Mabel Richardson, Miss Ruth Lamson, Miss 
Marion Simpson, Miss Marion Putnam, Miss 
Florence Taylor, Miss Catherine Marble, Miss 
Bertha Titus, Miss Elsie Michelson, Miss 
Lydia Warren, Miss Josie White, and the 
young gentlemen were Casper M. Brown, Rock- 
wood 15ullock, Georgie Barton, Will Barton, 
Robert Armsby, Albert Brown, Ned Brown, 
Arthur Colvin, Arthur Hutchins, John Har- 
rington, Harry Jourdan, Lucius Knowles, 
Alexander Doe, George E. Dudley, 
Dwight Lawton, John Thayer, Howard Morse, 
Everett Throop, Allen Marble, Truman 
Michelson, Albert Michelson, Arthur Wash- 
burn, Stuart Wesson, Prescott Marble, Eddie 
Harrington, Willie Stockwell, Albert Otis, 
Turner Willard, Harry Stockwell, Masters 
Bardwell Lincoln, Walter Clark, Albert Mason, 
Lyman Bartlett and Roger Kinnicutt. 



The motto selected by the class of '90, at the 
High School, is ^'■Esto quod esse videris" 
which is rendered, "Be what you seem to be." 



Miss Mary Howe is suffering from a severe 
cold, and her concert at Southbridge, which 
was to have taken place last Thursday, has 
been postponed to next Thursday, May 22. 
Mi.ss Howe was also to have sung at the Arion 
Club concert, in Providence, last Tuesday, and 
that concert has been postponed to Monday, 
May 26. Miss Howe is to sing at Adams, 
May 20, and at Holyoke, May 23, and at both 
of these concerts Mr. Ben T. Hammond of this 
city is also to sing. 



Anthony Comstock is to speak at the young 
mens meeting at Association Hall, to-morrow 
afternoon, on "The Sins of Young Men." 
Mr. E. M. Temple, tenor soloist at Piedmont 
Cluirch, will sing several selections. 



Mr. Alfred H. Knight, formerly a member of 
All Saints choir, and later director of music at 
Pilgrim Church, is to be the director at Saint 
John's Episcopal Church for the present paro- 
chial year. Mr. John L. Brand is organist. 
In a way, it seems as if St. John's and Pilgrim 
had made an exchange, though with a year's 
interval, since Mr. J. Vernon Butler went from 
St. John's to Pilgrim. 



The drama "Above the Clouds" which is to 
be presented by local talent at Grand Army 
Hall, May 28, instead of May 23, as was first 
announced, is to have a bright company. The 
cast is as follows : Philip Ringold, "Crazy 



Phil," a mountain hermit, Mr. William J. 
Flagg; Alfred Thorpe, 71, Q\\.y nabob, Mr. G. 
W. Pierce ; Amos Gaylorif, a country gentle- 
man, Mr. J. L. Sawyer; Hoicard Gay lord, \\\i, 
son, Mr. F. W. Andrews; Titus Turtle, a 
gourmand, Mr. F. A. Parker ; Curtis Chip- 
man, chips in the rough, Mr. M. W. Brigham ; 
Nat Nay lor, Thorpe's protcgi?, Mr. W. Harry 
Putnam ; Grace lugalls, a young artist, M iss 
Effie C. Walch ; Hester Thome, Ames's 
housekeeper, Miss Ada M. Fay; l^usie Gay- 
lord, Gaylord's daughter. Miss Bertha Brewer ; 
Zwtvr/'/rt (Jivvvj/', "so romantic," Mrs. Emma 
Fay. 

Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Taft and Mrs. J. J. 
Wheelock, of Uxbridge, have returned from a 
trip through the West and are visiting friends 
in this city. 

The boys of the Polytechnic Institute held 
their spring field meeting last Saturday and 
presented a program of lively sports, breaking 
several records,and showing that there is mate- 
rial in them to make a splendid showing in the 
intercollegiate sports of the 28th. The middle 
class came out ahead, in points, followed in 
order by the seniors, the juniors and the preps. 
Mr. Harry L. Dadmun scored more points 
than any other one competitor and thereby got 
a claim on ten dollars' worth of the Bay State 
Clothing company's goods. It was one of the 
schemes of the ingenious manager, Mr. Den- 
nis, and was a great success — particularly for 
Mr. Dadmun. 

Mr. John Nelson, a son of Judge Henry L. 
Nelson, and Mr. Henry P. Nye, a son of 
Sheriff Samuel D. Nye, have set their feet 
upon the first rounds of the journalistic ladder. 
Both are reporting for the Gazette. 

The Light Infantry will be unable to cel- 
ebrate its S7th anniversary, June 6, the day 
on which it falls, as the company will be at 
Muster at Framingham at that time; and con- 
sequently the anniversary celebration will be 
held on Tuesday June 17, the anniversary, by 
the way, of the Battle of Bunker Hill. There 
will be a parade, a shoot at the Peat Meadow 
range and a banquet. The company will go 
to camp with a handsome front of men. There 
have been some changes in non-commissioned 
officers. Corporal W. F. Oilman has been 
advanced to be sergeant, vice J. F. H. Mooney; 
and Privates F. M. Clark and Frank D. Free- 
man have been advanced to be corporals, to 
fill vacancies caused by the expiration of the 
time of Corporals McGrath and Sullivan. 



Mrs. Warren P. Lombard gave an afternoon 
tea, last .Saturday afternoon, at 17 Hammond 
street. The faculty of Clark University was 
represented among those present, as was also 
the general society of the South End and West 
Side. 

The appointments of Col. Fred W. Welling- 
ton to be commandant of the new Armory, and 
of Adjutant George W. Hubbard to be the 
janitor, meet with general satisfaction. 

Mr. Caleb A. Wall's historical field meeting 
to be held Saturday afternoon, May 24, on the 
farm of Charles H. Whitcomb, corner of Burn- 
coat and Clark streets, north of Adams square, 
promises to be one of great interest. It will 
begin at 2 i". M., the first half hour being a 



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social one, for observation on the surroundings. 
At 2.30, Mr. Wall will give his address on the 
first settlers and old farms in that section, oc- 
cupying about an hour. A special invitation 
to be present is extended to the descendants 
of the orignal settlers, and all others interested 
in local history, in that vicinity and elsewhere, 
including ladies. The place of meeting is 
about a mile north of Adams .square, and the 
same distance south of the Summit railroad 
station. 

The Young Peoples' League of Grace Meth- 
odist Church is to give a decidedly unique 
entertainment the Tuesday evening before 
Memorial Day; an entertainment in harmony 
with the times, called "Vision of Liberty." 
There is to be a chorus of seventy-five voices, 
including forty-two young ladies arrayed in 
national colors, representing the states of the 
Union. 

The new organ of the First Church of Christ, 
North Conway, N. H., is to be dedicated with 
appropriate services to-night and to-morrow. 
Mr. Charles H. Grout, our accomplished local 
organist, will preside at the organ ; Mr. Ed- 
ward N. Anderson will be the tenor soloist ; 
and Master Roger Bigelow Merriman will be 
the violinist. 

The Salem Street Church Choral Socier>' 
presented, on Friday evening. May 9, an ar- 
rangement of readings and music following 
tlie story of "The Golden Legend," as told by 
Longfellow. Choruses from the music of Ar. 
thur Sullivan and Dudley Buck were used, and 
Rev. I. J. Lansing read the connecting poetry. 
The chorus, under Rev. W. W. Sleeper's di- 
rection, did well with most of the music, 
although there were too many children in the 
ranks for the attainment of the best results. 
Miss Evangeline Houghton, the charming 
.soprano who makes such a desirable addition 
to the musical talent in which Worcester has a 
whole or part interest, sang the Elsie solos, 
and Mrs. Frank W. Ruggles sustained well 
the contralto of Ursula. Mr. Edward N. 
Anderson, whose voice is not heard often 
enough outside his church work, took the 
tenor part of Trince Henry. Mr. B. D. Allen 
was the organist and Miss Emily G. Whitte- 
more was the pianist. 



Mrs. James B. Blake and her daughters. 
Misses Lulu and Ellen Blake, will go next 
week to Vermont, for the summer, and in the 
fall to Boston. Their residence on West street 
will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charies S. 
Hale. 

The Young Womens Christian Association 
deserves to get the $24,000 which is needed in 
order to ensure the raising of their entire build- 
ing fund by July i, the time set. Mr. Frank 
B. Knowles's gift of $5000 paves a part of the 
way with golden bricks, and ought to make 
it easier for somebody else to do the same. 



The Christian Endeavor entertainment at 
Piedmont vestry, ne.xt Tuesday evening, 
promises to be of unusual interest. Mr. Eben 
Francis Thompson will read selections from 
well known authors, which will be illustrated 
by tableaux. Among the works selected are 
Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," the 



boat scene from "Ben Ilur" and the Bardell. 
Pickwick trial from Dickens. Between the 
readings there will be vocal and instrumental 
music. Refreshments will be served during 
the intcrmis.son. The proceeds of the enter- 
tainment are to be given to the flower fund of 
the Christain Endeavor .Society, to be used in 
sending flowers to the sick. 



Mr. Edward P. Crierie, a talented and pop- 
ular character soloist of this city, sang with 
great success at Leicester, last week, and also 
at Fitchburg, this week. 



Miss Mabel Blake, a daughter of ex-Mayor 
James B. Blake, and Mr. Charles Seabury 
Hale, were married at the home of the bride's 
motlier, 50 West street, Thursday afternoon, 
and Dame Society says it was one of the 
prettiest home weddings that W'orcester has 
had in along time. Rev. Edward II. Hall, of 
Cambridge, formerly pastor of the First Uni- 
tarian Church, performed the ceremony. The 
house was made to look like a temple of F"lora, 
but there was no ostentation. The bride wore 
a dress of creamy white silk, entirely covered 
with white illusion lace, though not in the form 
of a veil. The gifts, which were very beauti- 
ful, were not publicly shown. Those present 
included, besides the bride's mother and sis- 
ters, Mrs. Charlotte W. Hale, Mr. Frank L. 
Hale, Hon. and Mrs. W. W. Rice, Hon. and 
Mrs. Edward L. Davis, Mrs. Alexander H. 
Bullock, Nathaniel Paine, Esq., Miss Paine, 
Col. Calvin Foster, Mrs. Charles F. Wash- 
burn, Arthur Wa.shburn, Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry A. Marsh, Mrs. Charles W. Smith, 
Mrs. Daniel Merriman, Roger Merriman, 
Miss Whitwell of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. J. 
R. Torrey, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Torrey, Mr. 
Charles A. Chase, Mrs. Edward J. Young, 
Miss Edith Young, Messrs. Herbert and 
Charles Young of Waltham, Mrs. H. K. 
Tiffany, Mrs. Rufus Woodward, Mrs. Pres- 
ton Player, Mr. Harry Woodward, Dr. L. F. 
Woodward, the Misses Williams, Mrs. Lucy 
Bigelow, Mrs. William Cross, Miss Alice 
Hathaway Baldwin, Miss Emily Sargent, 
Miss Mary Sargent, MissHerford of Boston, 
and Miss Hills and Miss Laura Stevens of 
Newburyport. 

A pleasing musical entertainment was given 
under the auspices of the Young People's So- 
ciety of Christian Endeavor, of Park Church, 
Tuesday evening. The program included 
violin solos by Mr. E. H. Rockwell, Miss Ida 
Brownhill, accompanist; readings by Mr. B. F. 
Southw^ick and Miss Lena Warfield; harmon- 
ica solos by Mr. Charles Ludwig, assisted by 
Miss Annie Raymore ; whistling solos by 
Misses Grade and Annie Smith ; songs by Mr. 
E. J. Putnam, Miss Emm» C. Putnam and 
Miss Inez Buzz; club swinging by Mr. L. C. 
Havener. 



Captain George L. Allen umpired a ball 
game last Saturday, and he now has "a bad 
eye." The ball struck him with force suffi- 
cient to cause serious injury, and he has been 
confined to a dark room all this week. The 
Captain must have that eye in shape for the 
encampment. It is to be hoped that he may 
have quite recovered from his injury at the end 
of two weeks. 



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Our Congressman. 

Light hardly needs to place under the por- 
trait which appears upon its first page, this 
week, the name of Joseph H. Walker. Few 
people who have lived in Worcester during the 
last quarter of a century and more, and know 
the story of its progress, need to be thus aided 
in recognizing a man who has made himself so 
strongly felt in the community, and to whom 
History gives the distinction of ranking fore- 
most among the men who have made Worces- 
ter what it IS. 

Though his life has been largely spent in 
Worcester, Joseph Henry Walker was born in 
Boston, and as that event occurred on the 
2ist of December, 1829, he is now in his sixty- 
first year. But no one who meets Mr. Walker 
needs the record of his years to know that he is 
in the prime of life, enjoying such of its pleas- 
ures as he can find time for, doing a hard day's 
work six days in the week and remembering 
his duties to the Giver of all good things on the 
seventh. Mr. Walker is the son of Joseph 
Walker of Hopkinton and Hannah Thayer 
Chapin of Milford, so that on both sides it 
is genuine Massachusetts blood that he has. 
When he was two months old, his parents re- 
moved with him to Hopkinton, and thence, in 
1843, to Worcester, and Worcester has been 
Mr. Walker's home ever since. 

He was educated in the district schools of 
Hopkinton and Worcester, and when he was 
sixteen years old he went to work for his father, 
who was engaged in boot and shoe manufactur- 
ing. He went into the business, doubtless, 
with the same determination to succeed which 
has marked later events in his life, and when 
he was twenty-one years old, he became a 
member of the firm, which was styled "Joseph 
Walker & Company." For forty years, there- 
fore, Mr. Walker has been a maker of boots and 
shoes, and it is not difficult to believe that he 
knows a thing or two about "hides and 
leather." In 1862, he commenced business in 
Eaton place, and two years later his brother, 
Mr. George M. Walker, was admitted to the 
firm, the name being J. H. & G. M. Walker, and 
so it remained until the business was discon. 
tinued. Afterward a factory was built on Front 
street and Eaton place, but in the growth of a 
prosperous business, it became necessary to 
build a factory on Water street. This was done 
in 1S70, and during that year Mr. George M. 
Walker retired from the firm and Mr. Samuel 
Davenport took his place. In 1879 Mr. 
Walker doubled the capacity of his factory, 
and in 1S80 Dr. Henry Y. Simpson became a 
member of the firm. They retired from the busi- 
ness January I, 1888. This gives an outline idea 
of the growth of Mr. Walker's business in Wor- 
cester, and in 1868, he established in Chicago 
the leather firm of Walker, Oakley & Company, 
of which he is still the senior member. 

Mr. Walker has been highly esteemed among 
his business associates, and in the National 
Hide and Leather Association and the New 
England Shoe and Leather Association has 
held important positions. 

When a man is notably active in his busi- 
ness, and his judgment is known to be highly 
esteemed among his mercantile neighbors, it 
usually happens that he commands the confi- 
dence of the community at large. It was cer- 
tainly so in Mr. Walker's case. He was only 



twenty-five years old when he was elected a 
member of the common council from Ward 
Six. This was in 1854, and subsequently he 
was elected to the same position in 1871 and 
1872. In his first term he took an active part 
in the reorganization of the fire department, a 
work sorely needed just then, and which he 
carried through to success. In 1872 he intro- 
duced the famous finance ordinance, which 
was adopted and subsequently amended so 
that half its value was taken away ; but prac- 
tically all its provisions were included in the 
municipal indebtedness act of the General 
Court in 1875. Mr. Walker's ordinance was 
the basis of that act, its author, Hon. Edward 
L. Pierce having frequent consultations witli 
Mr. Walker during the framing of it. Mr. 
Walker's act reformed the city's financial de- 
partment, he having the co-operation in 1872 
of Emory Bannister, H. H. Chamberlain, 
Henry Griffin, Walter Gates, William S. Bar- 
ton and Mayor Verry, in the practical ap- 
plication of the ordinance provisions. He 
also introduced a public works ordinance 
which provided for an entire new sys- 
tem of doing city work, but this was defeated ; 
it was too early for such a radical departure 
from the methods of our fathers. He was also 
persistent in pushing through the high service 
water line to protect the hill districts, and de- 
nounced the plan upon which the Lynde Brook 
reservoir was constructed, declaring at a meet- 
ing of the city council that it would not stand 
the pressure upon it. (The dam gave way in 
1S76.) Thus Mr. Walker was an active mem- 
ber of the board, and his entire record as such 
seems to show that his judgment was invari- 
ably tempered with the greatest wisdom and 
good sense. 

In 1876, Mr. Walker would have been the 
mayor of the city but for the application of 
certain peculiar methods to the voting in Ward 
Four. 

In 1879, he was elected a representative to 
the General Court, and was returned in the 
year following. In 1887, he again represented his 
ward on Beacon Hill. In his first year, Mr. 
Walker was a hard worker on the retrench- 
ment committee and earnest in his advocacy 
of labor measures. In the greenback craze cam- 
paign he made telling hard money addresses. 

In 1878, the Congressional Committee on 
the Conditions of the Country, of which Hon. 
Abram S. Hewitt was chairman, invited Mr. 
Walker to appear before it, and his testimony 
attracted wide-spread interest. It was pub- 
lished under the title "Common Sense Views 
on Political Economy, Capital, Labor and So- 
cialism." Mr. Walker has also written a mon- 
ograph on "Money, Trade and Banking," 
which is a model of clearness, comprehensive- 
ness and valuable advice. It was published in 
1886 by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. His 
address before the Massachusetts Club, on 
"The Moral Aspect of a Protective Tariff," 
and other addresses, have also been widely 
quoted. Mr. Walker, without aspiring to lit- 
erary distinction, can say anything he has to 
say in a way that commands attention. 

When Mr. Walker entered into the political 
campaign of 1888, as a candidate for Congress 
from the famous Tenth Massachusetts Dis- 
trict, there were scores of wiseacres ready to 
predict his defeat and the consequent breaking 
up of the Republican party in Central Massa- 



chusetts; but he made one of the most bril- 
liant campaigns ever known in this section, 
taking the stump and speaking almost every 
night in the week, his platform being the im- 
portance of maintaining a protective tariff and 
thereby promoting American industries. Mr. 
Walker's positiveness had in the past made 
for him many enemies among those who saw 
in his ideas a dangerous antagonism for their 
own, and it was asserted that this hostility alone 
would be sufficient to defeat him. When the 
people heard Mr. Walker discuss the issues of 
the campaign, however, and tersely set forth 
in homely English that bespoke the earnest 
purpose and intense sincerity of the man, the 
truth as he saw it, his words had a tremendous 
influence. Mr. Walker was easily elected, 
having 13,955 votes against 12,050 for Irving 
B. .Sayles, Democratic, 834 for Charles G. 
Allen, Prohibition, and 20 scattering. 

Mr. Walker has already made himself felt 
in Congress. He is a member of some of the 
most important committees, those on banking 
and currency, and, also, coinage, weights and 
measures. And in the important work of tariff 
revision his attitude has been watched by the en- 
tire country with the closest interest. In Wash- 
ington, Mr. Walker has been pronounced one of 
the ablest first term members that Congress has 
known for many years. At home, where he 
has been, of course, the cynosure of all eyes, 
he has won the enthusiastic admiration of his 
constituents and the unbounded respect of his 
political opponents. His standing among his 
republican colleagues in Washington is indi- 
cated by his selection, recently, to be a mem- 
ber of the Congressional campaign committee 
from Massachusetts. 

In his private life, Mr. Walker has always 
enjoyed the confidence of all who have known 
him. He has been twice married. A daughter 
by his first wife is now Mrs. Milton Shirk, the 
wife of a banker in Peru, Ind. Of his later 
children, Mr. Joseph Walker is a graduate of 
Brown University and will be graduated 
from the Harvard Law School in June; 
Mr. George Walker is now at Brown, in his 
junior year; and Miss Agnes Walker became 
in 1888 Mrs. Adams Davenport Claflin. 

Mr. Walker has always been a generous 
man, and Worcester Academy, of whose board 
of trustees he is the president, has been the 
specially fortunate recipient of his benefac- 
tions. He has given to it many thousands of 
dollars, and his generosity made it possible to 
erect the handsome new laboratory building 
which was recently dedicated. He has also 
materially assisted in carrying out the Natural 
History Camp project, and in other ways has 
made his wealth serve good purposes. 

An active and consistent member of the 
Main Street Baptist Church, Mr. Walker has 
been one of its strongest supporters for many 
years; and in a "practical business talk" to 
young men he has advised them to get the 
Christian principle first of all, as being the 
best possible start toward success in life. 

A thoroughly aggressive man, quick in 
speech, tireless in argument until he is con- 
vinced that he is in the wrong, when he is 
always ready to admit it, and often abrupt in 
his greeting, Mr. Walker is yet a warm-spirited 
and kind-hearted man, an honest-minded citi- 
zen and a sincere believer in and promoter of 
whatever may be for the good of humanity. 



"Quality, Quality, Quality." 

To the Editor of Light : 

Is the laborer "worthy of liis hire?" So long 
as money and time is spent to perfect one in 
the arts, or to teach the use of implements in 
skilled workmanship, so long must one be 
paid, or get remuneration in some way, for the 
exposition of such art or for doing such labor. 
The finer, more perfect and expensive instru- 
ments one with paramount skill uses, the 
greater price his talent and work command. 
Henry Ward Beecher received a larger salary 
than some le.sser light in his calling settled 
over a "living" in some backwoods town, be- 
cause the demand for his talent and education 
was greater than for that of his less fortunate 
brother. A nugget of gold is worth more than 
a lump of clay similar in size, because it is 
rarer, harder to convert into use, and has ciual- 
ities that have popularized it to a greater ex- 
tent with those who can afford it. Nougat 
and salted almonds are more expensive than 
molasses candy and peanuts. Now if people 
don't want to save their money for the better 
"confections" in the way of entertainment and 
instruction, let them throw smaller — or equal 
sums — away on variety shows, church enter- 
tainments and inferior concerts, but if they 
cannot do both, and if they do enjoy the 
Beechers, gold and nougats of this life, let 
them realize why they are more expensive than 
the commoner wants, and save their money 
for them. Musical taste is not commensurate 
with wealth, but managers are not to blame 
for the perfection some artists attain and are 
world-famed for possessing, any more than is 
the middle man who sells a Corot or even an 
Alma Tadema for a greater sum tlian he could 
possibly get for the good work of some of our 
own Worcester artists. When one man's 
work is no better than another's, and does not 
demand a higher price than another's, then a 
painful state of affairs will have indeed ar- 
rived. We believe that low prices must be es- 
tablished, but that the great artists of the 
world shall play at prices accepted by ordinary 
talent cannot and ought not to be hoped for. 
Reyd. 

It seems that in Springfield, also, there are 
people who, like those referred to by Dr. Mears 
in his communication in last week's Light, 
would like to enjoy the best music but cannot 
afford the tax upon their incomes. During the re- 
cent festival, the following open letter appeared 
in the Rcpuhlicaii, and the author is Rev. F. 
Barrows Makepeace, pastor of the North Con- 
gregational Church. The letter is as follows : 

"I am sure that there are a large number of 
people in our city who greatly regret that the 
narrowness of their income makes it seem in- 
expedient for them to attend the festival which 
is so acceptably ministering to the instruction 
and pleasure of the better-to-do classes in the 
community. There are many honest and in- 
telligent wage-earners in our stores and fac" 
tories who earne.stly wish to hear these concerts 
and cannot easily afford the sum reciuired. 
Individuals can go, but many heads of fam- 
ilies do not feel that they can afford from 
their little surplus the sum needed to meet the 
cost of such expensive pleasure. In the name 
of these faithful workers, will not your organ- 
izations together arrange a program consisting 



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of numbers from the festival, and render it in 
City Hall at an early date and at an admission 
price not exceeding 25 cents.' By what method 
can cheap and hurtful amusements be antag- 
onized, and the desire of self-respecting work- 
ing men and women for wholesome entertain- 
ment be met? P'rom a long experience in 
similar work, I feel certain that the popular 
heart will make a grateful response, and that 
it will not inflict upon you any pecuniary loss. 
"Very cordially yours, 

"F. B. Makki'Kai K. 
"Spri>li;/ii-/(/, Af(iy G, 1S90." 



Literary Leaves. 

"The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's View," 
by C. H. Blackburn, is an elaborate review of 
the circumstances of Christ's arrest, trial and 
crucifixion, as related both to Jewish and Ro- 
man law. It is careful and clear in its citation 
of facts, and is intended to place in brighter 
light the utter inability of the authorities to 
find any real cause for the judgment of death 
upon Christ. 

An author, who is widely known in Amer- 
ican literature, says: — 

"Seven years ago, I chose between law and literature. 
I had every opportunity to succeed at the bar, for, 
through hard study and my connections, a lucrative 
practice seemed open to me. To-day I am wliat tlie 
world calls a successful author. My last novel was bid 
for by three publishers. I have the pleasure of hearing 
my books and name hawked on the trains when I am 
traveling, the newspapers give me from a quarter of a 
column to a column and a half reviews. But what has 
literature brought me in money? Here is my actual rev- 
enue for iSSg, and includes, as you see, royalties on si.K 
of my novels, magazine articles, etc., and everything is 
collected— the total— $2,170.40. Compare these actual 
figures to the paragraph recently circulated, in which I 
am reputed to earn Jio.ooo from my pen. Is it any won- 
der that the unsophisticated enter literature with false 
hopes?" 

"A Memorial Volume to Henry W. Grady" 
has been compiled by the co-workers of the 
young Southern orator on the Constitution. 
The book is sold by subscription only and in 
the interests of the family and mother of Mr. 
Grady. 

"Cooking for the Poor" is the title of a new 
book whose object it is to instruct poor people 
how to prepare their food in order to obtain 
the most nutriment possible from it. This is 
all very well, but what the poor are most inter- 
ested in is not how to cook their food, but how 
to procure food for cooking. Mrs. Glas.se, of 
old, hit the nail on the head when, under the 
heading "How to cook a hare," she wrote, 
"first, catch your hare." 



"Where is the French worship of Victor 
Hugo?" asks Mr. I'aul Meurice, the vice-pres- 
ident of the committee on his monument. One 
million francs were subscribed for the purpo.se 
of making his funeral a tremendous pageant, 
but the five years since his death have brought 
only a little over 100,000 for his monument. 
The two volumesof poems entitled "Toute la 
Lyre" have hardly covered the cost of publi- 
cation. "Le Fin de Satan," also published 
after his death, has fared no better. 



You will never find time for anything. If 
you want time you must make it. — Cluirlcs 
Buxton. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



AiiouT Hkns.— Mrs. W. asks: Which is 
correct, a sitting hen or a .setting hen ? A sit- 
ting hen. 

lUiiTK, M().NT.\N.\.— Mr. G. T. H. asks the 
Answerer to tell him something about Butte, 
Montana. Butte is said to be the liveliest city 
of its size in the world. The mining and 
smelting companies there pay out wages at the 
rate of $20,000 per day, or 5600,000 per month. 
The mines are producing copper and silver at 
the rate of over j!2,ooo,ooo every thirty days. 
It would be impossible to give in this depart- 
ment any fair description of this rushing city. 
Even the gazetteers would not do justice to it, 
for every quarter of a year sees a new develop- 
ment there. The writer is referred to the edi- 
tors of the IVcst Shore, Portland, Oregon, and 
The AWthwest, St. Paul, Minn. 

Gloves. — Mr. K. asks if street gloves should 
be worn by gentlemen when it is suflSciently 
cold to wear an overcoat. It depends upon 
your individual taste. If you have the gloves 
and like to wear them, wear them by all 
means. 

I.VTERNATio.NAL Cycloi'/Edia. — John asks 
who publishes the International Cyclopaedia. 
Dodd, Mead cS: Co., New York city. 

A Book o.n Science.— A student asks for 
a good book on general experimental science. 
"Experimental Science," by George M. Hop- 
kins, 740 pages, 680 illustrations, $4.00. Munn 
& Co., publishers. New York. 

Some Pickles. — Mrs. Y. asks for a good 
preparation for preserving cucumbers and 
mixed pickles. The ScientiHc American 
says : Put, after washing and drying, into 
boiling vinegar, add some salt, a handful to 
a three-gallon jar, let cool. Boil up the vine- 
gar alone every third day, and pour on the 
pickles until the cucumbers turn green, then 
add ginger and pepper to suit the taste. 

Will Sinc. — H. asks: "Which is the 
better way of saying it? Miss X will sing 
ne.xt lueck, or Miss X sings next week. The 
former. 

Brevier Roman. — B. asks: "What knd 
of type is Licht set in ?" Brevier Roman, or 
Eight Point under the new system, leaded with 
Eight to Pica leads, that is with leads between 
the lines, forty-eight of which would make one 
inch. The cut of face letter was designed es- 
pecially for the Toper World, the handsomest 
paper in the country. 

I or Wk. — Mary asks: Which is preferable 
in writing for the press, I or We? I by all 
means. Even the editorial we is losing its 
usefulness. 

Population of London. — K. T. W. a.sks 
for the population of the city of London. In 
18S1 the city proper contained 50,652 inhabi- 
tants, but the metropolitan and city police dis- 
tricts, which include the vast aggregation of 
houses known as London, contained 4,766,661 
persons. 

Full Coat Sleeves. — Mrs. O. a.sks: 
"What is a full coat sleeve ?" A "full coat 
sleeve" means one of the ordinary shape and a 
little wider and longer at the top, so as to have 
a few gathers over the top of the shoulders. 



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The Gounod Club Needed. 



A lover of music who has heard the Gounod 
Club sing through four successive seasons, 
with ever increasing power and heightening of 
standard, could well say, after the concert of 
last Tuesday evening, that the Gounod Club 
has done truly admirable work, and that Wor- 
cester needs it to-day more than ever. There 
have been hints that the fourth season of the 
club would be the last. Light hopes not. But 
something must be done by the people. What 
the Gounod Club really needs is the patronage 
of some of Worcester's men of wealth, who 
will stand behind it and give it opportunity to 
attain its greatest usefulness. Suppose the 
club to be made, if possible, an organization 
distinct from the chorus. Let these citizens 
manage the club and do its business work. 
Give the director an opportunity to double the 
chorus ; make it possible to give at least one, 
perhaps two, of these concerts in a season, 
with orchestra ; make it also possible to en- 
gage the best solo talent — someone like Joseffy, 
or Albani, for instance ; and, in general, get 
out of the rut and aim for things new and 
greater. That is what the Gounod Club needs ; 
and that is what Light hopes may be brought 
to pass. Mr. Anderson, self-sacrificing and 
thoroughly public-spirited in his work, has 
made Worcester largely his debtor; but un- 
less he has substantial encouragement in the 
way of support for his club, he may weary in 
well-doing. Worcester cannot afford to lose 
Mr. Anderson or the club. 
But the concert. 

Mendelssohn's setting of the Thirteenth 
Psalm, never before given in Worcester, was 
the opening number, and the club sang it in 
notably good style. Mrs. John H. Howell 
sang the trying solo part and was listened to 
with the greatest interest. She gave evidence 
of the most conscientious study and a thorough 
appreciation of what she was singing. Her 
voice is a pleasant one, not over strong, but 
sympathetic and sweet. 

The later chorus members generally gave 
satisfaction, the light and shade in the Pinsuti 
numbers, "Good-night, Beloved," and "A 
Spring Song,"being particularly well expressed. 
The other numbers for the mixed voices were 
Dvorak's "Woodland Angelus," wherein the 
chorus caught the spirit at once, and the 
"Good Morrow" of Cowen and "Old English 
Country Dance" of Marzials, with which the 
concert ended. 

The male voices were heard only in Mr. 
Anderson's music for Samuel Mintum Peck's 
pretty "Song Before Dawn." The poet must 
needs feel that he has found an able inter- 
preter, should he ever hear it sung. Mr. B. A. 
Barber's always rich and even voice was heard 
to advantage in the solo. 

The ladies had a group of three songs, and 
the first especially was well done. It is worth 
while to note the absolutely correct pronuncia- 
tion of the Latin and the expression reached. 
An "Italian Barcarolle," by Brahms, and Men- 
delssohn's "May-bells and Flowers" were the 
others, and the latter, too, was finely rendered. 
Mr. Perry Averill was the baritone soloist, 
and he sang a recitative and aria from Verdi 
(Un ballo in Maschera), and afterward, two 
songs, "Apart," Van de Water, and Hatton's 



"Fair is My Love." Mr. Averill finds many 
to admire his voice; and he sang his first num- 
ber very well — much better than he did the 
others. 

Of Mr. Ewald Weiss, who played that 
frayed and tortured ballade and polonaise of 
Vieuxtemps which most of us have heard at 
least once, not much need be said. His 
romance (Svendsen) was more enjoyable than 
his first number. 

Mr. Anderson's always successful work needs 
only an allusion. 

It is due to a very faithful and very able 
member of the club, Mrs. Carrie King-Hunt, 
that the work at the piano, not only for this 
concert, but for the past, should be warmly 
praised. Mrs. Hunt deserves to have a great 
many good things said about her work. It is 
always artistic and has been no slight element 
in the club's success. 

The audience was appreciative and enjoyed 
the concert ; and there was not an encore that 
amounted to an insistance for "more," which 
was gratifying. Some of the chorus work de- 
served it, as far as merit goes; but why always 
encores ? The concert was long enough, and 
not too long, and everybody went home happy. 



Night. 



BY EDMUND SMITH MIDDLETON. 



The shadows o'er the meadow creeping 
Awake the owl on orchard tree. 

The whippoorwill is softly weeping, 
The waves are sleeping on the sea. 

Sweet slumber with fair dreams abounding 
Shuts out the world and busy care. 

Low music of the spheres is sounding 
Faint notes upon the midnight air. 

The willows by the brook are sighing 
Soft answers to the trembling leaves. 

The night is fading, fleeing, dying, 
The bosom of the morning heaves. 
Worcester, Mass. 



About Folks. 



Mr. John G. Heywood lectured very enter- 
tainingly on "Caricatures," before the Art 
Society, Tuesday evening. Portraits and cari- 
catures were compared, with the aid of the 
stereopticon, and all that Mr. Heywood had to 
say was well worth hearing. 



Rev. W. W. Sleeper was given a generous 
token of the regard felt for him by Salem 
Street Church people, Tuesday night. As 
associate pastor, he has done a very helpful 
work. His installation as pastor of the church 
at Stoneham occurred Thursday evening. 



Mr. John L. Holmes, for four years past the 
superintendent of the Solon Bryant Company's 
corset works, has accepted a position with the 
Worcester Corset Company, and was pre- 
sented by his associates Wednesday evening 
with some substantial reminders of their good 
will. 

A supper and entertainment were given at 
Lake View Church Wednesday evening. The 
Grace Church quartet furnished music ; Mr. 
Benjamin Whitmore, Jr., and Mrs. Charles E. 
Minckler, sang solos; Mrs. Minckler and Mrs. 
E. H. Sutcliffe sang two duets; Miss Mabel 
Dickinson played violin solos ; Misses Grace 
Maynard and Carrie Wood played a piano 



duet, as did also Misses Grace and Margie 
Dickinson; Miss Florence Armitage and Mr. 
Clifford Atherton gave declamations; Miss 
Ethel Reed gave a reading, and Miss Spauld- 
ing a banjo solo. 

Mr. Chas. H. Olin, of Danielsonville, a 
graduate of the Worcester Select School of 
Shorthand and Typewriting, has taken a po- 
sition as stenographer with Blake, Boutwell 
& Co., of this city. 



The exhibition of Mr. W. Dodge Mac- 
Knight's paintings, at the Art Students rooms 
in Walker building, this week, has attracted 
considerable attention. They are remarkable 
pictures, these of Mr. MacKnight's, certainly. 
They remind one of the Turners about which 
Holmes wrote: 

"Two landscapes — foreground golden dirt, 
The sunshine painted with a squirt." 
Nevertheless, all are agreed that Mr. Mac- 
Knight's unconventional work has its merit 
and his pictures possess more than ordinary 
interest. They are peculiar; but then, genius 
is frequently eccentric. 



There was a reception at the home of Mr. 
Frank E. Henry, in Westboro, Friday evening. 
May 9, a number of young ladies from Worces- 
ter being present. Supper was served, after 
which there was singing by Misses Edith 
Wood and Lois Thompson, both of Worcester. 



The Parlor Bands of the Kings Daughters of 
Plymouth Church are to have a sale and mis- 
cellaneous entertainment Tuesday evening. 
May 27. 

Mrs. Corinne Moore-Lawson, who has been 
for two years past a great favorite at our festi- 
val and who sang last week to the Springfield 
people, with equal success, was made the sub- 
ject of an article in the issue of Frank Leslie's 
Ilhistratcd iXewspapcr of May 3, a fine en- 
graving of Mrs. Lawson accompanying the 
article. It was entitled "Mrs. Fenton Lawson," 
and appeared under the serial heading "Repre- 
sentative Society Ladies of the West." It 
says : "Mrs. Fenton Lawson is one of the most 
beautiful and popular matrons in Cincinnati. 
She is the wife of a prominent young merchant, 
who is a member of one of the oldest and most 
influential families in the city. Mrs. Lawson 
was Miss Corinne Moore. She came to Cin- 
cinnati, about five years ago, with her widowed 
mother, from the South, to cultivate her voice. 
She entered the College of Music, and as a 
pupil of Professor Buch Foley, soon became a 
musical and social favorite. She has a so- 
prano voice of high range. Mrs. Lawson is of 
medium height, with a Southern warmth of 
nature, sparkling black eyes, and glossy raven 
hair, a pure brunette complexion, with high 
intellectual forehead. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson 
were married in St. Pauls Episcopal Church 
about three years ago, and reside in a 
sumptuous home on Oak street. Walnut Hills. 
Their receptions are among the most elegant 
given in the city. Mrs. Lawson is constantly 
importuned to sing for charities, and has just 
resigned the position of first soprano in the 
Church of Our Savior, Mt. Auburn, in favor 
of concert work, and the managers of the 
coming May festival are congratulating them- 
selves on their good fortune in securing her as 
a soloist." 



Stratford-on-Avon. 



"A far-seeing wench was Anne Hathaway." 
The quiet simple beauty of tliat part of 
Stratford nearest the Avon is of that dreamy 
sort that forces one to feel poetic to one's fullest 
capacity. Every crooked shaded street leads to 
or by some solidified thought of the "Sweet 
Swan of Avon," and one leaves the town fully 
convinced that one would better remain true 
to him than to try and foster a passion for 
Bacon. Stratford is within a charming ten- 
mile drive from Leamington, and an early 
start in the cool morning gives one ample time 
for the sights of the little borough and also 
for a cross-country walk to Anne Hathaway 's 
pretty thatched cottage in Shottery, a mile 
beyond. 

Of course one should begin a sojourn in Strat- 
ford where the immortal bard began his, at a 
two-story and gabled roof, timber and plaster 
house, in Henley street. The exterior of the 
house is so painfully in good repair that one is a 
bit shocked at first with its modern look. The 
house originally was one of a long row, the 
lower stories of some of the divisions being 
used as shops. The sign — long since dis- 
appeared — over the door of the part the world 
is most interested in, announced a butcher 
shop. Probably from here our poacher's veni- 
son was sold, and on the very way we have 
come the stolen meat must have been carried, 
for we have travelled the highway bordering 
the Lucy's (the descendants of Justice Shal- 
low) land, and it was upon this domain that 
his depredations were committed. 

The lower floor of the house now is interest- 
ing, in a way, for one sees how meagre living 
and cooking facilities were in his day, but in 
the room where the almost immortal was sup- 
posedly born, the veneration is greater. The 
room is a good-sized, low-studded one. Near 
a huge fire-place stands a chair given 
to him by Queen Elizabeth. (Supposition.) 
On a table near by rests a bust from 
life. (More supposition.) A few other chairs 
and a framed chart or two completes the 
furnishing. Autographs of Washington Irv- 
ing, Byron and Dickens upon the plaster of the 
wall are facts — if not forgeries. This part of 
the house was kept in possession of Shakes- 
peare's descendants until the death of Lady 
Barnard in 1670, when it reverted to another 
branch of the family, and so it has been used 
at different times as a meat shop, an inn, a pri- 
vate house and now as a museum. In another 
portion are interesting collections of various 
sorts. The first edition of his works is kept 
company by copies of most all the better and 
later English editions. Various pictures illus- 
trate his different pranks as a ne'er-do-well. 
Belts, buttons, buckles and other personal be- 
longings remind one that even great geniuses 
must be held together. A huge portrait hang- 
ing in the upper room of the museum part of 
the building, and known as the Stratford por- 
trait, is probably a veritable likeness. The 
face, like that of the colored bust in the Parish 
Church, is fuller-cheeked and rounder-chinned 
than one is apt think of as Shakespearj's, but 
undoubtedly is less of an ideal and more of a 
truth than the others. 
A walk down Henley .street, through the 



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market-place, brings one to the Memorial 
Theatre. It is as ugly a mixture of Italian, 
Gothic and no style at all, as one would wish 
to see. Showy in the extreme, with towers, 
peaks, spires and points, it contains its sacred 
mementoes. A large library's shelves are con- 
tinually filling with Shakesperian literature. 
On the walls are engravings of good worth 
and portraits of the Kembles, Siddons and 
other famous portrayers of his characters. A 
huge "American alligator" bears a card quota- 
tion upon his ugly back and so we are not un- 
represented even in this part of the building. 

The auditorium is pretty — rather cheap — 
and is interesting to us because "Our Mary" 
Anderson helped dedicate it. Just outside the 
building is the bronze and granite monument 
given by Lord Rowland Gower. Shakes- 
peare sits atop the pedestal, while at each of 
the four sides is a statue representing a charac- 
ter from his plays, "Falstaff," "The Dauphin," 
and the other two have escaped me. 

On through a crooked street and the beauti- 
ful church, among its trees and graves, by the 
lazily flowing river, seems greeting us like an 
old friend. Pictures are such cards of intro- 
duction ! Once within and we hasten to see : 
GdoD FRend for lesus sake forbeare 
To dig^g the DVst encloased lieare 
Klese be ye man yt spares thes stones 
And cvrst be he >'t moves my bones. 

There it is, deeply cut in the flagging behind 
the chancel rail, where his body rests beside 
his wife's, a heart-felt appeal to his survivors 
to let his bones rest where he knew he was to 
be laid, and not after a few years to tumble 
them into the charnel-house, so near by, when 
his room would be considered preferable to 
his company. It's fortunate for Ignatius Don- 
nelly that he does not live in Stratford, at 
least near this hallowed spot, for one's feelings 
are in full sympathy with the great mind that 
profited by nature, association and study, and 
this simple stone makes one feel that no doubt 
is possible. 

At the other end of the church is, under a 
glass, the record of his christening and death. 
All the tales told by an interesting dweller 
here, if one is fortunate enough to make such 
an acquaintance, are full of interest and 
pleasure. Upon our visit, the charming presi- 
dent of the Woman's Guild that has under- 
taken to restore, not remodel, this casket, took 
pleasure in showing us about in place of the 
verger, and a correspondence since enables me 
to quote a bit from her: "The thirteenth, 
fourteeth and fifteenth centuries each contrib- 
uted something toward the completion of this 
old church ; aye, and the eighteenth also, for 
in that century the old wooden spire was re- 
placed by the present one. Let it then be the 
work of the nineteenth century carefully and 
lovingly to guard and preserve this building so 
endeared to all, by antiquity and association." 

The worm-eaten choir stalls, so oddly carved 
with Adams, Eves, grapes, and grotesque fig- 
ures decorating the Misereres, need attention. 
Some Americans have given the beautiful 
window representing the Seven Ages of Man, 
with Biblical scenes ; Barnum wanted to bring 
Shakespeare's cottage to America; Mr. Childs 
gave a drinking fountain to the town ; all this 
is good, but brings its own reward. Can't we 
send a few pounds toward keeping our share in 
this church — Shakespeare's tomb — in order.? 
Memorial tablets are being taken from the 



wall, plaster is being removed from the carv- 
ings, and all Ik being put into the old state 
once more. 

Henry VIII. 's Clrammar School, with 
oaken benches, timbers, desks and chairs, 
is as it was when Shakespeare was a pupil 
there, and the plain little church attached and 
the ([uiet garden yard between is another bit 
of green quiet. 

A cup of tea at the neat bakery opposite the 
<iuaint house of five gables rests one and 
rounds out a most enjoyable day at Stralford- 
on-Avon. 



Words of Others. 

South American Literature. 

As a rule, Americans know so little of the 
countries south of them that they are entirely 
ignorant whether or no there is such a thing as 
South American literature. It was doubtless 
with no small amount of surprise that many of 
us read the statement recently made by an emi- 
nent Spanish literary man that he found very 
little to interest him in the literature of the 
United States, but a great deal that was pro- 
foundly interesting in the literature of South 
America. Americans are now offered the op- 
portunity, however, of making the acquaint- 
ance of this unknown literature by the means 
of the translation of a very characteristic 
South American romance, "Maria," by Jorge 
Isaacs (New York : Harper & Brothers). This 
beautifully written story has all the strength 
and weakness of the type of mind and man- 
ner of life which it represents. The scene is 
laid in Columbia, and the book abounds in ex- 
quisite bits of description, which bring vividly 
before the mind the simple patriarchal life, in 
the good-fellowship and indolence of which all 
harsh features are softened. It is a work of 
refinement and delicacy rather than of vigor 
and originality. The love story advances by 
almost invisible gradations. — Christian Union. 
Puritan Ancestors. 

"But are you not proud of your Puritan 
ancestors .'" some one will ask. Well, no, not 
particularly. They were a very hard, dog- 
matic set of men, rather cruel than otherwise, 
superstitious to the last degree, and they did 
to others, in the way of persecution, exactly 
what they had complained of in others for 
doing to them. There was precious little of 
the "milk of human kindness" in them, and 
they always posed as "superior persons." 
Pride of ancestry is a mighty poor thing to 
build bank on, anyway, and those who most 
rely upon it, if they will but go back far enough, 
will find some very shady characters among 
their progenitors, from whom they are just as 
much descended as from the bright particular 
ancestors whose names they are forever spread- 
ing. A learned Englishman was once asked 
whether he supposed that there were any de- 
scendants of William the Conquerer now liv- 
ing. "I presume,'' he answered, "that there are 
few men in England to-day in whose veins 
some of the blood of William does not run, 
and by the same token, I suppose that every 
one them carries in his veins some of the blood 
of the greatest scoundrel, whoever he may 
have been, who had flourished in the time of 
William. I don't know that they are any bet- 
ter for the one, or any worse for the other." — 
Dos ton Home Journal. 



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About Folks. 



Mrs. George Benson, of Holliston, has been 
visiting in Worcester this week, 

Mr. George K. Robinson, the actor, has 
been at his home in the city during the week 
past, and has started west to join his company 
at Marquette, Mich., where they begin May 26, 
a tour of the Lakes region. Mr. Robinson has 
been for several months in the south and west, 
playing with Tavernier's "Among the Pines" 
company and another company playing "At 
the Picket Line." He is now with the first 
named company, and after the Lakes tour, 
they open at the Standard Theater in Chicago 
for the regular season. Mr. Robinson began 
his stage career as an amateur here in town, 
and has met with rapid success. 



Mrs. A. D. Stone and her children spent last 
week with Mr. Charles R. Collier's people in 
Grafton. 

The announcement that Anthony Comstock 
is to speak at Piedmont church to-morrow 
evening is undoubtedly all that is needed in 
the way of a notification to the sexton to un- 
fold the camp-chairs. Whatever may be the 
ideas entertained by different people regarding 
the great apostle of moral purity, the fact re- 
mains that he has left his mark upon the 
nineteenth century. The comic press has 
lampooned him almost as much as it would a 
presidential candidate, and he has been sharply 
criticized for much that he has done ; but he 
has few imitators, at any rate, and a man of 
originality is always weU worth seeing and 
hearing. 

Evangelist Rufus M. Taft returned Monday 
from a successful work of ten days at Monta- 
gue and yesterday went to Kingston for a simi- 
lar period. On Tuesday he attended the 
Brookfield conference of churches, at Brook- 
field. 



The Young People's Society of Christian 
Endeavor of Piedmont church had an interest- 
ing business meeting at its session last Sunday 
and voted to divide the society, creating a 
junior branch. The society has steadily in- 
creased in membership and has plenty of ma- 
terial for two branches. The junior branch 
will probably include all members under six- 
teen years, and all over that age will remain in 
the main society. The junior branch will meet 
at four o'clock Sunday afternoons and the 
other at the usual hour, 6.15. 



The most interesting event in connection 
with the services of the local churches, last 
Sunday, was the announcement of the resigna- 
tion of Rev. J. F. Lovering from the pastorate 
of the Old South Church. No doubt it was 
not wholly unexpected, to a few, but to the 
great many it was a total surprise. Rev. 
Eldridge Mix, D. D., of Fall River, occupied 
Mr. Lovering's pulpit and read the letter in 
which the pastor presented his resignation. 
Rev. W. H. Barbour, D. D., of Montreal, 
preached at Plymouth Church. Rev. Charles 
M. Southgate of Pilgrim and Rev. Albert 
Bryant of Belmont Church exchanged pulpits 
in the morning. At .Salem Street Church, Rev. 
W. W. Sleeper preached his last sermon as 



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associate pastor. Next Sunday he preaches 
at his new pastorate in Stoneham. At Trinity 
and Grace Churches the young people of the 
Epworth League celebrated their anniversary 
day. Rev. Edward H. Hall of Cambridge, for 
many years the popular pastor of the First 
Unitarian Church, preached from that pulpit in 
the morning and for the South Unitarian So- 
ciety in the afternoon. Mrs. Helen G. Rice, 
state and national superintendent of the Loyal 
Temperance League work, spoke at the Dewey 
Street Baptist Church in the morning and at 
Pilgrim Church in the evening. At the South 
Baptist Church, Rev. E. B. Haskell of Hope 
Valley, R. L, preached. 

That most estimable lady, Mrs. Jarley, has 
shown her wax works in Worcester several 
times this season, and has consented to give 
another exhibition, with various additions and 
embellishments, at the parish hall of Saint 
John's Episcopal Church, next Wednesday 
evening. Vocal music will be furnished by the 
"Snowball Quartet" and instrumental by Mr. 
and Mrs. John L. Brand. The entertainment 
is to be given under the auspices of the Saint 
John's Chapter of the brotherhood of Saint 
Andrew. 

The new theatre is presenting the beautiful 
play of " Little Lord Fauntleroy." It is finely 
staged, and the company is one of the best 
balanced of any seen in Worcester. A descrip- 
tion of the play is unnecessary, for it is supposed 
that every Worcesterian mother has read and 
reread Mrs. Burnett's charming book. The 
play follows closely the lines of the story, and, if 
anything, better portrays the sweet character 
of this almost miraculous child. Of the com- 
pany, the greatest measure of praise must be 
given to Mr. Frank E. Aiken, whose persona- 
tion of the Earl of Dorincoiirt enters into the 
spirit of the character. Mr. Snyder, as the so- 
licitor, is smooth ; Miss Lytton, as Niiiiia, is 
strong; and Mr. Bassett, as Hobbs, does fairly 
well. Miss Lowell's Mrs. Errol'\% rather weak. 
She portrays the sad side of the character well 
enough, but lacks the necessary force of true 
nobleness. Her costumes reminded one of the 
sorrowing widow waiting for a coming second. 
Little Ray Maskell plays I'aimtlcroy with ease, 
grace, and spirit, and with a charm of manners 
which is truly captivating. 



The stockholders of the Worcester Theatre 
Association have elected as officers: PresL 
dent. Col. A. George Bullock; treasurer, Mr. 
William H. Morse; clerk, Mr. H. M. Wittier; 
auditor, Mr. Joseph E. Davis; directors, Col. 
E. B. Stoddard, Col. Bullock, Messrs. Stephen 
Salisbury, George Sumner, Francis H. Dewey, 
Henry M. Witter, William H. Morse. 



The new amateur athletic club will probably 
supply the want which a considerable number 
of Worcester's young men have for a long 
time felt. The charter members are men of 
standing and enterprise, and they will have no 
difficulty in making their membership roll as 
long as they wish, and that too from among 
young men who believe in athletics for its 
own sake and in keeping the gymnasium and 
the track as honorable as the counting-room 
or the business circle. The members are Col. 
Samuel E. Win.slow, Mes.srs. Waldo Lincoln, 
Frank R. MacuUar, J. Fred Mason, Rufus S. 



Woodward, Newton Darling, Albert C. Marble 
James W. Allen, George A. Stearns, Jr., Frank 
E. Hey wood, Harry B. Fairbanks, Charles H. 
Bovvker, Ernest L. Thayer, Lawrence G. Bige- 
low, Harry L. Dadmun, G.Stewart Dickinson, 
Channing Smith, S. Frank Gates, Herbert F. 
Blood, Clinton Alvord, Harry A. Adams, Nel- 
son C. Keyes, Henry J. Gross, B. G. Cook, C 
E. Putnam, AUie H. Lange, J. H. Sykes, E. 
W. Finney, F. G. Goodwin, C. S. Blair, Dr. 
Homer Gage. 

Mr. E. C. A. ISecker returned last Monday 
from his western trip, and his pupils gave him 
a warm welcome. When he first received 
their greetings, he thought it was confined to 
speechmaking, but before they finished he was 
the owner of an antique oak, leather uphol- 
stered, patent rocker. A slumber roll accom- 
panied the chair. The gift was a surprise and 
a very pleasant one. 

The transfer of the new Armory was accom- 
plished without much noise and very little 
smoke — probably not more than that of a good 
cigar or two. Gov. Brackett will inspect the 
new building shortly. 



At the new theatre, next week, will be given 
Joseph P. Arthur's "The Still Alarm," with 
Harry P. Lacy 2i%Jo/iii Maiihy, and two beau- 
tiful trained horses and a real steam fire engine. 



Representative William B. Sprout is to be 
the Decoration Day orator at Charlton, and 
Rev. Louis N. Beaudry, a survivor of Libby 
prison, and member of Post 10, will deliver the 
address at Upton. Capt. W. A. Gile, who 
last year delivered the address before Post 10, 
of which he is a member, will give the address 
at Hanover. N. H. Rev. C. H. Pendleton 
will be the orator at H olden. 



Mr. Elmer C. Rice, chairman of the commit- 
tee on printing for the New England Intercol- 
legiate Athletic Association, is having printed 
a new edition of the constitution, by-laws, rules 
of games, etc., which will be completed in 
readiness for the field meeting, May 28. 

In the last issue of T/ie Haniestcr, the edi- 
tor. Rev. W. W. Sleeper modestly places his 
valedictory at the bottom of the last column 
of the last page. The article is remarkable 
for its terseness and brevity. It reads: "Fare 
thee well, little Harvester! Glean on, among 
the sheaves of Christian effort and accomplish- 
ment in the reaping-field of this favored Church. 
Pick up the heads of wheat, let nothing be 
lost ; preserve the record of things done in 
Christ's name, and cheer with the bright hopes 
of a rich harvest, the toiling laborers. Speak 
a kind word for everybody, recognize every 
well-meaning effort, welcome every new re- 
cruit. Be loyal to the church, and win by dint 
of faithful service the hearty support of the 
whole congregation." 

In behalf of Pilgrim gymnasium I wish to 
express our gratitude to Light for its kind- 
ness and assistance during the season. We 
well understand that without the help of the 
press our entertainments could not have 
proved the success acheived, and the results sc 
satisfactory would have been materially les 
sened. Very thankfully yours, Fred Knight 1 
Manager. 1 



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Out of the Huiiy-Buiiy. 



I!Y A QUIET MAN. 



An old citizen was talking with me, tlic 
other day, about the no-license regime, and as 
he talked he entered upon a reminiscent vein, 
and began to tell me about the prohibitory law 
of thirty years ago. He was not sure of the 
date, but he thought it was when Hon. W. W. 
Rice was mayor; and as I haven't thought to 
inquire, 1 take it for granted he was right. In 
those days, he said, the sale of into.xicating 
liquor was controlled by the city, and a "city 
liquor store" was established on Pleasant 
street. This was supposed to be the only 
place in the city where into.xicants could be 
obtained. The chief dispenser, who was ap- 
pointed to preside over the business, was Dea- 
con Stone of Auburn, a most pious and worthy 
man, cautious about selling the goods en- 
trusted to him and not very often deceived, 
but one day a man came into the store attired 
in the garb of a workingman and called for a 
pint of brandy. The deacon asked the pre- 
scribed question: "What do you want it for?" 
"Oh, mechanical purposes," said the prospec- 
tive purchaser. The deacon measured out the 
liquor, handed it over and took the money, 
but he seemed very thoughtful. Just as the 
purchaser reached the door, he said : "1 say, 
my friend, what sort of mechanical purposes 
might you be using l>randy for ?" The man's 
quiet smile grew broader as he replied, "Oh, 
for getting up steam !" and he departed, while 
the joke was on the deacon. 

I was not greatly surprised that John Boyle 
O'Reilly had but a small audience when he 
lectured in Mechanics Hall, recently, for the 
"benefit of the Home of the Angel Guardian, 
in Boston," because I suppose Worcester is 
not particularly interested in that institution. 
I wished, however, that he could have come 
here and lectured for himself, on the strength 
of his literary attainments. For John Boyle 
O'Reilly is really a literary genius. He has 
the immortal gift of the gods. I said to a 
friend, when he was here, that O'Reilly de- 
serves to be called the Tom Moore of Amer- 
ica, and I am prepared to defend the title for 
him, should anyone choose to doubt its fitness. 
Some of the sweetest lyrics that have ever 
been written in the new world have come from 
his pen, and when I heard him speak at Me- 
chanics hall, and recite .some of the old Gaelic 
measures, I could readily understand why the 
musical quality of his verse is so pre-eminent. 
He has the music in his soul : that is very evi- 
dent, and his least pretentious poem has in it 
the swing and the passion that makes true 
poetry and causes us by comparison to class 
as commonplace drivel so much of the stuff 
that the magazines print nowadays. John 
Boyle O'Reilly is not only a sweet poet : he is 
a very pleasant gentleman, who makes you 
like him at once. I want to copy one of his 
poems— not one of the lofty ones, but just the 
three stanzas which he entitles "Jacqueminots," 
because it shows both his fire and his music at 
once. Here is the poem : 

I may not speak in words, dear, but let my words be 
flowers, 
To tell their crimson secret In leaves of fragrant fire i 



They plead for smiles and kisses as summer fields for 
showers, 
And every purple veinlet thrills with exquisite desire. 

O let me see the glance, dear, the gleam of soft confes- 
sion, 
Vou Hive my amorous roses for the tender hope they 
prove ; 
And press their heart-leaves back, love, to drink their 
deeper passion. 
For their sweetest, wildest perfume is the whisper of 
my love. 

My roses, tell her, pleading, all the fondness and the 
sighing, 
All the longing of a heart that reaches thirsting for its 
bliss; 
And tell her, roses, tell her, that my lips and eyes are 
dying 
For the melting of her lovelook and the rapture of her 
kiss. 



Why is it that the people who have occasion 
or desire to present amateur dramatic enter- 
tainments for the amusement of their friends 
or the replenishing of whatever treasury may 
have claims upon them, do not more frequent- 
ly select something besides tho.se ghastly 
affairs that mascjuerade as tragedy under such 
names as "Hearts Rent Asunder"" or "The 
Hidden Will," or something of that sort.' 
They are such absurd things, and yet not ab- 
surd enough to be funny. Now, the bright 
little entertainment at Mrs. J. Edwin Smith's, 
not a great while ago, was something like the 
po.ssibilities in amateur dramatics which I 
have in mind. I went into the oflice of a pro- 
fessional friend of mine, a day or two since, 
and he read to me something in which he said 
he had been finding infinite amusement. It 
was the bright little comedy "Engaged," in a 
collection of W. S. Gilbert's plays. I sup- 
pose that a part of the charm that it had for 
me was due to the delightful manner of my 
friend in reading it, but at any rate, it occurred 
to me that it would be just the thing for some 
of our local stage amateurs to try — that or 
something like it. 



One of Worcester's lovers of the beautiful 
in art as well as in nature, said to me on the 
evening of the Sarsate-D'Albert concert: 
"When they asked me what I liked 
best in the concert, 1 said, 'Well, I felt as if I 
was in a big clump of pink and white arbutus 
and that I didn't know which to pick first.' " 
Such feeling so expressed is what more of us 
need. 



A pretty good story came to me the other 
day, concerning a recent predicament of a 
modest young man, who is a coming Gideon of 
Worcester's legal fraternity. He went down 
to Wellesley — of course there is only one thing 
to go to Wellesley for — and made a call. When 
tea-time came, the young lady took him down 
stairs, and he left his hat and coat on the sofa 
in the reception room. There was to be a ger- 
man that evening, and a stroll was suggested 
as a pleasant way of occupying the hour or 
more between tea-time and the dancing. Then 
the young man went for his hat ; but it had de- 
parted. He hunted without avail for some 
time, and finally summoned his fair com- 
panion, who joined in the search. Pretty soon 
the matron came along and she took a hand in 
it, and then some of the other college ladies 
became interested. They hunted all over the 
place, and still the hat was missing. It was 
finally suggested that Rover, "the dog of the 



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family," might be the guilty one, and finally, 
far out on the lawn, was found a wire rim and 
a dilapidated mass of stiff felting— the rem- 
nants of the hat. Of course the young ladies 
were very sorry and expressed the deepest 
solicitude, but an occasional smile escaped 
them. But what was the young man to do.' 
"Dunlaps" are not greatly in vogue at Welles- 
ley, and he didn't have his trunk with him. 
Tlie young ladies, however, thought they could 
find a head-piece for him, and they brought 
out all .sorts of hat.s, large ones, small one.s, 
straw ones, felt ones, and he tried them on. 
The girls had a lot of fun. In the end, the un- 
fortunate young man selected a felt hat— one 
of these wide-brimmed ones, with the crown 
running up to a point, which the girls wear on 
the tennis court — as best suiting his style of 
beauty. He trimmed the rim down and wore 
it over to the german, and then into Boston, 
that night. Gov. Brackett was on the train, 
but the Worcester young man got the greater 
share of the passengers' attention. He has 
accepted an invitation to "call again," and is 
going out, he says, to return the hat — and 
bury Rover! 



The Chatham Base Ball Club has been 
uniformed by Holland & Havener, in Yale 
gray with black trimmings, with black and 
white Jersey shirts. 



Worcester Li(;iiT, under the editorial J man 
agement of Mr. Nathaniel C. F"owler, jr., con- 
tinues to improve with each issue. It can well 
claim the title of an ideal society newspaper. 
Starting as it did with progressive ideas of 
style and make-up, it was able to imitate the 
periodical form of the literary weekly, and to 
adopt a style of its own, which at once com- 
mands the attention and interest of the intelli- 
gent reader. We join hosts of our newspaper 
brethren in predicting that LicHT is destined 
to increase in brilliancy, and that the pockets 
of its proprietors will so be filled with the oil 
of gladness that its columns will never grow 
dim. — Milton A'cws. 



A meeting of Swedes living in Worcester 
was held recently to discuss the advisability 
of importing a physician of their own nation- 
alty from the other side. It was decided to 
write to Sweden to learn whether there are 
any physicians in that country willing to come 
to Worcester and settle. — Medical Record. 



Mrs. Daniel Merriman has presented the 
Central Congregational Sunday-school with a 
beautiful banner. The banner is of white silk 
exquisitely embroidered with lilies and other 
flowers. 



The Pittsfield G?// is just a little over a year 
old, yet it is the brightest, the most indepen- 
dent, and the most newsy paper in western 
Massachusetts. It is owned by hard working 
newspaper men who know their busine.ss from 
the bottom. It is clean and pure in tone, and 
it calls a spade a spade every time. It is 
afraid of nothing, always backing the right. 
It is the only paper in New England, except 
Lkiht, and not excepting the religious publica- 
tions, which will not accept advertisements of 
catarrh cures and other illegitimate nostrums, 



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Cast-iron Kindness. 

BY FLORENCE B. HALLOWELL. 



In the small, cosey kitchen of a cottage on a 
country road, a tall, thin woman, with a black 
worsted cape around her shoulders, was busy 
trying out lard on the stove; and a small boy 
with a round, freckled face, and very light 
hair, was standing by a window looking out on 
the back yard. Every moment or two he 
would turn half-way round, and give a timid 
look at the woman, as if he wanted to say 
something, but didn't dare venture to say it, 
and any sudden movement on her part made 
him start violently. When at last he summoned 
courage to speak, it was in a low, hesitating 
voice, and with his eyes on the rag carpet at 
his feet. 

"Aunt Nancy," he said, "there's to be a 
Christmas tree at the schoolhouse. Can't I 
go ?" 

"No; you know very well you can't," an- 
swered Miss Nancy. "I don't hold with any 
such foolishness. You go to school to learn 
your books, not to get your head stuffed full o' 
silly notions." 

"All the boys are goin'," stammered little 
Ben, "'n' it's only once a year, you know." 

"It wouldn't make no dif'rence to me if the 
hull county was agoin'." 
"Then can I go skatin' ?" 
"Skatin'! Well, I never did! No; you 
can't. All children seem to think about nowa- 
days is idling away their time. What you can 
do is to go upstairs in the east room, and take 
a teaspoonful o' that cough syrup. And then 
you can go out in the woodshed'n split some 
kindlin'. I took charge o' ye, 'n' I've got to 
render an account o' my stewardship, 'n' a 
a pretty sort o' account it'd be, if I let you go 
runnin' around the best part o' your time." 

"It's so bitter," whimpered Ben. "An' my 
cough's better, anyhow." 

"All the more reason why you should keep on 
takin' it. What if 'tis bitter.? Lots o' things 
in this world are bitter'n that, as you'll find 
out if ye live long enough." 

Ben went reluctantly from the room, his arm 
crooked around his face to hide his tears. It 
was a great disappointment to him that he was 
not to go to the Christmas tree. He had been 
trying for three or four days to get courage to 
speak to his aunt abou't it, and he had been 
hopeful that she would let him go. 

He found the bottle of cough syrup with a 
teaspoon beside it, and he slowly measured 
out the dose, and swallowed it with awry face. 
As he put the spoon down again he wished 
Aunt Nancy would leave out the genetian the 
next time she made it, and he wished the 
bottles were not so big, and that he dared pour 
half of the syrup out of the window. 

Miss Nancy really meant to do her duty by 
Ben. She would have nursed him day and 
night had he been sick; and she made many 
sacrifices for the sake of giving him a home. 
She did not know how to be tender and gentle 
with him. She didn't understand boys, and she 
was afraid of spoiling him if she rela.xed at all 
the stern discipline which she thought was 
necessary for his well-being. 

She was putting some cracklings into a small 
tin pail when Ben entered the kitchen again. 
"I want you to take this pail o' cracklin's 



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over to Miss Betty Pond's, Ben," she said. 
"Ye can leave the kindlin's till ye get back." 

"It's two miles," faltered Ben, "'n' it's goin' 
to snow, too." 

"Well, 'n' what's two miles? In my day a 
boy stout as you be didn't think nothin' o' two 
miles. An' it won't snow 'nough ter hurt ye." 
"Can I wear my best pants?" 
"Your best pants ! Just ter go ter Miss 
Betty's! Whot under the canopy are ye 
thinkin' of, Benjamin? If I let ye wear them 
pants whenever ye took the notion they 
wouldn't be best very long." 

"But there's about fifty patches in these. 
Aunt Nancy." 

"Well, they're well set in. I take consid'ble 
pride in my patchin'." 

As she spoke she bustled Ben into his over- 
coat, clapped his cap on his head, and tied his 
tippet over his ear. It was a common, coarse 
gray yarn tippet, and Ben had ventured to 
say to his aunt when she presented him 
with it, that he would have rather had it red 
or blue ; but she had merely said in reply that 
he ought to be thankful he had a tippet at all. 
Miss Nancy stood at the window as he went 
out — such a funny little figure in his long, loose 
overcoat. It had once belonged to Miss 
Nancy's father, and had been altered to fit 
Ben — after a fashion. It had been very hard 
for him to wear it at first, the boys had made 
so much fun of him. 

As Ben turned the corner of the house he 
looked back and smiled, and then the end of 
his tippet blew across his freckled little face, 
and Miss Nancy turned away from the window 
quickly, remembering that it was bad luck to 
watch any one out of sight. 

Miss Nancy was too busy during the next 
two hours to think of anything but her work. 
But it struck her at last that the kitchen was 
growing darker all the time, and looking from 
the window she saw to her surprise that a heavy 
snow was falling. She wondered if Miss Betty 
had induced Ben to stay to dinner, and the 
thought caused her a little uneasiness. Dinner 
time came, and Ben had not come, and it was 
snowing hard. She was too uneasy to eat, and 
the dinner was put away. 

But as the slow hours slipped away, and the 
little boy did not come. Miss Nancy became 
really worried. 

Her keen anxiety caused her feelings 
towards Ben to soften wonderfully. She called 
to mind how willing he always was to run on 
errands, to split kindlings, and no matter how 
cold the morning he was always up by five 
o'clock to build the kitchen fire. 

Perhaps she had been a little hard on him — 
particularly about the patched clothes. That 
suit should go to little Zeke Mullen as a Christ- 
mas present the very next day. And about 
the Christmas tree — well, she would have to 
think that over a little. 

The snow was already over a foot deep. 
Ben would have hard work wading through 
the drifts on the country road ; he was such a 
little fellow. But he had plenty of courage, 
and wouldn't give up easily ; and yet two 
miles ! That was a long distance for a boy 
of only ten years old to walk with the snow in 
his face. 

Four o'clock ! Miss Nancy counted the 
strokes with a nervous terror at her heart she 
had never felt before. She rose from her 



chair, threw down her sewing with a look of 
resolution on her face. 

Going to a peg behind the kitchen door she 
took down a thick waterproof cloth cloak, put 
it on, and stepped out into the snow. 

The wind was blowing a gale, the sleet and 
snow cut her face, and the snow had drifted 
so high against the gate that she could not 
open it. The snow was above her knees, and 
every few yards she encountered a drift as high 
as her waist. Her anxiety about Ben increased. 
Occasionally she stopped, and called "Ben! 
Ben !" at the top of her voice. 

It was years since Miss Nancy had cried, 
but she cried now, the tears freezing on her 
cheeks. It was almost dark, and she was 
beginning to feel numb and very cold. But 
still she struggled on, and at last, she saw 
something that made her heart stop beating; — 
only the end of a gray yarn tippet fluttering in 
the wind from the middle of a snowdrift. She 
plunged forward with a great cry, was on her 
knees by the drift, pushing the snow from 
right to left, crying, sobbing, calling "Ben ! 
dear Ben !" and "O Ben ! Ben !" And at last 
she had him in her arms, her tears falling on 
his white, cold face and closed eyes, her 
kisses on his cold lips, chafing his small, cold 
hands, praying that he still lived. 

Through the driving snow, came the sound 
of a horse's whinny, the crunch of a sleigh, 
and a big, burly man in a fur coat was bending 
over her, had taken Ben from her, and lifted 
her into the sleigh, a familiar voice all the 
time asking her questions, which she felt too 
strangely stupid to answer. 

A little later she found herself in her own 
little kitchen again, and the big man — 
she knew him now for Dr. Warren — had 
thrown off his fur overcoat, and was bending 
over a little figure lying on the sofa. She 
heard him ask her to get some blankets, and 
watched him stupidly as he went into the end 
room and got them himself. 

"What's the matter.'"' asked the doctor, 
glancing around at her. Don't you want to 
help? Don't you know it's your boy — Ben — 
I 've got here ?" 

"Yes, I know," she said slowly. "You 
needn't tell me — he's dead ! O, Ben ! Ben !" 

She .staggered forward, the room seemed to 
go whirling round her, and she fell senseless 
by the old sofa, her arms outstretched toward 
the motionless figure lying there. 

"To faint ! At your time of life ! You 
ought to be ashamed of yourself. Is he dead? 
No he isn't ; nor likely to be either. There, 
drink this. Now, you feel better. The idea of 
fainting! 1 wouldn't have believed it of you, 
Nancy Brown." 

Miss Nancy sat up and looked around her, 
conscious that her hair was "all mussed up," 
and that water was trickling down her neck. 

"He's in the next room," said the doctor, an- 
swering her look. "Had to 'tend to him first, 
of course. You can go in to see him if you 
like." 

Miss Nancy with the doctor's help, walked 
into the next room, where a big fire was burn- 
ing on the wide hearth, and on the bed — on 
the best counterpane, as Miss Nancy noticed, 
but without irritation, lay a small figure 
covered with blankets. Two soft blue eyes 
opened as she approached the bed, and a faint 
smile brightened the freckled face which had 



never appeared to Miss Nancy so gentle and 
sweet as now. 

"I oughtn't to have stayed at Miss Betty's, I 
know," said a weak little voice. "Please don't 
be mad." 

Miss Nancy sat down on the side of the 
bed, and, bending over, kissed tlie freckled 
little face very tenderly. 

"I'm glad you're looking so bright," she 
said. "Vou must be well's ever ter morrow, 
for I calculate ter send ye over ter the school- 
house ter the Christmas tree yer was tellin' 
'bout ; 'n' I want ye to go time "nough ter stop 
at old Chloe's an' give Zeke that old patched 
suit ye've been wearin' so long. And if it's 
so's I can, I want ter walk ter the village to- 
morrow 'n' get the stuff to make ye a red tip- 
pet. Ye can have it blue, though, if ye'd like 
that better." 

Two soft little naked arms stole about Miss 
Nancy's neck. 

"O, Aunt Nancy, what makes you so good 
to me ?" whispered the faint voice, "I haven't 
done anything." 

"Good to you !" said Miss Nancy. "O, 
Ben!" 

And the doctor said: "Crying! At your 
time of life ! Why, Nancy Brown !" and went 
out into the kitchen again, blowing his nose 
vigorously on a red silk handkerchief almost as 
big as a Hag. 



Art in Dusting. 

It makes one feel pleasant at once to go into a 
cheerful, tidy room, no matter what the furni- 
ture is, no matter if the carpet is old and 
faded, if the room is nicely dusted, and the air 
fresh, it makes one feel good. 

First and last, a large, soft cloth is necessary 
in dusting. Begin in one corner and work all 
around to where you began, taking every chair, 
table, picture and all woodwork in the path. 
The windows should be wiped off also. It is 
not necessary to sweep before dusting, but we 
should dust every day. A feather duster is 
not nearly so good as a soft cloth, for by flirt- 
ing the dust into the air it settles right back, 
and the room is no fresher than it was before 
the dusting. 

The windows should be opened every day, 
and fresh air allowed to just fill the room. 
While dusting it is very easy to put chairs in 
their proper places, pin tidies straight, put the 
books in order, wipe off the tablespread and 
shake the rugs. The whole will not take more 
than five or ten minutes, and the result well re- 
pays one for the slight trouble and exertion. 

If cloth furniture is wiped off with a slightly 
dampened cloth it will be much freshened 
thereby. There is lots of dust on furniture that 
would not be noticed. Everything should be 
wiped oft' just the same as though we could see 
the dust thick. Because we can't see it, it is no 
reason it is not there. Besides all this, the 
dust can be smelled, and it fills one's lungs by 
being breathed, and in the end is very bad. 
A child can be tauglit to dust well, and it is 
quite a help to a mother to have the sitting- 
room or parlor attended to each day, and not 
have to think of it herself. I once heard a 
lady say of a little girl, ".She is the best duster 
I ever saw." So I noticed one day, and soon 
knew the reason. She went over everything 
in the room and left nothing.— .y. L. T. in Bos- 
ton Budget. 



Worcester Coal Mine. 



liY H. H. CHAMHKKI.IN. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Al)out the time that the digging of coal was 
abandoned, one of our late townsmen, Mr. K. 
P. Oliver, used some of the oil and debris in 
the manufacture of stin>e polish, which proved 
to be of superior quality, and found a ready 
sale ; after his too early death his widow pur- 
sued the business for some time, but finally 
abandoned it, perhaps for more congenial oc. 
cupation. 

The large amount of silica in the mineral 
made it difficult to pulverize it to the requisite 
fineness, but this ingredient added much to the 
brilliancy of the commodity, and rendered it, 
when properly prepared, the finest and most 
brilliant polish in the world. 

Had the gentleman who founded the busi- 
ness lived to realize its immense capabilities — 
political as well as financial — and had he 
pushed the business with sufl'icient energy, 
enterprise and brass — had he placed it on the 
market under some taking title, such for in- 
stance as the "Arcturus Star Polish" or the 
"Rising Moon .Shine" he might long ago have 
been in congress and perhaps he would be now 
shining in some circle of society where "pol- 
ish" is the only requisite. The testimony as to the 
value of this mineral as a fuel is very conflict- 
ing, and it is difficult to decide the question 
when "doctors disagree." 

Professor Hitchcock in his "Geological Re- 
port" published in 1835 says we have in the 
United States, at least three extensive deposits 
of anthracite — the largest is in Pennsylvania, 
the next largest is in Rhode Island and the 
smallest in Worcester ;" and further on he says 
— "the extensive and rapidly increasing de- 
mand for the Pennsylvania coal is a conclu- 
sive testimony as to its first rate excellence, 

* * * * the best Rhode Island is 
not greatly inferior ; the Worcester coal burns 
with more difiiculty, but it may be employed 
successfully and comfortably for fuel * * 

* * and for many purposes be exceed- 
ingly valuable. 

"Indeed I predict that ere long the anthra- 
cite of Rhode Island, and even that of Worces- 
ter, will be considered by posterity, if not by 
the present generation, as a treasure of great 
value." 

Again he says — "The Worcester coal being 
found in the earlier formations than either of 
the others mentioned, might be expected to 
contain the least hydrogen; the quantity of car- 
bon, however, is as great as that in either of 
them, and its specific gravity is greater. * 

* * * I can hardly believe that coal 
which contains not less than ninety percent, of 
carbon should not be employed as valuable 
fuel. 

On the other hand, the distinguished geolo- 
gist, Lyell, writing in 1844, says: "A bed of 
plumbago and impure anthracite, interstrati- 
fied with mica schi.st, occasionally iridescent, 
has been worked in Worcester, Cumberland 
and Mansfield. In 1884, Mr. Jo.seph H. Perry, 
one of the accomplished corps of teachers in 
the High .School, found at the old mine a spec- 
imen of the very rare fossil coal plant 'Lfpido- 
dendron {Sagcitarid) acuminaium,^ which was 
noticed in the American Journal of Science 



\2 

for February, 1885. "Mr. Perry notices a 
thorough working over of the rocks, contain- 
ing the carboniferous deposit, which has trans- 
formed it into graphite." 

His investigation goes to confirm the re- 
ports of other geologi.sts as to the nature of 
the deposits. 

Dr. Kinnicutt of the Polytechnic Institute 
has just .sent me the following analysis : Wate r 
2.61 percent.; coal and graphite, 55.7 per cent. ; 
ash, silica, etc., 41.3 per cent.; sulphur and 
phosphorus, 36 per cent.; equals 99.67— this 
from a collection of specimens taken from the 
mouth of the mine. 

Professor Clarke, of the -Smithsonian Insti- 
tute, of whom I have made some inquiries, 
speaks rather disparagingly, and I may almost 
say disrespectfully of our mine. He says: "The 
coal of the old Worcester coal mine is really a 
graphite anthracite, and the iniquity of it, as a 
fuel, is that it contains from 40 to 50 per cent, 
of ash, incombustible siliceous matter. 

To use a very old "Jo. Miller," "When the 
world is consumed by fire, the safest place for 
a poor sinner will be on a block of Worcester 
coal." 

The above "Jo Miller" was long ago perpet- 
rated about the Rhode Island. Such infidel 
scorners are ju.stly rebuked by the poet Bryant 
in his "Reflections on the Rhode Island Coal 
Mine": — 

Dark Anthracite that ruUciicst on my hearth 

Thou in those island mines did sUimber long; 
But now tliou art come forth to move the earth, 
And put to shame the men that mean thee wrong. 
Thou shall be coals of lire to them that hate thee, 
And warm the shins of all that under-ratethee. 
Yea, they did wrong thee foully — they who mocked 
Thy honest race and said thou wouldst not burn ; 
Of hcwitig thee to chimney-pieces talked, 
And grew profane — and swore, in bitter scorn. 
That men might to thy inner caves retire. 
And there, unsingcd, abide the day of fire" 

It is quite possible that the statements 
of the Spy, penned under the excitement of its 
youthful enthusiasm, (for it was then only fifty 
years old) must be taken with some grains of 
salt ; but it may be said, in extenuation of this 
one instance, that during the last seventy 
years this excellent paper has never been guilty 
of a like extravagance. 

Now, making all due allowance for a residuum 
of error on the statements of the 6/j', Professor 
Hitchcock and others, on one side, and the 
imperfect analysis of professional gentlemen 
on the other, there is still a broad margin of 
doubt, as to the actual value of our coal; and 
it is possible that the time is not distant, when 
a further investigation of the mine, and care- 
ful, scientific experiments in its u.se, may de- 
velop in it a great and unexpected value. 



I^r. Beyerinck, one of the most distinguished 
naturalists in Holland, has been investigating 
the origin of the masses of gum collecting on 
the limbs of certain trees, especially plum, 
apricot and others bearing stone fruits. He 
finds that the exudation is due to a disea.se 
produced by the presence of parasitic fungi ; 
and when healthy trees are inoculated with the 
gum thus produced, they speedily contract the 
di.sorder, which is highly contagious. The 
disease is disseminated by the drying of the 
gum by oxidation, and its circulation in the 
wind, which thus wafts the germs for many 
rods, so that one diseased tree may infect a 
whole plantation. 



u 



Stitcherv. 



BY SUSIE L. LAWRENCE. 



The distance from the magnificent frescoes 
of Michael Angelo and Raphael to the simple 
piece of needle-work used to while away an 
hour of busy idleness may seem too great for 
them to be mentioned in the same breath; but, 
although the one is done with the brush and the 
other with the needle, the motive for both is the 
same — to give beauty to an otherwise dull or mo- 
notonous surface. To embroider is to paint with 
the needle ; decorative painting is embroidery 
with the brush. Embroidery is used only upon 
flexible materials, but painting may be used 
upon either fixed or flexible surfaces, alone or 
in combination with threads of metal, silks, 
flax or cotton. Yet the same purpose, the ex- 
pression of an idea, runs through it all, from 
the highest to the lowest form of art. That 
the Greeks looked upon the subject, from this 
standpoint, is proved by their applying the 
same word "techne" to the work and skill of 
the artist, as to that of the artisan. A dis- 
tinguished writer upon art has said: "All 
epochs of a healthy art life developing itself 
freely from the popular mind, accord in this 
point, that handicraft is in them in.separably 
connected with art ; that the one unfolds on the 
solid technical soil of the other, investing it in 
consequence with a higher dignity and a stamp 
of greater nobleness." 

Stitchery — an old English word used by 
Skakespeare in many places — has again taken 
its place among the fine arts. The word has a 
quaint, old-time sound, brmging up visions of 
gentle ladies sitting in stately mansions of 
olden times, surrounded by fair maidens, lis- 
tening to minstrel or minnesinger chanting 
melodious lays to the tinkling of lute or guitar. 
It associates itself with all that "artistry of 
life," that Bulwer describes. It suggests the 
song of birds and the hum of bees and the 
scent of flowers and sunny skies and plashing 
fountains. We feel the stillness and calm and 
content of a world at peace and at ease ; the 
fullness of a heart at rest. What more en- 
chanting subject for an artist than a beautiful 
maiden wmding herself around the heart of a 
man as be holds the skein which she deftly 
winds into a ball for her work. It is the sym- 
bol of like — love and work. And when the ball 
is wound then begin those witching stitcheries 
that fashion has again decreed that young and 
beautiful fingers should busy themselves with, 
as did their grandmothers in the long, long 
ago. 

Just at present the desire to decorate the 
dining-room and chamber leads to the use of 
linen more than any other one material. Yet 
the drawing-room and the reception-room de- 
mand their share of skill and good taste. A 
mantle scarf of antique satin of a sage green 
color embroidered in shades of shrimp pink 
and olive green is as beautiful a decoration as 
art can suggest. Bolting cloth lined with a 
silvery tinted cliina silk with a design of an in- 
fant Bacchus standing on tiptoe with upturned 
face gatliering grapes from an overhanging 
vine makes a beautiful screen for a fire place. 
For five o'clock teas, an exquisite design for a 
"violet embroidered" tea cloth has the flowers 
of a violet or opaline tint caught in festoons 
with love-knots of a pale pink ribbon, while 



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another has clusters of poppies entangled with 
pale blue ribbon in the four corners. Dresden 
china designs and Watteau tones of color run 
through all the results that are seen in decora- 
tive needlework. 

Space fails for giving all the beautiful ideas 
that the subject' suggests— the handkerchief 
cases : the glove cases, photograph cases, book 
covers, all worked on white or brown linen in 
dainty patterns with more or less addition of 
Japanese gold thread; the doylies of every 
kind and for every purpose, some with mottoes, 
as one for an olive dish, with a line from Celia 
Thaxter, "Bring to my friend the olive bough 
of peace," are new and beautiful. Others 
are in shape of leaves worked in white or the 
natural color of the leaf. A lunch cloth has 
Burn's grace: 

"Some ha meet wha canna eat 
And some ha nane who want it. 
_ But we ha meet and we ca eat, 
.\nd so the Lord be thanke't." 
A pretty motto for a bassinette cover is 
"Sweet shall your welcome be." And for a 
bed spread for the guest chamber is a lotus de- 
sign taken from an Assyrian model thousands 
of years old. 

But when we begin to consider all the differ- 
ent stitches that are used the list is long. No 
piece of work now is executed in less than 
throe or four different stitches ; and even ten 
or twelve can be introduced into the same ar- 
ticle. Indeed there is no limit but that of good 
taste. Perhaps the most beautiful stitch, 
because lending itself to the greatest variety of 
results, is the "long and short stitch," also 
called feather-edge and heavy outline. White 
is the color most commonly used, and when a 
second outline, in gold, green or porcelain blue 
is added, the effect is very beautiful. The 
feather stitch of our mothers can be expanded 
into a very complicated piece of work, or con- 
tracted into solid work. For working small 
leaves this is very effective. Button hole 
stitch is also capable of great varieties and 
modifications; in combination with the "long 
and short"' stitch gives the effect of applique. 
Point lace stitches in endless variety are used 
for filling in to give effect either in design or 
as background. Darning, so necessary in our 
domestic economy, is used to produce the effect 
of shading, and lends itself to the most artistic 
results. A stitch that is used with most pleas- 
ing effect is the Portugese stitch, revived from 
convent work of the fourteenth century. This 
couched in gold thread makes beautiful centre 
pieces and tea-cloths. Yet for those whose 
skill or ambition is not equal to such efforts, 
the double outline, where two threads are 
worked together, gives very satisfactory re- 
sults. 

When all these different stitches, or even a 
part, are used upon a tea cloth or centre piece 
for the dinner-table, wrought in some rare and 
pleasing design, they furnish incentives for 
hospitality that justifies the labor expended. 
How proud that mother who is able to display 
the results of her daughter's handicraft ; and 1 
think the gay young bride will feel surer of re- 
taining her liold upon her husband's affections 
if she can show him in these days of clubs and 
social demands that she can be both a 
"clubable fellow" and a domestic woman at 
the same time. For not all the culture and 
learning and social success in the world are 
worth the lessening of one home duty. But 



perhaps the most gratifying result of the ten- 
dencies of society to-day is that home life is 
clothed with a greater beauty than ever before. 
The desire to decorate may be abused ; but as 
principles of good taste and a tnie knowledge 
of color are obtained, the abuses of color will 
pass away. 

II 'orccster Mass. 



The Good Housekeeper. 

The housekeeper should never be in a hurry 
with her dinner. She should think beforehand 
what .she is to get, and go about it in a practi- 
cal manner, without becoming "nervous." If 
matters are prudently managed in the kitchen, 
.she will have nothing to worry about.A wonder- 
ful simplifier of work is to have a place for 
everything, and when it is used, to put every- 
thing back in its place. We sometimes wonder 
how many of the young ladies whom we meet 
with taper fingers and lily hands will make 
good, practical housewives. Many of them 
boast of their ignorance about household 
affairs, as if afraid it would lower them in the 
estimation of their friends to confess an ability 
to bake bread and do housework. A mother 
has no right to bring up a daughter without 
teaching her how to get a breakfast, dinner, 
and supper, and the different things which are 
requisite to keep a house tidy. She should be 
taught to give thought, care, and pains to 
housekeeping, so that her house shall be clean 
and healthful, and to be a intelligent, economi- 
cal cook. A woman should consider it an lionor 
to be called a good housekeeper, and should 
keep mind and body in a condition to faithfully 
perform her allotted work. 



House Plants in Summer. 

Whether greenhouse and window plants in 
general should be kept in their pots or turned 
into the open ground for the summer depends 
upon what is desired of them. Probably most 
plants can be trained into better forms in pots 
than in the open ground, and if one does not 
care for the labor, but seeks the best results in 
the form of his plants, continuous pot culture 
is the best. But to lessen labor most garden- 
ers now turn their greenhouse plants out of 
pots and into the open border for summer, and 
repot about the first of September. As a rule, 
planets are cut back when so turned out. Aza- 
leas may need attention to pruning some little 
time before they are put out. We prefer to 
plunge the pots of azaleas in sand in the gar- 
den, and not to turn them out, though some 
gardeners do so. Before these plants are 
turned out, and when they have done bloom- 
ing, the weak wood can be cut out and the 
shoots shortened, and a top-dressing of about an 
inch of fresh soil be given. 




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Out and About. 



Another paper prints the following: ''Miss 
Blank, formerly forelady at Mrs. Crank's, has 
severed her connection with that establishment, 
and may he now found" — and soon. As there 
is no such word as forelady, it is precisely as 
if she had registered at an hotel, "Miss Blank, 
lady." One who is capable of being a fore- 
woman in any business or work should feel 
sufficient pride in herself to have no false desire 
to force upon others the fact that she is also a 
lady. There are only two other sweeter words 
than woman, and they are mother and heaven. 



Once a lady, traveling alone in the west, late 
at night stood at the ticket window in a station, 
while a number of well dressed but boorish 
men jostled her and crowded back until she 
began to fear she would not be able to procure 
her ticket in time. She finally asked a man 
who was pushing through the crowd if he 
would get it for her, but was very indignant 
because she heard him say — although his tone 
was low and respectful — "There is a woman 
here who wishes a ticket to Tacoma." 



If you do not believe that every woman con- 
siders herself a lady, go into the kitchen and 
ask Bridget if she is a lady. See if she doesn't 
swell and grow purple with indignation, and 
exclaim: "Shure an' Oi om; a' 'f ye wur wan 
yersilf ye wudn't'v' ben afther axin' it!" 



England is in a state of virtuous indignation 
over the slave trade in Africa. Meantime in 
the English colony in Borneo, thousands of 
coolies, kidnapped from China, are held in ab- 
solute bondage from which the only release is 
death, for if they seek to escape they are hunted 
like wild beasts. Of course it is called "con- 
tract labor," but this is only the thinnest sort 
of a disguise for slavery of the worst sort. But 
just now English philanthropy's attention is 
turned towards Africa, and Borneo escapes it. 



The fashion of woman's clubs, of Brown- 
ing societies and history classes is growing 
and will be productive of good results. In the 
next generation of women it will be au fait to 
be called learned. 



Given a comfortable home and refined sur- 
roundings, and you have good behavior in a 
child. As a matter of fact, however, the loud 
and mischievous boys come from the big houses. 
The "shanty" children seem to represent law 
and order, for they are afraid of the law, while 
the well-to-do youngster often has nothing 
worse to bear than his mother's slipper. 



The Rev. Mr. X. is pastor of a congregation 
in a town not near Worcester. His hearers 
are among the richest people in town, but not 
celebrated for generosity in supporting the 
church. The good preacher has been trying 
to get the poor people to come to his church, 
and recently, through the columns of the local 
papers, extended to them a cordial invitation 
to attend. Last Sunday, at the close of the 
ser\'ice, he said : "I have tried to reach the 
poor of our town and induce them to come to 
our church, and break w^ith us the bread of 
life. I infer from the amount of the collection 
just taken— $7.35— that they have come." 



iii; LKiiii; m ladiis' coiioi mrnrn \ 

Headquarters at 498 Main Street. 





This (j.irji.L-iit (Jul) jj Lent,. 'l his C.irmeiit Only 25 Cents. 

A LOT OF COUSET COVEK.S, MADE OF Fit TIT OF ^LOOM COTTON, ONLY V, CENTS. 





This bkirt Unly fi ; W orth fi.;o. This Garment Only «i ; Usual Price $1.50. 

Ladies' White Skirts in Great Variety. 

liKlerskirts at 37c, 50c ami 7.">c. 

Extra Size C.ariiients a Specially. 



Wm. H. Burns & Co., 

Manufacturers. Retail Store, 498 Main Street, Worcester. 




STONE LAWN AND CEMETERY VASES. 

Objections are made to Iron, as it draws the heat of 
the sun, and consequently dries the earth, while the iron 
destroys the life of the plants. Iron also necessitates fre- 
quent painting. These great objections are entirely over- 
come by this material, the nature being such that it ad- 
mits the air to the roots and retains the moisture. 

They are made in beautiful patterns, as shown in the 
annexed cut, and in color closely resemble light granite. 

They are warranted not to be injuriously affected by 
the heat in summer, or frost in winter, and they continually 
harden by exposure. 

NEALE & GOULDING, 

171 Main Street. 

Open Monday, Friday|and Saturday Evenings. 



16 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE I-UPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HKR KKSI1>ENCK, 39 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^-Ladies' ff Hair i Dressing-^ 

CHILliKKN'S UAIK-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 
387 Main St., Grout's ISloek, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— ANI> — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 

Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Eveoing Costumes 

MADK A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

S-^S ^v^ain St., I^ooam. 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMSH* 

No. 3S7 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices 



^H^WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL^^-:^ 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. W^ALCH, Sole Proprietor, 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

^^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

2^To. 2 •VsTalrL-cLt Street, 

MexicHU AVork, Kinbroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. REYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 

$1. CROPT. $1. 

New lot just received. Superior to any sold heretofore 
at this price. Other sets at ?i.75, #2.25, jf2.5o and $^.^0 
— worth more money. 

-f Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* STEINWAY PIANOS * 

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— Monday I dip my white clothes a piece at 
a time in warm water, rub plenty of soap on 
them, roll them up, and lay them in the tub 
with just water enough to keep them wet. In 
the morning I pour a kettle of hot water on 
them, put them through this water, and again 
through a generous tubful of blueing water, 
and hang them out. Then I rub the colored 
clothes out of the dirty suds, and rub them 
again through the water. I rinse the white 
ones through first, using some soap in the latter. 
Then rinse well. I find that dirty suds don't 
hurt clothes if they are rinsed well and not 
dried with it in thtm. Also that clothes do 
not look any better for boiling. — Af/s. T. 

— When a sponge has become slippery and 
disagreeable to the touch the following simple 
method will be found very efficacious in clean- 
ing it: Put a piece of common soda, about the 
size of an egg, into a quart of boiling water; 
allow it to stand untill just brisk warm, by 
which time the sodawill be entirely dissolved, 
then put in the sponge; let it remain for half 
an hour, then squeeze it thoroughly, extracting 
as much of the slimy substance as possible. 
Repeat the process, using clean water prepared 
as above, until the sponge feels soft and pleas- 
ant to the touch. Two waters are generally 
sufficient to effect the purpose. 

— Cut a cucumber into strips and put into all 
places where ants are found, and it will surely 
drive them away. 

— Many housekeepers need warning against 
the frequent use of feather dusters. These 
dusters simply chase the particles from the 
furniture into the air, where they are inhaled. 
A soft cloth is good, and a chamois is some- 
times better, for a duster. 

— Borax water is excellent for sponging 
either silk or wool goods that are soiled enough 
to need washing. In washing cashmere or 
wool goods, put a little borax in the water. 
This will cleanse them much more easily and 
better, without injury to the colors. Do not 
rub them on a board, but use the hands, and 
throw on a line without wringing. Press them 
on the wrong side, and they will look almost 
like new. 

— The method of cleaning furs practised in 
Russia, the land of furs, is given in a recent 
number of La Science Illustre. It is as fol- 
lows : Rye flour is placed in a pot and heated 
upon a stove, with constant stirring as long as 
the hand can bear the heat. The flour is then 
spread over the fur and rubbed into it. After 
this, the fur is brushed with a very clean brush, 
or, better, is gently beaten until all the flour is 
removed. The fur thus treated resumes its 
natural lustre and appears as if absolutely new. 

— Ammonia will frequently restore colors 
that have been spoiled by acids. 

— When any person finds it easier to sit, or 
stand, or walk, or sleep in a crooked position 
than a straight one, such person may be sure 
his muscular system is badly deranged, and the 
more haste that man or woman makes to hold 
the spine straight the better. 



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The Largest Store and Stock 

IN WORCESTER. 



J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT* 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 




MANUFACTURERS OF 



Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FKAMKS KE-GILDKD. 

OLU KNGKAVINGS BLEACHKD. 

.30 Foster Street, Opp. liillk, Worcester, Mass. 

* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. * 

Ottlce, First National Bank Buildings, 

•410 Ilvdiaim. St., ■^^7'orcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TAXMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

F'ictiare Frame M'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Kiigravings, Ftchings, and Art Goods. 

Cankeras, Lenses. Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Park St., Worcester. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing; a Specialty. 

NO, 32 PEARL STKEKT. 

A Splendid 14-inch 

Lawn Mower 

For 
At 

WHITE & COHANT'S, 

542 Main St., Franklin Sq. 



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The apparatus shown by the above cut is 

that of a "Home Treatment." 



More than 17,000 reputable physicians — many 

of them eminent in their profession 

— in the United States, 

use Oxygen. 



500,000 gallons were administered in disease 

in New York city alone last year. Let 

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Oxygen is a valuable 

therapeutic. 

Send for Pamphlets, or call at rooms and see 

more than 100 testimonials from well 

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NO. 37 PEARL STREET, 

Rooms 2 and 3 Clmpin Block, 

T^T" orcester, 3>v<r ^ s s, 

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380 Main St., cor. AValmit. 

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Compromise Bodice, 
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Bodices and 

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Can be Permanently Eradicated by the 

Electric Needle F*rocess. 

No scarring or other injury; no return of the hair 
after the first removal. There is now no excuse for any 
lady to allow a growth of hair to remain upon her face 
to mar her personal beauty and to make her friends un- 
happy. MKS. H. M. I'ROCTOK. Wi SUMMKU ST. 
Hours. Q to II A. M.; 2 t04 p. m. 



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F. W. FIELD, 

Professional M anipulator. 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 

2 to 9 p. M. Sundays, 

9 to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House. 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New Vork Training School, gives 

^^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



LT(i H T 

Food tor Serious Thought. 

J't) the Editor of Light : 

"Is Worcester a musical city.?" has been 
asked, and much as we would like to have it 
.so, we say most emphatically, No! 

When a city containing such cultured, 
intelligent inh.abitants as Worcester, will allow 
an organization like the ( iounod Club to strug- 
gle along through three or four seasons of dis- 
couragement, on account of lack of sufficient 
hearty support, which would enable the club to 
do even better work than it has ever yet done, 
we say that Worcester is not a musical city, 
and cares little for the advancement of music 
as an art. 

Let us look for a moment at facts. Tickets 
for the concerts of the Gounod Club (until the 
season just closed) have been placed at the low 
price of five dollars for the sea.son, to the asso- 
ciate members, who had, in return, four tickets 
to each of the four concerts given during the 
season, thus allowing the subscriber the privi- 
lege of hearing a body of Worcester's best 
vocalists in part-songs, glees and music wholly 
unfitted for the tnuch larger band constituting 
the grand chorus of the musical Festival, 
(thus giving variety); for the work of tliis club 
does not in any way conflict with the great 
work of the Festival and ought to receive the 
same hearty support extended to that associa- 
tion. Besides the chorus of forty or fifty 
selected voices in tlie Gounod Club, the finest 
soloists to be olitained from other cities have 
been engaged for each concert. All this has 
been given the associate members for the 
munificent sum of thirty-one and one quarter 
cents a concert ! 

This past year the tickets were placed at 
three dollars for the season, giving to each 
subscriber two tickets for each of the three 
concerts of the season, hoping in this way to 
obtain more subscribers, so that the work of 
the club might be enlarged. Even at this low 
price, the members of the club, besides giving 
their time and strength to frequent rehearsals, 
and paying each one his or her own subscrip- 
tion fee, have been obliged to ask their friends 
to buy tickets that the expenses might be met. 

I3oes this show Worcester to be a musical 
city, or that it has any desire to encourage 
home talent ? We all have a lively remem- 
brance of the fine club of male voices — "The 
Schumann Club," — which died from lack of 
support. Will Worcester allow the Gounod 
Club to meet such an untimely end ? The 
subscription list should be large enough to en- 
able the director to enlarge the club, have 
orchestral assistance, engage and fill a larger 
hall, and extend the work in many directions, all 
of which is impossible without proper support. 

Mr. Anderson has been most faithful and 
conscientious in his care and attention to re- 
hearsals, (as all who have heard the concerts 
will aflirm), working far beyond his strength 
that the public might learn to appreciate and 
love the finest effects that can be prodijced by 
a choir of singers, each one of whom is quite 
capable of doing solo work if called upon. 
The singers themselves have, with a very few 
e.xceptions, attended every rehearsal faithfully 
through storm and sunshine, unless prevented 
by illness. 

All thanks are due to those who have each 
year paid their subscription joyfully, and en- 
joyed tlie concerts, but the club needs more. 
Alas for the reputation of Worcester ! Why 
cannot some of our loyal music-loving citizens 
step forward and put this organization upon a 
permanent, substantial basis, so that the club 
need not be hampered in efforts towards better 
work, and not be in fear and trembling lest 
they find themselves in debt at the end of the 
sea.son.? Is it too much to ask of Worcester 
to thus help prove her right to the title of 
"musical city" .? Musician. 



17 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



The Alaska Refrigerators are 
the Best in the World. 

That's a Broad Statement! 

That's a Plain Fact ! 

As Easy of Proving as of Saying! 

IIKKK'.S TIIK WAV-We know this to be the solid 
truth. We want you to know it. Vou can't prove 
iinythbti; on paper. Other people's statements don't 
amount to much; they may not be competent to 
judge, may not Ix; free from prejudice. You are the 
only one that can know what exactly suits you, and 
you can only know by trying. That's right, isn't it ? 

NOW— What we propose is just this: We say the 
Alaska will use less ice than any other refrigerator. 
We say the Alaska will keep provisions longer and 
in better condition than any other. We don't want 
you to have an Alaska until you prove for yourself— 
by actual trial at your home— these statements. We 
don't care what you may have been using. Here's a 
Ijt'tter. Take an Alaska. Give it an impartial trial. 
Pay us nothing until you assure yourself of the truth 
of what we tell you. 

ANOTHER POINT-Size for size, the Alaska re- 
frigerators as sold by us this season are cheaper in 
dollars and cents than those of any other reputable 
maker. We sell nothing but the Alaska at any price. 
Alaska Ice Chests, from $4 upward. Alaska Refrig- 
erators, from $8 upward. 

BY THE WAY— We've got 27 cripples, that is to say 
refrigerators that ain't just right in every way— all 
Alaskas— got knocked about on the cars, careless 
handhng at the store; once in a while one is ex- 
changed after a slight use for a smaller or larger one. 
ICvery one just as good as the best for service. No- 
body wants to pay full price, no matter how small 
the defect. You can see them handily this (Satur- 
day) morning, and buy for a fraction of the original 
price. Can give them tlie room but for three days— 
don't ask for them after Wednesday. 

EVERYBODY that has had the least experience 
knows that ice-cream can be made at home at less 
cost than it can be bought. What do you say to a 
further reduction of price? Only one place you can 
save— that's in ice. Here's a freezer— the "Gem"— 
freezes perfectly, takes but two-thirds ordinary quan- 
tity of ice to pack it— that's the story. Got to cheat 
the poor ice men every way we can this season. Our 
guarantee goes with every one. A little later— some 
time along in June— we are going to show you a few 
new "wrinkles" iii ice-cream making. Details in a 
later issue of "Light." 

A FINE, soft elastic feather duster costs about double 
the price of common sorts— it will serve you four 
times as long, and serve you well to the last. Econ- 
omy, as surely as two and two are four. 

HOT WEATHER house furnishings, as Lemon 
Squeezers, Ice Picks, Sprinklers, Refrigerator Pans, 
Gas Stoves, Water Coolers— no riff-raff, "something 
for nothing" wares, but goods that you can depend 
upon— "honest" prices— every day the year round. 

IN THE CROCKERY DEPART.MENT to-day we 
open nine new dinner sets— cheaper ones. Less than 
$11 buys any one of them. Look them over. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



15 

H* SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Claris B-a.ild.i3ag', -iSS l^ain. St. 

Room 42. Take Elevator. 

Next Term Begins April 24. 

Instruction given in Elocution, Vocal Technique and 
Physical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
taught Call, or send tor circular. Address Miss btella 
M.Haynes, principal, graduate of N. E. Conservatory 
School of Oratory. 

(Formerly with Dr. Cole.) 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

l-iiR L.Mill-S .\NU CHII.IJREN ONLY. 

3.53 Blaiii Street, Corner Maple, Worcester, Maaa. 

liyOffice hours— 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 
ment at th e homes of patients by appointment if desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

S3S ^./^aiDn. St., 
Fashionable Nlillinery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long experi- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 



WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Pupils should enter now in order to graduate in tirne 
for a position next fall or early winter. Terms reasonable. 
A limited number of pupils can be accommodated. Call 
or write for terms. 

O-eo. C Creelm.a,n., IFrirLcipal. 

44 F KONT ST., WOKCKSTER, MASS. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

Ibvdiiss S. Xj. IjaT77-re2n.ce, 
ROOM 30, - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $8 per set. 
All work warranted. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dved and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. AUA^/[S <& SON. 



E. L. S U M N E R, 

^ KROEGER&SONS g 
WHEELOCK & CO. i 



.«fer, (Over Pulii 
Kestaurant.) 



HAVE VOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEA.L" 
ONLY »l.^. RANTOS? only »ir.. 

ONLY SHI.'-.. Drt.lNJVJO.'- ONLY »!.'-,. 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's - Music ? House, 

4.! PLKASANT STKEKT. 



Mrs. Dr.Wm. Lee 



Burnside Building 
Room 5. 

Office hours: 9 tc 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




L I <a M T 

Some Smiles. 



Should be as Advertised. 

Mrs. PuNKiN (at the circus):— I dunno, 
Silas, about clinibin' 'way up on them seats ; 
they look pretty flimsy to me. 

Silas PuxKiN : — I guess they're all right. 
Don't you know what they said in the adver- 
tisements — secure seats. — Puck. 
A Rapid Improvement. 

"Well, my son, do you belong to any of the 
college societies as yet?" 

"No, father, but we formed a club at our 
table last week, and every one who swears or 
says anything that could shock the most sensi- 
tive mind has to pay five cents every time." 

"It pains me a little, my dear boy, to hear 
that any of your friends or even you, occa- 
sionally use such expressions, but 1 am truly 
pleased that you are trying to entirely break 
yourselves of the habit." 

"Yes, father, I think we will succeed in do- 
ing so, for it has only cost me two fifteen so 
far this week, and last week it was four twenty- 
five." — Harvard Lampoon. 
She Evidently Knew. 

Jones' wife was not a very bright woman, 
but she sometimes said things which were 
worthy of a wit. One day after doing or say- 
ing .something silly her husband snapped out : 
"Well, you are a little the worst 1 ever saw." 
"Why, what's the matter now ? Have I 
done anything wrong?" 

"I should say so. You don't know the dif- 
ference between a horse and a donkey, 1 don't 
believe." 

"I didn't say you were a horse, did I ?" she 
replied meekly, and Jones said no more. — 
Clinton Courant. 
Terrible Anguish. 

"Angelina," said her mother, why are you so 
dissatisfied ? Is not life worth living ?" 

"Oh, I don't know, ma. Just see how this 
skirt hangs." — St. Joseph News. 
They Fatten on It. 

I.NKANT Cockroach — Mamma, what is this 
substance that smells so agreeable ? 

Maternal Cockroach (rolling in it de- 
lightedly) — Insect powder, my child. They 
feed it to us every summer, but they're a little 
late this season. It came just in time. I was 
about to move into the next house. — Chicago 
Tribune. 
He Wanted a Drug Store. 

"Is there a drug store around here any- 
where ?" 

"Yes, there is a place below where they sell 
cigars and soda water." 

"I don't want cigars nor soda water, young 
feller. I want to look at a directory. — Boston 
Courier. 




/hoe HOUSE 
MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 



The best and highest grade pianos only. We 
sell no cheap goods. 



C.L 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine Htchiings. 



3SS 3\^.A.I1:T ST. 

If you want a piano tliat will last a life-time, 
get the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 
-A-T -A-TTCTIOiT. 

No. 19 Hacker St., a Double Cottage House 



each tenement. 

Very desirable for a home or as an investment. 
MAY 10. 1890, AT 3 O'CLOCK, P. M. 

Terms— $ioo down, and most of the rest can lay at 
per cent. W. C. BARNARD. 

H. M. CLEMENCE, Auctioneer. 



T. D. GARD, 

* Worker in Gold and Silver « 

AND REGALIA M'F'G'K, 

393 Main St., Up One Flight, Worcester, Mass. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattress of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 Park St., Worcester. 




E. A. RICH, 

WOOD YARD, NO. 731 MAIN STREET. 
Cut "Wood and Kind- 
lings of All Kinds. 

All orders promptly attended to. Postal cards furnished 

* GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

L M. ALEXANDER, 

At Hill & Tollman's old stand, 

195 FRONT ST. 
Ladies' Safeties a Specialty. 

to purchasers. Lady instructoi 
.Send for illustrated catalogue. 

PICTURES AND FRAMES 

Of every description on hand or to order at 

I. R EU B I N'S 

Picture Frame Manufactory Si General Art Store 

Studies to rent. Prompt attention, first-class worl 

and low prices are some of the good features of my bus 

iness. Call and investigate. I 

aao Main St., Worcester, Mass. 




NEW KODAKS! 




"You press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seveft New ^S^.\..•■. and Si/t'S, all I.oadi'il with 
TranspaiKiit Films. 
For sale by .ill Photo Stock Oe-ilurs. 

THK KASTMAN t'OMI'ANV, 
Send for catalogue. UOCIIKSTKK, N. V. 

THREEPOOL. FOU K AI.I.EVS. iWU C.VKOM 

WORCESTER 

Ten Pin, Billiard and Pool Hall. 




STKICTI>y TEMrEltATK. 

FlKST-fl.ASS THIJOIIOHOITT. 

Hours for ladies, 9 A. M. to 2 i*. m. 
37 Pearl Street. J. P. WHITE, Prop. 



Fire Insurance ! 

EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Established 18(J5.) 

The best goods, the most honorable deahng, and tlie 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS ANI3 ]VIIJS1C. 

454 MAIN STKEKT. 

-f PANSIEST- 

We have a fine assortment of pansies now ready. Bed- 
ding plants in variety. Fresh Cut Flowers at all times. 
Floral Designs for all occasions. 

Johnson & Wood, i3 Loudon Street. 

Imported F lower Seeds. 

FOR NURSERY STOCK 

GO TO 

THAYKR'S, 

S I^ipley Street, "^Tv^orcester. 

The nearest place, a large stock and low prices. One 
thousand apple trees to sell very low ; also pear, cherry 
andplum trees. Flowering shrubs, Almonds,Hydrangeas, 
Lilacs, Spireas, Deutzias, Forsythias, etc. One thou- 
sand Hybrid Perpetual Roses, at $2 per dozen and up- 
wards—the cream of 50a varieties. Also Hower seeds, 
flowers and funereal designs. 

Store, 330 Main Street, opp. Burnside Building. 
Telephone, CHAS. D. THAYER. 

A large stock of pansies and daisies for beds and 
vases. Call at greenhouses. 



ly"^! (J H T 

Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the l.i.li.s ,,l Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking ni ri|it. ulii.hihey have tried and 
proven to be good. 11, asr «,,!,■ nii,.n one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the oniniunitations to Culiii.iry 
Editor, LicllT, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



19 



( '//////(iiy Edilor of Light : — 

Mr.s. C. L. F. of Worcester contrihiiles :— 
A Fine Dessert. 

.Stir two large talflespoonful.s of torn starcli 
in a little cold water, and turn into one pint of 
boiling water, and cook three minutes. Heat 
the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth, stir 
into the corn starch, and steam in doulilc boil- 
er fifteen minutes. When done place a layer 
of the pudding in a dish and cover with a 
layer of strawberries or other fruit, and con- 
tinue until dish is full. Plain cream and sugar 
makes the best sauce for this. 
An Economical Breakfast Dish. 

Chop steak ([uite fine and grate into it 
crackers or dry bread. Season to taste with 
eggs, pepper and salt. Butter a muffin tin 
freely, then drop the prepared meat in the 
muffin rings, and bake a handsome brown. 



To Boil Spinach. 

Spinach is called by the French people the 
broom of the stomach, because it keeps that 
department of the interior in such fine order. 
Spinach will cook in ten minutes, and it will 
not taste like the sodden mass divested of all 
life that is usually served under that name. 
The water should be at the boiling point, and 
there should be a little salt in it, then put the 
conscientiously washed spinach into it ; it will 
not lose in bulk, and will retain its fiavor won- 
derfully. 
Pop Overs. 

Three cups of milk, three cups of flour, 
three eggs and a little salt. Drop into hot fat 
and they will pop over. 
One-Egg Cake. 

One and one-half cups of sugar, one cup of 
milk, one-half cup of butter, two and one-half 
cups of flour, two and one-half teaspoonfuls of 
leaking powder and one egg. 
Milk;Soup. 

Take one quart of milk, add a pinch of salt; 
beat one egg well, stir in flour to thicken that 
has one-fourth teaspoonful of baking powder 
mixed through it. Mi.x the eggs and flour so 
it will form lumps; when the milk boils, .stir 
tliem in and cook two or three minutes, and 
you will have a nice soup. 
Corn Pone. 

One cup each of corn meal and wheat flour; 
half a cup of sugar; sift one teaspoonful of 
cream tartar through these ingredients with a 
small teaspoonful of salt; add two beaten eggs 
and one cup of sour cream or one of sweet 
milk, with three tablespoonfuls of melted but- 
ter and a half tea.spoonful of soda. If you 
use the sour cream omit the cream tartar, liake 
three-quarters of an hour in a quick oven. 
Sweet Potatoes. 

Boil or steam large sweet potatoes; when 
done peel and slice lengthwise, half an inch 
thick ; spread each slice with butter, and 
sprinkle with white sugar; pour over them, 
when arranged in a baking dish, a cup of rich 
sweet milk or cream, and set in the oven until 
heated through. 



PLEASE NOTICE! 



WK HAVE 

MISS HACKETT'S 

Home-Made (linger Snaps. 

MKs. llUMl'm•;l■;^••s 

lloincMade Cake and Salted Almond.s. 

IIO.N. J. II. WALKKK'S 

Jersey Butter, fresh from his farm. 

W. S. LINCOLN'S 

Jersey Cream, fresh every day. 

TiiK OLD "Ji;ksi;v crkam" flour. 

Unsurpassed by any, at 

EBEN W. HOXIE'S, 

816, 818 and 3Q5 Main Street. 

"iioo.l Breii.l itiid Cake Doth Whet the Ap- 
petite." 

FiNB Bakery ! ! 

HlfJUK.ST OUAI.ITY ONLY. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASANT ST. 

All «;<>o<ls Hot at 3..«). 



ACME PLATING CO., 

GoUI. Silver and Nickel Platine, 

I'olishinc Bron/.Ing and Laequering, 

lieplating Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-pohshed. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PROP. 

Over Collar Laundry, Barton Place, Worcester, Mass. 



WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Blace. 

COLLAKS AND CUFFS I.AUNWKKED IN SU- 
PKKIOK STYLK. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and deUvered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & Co., PROLES. 



LE i JOLLY i FRENCH ^ DYEING 

AND * CLEANSING * HOUSE. 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Lacesand Lace Curt.uns, Gro.s & Strauss. 
Cot out thifi <'<Mip<>ii from I CTJ I 
LKiHT, an<l l>riiiK il "illi | g 
you and (,'et l<> per lent diK- I .g 
eount from re;;olar priccH. O 

I C3 
C. T. MKLVIN, I'KOPIilKTOI!. WAI.MT ST. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

fjronzing, Lacquering and O.xidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Manx. 



^ W. A. ENGLAND, 

^ FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

I!KI'All!IN<i PliOMl'Tl.Y DONK. 



394 Main Street. 



%Q 



Pretty Outsides. 



»*,A handsome trimming is in heavy Es- 
curial lace Vandykes, with a deep twist fringe 
attached to their edges. 

»*,The new fabric crystalette is taking 
amazingly. 1 1 has a soft shimmer to its smooth 
surface, and sets off all shades of beauty with 
its dark tints to perfection. It doesn't grow 
shabby or rusty. 

,(*»The popularity of the moonstone does not 
abate in the least. They are now set upon 
knife-edged lace pins, and form pretty combi- 
nations. 

=^*4i,.Plain linen sets for the neck and sleeves 
are still occasionally offered, but they are 
usually in Vandykes or scallops. 

»% There is a tendency towards the revival 
of frills of lace falling deep over the hand from 
the very long sleeves now worn. 

^*»A contemporary fittingly describes the 
present as "literally a go-as-you-please season." 
Certainly everything is worn, and it is quite 
impossible to be unfashionable. 

„*,Buckles appear to be lengthened indefi- 
nitely — the longer, the more stylish. They 
hold back draperies, form centres of loopings, 
and serve as half-diadems and to hold bou- 
quets or hats. 

,K*,In blazers, the Habutai wash silk is a 
prime favorite. It is delicately striped. 
Flannels and flannelettes are cheap and ser- 
viceable, and are popular for blazers, which 
will be worn at the seashore this season more 
than ever. 

„*„Tam O'Shanters will be popular with 
young ladies. They are no longer thought 
proper only for misses. They will be seen by 
scores at the seashore and in the mountains. 
Most will be in red and black. They are the 
one article of the toilet that the ladies will 
pretty surely make for themselves. Their fin- 
gers always look pretty in knitting. 

»*,Over-gaiters are buttoned over the low 
shoe, and are much worn in tans, grey or mode. 

»*j,Heliotrope is the third favorite among the 
colors this season. The particular shade 
chosen is one about midway between the ex- 
tremes of dark and light. This shade is so true 
to nature that the flower itself placed upon it 
mingles with it in color without the slightest 
difference. 

j(,*j(Feather trimmings are still very much 
worn on handsome walking and evening 
dresses. 

»*»A gypsy hat in black lace straw, edged 
wiih small golden grelots, is very pretty. 
Its brim, much broader than a Marie Stuart, 
was encircled with a wreath of scarlet salvias. 
Beneath runs a roll of ponceau velvet. 

»*«The wash silks come in play for tennis 
suits. The simpler the better. As a loose 
blouse a wash silk is very attractive, and gives 
ample play to the limbs. 

,*»Red is becoming the dominant color. All 
shades of many colors are worn, but red is driv- 
ing them out. There will soon be a spot of red 
on every bonnet, gown, coat and dress. 



LI <J HT 

Of Coming Things. 

Saturday, May 17. 

Piedmont Church.— Exhibition of Sewing School 
work. 3 p. m. 

Worcester Club.— Smoke Talks. Prof. A. S. Kim- 
ball on "Distributed Electricity." Evening. 
Sunday, May 18. 

Piedmont Church.— Union meeting of Old South, 
Pilgrim and Piedmont churches. Anthony Comstock 
speaks. 7.30 p. m. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of 
Wellesley, preaches, 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. ni. 
Tuesday, May 20. 

Piedmont Church.— Entertainment by the Y. P. S. 
C. E. 7.45 p. m. 

Bay State House. — Worcester Episcopal Club. 
Dinner and meeting. Evening. 

Wednesday, May 21. 

St. John's Parish Hall, Lincoln Street.— 
Brotherhood of St. Andrew entertainment ; Mrs. Jar- 
ley's Waxworks. 8 p. m. 

At Mrs. Charles W. Smith's, 30 Elm Street.— 
Dramatic readings for benefit of Worcester Employment 
Society. 8 p. m. 

Thursday, May 22. 

St. Matthew's Hall.— English Tea party, by 
Ladies' Aid Society of St. Matthew's Parish. Evening. 

Mechanics Hall.— Battery B Band concert. 8p. m. 

Horticultural Hall.— May exhibition, Worces- 
ter Horticultural Society. 3 p. m. 

Friday, May 23. 

Salem Street Church.— Entertainment by young 
people ; "An Evening with Tennyson." 
Saturday, May 24. 

Agricultural Park. — Worcester Academy .ath- 
letic Association ; spring games. 2 p. m. 

At Mr. Charles H. Wiiitcomh's Farm.— Histori- 
cal meeting; address by Mr. Caleb A. Wall. 2 p. m. 
Monday, May 26. 

Lakeside Boat Club House, Lake.— Formal 
opening and reception. Evening. 

Tuesday, May 27. 

Salisbury Laboratories.— Lantern slide exhibi- 
tion by Tech Camera Club. S p. m. 

Worce.ster Academy L/ boratory.— Bryant Cir- 
cle, C. L. S. C, meets. Subject ; Electricity. 7.30 p. m. 

Plymouth Church. — Sale of fancy articles by Par- 
lor Hands of the King's Daughters , with miscellaneous 
entertainment. Evening. 

Wednesday, May 28. 

Grand Army Hall.— War drama, "Above the 
Clouds. 8 p. m. 

Monday, June 2. 

Gorham's.— Annual meeting of Gounod Club. 8 p.m. 

Wednesday, June 11. 

Webster Square M. E. Church.— Convention of 

Epworth Leagues of Boston district. Day and evening. 



Washburn & Arlington's Great, Big, Large 
and Mighty Circus is billing the town for May 
27th. Its posters are models of consolidated 
modesty as is the wont of monster show men. 
"Listen to their tale of woe :" "Grand Con- 
gress of all Nations! Glorious Wild East! 
Thrilling Wild West ! Picturesque Moorish 
Caravan! Entrancing Egyptian Games! 
Regal Roman Hippodrome and Immense 
Trained Animal E.xhibition !" Just think of 
it : "Glorious Wild East !" Shades of Quin- 
sigamond ! have we come to this ? ^ 

A young lady of good address and education, 
21 years of age, is at liberty to make an en- 
gagement as a lady's companion. No objec 
tion to residing out of the city. Address M. B., 
Box 1002, Worcester, Mass. 



* NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

Claflin'8 best Cabinet Photographs, SiS a doz, 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, DAnf An 
139 Friend Street, DUblUU. 

The Morris Chair gives yon solid comfort 
at any angle you please. Whether softly 
somnolent, luxuriously lounging, or recrea- 
tively resting, you "get there" delightfully 
in a Morris Chair. There are nearly a dozen 
varieties, and the price is conveniently 
graded. Parlor Furniture of the best sort 
has long been a specialty with us as manu- 
facturers and dealers. We now give equal 
attention to all the rooms of the house. 



THK SUIVllVIIT HOUSH 

On WacHiasett Nlocmtciin 

Will open the season of '90 May 24, under new management. No pleasanter place can be 
found for a day's outing, or a longer stay. Finest view in the state. Good rooms, with gas 
and electric bells. Table supplied with the best the market affords. Special attention 
given to preparing dinners at short notice. The road to the mountain top is not hard for 
horses, as it makes the ascent by zigzags, furnishing magnificent views at every turn. 
Coaches for the summit connect with morning and afternoon trains from Worcester, at 
Princeton Station. Round-trip tickets can be bought at reduced rates, and parties of six or 
more can make very favorable terms. Direct telephone from Worcester. 

A. HARRINGTON, Nlanager. 

Post-office address, Mt. Wachusett, Mass. ^_^ 

A KIRST-CLASS E5AI-CI£RY IN WORCESTER. 

All Kinds of Fine Cake and Pastry, Rolls, Buns, Biscuit, Etc. 

-f W EDDING i CAKE \ A t SPECIALTY4- 

Brown Bread and Beans, not to be equalled, every Saturday evening and Sunday morning. 
Parties supplied at reasonable prices. 



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The Fraternity of Learning, 

Amherst College. 

Messrs. Charles E. and Walter H. Hildrt-th, 
were among the successful contestants for 
places on the Sophmore Kellogg Five. Wor- 
cester is also represented on the Freshman 
Five by Lewis T. Reed, '93. Both fives will 
speak upon Monday of Commencement week. 
As all the contestants are graduates of Sum- 
ner Club, and got their oratorical training in it 
when it was doing its best work, their fellow- 
alumni of the club and of Worcester High 
School feel particularly pleased with their 
success. 

The candidates for the Worcester team are 
training early, with a realization that if Am- 
herst is to win it will be only by hard work. 
The fact that Dartmouth has lost but one man 
from last year's team, and Amherst only two, 
while both colleges have broken several re- 
cords, will leave the colleges very nearly 
matched, and afford an exciting contest. 

Commencement week this year will begin 
June 22. The first examinations for admi.ssion 
will be held June 19. Two new professors will 
be added to the faculty at the beginning of 
ne.xt year, in the places of the late Prof. 
Mather and I'rof. Henshaw, resigned. 

Mr. Charles E. Hildreth has been at his 
home in Worcester this week. 



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Massachusetts, in a great measure, owes its 
prosperity to its manufacturing industries, as 
well as its eligible situation for transportation 
facilities. That these advantages should be 
brought prominently before the country is the 
opinion of many of our leading business men, 
and for this purpose the Elstner Publishing 
Co. of this city are now actively engaged in 
preparing data for a work entitled, "Inland 
Massachusetts, Illustrated, Central Edition." 
It will be descriptive, statistical, industrial 
and biographical, and thtir first edition on the 
four western counties of the state is very 
highly spoken of by the press throughout that 
section. The work will be thoroughly reliable 
and will without doubt be a valuable medium 
of presenting Worcester county's business ad- 
vantages to the world at large. The work is 
strongly endorsed by such well known houses 
as the Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. aiid Ste- 
phen Salisbury, of this city, the Agawam 
National Bank, Smith & Wesson, and R. F. 
Hawkins' Iron Works, of Springfield ; Safety 
Fund National Bank, E. M. Dickinson & Co., 
and Fitchburg Machine Works of Fitchburg, 
Whiting Paper Co. of Holyoke, and many 
other leading houses. 



A funny thing happened at the Salem Street 
Church concert, a week ago last night. Just 
as Mr. Lansing began to read : 
"Hark! what mean those sweet sounds, whose accents 

holy 
Fill the warm noon with music sad and sweet ?" 
there came from outside the clarion notes of a 
cornet. It was Iverson Horace on his last 
round. For a moment all was still; then a 
smile: then broad grins; and, inevitably, a 
roar of laughter. No one could help it. Rev. 
Dr. M— laughed ; the deacons laughed ; Mr. 
Lansing laughed ; and the chorus laughed. 
There could have been nothing really funnier 
But in a moment, as the reporters would say, 
"order was restored." 



MOTHERS, Remember that deadly infectious di.seases 

FATHERS, are caused Ijy the poisonous gases arising 

EMPLOYERS, from foul drain.s, closets, sinks, ces.spools, 

EVERYBODY, stables, etc. You may have such places 

about your premises that have not been cleansed for months, jjcrhaps 

years. Take warning in time. 

PURIFY NOW WITH 

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DISINFECTANT. 

The only odorless, non-poisonou.s deodorizer. Kills every foul smell 
instantly. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 26 India square, Boston. 



CHARLES I,. WRIGHT. 



CH.\RI.KS n. WOODCdCK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

The "WriKliI r..iiiiter Shaft 1 Cliil.-h." iu^t iMti-nt.-.l. Tlu- i Ii.mii, -t, iii,.sl ..n.iliv ii, its .,. li..i, with 

scarcely perceptible shock ur jar, and decidedly tin- l»>st .li-vit,/ t.i, 11, r |,i,, ims,. rvi in Hi. n .! . ' 1., n ,,,„• i„t. cr- 
ested is cordially invited to come and see it. Tl»i> "W'lMMlrock I lii\4-l-s;il l>oor <)iMtM I ," i; i . | 1 \ j .1 1 -,sinj^ 
a button on either side of the door, it causes tile 'loui lit swin^ Minn. ( ,ui he (jnu kl\ n,, i , , , i j. <1 in .my 
door. Must be seen to be appreciated. A «'Kr|M-iiiiT's <;uaK>' lor lliiiiuini; Hours ,,. , ui ,ii. I\ ml •..i v ,,,,!, 1,K. 
No carpenter can afford to be without it. "Tin- Su ivi-1 Ooti-li (•■iiIit." No more broken <lrills I 
Hundreds of dollars saved. "A t'lirr lloM.v." The cheapest and best ever seen. We are pre 

liinery. Repairs promptly done and satisfacti 



the m()St reasonable terms for all kind 
Factory less than two minutes' walk f 



iit-str 



catcfi- 
pared to make 
guaranteed. 



No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 

AMERICAN -i- TATE --- TENNIS -■- RACKET. 



SI riOKIOl; IN r()INT<»F STKKNOTII. UAI 

.VNCK, sTi:iN(;iNf; and finish. 

Kxpert, KiiKlish St rinsing, »7.m>. 

Toiiriiaiucnl (Knglish) (i.mi. 

r,.r,it. 




Our New Stanilaiil Itarket. C'""' <iua1it.v, red 
ii.l ivhitc strhiKing. Knaiantee.l, onl.v ».!. Kasily 
oilh *l. C.inipl.-I.- IlliiKlrati'<l Tennis «a(a- 
line »enl on \|.plieatii.n. Si...rli«K an<l Alh- 
li.<ii.o.ls ..I iver.xlesciiplii.n. 



HORACE PARTRIDGE & CO., 

^ 3 -T- -^^T^T- .^smasroTOiT ST., B O S T o i>r. 



Famous OilRanbe V(\v Faniilv Ikp 

The "F.\Ml II - I :i ,M..ili|li. I K;ii,i;.. .1. I 1. full\tllr..,|UIV;llcnt 

ofthe coal raniir ll t ■ . !■ -'i- ' I,' !.<■. -l.iver. Is is cleanly 

and free from .«1mi k ■ ■ ^. 1.. 'i ' 1. when- it does not 

get heated. ThnM, 1, I- hm n, I , ■ l>.i, ■ . Urn , , .1,.] >.| . ,1 ,n the tank. It has 

sufficient power til d... ill th.o.okiiiy.uid buiidrv w.iikol 111., hunilv the year round, nt 
less than half the cost of the coal stove. Thousands are in use in all parts of the country 
Write us for furthei information and name of nearest agent. 

SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

m.VKKKS. ISOSTON, HI.\SS. FOI! S.VI.K I'.V 

J. W. GREENE. SliMAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 




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WHITNEY'S 

LINEN STORE. 



In the Embroidery Department we have now a complete as- 
sortment of everything pertaining to Art Work. We will be 
pleased to show the new ideas gotten up lately |" 
for summer work. New stitches explained free ^^ 
of charge. Work commenced if ladies desire it. ^S^^^-^n'^^^- 




STAMPING FREE ON ALL GOODS PURCHASED OF US. 

EXPRESS AND MAIL CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



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CORDLEY & CO. 



Bankers, 



121 Devonshire Street, 



p. O.Box 5098- 
MEMBERS OF 
NEW YORK, BOSTON and CHICAGO 
STOCK EXCHANGES, 
mchi 3m 



Boston. 



Frank R. Cordley. 
Albert G. Browne. 
Charles L. James. 
Henry C. Young. 



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W. P. RICE, Pres. 



O. F. PAGE, Sec'v k Trhas. 



Union Investment Co., 

I'ald Up CapltHl, »1 ,000,000. Khiihhk Cily, Mo. 

SPKCIAL OFFKU TO INVK.STOKS. 

A Guaranteed 7 per cent. Investment, secured by Business Property centrally located 

in Kansas City, with 50 per cent, of the net profits additional. 

Indorsod by I>ri>iiiineiit KiixliieHH Men, ItHnkern and CapltullxtH, viz: 

H.P. STIMSON, Prcs. American National Bank; K. L. MARTIN, Pres Mercantile 
Bank; Hon. T. B. BUI.LENE, Ex-Mayor; B. T. WHIPPLE & CO., Real Estate 
and Investment Securities; Hon. WILLIAM WARNER, Late Commander-in-Chief 
G. A. K. and E.i-Member of Congress; WALTON H. HOLMES, Pres. G. A. Cable 
K'yCo.; L. R. MOORE, Director Nat. Bank of Kansas City; E. C. SATTLEY 
Cashier Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. 

By permission we refer to any of tlie above gentlemen. 

Send for circulars containing description of property and full particulars, nichi 3m 




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Exaniiiiatioii free. Satisfaction g:uarantee<I. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

OFFICK OF 

THE SAN MIGUEL 
GOLD PLACERS CO. 

(OF COLORADO.) 

No. 8 Congress Street, Boston. 

Gen. Benj. F. Butler, Pres. 
James Gilfillan, Treasurer, 

(Kx-Treasurer of V. S.) 



Notice is hereby given to stock- 
holders and others interested that 
after the twenty-fourth day of May, 
1890, the price of stock will be 
advanced to $6 per share. Until, 
and including that date, orders 
will be filled at the present price, 
;^4.50 per share. 



James Gilfillan, Treas. 

May 13, 1890. 




EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fastilonable Hat, 
Fine Furnishing 
& Athletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3. 



S. II. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL, 



Worcester 
Illufflinated 
Advertising 
Company, 

General Office, 311 IVIain 
Street, Roon:i 13. 

C. E. SQUIER. F. H. BEALS. 



Advertisements Artistically Displayed bv a 

powerful Electric Light upon 600 

square feet of canvas. 

DISPLAY: 

Worcester, Opposite Mechanics hall. 
Springfield, Opposite opera house. 
Providence, Turks Head. 



* STORAGE * 

Metropnlitan StoraRC- Comiiany, corner SouthbridRC 
and Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for SleiKhs, 
Carriages, Furniture, Merchandise, and all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and well ventilated. Apply 



at building. 



J. H. DICKIK, M'b'i 



Bronze medal Silver Gold Grand Diploma 

1879. iSSo. 1S81. 1S82. 

.^ warded Wm. Laugher for upholstery and drapery. 

Wivi. Laughbr, 

UPHOLSTERER, 

HAS KitMOVHIJ TO 

677 MAIN ST., COR SYCAMORE, 

wliere he is prepared to execute orders in the s.inie hrst- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 
the past. 

Bedding, Shades and Draperies » 

* Furniture Repairing and Carpet Work. 



LIFE AND ENDOWMENT 

I'OI.ICIKS. 

^^COMBINED « LIFE * AND ^ ACCIDENT^- 

Term Annuity and Coupon 

Annuity Endowments. 

Justus K. Allen, 

Agent: The Travelers Insurance Company. 



5PKINQ i 

i FKINTINQ 
O. B. Wood, 

No. 3 Maple St. 



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THE 

BAY STATE 
t Clothing Company t' 

46 ^ 48 TRONT 5T. 

James E^. Dennis, M'g'r. 



Clikkord & Johnson, 
4-PRiqCTlCflL UFnOLJTERER5-^ 



All kinds of Dra- 
pery and Upholstery 
work to order. 

HAIR MATTRESSES 

TO ORDER! 

Our own make. 

First-clas.s Turk- 
ish work a specialty. ^ 




Particular atten- 
tion given to re-up- 
holstering in all its 
branches. Estimates 
furnished upon ap- 
plication. Original 
1 )csigns a Marked 
I'eature. 



425 MAIN ST., COR. FRONT ST., UP ONE FLIGHT, WORCESTER. 




, flags 

88 FRO/irir. 



O. S. KENDALL & COMPANY 

Have the Laigest Assortment in the city of 

TP 1~L e Hey w o o d 

a n d W ]n i t n e y 

PflPT ^ c:flRRMQE5 

466 MAIN STREET. 



MRS. L S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one (light, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

I>ttwi.'en Kim and Maple Sts. 




IF vou EAT WELL, 

YOU WILL FEEL WELL, 

AND ACT VVELL. 

MORAL: i:AT 

BUTTERFLY FLOUR 

nxLV. 

C & Vuui giocei- sells it. or ought to. 

SMITH, A.OAMS & CO. 

WILL SUPPLY HIM. 

G. S. BOUTELLE & CO, 

niRROR AND 

PICTURE rR/jnE5 

At Manufacturers' Prices, 

FROM A LARGE STOCK OF ALL NEW STYLES. 

No. 92 Foster Street. 




WITH SUPPLEMENT. 



Vol. I. No. 13. Worcester, Mass., Saturday, May 24, ,890. Pr,ce s C 



5 Lents. 




COL. FRED W. WELLINGTON, 
The Commandant of the New Worcester Armory. 



[ENGRAVED EXPRES.SLV FOR LIGHT.] 



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Freight prepaid xo Worcester. 



FACTORIES, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 




BRANCH AT 
BAR HARBOR, ME. 



SALESROOMS, 
BOSTON - - MASS. 



A Special Feature. 



THE WINNER INVESTMENT CO. 

Handles Exclusively Kansas City investments, and does not handle 
Farm Mortgages. 

PAST INVESTMENTS 

through this company have yielded nearly $3,000,000.00 profits, every dollar of principal 
and interest has been paidjat maturity, and all enterprises undertaken have been uni- 
formly successful. 

PRESENT INVESTMENTS. 

We can demonstrate how to invest money safely to reaUze an income of si.x, seven, 
eight and ten per cent., and profits, in a comparatively short time, of fifty per cent., 100 
per cent., and even larger, entirely free from speculative features. 

For full:particulars:send for circulars, pamphlets and papers, or call. 



William H. Parmenter, 

General Agent, No. 50 State Street, Boston; 

No. 1 Custom Honse Street, Provicleuce, K. 1.; Desk M., Mercantile Safe 
Deposit Co., 130 Uroadway, New York City, every Wednesday. 



A NEW EDITION DE LUXE OF 

Charles Dickens's 

COlVtPIvKTE WORKS. 

Unquestionably the most superb edition ever attempted in this country. 

The type is large and clear, especially cast for this work, the paper is made of the 
finest materials, and the margins are ample. All the illustrations contained in the 
original editions (copies of which are now worth $1000) are here represented. The 
etchings by Cruikshank, "Phiz," and others, numbering over 400, have been carefujly 
re-etched. Electrotypes from the original wood blocks, which were never printed 
from, have been obtained from Dicl^ens's original publishers in England. Twelve 
different portraits of the author, especially engraved, appear on the different title 
pages of the volumes. All the illustrations are proofs printed on 

IMPEKIAI. JAPANESE GOA'EKNMENT PAPER. 

The set is limited to 1000 numbered copies, and will be complete in 45 volumes, 
bound in smooth vellum cloth, gilt tops, uncut, at #2.50 per volume, and will be 
issued at about two volumes per month. 

Issued by subscription only, and no orders taken except for complete sets. Pros- 
pectus, with specimen showing type, page, paper, etc., with specimen illustration, 
mailed free upon application. 

LOCAL AGENTS WANTED. ADDRESS 

KsTES Sz Lauriat, 

PUBLISHERS, 



BOSTON, 



MASS. 



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Avoid imitations. 



OLDEST AND BEST. 

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FLORENCE HOME NEEDLEWORK. 

Tlie 1SS9 edition of this popular series is now ready.^It 
contains 96 pages, instructing you in Netting. Knitting, 
Tatting and Embroidery. Each subject fully illustrated. 
Mailed on receipt of six cents. Mention year to avoid < 
confounding with previous edition. ; 



Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 



24, 1890. 



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Some wet-ks ago LuiHT qiiiti-ly icniark(_-il 
that tlie practice of carrying guns antl pistols 
by small boys would lead to accident. .Sev- 
eral accidents have occured, one of them of 
the most serious character. The time is ripe 
for parents and authorities to call a halt. 



A writer in the Springfield I\cpithli,aii. 
speaking of the recent Boston meeting of 
nearly a thousand working girls, says: "The 
belief in the advancement of men and women 
is its underlying principle ; to make hands 
more skillfid, brains more active, and liearts 
more true, are its aims. Above all things the 
association encourages honest work and hon- 
est pride in being useful. The clubs not only 
afford pleasant evenings to tired girls in need 
of recreation, by means of music, good books, 
and perhaps a little dancing, but in most cases 
clas.ses in cooking, dress-making, millinery, 
writing, or gymnastics are supported, the in- 
struction being entirely voluntary on the part 
of friends of the association. The work seems 
to be on the best possible basis — interdepend- 
ance animated by the spirit of independance. 
It is a movement of girls for girls which 
touches the right chord in the lives of those 
toward whom it is directed, as its steady 
growth during the last two years, together 
with the enthusiastic interest of its friends 
and allies proves." Worcester is large enough, 
she has working women in abundance, and 
there are in the city hundreds of philanthropic 
men and women who only need a starter to 
bind them together in an energetic movement 
of this kind which unmistakably merits the 
best work of the best people. In Worcester, 
as in every other city, the working man is 
given double the opportunity of intellectual 
and business improvement that "s presented 
to the honest working woman. 



Why not open the blinds these pleasant 
spring days ! Pull up the curtains, let the 
happy sunshine in ! It may fade the carpet a 
little; then get a carpet that will not fade; 
better fade the carpet then fade the children. 
With no outside sunshine allowed to come in 
there is precious little chance of any being 
manufactured upon the premises. 



There is no objection to a woman dressing 
in fashion. The lines of fashion are always 
drawn around the artistic. The dress should 
be made for the woman, not the woman for 
the dress. There is no sense in the dried-up 
wearer of skirts arraying herself to emulate 
the tailor-made girl of the comedy theatre, nor 
of the young miss copying the arrangement of 
Joseph's coat-of-many-colors, with padded-up 
or sewed-up projections, which, like the points 
on Mark Twain's mule, furnish a place to 
hang a hat on. The well dressed man or 
woman is so dressed that one does not notice 
what is worn except in general appearance. 
When a dress is so striking that one can carry 
the arrangement in mind, something is the 



matter with the dress. A homely girl, who 
thinks she can make people thmk she is pretty 
by calling to her aid the god of cloth and 
ribbon, is simply fooling herself, and the man 
wlio thinks that a twirled mustache, wide- 
striped pants, a checkered vest, and a corset- 
tight coat will make even his girl appreciate 
him, and discovers that the girl really does so 
on that account, had better change girls. True 
artisticness is simplicity, and simplicity is good 
taste and real refinement. 



Miss Frances E. Willard is a business 
woman, and when she speaks her words are 
liable to command respectful attention. Re- 
cently she said : "Keep to your specialty, to 
the doing of the thing that you accomplish 
with most of satisfaction to yourself, and most 
of benefit to those about you. Keep to this, 
whether it be raising of turnips or tunes, 
painting screens or battle pieces, studying 
political economy or domestic receipts." To 
butt nature is to strive against the impossible. 
If one tries not to be himself he simply tries 
to be nothing. Better be a good cart-driver 
than a poor lawyer. 



The season is fast approching when wealthy 
Worcester will begin to think of the summer 
exodus, while the hard-working business man 
and the business man's clerk will scan the 
newspapers in the attempt to discover the 
cheapest ticket to the land of moderate priced 
boarding houses, where wholesome board and 
lots of fun can be had for the least money. 
The modern idea of recreation, coupled with 
the necessity of vacation, was born of neces- 
sity. What the country boy can get along 
without, the city young man finds as necessary 
to indulge in as to take medicine for a cold. 
The man without a vacation is either sickly or 
a fossil. No man can do his best work when 
tired, and no man can keep from being tired 
unless he has at least two weeks to himself, 
away froin home where business cannot inter- 
fere. The idea of taking a vacation within the 
town where the business is done, although 
perhaps a little more economical, is built upon 
a false foundation. Few men take a vacation 
because they are physically worn out; it is the 
mind that needs rest, and no spirited man can 
get this rest unless he experiences a change, in 
another town, where, although the diet may not 
be as good as the home table, it possesses the 
virtue of being different. On general principles 
the Worcesterian should spend his vacation by 
the seashore, in order that he may feel a com- 
plete change of air and scenery. Along the 
New England coast are hundreds of villages 
where board and room can be had at a very 
moderate price. Light would warn its readers 
against the conventional farmhouse, or the 
genteel family which takes summer boarders 
for company. Be it ever so humble there is no 
boarding house like a hotel. The small hotel 
charges little more for board than does the 
farmhouse where the fresh milk never gets any 



nearer the house than the farm wagon and the 
fresh eggs go to tlie town market. An ocean 
trip can be taken at a very low cost, and such 
a trip is to be earnestly reiommended to those 
peoi)le who live away from the salt water. A 
trip to the Provinces, on one of the old-fash- 
ioned ocean steamers, which run to Halifax 
and Prince lulward Island, taking a week or 
more for the round trip, furnishes one of the 
most delightful sea trips, and the weather is 
never too hot to interfere with the enjoyment 
of an ocean trip to Norfolk, Baltimore, or I'hil- 
adeli)hia. LuiiiT is familiar with a large num- 
ber of the vacation tours, and will be pleased 
to gnituitously furnish information to any of 
its readers, who desire to get health, recreation, 
and the best of good times, during the coming 
simuiier niontlis. 



The New \'ork papers are discussing 
whether or not a family can live decently 
and comfortably in New Vork on a thousand 
dollars a year. The Sun says: "Very few 
families in New York spent more than five 
tliousand dollars a year forty or fifty years ago. 
l')Ut during the last generation the standards 
of living have been greatly raised. Relatively 
to the incomes and the expenditures of the 
rich, what was once accounted enough for 
moderate maintenance, seems now to lie small. 
By comparison with the grandeur of the rich 
man's establishment the home of him who 
spends one thousand dollars a year seems 
modest and his hardship great." A family 
can live in moderate comfort in New York on 
a thousand a year, but no New York family 
lives on that sum if it be possible to get more. 
Extravagance is universal in the Metropolis. 
A thousand dollars in Worcester is worth 
three thousand in New York city. 



The Worcester young man who longs for a 
home in Boston or New York, where "busi- 
ness is rushing," as he puts it, may not dis- 
cover his mistake until it is too late to easily 
rectify it. The fact is the larger cities are 
crowded with boys and young men, salaries 
are low, expenses high, and opportunities for 
business few. The Worcester boy had better 
remain in Worcester. 



Anthony Comstock may be a philanthropist, 
an apostle of purity, or a sort of moral sapolio 
which travels around and scratches out the 
dirt, in order that people may see what they 
know is there, but there are a thousand men 
in Worcester who could have talked more 
.solid sense to the young men of this city than 
did this man-who-came-out-of-New York to 
wash up Worcester. 



While the no-license law has not become 
sufficiently mature to forever settle the ques- 
tion, it must be admitted that it is working 
well in Worcester. From an outside view, at 
least, there is much less drunkenness, and lon- 
secjuent decrease of disturbances. 



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•v^/'Y^Cester.ava5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 

Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
^- Advertising rates upon appUcation. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 
Telephone No. 141-5- 



Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. ^^^^^____^ 

Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, wdl be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with - "«« P^^^^ 
Light is of convenient size for bmd.nB, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome bo„k,-a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 



About Folks. 



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May 24 : Sun rises at 4.15 A. m.; sets at 4.08 
P. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 53 minutes. 
Moon, first quarter, May 26, 5 hours, 34 min- 
utes, evening, E. 

Mrs. Frank W. Blair and her little daugh- 
ter, Miss Margaret Blair, have forsaken city 
streets soon to become, as the poet sings, 
"these ways so dusty-dry," and are now at Mrs. 
Blair's old home in West Brookfield, where 
they will remain, probably, for a good share 

of the summer. 

Thursday was rhetorical day at the High 
School and the hall exercises in the morning 
included a recitation, Alice Carey's "An Order 
for a Picture," by Miss Maria Wright, and a 
declamation, Dowling's "Fontenoy," by E. C. 
Witherby. Both pupils are members of the 

second year class. 

The Lakeside Boat Club is to have its an- 
nual opening at its house at the Lake, Mon- 
day evening, with a reception from 8 to 9, and 
dancing from 9 to 12 o'clock. The opening 
committee includes Messrs. Harry B. Fair- 
banks, chairman, Wilbur W. Hobbs, Harry A. 
Adams, Frank A. Richardson, Foster H. 
Goodwin and Henry J. Gross. The event 
will be a brilliant one in every respect. 

The Shakespeare Club held its last meetng 
for the season at the residence of Mr. Philip 
L. Moen, on Friday evening of last week. Mr. 
and Mrs. Philip L. Moen, Mr. Philip W. Moen 
and the Misses Moen entertained the com- 
pany, and scholarly papers were read by Col. 
Edward B. Glasgow, on "King John," and by 
Mrs. J. C.Cutter on "Shakespeare's First Play." 
Supper was served and a delightful conversa- 
zione ensued. Those present included Mr. 
Samuel S. Green, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Kent, 



Mr Francis A. GaskiU, Mrs. A.George Bul- 
lock, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Colton, Miss Cleve- 
land Mr. Eben Francis Thompson, Mr. Rufus 
S V'^oodward, Miss Hopkins, Miss Aldrich, 
Miss Harriet Wilhams, Miss Clarissa W Smith, 
Misses May and Alice Baldwin, Miss Alice 
Chase, Miss Gage, Mr. Charles M. Rice, Miss 
Madge Earle, Mrs. James Green, Mr. George 
T. Dewey, Miss Jeanie Lea Southwick, Mr. 
Lewis McL. Jackson, Mr. Rockwood. 

Senator Henry L. Parker entertained Hon. 
Henry H. Sprague, the president of the State 
Senate, who was the guest of the Episcopal 
Club, Tuesday evening, during his stay in 
Worcester over night. 

Light learns from good authority that Mr. 
George H. Robbins, the membership secretary 
of the Young Mens Christian Association, has 
tendered his resignation and has accepted a 
flattering offer made by the Pittsburg, Pa., As- 
sociation, asking him to become assistant sec- 
retary there. It is understood that Mr. Rob- 
bins's resignation will take effect June i. The 
members and friends of the association, while 
feeling glad to see Mr. Robbins rising to a 
higher position, will none the less regret his 
departure from Worcester. He has discharged 
his duties as membership secretary with the 
greatest fidelity, administering the affairs of a 
difficult position with great tact and good judg- 
ment ; and he has also been a very strong factor 
in the working force of the association, in a 
musical way. Mr. Robbins is an excellent 
pianist and has made much of the musical 
possibilties of the association's work. Mr. 
Robbins came to Worcester three years ago, 
from his home in Philadelphia, where he was 
assistant secretary in one of the associations 
there. He has made many friends here, and 
they will wish him the greatest prosperity in 
his new work in the Smoky City. 

The graduating exercises of the class of '90 
of the High School will take place in High 
School Hall, Monday, June 30, at 3 o'clock. 



Messrs. Randolph and George Crompton 
gave, last Saturday evening, a delightful ger. 
man, at their home, "Marie-Monte," on Provi- 
dence Hill. The decorations and the supper 
wereparticulariy fine. Mr. George A. Stearns, 
Jr., and Miss Mildred Crompton led the 
german. About 75 guests were present. 

The Second Parish Club held its last meet- 
ing of the season last Wednesday evening, and 
made arrangements for next season's work. 
The president, Mr. William F. Abbott, occu- 
pied the chair, and Dr. George E. Francis 
read an interesting paper on "The Influence 
of Modern Science and Criticism on Religious 
Thought." Rev. Austin S. Garver followed 
with a discussion of the subject "Modern 
Unitarianism." When the business of the 
meeting was taken up, the following plan of 
meetings for ne.xt season, with the subjects as 
stated, was arranged. The Club will hold 
four meetings each month, from October to 
May inclusive. Seven of these meetings (one 
a month) will make a study of "Eariy Relig- 
ious Thought," as follows: i, "The Begin- 
nings of Religion"; 2, "The Greek and Roman 
Religion"; 3, "Socrates"; 4, "Seneca"; 5, 
"Epicletus"; 6, "Marcus Aurelius" ; 7, "The 



Decline." Seven meetings (one a month) will 
be given to short answers to practical ques- 
tions : I, "What to read this winter"; 2, 
"Newspapers: why .read them?"; 3. "What 
to read the Bible for"; 4, "Why am 1 a Chris- 
tian'"; 5, "Why am I a Unitarian?"; 6, 
"Why go to church ? " ; 7- "What can I do to 
help my church?" Seven evenings (one a 
month) will be devoted to "Stay at Home 
Travel," as follows: i, "Venice"; 2, "Ober- 
ammergau"; 3, "The English Lake Country ; 
4, "Geneva"; 5, "Antwerp"; 6, "Leyden ; 
7 "Dresden." Seven evenings (one a month) 
will be given to miscellaneous entertainments 
wliich will be arranged by special committees. 

Assistant Secretary Will D. B. Mead of the 
Young Mens Christian Association has been 
confined to his home for a week past and has 
been quite ill. 

A party of Mr. Walter Cummings's friends 
gave him a pleasant surprise at his home, 140 
Chandler street, Thursd.ay evening, the occas- 
sion being his eighteenth birthday anniversary. 
During the evening, Mr. Cummings was pre- 
sented with a valuable diamond stud, for 
which he very pleasantly expressed thanks. 
Singing, dancing and games served to pass the 
hours until into Friday morning. 

Principal Roe of the High School has, every 
year, a considerable number of requests from 
Worcester business men for boys whom he 
can recommend to fill responsible positions. It 
shows that the people of the city have confi- 
dence not only in Mr. Roe's judgment but in 
the boys who have been under his care, as 
well This year seven boys have already been 
provided, in this way, with places which will 
await them on graduation. Of the graduating 
class of 100, 21 boys and giris will enter co- 
lege this number not including those who will 
go to the Polytechnic Institute. Some mem- 
bers of the class expect to begin the serious 
business of life immediately after graduation. 
Of course not all of them have been called for, 
like those first refered to ; but they are likely 
to be. The class of '90 has some bright boys 
in it, and some bright giris as well. 



The South Baptist Church held a business 
meeting last Wednesday evening and decided ^ 
to call Rev. E. B. Haskell of Hope Valley, R. 
I, to be their pastor. Rev. Mr. Haskell is - 
hiUly esteemed in his church at Hope Valley 
an'd is a very desirable preacher. He has oc- 
cupied the pulpit of the South Baptist Church 
for three Sundays past and has pleased the 

people greatly. 

Mr. Edward Bates, the local tenor singer, 
has supplied that position at the Lincoln 
Square Baptist Church, for the past two Sun- 
days, to the great satisfaction of the congrega- 
tion. 

The managers of the new theatre must feel 
fairiy well satisfied with their venture, so far. 
All this week "The Still Alarm" has been 
drawing good houses, and, it must be said, de- 
servedly so. To the critical theatre-goer there 
is not much about the advertising countenance 
of "The Still Alarm" to promise great things, 
and when he finds the fulfilment so much 
better than the promise, which is not always 
the case, he must needs admit that he is agree- 



ably disappointed. "The Still Alaini" is a 
melodrama, but it is not wishy-washy, and the 
love-making is a very decent sort of love- 
making. The scenic effects are capital. 
When the hero smashes a window with a chair 
and jumps out to find his enemy, it is quite 
stirring; and the engine-house scene is a thor- 
oughly good piece of work. The engine and 
the trained horses are a novelty on the stage 
and the representation is a faithful one. 
Captain Williamson, who ought to see the 
points about as quickly as anybody, attended 
the performance of Tuesday evening, and was 
warm in his approval, declaring the "cjuick- 
hitch" to be an e.xcellent one ; and he speaks 
as one having authority, and not as the — 
critics, perhaps, though there are no fault-find- 
ers abroad as yet. It would be unjust not to 
mention the male quartet whose splendid 
voices render Longfellow's "I Stood on the 
Bridge at Midnight,'" and other selections. 
The company is a good one, in most parts. 
Harry Lacy as Jack Manley, the hero, has 
strong support in Mr. Joseph Wilkes, as Doc 
Wilbur, and Mr. Frank Roberts's reading of 
Bird, the villian, is altogether new to the mel- 
odramatic stage. It is capital, and so is the 
work of Mr. E. A. Eberle as Franklin Fonl- 
ham. It seems as if Miss Kate Blancke, as 
Elinore Fordhain, might put more snap into 
her work. It is tame. To diverge a little, it 
isn't the correct thing to have the members of 
the orchestra tune their instruments after they 
take their places. But the play is good. Vou 
are doing well by us, Messrs. Harris and 
Rock. 

Mrs. S. S. James of Manchester, N. H., has 
been visiting relatives in the city this week. 



A tennis club has been arranged by South 
End players, and will occupy the lot owned by 
Mr. Jonas G. Clark, at the corner of Woodland 
and Charlotte streets. It is proposed to lay 
out two courts and build a club house. The 
officers are: President, R. E. Howard; vice- 
president, Harry H. Hill; secretary, Mr. 
George O. Bridges. The organization will be 
completed this evening, and a name chosen. 



General Secretary Samuel G. McConau- 
ghy is off on a trip to Philadelphia, and will 
return next week. 

Mr. Otis R. Parker, secretary of the Ilion, 
N. Y., Young Mens Christian Association, and 
formerly assistant secretary of the Worcester 
Association, was in town last Saturday and 
remained until Tuesday, stopping with his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Parker. 



The Journal of Education, reviewing Mr. 
Alfred S. Roe's edition of the de Coverley 
papers, gives the work high praise, and alludes 
to Mr. Roe as "one of the most skilful in- 
structors in the country," an opinion in which 
Worcester coincides. 



The new Worcester Athletic Club, which 
was organized last Wednesday evening, gives 
promise of filling a place and demand which 
Worcester's rapidly increasing interest in 
amateur athletics, of late years, has created. 
The officers elected are : President, Samuel 
E. Winslow; vice-president, Charles H.Bani.s- 
ter; secretary, Frank E. Heywood; treasurer. 



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.\clson C'. Keyes: captain, ll.ury .A. Adams; 
first lieutenant, Edwin G. Penniman ; second 
lieutenant, George Crompton ; governing board, 
the above, ex-officio, and Rufus S. Woodward, 
Laurence G. Bigelow, Harry L. Dadmun, 
George A. Davi.s, Dr. H. S. Knight, Harry B. 
Fairbanks, Dr. Homer Gage and Irvin'r F 
Bigclow. 

Major F. G. Stiles is to be the Decoration 
D.iy orator at Hardwick. 



Miss Maude M. Pierce gave a reception to 
her cousins, Misses Jennie R. and Clara 
Charnley, of Providence, at her home on Ben- 
efit street last Monday evening. During the 
evening whist playing, banjo and piano music, 
singing, and dancing, helped to make the time 
pass agreeably. Those present included, be- 
side Miss Pierce and the Misses Charnley, 
Miss Mattie R. Howell, Miss Crissie J. 
Speirs, Miss A. L. Diemar, and Messrs. E. H. 
Robinson, Charles Hoppin, Arthur P. Shaffer, 
Arthur Burtelle and Mr. Speirs. 



Joseph K. Greene, Esq., spent the first part 
of the week in New York. 



State Evangelist Rufus M. Taftisat Kings- 
ton, where he has been having a very succes.s- 
ful week's work. He closes his work there 
to-morrow night, and begins next Monday a 
week's work at the church in Revere. During 
the week he will give two addresses before the 
students of the lay college at Crescent Beach. 
On Tuesday Mr. Taft will speak at the Wor- 
cester North Conference of Churches at 
Athol, on the topic, "The Still Small \'oice." 



.Mr. George N. Morse and Miss Edith L. 
Smith are to give a recital at Association Hall, 
Wednesday evening, June 35, with a program 
of pianoforte selections and readings. 



Miss Mary Howe is to give a concert at 
Gardner, next Thursday evening. 



One of the events of ne.xt Tuesday will be 
the May Sale of the King's Daughters of 
Plymouth Church, to be held in the vestry 
during the afternoon and evening. Perhaps 
Light ought to say the sale "by" rather than 
"of" the King's Daughters, for in the latter 
case there would not be room in the vestry for 
the purchasers. However, it is sure to be a 
very pretty affair, for the young people of 
Plymouth Church always do such things well. 
There will be several tables, where useful 
and ornamental articles, flowers and home 
made candies, etc., will be offered for sale. 
Strawberries, ice cream and cake will be 
served, and there will be an entertainment in 
the evening. 

The Williams College Glee Club is to sing 
here on the evening of the Intercollegiate Field 
Sports, after all; the engagement having been 
made by the Young Mens Christian Associa- 
tion. The Arlington Banjo Quintet will 
assist. The concert will, of course, take 
place in Association Hall. 



The Intercollegiate Field Meeting at Agri- 
cultural Park, next Wednesday afternoon, will 
probably be the most successful ever held by 
the a.ssociation. It will be a gala day for Wor- 
cester, and with fair weather there will be a 



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large crowd. Battery B. band is to furnish the 
music, and members of the Manhattan Ath- 
letic Club of New York city will act as otTicers 
of the day. The arrangements have been 
made by the local managers as nearly perfect 
as possible. Light believes in such sport, 
and thinks Worcester will respond with ecjual 
heartiness next Wednesday. 



Mr. Alfred S. Roe was one of the speakers 
at the 71st anniversary celebration of the 
Sunday School of the Leicester Congregational 
Church, last Sunday afternoon. 



There have lieen few gatherings of mourners 
about the bier of a Worcester citizen which 
have been so worthy to be termed remarkable 
as that which crowded Piedmont Church, Mon- 
day afternoon, when the words of recommittal 
to the dust were pronounced over the mortal 
remains of Francis Bangs Knowles. It was a 
remarkable gathering because of its bringing 
together a very large number of the foremost 
citizens of Worcester, men of all shades of 
opinion and belief coming to do honor to a 
man who had decided opinions in matters of 
belief and worked actively on the lines of such 
opinions. As for the services, they were 
simple. President Julius H. Seeyle of Am- 
herst college conducted the prayers at the 
house, and at the church. Rev. D. O. Mear.s, 
D. D., pronounced the eulogy. Rev. (icorge 
H. Gould, D. D., adding further remarks, 
dwelling upon the early days of the church, 
during which he was the pastor, while Dea- 
con Knowles was one of its upbuilders; while 
Rev. Charles M. Southgate, representing 
Pilgrim Church, which Mr. Knowles so gen- 
erously helped, assisted. The singing was by 
the regular church quartet. Miss Evangeline 
Houghton, Miss Luella Flagg, Mr. E. M. 
Temple, and Mr. George L. Hyde ; and Mr. 
C. P. Morrison was organist. The ushers 
were Hon. Edwin T. Marble, Messrs. Arthur 
M. Stone, C. M. Dyer, H. B. Lincoln, George 
F. Orr, A. G. F^stabrook and Eugene Van de 
IVIark, for the church, and Messrs Edward F. 
Green, Frank E. Stimpson and Wilton H.Mer- 
riam for the Loom Works. Of the eight pall 
bearers, Deacons Lyman Drury and Charles 
T. Haynes and Hon. Samuel E. Hildreth rep- 
resented Piedmont Church ; Messrs. Philip L. 
Moen and Joseph Mason represented the 
Central National Bank, of which Mr. Knowles 
was a director: and Messrs. Henry H. Mer- 
riam, George F. Hutchins and John M. Ru.ssell 
represented Knowles Loom Works. Every 
seat in the church was filled, save two pews 
those occupied by Deacon Knowles 's family 
and President G. Stanley Hall. Both, in their 
drapery of green, spoke eloquently of the 
double sorrow which had fallen upon the 
church. A large delegation of the men em- 
ployed in the works was present, and all de- 
partments of the city's activity were represen- 
ted. Death, the great leveller, had set his 
finger upon the vast assemblage, and men of 
millions sat with hard-handed workmen, broad- 
cloth rubbed against coarse textures; ard in 
the presence of the Destroyer all heads were 
bowed before one God, remembering with sim- 
ilar thought the good works of the man who 
had passed away, and realizing that he had 
passed into the LInknowable witli a heart full 
of faith in God and love for his fellow-men. 



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The Armory Commandant. 



The appointment of Col. Kred Williams 
Wellington to be the commandant of Worces- 
ter's new Armory seems to meet with the warm 
approval of the local militia men, and among 
Col. Wellington's friends there is no slight 
feeling of gratification that the honor should 
be given him. Col. Wellington, both as a citi- 
zen and as a wearer of the sword, is deservedly 
popular, and no mistake has been made, it is 
safe to say, in entrusting the duties of the new 
position to his hands. 

Light presents Col. Wellington's portrait, 
today, just a week too early to offer accom- 
panying birthday congratulations, for next 
Saturday, May 31, he will be thirty-nine years 
old. He is one of the younger generation of 
Worcester's business men, and in Worcester 
everybody knows him : yet he was not born 
here, his native town being Shirley, in Middle- 
sex county. The youngest son of Timothy W. 
Wellington, whose name is inseparably con- 
nected with the business history of Worcester, 
Col. Wellington may fairly claim his military 
inclinations as a heritage from the past, for his 
great-grandfather. Captain Timothy Welling- 
ton, was a member of Captain Parker's com- 
pany, which passed into the immortality of 
glory at the battle of Lexington. Four 
older brothers of Col. Wellington gave their 
services to their country, in the Civil War, and 
two laid down their lives. Col. Wellington 
was too young to enter the ranks, but that the 
patriotic fire burned in his bosom is evidenced 
by the fact that from 1S61 to 1865 he was drum- 
mer boy for the State Guards. 

Col. Wellington made the acquaintance of 
Worcester at the age of four, when his father 
removed to this city. He was educated in 
Worcester's public schools, save for two years 
spent in Germany and France. He became a 
book-keeper in the First National Bank, of 
which his father was a director, at the age of 
17, and occupied the position from June, 1SC8, 
to October, 1S69, when he entered his father's 
coal office. 

In November, 1871, he went to California, 
whence he returned in June, 1S72 ; and he then 
became a member of the firm of F. W. Wel- 
lington & Company. He engaged in partner- 
ship, subsequently,with J. S. Rogers and Gen. 
Arthur A. Goodell, and finally, in 1878, bought 
the Hammond street yard, of which he is now 
the sole owner. Col. Wellington conducts a 
large and flourishing retail business in coal, 
and has established himself as one of the solid 
business men of Worcester. 

Col. Wellington first became actively in- 
terested in the state militia, in March, 1SS2, 
when he was commissioned second lieutenant 
of Battery B, Massachusetts Light Artillery. 
In January of the following year he was ad- 
vanced to the position of fir.st lieutenant, and 
September 29, 1SS4, he became the captain of 
the company. Col. Wellington is remembered 
as a most efficient commander. 

In January, 1887, Gov. Ames made him a 
member of his staff, in the capacity of assist- 
ant inspector general, and with the rank of 
colonel. When Gov. Brackett succeeded 
Gov. Ames, he retained Col. Wellington on 
his staff, knowing him to be a practical militia 



officer and a desirable member of his military 
family. 

Col. Wellington has been somewhat of a 
figure in the stirring political contests in which 
Worcester has borne a part during the past 
few years. He was a member of the execu- 
tive committee of the Republican State Com- 
mittee in '87 and '88; secretary of the Repub- 
lican Committee of the Tenth Congressional 
District from .September, 1SS6, to September, 
188S; and chairman of the Republican Com- 
mittee of the Fourth Senatorial District in '87 
and '88. 

Col. Wellington is a 32 - Mason. 

Personally, a more agreeable man than Col. 
Wellington is hard to find. He may be very 
busy, but his natural urbanity never deserts 
him, and his pleasant greeting of a morning is 
something worth having for a start towards 
a pleasant frame of mind for the day. 

In the position of Armory commandant, he 
will have an opportunity to reflect great credit 
on Worcester ; and that opportunity is not 
likely to be lost. No engraving can do justice 
to Col. Wellington's personal appearance, but 
LuiHT's portrait gives a hint at the truth of the 
matter — that he is a very handsome man. 



The world is his who can see through its 
pretension. — Emerson. 

Repentance is the last advantage which a 
man reaps for his fault. — A. Dumas, Jils. 

Irresolute people let their .soup get cold be- 
tween the plate and the mouth. — Cervantes. 

Cowards die many times before their death. 
The valiant taste of death but once. — Shakes- 
peare. 

Wickedne.ss consists in the very hesitation 
about an act, even though it be not perpe- 
trated. — Cicero. 

Every life is a center, and all things are 
made for it just as if there were no other. — 
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. 

He who marries is like the Doge who weds 
the Adriatic, — he knows not what lies con- 
cealed there : treasures, pearls, monsters and 
unknown storms. — Heine. 



Sp— ng! 



*.K\VTC»N HIl.L. 



The painter's in the dining-room, 

A-frescoing the wall; 
The paper-hanger's bossing 

The drawing-room and liall ; 
The carpenters are laying 

A brand new kitchen floor ; 
Ihe plumber's in the bath-room 

With pipes and tanks galore. 

The carpet men are measuring 

The rooms for new Brussels ; 
T he bric-a-brac man sends us 

The finest tliat he sells ; 
The furniture providers 

Have brought a set of plush, 
For which they'll charge Hke sixty 

Because they think we're flush. 

The gardener's a-fussing, 

A-digging up the grubs ; 
The florist comes to sell us 

A choice new lot of shrubs ; 
In fact, we own so little 

About the place, of late, 
We think we'll deed it to 'em, 

And wholly abdicate! 
ccsicr, Mass. 



Bv the Lake Shore. 



The Parks Commission ought to have, and 
it has, a very large place in the regard of the 
people. Its work may be called the noblest 
work that any city department does, because 
it ministers not so much to the practical nec- 
essities of the people as to their fine sensibili- 
ties and their needs of the beautiful. Last 
.Saturday, the Parks Commissioners conducted 
a party of city government gentlemen about 
Lake Park, for the purpose of pointing out 
improvements that have been made during the 
winter. The season has, of course, been favor- 
able for such work, and consecjuently the com- 
mission has had an opportunity to do much in 
the way of improvement. The party included 
Parks Commissioners Edward Winslow Lin- 
coln, Edward L. Davis, James Draper, O. 13. 
Hadwen, and William H. Sawyer, Mayor 
Harrington, Aldermen Ellsworth, Thayer, 
Gates, Plunkett, Booth, Ely and Whitney, 
City Clerk Towne, City Treasurer Barton, 
City Solicitor Goulding, City Engineer Allen, 
Commissioner of Highways Stone, Messrs. 
Stephen Salisbury, Henry A. Marsh, H. H. 
Bigelow, J. Evarts Greene and Edward H. 
Forbush, president of the Worcester Natural 
History Society. After a glance at the steam 
roller, the party drove to East Park, and 
thence on down to the lake. The work done 
at East Park tells of thought for the future, 
and the trees set out will in time shut it in 
from the dingy surroundings and give the boys 
a breathing-spot where they can have the 
most boy-like kind of a time they want. 
Reaching Lake Avenue, that most beautiful of 
boulevards, unspoiled by roadside buildings 
and glorious just now in its fresh greenery, the 
carriages bowled along until the shore drive 
entrance was reached and then the party rode 
along beside the lake. Lake Park is certainly 
a beautiful place, and Worcester will appre- 
ciate more and more as the encroachments of 
building enterprise despoil it more and more 
of its country-like surroundings. The roads 
are well planned, and numerous signs are to do 
guide-book duty ; but there will be dishearten- 
ing notice to "Keep off the Grass." It is to be 
a natural park, and the people who enter its 
confines may act like natural people. What 
more delightful ? The party visited the Davis 
Tower, of course, and looked delightedly out 
on the fair landscape. It was a sociable 
party, and Mr. Goulding had his little joke 
with Mr. Davis when the latter told about the 
building of the tower, by adding why the 
"Westerly" granite wasn't put on the sunset 
side of the building. Commissioner Davis, 
with his usual forethought, had gilded Reb- 
boli's palm in advance, and there awaited the 
party, at the little pavilion near the tower, an 
appetizing lunch. Mr. Davis's hospitality is 
always of the warmest kind, and, spying a 
half dozen urchins near by, he gathered them 
in also to the feast, an act, which, though 
small in itself, was a reminder of Mr. Davis 
broad and generous thought in giving so much 
to the people — the whole people — as Lake 
Park represents. The party reached home in 
time to escape the big raindrops that had been 
bottled up during the afternoon, after having 
passed a half-day of genuine enjoyment and 
recreation. 



About Folks. 

Principal James Jenkins of tlie Di.x Street 
school is one of the directors of tlie Martha's 
Vineyard Summer Institute, whose 13th annual 
session begins July 14. Worcester people are 
familiar with the l:)ig yellow liuilding up on 
\'ineyard Highlands, and it has Worcester 
visitors and an occasional Worcester pupil, 
every season. 

(ien. Robert H. Chamberlain is to l)e the 
chief marshal for the New England Fair, this 
year. 

Alderman George C. Whitney, Principa 
I). W. Abercrombie of Worcester Academy, 
Rev. C. H. Pendleton, Mrs. N. C. Emerson, 
Mrs. A. R. Simpson and Miss M. A. Slater 
have been in Chicago during the past week, 
attending the convention of the Baptist mis- 
sionary and education societies. 



Mr. and Mrs. !■:. D. Buffington sailed Wed- 
nesday from New \'ork for Havre, on the 
steamship Champagne. They are to be ab- 
sent for a year, and go first to Switzerland and 
Italy. They will make it a point to see the 
I'assion Play at Oberammergau, and before 
they return they expect to stand before the 
Sphin.x and to look upon the ruins of Greece. 



Rev. Joseph F. Lovering was still absent 
from his pulpit, last Sunday, being in Nan- 
tucket, where he preached, while Rev. M. S. 
Dudley of Nantucket preached at the Old 
South, in the morning. President H. K. War- 
ren of Gates College preached at Central 
Church in the morning. Rev. Daniel Merriman, 
D. D., being in New Hampshire, while Rev. 
Leon D. Bliss, the assistant pastor, preached 
for Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., at Piedmont 
Church. Dr. Mears was in Ashfield, conduct- 
ing the funeral services of the late Mrs. G. 
Stanley Hall and her daughter Julia. In the 
evening, Piedmont, Pilgrim and the Old South 
held the third of the series of union services 
at the former place, and Anthony Comstock, 
the apostle of purity, spoke on his work for the 
Society for the Prevention of Vice. At I^ly- 
niouth Church, Rev E. B. Webb, D. D., 
preached. Rev. E. B. Haskell of Hope \'alley, 
R. I., preached again for the South Baptist. 
Rev. Arthur W. Tirrell of Westboro occupied 
the pulpit of Webster Square M. E. Church, 
in e.xchange witli Rev. Henry Dorr, and Rev. 
Alonzo Sanderson preached at his old charge 
in Warren, Rev. W. C. Townsend, the pastor 
there, preaching at Laurel street. Rev. Fran- 
cis A. Gray of All Souls Church exchanged 
with Rev. J. S. Gledhill of Spencer. 



E.\-Alderman Loring Goes, accompanied by 
his daughter, Mrs. Melville O. Whittier, who 
has been spending some time at her former 
home, w^ent to Maine a week ago. They are 
enjoying their annual outing and trout-iisliing 
excursion to Rangeley Lake. 



The Piedmont Sewing School closed its sea- 
son last Saturday with an entertainment given 
by the children and an e.xhibition of their 
work. The entertainment began at three 
o'clock, and consisted of exercises and recita- 
tions. After a march, and singing, "O Stitch 
Away," Miss Jessie M. D.Hamilton, one of 



h I (I h;t 

the teachers in cliarge, asked questions which 
vvcre answered Ijy the school. Exercises of 
singing and recitations were given by Miss 
Florence Chaffee's and Mrs. John G. Mur- 
dock's classes; Misses Alice Hoppin and 
(;iennie I5igelow played a piano duet; Miss 
Ida Stratton's cla.ss had a "gift service"; Miss 
Margaret R. Hamilton's cla.ss recited the Beat- 
itudes and sang; Miss Kitty Estabrook's cla.ss 
recited the names of the books of the Bible; 
and Mi.ss Addie Howe's class gave the "Hive 
of Bees." Then the children sang "When the 
Clock Strikes One," and "O, Swift- Flying 
Needle," after which Mrs. P. J. Kent's class 
gave recitations. Miss Helen Bonzey gave a 
pretty little recitation entitled "Dimple Chin;" 
Mrs. C. A. Hoppin's class gave a dialogue, 
and the program closed with "Overhanding" 
singing. The work done by the children was 
exhiliited in the ladies' parlor, and certainly 
tlie small fingers had nothing to be ashamed 
of. The children were given their pieces of 
work to keep for their own. The school has 
proven a great success. It was started last 
Feljruary, and it has had 74 pupils, the av- 
erage attendance being 50. There have been 
12 teachers, including Mrs. J. G. Murdock, 
Mrs. P. J. Kent, Mrs. W. S. Miller, Miss 
Je.ssie M. D. Hamilton, Miss Florence Chaffee, 
Miss .Addie Howe, Mrs. B. W. Eames, Mrs. 
C. A. Hoppin, Miss Ida Stratton, Miss Ruth 
Partridge. Miss Kitty Estabrook has supplied 
for Mrs. Dr. Miller during a large part of the 
time. Mrs. Dr. Mears has opened the meet- 
ings. Miss Jessie Hamilton has led the sing- 
ing, and Miss Margaret R. Hamilton has been 
the pianist. 

The Episcopal Club had its fourth dinner at 
tlie Bay State House, Tuesday evening, and 
listened to an address by Rev. Langdon C. 
Stewardson, on "Missionary Work in East 
London." Hon. Henry H. Sprague, president 
of the State Senate, who was the club's guest, 
and Dr. Albert P. Marble, were the other 
speakers. 



Among the 133 Americans whose names 
appear in the catalogue of the Paris Salon, 
this year, is Miss Katherine T. Baldwin, a 
daughter of Mr. Charles C. Baldwin. She 
is a pupil of Bougereau and Fleury. 



Mrs. C. M. Cleveland and her sister. Miss 
Emily Clapp, are to spend the whole summer 
away from home and are already in the coun- 
try, where they will stay until the end of July, 
when Mr. Cleveland will join them and a 
month's stay at the shore will be in order. 



The universal cry for light and still greater 
light upon any question or theory before the 
people still continues and any light that comes 
from the intellect, tempered and sweetened by 
the promptings of the heart, always finds a 
welcome; hence the new weekly Light, pub- 
lished every Saturday at the Heart of the 
Commonwealth, a journal of social Worcester 
and lier neighbors, has found already a warm 
place in the hearts of the people. The depart- 
ment "about folks" is chock full of interesting 
things about live people, and the claims of 
news, society, business, personals, music, 
drama, literature and art are well set forth. 
— Spencer Suit. 



Ninety's Class Poem. 

The senior class of the High School each 
year gives opportunity for the poets in its 
ranks to compete for the honor of class poet. 
VVords suitable for setting to music arc sul> 
mitted anonymously, and judged on their 
merits. When the best one is selected, the 
writer makes himself or herself known. The 
present graduating class has accepted as the 
class poem the one printed below. It was 
written by Miss .Althea Bigelow, a daughter of 
Mr. Julian F. Bigelow. 

F.STO nUOI) i:SSH VIlJKIUS. 

.•\s the dawn's golden sunte-ims now turn into gray. 
Leaving notliing but shadows to brighten tlie way, 
.So the light of the Past, with remembrances clear, 
Will grow dim in the Future, though clierislied so dear. 

The I'ast leaves sweet mem'ries as onward we rise, 
That, go where we may, will ne'er fade from our eyes ; 
There are mountains to climb in this Future of ours, 
And we may find sharp thorns among beautiful flowers. 

.\s we stand on the line where youth's jonrney is done. 
And our manhood and womanhood hardly begun, 
With our hearts full of hopes that aie budding to-day, 
Let us make good resolves that will not wear away. 

A Ithough dark clouds hang o'er us on life's winding track. 
The sun will shine through them, no matter how black, 
Let us take as our watchword to guide on our way: 
"Kvcr be what you seem to te ;" do what you may. 

How to Dress Children. 
The maternal pride that prompts all mothers 
to dress their children as well as possible 
under adverse circumstances, says a sensible 
writer in The Ladies' Home Joitntal, also in- 
duces them to spend many an hour over their 
clothes without begrudging either the labor or 
time. Fortunately, the most appropriately 
dressed girls are the plainest clothed. Do not 
put too sombre a color upon a sad-faced child ; 
neither have all around sashes on a stout little 
figure, which requires tapering effects. Blouse 
suits of the cottons imitating flannel ; lawn- 
tennis flannel, which is part cotton ; and all- 
wool blue-and-white flannel, and serge are the 
most comfortable of play dresses. If trimmed 
in any manner, let it be with cotton or woolen 
braid. .Sew the gathered skirt, which is amply 
full and hemmed, to a silesia underwaist, and 
have a sailor blouse, with the regular sailor 
collar and coat or shirt sleeves, with a round 
neck or tiny band as preferred. Misses wear 
the blouse suits made in a similar style, and 
their half-worn skirts may be entirely worn out 
with two or three odd blouses made in this 
fashion, or, as belted waists of wash surah or 
striped tennis flannel. Any dress to be made 
over for a young girl can have new sleeves, 
yoke and skirt border of tartan plaid woolen 
goods, cut bias. This may be used for any 
plain, dark woolen goods, and if the renovated 
dress is of striped material, the extra portions 
added are of plain cashmere. Their sleeves 
are full, collars high, or plaited and turned 
over, and the skirts are usually full and gath- 
ered. Round waists, jacket bodices and 
pointed basques having full fronts, are worn by 
young girls, with full vests, girdles, half-belts 
and cuffs similar to those worn by older girls. 
The only silk addition made to their toilettes 
is of surah or India silk in small figures. 



A pompous man, when he smiles at a jest, 
takes more credit to himself or his apprecia- 
tion of the joke than he allows to the wit for 
uttering it. — Bo7'ee. 



About Folks. 



Col. Joseph A. Titus will be the Decoration 
Day orator at Hubbardston; Captain J. H. 
Knox will deliver the address at West Hoyl- 
ston, and Mr. Rufus 15. Dodge, Jr., will lie the 
speaker in Boylston. 



The entertainment which was to have been 
given at Piedmont Church, last Tuesday even- 
ing, and which was postponed on account of 
the death of Deacon Knovvle.s, will be given 
next Tuesday evening. The tableau.^ will em- 
brace scenes from the work of famous authors 
and Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," the 
Bardell-Pickwick trial, from Dickens, and 
others equally as good, will be given. Mr. 
Eben Francis Thompson is to do the reading. 



Miss Mary Howe was the guest, Wednesday 
evening, of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Marble, 
stopping in Worcester before going to .South- 
bridge for her concert Thursday evening. Mr. 
Lucien Howe accompanied her and was the 
guest of Mr. Ben T. Hammond. 



Tne annual meeting of the Natural History 
Society will be held next week. 

No patriotic Worcester citizen ought to fail 
of hearing Gen. O. O. Howard's address at 
Mechanics Hall, to-morrow evening, and no 
one of the younger generation ought to be 
absent. Gen. Howard is to be entertained by 
Lieut. H. A. Johnson, who will give a recep- 
tion in his honor, this evening, at his residence. 



Miss Flora Mclver, now resident in New 
York city, is the guest of relatives, Mr. and 
Mrs. George S. Boutwell. 



Lieut. George M. Rice, 2d, gave a reception 
to the active and honorary members of the 
Worcester Continentals, at his residence, 4 
Eden Terrace, Wednesday evening, and the 
affair was a mo.st brilliant one, a very large 
number of the members being present. The 
guests were received by Mrs. .S. A. Rice, Mrs. 
Brooks of Boston, Mrs. George E. Fairbanks, 
Mrs. L. E. Richardson, Mrs. Willard F. Pond 
and Mrs. James Pursey. Col. Hopkins was 
unable to be present, but the oiticers generally 
were present. The party included Mayor 
Harrington, Gen. A. B. R. Sprague, and Gen. 
Josiah Pickett, guests, and of the corps, Sur- 
geon John O. Marble, Assistant Surgeon 
Charles A. Peabody, ist Lieutenant and Clerk 
George H. Harlow, Lieut. Col. Henry E. 
.Smith. All the line officers were there, Cap- 
tains Edwin A. Wood, Edward A. Harris, 
John C. Jefferds, Charles E. Davis; Lieutenants 
Arthur E. Davis, Charles F. Mann, Herbert 
H. Fairbanks; of the non-commissioned staff, 
Quartermaster-Sergeant Daniel W. Darling, 
Hospital Steward George E. Fairbanks; from 
the companies, Co. A, ist Sergt. Nathan Tay- 
lor, 2d Sergt. Edwin E. Francis, Samuel F. 
iJarnes, F. A. Beane, Charles E. Black,George 
L. Bliss, J. A. Conway, A. E. Curtis, G. D. 
llolton, Charles F. Kennen, M. S. Lawrence, 
William McCready, Frederick W. Southgate; 
Co. B., J. F. Bruso, E. R. Curtis, W. A. Farns- 
worth, W. E. Howe, C. W. Knight, Arthur J. 
Marble, Oliver B. Wood; Co. C, ist Sergt. 



L 1 (I H T 

Charles A. Waite, 2d Sergt. James Pursev. J- 
W. Bigelow, F. M. Clark, Jr., H. T. Clark, 
Ceorge H. Cutting, Ward P. Delano, James 
E. Dennis, F. N. Oxley, E. L. Parker, H. E. 
Shaw. Eugene Tolman, L. J. Zahonyi ; 
Co. D., 2d Sergt. Stillman L. Shaffer. S. E. 
Allen. A. F. Bragg, C. H. Bullard. Everett 
Carleton, D. M. Doane, R. C. Edson, J. Wal- 
ter Flagg, Henry H. Gabeler, William L. Gul- 
liver, Charles N. Hair, F. M. Heath, William 
J. Hogg, H. A. Leslie, George E. Martin, A. 
G. Monroe, W. H. Rice, G. B. Wetherbee, G. 
H. Cutting ; honoraries, George Sessions, Maj. 
E. T. Raymond, Col. E. B. Glasgow, A. C. 
Mouroe, John Howard Jewett, S. R. Heywood, 
Charles G. Parker, Henry A. Marsh, Godfrey 
K. Mellor, James A. Norcross, Charles H. 
Pinkham, Willard F. Pond, Otis E. I'utman, 
B. M. Scott, (jeorge Sumner, Ossian T. Craw- 
ford, George F"isher, Herbert P. Hopkins, 
Frank A. Knowlton, B. D. Hill, J. W. Brown, 
G.eorge G. Hildreth, Thomas Talbot, Charles 
D. Thayer, Joseph F. Wicks, Harvey B. 
Wilder, E. W. Sweet, A. F. Earle. 



Mrs. Edward L. Davis's second reception, a 
week ago last night, was even more notable an 
event than that preceding. In receiving, Mrs. 
Davis and Miss Davis were assisted by Mrs. 
Joseph E. Davis, Mrs. Waldo Lincoln, Mrs. 
Halleck Bartlett, Mrs. Lincoln N. Kinnicutt, 
Mrs. O. H. Everett, Mrs. Preston Player, Mi.ss 
Frances M. Lincoln, Miss Maud Chase, Miss 
Stoddard, Miss Josephine Smith, Miss Fanny 
Clarke and Miss Mildred Crompton. 



Mr. L. W. Allen, the physical director of the 
new Rochester, N. Y., Young Mens Christain 
Association gymnasium, who gave a talk to the 
young men at Association Hall, on a Sunday 
afternoon, recently, paid the local association 
a flying visit on Wednesday. He came from 
Springfield, and was en route to Boston, riding 
his bicycle. 



Rev. 1. J. Lansing of Salem Street Church 
is one of the first of the local pastors to start 
off for a vacation. He leaves next Monday 
for a two weeks trip through Maine forests 
and about Maine's lake shores. He will prolj- 
ably get a big storage battery full of energy, 
which we may expect to hear from before 
summer is over. 



The Worcester Natural History Society is 
to issue in a few days its prospectus for the 
summer camps for 1890. The girls' camp is 
to l.)e located, as last year, on Mr. Thomas H. 
Dodge's Tower Hill estate, and the "family 
camp" will be on the -Swan Farm, on the 
Worcester side. The officers and teachers 
of the girls' camp will be ; Superintendent, 
Miss Edith A. Matteson; matron. Miss Jen- 
nie E. Weller, of the East Maine Conference 
Seminary, Buckport : teachers, in gymnastics, 
H. L. Ballou, of Amherst; in swimming, A. 
A. Ewing, of Amherst ; in botany, Mrs. J. 
Chauncey Lyford, of Worcester ; laboratory 
instruction in botany, George E. .Stone, of 
Worcester; geology, John J. Alton, of Wor- 
cester ; out-door sketching, George T. Tobin, 
art instructor in Workingman's School, New 
York City. Mrs. S. E. Lawton is to teach 
singing, one day each week, at both the boys' 
and girls' camps. 



Longing. 



My lieart is full and fain would flow, 

In sweetest rhythm, a song for you ; 
Rut my lips are dumb and my words come slo 
And my soul's deep surges come and go 
(Her shelving sands and reefs sunk low, 
Over memories sad and a heart's deep woe, 
But never a song will they sing as they flow— 
A tender song for you. 

The waves crowd on and dash in spray 

Scattered thoughts of rainbow hue; 
Sweet bright thoughts of a bygone day, 
When our loves came fresh like a gentle May, 
Silvery gleams caught from heaven's ray. 
But never a song will they sing or say— 
A tender song for you. 

For the ebb tide comes and the rocks are bare 

Oh ! would they were gone from view : 
The shipwrecks of life that He buried there, 
'I'he shattered hopes, the burdens of care, 
The aching heart with its bursting prayer. 
Heaps of ruins of castles in air. 
These, these keep back the wondrous fair. 
Fair song I would sing to you. 

Oh! that the full tide of mysoul would come at last 

And murmur a sweet low song and true ; 
Would bury the rocks of my voyage past, 
Would sweep us out on its bosom vast, 
By the strange wild troubles no more harrassed. 
Oh ! then would my words be free at last 
And I murmur a song to you. 
Worcester, Mass. 



J 



The College Guild. 

Matters at Cambridge. 

Preliminary and final examinations for ad- 
mission to Harvard college will be held at Y. 
M. C. A. building, city, this year. This action 
of the faculty has been brought about by Mr. 
Charles E. Fish, the conductor of the well 
known school on the West street. Mr. Charles 
M. Thayer will have charge of the examina- 
tions, having proved himself a very capable 
proctor at Cambridge. It is said that twenty- 
eight students of Worcester are to try for ad- 
mission. 

The remaining games of base ball to be 
played between Harvard and Yale are fixed 
for the following dates: Saturday, May 31, 
at Cambridge; Saturday, June 21, day after 
class day, at Cambridge; Tuesday, June 24, 
at New Haven. If each nine wins two games, 
a fifth one will be played at Springfield on 
Saturday, June 28. 

The freshman were victorious over the sen- 
ior nine in a game of ball last Wednesday, by 
a score of 17-5. This wins the class champion- 
ship for the freshmen. The class of '93 is con- 
sequently ciuite hilarious. 

The Varsity nine defeated the Holy Cross 
college team on Wedne.sday by a score of 9-4. 

The freshman crew has been much awakened 
by Kelton and Nelson, the two strongest men, 
having seats in the Varsity boat. However, 
they are rowing well and are determined to de- 
feat Columbia. 
Williams. 

Williams played its second championship 
game last Saturday, defeating Dartmouth 11 
to 9. We play Amherst again Memorial Day. 

The Williams team which will contest at 
the sports at the Park next Wednesday is com- 
posed of twenty-three men, including the tug- 
of-war team. Quite a party of students will 
accompany them. Part of the Glee Club will 
aid at the concert at the Y. M. C. A. in the 
evening. 



George Cruikshank. 



[A Reminiscence of tlie English Artist and I'll 
thropist.] 



BY GEORGE E. GLADWIN. 



[COPYRIGHT SECURKll.] 

It was my privilege to form the acquaintance 
of George Cruiksliank, at the time of my four 
years' sojourn in London, 1859 to 1863, and to 
meet him frecjuently during those four years. 
My first introduction to the distinguished man 
I owe to my revered friend John B. Gough, 
who was engaged in lecturing in England at 
that time. 

Mr. Gough resided in London, and by some 
good fortune, my home was located very near 
to the street on which Mr. Gough lived, so that 
I became very intimately acquainted with his 
family, and a constant visitor there. 

Here in Mr. Cough's home I first met George 
Cruikshank; and it is with peculiar pleasure 
that I recall my first interview with him, which 
was soon after I arrived in London in 1859. 
After that I met him frequently during those 
four years of my stay in that city, and greatly 
enjoyed the fellowship and counsel which he 
was ever ready to bestow upon his younger 
brothers in art. 

I can bear strong testimony to the words of 
many who have spoken and written since Cruik- 
shank's death, in praise of the wonderful gifts 
of this man, and the diversity of the ways in 
which he exercised his remarkable influence. 
Many an encouraging word did he give to 
young men, who were groping their way in the, 
to them, doubtful path of art. Surely it was a 
great inspiration to receive encouragement 
from such a genius. 

I remember well the line he wrote me, which 
I received at the close of a dismal day in 
London in the fall of i860. It was at the time 
when our civil war was raging, and it was one of 
thepeculiarly foggy days of that season, so that 
the day was dismal to me, in more senses than 
one. 

It was an invitation to visit him immediate- 
ly, to look at a sketch of a picture which he 
had commenced. It was in illustration of a 
great subject, "The evils of the drinking sys- 
tem in England," upon which he had pon- 
dered for a long time, but whicli as yet, lay 
mostly in his imagination. 

I well remember how cordially he met me 
at the door that evening, saying with a hearty 
grasp of my hand, "I'm glad you have come; 
1 want to talk with you about a pictuae 1 have 
started." 

He immediately drew me into his study, and 
proceeded to show me the first rough sketch 
he had outlined for "The Worship of Bac- 
chus," the name he had already chosen for the 
picture. He said he had hardly got the idea 
started on paper yet, and he freely talked of 
this and that arrangement of the different 
groups of figures with which to illustrate the 
great idea he had in his mind. 

He said he had long wanted to show in a 
picture the terrible effects of the liquor drink- 
ing customs of the day. He evidently, at that 
moment, had but a faint conception of the way 
in which he was to develop and work out this 
idea. 

That was a delightful evening, in which we 



IvKjHT 

talked and planned together, and which helped 
mc to dissipate for a time the more gloomy 
forebodings which surged through my mind, 
as 1 cast my thoughts homeward over the .sea. 

Mr. Cruikshank seemed pleased at any sug- 
gestion 1 felt bold enough to make concerning 
the arrangement of any of these groups of 
figures. He seemed very an.xious to know how 
lie should best portray this great subject, and 
how best teach the great moral lesson to his 
countrymen. It was constantly growing in his 
mind, but that it was to become the large 
painting which is now in possession of the 
British government, and which hangs in tlie 
National Gallery of Art in London, did not 
enter his brain. 

His first intention was to make a large water 
color painting of the subject, but I am sure he 
did not very long hold to this conclusion, for 
the picture in diversity grew so rapidly in his 
mind, that he must have decided very soon to 
increase its size, and to put it in oil upon can- 
vas. 

I had other opportunities of seeing him, 
while he was at work upon the arrangement of 
this great picture, and I saw the sketch begin 
to take on the finished look. After he had 
chosen the size of his canvas, I u.sed to call 
and see the great painting progress, and I re- 
member distinctly the pleasant talks I had 
with him, as he, with brush in hand, proceeded 
with his work. 

I recall easily the sensation produced in 
1S63, as this great picture, "The Worship of 
Bacchus," by George Cruikshank, was an- 
nounced as completed, and ready to be viewed 
by the public, of the rush to see it. and of the 
striking lesson that was conveyed to everyone 
of the throng who beheld it. 

It may not be inappropriate here to insert 
something from the lines written by George 
Cruikshank himself, in 1S65, as an introduc- 
tion to the public of the etching of the great 
picture which he made at that time. 

"In early life I was struck with the amount 
of misery, wretchedness and crime, occasioned 
by the use of strong drink, and I may look 
back to my earliest productions, when I en- 
deavoured to check the progress of the evils 
arising from into.xication, and it is indeed up- 
wards of half a century since I first began to 
use my humble abilities with pencil and with 
pen against the vice of drunkenness, and in 
the vain attempt to shut up the drinking shops, 
and to establish Diodciatc drinking as a nni- 
vcrsal ndc, and I now sincerely regret that it 
is only seventeen years since I first discovered 
that 'teetotalism,' or the totally abstaining 
from all intoxicating liquors, is the only real 
remedy for the entire abolition of intemper- 
ance and drunkenness. 

"Ever since 1 became a teetotaler I have 
used every possible means in my power to as- 
sist the temperance cause, producing some 
things with pen and pencil which I hope may 
have done some good, and, as my thoughts 
worked on in this direction, one day this sub- 
ject of the "Worship of Bacchus" flashed upon 
my mind. 

"The Worship of Bacchus, or the Drinking 
Customs of Society, is intended to show how 
universally the intoxicating drinks are used 
upon every occasion in life, from the cradle 
to the grave. I have not the vanity to call it 
a picture, it being merely the mapping out of 



certain ideas for an especial purpose, and I 
painted it with a view that a lecturer might 
use it as so many diagrams, so that the mind 
might be operated on, through the ear as well 
as the eye at the same time." 

In conclusion, "The work is, after all, mere- 
ly a representation of facts — broad, undeni- 
able facts— the representation of which will, I 
hope, induce all those who have not adopted 
our principles and practice to take the matter 
into their most serious consideration. It is a 
difficult thing for a moderate drinker to under- 
stand why he should leave off his small quan- 
tity because there are others that take a large 
quantity. Custom, appetite, and the want of 
a clear and proper understanding of this tjues- 
tion stand in the way: but if they become con- 
vinced that our principles are right, they will 
at once see that by abstaining themselves, they 
will not only help to save millions of their fel- 
low creatures from destruction, but will them- 
selves, in all probability, enjoy better health 
and a longer life." 

During my aciiuaintance and Intimacy with 
Cruiksliank, I had opportunities of seeing 
him, in his more private life, with his family 
and personal friends around him, and he in his 
jolliest mood ; and have often been convulsed 
with laughter at his comical sayings and 
doings. 

I have heard him speak at large assemblies, 
when he would stir everyone by his inimitable 
recitals of experience. I have seen him at 
large conversaziones when everyone wasdoing 
him honor by their attention. And now after 
so many years have intervened since my first 
and my long visit to England, it is very plea.s- 
ant to recall to my memory those delightful in- 
terviews with the great artist, George Cruik- 
shank. 

\\ 'orct's/er. A/ass. 

Messrs.C. L.Gorham & Co. have received the 
following music : "Ever Dear," Trottre ; "No 
Lips Can Tell," Trotfere ; "Some One," Trotc're ; 
"Changeles.s," Trotire ; "Dreams Only 
Dreams," Harriss; "How Shall I Sing to P"air 
One," Coombs; "Snow-flakes," Cowen; "Be- 
cause of Thee," Johns; "Love Me if I Live," 
Cowen; "My Friend," Wekerlin; "Aladdin's 
Lamp," Coombs; "Babylon," Watson; "Rose 
and the Thorn," Sargent; "To a Flower," 
Cowen; "Morning Bright," Goring Thomas; 
"Maid and the Butterfly," D'Albert; "Ferry 
for Shadowtown," De Koven; "Lead Us 
Heavenly Father," Schnecker ; "Love's Con- 
tent," Shepperd ; "Love's Sweet Story," Shep 
perd; "Like a Dream," Harris; "Arabian 
Slave," "Thy King," Rodney; "God of My 
Life," Bradsky; "Persian Love Song," De 
Koven: "Bon-Ton," Gavotte; "Skirt Dance," 
"Faust up to Date," Lutz; "Gondolier Waltz," 
Roeder; "Tout Paris" Waltz, Waldteufel ; 
"Angel of Love" Waltz, Waldteufel ; "Boston 
Bloods" Waltz, Hayes; "Andalucia" Waltz, 
Le Thiere ; "In Thine Eyes" Waltz, Waldteu- 
fel ; "Les Lointains" Waltz, Waldteufel ; 
"Russian Army Grand March," White; "Our 
Heroes Grand March," Keller; "Battle Won 
Grand March," Hoist; "Sarabande et Fugue," 
Vogrich ; "Gipsey Serenade," Behr; "Flora 
Mazurka," Koelline ; "La Cappricieuse," Bold ; 
"Run of Luck Schottische," Blake; "Hearts 
Idol Gavotte," Lindh; "Love Song," Jonas; 
"Repose of Love," Major; "Star of the Sea," 
Kennedy. 



10 



Things We Read. 



PREPARED FOR LIGHT. 



As the warm weather approaches, there is a 
proportionate increase in paper-covered books 
of fiction, commonly known as "summer read- 
ing." Just what the book of the summer will 
be is left for the immediate future to decide. 
For several successive seasons all the would- 
be fashionable literary people have chosen 
some one novel to be read at mountain and 
seaside, and discussed later in city drawing- 
rooms. Dame Fashion has been as capri- 
cious in this matter as in others, and has fav- 
ored, in turn, the Russian stories of Tolstoi, 
the religious novels as typified by "Robert 
Elsmere" and "John Ward, Preacher,"' and 
last of all, the social question as solved by 
Edward Bellamy in "Looking Backward.'' 
Now Fashion and its followers await a new 
shrine and idol. 



"A Hardy Norseman," by Edna Lyall, is 
one of the most popular of this year's novels. 
Those who have read "Donovan" and "A 
Knight Errant," by this same author, will 
meet old friends in this new book, which is, in 
fact, said to be a sequel to "A Knight Er- 
rant." The style, like that of all her novels, 
is fresh and entertaining; her characters, 
strong and consistent ; while the stories lack en- 
tirely the sensational element so prevalent in 
much modern fiction. The author, known to 
the world by the pseudonym of Kdna Lyall, is 
really Miss Ada Bayly, daughter of an Eng- 
lish barrister in Sussex. For years she has 
been an invalid, and it is reported that in- 
creased ill-health will prevent her further liter- 
ary work ; if true, the world will lose a valu- 
able writer. Such strong characters as Dono- 
van, Donati and Frithiof bear witness to Miss 
Bayly's method, or as she calls it, her prin- 
ciple of writing — namely, to create her hero, 
endowed with certain noble qualities, and then 
form her circumstances and plot so as to best 
bring out these qualities. 

The past week, Worcester children have 
been greatly interested in the story of "Little 
Lord Fauntleroy," and, incited by the play, 
many adults as well as children have read for 
the first time this sweet story of childhood. 
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, its author, has 
recently published "Little Saint Elizabeth" 
and two others of a more imaginative nature. 
Little Saint Elizabeth is a French girl, brought 
up in a chateau in Normandy, and taught by 
her aunt to follow her namesake's example in 
caring only for deeds of charity and the salva- 
tion of her soul. Suddenly, from this quiet 
home, .she is brought to busy New York and 
the story deals especially with her amazement 
and troubles in her new environment. It is a 
story as interesting for old as for young. 



Probably one of the best after-dinner speak- 
ers in our country is Chauncey M. Depew. 
But his ability is by no means confined to this 
lighter form of address, for he is, as well, a 
noted orator. A volume of "Orations and 
After-Dinner Speeches" has just been pub- 
lished under Mr. Depew's supervision, con- 
taining fifty-two of his speeches, among which 
the two best orations may be considered the 



L I (i M T 

oration at the dedication of the Bartholdi 
statue and the address at the unveiling of the 
statue of Alexander Hamilton. All these 
speeches are teeming with wit and wisdom, 
allusions and quotations. Some one once ex- 
pressed, to Mr. Depew, wonder at his accurate 
memory of quotations in such profusion. The 
reply was, "1 do not attempt to remember a 
quotation: 1 remember where the quotation 
can be found whenever I want to use it." 



The Forum for May contains much solid 
and interesting matter. Ex-Speaker Carlisle 
replies in an article on "Republican Promise 
and Performance," to Senator Dawes's article 
in the March Forum. The subjects of the 
tariff, pensions and suffrage are all discussed 
in the present number. Prof. Goldwin Smith 
writes upon "Canada Seen Through English 
Eyes." In introduction, he refers to the re- 
bukes given him in print by Sir Charles Dilke 
because of the articles on Canadian affairs in 
American and English magazines, claiming 
that Canadians prefer to manage their own 
affairs. "Literary Criticism" is treated at 
length by Archdeacon Farrar, "The Naval 
Battle of tlie Future" by Lieut. Bradley Fiske, 
and "When the Farmer will be I^rosperous," 
by C. Wood Davis. Doubtless the article 
which will be most generally read is by Grant 
Allen upon "A Woman's Intuition." This 
author is truly versatile in his tastes. He first 
appeared before the world as a writer on natu- 
ral history, then on ethnology and esthetics, 
by the publication of his "Strange Stories" he 
gained a name as a writer of narratives, and 
when "Babylon" and "A Mortal Coil" ap- 
peared, he was greeted as a novelist of great 
ability. Of late, he has been attacking social 
problems, the one regarding the position of 
women furnishing him much material for 
thought. A. 

Light can be found on sale at the following 
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On the trains. 

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ing at the Light office. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



The English Language. — T. asks for the 
number of English-speaking people. The 
English language is now spoken by 99,861,000 
people, or about twenty-seven per cent, of the 
total population of the globe. 

The Richest Country. — W. asks for the 
name of the richest country on earth. The 
United States is the richest country, its total 
estimated wealth at present being $61,459,000,- 
000. 

The Mascot. — Mary T. asksfor the mean- 
ing and origin of the word "Mascot." The 
word "mascot" was introduced into literature 
by means of the comic opera "La Mascotte," 
written by Audran; but it seems to have been 
a term in common use long previously among 
gamesters and sporting characters generally in 
France. It was used to signify some object, 
animate or inanimate, which, like the luck- 
penny, brought good fortune to its possessor. 
The word is further traced back to the patois 
of Provence and (iascony, where a mascot is 
something which brings luck to a household. 

Speed ok Penmanship. — H. H. T. asks 
for the speed of a rapid penman. The follow- 
ing, from the Boston Budget, not only answers 
the question, but gives a deal of curious infor- 
mation : A rapid penman can write thirty 
words in a minute. To do this he must draw 
his pen through the space of a rod — 16)-2 feet. 
In forty minutes his pen travels a furlong, and 
in 5 ' J hours a mile. We make, on an average, 
sixteen curves, or turns, of the pen for each 
word written. Writing thirteen words a min- 
ute, we must make forty-three curves to each 
second ; in an hour, 28,000; in five hours, 144,- 
000 ; and in 300 days, working only five hours 
each day, we make not less than 43,200,000 
curves and strokes of the pen ! The man who 
makes but 1,000,000 strokes of the pen a month 
has done nothing remarkable ; there are those 
who make four times that number. Here we 
have in the aggregate a mark 800 miles long, 
to be traced on paper by each writer in a year. 
In making each letter of the ordinary alpha- 
bet we make three to seven strokes of the pen 
— on an average, y/z to four." 



The New Photography. 

Photography is certainly a most interesting 
and delightful study, and the results obtained 
by means of the improved system of film pho- 
tography are so beautiful, and the apparatus 
employed so simple, it is no wonder thousands 
of our most cultured people are becoming 
enthusiastic amateurs. The most ingenious, 
and it seems by far the most popular camera 
in use among experts and amateurs alike, is 
the Kodak, a little instrument measuring but 
3X X 3>4 x 6J^ inches, and weighing only 32 
ounces. It is a complete photographic outfit, 
with lens, instantaneous shutters and material 
for making one hundred negatives, and so 
compact and neat in appearance, that any lady 
can carry it without making herself in the 
least conspicuous. The Eastman Company, 
of Rochester, N V. , are the makers, to whose 
advertisement in anotker column attention is 
called. 



About Business 



s. 

Russell Sage on Wealth. 

Russell Sage carved out his own great for- 
tune of 5*50,000,000. He is believed to have 
more ready money than any single individual 
in the world. How to make money is a prob- 
lem that every man tries to solve. When Mr. 
Sage was asked for his solution by the New 
York Hciiild, he replied: "I believe that any 
man of good intelligence can accumulate a 
fortune, at least a moderate one, by adopting 
three principles — industry, economy and pa- 
tience. A mind capable of directing one in 
the right course makes success almost certain. 
A young man should start out in life trusting 
in God and resolved to attain a position of 
self-dependence. He must so conduct himself 
as to command the respect and confidence of 
all with whom he comes in contact. Without 
economy no man can succeed. His gains 
would not be lasting, for he would not be pre- 
pared to withstand reverses. A man must be 
ready for set-backs. A man should make it a 
point to save. What percentage of his salary 
or income he should put aside it is difficult to 
say. That should be governed by circum- 
stances. Judgment must be exercised in saving 
as well as in spending. It is safe to advise a 
young man to save all he can, and he will find 
that the saving of his first hundred dollars will 
teach him to save the second, and so on, until 
he has laid the foundation for a fortune that 
may, by good management, be made a large 
one. A man's health has much to do with his 
success in life, and it behooves him to look 
well after his bodily condition. The young 
man must work on a salary until he is able to 
comprehend the value of money, and also the 
source of supply and the ease with which it 
may be dissipated. He must read books and 
newspapers to keep posted on the topics of the 
day and the course of human events. It would 
be well for him to attend debating societies to 
qualify himself to stand on his two feet and 
express himself in an intelligent manner. The 
young man taught in a fashionable college is a 
house plant, while the young man who culti- 
vates himself is an outdoor growth, and better 
able to stand a severe drought or a severe 
storm, which all are subject to in the variations 
of life. It is very seldom that large fortunes 
are made by spreading out. The risk of disas- 
ter is too great. A man should never allow 
his affairs to get beyond his control. Intelli- 
gence is a prerequisite to success. One of the 
wealthiest men in America recently said that 
he considered intemperence the greatest cause 
of poverty. Some men have no more intelli- 
gence than a dumb animal. It is also with 
animalsas with men. Some animals are almost 
human in their intelligence, and others are the 
merest brutes, with only instinct, and that of 
the lowest order, to direct them. The intelli- 
gence of horses and dogs is often astonishing. 
Close application is necessary in every busi- 
ness. If I did not give personal and careful 
attention to my own business I could not hope 
to prosper. All are free and equal in this 
country, and every man makes himself what 
he will. His mind directs his course in life. 
If he has the will power to adopt wise princi- 
ples success will come to him. 
Business These Days is War. 

It is true that the growth of wealth, so 



lylCl HT 

marked on this continent, finds its exemplifica 
tion in the growth of individual fortunes. Hut 
it by no means follows that this rapidity of ac- 
cumulation is tlie result of individual shrewd- 
ness, or the display of a higher form of busi- 
ness sagacity than ordinarily prevails. Some 
men are born under conditions that highly 
favor fortune ; some seem almo.st to be born 
lucky. Not a few of the great fortunes of the 
day have come to their possessors in spite of 
themselves; some are tlie result of a direct vio- 
lation of the presumed correct laws of com- 
merce, while others have followed from the ir- 
resistible development in the resources of the 
country ; others from the invention of a useful 
device, and still others from a policy of tlic 
government which enforces a system of ta.xa- 
tion by which, at the expense of many, a great 
advantage is conferred upon a few. It will 
thus be seen that to define why men succeed 
in business is in a certain sense to define the 
circumstances in which their lot is cast, and 
the favorable or adverse conditions that sur- 
round them. The task to set forth the reasons 
for success in individual cases is all the more 
difficult, when it is often discovered that the 
rich men of many localities are not the able 
men ; that the industrious, frugal, and energetic 
men are not always the most blessed with this 
world's goods ; but that the least likely, the 
least enterprising, the least far-seeing, are ap- 
parently the most successful. This circum- 
stance, that it is often the stupidest that is the 
richest, adds interest to the constant inquiry — 
What are the elements of success? — TJtc Jew- 
eler, C/iiccigo. 

Pruning Shrubs. 
There is no invariable time or rule for prun- 
ing deciduous shrubs. The time varies with 
the nature of the shrub, and the object for 
which they are grown. Shrubs that are to 
flower abundantly should generally be pruned 
immediately after the blooming sea.son, and 
not in the Spring. Shrubs that bloom late on 
the wood of each year can be pruned late in 
the Autumn, or early in the spring before they 
start into growth. In pruning shrubs two gen- 
eral objects are to be accomplished ; they are 
pruned for a greater abundance of flowers, or 
for the beauty and symmetry of the shrubs for 
ornamental purposes. Most shrubs that are 
pruned for flowering should be pruned in the 
Fall of the year, after the flowers have fallen, 
for nearly all of these shrubs produce flowers 
on last year's growth of wood. The few that 
produce flowers on the current year's growth 
can be safely pruned early in the Spring. 
Those that are pruned for ornamental purposes 
should be cut back only according to some 
general plan of symmetry and beauty. -An 
idea of beauty and taste must be possessed by 
the pruner to do his work properly. They 
should never be pruned so as to ruin their 
natural outlines. Weak shoots should be 
thinned out and cutback cautiously, so as to 
develop their best form. Rounded, graceful 
curves are desirable, and not sharp, angular 
forks. • A severely pruned shrub always loses 
that flowing grace of outline which is one of 
its principal charms. It is very rarely that 
a shrub needs to be cut back to bare poles, as 
so many imagine. 

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. 
— Col ton. 



II 



West vs. East. 



To llu- lulilor of IJg/it: 

Much has been written, and more has been 
said, about the generous hospitality of the 
West, and of the energy of Western business 
men, and as much more has been written and 
said about the conservatism of the Kast, and 
of the lack of business energy, and the general 
chilliness of Eastern hospitality. 1 am of 
the opinion that the educated man is about the 
same man wherever you put him, and every 
one mu.st admit that there are few n.ative born 
Westerners. The people of the West to-day, 
were the people of the Kast yesterday. Yet 
for all that, and giving full respect to the state- 
ment that a manly man is a manly man every- 
where, and that a business man is a business 
man wherever situated, it is undeniable that 
change of circinnstances assists in bringing 
out in bolder relief the cardinal trails which 
would, under other conditions, remain semi- 
dormant. The welcome given a business 
stranger in a Western town is cordial, and, 
although the cordiality is undoubtedly tinged 
with selfishness, it is pleasant and healthful. 
Western business men are united ; the sharp 
lines of competition do not grow petty jeal- 
ousy. Every man is working for himself, and 
for the town as well. Society is generally re- 
duced, in the mill of business, to businessmen 
and their families. Ginger-bread aristocracy 
does not exist, because no aristocracy of any 
kind is recognized. In the East men are prone 
to love their town for what the town has been. 
People are somewhat reckoned by their 
fathers and grandfathers; society becomes 
more or less cliquey, and feudalism is prac- 
tised to a small degree. Literature and art 
seem to be at the front and centre of society, 
whether society knows anything about them or 
not. Eastern people may as a cla.ss know 
more than Western people, but Western 
people think they know about what they know, 
while Eastern people are apt to judge the 
world by their own standard, without any par- 
ticular familiarity with the standard itself. 
The West learns from the East, the East re- 
fuses to recognize the broad, and often un- 
tamed, culture of the West. If the East, 
utilized, instead of silently appreciated, her 
advantages, some of New England's bright 
young men might be re-gathered into the 
Fatherland. It is indeed a pity that the East, 
as a whole, is too old to learn. The great in- 
.stitutions of learning teach men the learning 
of books, and from out of their doors come 
men of minds, who often bid good-bye to 
father and mother, to learn to be men on the 
other side of the Mississippi. To the fathers 
of Worcester, who are neither rich nor poor, 
I ask a pertinent question: "What are 
you going to do with your boys ? " White. 

ironcster, ^fass. 



The new two-cent stamp doesn't give gen- 
eral satisfaction. Some say the paper is too 
flimsy, and the color rubs off. Our people 
have had their taste so greatly developed and 
improved by the late Centennial exposition 
that the coming postage stamp, to give entire 
satisfaction, will have to be hand-painted by 
Meissonier or some other high-priced artist.— 
Norristown Herald. 



IZ 



My First Commission. 



"A wonderfully handsome woman still ; she 
must have been very beautiful once. I sup- 
pose the queer old fellow at her side is her 
husband." 

That was what my nephew said to me, as 
her carriage turned into the Park. 

"Beautiful.'" I replied ; "beautiful does not 
express it. How I loved that woman !" 

"Oh, of course, uncle," replied my graceless 
nephew. "Professionally, I suppose?" 

You see, there isn't so very much difference 
in our ages, though I am his uncle, and we 
are more like brothers than uncle and nephew. 
"You know you are a very bad lot, uncle," 
the boy went on. "You go on loving 'em, till 
you put the last finishing touch, and then you 
start another canvas and begin to love some- 
body else. I believe that's the secret of your 
success as a portrait-painter." 

"Jack," I said severely, "My success is due 
entirely to perseverance." 
"Tell us about her," said Jack. 
"That's the Countess of Wallsend," I began. 
"Fifteen years ago her husband, the Earl, 
became a widower, and every right minded 
young woman in society duly set her cap at 
him. At that time I lived off the Tottenham 
Court Road, and was madly in love with Lottie 
Vivian. I just earned a living then, and no 
more. Her photograph struck me at first 
I bought the photo of Lottie Vivian of the 
Portico Theater — and I paid my half-crown at 
the pit-door. I saw her in drama, and I saw 
her in an Easter fairy-piece that followed. I 
saw her dance; I heard her sing, I used to go to 
the Portico night after night. I made studies 
of her as Undine, as L'na, and as Perdita; and 
when Mr. Melchizedec, the dealer, offered to 
buy them, I was rude to Melchizedec, and I 
declined to part with them on any terms. One 
night as I came out of the pit of the Portico I 
found that it was raining hard, but money was 
scarce with me, and I walked home through 
the rain, because I couldn't afford a cab. 
Just as I neared my own door, a four-wheeler 
drew up at it, a lady paid the driver, and then 
she opened the street-door with her latch-key 
and disappeared into the house. It was Lottie 
Vivian herself, aad I stood in the rain in open- 
mouthed astonishment. In a few moments the 
gas was turned up on the first floor, and then it 
dawned upon me at once. 

I am not a curious man. I knew that an 
actress lived on the first floor, and that a 
teacher of languages on the second, but I, the 
third floor lodger, had never troubled my head 
about them in the least. I had never even 
asked their names. But though I was in love 
I had a certain amount of common sense left, 
and I remembered that there was a great gulf 
between Lottie Vivian, the popular actress, 
and the painter of pot-boilers on the third floor. 
Next morning I dined, as usual, at the Con- 
vivial Cannibals. Groper, the low comedian, 
was a member there. I knew that he had been 
playing at the Portico for the last ten years. 
There's nothing comic about Groper in private 
life ; he's the most serious Cannibal I know. 

It was from Groper that I ascertained the 
true history of Lottie Vivian of the Portico 
Theater. 



IvKJHT 

"She was a pupil of old Jack Slider's— most 
of the successful ones have been pupils of 
Slider's," said Groper. "It's a strange thing," 
he went on ; "she came out at the Portico, and 
she has had a constant engagement there ever 
since for the last eight years."' And then he 
went on to describe her various triumphs. 
"But though she has been a popular favorite 
at a fashionable theater, there has never been 
a word against her,'" said Groper. "She is as 
good as gold and as straight as a die, and every 
farthing she owns goes to her family — to her 
old father, who was a big man on the Stock 
Exchange once, mind you," said Groper, "and 
to a whole family of little brothers and sisters, 
who are entirely dependent upon her. She is 
an ambitious girl, too," he added, "and they 
say she's going to marry Lord Wallsend." 
"What! the mad millionaire?" said I. 
"That's the man," said Groper. 
I went on paying my half-crowns at the 
Portico, and I got deeper and deeper in love, 
and my love interfered a good deal with my 
work. Then it was that I got my first commis- 
sion to paint a portrait. That portrait made 
my fortune, and the painting of it nearly broke 
my heart. 

It came about this way: I got a note one 
day from Miss Vivian requesting me to call 
upon her on a matter of business. 

Miss Vivian was very quietly dressed, and 
she came to business at once. 

"Mr. Stippler," she said, "you'll excuse my 
asking you to come here in this informal way, 
but the fact is I want to have my portrait 
painted. I can't afford to pay very much for it. 
Mr. Melchizedec recommended me to you. 
Can you oblige me in this matter, Mr. Stippler, 
and," here she blushed violently, "will it be very 
expensive ?" 

"Madam," I replied with enthusiasm, "you 
do me to much honor in selecting me. If you 
permit me to paint your portrait it'll cost you 
nothing at all." 

"Ah !" she answered, with a silvery laugh — 
don't grin, sir, it was silvery ; it wasn't a bit 
stagey; an innocent, silvery, girlish, delicious 
little Liugh — "that's not business, Mr. Stippler. 
Besides," she added, gently snubbing me, "it 
was Mr. Melchizedec's selection, and not 
mine. Let's leave compliments and come to 
business. You don't know how sick of compli- 
ments I am, Mr. Stippler." 

I blushed. I felt like a fool, and I know I 
looked like one. 

"Mr. Melchizedec said something about 
twenty guineas," said Miss Vivian. 
"I shall only be delighted," I burst in. 
"Then we may consider it as settled, Mr. 
Stippler. When shall I sit to you?" 

I made an appointment, and the thing was 
done. Of course I expected that she would 
want to be painted in character. Nothing of 
the kind. 

"You see, Mr. Stippler," she said, "I must 
take you into my confidence. I intend this 
portrait as a present — as a sort of surprise. I 
wish to give it to the gentleman whom I am 
about to marry," and then she blushed, and 
gave a little sigh ; and I would have groaned 
aloud had I dared. 

So she sat to me in a little peignoir of 
French muslin— tea-gowns weren't invented 
then — and when I had posed her she said to 



"Lord Wallsend — that is the name of the 
gentleman to whom I am engaged, and I tell it 
you in confidence, Mr. Stippler — has seen me 
in Cordelia. He thinks a great deal of my 
hair. You won't think me vain, Mr. Stippler, 
if I ask if I may let it down." 

Of course I said that it was a capital idea. 
She pulled out half-a-dozen hairpins, and a 
great glory of molten gold fell in luxuriant 
waves upon her shoulders. 

We became great friends ; we talked un- 
reservedly to each other just as if we had 
known each other all our lives — almost as if we 
had been brother and sister. 

Once, and once only, I made an ass of my- 
self. 

"It must be finished by the twentieth," she 
had said ; "the twenty-first is his birthday." 

"I wish it could never be finished," I replied 
passionately; "I wish I could stand here paint- 
ing you all my life." 

The pretty smile faded from her face, and 
she pulled me up at once. 

"You mustn't say anything to me, Mr. Stip- 
pler, if you please, that you wouldn't say if 
Lord Wallsend himself were hereby my side." 
I apologized ; I felt that I was a brute. 
We became fast friends. She told me her 
history, her struggles, her ambitions ; and 
from her own lips I learned that the coming 
marriage was no union of love, or even incli- 
nation. She had been driven into it by her 
parents. There is such a thing as being too 
dutiful. I learned, too, that Lord Wallsend 
was next door to an idiot, and his insanity de- 
clared itself in a monstrous jealousy of Lottie, 
as unfounded as it was absurd. 

I had lunched with Miss Vivian; it was my 
farewell visit to her. The portrait was finished 
. — it was my masterpiece, Jack — and it stood 
upon an easel in its bright new frame in the 
middle of the room. 

The table had been cleared; thank Heaven 
for that. 

"Play to me, Mr. Stippler," she said in a 
voice that went straight to my heart; "I'm 
tetribly low-spirited. Play something cheerful." 
I sat down to the little cottage Erard, and I 
did as I was bid. I played nigger melodies ; I 
played dance music ; and then, somehow or 
other, I drifted into, "Home, Sweet Home;" 
and then I felt so utterly miserable that I 
broke down. I turned towards Lottie, and I 
saw that her eyes were full of tears. 

"Don't George, don't," she said; "don't go 
on. I can't bear it." 

She called me by my Christian name for the 
first and last time. 

And then there came a tap at the door, and 
a hoarse croakmg voice grated out : "May I 
come in ?" 

"Good heavens ! it's his lordship," cried 
Lottie Vivian, "and I am ruined!" 

But I saved her, though if I hadn't been 
prompt she would never have married him, 
and she might — yes by Jove ! perhaps have 
become my wife after all. Stranger things 
have happened. But 1 reassured her by a 
glance, and she took her cue at once. 

I flung off my coat, I whipped out the front 
board of the piano, I buried my face among 
the hammers, and I began striking single notes 
upon the keys. 

"Come in," said Miss Vivian, and his lord- 
ship entered. 



"I hope I don't intriule," lio said. 

"You are always a welcome guest. Wall 
send," said Miss Vivian. 

And then they began to chat in whispers. 

"Faugh ! how the fellow smells of tobacco !" 
croaked he. 

"Man," he said, addressing me, "you can 

go-" 

I put on my coat. 

"Where's your hat, man ?" said his lordship 
suspiciously. 

"In the 'all, sir," I replied, carefully dropping 
the "h." 

"I've put it at concert-pitch, miss," I said ; 
"it'll be five shillings, please," and I held out 
my hand. There was a grateful twinkle in her 
eyes as she gave me those two half-crowns. I 
have them still, those two half-crowns. 

I went up to my rooms and shaved off my 
beard and mustache. I have never spoken to 
Lottie — I mean Lady Wallsend— from that day 
to this, but she always notices me, and her 
husband is one of my staunchest patrons. 

Lady Wallsend's carriage passed. She 
bowed politely to me, and off went my hat. 

"She's a stunner," said my nephew. 

"I hope she is happy," said I, with a sigh. 

Rockefeller and His Money. 

A New York correspondent of the New- 
Orleans Tiiius-Dciiiocrat says that John D. 
Rockefeller has made money faster in the 
past few years than any other mortal ever 
made it. He said under oath in a legal pro- 
ceeding not long ago, that he could not esti- 
mate his fortnne w-ithin $10,000,000 or $12,000,- 
000. The estimate of $135,000,000 is not con- 
sidered excessive. Rockefeller was once a 
newspaper reporter, and less than two decades 
ago was a business man of only moderate 
means in Cleveland. His attention was at- 
tracted to the opportunities of making money 
in the handling and refining of the product of 
the Pennsylvania oil fields. He started a com- 
paratively small refinery-, and from that grew 
the most powerful monopoly on earth — the 
Standard Oil Trust. How rapidly the Stan- 
dard has grown is shown by the fact that in 
1880 its capital was only $3,000,000, whereas it 
is now $90,000,000. The par value of the .stock 
is $100 a share, but it is quoted at $1 70. Rocke- 
feller owns more than a majority of the stock, 
so that something like $100,000,000 of his for- 
tune is represented in the trust. 

It has been said, and it is probably a fact, 
that the Standard Oil Trust is the best man- 
aged corporation in the world. John D. Rocke- 
feller is the directing spirit. He looks and 
acts more like a preacher than a schemer. He 
is, in fact, a deacon in a Baptist church. He 
has stooping shoulders, drooping eyelids and 
a face that is almost sepulchral. He is inac- 
cessible at all times. He wields the enormous 
power of the Standard Oil Trust from behind 
portals. 

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly 
into the conduct of great victors when their 
victory is on the right side. — Giorgc Eliot. 

Eiffel and Edison have proposed to build 
for the Chicago world's fair a tower 500 feet 
hsgher than the one in Paris, to be lighted by 
1,000,000 of Mr. Edison's incandescents lamps. 
They will furnish all the capital, and merely 
wait for the word to go ahead. 



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Old Worcester. 



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t_)ur namesake town, like our own city, is 
situated in the midst of a rolling country. Im- 
men.se fields, divided by hedges of pear, bearing 
their uncultivated fruit, beg for appreciation, but 
porcelain factories, iron works and salt mills 
take .so much attention that, barring tlie beauti- 
ful natural scenery forced upon them, the citi- 
zens see and care for little but evidences of 
manufacturing thrift, (We surely take after 
them in this particular.) 

Built on the banks of the Severn, that does 
her share in brightening so many of the quiet 
landscapes we have seen the last few days, 
the old city, with her tall chimneys and large 
buildings, is more modern than the traveler 
cares to find in old England. 

From the station, over an uncomfortably 
paved road, one arrives a little out of sorts at 
one's hotel. We choose the Unicorn and find 
it one of the court-yard kind, the lower floor 
given over to hall-way, coffee room and that 
unnamable apartment where "mankind 
meet and mingle," and over papers and pipes, 
while indulging in 'alf and 'alf, discuss all the 
leading events of the day. After choosing our 
room, furnished with two immense four-posters 
and other furniture in keeping, we join the 
party in the lower room. 

A large man supported by two crutches, 
leaning against the wall like some work of art 
displayed upon an easel, was succumbing 
slowly but surely to a faith in an Indian 
Healer from America, whose coach and four, 
long hair, brass band and medicines were 
working havoc among the lame and maim. 
Boots said, "Hi saw a man, sir, has 'ad not 
walked, sir, for the better part of 'is life, sir, 
jump from the coach cured, sir;" and just then 
the "Star Spangled Banner" split the air to 
bits and by the house dashed a western stage- 
coach with four bays on the gallop, handled 
by two cowboy out-riders. L'pon the top of 
the coach a motley assembly of Indians and 
off-scourings were near splitting their cheeks 
in their efforts to blow our National hymn to 
the multitudes thronging the ways. I?ehind, 
in a modest coupe, with liveried coachman and 
footman, came the Magician himself. Our 
friend of the taproom followed in a cart. 
Inquiry a few days after satisfied us that he at 
least thought himself cured. We were told 
that this marvellous physician had sent ^20,- 
000 to New Y'ork the week before, the pro- 
ceeds of a month's practice in Dublin. 

It was with more than usual pleasure, after 
this hubbub, that we walked toward the cathe- 
dral. We sat a while on the river wall and 
looked out over the meadows and trees. The 
air was full of music. Larks losing themselves 
but never their songs as they wheeled about 
away, away up in the blue sky ; the cuckoo's 
note came clearly to us from the distance 
(why were cuckoo clocks ever made.-"), and 
finally the deep-toned bells in the cathedral 
seemed to call all to come. We went in at the 
transept door just as the large choir was sing- 
ing the processional. Each arch and corner 
seemed fond of the hymn and held parts of it 
as the other parts went on to be re-echoed by 
other columns or walls. Never had the quiet 
beauty of evensong seemed so impulsive, and 
never before had we realized the great strength 



or weakness of character the first "Dissenters" 
must have had. This was one of the cathe- 
drals that suffered so from "Cromwell's pious 
hand." Fine traceries in the beautiful mar- 
bles were filled with coarse plaster, beautiful 
windows were broken, treasures confiscated 
and other indecencies infiicted by him when 
he came here and subdued the Scotch in 
battle, when they made their bold attempt to 
reinstate Charles 1 1. Cireat pieces of wrought 
stone until recently lay alwut the grand build- 
ing and were to be had for the asking. Vari- 
ous saints and bishops reposed in undignified 
attitudes even when we w-ere in the cloisters. 
When one sees with what veneration the 
pretty bit of frieze in All Saints' tower, 
brought .so kindly from the old church, is 
treated, it makes one wonder that they care so 
little for other bits. 

The different periods as well as styles in 
architecture are freely represented in the vari- 
ous parts of the cathedral. Largely Norman, 
even in its more recent parts, it is a fine exam- 
ple still of the English (Gothic. The tombs 
surrounding the choir are uncomfortable beds 
for the mighty they hold. Prince Alfred's, 
w-ith the connecting chapel, shows some ex- 
quisite .stonework, while that of King John is 
interesting in the extreme, though much 
plainer. Two elegant modern tombs seem a 
little out of place and maybe the whole choir 
is a little too striking. The bishop's chair, 
made from an exquisitely carved pyx, shows 
the vast amount of good taste and time em- 
ployed in its m.-iking, and makes the more 
modern choir stalls appear rather ordinary in 
comparison. The beautiful west window is 
one of the building's chief glories. The crypt 
cloisters and old chapter-house bear their hale 
and hearty old age with dignity. The massive 
arches and pillars of the former seem so solid 
as to last for ever. 

Even the long evenings here have an end 
and a stroll homeward brings us to the Uni- 
corn just as the American doctor rushes by with 
shouts, music and fireworks, to his apartments. 

A visit to the porcelain factory could not be 
made, as the proprietors were giving their 
more than tw^o hundred hands their yearly ex- 
cursion, so the works were closed. In various 
shops pointed out by the willing friend one 
ever finds if one is willing to "go half way," 
we discovered cups, and small articles of the 
rare old Worcester, made previous to our cen- 
tury in more subdued colorings, quainter and 
quieter shapes— not ugly with Japanese dra- 
gons and impossible flowers, so effective when 
used w^here they belong— the delicate free- 
hand crescent in blue marking the ware in- 
stead of the stenciled lozenge or coronetted 
ring we see so ably imitated nowadays. 

Old houses line the crooked streets, with 
now and then a fine block to call them to 
order, while in the straight .streets the modern 
has full sway. The whole air is redolent with 
Worcestershire sauce odors. We could not 
but feel that natural beauties in the old town 
were neglected, as with us, in the rush for 
money. Regarding the sev eral rivers— some 
no larger than our Blackstone— great praise 
can be given. They work hard doing their 
share in the various industries, only to take 
their recreation in beautifying the landscape 
in every direction, and not to be doomed to eter- 
nal degradation and to finally die in the harness. 



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Items and Incidents. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



[kegulak correspondence to light.] 

New York, May 22, 1890. 
At the exhibition of the Society of American 
Artists, a fortnight ago, one of the most con- 
spicuous pictures was John S. Sargent's por- 
trait of Carmencita, the famous Spanish 
dancer. It is scarcely more than a sl^etch, 
done in easy, careless fashion, although poss- 
essing some vigor of treatment. The subject 
of the portrait has had a decided vogue this 
winter, a sort of craze — it being quite the 
thing to meet tlie dancer at studio and other 
afternoon teas. Carmencita's grace is inimi- 
table, her movements are unconventional, 
while her perfect art places her easily first in 
her profession. 

The canvas labeled "73," called "Surf and 
Fog," was a fateful work. The artist, Robert 
Eichelberger, died from exposure incurred in 
painting it. liut it was as though the pres- 
cient light of inspiration from the unspoken 
dawn kindled his soul to a supreme effort in 
this swan song that was to bring posthumous 
praise. Standing before it, technique is for- 
gotten. The subject is simple enough : Two 
breakers rolling out of the mist, illumined by a 
sun that gleams redly through the vapor, its 
heat tamed to a molten glow ; one breaks and 
spreads in a hissing, froth-edged sheet over the 
beach where we stand. There is no sign of 
life, only sea, air and the tumbling waters. All 
is pale and dim ; distance is veiled in mystery. 
It is more than surf and fog, or paint and can- 
vas; the spirit of the artist has entered into 
and quickened the elements, the heart of na- 
ture pulsates throughout, and the subject is 
etherealized and glorified. 

Kenyon Co.x exhibited a capital .study of 
the nude in his Diana, but the athletic charac- 
teristics of the huntress and goddess are lack- 
ing. Several subjects of local interest were 
Childe Hassam's "Snow Scene on Fifth Ave- 
nue" almost as cold as its snow, and Frank M. 
Bogg's strong picture of a strong subject, 
"The Brooklyn Bridge," with its docks and 
shipping in the foreground. 

An interesting entertainment for sweet 
charity's sake was recently given in Brooklyn. 
It was a representation of living pictures after 
well known paintings by Cabanel, Alma 
Tadema and Valasquez, given under the di- 
rection of such well known artists as William 
Chase, Hamilton Gibson and Percy and Leon 
Moran. A novel affair was held lately called 
a "Tombola," the admission ticket entitling 
the holder to the equivalent of $25, the 
price of the ticket. The gifts were all pictures 
by artists of merit, so each patron was sure of 
a gem. There is just now a pastel exhibition 
at the Wunderlich gallery in Broadway, said 
to be choice and worthy of study. I am told 
that pastel is a delightful medium to work in 
and that there exists a commercial demand 
for this kind of work that artists are slow to 
respond to. Since the reopening of the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art, it is safe to say the 
museum never presented a more beatiful ap- 
pearance, while the paintings and works of art 
are seen to greater advantage than ever, now 
that the Edison system of incandescent light- 
ing has been adopted. The various collect- 



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ions have been enriched by additional gifts 
and bequests. 

The Gra^co-Egyptian incinerary urns dat- 
ing from the second to the fourth century 
before Christ, also a rare and valuable votive 
ship discovered at ancient Tarsus, are on view 
for the first time. It is indeed a palace of 
wonders in art of all kinds and ages. One of 
the most satisfactory of the smaller galleries, 
to lovers of water colors, is the room devoted 
to this branch of plastic art. T. R. Richards 
shows to what a state of perfection water color- 
ing can be carried. His art is exquisite. He 
is not an impressionist, but displays a refine- 
ment and finish of detail that is Messonier-like 
in that it invites close scrutiny. The museum 
cannot be done in a day. By giving an hour 
or so at one time, on different days, to the sev- 
eral departments, one avoids that utter weari- 
ness resulting from overcrowding the eye and 
mind. 

The venerable president of the museum, Mr. 
Henry G. Marquand, is said to own the finest 
house in New York. While a million dollars 
could not duplicate it as it stands, the money 
value is the least of it. A man who knows 
says : "Outside the house is solidly handsome 
l)ut unpretetentious. You pass the doors and 
fairyland opens around you. All the fioors are 
bare, of polished wood and overlaid with rugs 
that are simply priceless. Tapestries worth 
several kings' ransom cover the walls ; there 
are pictures, statues, frescoes, carving and 
cunning work in metals of all sorts under the 
sun. One room has all its wall space covered 
with small open cabinets, each filled with 
rarest pottery. Doubtless you have heard of 
the music room upon whose ceiling Sir Fred- 
erick Leighton has painted the nine muses; of 
the piano for which Alma Tadema had carte 
blanche, with the result of turning out an in- 
strument costing $52,000; of the stained glass 
conservatories, with pillars of semi-precious 
stone ; but what you have not heard is that the 
same fineness and finish run through every- 
thing, from the big tile floored kitchen, with 
its shining brass and tables of English oak, to 
the tiny stairway leading up to the tank in the 
roof." 

Apropos of the Edison system, I had yester- 
day an interview with an Edison talking doll. 
Passing by a large toy bazaar on Fourteenth 
street, my attention was attracted by the bril- 
liant array of dolls in the window, a veritable 
rose-garden of baby girls with blooming 
cheeks and big blue eyes. I entered and 
asked to hear one, the obliging clerk took a 
doll and turned a small crank out of sight, and 
from the depths issued an ear-piercing series 
of sounds, which at first I could not separate 
into distinct words. Each figure bears a 
printed card with its verse. However, upon a 
second rendering I was able to distinguish the 
words of the little prayer, "Now I lay me down 
to sleep." Another related the episode of the 
blackbirds Jack and Jill, saying quite plainly, 
"Come Again Jack," and — a pause — "Come 
Again Jill." Altogether it was a gruesome 
performance. There is something uncanny in 
hearing the harsh tones coming from an image 
of such stoic calm ; it is a metallic sound that 
jars the ears, and unless you know the words 
beforehand it would require an effort to detach 
the sounds into coherent form. Ten dollars 
seems a large sum for so useless a toy that 



serves no other end than to pique curiosity. 
But it is a novelty. 1 made use of the instru- 
ment to point a moral and adorn a tale to a 
small man of four years with whom I have 
been laboring in vain for over a year to repeat 
unprompted his evening prayer. When I 
asked him with all due gravity what he thought 
of a little doll that could say "Now I lay me" 
right through without stopping, he said quite 
unabashed, "Well, I think it was very clever." 
I said no more, nor did he. 

On the next corner I saw a group congre- 
gated around a large show window of a well 
known machine agency. I joined the crowd 
and waited developments. Within was simply 
an enclosed sewing machine — nothing else. 
Presently the doors of the machine swung 
slowly open, the cover lifted slowly into table 
position, the works rose gently, until rightly 
adjusted into the table, then click-clack, back 
and forth briskly worked the treadles, sewing 
an invisible seam, then the motor ceased, down 
went the machinery, very carefully, slowly the 
table fitted over the works, and softly the 
doors closed, the whole modus operandi repeat- 
ing itself the livelong day. Of course it was 
easily explained, the motive power being under 
the floor, but it was sufficient to attract a small 
throng on the corner of busy Broadway in the 
busiest part of the day. When I left, next to 
me stood a handsomely dressed lady, on my 
right a young shop girl, two or three street 
gamins pushed in close to the window, while a 
colored man, a business man and several arti- 
sans completed a representative portion of the 
current of life flowing up and down the great 
thoroughfare of New York. 1 1 was an instance 
of the cohesive attraction of a crowd, be it 
large or small. 

Going farther uptown into the large dry 
goods and milliners shops out of the bewilder- 
ing variety and chaotic aggregation of vari- 
colored textures, flowers, ribbons and feminine 
belongings generally, here and there would 
crystallize a distinct impression revealing a 
jaunty hat or lovely costume. 

The prettiest hat I have seen this season 
was a gray straw, low crown, with broad, 
slightly rolling brim, simply trimmed with 
dove-grey crepe de chine, in soft folds and 
bows artistically arranged and held with small 
pearl pins. Through the loops were thrust 
two pure white wings. It conjured up a pic- 
ture of some rare and radiant maiden with a 
touch of the Puritan in her composition. One 
house displayed some marvelous tea gowns or 
semi-Greek gowns, draped in the most won- 
derful way from shoulder to shoulder, combin- 
ing richly wrought silk with the most exquis- 
itely soft tones of cashmere or other light 
wools. The sleeves fell in clinging folds over 
the arm, not up high in aggressive prominence. 
A new shade in gloves is a sickly cast of 
green, also bright red is shown. The summer 
standby for the economical woman is serge, 
whether she goes for an outing to the moun- 
tains or sea, or if she needs must be the home 
keeping body, a serge gown, with its gloss and 
freshness, is the friendliest material she can 
procure, for it can be put through the wash tub 
and thus renew its pristine condition. Alpaca 
sheds the dirt most kindly, and this is a con- 
sideration not to be despised if much tramping 
is to be done; moreover, it is cool, durable and 
light. The natty masculine make-up is chic 



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and neat, but it requires that perfection of cut 
and fit that men's garments do to look well ; 
otherwise it is ridiculous, and the simplest 
styles are best for the home maker. A sensi- 
ble change is observable in ladies' blouses. 
They are more sightly ; no woman looked well 
in the baggy ones of last year. A pretty and 
economical fashion is the wearing of black 
lace waists with odd skirts, and adorned with 
ribbon of same color. The large silver buckles 
at the waist are ciuaint and pretty. Some of 
the new leather belts, as well as gloves, have 
the little pocket for small change and car 
tickets. 

New York has had almost a new sensation 
in the tent circus, as for twenty years there has 
been nothing of the kind under canvas. All 
the world loves liarnum and both cities turned 
out in full force to enjoy his wonders. Some 
friends were taking the small boy of the family 
to the great show and asked me to form one of 
the escort, which 1 did, determined that the 
infant should be well protected. Evolution 
has developed the "business" as conducted by 
Barnum iS; Bailey into something that is to the 
circus of "Auld Lang Syne" as are the best 
equipped theatres to the roofless rotunda in 
which Shakespeare produced his plays. The 
spectacle of "Nero" is given as an after piece 
to the regular circus programme. It is a great 
and magnificent spectacle with changing 
scenery, gorgeous costumes and a big battle. 
What impresses one is the extraordinary facil- 
ity with which such immense phalan.xes are 
managed ; the smoothness with which scene 
after scene takes place, giving room to the 
next. The colors are well massed and diver- 
sified. As the lines sway in the dance or com- 
mingle in rythmic movement the glitter of the 
golden wreathes waving in unison and the 
barbaric splendor of the whole pageant is 
before one, the effect is picturesque and realis- 
tic in the extreme. The seals perform their 
part so well that it is really pitable to watch 
the little creatures out of their element, shuffling 
over the carpet to pull the trigger of the guns 
and beating with their fins or flippers, or what- 
ever they are, on the tambourines. It sets one 
to wandering whether it is not an evidence of 
a certain degree of intellectual effort thus man- 
ifested in this lowly species of animal life. 



A man tells a great lie, and saves his char- 
acter by it. No wonder it weighs on his con- 
science ever after. And yet perhaps he has 
told countless lies, both before and since, told 
them out of mere carelessness, or from petty 
spite or for small advantages, and utterly for- 
gotten them. Now which of these, looked at 
by the judge, is the great offender? Is the one 
lie he repents of tlie most wicked, or are those 
that with small temptation he flung about daily, 
and so made that one notable lie easy ? — 
Fated to be Free. 

A shower of ashes fell from a clear sky on 
Saturday, February 15, in the city of Guana- 
juata, Mexico. The shower lasted fully half 
an hour, and extended over a territory several 
miles in extent. Most of the residents were 
terrified, and sought safety in the churches, 
thinking that some dire disaster threatened 
them. It is believed that the ashes were 
wafted by a northeasterly current of air across 
hundreds of miles of country from the active 
crater of the Columa volcano. 



iis' mi mm^ 



Headquarters at 498 Main Street. 





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This Skirt Only }i ; Woitli #1.50. This Garment Only $1 ; Usual Price ^1.50. 

Ladie.s' WliMe Skirts in Great Variety. 

Uiidersltirts at tt'c, r,Oe ami T.")e. 

K-vtra Size Garnieiifw a Speeialty. 



Wm. H. Burns & Co., 

Manufacturers. Retail Store,' 498 Main Street, Worcester. 




STONE LAWN AND CEMETERY VASES. 

Objections are made to Iron, as it draws the heat of 
the sun, and consequently dries the earth, while the iron 
destroys the life of the plants. Iron also necessitates fre- 
quent painting. These great objections are entirely over- 
come by this material, the nature being such that it ad- 
mits the air to the roots and retains the moisture. 

They are made in beautiful patterns, as shown in the 
annexed cut, and in color closely resemble light granite. 

They are warranted not to be injuriously affected by 
the heat in summer, or frost in winter, and they continually 
harden by exposure. 

NEALE & GOULDING, 

171 IVIain Sti^eet. 

Open Monday, Friday and Saturday Evenings. 



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MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of tlie Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK RESIDENCE, 39 MAT ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^Ladies' ? Hair > Dressing^- 

CHILUKEN'S HAIK-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 
387 Main .St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 



MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
S2G NIAIN SXRBET. 



Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costnmes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 



BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southwortli have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

Z-^S IvEaiii St., I^ooxn. 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-llEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS-f 

No. 387 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 



**WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not Umited. 

MKS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE. — 



-^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

iTo. 2 "^7;7"al3:i.-i:Lt Street, 

Mexican AVork, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 

$1. CROQUET. $1. 

New lot just received. Superior to any sold heretofore 
at this price. Other sets at f 1.75, f 2.25, ?2.5o and J3.50 
—worth more money. 

-4- Bay State Dollar Store 4*- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* STEINIAY PIANOS * 

The AcknowledKed Sliin<Inrd of tli<^ World. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

soxjE ^e.^i-.:e:hs. 



LICiHT 

Out and A bout. 

It was at a great dinner in Boston, and a 
well-known woman writer sat beside W. D. 
Howells. Some one called on her for a speech, 
and woman-like, she refused to respond. "Oh, 
you must say something," Mr. Howells in- 
sisted ; "get up and say the first thing that 
comes in your head." The lady rose at his 
instigation, and said, slowly : "I can't make a 
speech, I never could; but Mr. Howells told 
me to say the first thing that came in my head, 
and so I will say, Mr. Howells, where in the 
world do you find the perfecdy atrocious 
women you give us in your books?" 

Some distance from Worcester there lived 
a minister's son who had recently received his 
degree of M. D. One Sunday he was called 
out of the church to attend a sick man. He re- 
turned during the sermon, and as he came up 
the aisle, his father spoke: "Let us pause, 
brethren, to offer a prayer for the patient 
whom my son has just been attending." 

Mr. Rider Haggard has made a bold at- 
tempt to attain what has now become such a 
rarity— something really new in fiction. He 
has written a novel in which all the characters 
are Zulus. The idea is sure to be taken up by 
other authors, and instead of the familiar 
scenes of New York, London and Monte 
Carlo, we shall have Patagonian tragedies, 
tales of domestic life in New Guinea, and 
Choctaw love stories. 

The Worcester young couple who reduced 
love-making to a minimum by exclaiming, 
"Take me?" "Yes!" smack, housekeeping; 
was probably a member of the family-tree 
planted by the following correspondents : — 
Dear Father : I'm going to get married. 
Your son, J(1hn. 

The reply : — 
Dear John : All right. Yours, 

Father. 
Or again : — 
Dear Jim : Send me a shilling. Yours, 

Dick. 
P. S. On second thought, make it hci'. 
The reply : — 

Dear Dick : I have only one shilling in the 
world. Yours, Jim. 

P. S. On second thought, I need that for 
dinner. 

A tailor to delinquent patron : — 
Dear Sir : Your bill bas been standing now 
for some time, and I beg you will settle it at 
your earliest convenience. 

Yours respectfully. 

Smith & Jone.s. 
The reply : — 

Dear Sirs: I am very sorry that your bill 
has stood so long. Won't you ask it to sit 
down. Respectfully yours, 

DeFitz. 



C- L.Gorham& Co- 

Tbe Largest Store and Stock 

IN WORCESTER. 



Harper's /?rt-(7r states that "in this genera- 
tion American girls have married two Italian 
dukes of ancient name, three French dukes of 
ecjually dignified lineage, at least twenty con- 
tinental princes, and as many more foreign 
embassadors." The whole thing might have 
been told by saying that forty-five American 
girls had either sold themselves, or been sold, 
to as many di.ssipated, titled routes. The day 
—the happy day— of "Cinderilla and the 
prince" has gone by. 




J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT* 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 



HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FKAMKS RE-GILDKI>. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 FuBter Street, Opp. Kink, Worcester, Mttga. 

* FIRST MTIOm FIRE INSURANCE CO.* 

Office, First National Rank Building, 

-410 l>^a.i.Ta. St., "^T^T"© r c e s t e r. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. J AMES TATM AN, V. Pres. and Treas. 

GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 



C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Kranie Is/l'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engravings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Rark St., Worcester. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 83 PEARL STREET. 



$5 $5 

A Splendid 14-inch 

Lawn Mower 

For 

$5 $5 

At 

WHITE & CONANT'S, 

542 Main St., Franklin Sq. 



* OXYGEN IN DISEASE * 



COMPOUND OXYGEN TREATMENT, 



The Rational Cure for Chronic Diseases. 




U. S. COMPOUND OXYGEN CO. 

The apparatus shown by the above cut is 

that of a "Home Treatment." 



More than 17,000 reputable physicians — many 

of them eminent in their profession 

— in the United States, 

use Oxygen 

500,000 gallons were administered in disease 

in New York city alone last year. Let 

the reader judge[whether or not 

Oxygen is a valuable 

therapeutic. 

Send for Pamphlets, or call at rooms and see 

more than 100 testimonials from well 

known Worcester people. 

SEE ABOUT IT YOURSELF. 



NO. 



I!R.\NCH OFFICE, 

37 PEARL STREET, 



Rooni'i 2 and 3 Cliapin Ulnck. 

■^77" orcester, Is/L ass. 

Y. M. SIMONS, Medical Actuary. 



Fourth Annual Field Meeting 

OF THE 

NEW ENGLAND 

Intercollegiate 

Athletic Ass'n, 

AT 

AGRICULTURAL PARK, 

Wednesday, May 28. 



Over looathk-tes from Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth. 
Trinity, University of Vermont, Wesleyan, WilHams 
and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute compete forthe 
intercollegiate championship. 

A long list of exciting contests promised. 

Prominent members of the Manhattan Athletic Club 
of New York will conduct the sports. 

Music by Battery B band. 

Admittance, 25 cents. Carriages free. 

Tickets now on sale at Rawson's. 391 Main street. 

Sports begin promptly at 2 p. m. 



L 1 (j H T 

About the House. 



17 



[KciuIiMs 111 I.u;n Tare cordiully invited to ciiritribiiti' 
ai tick's oi\ i)ractical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would Ix' interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Lir.iiT. yi) Main sdei't, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



jit* A piece of soft soap and starch will take 
.staiii.s out of bed ticking. Sijrcad it on tlie 
spot.s, and vvlien dry scrape it olT and wash 
with a damp sponge. 

„* A few cloves on the pantry shelves will 
effectually drive away ants. 

, ' To purify a room, set a pitcher of water 
in the apartment, and in a few hours it will 
have absorljed all the respired ga.sses in the 
room, the air of which will become purer, but 
the water utterly filthy. The colder the water, 
the greater the capacity to absorb these gasses. 
At the ordinary temperature a pail of water 
will absorb a pint of carbonic acid gas and 
several pints of ammonia. The capacity is 
nearly doubled by reducing the water to the 
temperature of ice. 

.^* A small piece of charcoal placed in the jiot 
when boiling calibage will prevent any disa- 
greeable odor. 

-ss* The best licjuid for cleaning old brass is 
a solution of oxalic acid. 

.,;* Glaze bottom crust of fruit pies with 
white of an egg, and they will not he soggy. 

it* Poor white paint can be washed with 
warm water and bora.x, which does not remove 
the paint. 

s,* Glycerine and lemon juice will whiten 
the hands. 

;„* All kerosene lamps should l)e filled in the 
daytime and at a regular hour. They must 
not be too full ; they must be very carefully 
wiped off. The globes and chimneys sliould 
be kept clean and clear. The wicks are best 
trimmed by simply rubbing off the charred 
surface. The light is often affected by the 
holes in the burner becoming clogged. This 
can be remedied by boiling the burners ni a 
strong solution of washing soda. 

Hjj* The tendency of table salt to pack to- 
gether in cruits and containers is said to be 
entirely overcome by thoroughly drying the 
salt and intimately mingling with it a small 
percentage of dry corn starch or arrowroot. 
From eight to ten per cent, is amply snfificient 
for the most humid atmosphere (as on the sea 
coast), while a much less percentage of tlie 
starch is sufficient for inland points. 

^* The latest in weddings is to arrange the 
ceremonial scene after the grouping in some 
famous picture ; so far as practical, also, the 
style of costuming is followed. The idea was 
charmingly portrayed at a resent Gotliam wed- 
ding. Millais' celebrated "Bubbles" was the 
picture chosen, and the si.x; bridesmaids wore 
charmingly picturesque toilets of violet velvet, 
with deep garnitures of antique lace ; hats of 
violet vetvet, with broad, drooping brims, 
trimmed with o.strich feateers, and velvet shoes, 
ornamented with large Rhine-stone buckles. 
Thus attired, the maids formed a most effective 
group surrounding the bride, whose quaint but 
elegant gown of brocaded ivory satin, and 
rare old Mechlin lace, well completed the 
picture. 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



Right to the Point Talk. 

Straight from the Shoulder Facts, 

\\V. I!I'",I.1K\K in "I.hiht"— Ix'lieve we get a good big 
bright dollar back for every one we part with for the 
use of its columns— probably more— we don't know 
it— we want to. We're going to test the worth of 
our l)elief to-day. We may not l)e able to prove any- 
thing by it, even to ourselves. Nothing is done with - 
out atrial. However— these lines are for "Light" 
only. They treat of things worth looking at, think- 
ing about, buying, buying now— wouldn't be fair to 
"LKiHT" otherwise. 

FOUR DINNER .SETS-Haviland & Co.'s factory is 
wliere they were designed and made. No more need 
lie said about the quality. "Klite" china every piece. 
For their worth, compare with sets at double the 
money, and draw your conclusions. On view this 
morning for the first time— 550 for your choice. 

EXCELLENT VALUES in Dinner Sets of printed 
stone granite ware. Two lots, new tiling. Thirty 
sets, in tliree colors, #9 each. Twenty-four sets, two 
patterns, two colors of each, $10.50, 112 pieces. Don't 
judge by the price without seeing them. 

HERE'S A YEAR OLD IDEA of ours perfected. 
Dainty Caster Sets— vinegar, pepper, salt and pick 
holder— on a tray of pohshed brass— fifty varieties of 
them. Exclusive patterns— they don't cost much, 
or they do, just as youUke— 75 cents, ^5, and all in- 
termediate prices. Complete display to-day. 

LAST WEEK we told you of a lot of Refrigerators. 
Vou bouglit them— down to the last one. Very 
good. We've another lot, better than the last— you'll 
have to pay us more for them too— not enough more 
to frighten you— no fear of that. Certainly, **Alas- 
kas"— we don't have any other sort. Twenty-two 
this time— mostly smallish— a few of larger size. All 
right every way. Our saying so shall make them so. 
Only last year's pattern— just as good for anybody, 
to us "odd"— that's the only reason. We guess 
Monday night will find them in other hands. "A 
word to the wise" 

A NEW PRICE, in effect to-day— Solid copper, nickel 
plated teakettles— 7 inch, $1.58; 8 inch. $1.75. This 
isn't a low price for some kinds we know of. For 
our kind this is the "first time" anywhere. 

WHATEVER handy kitchen contrivance you may hear 
of and want we've got— what is better— price is al- 
ways right. 

A YANKEE NOTION for killing the occasional fly- 
wherever you may find it— quickly, cleanly, decently 
—25 cents. Ask to see the "Fly Killer." 

INFANTS' BATHING TUBS, 

ICE CREAM FREEZERS. 

WATER SPRINKLERS. 

WATER COOLERS, 

Should Ix- "in the swim" the coming week. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



IS 



G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S„ 

Room 13, Knowles Building, 

518 Ivlaini St., Worcestei". 

(r^=Elevator. 

(Formerly with Dr. Cole.) 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN ONLY. 

352 Main Street, Corner Maple, Worcester, Mass. 

fl^^Office hours— 9 to 12 A. m.; 2 to 4 f. m. Treat- 
ment at the homes of patients by appointment if desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

©3S X\^a,i3:i St., 
F^ashiionable Nlillii^ery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long exjjeri- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Open all the year, and pupils may enter at any time. 
Graduates successful. Terms reasonable. Number of 
pupils hmited. Write for particulars. 

O-eo- O- Oreel2ma,3n, ^rincipa-l. 

44 FKONT ST., WOKCESTEK, MASS. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

Xv^iss S- Xj- X-ia--^x^re3:ice, 

ROOM 30, - - - - KNOWLES UUILLMN'G. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $S per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

(E^^Special attention given to the care of children's 
teeth. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a. m.; i to 4 p. m. 

47 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 

E. L. S U M N E R, 

g KROEGER&SONS g 
I WHEELOCK & CO. i 

379 Main St., WorceHter, (Over I'litiiain * Thurs- 
ton's Kestauraut.) 

HAVE VOU SEEN 

OUR "lUEAL" 

ONLY *ir>. 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's » Music x House, 

4:! I'l.KASANT STKKET. 



Mrs. Dr. Wm. Lee, 



339 Main St., 

Burnside Building, 



Office hours: 9 to 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




Something^ to Eat. 



[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Strawberry Dumplings. 

Put one pint of flour into a bowl, and rub in- 
to it two ounces of butter, add a teaspoonful of 
salt and a heaping teaspoonful of baking-pow- 
der, mix well, and add suflicient cold milk, 
about a gill, to make a soft dough ; knead 
lightly, and roll out into a thin sheet. Cut, 
with a round cutter, into good-sized biscuits. 
I'ut three strawberries in the centre of each, 
pinch up the dough, and make into a dump- 
ling. Stand these on a plate and place in a 
steamer, and steam for fifteen minutes. Serve 
hot. 
Old-Fashioned Johnny Cake. 

Two cupfuls of buttermilk (or sour milk, if 
"solid," beaten briskly with an egg-beater), 
one cupful of sifted flour, two cupfuls of sifted 
Indian meal, a small teaspoonful of salt, a 
rounded teaspoonful of soda (dissolved in a 
tablespoonfulof warm water), a tablespoonful 
of brown sugar (or two if liked sweeter), a well- 
Ijeaten egg, and three tablespoonfuls of melted 
butter or nice sweet lard. Put the milk, sugar 
and salt into a bowl, add soda, next flour and 
meal ; after mixing, add first the butter, then 
the egg, pour into square baking-pans and bake 
in a quick oven for half an hour. The old- 
fashion way of baking it was to put into a 
bake kettle or long-legged spider ; set this up- 
on live coals raked out upon the hearth, and 
pile the coals also upon the heavy iron cover 
which was part of the utensil. This way of 
baking can be imitated by baking in a covered 
iron spider in the oven until nearly done, then 
removing the cover and browning nicely. 
Yeast Buns. 

One and one-half cups of warm milk, one cup 
of sugar, one cup of yeast, thicken to a batter, 
let it rise over night, or until it is light, then 
add one cup of sugar, one egg, one-half cup of 
melted butter, a little salt and nutmeg, two cups 
of chopped raisins or currants as you prefer, 
add flour as for bread, put in a baking tin in 
small cakes, let them rise again, then bake. 
Confectionery Cake. 

Two cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, 
one cup of water, three cups of flour, whites 
of four eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking-pow- 
der. To one-half of this mixture add one 
large tablespoonful of molasses, one cup of 
raisins ; stoned and chopped, one teaspoonful 
each of cloves, allspice, cinnamon, one-half 
teaspoonful of nutmeg, one tablespoonful of 
flour. Bake in four layers, two of each kind, 
and put together with boiled frosting. 




MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 



Tim best and highest grartt. pii 
leli no cheap goods. 



i 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine EtchLinors. 



3S3 3s/i:.A.I2^ ST. 

If yon want a piano tliat will last a life-time, 
g«'t the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C.F. HANSON* CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole ag;ents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and L.ulit-' Dit-ss Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAiVIS & SON. 
T. D. GARD, 

i^ Worker in Gold and Silver * 

AND REGAIIA M'F'G'K, 

393 Main St., Ur One Flight, Worcester, Mass. 

RICH MATTRESS CO., 

"When you want a good luattress of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 Park: St.. Worcester. 




E. A. RICH, 

Siic.cr.sor lo H. M. IVItitficw.) 

YARD, NO. 731 Ml 
Cut Wood and Kind- 
lings of All Kinds. 

All orders promi'tly attended to. Postal cards furnished 



W. A. ENGLAND, 

IlEAl.ER IN 

FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

KHrAIKING l'l;(>,lll'TI,Y DONK. 

394 Main Street. 



L?I (I H T 



19 



You Mav Laii''h. 



A Family. 

"Have you a family ?" asked a western judge 
of a man who was making final proof in a 
LInited States Land Office. "Yes, sir," replied 
the man. "Of what does it consist ?" "Well," 
said the man, evidently confused, and looking 
up toward the ceiling, as if to refresh his mem- 
ory, "it consists of my wife, ten children, two 
hired men, a gang-plow, a seeder, a Bain-wagon, 
and a span of mules. I believe that's all." 
"That is enough," replied the judge, with a 
smile, and the settler got his papers without 
further questioning". — Exi/ia/is^'t: 
No Wonder He Fainted. 

TKAVEK.s(to office-boy): — Robert, did you 
take that check down to my tailor ? 

Robert: — Yes, sir. 

Traver.s: — What did he do when you gave 
it to him ? 

RoHERT : He fainted. — ExiJia)igt-. 
A Mean Trick. 

c;keat Editor: — Well, I've seen a good 
many things in this world, but the meanest, 
.shabbiest trick I ever heard of was played on 
me yesterday. You know my business man 
ager always prints the daily circulation at the 
head of the editorial page ? 

Sympathetic Wife: — Of course ! 

Great Editor: — Well,last night the propri- 
etor of the miserable sheet across the way lured 
my business manager into a revival meeting, 
and to-day my circulation has fallen off sev- 
enty-five thousand copies. 
A Watered Joke. 

Guest (to head-waiter): — Is your name 
Tide? 

Waiter :— No, sir. 

Gue.st: — Or Time."" 

Waiter : — Not at all. 

Guest: — Well, it ought to be one of them. 
You wait on no man. — Texas Si/tings-. 
A Comprehensive Song. 

•'Love me, love my dog," sang she. "I love 
you," said he, "because I think you love me: 
but I am surprised that you should wish to 
have me devoted to the growler." — .Wtc J <'//■ 
Sun. 
England vs. America. 

A.merican IX E.XfiLAXD (after cluirch ser- 
vice to member of congregation): — 1 should 
judge your pastor to be an American. 

Me.mher of Congregation: — He is an 
American. He exchanged for three months 
with our pastor who is now in America filling 
his pulpit. 

A. — How does the plan work.' 

M. of C.— Splendidly. 

A. — I am going to be in the city for some 
weeks yet. When does the e.xchange end ? 

M. OF C. — It ain't goin' to end. We are 
.going to keep the American. — lUistoii Courier. 
Market Item. 

Editor : — What price liave you put on that 
poem? 

Poet : — A dollar and eighty cents a thousand 
feet; the same as the gas-companies charge. 
—Judge. 
The Whirligig of Time. 

His first love was full twenty-five; 

He eighteen when he sought her. 
When he at forty did arrive. 
He asked her for her daughter! 



HEALTH Be warned. Keep your bath-rooni.s, elos- 

IS BETTER ets, .sink.s, waste pipes, etc., free from those 

THAN WEALTH deadly i)oisonous gases. Prevent Typhoid 
I'cver, l)i|)htheria and all infectious diseases by jiurifying your prem- 
ises with 

OxgKqs 

DISINFECTANT. 

The only odorless, non-poisonous and absolutely safe deodorizer. 
It never fails. No family should be without it. It is so economical 
all can afford to u.se it. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 26 India square, Boston. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT, 



CHARLES H. W0OnCf)CK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

The "Wright Counter Shaft ami Clutch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
scarcely perceptible shock or jar, and decidedly the test device for tlie purpose ever in the market. Every one inter- 
ested is cordially invited to come and see it. The " Wotxlcook I'niver.sal Uoor Opener." By simply pressing 
a button on either side of the door, it causes the door to swing open. Can be quickly and cheaply applied to any 
door. Must be seen to \x appreciated. A Carpenter's Guage for Hanciii); Doors accurately and very quickly. 
No carpenter can afford to lie without it, "The Swivel Crotch Center." No more broken drills by work catch- 
ing. Hundreds of dollars saved, "A Cuff Holder." The cheapest and tiest ever seen. We are prepared to make 
the most reasonable terms for all kinds of special machinery. Repairs promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleas.uit-street cars. 

No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 

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Famous OilRangb 




For Family Use. 



The "F.VMUUS," as its name implies, is an Oil IJange, and is fully the equivalent 
of the coal range. It stands firmly on legs, at the right height to work over. Is is cleanly 
and free from odor. Its tank is of Seamless Lead and is at the rear, where it does not 
i;et heated. The wicks can be burned as long as there is a drop of oil m the tank. It has 
sufficient power to do all the cooking and laundry work of the family the year round, at 
less than half the cost of the coal stove. Thousands are in use in all parts of the country. 
Write us for further information and name of nearest agent, 

SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

J. W. GREH'5r?AlFsTRifrwS 



20 

"Good Bread and Cake Dotli Whet the Ap- 
petite." 

KiNE Bakkrv ! ! 

HIOHKST QUALITY ONLY. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASANT ST. 

All GooilH Hot at ■•i.:;0. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, Silver and Nickel Plating, 

Polishing, Bronzing and Lacquering, 

Keplating Table-ware a Specially. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PKOI'. 

Over Collar Laundry, Barton Place, Worcester, Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Bartoii F*lace. 

COLLARS ANI> CIFFS LAirNDEKED IN SU- 
PEKIOK STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & Co.. FKOl^S. 

LE t JOLLY ¥ FRENCH ^ DYEING 



First-ChiissWork at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, G^o.^s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring it with 
yon and eet 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. T. MELVIN> rUOPKIETOK. 1VALNI T ST. 

W. H. T^A/^ICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 

^ SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Olarls B-u-ild-ingr-. ^©2 ^^a.in St. 

Room 4a. Take Elevator. 

Next Term Begins April 24. 

Instruction given in Elocution, Vocal Technique and 
Physical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
taught. Call, or send tor circular. Address Miss Stella 
M.TIaynes, principal, graduate of N. E. Conservatory 
School of Oratory. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTURE FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 
Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
gaO Main St.. Worcester, Mass. 

Can be Permanently Eradicated by the 

Electric IMeecile P*rocess. 

No scarring or other injury; no return of the hair 
after the first removal. There is now no excuse for any 
lady to allow a growth of hair to remain upon her face 
to mar her personal beauty and to make her friends un- 
happy. MISS H. M. rilOCTOK, 9Z SUMMER ST. 
Hours. Q to II A. M.; 2 to 4 p. m^ 



TURKIJH BflTH5. 



F. W. FIELD. 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
2 to 9 p. M. Sundays, 

Q to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House. 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from tht- New York Training Scliool, gives 

i^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mmbs. 



L I (i H T 

Of Coming Things. 

Saturday, May 24. 

Agricultural Park.— Worcester Academy Ath- 
letic Association ; spring games. 2 p. m. 

At Mr. Charles H. Whitcomb's Farm, Corner 
BuRN'COAT and Clark STREETS.— Historical meet- 
ing; address by Mr. Caleb A. Wall. 2.30 p. m. 

.■\T Lieut. H. A. Johnson's, 24 Fruit Street.— 
Reception to Gen. O. O. Howard. Evening. 
Sunday, May 25. 

Mechanics Hall.— Memorial e.xercises of Post 10, 
G. A. R.; address by Gen. O. O. Howard. 7.30 p. m. 

Plymouth Church.— Rev. Wilham M. Barbour, 
D. D., of Montreal, preaches. 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. 

Central Church. — Sermon to Post 10. by Rev. 
Daniel Merriman, D. D. 10.30 a. m. 

Monday, May 26. 

Theater.— Washington Minstrels. 8 p. m. 

Lakeside Boat Club House, Lake.— Formal 
opening and reception. Reception 8 to 9 p. m. ; dancing, 
9 to 12 p. m. 

Tuesday, May 27. 

Salisbury L.^boratories. —Lantern slide e.xhibi- 
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Worcester Academy L/ boratorv.— Bryant Cir- 
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Piedmont Church.— Entertainment by the V. P. 
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Plymouth Church.— May Sale conducted by the 
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Theatre. — The world famous magician, Kellar. 
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Agricultural Park.— Old-Fashioned Circus. 2 
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Fenwick Hall, Holy Ckos.s College.— Annual 
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.\gricultural Park.— Field meeting of the New 
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Grand .\rmy Hall.— "Above the Clouds," drama. 
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V. W. C. A., 352 Main Street.— Annual meeting 
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Worcester Continentals.— Field day. 
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Soldiers Monu.ment. —Exercises, and address by 
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Agricultural Park.— Spring meeting of the Mass- 
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Second Annual Tournament of the Bay State Bicycle 
Club. 2 p. ni. 

Monday, June 2. 

Gorham's.— Annual meeting of Gounod Club. 8p.m. 
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Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1890. 



No. 



Intercollesiate Dav. 



Next Wednesday the New England Inter- 
collegiate Athletic Association holds its fourth 
annual meeting at Agricultural Park. The 
admittance to the association of the University 
of Vermont, last February, raises the number 
of colleges in the league to eight, and in these 
eight are comprised most of the cleverest 
ama'c'T athletes in New England. Next 
Wednesday's meeting promises to surpass any 
of former years in interest and importance and 
the struggle for the championship will be more 
intense and exciting than ever before. 

Dartmouth now hold the championship of 
the association, the eight firsts which her rep- 
r tatives won at last spring's meeting hav- 
ii>^ ^iven her a long lead over Amherst, her 
nearest competitor, and the winner of the pre- 
vious year. 

Dartmouth won the pennant in 1S87, also, 
and, although she will now present six of last 
year's eight prize winners, it remains to be 
seen if the green and white will get there by 
such a large majority this year. In 1SS8, 
Amherst was satisfied to take the pennant 
with six firsts and it looks now as if this sea- 
son's champions will have to be contented 
with something like that number. 

Although the result of a meeting of athletes 
is as uncertain as a maiden lady's age, it can be 
said with tolerable accuracy that the best 
colleges will prove, this year, to be Dartmouth, 
Amherst, Williams, and the Worcester Tech., 
wath the chances for winning the champion- 
ship somewhat in doubt, but in favor of the 
order named. That statement is broad enough 
to cover almost the unexpected, which ahvays 
happens, but there is no telling how the dark 
horses of Brown. Wesleyan, \'ermont and 
Trinity will materialize. Some athletic "stars" 
may be modestly shining in those regions who 
will fairly dazzle all beholders with their bril- 
liancy when they begin to revolve in the ellip- 
tical orbit of Agricultural Park. Last year 
there were dark horses enough. Indeed the 
scarcity of other shades of steeds was quite 
noticeable. The trouble was, that Dartmouth 
seemed to have a monopoly of brunette 
equines, so to speak, and would allow to the 
other colleges only the comfort usually enjoyed 
by girls of auburn hair. This year it is hoped 
that the stock of dark horses will be divided 
equally and that, especially, they will not be 
trotted forth by the winning college. 

Dartmouth will send to Worcester a team 
on which more money has been expended than 
ever before, a team which, for six or eight 
weeks past, has trained hard and conscien- 
tiously with but one end in view : to win, and 
keep the championship. Last year the men 
from Dartmouth who won events surprised 
even themselves. That college had hoped to 
win, but not in events which finally proved to 
be theirs. Her betting men placed their 



money, not on the championship, for that 
seemed too uncertain, but on one event, putting 
the shot, in which, however, their man Perkins 
was defeated by Houghton of Amherst. It is 
characteristic of Dartmouth to say but very 
little concerning what she proposes to do and 
last year her silence was positively painful. 
Witliin the last month, not a word has come 
from Hanover concerning the college's chances 
for the pennant, in spite of the fact that Am- 
herst, Williams, Brown and Tech. stock has 
been going up tremendously. But her old 
war-liorses will come here. May 28, arrayed 
for business, supremely confident of victory, 
and the college which gets ahead of her will 
achieve no empty honor. 

Dartmouth's sprinter of last year was Wil- 
liams, and this year he is still with us. Then 
he won both the 100 and 220 dashes, much to 
the surprise of his fellow collegians, who never 
thought he could run even a little bit. His 
time in the final of the 100 was 10 4-5 seconds, 
but he made 10 3-5 in his trial heat. The time 
in the 220 was incorrect because of the short- 
ness of the course. Within the past year 
Williams has doubtless improved and is able 
to better the time of 10 3-5. If he can run the 
distance in lo 2-5 or io'<, he is probably a 
winner, but time is an uncertain thing to bet 
on and the chances are that Dadmun, if he is 
feeling good, will breast the tape first. 

Rowe was Dartmouth's prize winner in the 
440 and he won it in the fast time of 52 1-5 
seconds. This year Amherst has a man, in 
the person of Shattuck, who, they think, will 
better this time, if his late running is any cri- 
terion. Last Saturday, at the Morris Dock 
meeting ot the Berkeley A. C, with a 12 yard 
handicap he came in a winner in 50 4-5 
seconds. This time, however, was made under 
the extremely favorable conditions of a perfect 
track and day and it is doubtful if Shattuck 
can run as fast as this at Worcester. Dart- 
mouth has always seemed to have a mortgage 
on the tug-of-war and the hammer throw and 
the foreclosure will doubtless take place this 
year, as usual, although vague rumors have 
floated to Worcester, lately, to the effect that 
Vermont and Brown are to get in their work 
here. Humphreys won the running broad 
jump and the 220 hurdle last year and will be 
on hand again, looking for fresh laurels. 
Scruton, Weeks, Sparhawk and Coon have all 
had experience. 

One thing can be put down as certain and 
that is, that Amherst is going to make a great 
endeavor to get back the pennant which she 
so confidently hoped, last year, to retain. If 
her representatives do succeed in winning the 
most events, Amherst's victory will seem so 
much the sweeter because the pennant is 
being wrested from Dartmouth's hands. There 
is not the best of feeling between the two 
colleges. Ever since the foot-ball difiiculty in 
which Houghton, of Amherst, laid Dart- 
mouth's heaviest rusher low in the most ap- 
proved Marquis of Queensbury style, and the 
I Dartmouth team, in pleasing return, jumped 



upon lialf-back Raley with such force as to 
send him to bed for a week or two, the rela- 
tions of the undergraduates of the two colleges 
have been .somewhat strained. Tlie Amherst 
foot-ball team considered itself lucky to get 
out of Hanover alive on that day, and on May 
28, when an Amherst man gets ahead of a green 
and white wearer, the furious waving of the pur- 
ple and white and the exultant yells of its bear- 
ers will Ijear witness to the fact that things are 
being evened up a little. 

Amherst is practically sure of two events, the 
mile run and the two mile bicycle, probably 
getting both first and second in the latter. 
Wells, her mile runner, is also entered in the 
half mile and his experience and grit may help 
him out in this event, in which, however, he 
has superiors. Ludington is another of Am- 
herst's winners. A lame leg prevented his 
making a clo.se contest, and perhaps winning, 
in the running high jump, last year, but he won 
the 120 hurdle with a yard to spare over Scru- 
ton of Dartmouth. This year the 120 hurdle 
promises to be more closely contested, by a 
greater number of contestants, and Ludington, 
while he may be put down as a hard man to 
beat, will not have his usual sinecure. Lud- 
ington is also entered in the running broad 
and the 220 dash. Houghton seems capable 
of again taking first in putting the shot. 
Shattuck, the Raleys, Hare and Ewing are 
expected to "do something." So are the others 
of Amherst's large field of entries. All of 
them have good records and lots of confidence. 
A big delegation is sure to accompany the 
team and give it every possible encouragement. 
Amherst knows what to expect, this year, and 
is consequently loaded for bear. 

If Amherst can not win the pennant, she 
would prefer that it go to Williams. Williams 
can also be conceded first in two events, 
the standing high and broad jumps. Crook 
has won these two events ever since the N. E. 
I. A. A. came into existence, and his standing 
high jump of an even five feet at the last indoor 
meeting of the Harvard A. A. does not lead 
one to think that he will neglect to scoop in 
his customary medals at the coming meeting. 
Person holds the college record of 9 feet, 5 
inches, for the pole vault, made last March, 
and this is 9 inches better than the distance 
which won first at last year's meeting. 
Peters is a good running high jumper. 
Nichols finished a plucky second in the two 
mile run, a year ago, and may win this year, as 
last season's winner, Ellis of r:)artmouth, has 
graduated. The tug-of-war team wearing the 
royal purple is sure to be a strong one and will 
give Dartmouth's beef a hard five minutes' 
pull, perhaps winning and adding one more 
victory to the string headed by the standing 
high and broad jumps. White is ex- 
pected to take the mile walk. If 
everything goes as the Williams men confi- 
dently e.xpect, that college will fly the pennant, 
but things do not always turn out as they are 
confidently expected to. Still, Williams's 
chances for winning are good and she will ably 



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second Amherst's efforts to beat Dartmouth. 

The sympathies of Worcester are naturally 
with the Tech. and most of Light's readers 
would no doubt be very glad indeed to see the 
steel gray and crimson come out on top. The 
team, while a little late in beginning training, 
has worked hard in preparation and will be 
richly deserving of the honors it gains. Mr. 
John J. Donahue, the popular trainer of the 
team, has used every means in his power to 
get the local men into perfect condition, and to 
his intelligent care and valuable suggestions 
much is due. To Harry Dadmun the Tech. 
has been looking this spring for brilliant 
work, but a leg trouble caused by a 
strained tendon may prevent his running, 
in which case the Tech. will be dis- 
appointed, for Dadmun has been running 
faster than ever before. His strong hold is in 
the sprint and hurdle races. A race between 
Dadmun and Ludington, in the 120 hurdle 
would be very interesting indeed and it is prob- 
able that the wearer of the steel gray and 
crimson would finish in the lead. In the 100 yard 
dash Dadmun would stand a better show of 
winning than any other and could make every- 
body hustle in the 220, flat or hurdle, or the 
440. Allen is another of the Institute's crack 
sprinters and the Tech. looks to him also for 
pennant winning work in the 100 and 220 
dashes. In Taylor, the Tech. thinks that it is 
very sure of a winner, in the half-mile run. 
He has run inside of last year's record 
and would have won first then but for an un- 
fortunate error of judgment. Fish can be relied 
upon to try hard for second in one or two events 
in which the Tech. never stands a good show 
and may take first if Amherst's or Williams's 
cracks do indifferent work. The mile walk 
has been won by the Tech. ever since the 
event was incorporated in the association's 
list, and this year her representatives will try 
hard to get there again. Bradford, the winner 
for two successive years, and Devlin, who de- 
feated Bradford and broke the Intercollegiate 
record, two weeks ago, will form a pair hard 
to beat. The remaining members of Worces- 
ter's team can be relied upon to back up the 
stars loyally and to do their level best. If, 
perchance, the "heavy events" are divided 
equally among Dartmouth, Amherst and Wil- 
liams, there is a chance that the Tech. may 
step into second place, with a possibility of 
getting the pennant. But that possibility is so 
remote that its fulfilment would come like a 
lucky lottery ticket. However, it is a possible 
thing, and so long as anything is possible, the 
local men will try their best to turn it into an 
assured fact. 

But little is known about the team which the 
University of Vermont has entered to make 
its maiden effort in the association. Athletics 
flourish at Burlington and the college puts up 
an excellent article of base ball. Vermont feels 
sure of first in putting the shot and claims to 
have a man who has thrown the 16 pound 
hammer out of sight. If her representatives 
can really take these events, it will make things 
very interesting and it will be hard to pick a 
pennant winner. Vermont is not expected to 
take higher than fifth place and anything 
better than that position will come in the 
nature of a large-sized surprise. 

Brown promises to be no small factor in 
determining which college shall win. Last 



week her high jumper. Barrows, broke the 
Intercollegiate record by half an inch and will 
be "in it" this year much more than he was 
last, when he failed to reach anything ap. 
proaching that height. Hovey, at the same 
time, vaulted 9 feet, 4 inches. He has had ex- 
perience at previous Worcester meetings, is a 
very graceful vaulter, and may get a place 
next Wednesday. Webb threw the hammer 
80 feet, 6 inches, which is but one inch under 
the distance which took first last year. Brown 
is rather unfortunate in not coming up to ex- 
pectations when it makes its effort at Worces- 
ter. A year ago the same good records were 
made at a local meeting but the men lost their 
nerve when they came to meet Intercollegiate 
competitors. 

Wesleyan has a bad man in the person of 
Slayback. He was the "old reliable" full- 
back on last fall's foot-ball team and is tough 
and plucky from the word "go." Last spring 
he was leading the 220 hurdle at a terrific clip, 
with good prospects of beating out Hum- 
phreys, but tripped and fell, losing his chance. 

Trinity is strong at running and may get the 
sprints and hurdles. The team has worked 
hard in preparation and has lotsof friends who 
wish it every success. Trinity college is one 
of the most popular members of the associa- 
tion and would wear whatever laurels her rep- 
resentatives may gain with becoming modesty. 

The system of scoring by points, good as it 
is, has never been adopted by the New Eng- 
land association. A plurality of firsts awards 
the championship, and seconds count only in 
case of a tie of firsts. All the events, except 
the t\vo mile bicycle, are to be run under the 
rules of the Intercollegiate Association of 
Amateur Athletes of America, the New 
England association having adopted these last 
March. The bicycle race is run under L. A. 
W. regulations. The new rules do not differ 
materially from the old, except with regard to 
the tug-of-war. The time limit is 5 minutes 
instead of 3. In the 120 hurdle, a minor point : 
the first hurdle is 10 feet from the scratch, in- 
stead of 15. 

The presence of the New York officials, e.x- 
perienced as they are in every detail of manag- 
ing an athletic contest, assures all the contes- 
tants of intelligent and impartial treatment. 

Worcester looks forward to the meeting in 
joyous anticipation and will give the New 
England college boys a hearty welcome. 

^Warned by Experience. 

Mr. Case (who has married his type-writer) 
— Well, my dear, I suppose I must be looking 
around for somebody to take your place in the 
office. 

Mrs. Case : — Yes, I have been thinking of 
that. My cousin is just out of school. 

Mr. Case : — What's her name ? 

Mrs. Case (sweetly): — John Henry Briggs. 
—Pnck. 
Got 'Em Both. 

A young merchant sat nervously in his 
counting-room yesterday awaiting news from 
his home. A messenger thrust a telegram 
into his hand announcing the birth of twin 
boys. Pulling on his overcoat, he hurried out 
into the street, when a newsboy rushed up to 
him crying, "-Teh'grain and extra Su/if 

"Got 'em both, my boy !" returned the 
young merchant, as he passed on. — Exchange, 



Cycling Cycles. 



Highlandville has 30 lady cyclers. As many 
as can find it convenient will be at the Wor- 
cester meet. 



A delegation of lady riders will come from 
Providence. 



Four Worcester ladies are members of the 
League of American Wheelmen. 



Probably over three-quarters of the wheels in 
line will be safeties. 



The field oflScers will be Referee, John C. 
Spiers; judges. Dr. W. H. Emery, Boston, 
chief consul of the Massachusetts division, 
Abbott Bassett, Boston, secretary of the L. A. 
W., and Howard L. Perkins, Providence, 
captain of the Rhode Island wheelmen ; timer, 
E. F.Tolman; clerk of the course, J. W. Mur- 
phy, assistant clerk, H. 15. Ingraham; umpires, 
E. M. Santom and George L. Wood. Capt. 
L. A. Whittemore of the Bay State Club will 
be starter. 



The Boston wheelmem will arrive in a body. 
The Bay State Club will meet them at the 
depot. 



The opening of the new road at the Lake, 
on Saturday last, adds one more beautiful 
course to the already large number around 
Worcester. 



No class of Worcester citizens are more 
alive to the beauties of Nature than the bicy- 
cle riders, and they well know how to appre- 
ciate a long, well-built road, with the blue and 
sparkling waters of Massachusetts' finest lake 
to cool the breezes and furnish a mirror for 
some of the loveliest rural scenery in New 
England. 



While entertaining their visiting friends, 
next Friday, Worcester wheelmen should 
not neglect to escort them along the new Lake 
Drive. 



"Evolutions" on the Boulevard will be the 
most interesting feature of the great parade 
in the morning. 



Worcester is a cychng centre. There are 
nearly as many cycles in Worcester as there 
are proportionally in any other American 
city. 

The safety bicycle has come to stay. 
Thousands are riding to-day who never 
drempt of cycling in the old days of the 
big wheel. 



It would be a splendid thing for the busi- 
ness-health of Worcester if all the business 
men were cyclers. Cycling is as dignified 
as buggy riding. 

Willie Windle of Millbury, the champion 
amateur bicycle rider, has a collection of nearly 
a round dozen of machines at his home. 



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Vol. I. 



WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1890. 



No. 14. 



Light believes that every boy and girl in 
every household wherein it enters, and every 
citizen as well, may read with profit, at this 
memorial time of the year.the paragraph which 
is printed below. It is the grand and simple 
speech of Abraham Lincoln, pronounced at 
the dedication of the soldiers' burial-ground, 
on the battlefield of Gettysburg, in November, 
1863. It ought to make every one who reads 
it more patriotic and more tenderly mindful of 
the heroes whose monument is the prosperity 
of a free and united country. " Four score 
and seven years ago our fathers brought forth 
upon this continent a new nation, conceived in 
liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that 
all men are created equal. Now we are en- 
gaged in a great civil war, testing whether 
that nation, or any nation so conceived and 
dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a 
great battlefield of that war. We are met to 
dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place 
of those who here gave their lives that that 
nation might live. It is altogether fitting and 
proper that we should do this. But, in a larger 
sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot conse- 
crate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The 
brave men, living and dead, who struggled 
here, consecrated it far above our power to 
add or detract. The world will little note nor 
long remember what we say here, but it can 
never forget what they did here. It is for us, 
the living, rather to be dedicated to the un- 
finished work that they have thus far so nobly 
carried on. It is rather for us to be here 
dedicated to the great task remaining before 
us; that from these honored dead we take in- 
creased devotion to the cause for which 
they here gave the last full measure of de- 
votion ; that we here highly resolve that the 
dead shall not have died in vain ; that the 
nation shall, under God, have a new birth of 
freedom ; and that government of the people, 
by the people, and for the people, shall not 
perish from the earth." 



In one or two of Worcester's prominent 
churches, there have recently been discussions 
regarding the propriety of holding stage en- 
tertainments in any part of the church edifice. 
Without attempting to take sides in the dis- 
cussion. Light professes to have ideas on the 
subject and is wilHng to make answer to some 
of the objections urged. Of course, the main 
audience room of the church mnst not be in- 
vaded for entertainment purposes. Tlie ob- 
jection is that the room should have its partic- 
ular uses, and the devoutness of spirit which 
it may inspire, so long as it is given over only 
to those uses, would very likely be shadowed 
of a Sunday, by thoughts of secular doings, 
should such have been given a place there 
during the week. But almost every church 
edifice has its rooms set apart for social uses, 
and there seems to be no real objection to 
such a custom. It is true that some of our 
grandfathers did not want to see the church 
opened from Sunday to Sunday, save on Wed 



nesday evening, when the sexton might be 
instructed to have a lamp burning in one 
corner, about which a dozen or so might gather. 
But those days are gone. The church has 
come in for a share of the nineteenth century's 
progress. In these days, it is generally held 
that the more active a church is in its social 
life, the more power will it have in its spiritual 
work. After the people are got together, it is 
not difficult to preach to them ; but they must 
first be got together. It is like the old rule 
about cooking the hare. It is said, however, 
and Worcester is not the only place where 
the point has been made, that the most 
monstrous thing about these entertainments 
which the "Ladies Social Circle" and the 
"Young People's Society of Christian En- 
deavor" prepare, is the giving of dramatic 
representations with the aid of a curtain. 
Suppose the entertainment to be of a commend- 
able nature, as it is to be presumed that any 
given in a Worcester church would be, what 
difference does the curtain make ? Can it be 
that a few square yards of cloth, intercepting 
the view of an audience, give so much offense? 
Is "Little Lord Fauntleroy" a wicked play 
because its scenes are set behind a sheet of 
painted canvas.' It does not accord with 
reason or good sense. There will probably 
be, for many years yet, a division of opinion 
anong the people of our churches, regarding 
this matter ; but those who form the 
"conservative wing," and object to the 
entertainment idea in any form, will 
have fewer sympathizers every year. A 
tableau may teach as much of a lesson, and 
be as much of a moral force, as a passage of 
Scripture, at times; and all hearts are not 
moved by one sort of eloquence. The entertain- 
ment idea is doing a good work in the church, 
and to banish it would be to reduce the Sun- 
day atmosphere to the temperature of the 
glacial period and throw about the weekly re- 
ligious gatherings a chill which the young men 
and the young women have no heart to pene- 
trate. 

Light does not believe the general senti- 
ment of the members of the Worcester 
County Mechanics Association or the verdict 
of other Worcester citizens, as a whole, is in 
favor of the letting of Mechanics Hall for any 
such exhibition as is said to have been given 
there Wednesday evening. For the week 
past the bill-boards have been radiant with 
posters calculated to disgust the refined and 
incite the evil curiosity of the ignorant. It 
seems monstrous that our Mechanics Hall, 
the scene of so many historic gatherings, and 
so justly a part of Worcester's pride, should 
l)ecome even a temporary auditorium for per- 
formers of the vaudeville stage — to put it mild- 
ly. We have our Music Festival there, and our 
most intellectual entertainments. Its arches 
had not yet lost the ring of the noble words of 
General Howard, uttered on Memorial Sunday, 
when it was desecrated by a "burlesque" com- 
pany. Light does not relish it. 



It does seem as if some of the questions 
which the census-takers are instructed to ask 
are needlessly impertinent, and the para- 
graphers ought to harve,st a splendid crop of 
jokes before the last door is excitedly slammed 
by the la.st infuriated victim of the man 
with the big book and the pen. It is inevit- 
able that there will be evasion of the law, de- 
spite the 5100 fine threatened. But who of us 
can't think of some blushing bud of forty-two 
who would willingly pay the $ioo, or even go 
to jail, rather then divulge that most sacred 
secret — the number of her years. The censu.s- 
takers must expect to be fooled. They will 
be, anyway. Light's religious editor says 
that up at his house they have a new imported 
servant girl, who doesn't know a mortgage 
from a bar of soap, or a "chronic disease" 
from a stick of tutti frutti ; and they've de- 
cided to let her answer the questions, when the 
census man comes around. 



People who are mean enough to steal plants 
from a public park may have superiors in their 
line of art — but it would be difficult to tell 
where they may be found. Elm Park has 
suffered in previous years from such depreda- 
tions, apparently not the work of boys, but 
giving the impression that some one has found 
it a convenient source of supply for stocking a 
small but select conservatory. A beginning 
has been made this year; but it is to be hoped 
that no further complaint may come from the 
Parks Commission, on this score. They are 
justly proud of their work, and have an inter- 
est in maintaining its high standard. Probably 
Mr. Lincoln would rather have a sneak-thief 
pilfer his private purse than to find that he had 
been at work in Elm Park. Light would like 
to hear some day that our chairman had 
caught the offender. He would certainly be 
suitably served — on toast, perhaps. 



One of the recent acts of Governor Hill of 
New York was the signing of the bill prohib- 
ing minors from smoking on the street or in 
other public places. There are a great many 
people in Massachusetts who would not feel it 
any special grievance to have our legislature 
pass, and our governor sign, such a bill. The 
cigaret fiend in short trousers is becoming 
something quite gruesome to contemplate. 
Two little fellows were noticed marching up 
Linden street, a few days since, puffing vigor- 
ously at their tissue-rolled "weeds," and al- 
though they may not have realized it, they sug- 
gested the idea that a sound spanking would be 
warrantable according to the domestic statute 
in such cases made and provided. Neither 
one could have been more than nine years old ; 
they wore neat little school suits and jaunty 
caps. They were not street arabs nor chil- 
dren of the slums, by any means; and un- 
doubtedly had been taught better. If there is 
no other way to keep the mischievous little 
rolls away from such youngsters, we need 
legislation, and then perhaps they can be 
scared out of it. 




7;/^6i;CESTER.A\A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
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complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 

Worcester, Saturday, May 31, 1890. 
Decoration Day. Notice. 



This week's Light bears the regular Sat- 
urday date-line. May 31, but is issued Thurs- 
day night, in order that its employdes may 
observe the grandest holiday of the North. 

About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



May 31 : Sun rises at 4.10 a. m.; sets at 7.14 
p. M. Length of day, 15 hours, 4 minutes Full 
moon, June 3, i hour, 34 minutes, morning, W. 

Rev. A. E. P. Perkins, D. D., will have in 
the June Century, in the department of "Open 
Letters," an anecdote of Admiral Farragut, not 
before published. 

The rumor comes through Fitchburg rela- 
tives that Mr. Joseph W. Fairbanks, who from 
1875 to 1878 was principal of Worcester High 
School, which he left to go to Williston Acad- 
emy at Easthampton, thence going to St. Paul, 
Minn., where he has been engaged in teaching 
and in business, has accepted a position as 
principal of the preparatory department of 
Washington L'niversity at St. Louis. This 
University seems to draw heavily upon Wor- 
cester High School talent for instructors, for 
the dean of the University Law School and 
the president of the Bar Association of the 
United States, is Mr. Henry Hitchcock, who 
was from 1848 to to 1849 an instructor in 
our High School; while the vice-chancellor 
of the University is Mr. M. S. Snow, who 
was also a teacher in our High School from 
186s to 1866. 

The Boston Herald has arrived at the re- 
sult of the recent scholarship competition, in 
which 224 young people in Maine, New Hamp- 
shire and Massachusetts contested. Competi- 
tive examinations were held, it will be remem- 
bered, that for this vicinity being held at the 



1.1(1 HT 

High School, under the direction of Principal 
Roe. Worcester High School furnished 
seven contestants, and three of them have 
just received from the Herald notification 
that they are on the eligible list ; that is, out of 
the 224 competing, the Herald finds 23 ac- 
cepted candidates, and of the 23, three are 
Worcester High School pupils. Each con- 
testant submitted a paper written without ref- 
ence to books, under the direction of Mr. Roe, 
and it speaks volumes for the scholarship of 
the school that in so small a number it should 
have so large a share. The successful pupils 
are Miss Bertha E. Longley, a daughter of 
Alderman Longley, who was graduated from 
the school with the class of '89 and has been 
taking a post-graduate course prepara- 
tory to entering Wellesley College; Mr. 
Herbert C. Lakin, '90, and Miss Mary B. 
Fuller, '90, a daughter of President Ful- 
ler of the Polytechnic Institute. The 
candidates selected their subjects from a list 
of a dozen or more. Miss Longley wrote on 
"The Character of Lord Clive as shown in 
Macaulay's Essay;" Mr. Lakin's was "The 
Story of Quentin Durward," and Miss Fuller 
chose "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The 
scholarships are, one of g6oo, the other of 
)f4oo, and the two lucky ones will probably be 
selected from the 23 somewhat on the basis of 
their rank in entering college. Worcester 
mustn't expect everything, but it would be 
very agreeable to have at least one of those 
scholarships come this way. 



Senator Henry L. Parker participated in 
the dedicatory exercises of the Acton Memor- 
ial Building and Soldiers' Tablets, Saturday. 



The Elberon Orchestral Club of this city has 
been engaged for summer concert work at the 
Ottawa House, on Cushing's Island, in Port- 
land Harbor, and will begin its work there 
July I, remaining until September. The club 
was selected out of a large number of appli- 
cants, and the engagement speaks well for the 
abilities of Worcester boys. The club has 
done considerable local playing, always with 
great success, during the past season. The 
members are: Mr. Ernest H. Marshall, vio- 
lin and leader; Mr. H. B. Wentworth, violin; 
Mr. C. D. Stuyvesant, viola; Mr. J. O'Con- 
nell, clarionet; Mr. Frank W. Chaffin, cor- 
net; Mr. E. H. Woodhead, trombone; Mr. L. 
J. Zitkov, bass. 

The young ladies of Miss E. A. Kimball's 
Home -School made a trip to the Lake last 
Saturday, and divided their time between the 
the amusements of Lincoln Park and steamer- 
riding on the Apollo. 



Mr. Eugene Belknap was home from Willis- 
ton Academy last week. 



Plymouth Church vestry presented an at- 
tractive appearance, Tuesday evening, when 
the King's Daughters had their May sale and 
entertainment. Tastefully arranged booths 
tempted the looker-on to become a purchaser, 
and during the evening he was regaled with a 
musical entertainment. Miss Emily K. Mellen, 
assisted by Misses Minnie H. Taft, Mary 
Emerson, Mabel Daniels, Bessie E. Dean, 
Jennie Lesure and Grace Putnam, served ice 
cream and strawberries and cream. As for the 



booths. Misses Carrie C. Kinsley and Addie 
E. Smith looked after the art table ; Misses 
Sophia P. Walker and Florence M. Dodge 
had charge of the apron table ; Misses Nellie 
M. Rood and Lessie Maynard, the decorated 
china table ; Misses Ella F. Burrage and Anna 
T. Kelley, the linen table; Misses E. Fanny 
Stone, Annie Kendall, Lillian E. Denny, Grace 
Dean and Mattie Kay, the candy table ; Misses 
Nellie M. Denny, Minnie Burrage, Lizzie Em- 
erson and Helen Taft, the miscellaneous table- 
All the booths were prettily decorated. The 
entertainment included songs by Mr. C. C- 
Kenyon and by Miss Anna L. Smith, readings 
by Miss Viola Bowman, violin and piano solos 
by Mr. W. F. Crosby and Mr. William Jones, 
respectively- 

Mr. N. W. Rand, of Monson, a brother of 
Dr. J. P. Rand of Worcester, writes that Hon. 
W. M. Flint, of that town, recently found a 
turtle inscribed "E. G., 1823 and 1S78." On 
inquiry it was discovered that the original date 
was cut into the shell, in 1S23, by Mr. Eras- 
mus Gates. The turtle was marked 1890 and 
turned loose. 

Col. T. S. Johnson has had a long struggle 
with the "grip," but has been able to be out 
again this week. 

Mr. Joseph Beals, a graduate of the Poly- 
technic Institute, '85, who was recently offered 
a position there as instructor in mechanical 
engineering and drawing, has decided not 
to accept the position. Mr. Beals is now 
teacher of manual training in the Durfee High 
school in Fall River. He is a Westfield man, 
but has many friends in Worcester, and is a 
son-in-law of Mr. Henry H. Houghton, the 
grain dealer. 



The Pilgrim Society at Plymouth numbers 
■among its trustees Mr. Stephen Salisbury, 
recently elected. 



The Listeners' Club was entertained by Mrs. 
John S. Baldwin, 81 Chatham street, Monday 
evening, and Mr. Edward N. Anderson read a 
paper on "Music as a Language," proving his 
ability to entertain and instruct outside the 
sphere of musical production. Miss Mary F. 
Tucker, pianist, and Mr. Ben T. Hammond, 
bass, assisted. The club elected Mr. Philip 
W. Moen president, and Mrs. Reuben Colton 
secretary. 

Monday night a party of Mr. and Mrs. 
John E. Thomas's friends called on them at 
their home, 628 Main street, and enjoyed a 
social time, by way of helping them to celebrate 
their third anniversary- Mr. Thomas is now 
chairman of the reception committee of the 
Young Men's Christian Association, and the 
committee was well ^presented in the gather- 
ing. During the evening music was furnished by 
a male quartet including Messrs. O. V. Sibley, 
George A. Ward, C. A. Rose, Jr., and Ed- 
ward A. Gage; Miss Minnie T. Gage gave 
vocal solos; Mr. Wood played the harmonica; 
Mr. W. G. Lamson, the organ, and a mixed 
quartet including Miss Gage, Miss Bertha 
Hoyt and Messrs. Rose and Gage, sang selec- 
tions. A letter was read from Mr. J. E. 
Hudson, now in Cleveland, O., who was until 
recently chairman of the reception committee. 
Before the formal exercises were done with. 



Mr. W. E. Lewis, speaking for tlie company, 
presented Mr. and Mrs. Tliomas with two 
handsome plush rockers, for which they grace- 
fully returned thanks. Refreshments were 
served, and a general good time ensued. 
Those present, besides those mentioned aliove, 
included Miss Mabel Bancroft, Miss May 
Taylor, Mr. E. H. Preble, Mr. Clinton A. Han- 
croft, Miss Carrie Wood, Mr. Fred Kelley, Mr. 
Henry Bancroft. Miss Carrie Sweetzer, Mi.ss 
Ella -Sweetzer, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lewis, 
Mr. and Mrs. George Steele, Miss May Whit- 
ing, Mr. Edward Hamilton, Miss May Lewis, 
Mr. and Mrs. Will E. Higgins, Mr. Albert H. 
Inman, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Shay. 



Mr. Edward J. Putnam has the sympathy of 
friends because of the death of his mother, 
which occurred at her home in Holden, on 
Wednesday. 

A very pleasant time was had last Friday 
evening at the residence, in Auburn, of Miss 
Kate L. Clarke, who entertained a number of 
her friends at whist. Four tables were used, 
and seventeen hands were played. The party in- 
cluded Misses Kate L. Clarke, Jessie A. Morse, 
Alice B. Hammond, Alice M. Watson, Cora 
J. Goodwin, Alice G. Merrill, Helen A. Merrill, 
Mabel Bradford, Mabel G. Merrill, and Dr. 
Homer L. Fitts, Messrs. Harry L. Dadmun, 
Henry J. Kettell, Norman V. Fitts, Foster H. 
Goodwin, Charles H. Faulkner and Frank B. 
Hall. Misses Bradford and Helen K. Merrill 
took the first and booby prizes, respectively, 
for the ladies, and Messrs. Faulkner and Hall 
did likewise for the gentlemen. After the 
play was finished, refreshments were served 
and social intercourse enjoyed until it was 
time to return to the city. Mr. F. W. Flagg 
furnished the conveyance. 

Miss Edith L. Smith has received from the 
Emerson (formerly the Monroe) College of 
Oratory, Boston, the degree of O. B. (Bache- 
lor of Oratory). Miss Smith was graduated 
from the college a year ago, and has since 
taken a post graduate course there. 

The "Vision of Liberty" entertainment, 
given at Grace Church Tuesday evening, was 
so successful that it was repeated on Thurs- 
day evening. Mr. Frank H. Bealshad charge 
of the affa'r and managed it in a highly credi- 
table way. Forty-two young ladies, becom- 
ingly attired, represented the states of the 
Union, and other characters were Mrs. 
Augustus Stone, "Goddess of Liberty;" Mr. 
Corwin M. Thayer, "Uncle Sam;" Miss Alta 
Thayer, "Massachusetts;" Mrs. Ida Johnson, 
"Worcester ;" Mr. George A. Blunt, "Veteran ;" 
Mr. G. E. Stewart, "Freedman." Solos were 
sung by Mrs. Johnson, Mr. George L. .San- 
born, Mr. Charles Hitchcock, Mrs. Charles E. 
Minckler, Mr. James Gettings, Mr. Benj. 
Whitmore, jr., Mr. Stewart. The Sons of 
Veterans assisted. 

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Ware spent Sunday in 
HoUiston, where Mr. Ware's mother is very 
ill, at her home. 

Memorial .Sunday was not specially observed 
in the churches, the general demonstration 
being at the evening service at Mechanics 
Hall, although Rev. Daniel Merriam, D. D., 
preached to Post lo, at Central Church, in the 



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morning and there was a special service at 
Trinity Church in the evening. At the Old 
South, Rev. M. C. Julien of New Bedford 
preached ; at Plymouth Church, Rev. W. M. 
Barbour, D. D., of Montreal, occupied the 
pulpit. Rev. John Young of Groton 
preached at the Church of the Unity in the 
morning. Prof. C. R. Brown of Newton oc- 
cupied the pulpit of the Main Street Baptist 
Church, and at the South Baptist Church the 
preacher was Capt. A. A. White. Thomas E. 
Besolow,the son of a Central African king,spoke 
at Central Church in the evening, and at Web- 
ster Square M. E. Church Mrs. Dr. W. K. 
Cole gave a talk on "Social Purity." At Bel- 
mont Church, Rev. Albert Bryant's pulpit was 
occupied by his son, Mr. Seelye Bryant, who 
has just been graduated from Princeton Sem- 
inary, but has not been ordained. He is to 
rest during the summer, and in the fall will 
find active work. 

The High School Glee Club is to give its 
annual concert in High School Hall, on Fri- 
day, June 13, and will present a miscellaneous 
program, with the assistance of local soloists, 
the arrangements being under the direction of 
Mr. Seth Richards, the club's director. 



The Young Peoples Society of Christian 
Endeavor of Piedmont Church, gave a very 
successful entertainment in the church vestry, 
Tuesday evening, the program consisting of 
tableaux and readings. A stage was arranged 
at the north end of the vestry and presented a 
very pretty appearance. Eben Francis 
Thompson, Esq., occupied the reading desk, 
and sustained his part in the evening's en- 
tertainment with his ever present grace and 
tact, contributing largely to its success. The 
program opened with a piano solo by Miss 
Nellie Ingraham, and the first tableau.x were 
those from "A Dream of Fair Women," 
Mr. Thompson reading Tennyson's poem. 
The tableaux were in charge of Mrs. Leo C. 
Farnsworth, and they were represented as 
follows : Helen of Troy, Miss Minnie Farns- 
worth ; Iphigenia, Miss Annie Faulkner ; Cleo- 
patra, Miss Effie C. Walch ; Jephtha's Daugh- 
ter, Miss Emma Pratt; Fair Rosamond, Miss 
Blanche Hill; Margaret More, Miss Alice 
Laird; Joan of Arc, Miss Nettie Orr; Elea- 
nor, Mrs. Farnsworth. A song by Mrs. H. L. 
Miller came ne.xt, and then a very pretty little 
tableau for "In Schooldays," Whittier's poem, 
the little girl being Miss Annie Wilson and the 
small boy being Master Harry Lawrence. 
The tableau was in charge of Mrs. W. H. 
Moulton. A song by Mr. James H. Cafferty 
followed, and then came two tableaux from 
James Russell Lowell's, "The Courtin'," Miss 
Cora B. Eaton appearing as Huldy and Mr. 
George E. Miller as Zekle. Mrs. John Knight 
had charge of the tableau. After a song by 
Miss Luella Flagg, there was an intermission, 
during which ice cream went the rounds. The 
first number of part second presented two 
tableaux from "Ben Hur," showing Ben Hur 
about to enter the boat with Iris, on the 
lake. This was perhaps the best of all, the 
scenic effect being strong and overcoming the 
usual difficulties of a water scene. It was 
under ithe Jdirection of Mrs. Fred N. Cooke. 
Mr. E. Harry Rockwell m^de a striking Ben 
Hur, and Miss Lena Warfield was Iris, while 
Master Lloyd Warfield appeared as the sable 



boatman. Miss Ingraham played another 
piano solo, and the next tableau was the scene 
between Priscilla and John Alden, from "The 
Courting of Miles Standish." Miss Florence 
M. Gates made a charming Puritan maiden 
and Mr. Walter H. -Smith sustained the part 
of John Alden. Miss Annie L. Faulkner had 
chargeof the tableau. A song by Mr. Cafferty, 
and a banjo solo by Mr. Eben H. Robinson, 
preceded the closing tableau, which presented 
two scenes from the Bardell-I'ickwick Trial, 
from "Pickwick Papers." Mr. James Wil.son 
occupied the bench as Judge Starleigh ; Mr. 
Arthur R. Haven was Mr.Pickwick; Mrs. F. 
N. Cooke appeared as the injured Mrs. Bar- 
dell; Mrs. John Knight and Mrs. W. H. Moul- 
ton supported her, as Mrs. Clappins and Mrs. 
Sanders re.spectively. The jury included 
Messrs. W. H. Moulton, H. L. Miller, W. H. 
Smith, E. H. Rockwell, George E. Miller, 
John Knight, Leo C. Farnsworth, Lloyd War- 
field, M. F. Brierly, W. H. Balcom, Charies 
C. Milton and F. R. Batchelder. After the 
entertainment, there was more sociability and 
more ice cream. Before going home, the Ben 
Hur scenes were photographed by flash light. 
The entertainment was a large-sized success. 



Mrs. Ella K. Morgan's pupils gave a recital 
of the "Fairy Masque" from "A Midsummer 
Night's Dream," at Horticultural Hall, Thurs- 
day evening. The entertainment was a de- 
lightful one. 

The Misses Moen, Mr. Philip W. Moen, and 
Mr. George F. Blake, Jr., were booked for 
passages on the steamer Etruria, for Liverpool, 
last Saturday. Mr. Moen's marriage to Miss 
Struthers of Edinburgh, Scotland, is an- 
nounced for June 5. 

Hon. Amos A. Parker, of Fitzwilliam, N. 
H., who is in his 99th year, has been visiting 
friends in this city during a week or more past. 
He visited Worcester in 1804 and thinks it 
looks rather differently now. Mr. Parker has 
been stopping with Mrs. John F. Landers, 106 
Piedmont street, and also with Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank L. Morrill, i33']Pleasant street. 



Rev. William H. Thomas D. D., pa.stor of 
Trinity Church, delivered an address before 
the Massachusetts School Suffrage Associa- 
tion, at Boston, Wednesday. 



Worcester responded warmly to the call for 
Memorial Day exercises in the public schools, 
which are required by a recent act of the leg- 
islature — one of its best pieces of work, by the 
way. Woodland, Dix and Thomas street schools 
had flag raisings, with appropriate exercises, 
and in some of the schools Grand Army men 
addressed the pupils. The High school 
devoted the two hours after recess to particu- 
larly interesting exercises in the hall. 

Mr. A. W. Edson, State agent of the Board 
of Education, has been visiting the Springfield 
schools this week. 



Mrs. H. F. A. Hoyt, of Philadelphia, is 
visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. C. J. Tirrell. Rev. Mr. Hoyt may 
make a short visit to Worcester next month. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt are to go abroad during 
the summer. 



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Worcester Odd Fellowship. 



BY C. W. WOOD, PAST GRAND. 



Worcester is emphatically a city of fraternal 
orders, and as an Odd Fellowship center it 
ranks among the first. 

QuixsiGAMOND TRIBE, No. 43, was insti- 
tuted May I, 1844, the following seven gende- 
men having obtained a charter from the Grand 
Lodge of Massachusetts: James Murray, John 
F. Locke, Thomas G. Douglass, Joseph W. 
Coburn, S. S. Leonard, Joseph D. Bishop, 
George E. Taft. For a time it grew very 
slowly, but, like the eternal principles under- 
lying its foundation, it was bound to prosper 
and after a little it began to gather within its 
ranks many of the leading professional and 
business men of the town, until to-day it bears 
upon its roster the names of 1250 men who have 
lived to exemplify the lesson it inculcates, while 
many have passed away leaving an honorable 
record of duty done ; 576 active members now 
remain to follow the examples of those gone 
before and to pave for each other the pathway 
of life with encouragement and assistance in 
well doing. 

The names of some who have been active and 
useful members are — John W. Hadley, Charles 
C. Fuller, .Samuel Firth, George L. Estey, 
Hiram H. Ames, Joseph M. Dyson, C. B. 
Dunkerton, L. T. Converse, Charles N. Chapin, 
N. H. Chandler, Solon Bryant, Thomas L. 
Bugbee, George A. Carter, Levi P. Barker, A. 
L. Burbank, Amos Atkinson, U. T. Blake, 
Henry Brannon, Alonzo Colby, Charles P. 
Hamilton, O. W. Norcross, J. B. Otis, E. T. 
Raymond, George P. Rogers, C. O. Richard- 
son, Waldo E. Sessions, A. M. Taft, Alpheus 
Walker, Edward Wright. Its principal offi- 
cers at the present time are Everett Flagg, 
John T. Cooper, P. H. Stearns, John Merrill 
and F. H. Pelton. 

Worcester Lodge, No. 156. — Such was 
the influence wrought upon the minds of the 
community by the good works accomplished 
by Quinsigamond Lodge, that a few months 
later, in December, 1844, Worcester Lodge 
sprung into existence as if by magic. It was 
reinstituted in September, 1870. Its charter 
members were Samuel V. Stone, Charles B. 
Pratt, William Duncan, L. R. Hapgood and 
Otis S. Hammond. Though for a little time 
its good work was retarded and its prospect 
of accomplishing that for which it was formed 
seemed clouded, yet after a little, purified by 
its experience, it began rapidly rising till to-day 
it has pushed itself into the front ranks of the 
order and gathers within its sacred precincts, 
weekly, men who help to form the stability 
and character of this prosperous city and 
whose resolution it is to so live that the world 
may be made better. The names of some of 
its past members who have laid off the mantle 
of mortality are : B. W. Abbott, E. A. Black- 
mer, Jesse T. Bottomly, George E. Boyden, 
Jaalon Gates, Henry W. Hill, David F. Par- 
ker, George R. .Spurr, Samuel S. Stone, M. E. 
Howe, Otis S. Hammond, while those re- 
maining and active are Edwin Ames, Charles 
S. Allen, W. F. Bancroft, Julian F. Bigelow, 
Samuel Brown, M. M. Garfield, L. A. Hast- 
ings, George G. Hildreth, George W. Carr, B. 
W. Hisco.x, A. A. McLaughlin, F. C. Thayer, 



W. W. Taylor, E. A. Wood, Charles H. 
Fisher, Charles A. King, George Kingston, W. 
A. Lytle, H. H. Marshall, E. A. Morse, E. S. 
Nason, A. S. Pinkerton, Charles G. Reed, 
W. F. Ewell, E. H. Hill, J. A. Sears, A. 
G. Walker, W. Ansel Washburn, A. H. 
Fisher. It has at the present time on its roll 
upwards of 435 active members. Its present 
elective officers are Theodore H. Day, 
Maynard P. Roach, George H. Fuller, W. F. 
Bancroft and W. B. Fanning. 

CENTR.4L Lodge, No. 168. — The work im- 
posed upon the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows in Worcester was bravely borne and 
nobly met by the members of Quinsig and 
Worcester Lodges for many years, till they 
became so large that the various details of 
the work could not always be met, with per- 
fect satisfaction to all, and a few were found, 
who were members of lodges outside the city, 
willing to undertake the formation of a new 
lodge. Hence, Central Lodge was instituted 
September 17, 1874, its charter members being 
Nathan Taylor, James S. Ballantyne, James 
A. Smith, Albert R. Hicks, Daniel P. Lord, 

E. Henry Wentworth, William Gamlin. 
Nearly twenty other worthy gentlemen stood 
ready to ally themselves with the new lodge 
and supplement the efforts of the charter 
members, and from its inception the success 
of the lodge was assured ; its members multi- 
plied and the labors of its heads prospered. 
To-day it numbers nearly 350 members, 
among them such men as Henry C. Wilson, 
Walter H. Sears, Henry Walker, A. L. Gil- 
man, Z. A. Hubley, E. W. Coffin, Samuel 

F. Mirick, Herbert E. Chandler, J. K. 
Greene, H. M. Clemence, Charles D. Cos- 
tello, F. E. Barker, George S. Bliss, A. H. 
Hinman, A. H. Stockwell, C. M. Whit- 
comb. Charles L. Buffington has recently 
passed through its principal chair, while its 
present elective officers are P. M. Ginn, C. E. 
Gather, Horace Briggs, Frank C. BuUard, and 

G. W. Dickinson. 

RiDGELY Lodge, No. 112. — Encouraged 
by the success that had crowned the efforts of 
other lodges, and imbued with an ambition to 
strengthen our borders and multiply the 
opportunities for well doing, the following 
gentlemen petitioned for a charter: A. L. 
Sawyer, S. H. Williams, G. A. Underwood, T. 
P. Haskell, S. T. Hodgman, O. W. Brigham, 
G. F. Oakley, B. F. Worden, J. F. Goodwin, 

E. Van Etten, F. M. Heath, E. E. Fisher, O. 
L. Blood, C. H. Boutwell, T. J. Taylor, C. 
Hugo, W. O. Wood, B. Cook, R. B. Johnston, 
M. R. Shattuck, J. E. Wilson, C. E. Pierce, G. 
N. Davis. Ridgely Lodge was instituted in 
.September, 1882. The lodge numbers up- 
wards of 200 active members, witli a very 
large average attendance. W. E. Kerr has 
just passed the honors and labors of its high- 
est office, while its principal officers now are 

F. M. Lovering, C. P. Johnson, F. R. Crierie, 
N. A. Babbitt and C. H. Bartlett. 

Anchoria Lodge, No. 142. — Seeming, as it 
did, that new exigencies demanded still another 
lodge, and that the accomplishment of greater 
good could be secured thereby, men were 
again found willing to undertake the work inci- 
dent thereto, and hence Anchoria Lodge was 
instituted March 31, 18S7, its charter members 
being : Thomas J. Leland, John A. Lowe, John 
Mcintosh, Fred B. Hodgdon, John T. Brierly, 



George H. Nichols, Eli Midgley, Charles A. 
Moore, John H. Pierce, Charles McFarland, 
Frank H. Larkin, Eli D. Howe, James B. 
MuUikin, Henry W. Fenner, James Roper, 
James A. Brennan, Mark M. Patterson, Wil- 
liam S. Seaver, John L. Pickford, Owen Bige- 
low, Charles A. Knight, John F. Keys. Some 
of its prominent members are W. A. Den- 
holm, S. W. Plaisted, Charles E. Irving, 
Charles G. Parker, Roscoe W. Swan, C. F. 
Hanson, Frank R. Hayden. It is now on the 
high road to success, its muster having already 
reached upwards of 100, while its work has 
been more than commensurate with its 
strength and numbers. H. L. Miller has just 
laid off the arduous duties of its chief office, 
and its principal officers now are Henry 
L. Powers, M. M. Patterson, J. A. Cherry. 

Wachusett Encampment of Patri- 
archs, No. 10. — Was first instituted in 1845 
and reinstituted in October, 1869, its charter 
members being W. A. Ayres, Tilley Ray- 
mond, E. L. Brigham, Henry Goddard, Wil- 
liam Greenleaf, John Mason, Luther God- 
dard and Thomas L. Bugbee. It is formed 
from the ranks of the membership of the 
various subordinate lodges and is engaged in 
supplementing their efforts. It has a large 
membership, including many of the m.ore 
prominent members of the order. Included 
in its ranks is a goodly portion of our busi- 
ness and professional men. The present 
membenship is in the vicinity of 400. Its 
present officers are A. C. Copeland, Charles 
Ross, George C. Lawrence, George H. Fuller, 

F. W. Leavitt, F. B. Fay and A. 8. Pinker- 
ton. 

Mount Vernon Encampment, No. 53, 
was instituted Sept. 27,1877, with chartermem- 
bers as follows : A. L. Burbank, E. M. Stock- 
well, Henry A. Allen, M. A. Maynard, Lewis 
C. Stone, M. W. Maynard, P. H. Stearns, I. 
M. Rogers, William L. Maynard, George G. 
Rogers. Its present principal officers are H. 
S. Briggs, Charles E. Slocomb, Jr., James H. 
Hartwell, Ira Goodwin, W. W. Sanderson, 
George W. Dickinson and John Mcintosh, 
and it has a membership of 300. 

Grand Canton Worcester, Patriarchs 
Militant, No. 3, was the outcome of Uni- 
formed Degree Camp, and was mustered 
February 13, 1886, with 120 charter members. 
Among the members are D. A. Harrington, 
W. F. Ewell, W. I. Allen, H. D. Hannach, 
C. B. Pratt, N. Taylor, W. F. Dunbar, George 
H. Clark, C. B. Dunkerton, A. F. Ballou, J. 
W. Hadley, J. E. Bradford, Geo. H. Bush- 
nell, J. A. Clemence, Dr. P. P. Carney, 
Clinton, A. M. DriscoU, C. C. Fuller, George 

G. Hildreth, T. C. Bates, A. S. Pinkerton, 
George Y. Lancaster, J. A. Sears, W. H. Sears, 
P. H. Stearns, E. A. Wood, H. Walker, D. M. 
Waterman, Dr. W. T. Souther. Its principal 
object is the additional social advantage it 
offers to its members. 

Queen Esther Degree Lodge, No. 33, 
Daughters of Rebekah, is made up of 
the members of the various subordinate lodges, 
their wives, daughters and sisters, and widows 
of deceased Odd Fellows. This lodge was 
instituted March 24, 1881, with thirty charter 
members, and rapidly grew in strength till it 
now numbers nearly 300. The work of the 
lodge is largely under control of the ladies, 
and it may well be ranked as the foremost 



organization in kindly offices and ministrations. 
Its members never tire in well doing, and 
what this branch of the order has done can 
only be understood and appreciated by those 
who have been constant observers and cogni- 
zant of its continual workings. Its present 
principal officials are : Emma Champlin, Anna 
M. Leiand, Phebe A. Pierce, Fannie Pearson 
and Eva J. Fairbanks. 

Naomi Lodge, No. iS, D.au«hters of 
Rebekah, has been in existence much longer 
than her sister organization, has a larger 
membership, and is equally active in incul- 
cating the teachings and practically exempli- 
fying the work of this degree. Its present 
officers are Gertie V. Bemis, Sarah Lamb, 
Mattie C. Black, M. E. Bridges and Lucy 
Briggs. It was organized June 27, 1S72, and 
has between 500 and 600 members. 

Growing out of these various organizations 
is the Odd Fellows Mutual Relief Association 
of Worcester County, founded for the purpose 
of securing to its members additional insur- 
ance. Its president is Nathan Taylor, the 
treasurer is Charles Hamilton and the clerk 
is J. E. Bradford. 

Odd Fellows Hdjie. — "Mindful of the 
divine admonition that in as much as ye have 
done it unto one of the least of these my little 
ones ye have done it unto me," the Grand 
Lodge of the State of Massachusetts, by its 
recent enactment ordained that a home for the 
aged and disabled Odd Fellows of the state 
should be established, and to this end the fol- 
lowing gentlemen were appointed trustees to 
acquire the necessary property and locate the 
Home, steps having been taken to raise the 
necessary funds for the development of its pro- 
ject: W. E. Ford of Boston, Francis Jewett 
of Lowell, H. K. Braley of Fall River, James 
T. Joslin of Hudson, John J. Whipple of 
Brockton, Rufus B. Gifford of Salem and 
Nathan Taylor of Worcester. Ambitious 
that the Home might be beautiful in situation 
and feeling that nowhere else could it be lo- 
cated with best results, the order in Worcester 
determined that the Home should be located 
inthe delightful city of Worcester. Thatsucha 
result might be secured the following gentle- 
men were appointed by their respective lodges 
a committee : From Quinsigamond Lodge, F. 
H. Pelton, H. H.Ames, D. A. Harrington; 
Worcester Lodge, C. B. Pratt, M. M. Garfield, 
E. H. Hill; Central Lodge, C. W. Wood, 
Henry Walker, C. L. Buffington ; Ridgely 
Lodge, F. M. Heath, F. A. Quimby, George 
S. Hatch ; Anchoria Lodge, W. A, Denholm, 
C. M. McFariand, F. R. Hayden; Wau- 
chusett Encampment, T. C. Bates, George H. 
Clark, S. E. Coombs; Mount Vernon En- 
campment, P. H. Stearns, H. B. Belcher, John 
C. Mclnnes; Naomi Lodge, O. M. Savels, A. 
M. Thompson, A. G. Walker; Queen Esther 
Lodge, A. M. Taft, J. M. Hubbard, L. C. 
Stone; Canton, W. F. Dearborn, George H. 
Kingston, F. E. Marshall. Inspired with a 
confidence in the justice of such a course, this 
committee went to work with a will and as- 
sisted by the co-operation of all our members 
and encouraged by the liberality of our private 
citizens, rapid progress was made, large con- 
tributions of money came pouring in and at 
least two valuable sites were freely offered, till 
at last their untiring efforts were rewarded. 
The coveted prize was won and decree passed 



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locating; llie home on the ten-;ure plot on tlic 
high elevation just east of the railroad at 
Barber's Crossing; and very soon will the dis- 
tinction be ours of beholding a beacon 
light of Odd Fellowship, pointing to a .spot 
where the old, the infirm, the unfortunate Odd 
Fellows, their wives andjchildren and even the 
widow and orphans, shall find shelter and 
comfort and where shall stand a little city, in- 
deed, set upon a hill, whose light shall never be 
hid. 

Thus is represented an organization in our 
midst of men and women, second to none ; 
stronger, richer, better than others of its kind ; 
whose members have never, to the writer's 
knowledge, furnished a criminal in our courts, 
or one to whom the public has been asked to 
give charity. 

Hon. Alfred S. Pinkerton, whose portrait 
Light presents this week as that of a repre- 
sentative of Worcester Odd Fellowship, was 
born in Lancaster, March 19, 1856, and was 
educated in the public schools of that town. 
At the age of 13, his parents removed with 
him to Scranton, Penn., and in 1S71 he came 
to Worcester. He studied law with Peter C. 
Bacon, and was admitted to the bar Novem- 
ber 28, 1S81. Since that time he has engaged 
in active practice. 

Mr. Pinkerton's connection with the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows dates from the 
24th of July, 1S7S, when he was admitted to 
Worcester Lodge. He became an active 
working member and rose through the various 
offices to be Vice Grand in i88i, and was 
elected Noble Grand January i, 1882, receiv- 
ing also a re-election when his term expired. 

At the August session of 1SS2, he was elected 
to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; in 
August of 1886 he became Grand Warden; 
a year later he was elected Deputy Grand 
Master, and August 9, 188S, he was made 
Grand Master. Mr. Pinkerton is by several 
years the youngest man who has ever held the 
position, and it may also be noted that he is 
the only Grand Master whom Worcester has 
ever had, and, indeed, the only one who has 
ever been furnished by this part of the state. 
In August, 1SS9, he was elected Grand Repre- 
sentative. He is still, also. District Deputy 
Grand Master, to which position he was 
elected in 1883, and from which his fellow- 
members would not allow him to resign. 

Mr. Pinkerton joined Wachusett Encamp- 
ment in 1879, was elected Senior Warden, and 
then Chief Patriarch in 1882. He was elected 
to the Grand Encampment that same year. 
He is also a member of Naomi Lodge, 
Daughters of Rebekah, and of Canton Wor- 
cester, Patriarchs Militant. 

Such early preferment and rapid promotion 
among his brethren of itself indicates his 
popularity in the order; and his success in the 
high positions which he has occupied has 
never been equalled by a man of his age. He 
enjoys the greatest confidence of his brother 
Odd Fellows, as is indicated in such facts as 
his being the chairman of the finance com- 
mittee of the Grand Lodge. 

Mr. Pinkerton is a Free Mason as well as an 
Odd Fellow, and is the present Master of 
Athelstan Lodge. 

Ever since coming to Worcester, Mr. 
Pinkerton has resided in Ward Two, and in 



late years he has ably represented it in the 
Legislature. He was a member of the House 
in 1SS7, 1SS8 and 1889. In 1S87 he was chair- 
man of the committee on towns, when the 
Beverly fight was on, and served with great 
credit to himself and Worcester. In 1S88, he 
was a member of the committees on judiciary 
and constitutional amendment, and was also a 
member of the special committee to represent 
the state at the Columbus, Ohio, celebration 
of the anniversary of the founding of civil 
government in the Northwest. In 18S9, he 
was a member of the committee on judiciary 
and chairman of the committee on water. 
Last fall, Mr. Pinkerton was again given the 
confidence of the people, being elected senator 
from the Fourth Worcester District, which 
includes Wards Two and Three, the city of 
Fitchburg, and the towns of Holden, Lan- 
caster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Princeton, 
Sterling, West Boylston, and Westminster. 
He is chairman of the committee on consti- 
tutional amendment, and a member of the 
committees on judiciary and probate and in- 
insolvency. It need hardly be said that Mr. 
Pinkerton is a stalwart Republican. He has 
been both secretary and chairman of the Re- 
publican County Committee. 

He is the only one of the gentlemen who 
have thus far appeared in Light's portrait 
gallery, who is unmarried. 



Words of Others. 



The Copyright Bill. 

The 128 members of the House of Repre- 
sentatives who voted against the inter- 
national copyright bill have incurred the con- 
tempt of the educated men of the land. This 
measure was founded on justice, was devoid 
of politics, and would have removed a long- 
standing disgrace ; yet there were enough leg- 
islators of narrow mind and blind judgment to 
defeat it. The intelligence of the house voted 
for the measure ; the ignorance, against it. As 
the Listener says inthe Traiiscripi: "Neady 
all the members of Congress, of either 
party, that one never heard of, voted for the 
measure. The vote against it was composed 
of the ragtail and bobtail of the house — with 
a very few exceptions." The West laughs at 
the East for claiming literary superiority, and 
claims that the intelligence and literary in- 
stinct of the West equals that of the East, if 
the East would but recognize it. This plea 
receives a deadly blow through the vote on 
the copyright bill, and the pretensions of 
West and South in the line of literary culture 
should cease. The bill's defeat will add an- 
other block to the monument of public scorn 
erected to mark the disgraceful folly and im- 
potence of the legislative doings at Washing- 
ton, and the time will come at last when the 
incompetent legislator will not be able to con- 
front public opinion without sacrificing every 
future chance for political success. — Boston 
Times. 



MissShakpe: — Oh, how do you do, Mr. 
Sissy 1 You are not looking very well. 

Mr. Sissy : — No, Miss Sharpe ; I've a cold 
or something in me head. 

Miss Sharpe (calmly):— I think it must be a 
cold, Mr. Sissy. — Munsey's Weekly. 



The Lakeside Boat Club. 



Of course it rained last Monday even- 
ing. It has come to be one of the fixtures 
of the calendar — a rainy night for the an- 
nual opening of the Lakeside Boat Club. 
But the rain has never yet been able to inter- 
fere with the making of the event a great suc- 
cess, and the brilliant reception given Monday 
evening proved the notable social event of the 
week. 

The Lakeside Boat Club is really worth 
much more than a passing notice because of 
its reception. It was organized on the 14th 
of Februar)', 18S7, and has proved a very sat- 
isfactory sort of valentine to all concerned. 
Grounds were secured by the Lake shore, and 
in the spring of 18S7 the handsome club house, 
which presented on Monday night a scene of 
revelry, was dedicated. The club's first board 
of officers included Mr. Irving E. Bigelow, 
president ; Mr. Lawrence G. Bigelow, vice- 
president; Mr. H. H. Kidd, secretary, and 
Mr. Harry B. Goodell, treasurer. 

The club has met with uninterrupted pros- 
perity. It has brought together a number of 
young men who have sought recreation and 
social intercourse such as could be furnished 
only by an organization of this kind; and they 
appear to have made of the club a " a thing of 
beauty and a joy forever." It has come to 
have a high standing in the esteem of the 
community, and its social life is regarded with 
the greatest interest. Indeed, whatever the 
Lakesides do nowadays is sure to be followed 
with sharp eyes by the public ; and whenever 
its doors are opened for its friends, the desire 
to be numbered among the "elect" is such that 
the supply of invitations is several times short 
of the demand. 

The present board of officers of the club 
includes Mr. Harry B. Fairbanks, president; 
Mr. Frank A. Richardson, vice-president; Mr. 
Charles S. Cook, secretary; Mr. Wilbur W. 
Hobbs, treasurer. The membership roll at 
present bears forty-nine names, as follows : 

Clinton Alvord, Harry A. Adams, 

Charles F. Bigelow, Lawrence G. Bigelow, 

C. L. Blair, Herbert F. Blood, 

James B. Buck, D. William Carter, 

Edwin S. Clark, Samuel H. Colton, 

Charles S. Cook, F. H. Davis, 

Paul A. Davis, George G. Douglass, 

Harry B. Fairbanks, William E. Fairbanks, 

Leo C. Farnsworth, S. Frank Gates, 

W. H. Gates, Foster H. Goodwin, 

William T. Gould, Herbert L. Green, 

Henry J. Gross, Charles W. Hall, 

WilUam R. Heald, Arthur C. Higgins, 

Wilbur W. Hobbs, Albert F, Hyde, 

Nelson C. Keyes, Emile Landry, 

Albert H. Lange. Chas. M. McFarland, 

Robert J. McKay, Arthur C. Marble, 

A. H. Maynard, C. B. Maynard, 

WiUiam E. Norcross, John H. Orr, 

C. D. Parker, Albert S. Putnam, 

Frank A. Richardson, Johi, M. Russell, 

Channing Smith, John H. Sykes, 

Arthur M. Taft, William Turner, 

Walter H. Twitchell, Herbert H. Warren, 
Lucius W. White. 

Monday night's reception was the fourth 
annual "opening" of the club, the season of 
each year dating from this event. It was the 
most notable one yet given, and the young 
people of the city's social circle were drawn 
upon to a large extent. They crowded the 
house to its full capacity and thoroughly en- 



lyldHT 

joyed all the pleasure there stored up for 
them. 

The opening committee concluded Messrs. 
Harry B. Fairbanks, Wilbur W. Hobbs, 
Harry A. Adams, Frank A. Richardson, Fos- 
ter H. Goodwin and Henry J. Gross, and they 
performed their work well. The guests, on ar- 
riving, were met by the committee and taken 
to the reception room. In the main parlor, 
which was decorated with potted plants and 
palms. President Fairbanks received, assisted 
by the patronesses, Mrs. Jerome Marble and 
Mrs. W. A. Williams. 

The decoration in general was very effective. 
Palms were placed at the entrance to the 
promenade, and the hall on the second Hoor, 
where the dancing was done, was trimmed 
with palms, and the fireplace was neatly hid- 
den by foliage. The north verandah of the 
house, which served for a promenade, was 
hung with Japanese lanterns. 

The billiard rooms had its attractions for 
some of the gentlemen who didn't care to 
dance, and in the reading room cards held 
sway for the time being. The dancing was 
done in the main room on the second floor, 
and the dancing space was fully occupied. 

Nearly all the guests were on hand by 8 
o'clock, the hour set, and the dancing began 
soon after nine. Bicknell's orchestra of four 
pieces furnished excellent concert and dance 
music during the evening. 

During the evening, many of the guests im- 
proved the opportunity to inspect the fleet of 
shells, canoes, working and pleasure boats. 

In every way, the opening was a success, 
unless, perhaps, the disagreeable intrusion of 
the rain be considered. It prevented boat-rid- 
ing, to be sure, and the merry-making had to be 
done indoors ; but that did not interfere with 
the general success of the affair. Dancing 
ceased in time for the party to take a special 
train for home at 12 o'clock. 

Among the many scores of people present, 
Light saw the following : Col.W. A.Williams, 
Mr. Jerome Marble, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. 
Whittall, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Davis, Mr. and 
Mrs. William A. Munn, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. 
Willard, Mr. and Mrs. C. Henry Colvin, Mr. 
and Mrs. George .S. Davis, Mrs. Jennie 
Abbott Mattoon, Alderman and Mrs. A. Frank 
Gates, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lowe, Mr. and 
Mrs. Wilbur W. Hobbs, Mr. and Mrs. 
Irving E. Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs. George W. 
Macomber, Mr. and Mrs. William Pierce, 
Mrs. Frank A. Knowlton, Mr. and Mrs. A. 
S. Lowell, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Dodge, 
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Bigelow, Miss Villroy 
Goulding, Miss Mamie E. Fay, Miss Jennie 
McCready, Miss Julia Davenport, Miss Anna 
Y. Milliken, Miss Staples of Portland, Me.; 
Miss Jennie L. Ross, Miss Anna G. Taft, Miss 
Mollie E. Taft, Miss Alice Day, Miss MoUie 
W. Waite, Miss Ella G. Shaffer, Miss Mary 
Goodwin, Miss Lizzie W. Warren, Miss Lena 
Pease, Miss Maud Clark, Miss Alice Rheutan, 
Miss Cora J. Goodwin, Miss Ellie Rheutan, 
Miss Clara L. Brigham, Miss Maud Knowlton, 
Miss Minnie D. Hardy, Miss Nellie Richard- 
son, Miss Bertha M. Hardy, Miss Gertrude 
Whiting, Miss Elizabeth W. Dennis, Miss 
Grace L. Crawford, Mi.ss Winifred C. Quimby, 
Miss Goddard, Miss Josephine Davis, Miss 
Elizabeth P. Parmalee, Miss Carrie M. 
Smith, Miss Florence Shaffer, Miss Dottie 



Prentice, Miss Henrietta M. Ager, Miss Sadie 
Brooks, Miss Partridge of New York, Na- 
thaniel Paine, Esq., Mr. Henry A. Marsh, Dr. 
Charles A. Peabody, Messrs. Frank A. Clark, 
Frank D. Freeman, F. M. Clark, jr., George 
O. Bridges, Herbert F. Blood, Albert H. 
Lange, William E. Fairbanks, George H. 
Corbett, William T. Gould, Fred E. Wheeler, 
Fred Goddard, Frank Goddard, Stanley C. 
Brennan, Fred Keyes, Arthur J. Bassett, 
Arthur C. Higgins, Charles F. Lan- 
caster, Francis W. Treadway, J. Fred 
Mason, Charles M. Harrington, John H. 
Orr, Henry J. Gross, S. Frank Gates, 
Stanley H. Rood, J. E. Morse, Channing 
Smith, Leo C. Farnsworth, Mr. Savage, John 
Nelson, Nelson C. Keyes, Charles S. Cook, 
Albert F. Hyde, Dr. H. H. Warren, L. C. 
Havener, Harry S. Goulding, Foster H. 
Goodwin, E. B. Harding of Boston, Harry 
A. Adams, W. R. Heald, Albert C. Marble, 
Frank A. Richardson, George Aldrich, F. H. 
Davis, Burton W. Grout, C. Leslie Chamber- 
lain, J. Edward Fuller, jr., Fred H. Daniels, 
Frederic Howard, Will W. Carter, George D. 
Walworth, Fred Maynard, Thomas B. Hamil- 
ton, Harry S. Myrick, James H. Cafferty, 
Fred E. Wheeler, Arthur K. Ross. 



The Hiawatha Club, which organized at 
Pilgrim Church, March 5, with a membership 
of twenty-seven young ladies, has increased in 
membership to thirty-seven. A barrel was 
recently packed and sent in care of Rev. A. A, 
Myers to the mountain whites at Jellico,Tenn. 
The barrel contained seventy-nine garments 
and a half barrel of books and magazines. 
The club has closed its work for the summer, 
and the young ladies are planning for a 'bus 
ride to take place shortly. 



Miss Leonora I. Shaw was awarded the prize 
scholarship for still life done in oil, at the 
Cowles Art School, Boston, where she has 
been for a year past a pupil, last week. Miss 
Shaw was graduated from Worcester High 
School with the class of '88. 



"I guess whoever made that building must 
have left the bricks out in the sun too long," 
said a bright little daughter of a prominent 
West .Side merchant, the other day, as she and 
mamma walked up by the new Free Public 
Library Building. "Why so?" asked mamma. 
"Well," said the little one, "the bricks are ever 
so freckled." And sure enough, they are. 



Rev. Langdon C. Stewardson, rector of St. 
Mark's church, is to preach at the Central 
Convocation of Episcopal churches, at South- 
bridge, next Tuesday. Mr. Lemuel A. Bishop, 
one of the wardens of St. Mark's, is to read a 
paper entitled " Reminiscences of Some of 
the Older Evangelical Preachers in the 
Church." 

Mr. George W. Hubbard, adjutant of Post 
10, who has been appointed janitor of the 
Armory, has been in the employ of the firm of 
Marsh & Royce, formerly Reinbold & Marsh, 
for eight years, and last Saturday the firm and 
employes presented him with a handsome 
gold-headed cane. It happened to be an anni- 
versary day for Mr. Hubbard, as May 24, 
1864, he entered Andersonville Prison Pen as 
a prisoner of war. 



SUPPLEMENT 



Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1890. 



No. 14. 



Purple and White. 

The Amherst College boys didn't seem to be 
verj- sad when they marched down on to Main 
street, Wednesday night, with Battery B band 
at their head, and purple and white streaming 
over them. And they weren't very- sad, either. 
They had reason to feel happy. They had 
humbled their old rival, Dartmouth, and won 
again the championship of the New England 
Intercollegiate .Athletic Association — no empty 
honor, with world's records being broken by its 
athletes and the .Association's standard being 
raised every year. 

The outcome of the fourth annual field meet- 
ing could hardly be termed a surprise, for it 
was generally understood that Amherst had 
braced herself for a herculean effort, but prob- 
ably even the Amherst men did not e.xpect to 
take as many as ten firsts, and break five rec- 
ords. They were delirious with delight when 
they found the pennant fairly within their 
grasp, and made the welkin ring with the stur- 
dy Amherst yell. 

The weather — oh, the weather ! The sun 
played the old game of " Now you see it, now 
you don't," and the gentle dew fell from heav- 
en upon a much disgusted crowd of athletes 
and spectators. The track was, of course, in 
very poor condition, and when it is remem- 
bered that the records in si.x track events were 
broken, it is interesting to imagine what could 
have been done under a favorable sky and 
over a favorable track. The breaking of the 
world's record in the standing high jump by 
Crook of Williams was the great event of the 
day, his distance being 5 feet, iji inches, a 
quarter of an inch better than the best pre- 
vious record, made ten years ago. 

The dashes and hurdle races were contested 
in spirited fashion, and, in fact, all the track 
events e.xcited great interest. Ludington's 
splendid time in the 1:0 was noticeable, and 
even Amherst's bitterest opponent must have 
admired the way in which Wells carried off 
the honors in the long runs. In the two mile, 
he finished in splendid form, fresh and trim, 
and broke the record over a track that offered 
about as little inducement for it as could well 
be imagined. The mile walk was another 
event in which an Amherst man made mar- 
velous time. The bicycle race was particularly 
interesting because of Delabarre's supposed 
supremacy. Hallock, also a purple and white 
man, led him throughout the race, however, 
and Delabarre could not raise the limit. 

Of the field events, the high jumps and the 
pole vault led in point of interest. 

A summary shows that Amherst won ten 
firsts and four seconds and broke five records ; 
Dartmouth won four firsts and three seconds 
and broke two records ; Williams won three 
firsts and three seconds and broke one record. 
Brown took one first and one second, and the 
Polytechnic Institute, Trinity and Wesleyan 
had consolation in the shape of two seconds 
each, but the record breaking did not go below 



Williams. The University of A'ermont was 
not heard from at all. 

In the large crowd of people present, the 
Polytechnic had the largest number of suppor- 
ters wearing their colors, but they did not have 
much opportunity to make a noise about it. 
Amherst was demonstrative enough, however, 
and Williams and Dartmouth were heard from 
occasionally. Of the outside colleges, Am- 
herst undoubtedly had the largest number of 
Worcester friends and many of the alumni liv- 
ing here turned out and yelled with the college. 

President Fuller, and some of the professors 
of the Polytechhic Institute, manifested their 
interest by attending the games. Quite a 
number of Worcester students in the colleges 
came home for the occasion. Light noticed 
Messrs. Walter H. Hildreth, Lewis T. Reed, 
and George S. Bennett, from Amherst ; Messrs. 
Robert W. Dean, William H. Chase and Eras- 
tus Hopkins, from Williams ; Mr. Frank B. 
Whidden from Brown; Miss Nellie W. Curtis, 
from .Smith ; and Miss Miriam Gray, from 
Mt. Holyoke. Undoubtedly there were others. 

In the evening a considerable number of 
the college men, particularly the adherents of 
Williams, attended the Williams Glee Club 
concert at .Association Hall, and after the 
concert there was a Williams reception, ar- 
ranged by Mr. George T. Dewey, at Horti- 
cultural Hall. 

The summary of the games is best shown 
in the following table : 

EVENTS. WON EV. RECORD. 

100 yd. dash, F. Raley (A) 10 2-55." 

Tug of war, Williams 1-4 in. 

Half mile run, W.T. S.Jackson (A) 2m. S i-js. 

120 yd. hurdle, R.B.Ludington (.\) 171-25.* 

Pole vault, A. A. Ewing (.\) 9 ft. 3 in. 

220 yd. dash, E. Williams (D) 23 4-5S.'' 

2 mile bicycle, H. B. Hallock (.A) 701.142-53.* 

Mile run, C. O. Wells (A) 4m. 35 4-5S.* 

16 lb. hammer, N. T. Abbott (D) 83 ft. 10 in.* 

1-4 mile run, G. B. Shattuck (.\) 52 2-55. 

St. high jump, S. Crook (W) 5 ft. 1-2 in.* 

220 hurdle, H. C. Ide (D) 285. 

Mile walk, W.W. Gregg (A) 7m. 22s.* 

R. high jump, E. A. Barrows (B) 5 ft. 5 in. 

16 lb. shot, N.D. Alexander (.4) 34 ft. 3 1-2 in. 

St. broad jump, S. Crook (W) 10 ft. 4 1-2 in. 

R. broad jump, E. C. Potter (D) 20 ft. 2 in. 

2 mile run, C. O. Wells (A) lom. 23 3-5S.* 

The letters indicate the colleges : A., Amherst ; D., 
Dartmouth ; W., Williams ; B., Brown. 

* The broken records are indicated by an asterisk. 
Former records : 100 yd. dash.Uio 3-5S. ; 120 yd. hurdle, 
iS 2-5S. ; mile run, 4m. 40 4-55. ; hammer, 82 ft. 9 1-4 in. ; 
standing high jump, 4 ft. 11 3-4 in. ; mile walk, Sra., 
10 3-55. ; two mile run, lom. 24 4-5S. 



About Folks. 



A. L. Burbank & Co. have been appointed 
outfitters for the Worcester Tennis Club. 



Mr. J. B. Granger, who resides at 92 Pros- 
pect street, is a member of the Auburn Grange 
Male quartet, and Saturday evening the other 
members called on him and after a social 
time, presented him with a china tea set. The 
quartet includes, besides Mr. Granger, Mr. 
James Hilton, Mr. F. C. Weatherhead, and 
Mr. Frank Nye. Miss Sadie Hilton acts as 
accompanist. 



Frank P. Goulding, Esq., will be the Decor- 
ation Day orator at Middleton. 



The Washington Minstrels made their third 
annual appearance on the boards, last Monday 
evening, having the distinction of giving the 
first amateur performance ever given in the 
new theatre. The house was crowded, and 
the performance was a substantia! success. Mr. 
Edward J. .McMahon occupied his customary 
place as interlocutor, and on the ends were 
Messrs. Mark F. Cosgrove and W. J. Heffem, 
bones, and Messrs. Patrick O'Day and 
Thomas H. Hall, tambos. The chorus in- 
cluded Messrs. D. J. Kelly, Daniel Downey, 
J. F. McCartney, James C. Coffey, John B. 
Ratigan, H. Foley, J. J. Ryan. Eugene A. 
O'Connor, M. J. Drohan, C. A. Kelley, M. W. 
Handlin, Francis P. McKeon, D. H. 
Casey, P. T. Conlin, W. H. Jerome, 
Andrew J. O'Reilly, W. J. O'Neill, M. 
F. O'Day, J. F. McGourty, P. J. McKeon, 
J. E. Lynch and M. W. Nelligan. The first 
part, made up of songs and the cracking of the 
usual jokes, was followed by an orchestral 
medley introducing all the music of the two 
previous performances. A prohibition speech 
by Mr. Patrick O'Day created considerable 
amusement ; and there were two or three special 
acts, the performance closing with an original 
farce, "The Kindergarten," which was very 
cleverly done. The applause was hearty 
throughout the evening, and it was surely 
deserved. 

Rev. Joseph F. Lovering attended the mem- 
orial services at Grace Church, New Bedford, 
last Sunday. 

That bright and versatile little lady, Miss 
Lizzie Evans, is presenting at the new theatre, 
her latest comedy success, "The Buckeye," 
supported by an excellent company. Miss 
Evans is young and pretty, and her acting is 
natural and lively, with a breeze of freshness 
about it delightful to feel. 

Rev. J. S. White of Stamford, 111., now 
lecturing in Boston, is to give a series of 
lectures on "Romanism" next week, under the 
auspices of the Loyal Women of American 
Liberty. The first, on June 3, wiU be given at 
Laurel Street M. E. Church, and the remain- 
ing four at Continental Hall. 



Drs. S. W. and Henry P. Cooke started o£E 
Monday for their annual fishing trip in Maine. 

Mr. Joseph Gill and Miss Gill, of Portland, 
Oregon, have been guests of Mr. G. K. Mellor 
for several days past. 

President G. Stanley Hall is to speak on "A 
Plea for studying European Systems of Edu- 
cation," at the annual meeting of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Instruction, at Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y., July 7-10. 



LIGHT SUPPLEMENT. 



The Cvclers' Meet. 



The full and corrected program of the an. 
nual meet of the ISIassachusetts Division, 
League of American wheelmen, which will be 
celebrated at Worcester on Memorial Day, is 
as follows : 

ARRH-ALS. 

Guests will be met at the Union Station so 
far as possible by the reception committee and 
escorted to league headquarters" which will be 
located at the Worcester Skating Rink on 
Foster street, where on presentation of League 
ticket they will be presented with a badge ad- 
mitting to parade and entertainment in the 
evening. It will be the duty of the reception 
committee to provide guests with proper escort 
during the meet. Wheels will be in charge of 
the above committee. The Bay State Bicycle 
Club will meet the Boston wheelmen at the 
Union depot at lo.io a. m., and a committee 
from the club will go to Millbury to escort the 
Rhode Island wheelmen to this city. 
THE parade. 

The parade will form promptly at 10.45 a. 
M. on Foster street, right resting on Main 
street headed by band in coach. The parade 
will move over the following route: Main 
street to Salisbury street to Park avenue, to 
Maywood street to Main street to Foster street, 
where it will be dismissed. 

league members. 

All League members taking part in parade 
will be admitted to races free. This route 
will consume only about an hour, and will give 
the visitors an opportunity to see the beauties 
of the city, and to enjoy a short ride, nearly 
all of which will be over gravel roads with a 
little sprinkling of Belgian block, all of which 
can be ridden with greatest ease. In order to 
obtain proper positions in line, captains of 
clubs and unattached riders should report not 
later than 10.30 to the grand marshal. 

THE RACES. 

The races^will be held at Agri(?ultural Park, 
at 2 o'clock sharp, with a fine and fast track 
(half mile), an interesting list of events, among 
which will be the One Mile Safety and Three 
Mile Ordinary L. A. W. Championship, Dis- 
trict No. I. The other events will comprise 
two County Championships, Scratch races 
and Handicaps. There will also be an ex- 
hibition of trick and fancy riding by D. J. 
Canary, champion of the world. There will 
be a large field of starters and only fine 
weather will be required to render the races 
one of the most pleasing entertainments of the 
meet. 

The events, prizes and entries, are as fol- 
lows : — 

Mile Novice — First prize, gold medal; 
second prize, silver cup. J. H. Emerson Bron- 
son. New Haven, Conn.; W. Best Gardiner, 
Saylesville, R. I.; Thomas DonneUan, Cam- 
bridge; A. R. G. Miller, Worcester; Edwin P. 
Kershaw, Fall River ; James Foster, Provi- 
dence; R. M. Spiers, Worcester; Harry 
Gardiner, Worcester; Herman Schervee, 
Worcester; T. J. Kerns, Worcester. 

:-MiLE Worcester County Safety 
Championship— Prize, John P. Lovell, gold 
medal, to be won three times. Fred Johnson, 
Worcester; Clarence E. Fenner, Worcester; 
James Dunn, Millbury. 



2-.MILE Worcester County Champion- 
ship — Prize, Telegram gold medal. James 
Wilson, jr., W. O. Aldrich, Whitinsville ; A. 
R. G. Miller, Worcester; Robert T. McLaren, 
Clinton; Clarence Fenner, Worcester ; Harry 
Gardiner, Worcester; Herman Schervee, 
Worcester; T. J. Kerns, John F. Cronin, 
Millbury; Will W. Windle, West Millbury. 

i-MiLE Open Scr.\tch — Prizes, French 
marble clock ; second prize, tourist's field 
glasses. James Wilson, jr., Worcester; J. 
Herman Bronson, New Haven; Robert T. 
McLaren, Clinton; T. J. Kerns, Worcester; 
W.W. Windle, Millbury; W. G. Class, Berke- 
ley Athletic Club, New York. 

i-MiLE L. A. W. Safety, New Engl.'vnd 
Championship — Prizes, L. A. W. gold medal 
and L. A. W. silver medal. Hoyland Smith, 
New Bedford: F. A. Wallace, Springfield; 
William A. Nichols, Fall River; Fred John- 
son, Worcester; Davis Drummond, Boston; 
A. W. Porter, Newton; Napoleon Bedard, 
Providence ; P. J. Berlo, South Boston. 

Team Race — Prize, French marble clock. 
Three men to team. Worcester and Millbury. 

I-MILE Handicap Safety — Prizes, sil- 
ver tea set, five pieces, and fine gold and 
silver-plated revolver. Butcher cyclometer. 
Hoyland Smith, New Bedford ; F. A. Wallace, 
Springfield; Joseph Kenerson, Worcester; 
William A. Nichols, Fall River; John Mc- 
Sheedy, Whitinsville; Arthur C. Almy, Provi- 
dence; Fred Johnson, Worcester; James 
Foster, Providence ; David Drummond, Bos- 
ton; A. W. Patto, Newton; Napoleon Bedard, 
Providence; James Dunn, Millbury ; P. J. Berlo, 
South Boston. 

I-MILE Handicap — Prizes, Black Diamond 
Psycho Safety bicycle, tilting silver water 
pitcher and Victor cyclometer. James Wilson, 
Jr., Worcester; J. Hermon Bronson, New 
Haven; Hoyland Smith, New Bedford: W. 
Bert Gardner, Saysville, R. I.: Thomas 
Donnellan, Cambridge ; W. O. Aldrich, Whit- 
insville; Richard B. Dean, Fall River; Edwin 
P. Kershaw, Fall River; A. K. Pressey, New- 
ton; Harry Hatheway, Oxford; R. T. Mc- 
Laren, Clinton; Clarence Fenner, Worcester; 
R. M. Spiers, IWorcester ; Harry Gardiner, 
Herman Schervee, T. J. Kerns; John T. 
Cronin, Millbury; W. W. Windle, Millbury; 
W. G. Class, New York. 

2-Mile L. A. W., New England Cham- 
pionship — James Wilson, Jr., Worcester; W. 
O. Aldrich, Whitinsville: Richard B. Dean, 
Fall River; A. K. Pressy, Newton ; T. J. Kern, 
Worcester; W.W. Windle, Millbury. 

field officers. 

The field officers will be : 

Referee, John C. Spires. 

Judges, Abbott Bassett, of Boston ; Dr. W. 
H. Emery, of Boston ; Captain Howard L. 
Perkins, of Providence. 

Scorers, L. M. Alexander, George Estey. 

Time keepers, E. F. Tolman, Lincoln Hol- 
lard, C. W. Chichester. 

Clerk, J. W. Murphy. 

Assistant clerk, Harry B. Ingalls. 

Starter, Captain L. A. Whittemore. 

Umpires, L. C. Havener, E. M. Sandon, 
George L. Wood, A. P. Snow. 

Entertainment. 
At 7.00 p. M., (not 7.45 as previously reported), 
a Grand Smoker will be inaugurated at Wor- 
cester Rink under the auspices of the Massa- 
chusetts Division L. A. W. A gymnastic, 
acrobatic and musical entertainment will be 
furnished from the stage. The Worcester 
Brigade Band has been engaged for the day. 



Notes of the Meet. 



Dr. W. H. Emery will be chief marshal of 
the parade. 

Among the clubs to be present are Roxbury 
Bicycle Club, Cambridgeport Cycling Club, 
Charlestown Bicycle Club, Rhode Island 
Wheelmen. 

It is e.xpected that fully 250 wheelmen will 
be in the parade. 

There are five lady League members in 
Worcester, and they will be reinforced by 
about 20 visiting fair wheelwomen. 

The Bay State Bicycle Club has provided 
500 badges for the visiting wheelmen. 

Holland & Havener have given a handsome 
French marble clock, a Butcher cyclometer 
and a League ruby pin : .Mr. L. M. Alexander, 
a Black Diamond Psycho safety bicycle; Mr. 
John P. Lovell, an elegant gold medal; Mr. 
Tver Johnson, gold and silver plated revolver ; 
and the Overman Wheel Company a Victor 
cyclometer. 

The Worcester Brigade Band has been en- 
gaged for the day. 

The Bay State Bicycle Club will arrange 
their rooms, on Pearl street for the special 
convenience of visiting wheel women. Lunch 
will be served at 6.30 p. m. 

Visiting wheelmen will be ser\'ed with a 
coffee lunch at the rink from 9 to 1 1 a. m. 

The ladies of Rhode Island will arrive in a 
separate division, under command of Lieut. 
Barker. 

L. M. Alexander has been blessed with the 
charge of the ladies' division in the parade. 

The reception committee,so far as appointed, 
includes B. A. Barber, chairman ; President A 
C. Copeland, L. M. Alexander, Captain L. M. 
Whittemore, Harry B. Ingalls. 



Spokes and Tires. 



A bicycle club has been organized at West- 
boro, and a large number of citizens have con- 
sented to become honorary members. 

Mr. Harry L. Rice got a bad fall from his 
bicycle last Saturday, at Lincoln Square. The 
little wheel caught in the car track and over 
went the machine. Fortunately no bones 
were broken. 

Captain Peck and Secretary Ryder of the 
Massachusetts Bicycle Club are visiting in 
Worcester. 

Seventeen members of the Bay State Bicy- 
cle Club enjoyed a run to Oxford, last Sun- 
day. At Bacon's Hotel they were joined by 
a delegation from the Millbury Wanderers, 
and 32 in all sat down to dinner. Captain 
Whitemore led the run. and as the day was 
perfect, it was altogether enjoyable. 

There is some grumbling from people who 
travel the Leicester road because local bicy- 
clers monopolize the hard sidewalk, to the 
extreme annoyance of pedestrians. The 
cycler has all the privileges of the roadway, 
and ought to confine himself to them. Don't 
be selfish nor disagreeable, boys. It hurts 
the fraternity. 

Messrs. Holland & Havener recently offered 
the League of American Wheelmen the use of 
their gymnasium to store their machines dur- 
ing the holding of their meet at .'\gricultural 
Park on the 30th, and also the use of their 
shower bath. The following note has reached 
them : "Gentlemen : Your kind offer of the 
free use of your shower bath is accepted, and 
the announcement will be made in the circular 
of the 30th, and in this week's bulletin." 



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It's Indelible. 

A lady wishes to know the best way of 
marking table linen. Blackberry-pie is our 
choice, although a baby with a gravy-dish is 
highly esteemed by many. — A'^tv York Jour- 
nal. 
Got Enough. 

"I will be a sister to you," she said. 

"No," he replied sadly ; "Ive got one sister, 
who wears my neckties, borrows car-fare, loses 
my hair brush, puts tidies all over the furni- 
ture in my room, and e.xpects me to take her to 
the theatre twice a week." — Washington Post. 



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It is the county seat of Bedford County, is lighted by electricity, and has an electric street 
railway in process of construction. 

Its industries are general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great 
increase. 

Bedford City is firmly established, with heavy present valuation, permanent business, 
with promise of becoming one of the greatest centres of the South. 

The Bedford City Land and Improvement Company's property consists of 600 acres of 
rich and available land for business and residence sites. 

Upon the Company's land is the Randolph-Macon Academy, the largest educational in- 
stitution in the South, costing jSioo,ooo; and also upon the Company's land, in process of build- 
ing, are a 57S,ooo hotel, and a railroad station to cost ^(30,000. 

The officers of the Company are not New York and Boston speculators. They are Bed- 
ford City business men, with whom home interest is paramount. 

The Bedford Cit)' Land and Improvement Company offers a limited amount of non- 
assessable stock, par value $10, and guarantees to use everj' dollar of the money paid in for the 
improvement and development of its property, offering the public an opportunity to invest any 
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Through the Black Country. 



The railway approaches to Birmingliaiii from 
every direction seem at night to be lined Ijy 
miniature Sheols, each with its troop of trends 
handling fiery serpents and ladling out molten 
soup or doing- something diabolical amidst the 
flames and smoke surrounding them. One 
should enter Birming'm by night; otherwise 
the fantastic beauty of the many iron works 
will be lost, for by day all is grimy, the very 
air being so laden with smoke and "blacks" 
that one actually tastes the various fumes and 
feels sympathy for the numerous gasometers. 

Directly the purgatorial stage is passed, one 
finds a busy, pleasant haven in the greatest 
hard manufacturing city in the world. As 
early as i68S, iron articles of the best quality 
for the times were manufactured here. Wil- 
liam III. was the first king to use anus made 
in England, preferring those of Birmingham 
manufacture to those from the continent. 

Buttons, buckles, hooks and eyes, parts of 
watches, cheap jewellery and an unlimited 
number of small wares are now added to the 
list of heavier articles formerly made here. 
Gillot's pen manufactory is well worth a visit 
should one be fortunate enough to obtain an 
invitation. From the rolling of the steel to the 
requisite thinness, to the final packing in the 
boxes, twelve of the fourteen hand processes 
are carried on by women and girls. Besides, 
they make their bo.xes for the pens and even 
the cedar pen holders. The works are scrupu- 
lously clean, well-aired and lighted. One of 
the operatives is delegated for a guide and a 
most interesting and instructive hour is the 
result of the trip through the rooms. No 
feeing was allowed, but inquiry discovered a 
fund box into which a shilling or so dropped 
goes on an errand of mercy whenever illness 
or need overtakes one of the employees. Ill- 
ness is expensive for them, for doctor's fees 
are high and the average weekly wage is only 
nine shillings. 

Elkington's silver and electroplate works is 
another show place, and, though interesting, 
does not compare in size of plant or in labor- 
saving machinery with Reed & Barton's in 
Taunton. With the exception of flat ware, 
nearly all of the Elkington products are hand 
work. Some of their designs for special works 
are beautiful, but generally the work is inferior 
to ours. 

The great town hall wliere the celebrated 
music festivals are held, is grand, to be sure, 
but our Mechanics Hall is larger and better in 
every way, save in regard to light and ventila- 
tion, and is more than worthy a true Birming- 
ham festival. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's 
house is only a short way from the city and 
again, if fortune smiles, one should see the 
charming home, with its almost complete col- 
lection of orchids. One corner of the house 
seemed like fairy land, for from rods, cords and 
almost invisible supports sprung or hung some 
variety of these freaks of flowerdom. 

Another manufactory, uninteresting in itself, 
but strange to an American, is one where iron 
bedsteads of cheap grades are made. There 
are five hundred operatives in the works. 
Sawing the rods, casting the joints, painting 
and varnishing witliout brushes, using the 



palms of their hands instead, and finally pai k- 
ing tlie beds for shipment ; and four lunulred 
and fifty of the hands are women, earning an 
average of eight shillings a week. Women 
are blacksmiths, machinists and painters ; the 
men alone usurp the moulding work. 

The new art gallery is fine, containing from 
time to time loan e.xhiliits as well as its own 
treasures. 

The suburbs are charming, many taking the 
quiet form of a cozy tiled village about its gray 
stone church, all surrounded with hedge rows 
and green fields. 

Fine railway hotels are blessings throughout 
England. Nearly every station has one con- 
nected with it and kept in such good form by 
the railway corporation that hunting up rooms 
is unnecessary. Prices are moderate, too. 
The station in Birmingham is one of the 
largest in the world, and its miles of walled ap- 
proaches are a great pride. 

A few days suffice for this busy town, and 
out through the opposite side of the Black 
Country, in a carriage, with the first man who 
says "Brumigin" we whirled toward Liverpool. 
An American friend (just the right kind of an 
American friend is a good thing) was in Liver- 
pool. 

His adopted city is indeed hospitable. 
Liverpool is unfortunate in some ways. One 
is apt to think of her merely as a starting place 
for either hemisphere and to dash through her 
glories and" sights too rapidly if at all. A 
drive along one half the fifteen miles of high 
docks, low docks, deep docks and floating 
docks forced an appreciation of Liverpool's 
harbor. All sorts of vessels from and for 
everywhere were unloading or loading, coming 
and going continually. The Mersey is indeed 
a grand river. Entering a station a few blocks 
back from the shore, after purchasing tickets 
and crossing a threshold into a large waiting- 
room about thirty-five feet square, one takes 
his seat, when suddenly the roomful of people 
begins a downward course and come to a 
sudden stop a hundred and seventeen feet 
below. What has happened? The crowd 
rushes in, and in a moment, entering a waiting 
room, is spirited away at right angles to the re- 
cent impression, only to see daylight after a 
short time on the other side of the river. The 
Mersey tunnel and gigantic elevators are cer- 
tainly marvels. One is lowered, shot under 
the river bed and resurrected, all in about ten 
minutes. Huge steamers pass over the tunnel 
continuously and the feeling is peculiar when 
one stops to analyze all possibilities. The 
ferry back is a pleasant return to the city and 
gives good opportunity to see the fine harbor. 

Fine galleries, museums and libraries abound 
here. Through "The Sailors City" good order 
prevails, and Salvation Armies are omnipres- 
ent. Oddities are hand organs arranged to 
play hymns, around which crowds gather and 
join in good tune and time with much better 
voices than ours in singing them all. 



Great men stand like solitary towers in the 
city of God, and secret passages running deep 
beneath e.Kternal nature give their thoughts in- 
tercourse with higher intelligences, which 
strengthens and consoles them, and of which 
the laborers on the surface do not even dream. 
— KavaiiagJi. 



Working Girls' Clubs. 

To the Editor of Light : 

In one of your editorials you quote from the 
Springfield Republican on the subject of work- 
ing girls' clubs, and in comment recommended 
the idea to be carried out in Worcester. It is 
a most excellent suggestion and one that I 
trust we may see, as a result of the talk given 
before the ^'oung Women's Chri.stian Asso- 
ciation recently by Mi.ss Grace II. Dodge of 
New Jersey, the founder of the working girls' 
clubs. Are you and your readers aware of the 
fact, however, that almo.st identical work is 
being done right across the street from your 
pleasant oflice? The rooms of the Young 
Women's Christian Association are open from 
9 A. M. to 9 I'. M. to welcome all who will call. 
From October to May, evening classes in 
cooking, sewing, millinery, fancy needlework, 
dress cutting, writing, singing, reading, physical 
culture, and current events and history, are 
held in these rooms, and in the year just clos- 
ing more than 200 working girls have been 
pupils, under excellent instructors. A pleasant 
reading-room where forty or more newspapers 
and magazines, among which Light shines 
undimmed, a well selected library of over 800 
volumes, all free to the working women and 
girls of Worcester. Practical talks on health, 
nursing, housekeeping, music recitals and 
literary evenings have been of monthly occur- 
rence, supplemented weekly by socials with 
active games and bright music which give a 
pleasant recreation to weary minds and bodies. 
On Sunday the reading-room is open three 
hours, and for one hour a social meeting is 
held to which all women are cordially wel- 
come. All this is the "best work of the best 
people of Worcester," and has been in active 
operation four years. Furthermore, the asso- 
ciation has recently purchased the property 
corner of Chatham and High streets, where 
they propose to erect a suitable building 
where all the work now being done can be 
better accommodated, and, in addition to this, 
a boarding home for the many young girls 
employed in our city can be maintained. Of 
the $60,000 needed, about $40,000 has been 
pledged. The whole sum is wanted before the 
first of July, and here is offered a most ex- 
cellent opportunity for the lover of good deeds 
to perpetuate himself by a generous contri- 
bution to the building fund. Leading men like 
Mr. Stephen Salisbury, Mr. Albert Curtis, 
Mr. E. A. Goodnow, Mr. P. L. Moen and the 
late Mr. F. B. Knowles have shown by their 
gifts the estimate in which this work is held. 
The privilege of giving is not restricted to the 
men of large means, for many of the dollars 
are from the earnings of hard working girls and 
women, to whom giving is a sacrifice, unknown 
to those of ampler income.s. The readers of 
Light are most cordially invited to inspect 
the work of the Young Women's Christian 
Association, No. 352 Main street, where other 
features of the work, not mentioned in this 
article, can be seen in practical operation. 
Sincerely yours, 

SviiiL M. GR.A.V, 
General Secretary Y. W. C. A. 



He only is utterly wretched who is the slave 
of his own passions or those of others. — Hype- 
rion. 



10 



L I (i H T 



Things We Read. 



PREPARED FOR LIGHT. 



If Solomon said in his day, " of the making 
many books there is no end," we may well 
question what can express our thoughts as we 
glance at volume upon volume of books on all 
subjects and of all degrees of merit which are 
turned out yearly from the printing presses of 
the world. It would seem, too, as though the 
number of books increased rapidly as the 
months go by and yet, we are told, that statis- 
tics show there were six hundred less books 
published in 1889 than in 1888. And yet, we see 
little appreciable difference in the number of 
books on the shelves in our libraries and book 
stores. Of the books offered to the public, a 
few bring their authors an enduring flame of 
glory, but the most of them reflect only a fitful 
blaze of flame which soons burns out. 

Among the former class may be placed 
"The Master of Magicians," a novel, the joint 
labor of Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 
and her husband. Mrs. Ward is well known 
to the literary world by her many pathetic 
sketches and her religious books, among them 
being " Beyond the Gates." The present 
novel is, doubtless, the most ambitious effort 
which she has ever made, and is doubly de- 
serving of commendation since it is an excep- 
tionally faultless literary work for a joint novel. 
Too often it happens that the different styles 
of two authors, writing one book, fail to blend 
harmoniously, but such is not the case here. 
The scene is laid in Babylon and represents 
with great precision and beauty the splendor 
of the capital, making use of the latest arch- 
aeological discoveries in the descriptions. The 
Bible narrative is closely followed in relating 
Nebuchadnezzar's dream, and this forms one 
of the most striking scenes in the book. Mu- 
tusa-ili, the greatest of astrologers, the Master 
of Magicians, fails to interpret the dream, but 
succeeds in restraining the king's anger until 
Daniel comes and, by his interpretation, gains 
the title of Master of Magicians. 

Admirers of Tennyson will find in "In 
Tennyson-Land," by John Cunning Walter, 
much delight and instruction. Great care has 
been taken to locate the scenes of poems and 
well known lines, and vivid, beautiful descrip- 
tions of the haunts of the poet add great inter- 
est to the reading of the poems. 



In Harper's Magazine for February was an 
entertaining article on " Reminiscenes of De 
Quincy," by James Hogg. The same faithful 
student has had published " The Uncollected 
Writings of De Quincy," most of the essays 
being written when De Quincy was editor of 
the IVeekly Instructor. The subjects include 
" Greek Literature," "Novels," "How to Write 
English," "Political Economy" and other 
varied topics, all treated in this author's grace- 
ful, charming style. 

How few really independent people there 
are in the world ! Especially is this true in 
reading. Occasionally, one meets a genuine 
scholar who reads w'hat he pleases, regardless 
of what books or authors are "the fashion." 
But the majority of people, who aspire to be 
considered educated, hasten to purchase and 



"skim" the books of the author who is " the 
latest" in popular favor. .Since recently to be 
un-Russian was to be uncultivated, the Tolstoi 
fever raged fiercely, but it has given way be- 
fore the equally wide-spread Ibsen epidemic. 
Ibsen's prose dramas have adorned tables and 
desks and have been read and criticised — at 
least, the latter has been attempted. There 
can be no doubt that, if the ordinary reader of 
these dramas were to express his opinion, he 
would say that he saw little to admire and 
much to disgust. But, fearing to show ignor- 
ance, he feigns a great admiration for these 
plays and is anxious to know more of the au- 
thor's life and works. Much of this "craze" 
is pure affectation and comes from people who 
have no knowledge of literature. Mrs. Wins- 
low, who is known to Worcester people, has 
studied these plays carefully and brings out 
much beauty and worth. She was to have a 
class in Ibsen in Washington recently and 
many of the " enthusiastic admirers" of Ibsen 
congregated to arrange for the class. It is re- 
ported that not half of the company knew 
that he was a Norwegian or what he had writ- 
ten, while one lady finally confessed that she 
thought he was a famous electrician, while 
another thought he was " either a discoverer or 
an inventor." Such is fame! And yet I doubt 
not many Americans will gladly welcome 
" Nora's Return," by Mrs. Edna Cheney, as a 
pleasant sequel to " The Doll's House," per- 
haps the best known drama of Ibsen. We 
can appreciate the moral principle and sym- 
pathetic treatment of Mrs. Cheney more read- 
ily than we can the deeper character study of 
the drama. As a satirist, Ibsen is almost unpar- 
alelled among present writers. It is a note- 
worthy fact that when this noted Norwegian 
was quite unknown and unappreciated, Ole 
Bull recognized his ability and gained for him 
the directorship of the theatre at Bergen, 
which was the beginning of his public life. 

With special appropriateness, the Centu?y 
gives us three articles on Washington, on this 
month which brings freshly to mind last year's 
Centennial Celebration. Much has been 
written regarding Washington's life and relics, 
yet interest is proportionate to the writings. 
Another interesting article in the same maga- 
zine is " The Women of the French Salons," 
dealing with the seventh century, the period so 
full of thrilling history and note-worthy men 
and women. A. 

Worcester, Mass. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



Mattings for Summer Use. 

It pays to shake the carpets in the springi 
and after cleaning them thoroughly, put them 
away, rolled in tarpaper, in cotton bags made 
for the purpose, and substitute matting for 
them in the summer. At least the rooms most 
used should be cared for in this way. Mat- 
ting now comes in excellent seamless qualities 
at from j!io to $1$, pieces of forty yards. They 
save more than their cost in wear of the carpet. 
They can be swept in half the time required to 
sweep a carpet, and they are pleasanter than 
a carpet to the foot in warm weather. The 
newest mattings in market are those from 
Japan, woven on a strong fishline wrap, which 
makes them especially durable. A good qual- 
ity of this matting is $20 a piece, but it will last 
for years. Mats and rugs in matting also come, 
which are useful in a country-house in summer. 



The Largest Empire. — G. asks for the 
largest empire in the world. Great Britain, 
comprising 8,577,658 square miles, or about one- 
sixth the land of the globe. 

A Great Circulation. — George asks the 
name of the publication having the largest 
circulation. The Petit Journal, of Paris, is 
supposed to be the largest circulated paper in 
existence. The Ladies Home Journal, of 
Philadelphia, and the Youth's Coi>ipanio7i, of 
Boston, undoubtedly have the largest circula- 
tion in America. 

Tennis Suits.— Mary asks if it is proper to 
wear a muslin dress on the the tennis ground. 
Certainly, but flannel is better. 

Women Cyclers. — Mrs. H. inquires if 
cycling is perfectly safe. It is not, nor is there 
any e.xercise, not excepting walking, which is 
"perfectly safe." With the new safety bicycle 
cycling is safer than buggy riding. As an ex- 
ercise it has few superiors. 

Note Paper. — Miss W. asks for the correct 
size of note paper. The size you like best. 
There is no correct size. Preference should 
always be given to sheets of medium dimen- 
sions. White is always in good taste. 

Love vs. Love. — Maude says: "I am 
twenty-two. I have under consideration an 
offer of marriage. I would not hesitate a 
moment were it not that the gentleman is a 
moderate drinker. So far as I know he has 
never been intoxicated. He says that if I will 
accept him he will never drink another drop. 
What is your advice.'" Your peace of mind 
will retain a better ecjuilibrium if you become 
a "brother" instead of a wife to this young man. 
The man who exacts compensation for giving 
up a bad habit has not sufficient manliness to 
make a good husband. His promise to do 
better after marriage is not worth the price of a 
spring necktie. 

The Largest Library. — T. H. H. asks: 
"Where is located the largest library?" The 
Imperial at Paris, containing two million 
volumes. 

Correct According to the Method. — 
Conductor writes: "In Light for May 17, 
the musical critic says of the Gounod Club 
conceit, 'It is worth while to note tlie abso- 
lutely correct pronunciation of the Latin.' 
Will Answerer kindly indicate where one may 
seek and find the principles of 'correct' Latin 
pronunciation, and oblige." The Answerer 
allows the "musical critic" to reply : "Con- 
ductor" probably misunderstood the point 
which it was the endeavor to make. Of course, 
we do not know how the Romans talked Latin ; 
but there are three methods used by scholars 
of the present day,in pronunciation, the Roman, 
the Continental and the English. The Gounod 
Club used the Roman, and used it well, too. 
They didn't pronounce one word according to 
the Roman method, and the next according to 
the English, as did a chorus which the "musi- 
cal critic" heard only a short time since, the 
result being a mongrel Latin which was neither 
one thing nor the other. The Gounod Club 
pronounced its Latin correctly, according to 
the method it elected to use. 



Mining in New England. 



liY H. H. CHAMRERLIN. 



CHATTER V. (c ONCLUDED.) 



The above properties having come into the 
possession and under the management of some 
of our enterprising citizens,have become matter 
of interest to this society. The principal de- 
posit of the coal is to be found at I'ortsmouth 
north of Newport; this mine was discovered 
about the beginning of this century, when a 
vein 14 feet wide was wrought, and 10 to 20 
chaldrons per day were mined. 

A great variety of causes led to the aban- 
donment of the enterprise, but it was subse- 
quently resumed, and again abandoned in 
1828. It was afterwards worked by the late 
Sam'l L. Crocker, who mined and used it at 
the rate of 10,000 tons per annum for smelting 
copper, for which purpose, and for smelting 
iron ore, he pronounces it " much better than 
any mineral coal known." "The Poughkeepsie 
Iron Company " used several cargoes, substi- 
tuting it for Pittston coal, with " no difference 
in the quantity or quality of the iron produced." 
After the mines had lain dormant for some 
time, consequent upon the discontinuance of 
the smelting of copper, it was purchased by 
our esteemed townsman, Mr. George M. Rice 
who is now mining from 65 to 100 tons of the 
coal per day, the most of which is used by the 
Worcester Steel Works, for smelting Besse- 
mer pig iron in the production of steel ; and it 
has shown an equal capacity for this work with 
the best coke in use. Prof. Jackson, after 
careful analysis, finds it to contain S5.84 per 
cent, of carbon, with only 3.66 per cent, of 
ash. The quantity of coal in this deposit is 
roughly estimated at 37,800,000 tons. One of the 
shafts has already reached the depth of 1500 
feet. Mr. Rice is using the coal at his house 
and finds it in every way satisfactory, making 
an agreeable and continuous heat. The Wor- 
cester Steel Works are also in possession of 
that most valuable iron mine, situated in Cum- 
berland, R. I., pronounced by e.xperts, the 
most valuable extensive deposit of magnetic 
iron ore in New England. It is situated about 
3 miles from Woonsocket and 26 miles from 
Worcester. It is a vast mass of iron ore, ris- 
ing above the surrounding country, about 500 
feet long, 150 feet wide and 104 feet high, and 
is but the outcrop of an immense deposit. It 
increases in magnitude with depth, and as to 
quantity may be said to be practically inex- 
haustible. Prof. Thurston of the Stevens' 
Institute says: "This ore can be smelted 
within the State at a large profit ; it can be 
made into steel at a much greater profit. This 
mine is soon to be brought into requisition by 
the erection of a blast furnace for smelting 
the ore for the use of the steel works. I have 
derived my information about the Rhode Isl- 
and mines from Mr. Rice, and I cannot close 
this notice of them without expressing my 
admiration of the courage and self-denial of 
this gentleman, who, at a time of life when he 
might well be disposed to seek repose and well- 
earned leisure in the enjoyment of an ample 
fortune, is ready to "scorn delight and live 
laborious days," in the development of a great 



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and beneficient enterprise, which shall enrich 
future generations. Mr. Rice says in a note : 
" If tlie people of New England knew how 
much of value was within their borders, they 
would not, so many of them, go away." And 
confirming this opinion Prof. Hitchcock has 
said : " I cannot but allude to the very imper- 
fect development which has hitherto been 
made of mineral resources. * * » 

Our mineral veins and beds, with the excep- 
tion of a few mines of iron and one of tin, lie 
as yet almost untouched, and probably many 
of them undiscovered. * * * Yet 
imperfect as is our acquaintance with these, I 
think we need not fear comparison, in this re- 
spect, with any other part of the country." 

It may be well in closing this paper, to no- 
tice someof the causes which have, thus far, re- 
tarded the development of our mineral 
resources. Among other discouraging circum- 
stances was the supposed antagonism of " the 
enemy of mankind," mentioned in our first 
chapter. That this was not an unusual 
instance of his interference is shown by the 
following statement of Prof. Hitchcock: 
" Some forty or fifty years ago, a farmer, re- 
siding not far from the centre of Massachu- 
setts, knocked from a rock upon his farm, a 
piece of ore, which he sold in Boston for a 
considerable sum, as a rich ore of silver. 
From that time till the day of his death he 
searched in vain for the rock from which it 
was broken. The inference which he drew 
from ill success was that Satan had concealed 
or removed the precious vein. In selling his 
farm he reserved the right of digging the ore, 
should the rock ever be discovered. His pos- 
terity were not forgetful of this reservation ; but 
they were convinced it would be of no use to 
them, unless they could meet with some indi- 
vidual who had entered into a league with his 
Satanic Majesty. They eventually heard of 
such a man, a German, who had obtained pos- 
session of a wonderful glass through whicli 
he could discover whatever lies hid beneath 
the soil. This man was persuaded to visit the 
spot. Excavation was begun under his direc- 
tion, and the work was prosecuted till the 
owner's property was well nigh expended. 

There are many other hindrances and obsta- 
cles to progress ; but the most fatal and the 
most obstructive is that fatal bugbear, "the 
impossible." Fifty years ago it was pro- 
nounced " impossible" to navigate the ocean 
by steam, unless (it was jeeringly said) a coal- 
ing station could be established in mid ocean. 
About the same time, and later on, it was again 
and again pronounced "impossible" to use the 
Rhode Island coal mine as fuel. When Frank- 
lin brought down lightning from the clouds by 
his magic kite, had he announced that one day 
this same lightning would be harnessed to a 
car and draw after it thousands of passengers 
with a celerity and safety which no other force 
could hope to emulate, the prediction would 
have been evidence of madness, and the 
achievement would have been pronounced im- 
possible. Indeed, I have, in my long life, so 
often seen the impossible become possible and 
even common place, that I begin to believe in 
the promise of the French Controller to Marie 
Antoinette : " I fear this is a matter of diffi- 
culty," said the queen. "Madame," answered 
Calonne, "if it is but difficult, it is done ; if it 
be impossible, it shall be done." 



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About Business. 

The College Man and Business. 

Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New 
York Central road, said in reference to the 
subject: "It is only within a few years that 
the college man has thought that it com- 
ported with his dignity to go into busine.ss. In 
looking over annually the canvasses m-ide by 
tl>e members of the graduating classes it will 
be found that ninety per cent, of them was 
destined for the professions, and in that I in- 
clude journalism and teaching. Business and 
commercial success now so completely domi- 
nates the public judgment and imagination 
that it has dwarfed the Cabinet minister and 
United States senator so that their personality, 
movements and opinions are no longer poten- 
tial and hardly influential. Even the leaders 
of the bar and the nio.st eminent men in the 
pulpit do not now have, comparatively, any- 
thing like the social position and leadership 
which they did a quarter of a century ago. 
The road to distinction, social consideration 
and often wealth was formerly through the 
professions. Now it is through business. The 
great bankers, merchant.s, manufacturers and 
masters of transportation form the real leader- 
ship in every community, and the struggle is 
for their recognition and a place beside them. 
This is leading college men, in constantly in- 
creasing numbers each year, to turn their at. 
tention to business. Of course if a man has 
not the "grit" in him, and the nameless quali- 
ties which make success, it is of little account 
whether he is educated or not. The question, 
as I understand it, is whether, with equal 
health, talent, energy and special capacity for 
success, the boy who began sweeping the store 
or working in the sliop at fourteen will beat in 
the end a boy who has the advantages of a 
college education. In other words, have the 
eight years passed in the preparatory school 
and the university, acquiring many things which 
would be useless in the factory or .store, been 
thrown away? My observation leads me to 
directly the contrary opinion. The college- 
bred man, under equal conditions of capacity 
and health, has a trained intellect, a disciplined 
mind, a store of information and a breadth of 
grasp, with the fearlessness which it entails, 
that enable him to catch up and pa.ss his rival. 
The technical schools, whose usefulness is 
admitted, are proofs of this. Trained ability 
takes the lead, and the technical school gives 
in a certain sense a university education. 
Hundreds of college graduates within the la.st 
five years have begun in the various depart- 
ments of railway work at the bottom. They were 
firing on thelocomotive, working in the machine 
shop, switching in the yards, keeping books in 
the treasurer's oflice, serving in the freight 
and passenger departments, and my observa- 
tion of them for this period has denionstrated 
the value of a college education. 1 never met 
a self-made man in my life who did not firmly 
believe that he had been handicapped by 
deficiency in education, and who was not de- 
termined to give his children the advantages of 
which he felt, not only in business, but in his 
intercourse with his fellow-men, so greatly in 
need. It used to be a popular theory that 
strong men who had won great places in the 
business world would have been ruined if they 
had been educated. The better belief is that, 
on account of genius and .special capacity, they 
succeeded in spite of their disadvantages. It is 
the old question of the trained boxer, runner, 
athlete, debater, soldier, as against un.skilled 
strength and courage. Whatever the popular 
delusions, in the trials there never has been 
but one result. . t i 



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Honors for Howard. 



Since LlfiHT last appeared, Worcester has 
entertained and honored one of the heroes 
of the Civil War, and, on the other hand, it has 
been honored by his presence here. It is hardly 
necessary to recount the incidents of Major- 
(leneral O. O. Howard's long career, a career 
full of devotion to his country, indelibly written 
on the fairest pages of its history. There is 
that about him which brings to mind his past. 
That empty sleeve tells of Fair Oaks, and 
suggests the great battles in which he after- 
ward bore a part ; and the blue uniform speaks 
of his rank as a major-general of the United 
States Army, for Gen. Howard is now the 
commander of the division of the Atlantic. 

General Howard arrived in Worcester Sat- 
urday afternoon, and until Sunday evening 
was the guest of Lieut. H. A. Johnson. Lieut. 
Johnson was a soldier in the third Maine regi- 
iment of volunteers, which General Howard 
commanded, having resigned his commission 
in the regular army to place himself at the 
head of this regiment of volunteers. 

In honor of Gen. Howard, Lieut. Johnson 
gave at his residence, No. 24 Fruit street, Sat- 
urday evening, a reception to which he invited 
a considerable number of the veterans and 
prominent citizens of Worcester. He left 
nothing undone which could in any way add to 
the pleasure of the occasion, and both for 
t;eneral Howard and for the Worcester gentle- 
men present, the occasion was one of those 
which make these days of peace seem so|much 
the sweeter after the conflicts in which they 
Ijore a part. 

Above the porch of Lieut. Johnson's resi- 
dence hung the Stars and Stripes, and inside 
the house was beautifully decorated with 
flowers. The host was assisted in receiving his 
guests by Col. W. S. B. Hopkins, and Capt. 
Charles H. Pinkham and Maj. Edward T. Ray- 
mond acted as ushers. The war furnished 
topics for the social conversation which was 
enjoyed and General Howard talked of his own 
experiences in an interesting way. The gather- 
ing was entirely informal. Lieut. Johnson 
provided for his guests the usual refreshments. 
It was late in the evening before the last of the 
party left. 

Those present were as follows: Gen. 
Robert H. Chamberlain, Gen. A. B. R. 
Sprague, Gen. Josiah Pickett, Col. George F. 
Thompson, Col. James M. Drennan, Col. E. B. 
Glasgow, Col. W. S. B. Hopkins, Col. Fred W. 
Wellington, Col. Henry E. Smith, Major E. 
T. Raymond, Major H. G. O. Weymouth, of 
Lowell, Major W. T. Harlow, Major E. R. 
Shumway, Capt. David M. Earle, Capt. John 
S. Baldwin, Capt. William A. Gile, Capt. 
George M. Woodward. Capt. Charles H. 
Pinkham, Capt. James K. Churchill, Capt. 
Levi Lincoln, Lieut. John W. Gardner, Capt. 
John Chase, Hon. Francis A. Harrington, 
Rev. A. H. Vinton, Rev. Charles E. Simmons, 
Rev. Calvin Stebbins, Rev. Daniel Merriman, 
D. D., Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., Dr. Herbert 
Warren, W. H. Bartlett, Alfred S. Roe, 
Sheriff Samuel D. Nye, William E. Warren, 
Josiah H. Clarke, J. Fred Mason, T. Spencer 
Jenks, Prof. L. P. Kinnicutt, T. B. Eaton, 
Charles M. Smith, George W. Hubbard, 
William H. Robinson, E. H. Wentwortli, 



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Charles H. Buswell, Charles H. Carpenter, 
John H. Jewett, H. A. Kimball, Fred E. Fuller, 

C. A. Wheeler, F. B. Towle, Curtis W. Gas- 
sett, Joseph S. Perkins, William Gurrell, 
Charles H. Doe, C. C. Baldwin, J. Vernon 
Butler, Daniel Nichols Bates, George P. Lane, 
William Frye, Tyler Newton, Dr. Wheeler of 
Leominster, John Welch of Lowell, Charles 

D. Lamson, Maj. Fred G. Stiles, J. Brainerd 
Hall, Thomas O'Gara, James Crosby, S. F. 
Babbitt, C. N. Walker, W. W. Scott, Henry 
P. Nye, Edmund Barton, E. A. Rice. 



Memorial Sunday was warm and beautiful, 
and never has the observance of this day in 
Worcester been better supported by the peo- 
ple. In the morning, Post 10 attended servi- 
ces at Central Church, and the great church 
was crowded. Gen. Howard sat among the 
veterans, and listened with them to Dr. Merri- 
man's inspiring sermon. And then, at the 
close, they all sang "America" as no church in 
Worcester, perhaps, has ever heard it sung 
before. 

In the evening came the exercises at 
Mechanics Hall, and the audience itself was 
worth seeing. The great auditorium was 
crowded to its doors with the solid citizenship 
of Worcester — the people.— the real people — 
and their greeting of the one-armed soldier 
showed how warmly Worcester's patriotic 
heart beats on such an occasion. In the center 
of the hall sat the veterans, no young men left 
among them now, and many of them with hair 
and beards frosted by time and limbs that bear 
traces of the great struggle. Beside them sat 
the loyal women of the Relief Corps, and the 
Sons of Veterans. Altogether, it made an 
impressive picture. 

For the exercises, they followed the usual 
plan. Music was furnished by a chorus of 
Mr. Ben. T. Hammond's pupils, with Mr. 
Walter G. Ingalls at the organ, while Mr. 
Frank W. Chaffin rendered a cornet solo. 
Commander Pinkham contented himself with 
very brief words, and after the earnest prayer 
by Rev. Almon Gunnison, D. D., General 
Howard looked upon a sea of enthusiastic 
faces whereon beamed the smile of cordial 
welcome, and heard the ringing applause that 
lasted, it seemed, for a long time before he 
began his address. Light cannot attempt to 
reproduce here any portion of the address ; for 
the part without the whole could only be unsat- 
isfactory. To those who heard it, it will remain 
one of the treasured memories of the past. 
Gen. Howard told the story of the hundred 
days campaign, from Chattanooga to Atlanta, 
in a way that gave the story a charm that no 
work of the historian, reduced to the coldness 
of type and paper, can ever have. He thrilled 
his hearers and not alone the veterans who 
had participated in the doings of which he 
talked, but the younger generation, as well, 
could realize to some extent what all this Me- 
morial observance signified. Gen. Howard 
held the close attention of the immense audi- 
ence until the close of his address. After his 
story of the campaign, he brought out, one by 
one, some of the things for which these heroes 
fought and fell, and presented with each a re- 
solution for the people of the day to follow, as 
showing appreciation of their deeds. His 
"Resolved, then," was tremendously effective 
and he made many splendid points, speaking 



in defence of the public schools and our other 
free institutions in a strong, manly way. Oc- 
cassionally the General allowed a bit of humor 
to creep in and it was always like an unex- 
pected discharge, the more effective because 
unexpected. When he had done, and the ap- 
plause had died away, the people rose and 
sang "The Star Spangled Banner" in closing. 



When he left Mechanic's Hall, after the 
Sunday evening's exercises. General Howard 
went out to the home of his old friend, John B. 
Gough, at West Boylston, accompanied by the 
Misses Whitcomb, nieces of Mrs. Gough. 
There he remained as Mrs. Gough's guest, 
until Monday noon, when Rev. Daniel Merri- 
man, D. D., brought him in town for a drive 
about town and a visit to the Polytechnic In- 
stitute, of which Dr. Merriman is a trustee. 
General Howard was present at the laying of 
the corner-stone of Boynton Hall, in 1S65, and 
so had a special interest in the institution. 
Dr. Fuller escorted the visitors about, and the 
students assembled in chapel, where Gen. 
Howard addressed them, and was compli- 
mented with the Tech yell. 

Returning to Lieut. Johnson's, he remained 
with him until midnight, when he started for 
New York. 

While Gen. Howard was at Lieut. John- 
son's, early Saturday evening, a member of 
Light'.s staff had the pleasure of meeting him 
and enjoying a conversation in which the 
General, Lieut. Johnson and the writer were 
the only participants. It would be good for 
any young man to hear Gen. Howard talk. 
During the conversation, which took now one 
turn and now another, the noble side of his 
character came prominently into view. He 
talked in a simple and inspiring way of God 
and the Bible, and spoke of his abundant 
faith. By chance, some reference was made 
to the unbelief of the great lawyer-infidel, and 
Gen. Howard said : " Ah, then there is no 
God.' I hold in my hand my watch. There 
it is. It made itself. I look upon the trees 
and the foliage (the conversation took place 
while the participants were sitting on the 
porch) and shall I say : There is no God ? I 
tind no roorn for unbelief." 

He spoke, also, of the public schools, and 
of other topics which were suggested. 

But that which Light particularly desired 
was to hear from Gen. Howard a narration of 
the circumstances which caused the writing of 
John Greenleaf Whittier's famous poem, 
"Howard at Atlanta." For twenty years it 
has been declaimed from school platforms and 
printed in school books and war song col- 
lections. It is one of the noblest of the 
"Voices of Freedom," though it was not in- 
cluded in the volume to wliich Whittier gave 
that name. 

Gen. Howard very pleasantly recalled the 
incident. It should be remembered that 
President Lincoln, who understood Gen. 
Howard's noble nature and appreciated his 
eminent fitness for the work, made him com- 
missioner of the bureau of freedmen, refugees 
and abandoned lands. In this capacity he 
went into the south, when the war smoke had 
hardly blown away, on an errand of Christian 
brotherhood. 

"I think it was in 186S," said Gen Howard, 



"though I am not sure of the year. I remem- 
ber that it was on a Sunday, in the evening, I 
think, and I had delivered an address before a 
Congregational Sunday School. When I had 
finished my address, I said : 'Now I am going 
North. What shall I tell the children about 
you?' 

"I looked about, and in a moment a little 
fellow, about as large as that one out on the 
*\wa there, stood up. I remember that he 
wore a white jacket. He was very black, and 
his hair was woolly, while his eyes and teeth 
shone as he answered: 'Tell 'em, GenVal, 
we're risin',' 

"That was all there was to it, but the little 
black boy's answer impressed me, and some 
time afterward, in an address which I gave in 
Washington, I told the incident. Gen. George 
W. Ballach heaid it and sent the incident to 
Whittier, who wrote the beautiful poem which 
you have read." 

Then the coversation took another turn and 
soon after it ended. The poem which Whittier 
wrote, and which has made the incident known 
wherever the English language is read. Light 
prints below: — 

HOWARD AT ATLANTA. 

Right in the track where Sherman 

Ploughed his red furrow. 
Out of the narrow cabin, 

Up from tlie cellar's burrow, 
Gathered the little black people, 

With freedom newly dowered, 
Where, beside their Northern teacher, 

Stood the soldier, Howard. 

He listened and heard the children 

Of the poor and long enslaved, 
Reading the words of Jesus, 

Singing the songs of David. 
Behold, the dumb lips speaking. 

The bhndeyes seeing! 
Bones of the Prophet's vision 

Warmed into being. 

Transformed he saw them passing 

Their new life's portal ; 
Almost it seemed the mortal 

Put on the immortal. 
No more with the beasts of burden, 

No more with stone and clod. 
But crowned with glory and honor 

In the image of God. 

There was the human chattel 

Its manhood taking; 
There, in each dark, brown statue, 

A soul was waking ! 
The man of many battles, 

With tears his eyelids pressing. 
Stretched over those dusky foreheads 

His one-armed blessing. 

And he said: "Who hears can never 

Fear for or doubt you ; 
What shall I tell the children 

Up North about you?" 
Then ran round a whisper, a murmur, 

Some answer devising ; 
And a little boy stood up: "Massa, 

Tell 'em we're rising." 

O black boy of Atlanta ! 

But half was spoken : 
The slave's chain and the master's 

Alike are broken. 
The one curse of the races 

Held both in tether: 
They are rising, — all are rising. 

The black and white together. 

O brave men and fair women ! 

Ill comes of hate and scorning : 
Shall the dark faces only 

Be turned to morning ?— 
Make Time your sole avenger, 

All-heahng, all re-dressing; 
Meet Fate half-way, and make it 

A joy and blessing. 



1.1(1 HT 

In War Days. 

[St-nt with a pair of slippers to the Army.) 



BY MRS. J. H. IX 



I'm sitting alone by the window 

< tutlooking the forest afar. 
Ami dreamingly working a slipper 

hor Father, who's gone to the war. 

Tlu- green bird grows on the slipper, 
And the green bird swells on the tree, 

.And the wind it sighs in the tree-tops, 
And Father, I'm sighing for thee. 

From the old oak down in the meadow, 
Comes the crow's monotonous caw. 

And the blue bird sings in the garden, 
And I sing, "Gone to the war." 

As a nun counts her beads at her prayers, 
I'm counting the days till you come. 

And praying the angels to bear you 
Safe under their wings to your home. 

For it is not home without father, 
Our guide and protector and stay ; 

And you carried our home and hearts witli you, 
When you left us that bright summer day. 

Do you know that I have been with you, 
All through this weary campaign ; 

My feet have been bruised with marching ; 
Beneath the cold heavens I've lain. 

By your side I've wrought in the trenches; 

Stood guard in the heat and the dust ; 
I've hungered and thirsted and fainted ; 

I've broken with you the hard crust. 

And the boom of the death-dealing cannon 

1 1 as come to my ears from afar ; 
Believe me, dear father, believe me, 

Vou went not alone to the war. 

When nightly 1 look up to heaven. 
To the stars that gem the blue sky, 

1 think of the starry flag o'er you, 
And I know you'll defend it, or die. 

1 know that the good God is with us ; 

1 know that right triumphs at last ; 
1 know Peace's glorious rainbow 

Will smile when the tempest is past. 

But 1 know not— He, only He, knowvtli, 

Whose pleasure is infmite law. 
If these slippers I send you, dear fathur. 

Will ever come home from the war. 
'orcfsier, Mass. 



Stories of Post 10 Veterans. 



A veteran of the 51st Mass., wlio served 
with the regiment in Nortli Carolina, relates : 
After one of the engagements around New- 
berne, Chaplain James of tlie 25th Mass., came 
across an artilleryman who was lying on the 
ground and endeavoring to assauge the pain 
of a crushed leg by smoking a short pipe. "I 
hope, my friend," he said, "that you had the 
Divine support during tlie battle .''" "No, 

by ," answered the wounded hero, "the 9th 

New Jersey and the loth Connecticut were 
supporting «j-." 

When the 25th Massachusetts Regiment 
was ordered into active service, it was sent 
from Worcester to New York by railroad and 
there placed upon the old transport steamer 
"Merrimac," bound for Newberne, N. C. 
The voyage down, which occupied several 
days, was very stormy and every man in the 
regiment, from the colonel to the drummer 
boys, was seasick. On the morning of the 
day on which the captain hoped to make New- 
berne, Tom Edwards, a member of the regi- 
ment now dead and a practical joker whose 



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spirits nothing could lower, was standing upon 
the upper deck, hanging by a rope to steady 
himself. Suddenly, between the throes of a 
deadly nausea, he pointed off to the west and 
sung out in as loud a voice as he could com- 
mand : "Land, land, I see land!" "Where? 
where .>" demanded the miserable victim."! of 
seasickness, raising themselves from the deck 
and gazing over the .sea in search of the 
eagerly-desired siglit. "On my hands," 
chuckled Kdwards; "1 hain't washed since I 
left Worcester." 

Past Comniaiider J. I!. I.amb of Po.st 10 
has an interesting relic of the Worcester of 61- 
65. It is the sign that used to hang in the 
doorway of what is now 393 Main street, and 
bears the words in gilt letter.s, "Provost Mar- 
shal's (_)ftice, Up-Stairs." It was the property 
of S. V. .Stone, who held tlie office of Provost 
Marshal in this city during the war. Some 
citizens of Worcester have undoubtedly eyed 
that sign with fear and trembling, especially 
after the drafts began in '63. 



Comrade John L. Hibbard of Post 10 
formed a unit of the grand army that followed 
Sherman to the sea. His funds of good 
stories and good nature are alike inexhausti- 
ble. He says the devices adopted by the 
Southern planters' families to conceal their 
stock of provisions from the "bummers," were 
many and varied. One of the most success- 
ful, which puzzled them for a long time, was 
the tying up of hams and such other eatables 
that could stand the treatment, in canvas bags 
and burying them in graveyards. But after 
a while the foragers "got on" to the dodge 
and thereafter regarded a new-made grave 
with suspicion. On coming to one they would 
sound it with their ramrods, and should they 
find it r?ther sliallow, would open it and see 
whether it contained a man or a ham. 



A good story is told by Mr. George W. 
Cole, of the 8th Vermont Vols., about 
foraging in Louisiana. He says that while 
the regiment was serving under Gen. Banks, 
on the Red river expedition, many complaints 
were received by the commanding officer from 
the inhabitants, of the depredations committed 
by the soldiers on their live stock. Orders 
were issued to regimental officers to load their 
pistols and if they found a soldier of their 
command with property in his possession 
which he was unable to satisfactorily account 
for, to shoot him on the spot. One day just 
before halting for the night, the regiment 
passed by a tield in which was feeding a fine 
flock of sheep. When the troops came to a 
halt, ten minutes afterward, the colonel said : 
"Boys, I noticed a few rods back down the 
road, a lot of sheep. Now, you have heard 
the orders against foraging read, and I wish 
to say that 1 have loaded my pistol and shall 
fire on the first man I catch stealing, but 
boys" — dropping his voice to a stage whisper — 
"I've put the bullet in first." It is almost 
needless to say that the Sth had mutton chops 
for supper that evening. 

"The last word" is the most dangerous of 
infernal machines, and husband and wife 
should no more fight to get it than they would 
struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb- 
shell. — Douglas Jerrold. 



u 

A Young Lady Doctor. 

A young lady doctor who had just gradua- 
ted at a Northern college took up her residence 
in the small Texas town of Possom Hollow, 
and hung out her shingle. By her amiability 
and kindness to the sick and suffering she soon 
overcame the prejudice against female physi- 
cians, and became quite popular with all 
classes. Unlike regular doctors, she adver- 
tised in local papers, and thus she made the 
acquaintance of Major Jim Kdvvards, the edi- 
tor of the Possom Hollow Bugle. He was an 
energetic, pleasant sort of a fellow, and he 
took an immediate liking to the lady physi- 
cian, who, while not very haiid.some, was intel- 
ligent and entertaining, although somewhat 
devoid of sentiment. Jim's visits to her board- 
ing house became quite frequent, and it was 
plain to the most obtuse that he was very 
much in love. Dr. Jennie Sawyer — for that 
was the name of the new arrival — while polite 
and entertaining, did not give the Texas jour- 
nalist any reason to suppose that his affection 
was reciprocated. Major Edwards, far from 
being discouraged, determined to have the 
question settled at once. He invited Miss 
Sawyer to take a walk, and as soon as he had 
an opportunity to do so unobserved he 
promptly blurted out. 

"Miss Jennie. 1 love you with all my whole 
heart." 

She did not .seem to be .surprised or excited, 
for she merely replied — 

"I think you are mistaken, James." 

"No, I'm not! Indeed, I'm not! My 
heart has been aglow with love for you ever 
since I first saw you," replied Major Edwards, 
excitedly. 

"I am aware that it is generally taken for 
granted that the heart is the seat of emotion, 
but I know that the functions of the heart are 
purely mechanical and muscular." 

"But, Miss Jennie, I — " 

"All that the heart does is to pump the blood 
through the veins and arteries of the human 
body. I have dissected too many not to 
know." 

"Well, then, Miss Jennie, since you persist in 
giving this conversation an anatomical turn, 
what organ is responsible for the emotions?" 

"I agree with the celebrated Dr. Virchow of 
Berlin that the liver has much more to do with 
the emotions than the heart." 

"But I can't well say that I love you with all 
my liver; although I believe there are affec- 
tions of the liver," said Major Edwards draw- 
ing a long breath, and casting a despairing 
glance at the young lady. Presently he broke 
out again — 

"Miss Jennie, I dream of you every night.'' 

"I'm sorry to hear you say that. It shows 
that your case is more complicated than I 
supposed. But I think I can be of assistance 
to you." 

"Eh ?" 

"What do you eat for supper.'" 

"At all events, do not ridicule me." 

"I'm not mocking you, James; you must eat 
lighter suppers and take more exercise. Let me 
look at your eyes." And taking his head in 
her hands she gazed in his eyes, and said, 
shaking her head, "As I expected. You are 
bilious. Have you had a bad taste in your 



L I (i H T 

mouth when you get up, and a dull pain in 
your side?" 

"Confound my liver! I want — " 

"Vou want to take better care of yourself ; 
you want to take three pills to-night, and a 
.Siedlitz powder in the morning. O, I know 
what you want!" she replied, laughingly. 

"No, you don't know what I want. I want 
to tell you that I love you to distraction, that 
your image is ever before my eyes." 

"Is that so ? I '11 have to make a more care- 
ful diagnosis of your case," she replied, 
thoughtfully. 

"I'll tell you, now, I see your image always 
before my eyes, no matter where I go!" he re- 
plied excitedly. 

"Poor fellow ? Your intellect is failing. 
You should have come to me before." 

"I would have come to you before, but. Miss 
Jennie, you gave me no encouragement. May 
I hope — " 

"Certainly you may." 

"Thank heaven ! Am I to understand that 
you take — " 

"Of course I'll take your case. I want to 
report it to the Medical Journal. Those hal- 
lucinations .show that your liver trouble is com- 
plicated with malaria. Your heart irregulari- 
ties are purely functional, and will disappear 
in time, if you follow my dictation." 

"Confound it, Miss — " 

"You must avoid everything like excitement. 
Let me feel your pulse. Dear me ! your circu- 
lation is completely run down." 

"My circulation run down? I guess not." 

"O, yes, it is. It is not over sixty right now." 

"Not over sixty !" howled the journalist. 
"Why, Miss Jennie, I am sending out 3000 
copies of the Bugle every week to bona fide 
subscribers, and 900 more to deadheads. Is 
that what you call having no circulation ? 
Why, my circulation is increasing at the 
rate of over 100 copies a week. Didn't you 
read the sworn statement in last week's Bugle 
about our circulation, in which I state our 
books are open to the inspection of the public ? 
The advertising patronage is keeping pace with 
the circulation. Just think of it ! a column and 
a half live, paying, new ads. in last week's 
Bugle and that's not all, — I am solid with the 
sheriff and the county clerk, and will get all 
the county printing. Why, Miss Jennie, the 
success of the Bugle has been truly phenome- 
nal." 

"Are you sure ?" she asked, demurely. 
"And you are not deceived in regard to the 
circulation by hallucinations, owing to your 
liver complications?" 

"I swear I'm not. I am abundantly able to 
support a wife in style. Your every wish shall 
be complied with." 

"I certainly think, James, that your liver 
complications and the functional irregularity 
of your heart need the care of somebody who 
has had experience in such matters, and if, as 
you say, the Bugle is in such a flourishing con- 
ditien, I might — " 

******** 
In the last issue of the Bugle appears the 
notice of the marriage of Dr. Jennie Sawyer 
and Major Edwards, the handsome and talented 
editor of that journal. 

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. 
The world is advancing. Advance with it.— 
Afa"shu. 



Taking a Turkish Bath. 



HY DR. GEORGE. 



What is the benefit of a Turkish bath ? Let 
us follow a bather through, see the process 
and find out. From the dressing room to the 
hot room, with no other clothing than a large 
towel about the loins, the bather finds himself 
in a temperature from 130° to 160^ Fahr. 
There he sits in a reclining chair, breathing 
the pure, dry, hot air, which he soons finds 
pleasant, even stimulating, and drinks pure 
cold water till a profuse perspiration is in- 
duced. The cold water is rapidly taken up by 
the blood and rapidly thrown off through the 
pores, thus keeping the blood cool, while it 
rinses out the tissues as clean water rinses out 
a soiled sponge. And as the first course of 
water through the sponge would be much soiled, 
so will the perspiration be found to be heavily 
loaded with effete matter, which is held in so- 
lution by the watery portion of the blood, and 
at first will make the eyes smart, and have a 
very salty, somtimes acrid taste. 

To prove the cleansing effect of this bath 
from the inside, notice the perspiration from 
the frequent bather, no odor, does not make 
the eyes smart, and but little salty to the 
taste. 

He is next taken to the lavatory, or sham- 
pooing room, where the attendant rubs the 
entire surface of the skin with the bare hand 
in clean, warm water, which will remove from 
the skin that which has defied the ordinary bath 
and in too many instances obstructed the 
mouth of the pores, thus preventing the sys- 
tem throwing off through its most important 
sewer the broken down matter which poisons 
the circulation and overtaxes the kidneys and 
other excretory organs. 

The bather is next washed with a fresh 
bunch of fibre and soap, and rinsed under a 
warm shower or spray, which is cooled at his 
pleasure, when he is wiped dry, wrapped in a 
clean sheet and conducted to the cooling 
room to lie on a couch till the normal tempera- 
ture of the body is restored, when the skin 
will be found as "soft as velvet," and he will 
feel as "fine as silk." 

Worcester, Mass. 



He wasn't a Worcester physician, for a 
Worcester doctor would have made it an even 
half thousand. He was a New York physician. 
He was sent for by a rich, but avaricious man, 
who had dislocated his jaw. The young sur- 
geon promptly put the member m place. 
"What is your bill, doctor?" asked the patient. 
"Fifty dollars, sir." "Great heavens !" and the 
man opened his mouth so wide as to dislocate 
his jaw a second time. The physician again 
put things to rights. "What did you say your 
bill was?" again asked the patient. "I said it 
was fifty dollars ; now it is one hundred dollars." 




lylciHT 



"Good ISread and Cake l>oth AVhet the Aii- 
petite." 

KiNE Bakery ! ! 

HIGHKST OUALITY ONLY. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO, 15 PLEASANT ST, 

All GoihIb Hot at :t.8(). 

ACME PLATING CO., 



Gold, Silver 
Polish 



<I Ni.k.' 



•lating. 



g, Itron/iiig and Lacquering, 
lieplatiiig Table-ware a Specially. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PROP. 

Over Collar Laundry, Barton Place, Worces ter, Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Bai'ton Place. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and deUvered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOI'C & CO., PROPS. 



u 



LE i JOLLY i FRENCH ¥ DYEING 



First-Class Work at Sliort Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro_iS & Strauss. 
tut out this coupon from I <r2 I 
LIGHT, and bring it with g 
you and get 10 per cent dis- .§ 
count from regular prices. o* I 

C. T. MELVIN. I'ROI'RIETOK, WALNUT ST. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worceste r, Mass. 

H* SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Clar^x B-u.ild.izig-, ^S2 ^v^Taim. St. 

Kooni 4a. Take Elevator. 

Next Term Bhcins .^pril 24. 

Instruction given in Elocution, Vocal Technique and 
Physical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
taught. Call, or send tor circular. Address Miss Stella 
M.Haynes, principal, graduate of N. E. Conservatory 
School of Oratory. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTU RE FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
220 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

S-Cri=E2^I^Xj-CrOTTS X3:.2^II^ . 

Can be Permanently Eradicated by the 

Electric Needle Process. 

No scarring or other injury : no return of the hair 
after the first removal. There is now no excuse for any 
lady to allow a growth of hair to remain upon her face 
to mar her personal beauty and to make her friends un- 
happy. MISS H. M. PROCTOR, 93 SU.MMER ST. 
Hours, 9 to II A. M.; 2 to 4 p. m. 

TURKIJH BflTn5. 

F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
Sundays, 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House, 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New York Training School, gives 

^^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



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m, Ail) iADIIS' CdlTi IDIlillAli ! 

Headquarters at 498 Main Street. 





^''''' it( li 3( t Thi:, G.arment Only 25 Cents. 

A LOT OFKORSJT COM RS M IDE OF FRUIT OF LOOM COTTON, ONLY l", CENTS. 



mijf-^y- ■•■m'/f.r^'m:'"^'k 





This Skirt Only f i ; Worth fi,5o. This Garment OnlyX$i ; Usual Price $1.50. 

Ladies' White Skirts in Great Variety. 

I nderskirts at :iTc, .".Oc and T.-.c. 

E.\tra Size Garments a Specialty. 



Wm. H. Burns & Co., 

Manufacturers. Retail Store, 498 Main Street, Worcester. 




STONE LAWN AND CEMETERY VASES. 

Objections are made to Iron, as it draws the heat of 
the sun, and consequently dries the earth, while the iron 
destroys the life of the plants. Iron also necessitates fre- 
quent painting. These great objections are entirely over- 
come by this material, the nature being such that it ad- 
mits the air to the roots and retains the moisture. 

They are made in beautiful patterns, as shown in the 
annexed cut, and in color closely resemble light granite. 

They are warranted not to be injuriously affected by 
the heat in summer, or frost in winter, and they continually 
harden by exposure. 

NEALE & GOULDING, 

171 Main Street. 

Open Monday, Friday and Saturday Evenings. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

.•IT HKR KKSIDENCE, 89 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-4'Ladies' * Hair % Dressing-^ 

CHILUKEN'S HAIK-CUTTINO, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 
387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at tlieir residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 IVIAIN STREET. 

Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS ¥ MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECI.ILTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors a,t 

2-^5 Is^aixi St., I^ooam 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-HEW DRESS-MAKIMG ROOMS-f 

No. 387 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

^^^WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL^^h. 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. I.. F. ^VALCH, Sole Proprietor. 
—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

^To- 2 ■'v^alzx-iJLt Street, 

Mexican Work, Kiubroidery, Fine Needlework, 
I>oue to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEVES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 

* STEINWAY PIANOS * 

The Acknowledged Standard of the World. 

C. L. GORHAM & CO., 



ly I(l HT 

Out and About. 



They were seated in a street car, not a Wor- 
cester street car, for if that had been their 
channel of conveyance, the Boston Gazette 
would never have heard of it. Amy was a 
beautiful girl,eighteen or twenty-eight as you 
may choose to call it. The other girl was ditto. 
Here is the conversation : "Oh, Amy, I have a 
frightful rip in my riding-habit and forgot to 
have it mended. Lend me yours to-morrow, 
will you ?" "Yes, indeed, dear." (With em- 
phasis and the utmost sweetest): "But I'm 
awfully afraid you'll find it too tight ; I wear a 
twenty-one corset, you know." "Yes." (A 
slight but very impressive pause.) "I think 
perhaps I can get it together, though ; I wear 
a nineteen." It was clean-cut as the stroke of 
a razor ; beautifully given and beautifully taken. 
Both faces preserved their calm and placid 
expression and a new topic of conversation 
was started almost instantly. 



The St. Louis /'i9j-/-Z'<'i'/a/c// announces that 
it will send the two most popular school teach- 
ers on a summer trip to Europe. The jealous 
Chronicle proposes to follow suit, and announ- 
ces that it will send the two most popular 
clerks in the same direction. What an oppor- 
tunity for a wedding trip from Europe home 
again. 

A journalist of sunny Italy" committed 
suicide the other day, but before doing this 
unreasonable thing, he wrote out a full account 
of it to the editor of his paper, and with true 
business ability, advised the editor to print a 
hundred extra copies of the paper. 



Miss Blueblood asks: Who goes down to 
Lake Quinsigamond; who sails over the silvery 
waters of the lake, traihng her pretty hands 
in its rippling waves ; who eats the clam chow- 
der, with or without the clams; who swings in 
the big swings and sits under the shade-trees 
in the gloaming?" We really don't know, but 
as near as we can figure it the people who go 
to Lake Quinsigamond when it is hot in Wor- 
cester, are the people who have enough sense 
to get out of a hot place into a cool one. 



In one of the interior countries a case was 
called that had long been in litigation. The 
justice thought it impracticable to keep the 
suit longer in court, and advised the parties to 
refer the matter. After due deliberation they 
assented, agreeing to refer the case to three 
honest men. With a grave smile, in perfect 
keeping with judicial dignity, the judge said 
that the case involved certain legal points 
which would require one of the referees, at least, 
to have some knowledge of law; therefore he 
would suggest the propriety of their selecting 
one lawyer and two honest men ! 



It will be interesting to see what Emin 
Pasha does with the vast store of presents 
which he has taken with him to gild annexa- 
tion pills which native kings and chiefs were 
to have swallowed. The list included toy 
cannon, gunpowder, helmets, carpets, breast- 
plates, silver plate, velvet robes, mechanical 
toys, Edison phonograph dolls, model steam- 
engines and steamboats, one sewing-machine, 
and a clockwork bear. 




C- L. Gorhani & Co- 

The Largest Store and Stock 

IN WORCESTER. 



J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT * 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FRAMES KE-GILDEI). 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 Foster Street, Opp. Rink, Worcester, Mass. 

* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO, « 

Offloe, First National Hank Huildin;;, 

■410 ^vdlaiaa. St., "VsT'orcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TAXMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secret.iry. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Ricture Erame Nd^'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Eng:i*aving:8, Etching^s, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Rarlc St., ' Worcester. 
ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 23 PEARL STREET. 

A Splendid 14-inch 

Lawn Mower 

For 
At 

WHITE k CONANT'S, 

542 Main St., Franklin Sq. 



^ OXYGEN IN DISEASE >v 



COMPOUND OXYGEN TREATMENT, 



The Rational Cure for Chronic Diseases. 




U. S. COMPOUND OXYGEN CO. 

The apparatus shown by the above cut is 

that of a "Home Treatment." 



More than 17,000 reputable physicians — many 

of them eminent in their profession 

— in the United States, 

use Oxygen. 



500,000 gallons were administered in disease 

in New York city alone last year. Let 

the reader judgejwhether or not 

Oxygen is a valuable 

therapeutic. 

Send for Pamphlets, or call at rooms and see 

more than 100 testimonials from well 

known Worcester people. 

SEE ABOUT IT YOURSELF. 



BKANXIl OFFICE, 

NO. 37 PEARL STREET, 

Rooms 2 and 3 Cliapin lilock. 

"^^7" orcester, I^^ a. s s. 

v. M. SIMONS, Medical Actuary. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours : 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Ivdiss H. IVI. PROCTOR, 

92 Summer Street, Wokcksthr. Mass. 

n/INITOU 
QINQER 
Cn^nPflQNE 

Is acknowledged by all to be far superior 
to any imported ginger ale. 

Thousands of people who have visited the 
famous Manitou Springs testify to the supe- 
rior quality of the 

* n/lNlTOU * 
QIMQER Ctl/JnP/lQNE 

Ask your Grocer for it. 

LT.5niTnaC0 

Agents. 



I.I (i H T 

Of Dress and Wear. 

«* White, of course, i.s the regulation dress 
for graduates. The material is varied. There 
is French nainsook, wool crepon, white china 
silk, mull or Victoria lawn. There are full 
sleeves, full skirts, embroidered collars and 
cuffs, Valenciennes above the hem, which is 
deep. There is great variety in hems, and 
dainty effects are produced. 

»* White cloth is a neat favorite f(>r combi- 
nation.s, and perhaps is used more than any 
other color as the basis for combinations. It 
comes out splendidly in panels. 

»* Very beautiful portieres and hangings 
suitable for country houses arc seen of soft, 
airy India and Chinese materials that almost 
convey the idea and feeling of a refreshing 
breeze to look at. 

»* There never was such a variety of fans 
displayed at this season, and it is quite natural 
that they should raise a breeze of admiration. 

^* Lower necks appear on the streets fre- 
quently on Sundays, but they are the exception. 
It is not good form to wear a bonnet and a 
low-necked dress. 

»* A striking costume is of chocolate serge, 
spotted with white, with close-fitting waist, 
fastened at the right side. The fastening is 
with bright silver pins at least ten inches in 
length. There are live of these and they pro- 
ject three inches, the ends forming rings. 
The pins take in about an inch of the dress 
front, then reappear for three inches and then 
disappear at about the centre line of the waist. 
The effect is exceedingly novel and not dis- 
pleasing, but one can only hope that the 
wearer may not fall upon her right side, as 
she would surely be pierced to her death. 

0* The fast black crape finish Henriettas 
can be restored to their original beauty by 
washing in soap and water. They stand acids 
and perspiration. 

J* A new idea in hose is to make them wide 
at the toes instead of narrow. This conforms 
to the natural foot, and gives ease and comfort. 

#* A very attractive costume is worn by a 
young lady of fair complexion with natural 
roses in her cheeks, and is of light drab, with 
a broad panel in white in front from throat to 
hem, and a rich brown velvet pane! on the 
right side, extending from waist to hem. 

^* Bright-colored sunshades, red, blue and 
even orange, are seen thus early in the streets, 
but they are far more suitable for the country. 

»* Combination gowns are to be seen in tan 
and brown, green and gray, green and pink 
and gold and white. The latter are dazzling. 

»* White dresses will be in great demand 
this season. Hot weather only is needed to 
bring out a vast variety of materials of every 
texture, but especially soft, fleecy gown.s, all 
in white. The textures range from cheap cot- 
ton to silk muslin. Linen lawn washes splen- 
didly, but is quite expensive. Those who 
affect white usually do not break the simplicity 
of the toilet by any contrast of color from the 
hat to the hem of the gown. 

»* Shoulder puffs continue to grow taller, 
with more fulness at the shoulder and a sharper 
point at the top. The effect is becoming more 
and more odd, and even borders on the gro- 
tesque. 



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The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



Strength of Purpose. 

It is a Great Element of Success. 

Manyf;iilf„rl:icknf it. Many who are deficient in 
otliei respects succeed because tliey have plenty of it. 
Other things Ix-inj; cc|ual, the man with the strongest 
jiuriKise will prove the most successful. 

Would not the strongest china be the best.' Would 
not the w.ire that broke the least be the most economi- 
cal? Would it save time in washing ? Could you have 
just as complete a set with a few dozen less ? 

ONONDAGA CHINA 

is a true porcelain of a new texture. Ordinary stone 
china nearly always crackles. The Onondaga never. 
Ordinary porcelains are as brittle as glass. They break 
at a touch. Here's a happy medium, with the good 
characteristics of each and without their faults. Plain 
white sets cost but a dollar or two more than the most 
common sorts. Handsome sets in gold and color, 
$30, Hotel men know something about such things. 
One of them says : "It gives the best satisfaction and 
at less cost than any china I ever used." What would 
you say if you had tried it.' 
.An eminent professor of chemistry pertinently says of 

GRANITE IRON WARE: 

"Xone but those who are afraid of such elements as 
neatness and cleanliness in the kitchen, need shrink 
from the use of this ware." Granite iron is the original, 
from which all spurious and worthless enameled wares 
have sprung. Thousands of dollars have been e.xpended 
in experiments, yet there is none yet produced that com- 
bines in the same degree the advant.^ges of glass 

WITH THE STRENGTH OF MET.^L. 

Three miles of 

ALASKA REFRIGERATORS! 

Perhaps that expression will give a better idea of how 
many we handle in the course of the season than figures. 
The ".-\laskas" received and distributed by us this year, 
if placed side by side, touching each other, would reach 
in a continuous line from New Worcester to Lincoln 
Square. Is it possible that anything but the superior 
merits of the "Alaskas" could win a business of this 
magnitude ? 
Vou should take a look at our 

BASKET DEPARTMENT 

for your entertainment, of nothing else. Scrap, lunch, 
and picnic baskets in profusion. Fine clothes ham- 
pers. Right here a little special, large size, round wil- 
low clothes hampers, 95 cents. 



Charlotte de Russe Moulds, 

Jelly and Mellon Moulds, 

Gem Ice Cream Freezers, 

Lemon Squeezers, 
Ice Bags and Mallets, 

Ice Crushers, 

Ice Cream Dishers, 

Brick Moulds, 
Travelers' Alcohol Stoves, 

"Keystone" Food Whips, 

"Buffalo" Egg Poachers. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



About the House. 



[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper, .\ddress all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

„* Common ga.soline is far superior to lucine 
or benzine for cleaning silk, woolen and kid, 
besides being cheaper, and the odor leaves the 
garment in one-third the time. 

j,* Delicate colors in embroidered handker- 
chiefs can be set by soaking for ten minutes 
previous to washing in a pail of tepid water, in 
which a dessertspoonful of turpentine has been 
well stirred. 

f* In cleansing lilack stockings, it is not a 
necessity to wash the entire stocking every 
time they are done up. By little care the feet 
only may be washed, and thus the color may 
be retained much longer. Stockings should 
never be put into the suds until they are turned 
wrong side out. 

»* Do you find that your glassware, dishes, 
tumblers and the like, are too prone to crack 
and break?' jHere is a well-tested preventative. 
Put your glass into a kettle, cover it entirely 
with cold water, and place the kettle on a part 
of the stove where it will soon come to a boil. 
Allow it to boil briskly a few seconds, then 
cover closely, set aside and allow it to cool 
gradually. When the water has become quite 
cold take out the glass. 

JK* To clean silks, the garment must be first 
ripped and brushed. Spread on a flat board 
an old blanket covered with an old sheet ; then 
sponge the silk on both side.s, rubbing any dirty 
spots particularly with this mixture. One-half 
cup of gall, one-half cup of ammonia and one- 
half pint of tepid soft water. Roll the silk on 
a stick, an old broom handle will do, being 
careful that no wrinkles are left on it. Let it 
dry without ironing. Woolen goods may be 
treated in the same manner. — London House- 
keeper. 

^* Fruit stains may be removed from linen 
by washing in very hot water, with a little soda. 
If they are very obstinate stretch the stained 
part over a cup of boiling water until thor- 
oughly saturated with steam, and while so 
holding it with one hand, rub salts of lemon 
into it with the other until the stain disappears ; 
then leave it soaking in the hot water for a 
time, which will usually permanently efface all 
trace of it. In case this should fail, there is 
left, as a la.st resort, dipping the cloth in a 
weak solution of chloride of lime which lias 
been strained through muslin. The danger in 
this lies not so much in the strength of the so- 
lution as in the length of time the material is 
left in it, and after using the stained part 
should be washed thoroughly in cold water. 

ff* Milk will readily remove ink stains on 
linen, if used before the ink is dry ; otherwise 
the best thing is oxalic acid, applied as for 
fruit stains. Another practical method is to 
spread the stained part over a plate and rub it 
with some butter and salt till the stains dis- 
appear, then wash with soap and water. Sour 
buttermilk removes mildew, and benzine, fol- 
lowed by a hot iron and blotting paper, with a 
wash in warm soap and water, causes paint to 
disappear. 



L I (i MT 

Facts for Fine Costumes. 



oxa:.A.x=TEi^ I. 



Hartford, Tuesday p. m. 

Dearest Dolly : — There are ever so many things that I want to write you about, but as I 
am coming to Worcester soon, I will wait and tell them to you. 

I am to spend the summer at Newport ! 

I have just had a new light green silk made, and it is a little the most elegant of any- 
thing yet. 

But I must tell you about my new dress-maker. 

She IS lovely ! 

1 had the sweetest chat with her this morning, about costumes, and do you know, she 
opened my eyes about lots of things. 

To think that I could be so stupid ! 

But you will want to know what it was that we talked about, so here it is verbatim : I 
went to her exclaiming : — 

O, dear! Why is it my dresses always look perfectly horrid? I buy expensive materials, 
and pay the highest prices. 

What do you pay for your corsets ? 

O, different prices ; 75c, sometimes %\. I bought a lovely pair the other day for 50c. 

What do you pay for your boots? 

I buy the very nicest. I think it pays in the end. I never get less than a $7 boot. 

Do the $7 ones fit well ? 

O, perfectly ; and they look so lovely. 

Why don't you buy 50c boots ? 

Why, what do you mean ? I never saw any. 

Well, then, why not buy the cheapest boots you can find, and expect them to look 
"lovely ?" 

O, I see. Well, I never looked at it in just that light before. 

No costume, however costly, will fit well over an ill-fashioned corset. It can't be done. 

All depends on your corsets. If they fit poorly, your dresses can't fit well. A nice 
corset, made on the right principles, will fit well, if it be properly adapted. 

What do you mean by "properly adapted ?" 

Ah, there is where so many ladies make a miserable failure. No two people are alike in 
figure. Now here is where the art of the Specialist comes in — one who knows just the style of 
corset best suited to your figure. If too long, it wrinkles and hurts. If too short, more trouble. 
No end of trouble if you buy corsets haphazard. 

But just what kind of corsets ought I to buy? 

Call for a "Royal Worcester." You are always sure of getting the correct thing, if the 
name "Royal Worcester" is printed on the inside. They are the standard corsets for fine cos- 
tumes. 

When you go to Newport this summer, you single out the lady that has the best fitting 
costumes and ask her what name is on the inside of her corset, and I will venture to say she 
will tell you "Royal Worcester." 

Now that you are having all these new dresses made, why don't you have your corsets 
fitted ? 

Now I would like to, and I believe I will. But where shall I go to have it done? 

You can buy "Royal Worcesters" of any first-class dealer, but I get mine in Worcester. 
I go there often, and so prefer to get them at headquarters. 

The manufacturers of the 'Royal Worcesters" have a retail store and corset parlor at 
328 Main street. The lady in charge is a first-class Corset Specialist. That's one reason why 
I like to go there, I get my corsets fitted so beautifully. 

They carry the most complete stock of corsets I ever saw. They have the most exquisite 
shades of silks and satins. They showed me, last week, the loveliestoXA-roa satin corset — only 
$10.00. 

Wish I could see one of them. I am going to Worcester myself soon, and I will go in 
there and get fitted. What styles would you advise me to have ? 

I would have a Pongee, 608, for one, if I were you; they are only J3.50. I think they are 

the loveliest corsets I ever had on, they are so light, soft and flexible. 

Now, Dolly, I am coming to Worcester next Saturday, and I am going to have a Pongee 
Corset, too. 

Can't write any more now. See you Saturday. Meet me at three o'clock, at 328 Main 
Street. EDNA. 



DR. CONANT'S 

i^ COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS * 

ALSO 

Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths are a luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours. 9 to 12 a. m.: 2 to ? and 7 to 9 p. m. ,M R.S. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 24',- School .'Street. Worcester. Mass. 

PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

-f Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

^^ TRAVELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. ^^ 

The be8t and highest grade pianos only. We 
sell no cheap goods. 

C. L GiHAl k CQ. 

A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine Etchings. 



3SS ^vd:.A.IiT ST. 

If you want a piano that will last a life-time, 
get tiie celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and tinished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAJvIS & SON. 

H.-\VE YOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 



Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's i Music x House, 

4.') PLK.\SANT STREET. 

* GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

L. M. ALEXANDER, 

At Hill & ToUman^s old stand, 

195 FRONT ST. 
Ladies* Safeties a Specialty. 

to purchasers. Lady instructor 
in attendance. Send for illustrated catalogue. 




W. A. ENGLAND, 

DEALER IN 

FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



L 1 Ci H T 

Kindly Smile. 

The Kind She Wanted. 

Book A(;ent : — Yes, madame, this is what is 
termed an cncyclopadia. It is filled with iii- 
formatron, and will tell you anything you 
want to know. 

Victim : — Anything I want to know, eh.' 

Book A(;e.\t ; — Yes, madame. 

Victim: — Well, just make it tell where my 
husliand was until half-past three o'clock this 
morning, and I'll buy it. — Rochester Jury. 
Moved in High Circles. 

.Suitor : — I'erhaps, sir, you don't think I'm 
good enough to marry your daugliter. 

Father : — Perhaps I don t. 

Suitor: — Well, sir, I'd have you to know 
that I've been refused by some of the finest 
young ladies in the land. — Time. 
In a Chicago Court. 

Juix.E : — On what grounds, madam, do you 
claim a divorce from your husband ? 

"The doctor told me to discard everything 
that disagreed with me, and my hus — " 

"Granted. Next!"— AVw York Herald. 
Not by Piecemeal. 

"M-m-y, d-d-dear, I 1-1-love you ! W-\v-\vill 
you be — " began Mr. M. Pediment. "That 
will do," replied the proud beauty; "1 do not 
care to be wooed on the installment plan." — 
Harper's Bazar. 
Fryingpan and Fire. 

Iri.sh iM-MUiR.^NT (a few years hence): — 
Bad luck to ould England. Oi'm in free 
Ameriky at last. Can yez tell me phere Oi 
can find worruk ? 

Citizen : — Go to No. lo Blank street and ask 
for the Employment Bureau of the English 
syndicate. — AVii:' York Weekly. 
Force of Habit. 

Doctor (after the railroad accident) ; — Are 
you much hurt? 

Railroad Oeficial (faintly) :— I must pos- 
itively decline to furnish any information. — 
Puck. 
It Sounded Better. 

Actres.s (to Interviewer): — So you want 
the facts of my life ? Well, to begin with, I 
was born at Newark, New Jersey. 

Interviewer: — I guess I'll soften that 
down a little. I'll just say that you were born 
abroad. — Exchange. 



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MAIN ST., 



GPP. FRONT. 



G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S. 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 

r. 18 Nlain St., VVoree^ter. 

B'jPj"' Elevator. 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FUR LADIES AND CHILDREN ONLY. 

:ir.a Main street, <:oruer Maple, Worcester, Mass. 

SS^Office hours— gto 12 A. sl; 2 to 4 v. m. Treat- 
mcnt at the homes of p.itients by appointment if desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

333 ^v^ain St., 
Kashionable M^illiiiery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long exixiri- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufhcient 
fjuarantee <jf satisfactitm. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Open all the year, and pupils may enter at any time. 
Graduates successful. Terms reasonable. NunilJerof 
pupils hmited. Write for particulars. 

O-eo- O- OreelarTLSin, I^rincipa,!- 

44 FRONT ST.. WOKCESTKIt. MASS. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

ROOM 30. - - • • KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, fS per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

DENTIST 

C'^ Special attention given to the care of children's 
tet'th. (.'thee Hours, 9 to 12 a. m.; i to 4 p. m. 

47 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
E. L. S U M N E R, 

g KROEGER&SONS g 
I WHEELOCK&CO. i 

,379 Main St., Worcester, (Over Putnam & Tliurs- 
ton's Kestaurant.) 



Mrs. Dr.Wm. Lee 



Burnside Building. 
Room 5. 

Office hours: 9 to 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




A KIRSX-CLASS BAKERY IN W^ORCESTER. 

ah Kinds of Fine Cake and Pastry, Rolls, Buns, Biscuit, Etc. 

»f W EDDING * CAKE % A % SPECIALTY^- 

Brown Bread and Beans, not to be equalled, every Saturday evening and Sunday mornmg. 
Parties supplied at reasonable prices. 



LI CiHT 




Mr. E. A. Parsons of Roanoke, Va., is soon 
to visit Worcester in the interest of the Inter- 
Urban Company, capital §500,000, which is re- 
garded in Roanolce as one of its most promis- 
ing agencies in the continued marvelous 
growth of that city. In 1883 Roanoke had a 
population of 4000 ; to-day she lias a com- 
manding position as an industrial, commercial 
and railway center, of about 25,000, with the 
established modern ad)uncts of metropolitan 
life. This is the company, with which "the 
silver tongued orator of Virginia," Senator 
John W. Daniel, is so prominently identified. 

Roanoke is not in any sense of the word a 
boom town ; like Worcester, she has a reputa- 
tion to preser\-e, not make. She has upwards 
of $20,000,000 invested in enterprises, great 
and small ; with one industrial establishment 
having an annual pay roll of nearly $1,000,000. 
This portion of Virginia reminds the New 
Englander of his own Connecticut valley or 
Gi^en Mountain region ; only the high land is 
more fertile, and the scenerj- grander. 

To illustrate the steady growth of Roan- 
oke, there will be found below an official state- 
ment, giving the number of industries organ- 
ized during the past year and the amount of 
capital represented : 



30,000 
100,000 



400,000 

300,000 
50,000 
40,000 

100,000 
50,000 
30,000 
50,000 
50,000 

300,000 



INDUSTRIES EST.'iBLISHED DUBING THE PAST YEAR. 

Citizens' Bank $50,000 

Roanoke Construction and Imrovement Co. 

Commercial National Bank .... 

National Exchange Bank .... 

Roanoke Rolling Mill 

American Bridge and Iron Company 

Roanoke Iron Company 

Roanoke Street Railway .... 

Brewery 

Roanoke Forge Company .... 

Roanoke Engine and Machine Company 

Roanoke Machine Works (addition) 

Bridgewater Car Company .... 

Traders' Insurance Company 

Riff's Hydralic Engine Company 

Roanoke Building Association and Ins. Co. 

Electric Light Co 25,000 

Lake and Driving Park Association . . 20,000 

Roanoke Gas and Water Company, success- 
ors to Roanoke Gas Works and Roan- 
oke Water Works ... . . 500,000 

Gambill Flouring Mill 50,000 

The amount of capital expended in the 
erection of business houses and industrial es- 
tablishments in the city from Feb. i to Dec. 
31, 1SS9, amounts to $1,419,000; the amount 
expended in building residences to $5 10,700. 

Roanoke is headquarters for the Norfolk 
and Western Railroad Company, which em- 
ploys 300 clerks, and the Shenandoah Valley 
Railroad Company which employs about 100 
clerks, the Washington and Western Railroad 
Company, the Roanoke and Southern Rail- 
road Company (now under construction), the 
Pocahontas Coal Company, the largest coal 
operators in the world, and nearly all the 
mining companies operating in Southwest 
Virginia. 

Roanoke is only 100 miles from the celebra- 
ted Flat Top coal and coke region, compris- 
ing Pocahontas, Bramwell and Elkhorn. Roa- 
noke is only a few hours from the consuming 
marts of the country. Coal, iron and wood 
abound in great quantities and of pronounced 
excellence. Roanoke has now in operation 
two immense pig iron furnaces of a daily 
capacity of 150 tons each, and another of 
equal size in process of construction, with 
various kinds of manufactories being contin- 
ually erected to supply the needs of tlie peo- 
ple in and contiguous to the city, with room 
also for other industrial plants of every des- 
cription wherein iron and. wood figure as im- 
portant elements of productive manufacture. 



DO YOU KNOW who makes the best 
Corsets in the world? Best for the greatest number 
of people. Best in lightness, strength, wear, fit, 
price — those are the testing points. Fit means all ; 
it's vital. Lightness is good; strength and wear 
are better; the three virtues as one make a jewel 
of rarity — and that jewel (it is a pleasure to point 
it out) is the Thomson Glove-Fitting Corset. 
The BEST IN THE world! a broad statement, that. 
Coming from the people who manufacture the corset 
it might be taken with a pinch of allowance, but 
from your local shopping home, which you know, you 
will be assured the statement is right. 

We specially choose Thomson's to lead in 
our corset department. They are the most likely 
in every way. Sales tell it. Fit, lightness, firmness, 
wear, price are the features to be emphasized; price, 
because of imported corsets that cost a third more 
and are not a tenth better. 

Seven grades; shapes for all sorts of figures 
in each: 

Thomson's R. H. Corset, made of heavy 
coutil, boned, and with gored hip, ^i.oo. 

Thomson's R. H. Extra Corset, made the 
same as the first, except being long-waisted, $i.oo. 

Thomson's Nursing Corset. None as good 
at the price, $i.oo. 

Thomson's E. Corset, made of fine sateen, 
boned very close, fine work all through, and the 
corset is very close, snug-fitting — will stay so, $1.50. 

Thomson's B. Corset, price, $2.00. 

Thomson's Ventilating Corset, lace work, or 
very open canvas, fish-net like, between each bone — 
and there are 17 open spaces. Made with especial 
reference to health, comfort, style. Thomson has 
substantialy no competition on this corset. 

Thomson's Summer Corset, 75 cents. 

We have faith enough in them all to guarantee 
every pair — in all respects. Every one is all right. 
Our word for it. Honor bright. 

Denholm & McKay, 

Boston Store, Main St., opposite Park. 



L I(i HT 

HEALTH Be warned. Keep your bath-rooms, clos- 

IS BETTER ets, sinks, waste pipes, etc., free from those 

THAN WEALTH deadly poisonous gases. Prevent Typhoid 

Fever, Diphtheria and all infectious diseases by purifying your prem- 
ises with 

OxoKos 

DISINFECTANT. 

The only odorless, non-poisonous and absolutely safe deodorizer. 
It never fails. No family should be without it. It is so economical 
all can afford to use it. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 26 India square, Boston. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CHARLES H. WOODCOCK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved ''Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 



The "Wright Counter Shaft and Clntrh," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, 
scarcely perceptible shock or jar, and decidedly the best device for the purpose ever in the market. Every one i 
ested is cordially invited to come and see it. The "Woodroek I'liiversal l>oi>r Opener.** By simply pre> 

to swinii upt'ii. Ian I>e quickly and cheaply applieci tn 



a button on either side of the d( 

door. Must be seen to be appreciated. A ('arp«'M(«T's 4;iiau:«' Id 
No carpenter can afford to be without it. "The Snivel <'rotrh (' 
ing. Hundreds of dollars saved. "A Cuff Holder." The cheap 
the most reasonable terms for all kinds of special machinery. Kepa 
Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 



. ., i accurately and very qii 

•liter." No more broken drills by work citcTi 
St ;ind l>st ever seen. We are prepared U> ni.ike 
rs promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. 



No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 

AMERICAN -»- TATE -k- TENNIS -x- RACKET. 



SIII'KKIOI! IN POINT OF STKKN«iTH, H.VI 
AXCE, STKINGINO AND FINISH. 

Expert, EnRlish Stringing, S7.0O. 

anient (English) 



6.00. 




Our N.w Miiii.l;n<l liiic k.t. 1.-.>(>|| .(Uiilitv. I ill 
anil wliil.. ^tiiiiL'iiii;. i;ii!ir:iiit.-.Ml . mil V *:!. Ka-ilv 

worth *4 ( pl.lf Illii>tiiitiil 1.iiiii« < ala- 

l..-,,.- -.Ml I. II Appliiatiiin. Spnrling aii.l Alli- 
lilii (iiMiiK of ivtrviUs 



HORACE PARTRIDGE & CO., 

■^ST TT^r .A.S:EHiT<3-T01sr ST., B O S T o 2sr. 



Famous OilRangb 




For Family Use. 



The '•FAMCil'S," as its nn 
of the coal range. It stands tiriiil 
and free from odor. Its tank is. >: 
get heated. The wicks can be Inn 
sufficient power to do all the conki 
less than half the cost of the coal ^ 
Write us for further information a: 



n.- imiiliis. is an Oil Range, and is fully the equivalent 
11 ' _ r file right height to work over. Is is cleanly 
'.. .1 Mil. -~ I i-ad and is at the rear, where it does not 
there is a drop of oil in the tank. It has 
- :' . .1 ;iv work of the family the year round, at 
. .vi'. 1 iKiusands are in use in all parts of the country, 
id name of nearest agent. 



SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

M.AKEHS, r.OSTON. IMASS. FOI: SALE BY 

J. W. GREENE, 51 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 



21 

LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for i; cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. MELLEN, 571 MaJD St., 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 

TENEMENTS TO LET. 

124 Kim street, opposite Kim I'.uk, three tenements, 7 
rooms each, hot and cold water, hard Hoors, gas lighted 
by electricity, finely finished, large store rooms. 

43 Kussell street, overlooking Klni Park, two tene- 
ments, 5 rooms each, all modern improvements, store- 
rooms. Apply toC. W. BOWKEK, 114 Elm street or 
1S7 Front street. 

RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good niuttretas of any grade 
or your old one made over, send ub your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 F*ark: St., Worcester. 




WORCESTER, 



E, A. RICH, 

..ucessor t.. H. M. r.-lliKr.w.| 

YARD, NO. 731 MAIN STREET. 
Cut Wood and Kind- 
lings of All Kinds. 

All orders promptly attended to. I'osl.il c^nds luvnished 

T. D. CARD, 

^^ Worker in Gold and Silver ^^ 

AMD KEGALIA M'F'G'K, 

393 Main -St., Up One Flight, Worcester, M.ass. 



Fire Insurance ! 

EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



* NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 
Clafliii'8 best Cabinet Photograiihs, S3 a <lr 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 



33 



L l(i MT 



WHITNEY'S 



LINEN STORE. 



Summer Blankets, $2.^0 per Pair. 

Stamped Hem-Stitched Tray Cloths, 2^c. each. 




Stamped Fringed Trav Cloths, 1 2 l-2c. each. 

Sorrento Art Squares, i2^-2c. each. 



^^ MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



I. I(i HT 



CORDLEY & CO. 



Bankers, 



121 Devonshire Street, 



p. O.Box 
MEMBERS OF 
NEW YORK, BOSTON and CHICAGO 
STOCK EXCHANGES, 
mchi 3m 



Boston. 



Frank R. Cordley. 
Albert G. Browne. 
Charles L. James. 
Henry C. Young. 



Z} 



W. P. RICE, Pres. 



O. F. PAGE, Sbc'y k Trhas. 



Union Investment Co., 

Paid Up Capital, »1,000,000. KanBas City, Mo. 

SPECIAL OFFKK TO INVKSTORS. 

A Guaranteed 7 per cent. Investment, secured by Business Property centrally located 

in Kansas City, with 50 per cent, of the net proHts additional. 

Indorsed by Prominent Bu8lnes» Men, Bankers and CapltalistB, viz: 

H.P STIMSON, Pres. American National Bank; E. I.. MARTIN, Pres. Mercantile 
Bank; Hon. T. B. BULLENE, E.x-Mayor; B, T. WHIPPLE & CO., Real Estate 
and Investment Securities; Hon. WILLIAM WARNER, Late Commander-in-Chief 
G. A. R. and Ex-Member of Congress; WALTON H. HOLMES, Pres. G. A. Cable 
R'yCc; I.. R. MOORE, Director Nat. Bank of Kansas City; E. C. SATTLEY 
Cashier Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. 

By permission we refer to any of the above gentlemen. 

Send for circulars containing description of property and full particulars, mchi 3m 



A. W. TIFFANY, 





-f Oculist * and « Optician 4- 

C. Kxaininatioii free. Satinfiictioii guaranteed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass. 



THESANMiuEL 
GOLD PLACERS CO. 

(OF COLOKAHO.) 

No. 8 Congress Street, Boston. 

Gen. Benj. F. Butler, Pres. 
James Gilfillan, Treasurer, 

(Ex-Treasurer of U. S.) 



Notice is hereby given to stock- 
holders and others interested that 
after the twenty-fourth day of May, 
1890, the price of stock will be 
advanced to $6 per share. Until, 
and including that date, orders 
will be filled at the present price, 
54.50 per share. 



James Gilfillan, Treas. 

May 13, 1890. 




EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fashionable Hat, 
Fine Furnishing 
& Athletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

Ho. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3. 



S. H. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



NO LONGER CHEERLESS 



The modern Hall is warm, cheery, invit- 
ing--a fitting preface to the pleasant home 
life within. The Hall Stand, once ugly and 
awkward, has become artistic, rich, appro- 
priate. Oak is the most popular wood. The 
fittings are oftenest of heavy bronze in strong 
and simple patterns. A plate glass mirror, 
of course. We have Hall Stands at low cost 
that are very attractive, or you may pay a 
hundred dollars, and get your money's 
worth. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, DAof ati 
139 Friend Street, DUblUll. 



* STORAGE * 



Metropolitan Storage Ccimi)any, corner SouthbridRe 

nd Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for Sleighs 

Carnages, Furniture, Merchandise, and all kinds of 

Machinery. Building new and well ventilated. Apply 



at building. 



-J ventilated. ..,, 

J. H. DICKIE, M'b'i 



Bronze medal Silver Gold Grand Diploma 

1879. iSSo. 1S81. 1882. 

Awarded Wm. Laugher for upholstery and drapery. 

WlVl. T^AUGHBR, 
UPHOLSTERER, 

HAS KEMOVEIJ TO 

677 MAIN ST., COR SYCAMORE, 

where he is prepared to execute orders in the same first- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 

the past. 

Bedding, Shades and Draperies * 

« Furniture Repairing and Carpet Work. 



LIFE AND ENDOWMENT 

HOLICIES. 

^-COMBINED * LIFE i. AND x ACCIDENT^* 

Term Annuity and Coupon 

Annuity Endowments. 

Justus K. Allen, 
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Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1890. 



No. 



The Boston Young Men's Christian Union 
is asking for co-operation in the sixteenth 
season of its work which it makes known as 
the "Country Week." It is one of the charities 
which never fail to appeal to the human 
heart. Briefly, the plan is to provide places 
in the country, every summer, where the chil- 
dren of dismal city streets may have, for ten 
days or a fortnight, long draughts out of 
nature's flower-perfumed air, and pluck at 
daisies and clover, and drink in something of 
the inexhaustible sweetness of the green world 
all about. What the Union particularly needs 
is the co-operation of people living in the 
country, who will entertain one or more of 
these little visitors for a short period. Wor- 
cester county has a great many beautiful 
homes scattered through its lovely valleys and 
upon its hill-sides, where there would be room 
for some unfortunate child of the city to enjoy 
these pleasures. It is a work, not merely of 
sentiment, but looking to the building up of 
noble men and women, who shall be the firm 
foundation stones of the state in years to 
come. 



The Gounod Club is debating the possi- 
bilities of its own future, and the people of 
Worcester are to make answer upon the 
merits of the question. If Worcester has any 
use for a musical festival, it has just as much 
use for an organization like the Gounod Club. 
If this city cannot and will not support it, in 
its chosen work, the less bragging we do about 
out musical festival, the better. 



About eight years ago the good City Fathers 
of Worcester began to lay out the boulevard 
or Park avenue for the driving public. The 
road-bed is kept in magnificent condition ; the 
avenue is very broad : the grade is not of the 
pulling kind; the scenery is supurb ; and, al- 
though fast driving is allowed, accidents have 
been comparatively scarce. A road particu- 
larly devoted to drivers of horses is one of 
the necessary luxuries in any city of Worces- 
ter's size. In this day of rapid transit and 
travelling necessity, no one can deny the great 
convenience of the street car. A city without 
street cars would be almost as unprogressive 
as a town without a gas plant. The city can 
do well to make concessions to a well organ- 
ized street railroad, for the street railway, 
more than anything else, contributes to the 
general public convenience. Still, for all that, 
Light suggests that if there be any way to 
keep the cars off the avenue, Iiy letting them 
run over other streets, between the same points, 
it would be a verj' good thing for Worcester. 



There is solid sense in the following lines 
taken from an editorial in the Boston Record -^ 
it is more than that, it is literally true, for in 
this country there are seventy millions of peo- 
ple, against a small town full, who will vote 
for the common people, for they are of the 



common people: "After all, it is the great 
middle class, the people who work for a living, 
live in respectable houses and have a little 
something saved after the close of the year, 
who are the mainstay of our country, and not 
the snobs, not the rowdies. This great body 
of law-abiding citizens are generally right all 
the time, and also in the end, and to them ap- 
peals with the greatest sureness the church, 
the school, the political party and the news- 
paper." The majority may be in the wrong; 
they have been in the wrong many times, but 
for all that the majority vote and preference is 
a hundred times more likely to lead in the 
right direction, than any conservative minority, 
however intelligent or moneyed. The people 
are the people, — have been and ever will be. 



It is said that no less than 7769 school gar- 
dens exist in Austria, not including the sister 
kingdom of Hungary. They are connected 
with both private and public schools, are used 
for purposes of practical instruction in horti- 
culture and tree growing, and often contain 
botanical musuems and bee hives. The child 
who loves flowers is likely to love his fellows. 
Flowers, more than any other luxury, are re- 
fining in their presence. A cheerful home may 
be known by its floriculture. 



The Society of Antiquity is pushing for- 
ward its work, looking to the erection of a 
home for its treasures, with pleasing success. 
Worcester is fortunate in having such a 
society, and what the American Antiquarian 
Society does not do, the local organization 
may be trusted to provide. Future Worcester 
will look back over history-making decades 
with grateful thoughts of the men who are 
gathering and preserving rewards whose 
value they will appreciate, when they arrive 
at the scene wherein their fathers were actors 
many years before. "Old things are best," 
says my lord the poet, and the old things of 
Worcester are what we want kept for us, sur- 
rounded by a shadow of reverent memory, into 
which we may at times penetrate for a little 
and meditate upon the glories of the past and 
the possibilities of the future. 



The doctrine of fresh air is being taught in 
every medical school, instilled into the minds 
of patients by every family physician and 
preached by every healthy Christian minister. 
Fresh air is as necessary to good health as any 
kind of air is necessary- to existence. The 
majority of people take plenty of fresh air 
during the day, for the constant opening and 
shutting of doors give the fresh air oppor- 
tunity of entrance. The average person is in 
bed from eight to nine hours out of the 
twenty-four, remaining probably over three 
times as long in this position as any other. 
The chamber is generally smaller than the 
sitting-room, is not likely to have as many 



windows, and the bedstead is liable to he 
placed in an alcove, where even a ten-horse 
power blower would be insufficient to keep up 
a current of fresh air. A gentleman interested 
in pure air made a tour of Worcester's longest 
and most fashionable streets between five 
and six in the morning, at which time, 
it is presumed, morning naps were being 
enjoyed. He carefully noticed each house as 
he passed it, and was surprised to find that 
nearly three-quarters of the houses were 
tightly closed, curtains down, and windows 
not open a crack. The test h.is been made in 
other places, and the result of the test in 
Worcester does not compare unfavorably with 
that of other large and intelligent cen- 
tres. As houses are commonly constructed, 
chamber ventilation is almost impossible 
without an open window. The popular notion, 
that night air is unhealthy, is old-maidish and 
founded upon nothing. Whether night air is 
less healthy than day air is a question that 
needs not to be discussed here. Assuming 
that day air is the healthier, it will be found 
rather difiicult to bottle it up for night use. 
Whether the chamber is ventilated or not, the 
air that is in there is night air half the time, 
and it is simply a question of pure night air 
or impure. A little ingenuity will easily make 
ventilation possible. The alcove bed should 
be discarded, and the bedstead should be 
placed in a position which will allow the free 
circulation of air around three sides of it, at 
least. 



There are dogs and dogs. When a four- 
inch cur rushes out and barks at our family 
horse when we are taking our family for a 
peaceful drive out into the countrj', or when an 
irreverent pup insists upon tagging a horse-car 
through Main street for a mile or so, yelping 
loudly for the attention of his owner, who 
occupies the rear seat and is occupied 
with a cigar, even a philosophical mind may 
contemplate a Utopian dream — the annihi- 
lation of the canine kingdom. All that pre- 
vents such a wish from being a fixed desire is 
a recollection of the big, noble-looking four- 
footed friends who walk staidly along the 
streets, or repose complacently in their proper 
places at home. 



The majority of bicyclers are gentlemen ; a 
dissipated fellow would have hard work of it. 
The courts all over the L'nited States have de- 
cided that a bicycle is a carriage, and as a 
carriage entitled to the rights and privileges of 
carriages and no more. There are several 
Worcester cyclers, who, from thoughtless- 
ness, persist in using the sidewalk instead of 
the street. While no accident has been re- 
ported from this unlawful use of the sidewalks, 
Light suggests that the wheelmen respect 
the law of the city before it becomes neces- 
sar}' for the city to disagreeably call their at- 
tention to it. 




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A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
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Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopEedia. 

Worcester, Saturday, June 7, 1890. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 

June 7 : Sun rises at 4.08 A. M. ; sets at 7.19 
p. M. Length of day, 15 hours, 11 minutes. 
Moon, last quarter, June 9, 4 hours, 50 min- 
utes, evening, W. 

Alderman and Mrs. Webster Thayer gave a 
pleasant whist party on Thursday evening of 
last week, at their residence, 17 Oak avenue. 
Four tables were used and twenty hands were 
played. Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Hull took the 
first prizes, and Mrs. E. F. Rice and Mr. 
Frank B. Hall the booby prizes. Refresh- 
ments were served, and merriment reigned 
until Thursday said good morning to Friday. 



Miss Kimball's Home School closes for the 
season next Tuesday, June 10. 



The engagement is announced of Miss 
Florence Snow, a daughter of Dr. Windsor N. 
Snow, to Prof. Edgar S. Shumway of Rutgers 
college. Miss Snow is a graduate of Worces- 
ter High School, and of Smith College, and 
has for seven years been a teacher in the classi- 
cal department of the High School, where her 
attainments in scholarship and her popularity 
among her pupils have given her rank as a 
very successful teacher. Prof. Shumway is a 
brilliant classical scholar and is now assistant 
professor of Latin at Rutgers. He is an Am- 
herst man of '79. The date of the wedding 
is said to be June i8th, and a wedding tour to 
Europe will follow. 

Miss Jessie M. Hixon of New York City is 
the guest of Mr and Mrs. Marvin M. Taylor. 

The clerks and draughtsmen employed by 
Norcross Brothers met in the parlor of the Bay 
State House, on Memorial Day, and organ- 
nized ;m association for social purposes, with 



Iv I(i HT 

the following officers : George H. Macomber, 
president; Charles R. Clemence, vice-president; 
George R. Davis, secretary; O. L. Wolcott, 
treasurer. A committee of three was ap- 
pointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws. 
It is intended that meetings shall be held semi- 
annually in cities where Norcross Bros, have 
work. The business meeting was followed by 
a banquet, at which were present the invited 
guests, Messrs. J. A. & O. W. Norcross and 
Rev. Francis A. Gray of this city, and the 
following members: George H. Macomber, 
F. B. Reynolds, W. Eyrick, G. B. Moyer, F. 
C. Cowles, W. L. Davis, A. J. Lunt, R. H. 
Davis, B. Young, W. F. Vanorum of Boston, 
Harry Marsh of Milford, O. L. Wolcott of 
East Longmeadow, and George R. Davis, 
Charles R. Clemence, E. R, McAfee, F. Pur- 
rington, W. Allen, G. T. Tribe, E. F. Miner, 
of Worcester. Mr. E. Roscoe McAfee offi- 
ciated as toast-master and three hours were 
enjoyably spent in speech making and discuss- 
ing the varied menu, provided by Douglass & 
I5rown. 

Miss Grace M. Bigelow was at home from 
Miss Salisbury's school, Pittsfield, on Decora- 
tion Day. 

Dr. Homer T. Fuller, president of the Poly- 
technic Institute, is to give the address at the 
graduating exercises of the State Normal 
School at Westfield, Tuesday afternoon, June 
24. His subject is "The Obligations of Edu- 
cated Men and Women to Their Fellows." 



Mrs. John W. Robinson has been spending 
a week or more at her old home in Biddeford, 
Me. 

Manager James E. Dennis, of the Bay 
State Clothing Company, paid a glowing trib- 
ute to his war comrades, in his store window. 
Decoration Day. A large space was covered 
with green sod, upon which were raised six 
mounds. Upon the head-stones at the head of 
the mounds were the names of Gen. W. S. 
Lincoln, Maj. A. W. Pratt, Gen. George H. 
Ward, Sergeant Plunkett, Capt. E. A. Morse, 
and Capt. Thomas J. O'Neil. The mounds 
were covered with flowers, and the stones were 
decorated with flags. In the apparent distance 
was seen a miniature church spire. Occupying 
the four corners of the mirror, which furnished 
a side partition, were large portraits of Lincoln, 
Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman. There were 
also several patriotic mottoes, in convenient 
places. The whole arrangement was artistic, 
and reflected great credit upon Mr. Dennis's 
ingenuity. 

Miss Gertrude Wood is home from the west. 



There are many original men in Worcester, 
but there is one man particularly who is noted 
for for his unique and explosive wit. He is in 
the fire insurance business, and occupies a 
palatial office not over a thousand miles from 
the Burnside building. He has a smooth face, 
kept smooth without the razor, and there is 
about that face a sweet, childlike and inno- 
cent expression, which positively refuses to 
reflect the mysteries of his business. Now, 
this Mr. Shortly, which, by the way, is not 
exactly his name, resides somewhere west of 
Main street. Close beside him there lives a 
remarkably bright boy, who thinks of things 



which other boys think not of. As this boy 
was gazing out the window, one evening, 
while in roie de nuit, he exclaimed, "See, 
mama, see, Eddie Shortly up in the moon !" 



Miss Mary S. Davenport, a daughter of Mr. 
James F. Davenport, is to be married on 
Wednesday, June 18, at 6.30 p.m., at Hotel 
Adams, to Mr. DeWitt Clinton Wheeler, jr., 
of New York city. Rev. Alexander H. Vinton 
of All Saints Church officiating. Mr. Wheeler 
is a prominent society man and holds an im- 
portant government position. I nvitations have 
been restricted to the relatives and immediate 
friends of the parties. 



Mrs. M. P. Higgins attended the .Sunday- 
School convention at Boston last Monday. 



A very pleasing entertainment was given in 
Westboro, at Grand Army Hall, on the evening 
of Memorial Day, under the auspices of West 
boro Grange, Worcester talent being quite 
prominent. The program included a character 
song by Master G. Burt Shepard of Worcester ; 
a duet, "Life's Dream is O'er," by Miss Lois 
Thompson of Worcester and Mr. Frank O. 
Henry of Westboro ; a song with banjo ac- 
companiment by Miss Lottie Lamson of Wor- 
cester ; a reading. Miss Gertrude Witherby of 
Worcester; bone duet. Master G. Burt Shep- 
ard and C. Thompson, both of Worcester; 
piano trio, "Mendelssohn's Wedding March,'' 
Misses Witherby, Thompson and Lamson; 
character song "By an old un;" song, Miss 
Lottie Lamson; song, Ketette Quartette. 
Strawberries and ice cream were served and 
the young people sang college songs. As this 
is the first of the series of entertainments to 
take place, there is a number of good times to 
be looked forward to by the members of the 
Grange and their friends. 



Mrs. G. W. Holman, one of Worcester's 
lady cyclers, rode to Boston with the Roxbury 
Club, last Saturday. 

Miss Mary Davis is at Salem, where she 
will remain during the present month. Miss 
Davis is a pupil of Mr. Ross Turner, the ar- 
tist, and will study under his direction. Her 
work has attracted very favorable comment, 
and one or two pretty sketches will be remem- 
bered as having been on exhibition at the re- 
cent e.xhibition of the Art Students Club. 



Two or three parties of Worcester people 
went for a ride to Mount Wachusett on Me- 
morial Day. One party which went up in a 
bus included Dr. Arthur Y. Greene, Messrs. 
George E. Miller, Ulysses Bigelow, Will W. 
Lewis and Charles B. Sanford, Miss Mae 
Montgomery, Miss Nellie ISaker, Miss llattie 
Locke, Miss Addie M. Goulding and Miss 
Mabel Rawson. 

Miss Rosamond Mitchell is to get away 
from the city's dust, in Paxton, this summer. 



The Sumner Club has arranged most of the 
details of the prize declamation contest to take 
place on Friday evening, June 20, at Curtis 
Hall. The speakers are to be Harry H. Hill, 
H. P. Linnell, William P. Goodwin, Aldus C. 
Higgins, Charles Baker, Jr., Edward A. D. 
Morse and T. F. Cummings. There are to be 
three judges, one selected by the alumni, who 



offer a gold medal as first prize, another 
chosen by the members of the club, and a 
third selected by a friend of the club, who has 
kindly offered to defray the expenses of the 
meeting. The Sumner Clul) itself offers a 
silver medal for a second prize, and Mr. Sam- 
uel H. Putnam, of the firm of Putnam & 
Davis, has given a book for third prize. The 
contest is e.\pected to bring out a great deal of 
meritorious declamation. The club will issue 
cards of invitation to its friends. 



Mr. E. A. Sumner and his son are expected 
home from Europe next week. 



Rev. Edmund S. Middleton, assistant rector 
at All Saints Church, and a valued contributor 
to Light, was ordained by Bishop Potter in 
Trinity Church, New York City, last Sunday. 
Mr. Middleton has resigned his position at All 
Saints, but will fill Rev. Mr. \'inton's place 
during the summer, his resignation not taking 
effect until October i. 



Several of the churches arranged for last 
Sunday services having reference to Memorial 
Day. There were two or three shiftings about 
in local pulpits. Rev. Joseph F. Lovering was 
in town on Memorial Day, but on Sunday ex- 
changed pulpits with Rev. Elbridge Mix of 
Fall River.. Mr. George Morton, now in 
charge of the new Front Street Mission, 
preached at Salem Street Church ; Rev. H. M. 
Tenney, D. D., of Oberlin, O., preached at 
Plymouth Church. Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., 
and Rev. Charles M. Southgate exchanged 
pulpits. Two new pastors preached salutatory 
sermons. Rev. E. B. Haskell at the South Bap- 
tist Church, and Rev. F. D. George at the 
Free liaptist. Rev. F. M. Eveleth of Burmah 
preached at the First Baptist Church. The 
Sunday-School of the First Unitarian Church 
had special Memorial exercises, and Mr. Wil- 
liam H. Bartlett made an address to the 
school. At the young mens meeting in Asso- 
ciation Hall, Mr. Bartlett and Principal Alfred 
S. Roe made stirring addresses. Rev. William 
V. W. Davis preached a memorial sermon in 
the morning, and in the evening Rev. Henry 
Dorr preached at Webster Square M. E 
Church, a sermon to the veterans, many of the 
members of Post lo being present. 



Miss Grace Edie Belle Putnam spent Me- 
morial Day with friends in Sutton, remaining 
over Sunday. 

The program for the High School Glee 
Club concert, next Friday evening, will be a 
miscellaneous one. The club will have the 
assistance of Miss Lilla B. Houghton, soprano ; 
Miss Alma L. Collins, alto ; Mr. Thomas B. 
Hamilton, tenor ; Mr. James H. Cafferty, bass ; 
Miss Edith L. Smith, reader. 



Piedmont Sunday School has voted to fur- 
nish the money to establish two Sunday 
schools in far-off South Dakota. 



For a considerable time, the ladies connected 
with the 2nd W. C. T. U. have been on the 
look-out for a suitable location at which to start 
a temperance coffee-house, somewhat on the 
Hne of the Casino and Alhambra in Boston. 
The store at the corner of Front and Summer 
streets has been leased, and the lower floor will 



Lid MT 

be used for a restaurant, at which will be served 
everything generally found at a first class place 
of the kind, and at a price but little above cost. 
The restaurant will be handsomely fitted up 
with plate-glass mirrors, commodious tables, 
and other conveniences. The affair has been 
in charge of the following committee: Mrs. 
M. M. Townsend, Mrs. J. Victoria Simmonds, 
Mrs. Helen DeCamp, Mrs. Dr. William K. 
Cole, and Mrs. Etta C. Merritt. 



It is said that the sexton in a certain large 
and influential local church is on strike be- 
cause the organist, who, by the way, is one of 
the best in the city, is somewhat absent- 
minded, and frequently leaves his wad of gum 
glued to the organ cover. 



Ex-Alderman William H. Sawyer is in the 
west. 

The rhetorical exercises of the High School, 
in the hall, last Tuesday, included an essay on 
"Manual Training" by Aldus C. Higgins of 
the junior class, and a reading from Nicholas 
Nickleby, "Mr. Squeers Explains the Merits 
of His System," by Edward L. CuUen of the 
second year class. 

Rev. B. Fay Mills, remembered for his 
evangelistic work here in 18S7, is now holding 
meetings in Bath, Me. 



State Evangelist Rufus M. Taft of this city 
was one of the speakers at the conference of 
Evangelistic Association of New England, 
held at Boston, May 29. 

The Boston Reavd last week printed in its 
"Seen and Heard" column, under the head 
"The Five Prettiest Young Society Women in 
Worcester," the names of Miss Helen Lincoln, 
Miss Lillie Davis, Miss Georgie Crompton, 
Miss Grace Whitman and Miss Elizabeth 
Hopkins. 

To-morrow will be Children's Sunday in 
the churches, and at several of the children's 
services, Master E. Clifton Warren, 14 years 
old, the contralto soloist of the Emanuel 
Episcopal Church, Boston, will sing. He will 
sing at I-'iedmont in the morning, at the First 
Baptist at 3.15 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A. ser- 
vices at 4 p. M., at Pilgrim Church, at 5 P. M., 
and at the First Universalis! at 7.30 p. m. 



Mr. H. W. Mossman will play as a substi- 
tute at All Saints Church, during the six 
weeks vacation of the organist, Mr. G. Arthur 
Smith. He will also play at the Y. M. C. A., 
to-morrow afternoon in place of Mr. Robbins. 



The Congregational churches of the city, 
on Wednesday night, elected delegates to a 
council to be held at Belmont Church, at the 
desire of that church, to see whether it shall be 
recogonized as a Congregational Church, and 
to take steps for installing as pastor Rev. 
Albert Bryant. The date for the council is 
ne.xt Monday, at 2.30 p. .m. 



Mrs. Alia Woodford's pupils are to give a 
recital at the Church of the Unity, next Tues- 
day evening, for the benefit of the organ fund. 
The program has been prepared with unusual 
care, and will, beyond doubt, be very enjoy- 
able. The first part of the program will con- 



sist of recitations and the last of the reading 
of the farce, "A regular Farce," by John Mad- 
dison Morton. The ladies of the Charitable 
Society will give a strawberry supper from 6 
to 8 o'clock. 



June is faithful to her traditions, and this 
has been a week of weddings. Wednesday 
evening, at All Saints Church, Miss Maude 
Phillips Kniffen of this city, and Dr. Bernard 
E. Vaughan of New York City were united in 
marriage, the ceremony being performed by 
Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, assisted by 
Rev. Edward de Zang, of St. Luke's 
Hospital, New York City. Mrs. Meltiah B. 
Green, a great-aunt of the bride, gave the 
bride away. The bride was accompanied by 
Mr. Harry A. Woodward of Portland, Me., 
and the groom by Dr. Peck of New York. 
The church was beautifully decorated with 
flowers. After the wedding ceremony, a re- 
ception was given by Dr. and Mrs. O. H. 
Everett at 53 Pearl street. They were as- 
sisted in receiving by Mi.ss Alice F. Kniffen, a 
sister of the bride, and Dr. Peck of New York. 
A large number of Worcester society people 
were present. Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan will 
reside in New York City. The ushers were 
Messrs. Norman P. Woodward, Dr. Homer 
Gage, George T. Dewey and Rufus S. Wood- 
ward. 

The most notable of Thursday's weddings 
was that of Miss Nancy Hacker Earle, a 
daughter of the late Timothy K. Earle, and 
Mr. Frank Bulkeley Smith, which occurred at 
the residence of Mrs. Earle, 23 Edward street, 
at 6 o'clock. The ceremony of the Friends 
was used, and Rev. Daniel Merriman, D. D., 
pronounced the couple man and wife. Mi.ss 
Caroline Earle, Miss Madge Earle and Miss 
Josephine Smith were the bridesmaids, and Mr. 
William L. Smith was best man. The ushers 
were Mr. Harry B. .Smith, Col. Rockwood 
Hoar, Messrs. Charles F. Aldrich, Ernest L. 
Thayer and George B. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith will reside at No. 30 Edward street. 



On Thursday afternoon also. Miss Florence 
S. Waite was married to Mr. G. Arthur Smith, 
at the bride's home. No. 14 Lincoln square, 
the ceremony being performed by Rev. Daniel 
Merriman, D. D. Relatives and intimate 
friends were present. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 
after a wedding trip to England, will return 
to this city, where they will reside. 

Mr. L S. Whiting of Worcester was married 
to Miss Edith Coburn of Lowell, at the resi- 
dence of the bride's father, Mr. Frank 
Coburn, in that city, Wednesday evening, 
Rev. George Batchelor of the Unitarian 
Church being the officiating clergyman. Mr. 
and Mrs. Whiting are to reside in Worcester. 



Miss Josephine E. Ehehalt was married to 
Mr. Louis G. Beck of Clinton, at the residence 
of the bride's mother, Mrs. M. C. Bauer, No. 
I Lincoln Place, Thursday afternoon. Rev. 
Francis G. Burgess performed the ceremony, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Beck will reside in Clinton. 



Mr. Warren E. Whittaker and Miss Mary 
L. Leach were quietly married, Tuesday after- 
noon, at the bride's residence, iSyl^ Lincoln 
street, Rev. J. J. Miller being the officiating 
clergyman. 



About Folks. 



Mr. Rogers Finch Gardner, a graduate of 
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, '89, left 
Worcester on Wednesday and his friends do 
not expect him to return for two years to come. 
Mr. Gardner has been appointed to a cadet- 
ship at West Point, and will take the exami- 
nations June 16. The time between now and 
a week from Monday he will spend with rela- 
tives in northern New York. His Worcester 
friends will look with interest for his success 
and advancement. 



Miss Alice Farnum and Miss Kate Jenkins 
of Andover, spent Memorial Day and remained 
over Sunday, in Worcester, as the guests of 
Mr. Loring N. Farnum of the Polytechnic 
Institute. 

Miss Gracie Merrill, the daughter of Mr. E. 
A. Merrill, of Cottage Street, celebrated her 
fourth birthday anniversary on Tuesday by 
inviting seventeen friends of about her own age 
to spend the day at her father's summer resi- 
dence in Paxton. A barge furnished by G. W. 
Partridge went from house to house picking up 
the little ones and their mammas to the num- 
ber of twenty-six, all told, and at eleven o'clock 
deposited them at the farm. The day was 
spent in roaming over the ample grounds, pick- 
ing huge bouquets of wild flowers and playing 
games. At twelve a substantial dinner was 
served, to which the keen appetites of the 
children did full justice. At five o'clock the 
barge started homeward, carrying a thoroughly 
happy but very sleepy lot of children, each 
with a souvenir of the day clasped in tired 
little arms. 

Mr. Arthur C. Smith is at home from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where 
he has just completed the work of his junior 
year. 

Miss Alice B. Hammond entertained a 
party of her friends at her residence on Clare- 
mont street, Memorial Day afternoon. The 
party included Misses Jessie A. Morse, Alice 
M. Watson, Mabel G. Merrill, Helen R. 
Merrill, Alice G. Merrill, and Miss Chamber- 
lain of Marlboro, and Messrs. Eben F. 
Thompson, Newton Darling, Harry L. Dad- 
num, Arthur J. Bassett, Lawrence P. Green- 
man, Frank B. Hall, and Mr. Wilkins of 
Boston. The time was very pleasantly spent 
in playing tennis, and in spite of the fact of it 
being the opening of the tennis season, many 
good plays were made. 



G. Henry Whitcomb, Esq., was last week 
elected a member of the board of directors of 
the American Congregational Association. 



People who attend entertainments at Asso- 
ciation Hall, hereafter, will have cause to be 
grateful for the improvement in ventilation. 
As constructed, the semi-circular windows 
over the long windows in the hall were not 
adjustable, being built into the solid wood- 
work. When people in the galleries had per- 
spired until they could endure it no longer, 
they could open the long windows, if they 
chose, and then the cold air fell directly upon 
them. The round windows have now been cut 
out, in their frames, and swung upon hinges at 



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the bottom. A cord running along the side of 
the hall operates them at will, so that it is 
possible to open them for an inch or two only, 
or much wider, as desired. The credit for the 
idea of the change belongs to the janitor, Mr. 
H. W. Smith, and he also did the necessary 
work. Patrons of the hall will have cause to 
bless his ingenuity for a long time to come. 



Members of the January class (the 26th) of 
of the State Nomial School are teaching as 
follows: Miss Maude S. Bosworth, at Lan- 
caster; Miss Flora B. Chamberlain, High 
school, at Southbridge ; Miss Alice L. Eames, 
High school at Dover; Miss Costella G. Gale, 
at Vernon, Vt. ; Miss Mary Henry, at Tyngs- 
boro; Miss A. May Hewett, at South Royal- 
ston;Miss Anna G. Moore, at Wilkinsonville : 
Miss Amy Murray, at Sutton; Mr. Rupert H. 
Murray at South Royalston ; Kate E. P. New- 
hall at Holden ; Miss Minnie Partridge, at 
North Dighton; Miss Jeannette Scruton, at 
Ashby; Miss Mary E. Whitty, at Fitchburg; 
Miss Mary E. Williams, at Webster. Of the 
fourteen who have already engaged in teach- 
ing, therefore, all but one are teaching in Mass- 
achusetts schools. Most of them are Worces- 
ter girls, and very bright ones at that ; and it 
would not be entirely out of place for some of 
them to teach at home next fall. Worcester 
needs their talents, perhaps, more than do her 
country neighbors. 



Miss Nettie A. Murray, Miss Anna G. 
Foley, Miss Lizzie Norcross and Mrs. C. W- 
Dodge are some of Worcester's women who 
find in cycling a healthful and pleasurable 
exercise. 

Mr. Caleb A. Wall's last historical field 
meeting, on old Burncoat Plain, May 24, was 
so great a success, that he has decided to hold 
another similar one on the historic old "Coal 
Mine Farm" of Mr. Elliot Swan, on Planta- 
tion street, opposite Natural History Park, 
Saturday afternoon, June 14, beginning at 2.30, 
when he will give an account of the first 
settlers in that section and along the west 
shore of Lake Quinsigamond. On this old 
farm is one of the most ancient dwelling 
houses yet standing in Worcester, whose his- 
tory goes back to the beginning of the town. 
The farm is about a mile north of the dummy 
railroad station, on Plantation street, and can 
be easily reached by steamer from the Lake 
station to Natural History Park. 



The petition of the high school class of '90 
for JS24 to defray orchestra expenses on gradu- 
ation day was granted on motion of Mr. Put- 
nam. — Fitchburg MaiTs leport of School 
Board meeting. 

Mr. Angelo Truda, the cornetist, will ac- 
company the Elberon Orchestral Club for its 
season at Cushing's Island, in Portland 
Harbor, to which Light made reference last 
week. 

The collection of views of Lake Quinsiga- 
mond and vicinity, which has been prepared 
by Mr. Irving E. Bigelow, and is published by 
Putnam & Davis, is one of the prettiest Wor- 
cester souvenirs Light has ever seen. There 
are fifteen half-tone engravings of Lake 
region subjects, with two really valuable maps 
and a sliort prefatory sketch. The club 



houses are represented in the collection, with 
the various parks, and particularly fine pictures 
are shown of the regatta course, the hospital 
and the Island House. The printing is finely 
done, and the cover is made of a novel paper 
intended to represent cast iron. It makes a 
pretty volume to send to out-of-town friends 
or to show them when they come here. Our 
art tables will not henceforth be complete 
without it. 

The oiificers and teachers, both regular and 
substitute, of Piedmont Sabbath School, are 
to have another social evening, similar to that 
enjoyed some time ago, a week from Tuesday. 



The Norton Tennis Club, consisting of the 
clerks of the Norton Emery Wheel Company, 
at Barber's Crossing, has opened its second 
season. The club has one double and one 
single court, and has elected the following 
oflScers: President, Mr. W. W. Gleason; 
vice-president. Miss E. F. Kester; secretary, 
Miss Nettie J. Bannister; treasurer, Mr. B. F. 
Curtis ; executive committee, the ofticers, ex- 
officio, and Mr. J. R. Robinson. 



Last Saturday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, 
three friends met just in front of Putnam & 
Thurston's, who had not had a similar meet- 
ing, all three being present, for at least three 
years. One was Mr. John A. Farley, formerly 
a Worcester newspaper man and now on the 
staff of the Boston Record. Another was 
Mr. George E. Camp, a graduate of the Poly- 
technic Institute, '88, and now with the West 
Bergen Steel Works, Jersey City, N. J. The 
third was a Worcester man. Mr. Farley 
and the Worcester man were walking north, 
and Mr. Camp, who had been in town over Me- 
morial Day, crossed Main street at just the 
right time to meet them. It was a pleasant 
meeting all round. 



The resignation of General Secretary Mc- 
Conaughy, who has been for almost three years 
the popular secretary of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, has not been as great a 
surprise to his intimate friends as to the 
general public. In going to the association 
at Duluth, Mich., he will find before him a 
large field of work in a rapidly growing city. 
Worcester may well regret losing Mr. Mc- 
Conaughy, but it will be generous and con- 
gratulate Duluth. Mr. McConaughy's work 
for the local association has been valuable 
and effective. He took hold of it at a time 
when, in entering a new building and branch- 
ing out in its work, the association needed a 
man who could attract and hold young men ; 
and his success is a matter of record. He is 
a young man, full of energy and having all the 
elements of a popular man in his place. He 
goes away June 30, and this, with the vacancy 
caused by the resignation of Membership 
Secretary George H. Robbins, leaves two 
places to be filled. Mr. W. D. B. Mead, the 
efficient assistant secretary will remain, and it 
is to be hoped that no one will be able to in- 
duce him to change. Secretary McConaughy's 
cordial greeting will be missed, and Mr. 
Robbins's musical work will be appreciated 
more than ever now that the association has it 
not. Mr. Mead must remain. He has made 
more friends than he knows of, probably. 



Brain Building. 

Vassar College. 

The 25th anniversary exercises will be held 
on Wednesday and Thursday, June 11 and 12, 
and on the latter day Benson J. Lossing will 
deliver the historical address and George Wil- 
liam Curtis the oration. President Fuller of 
the Polytechnic Institute will probably attend. 

Cornell. 

The Cornell Base Ball team, which is on its 
annual trip, defeated the Staten Island Athletic 
Club nine. Memorial Day, 10 to 9. The latter 
team defeated Princeton a day or two before, 
so Cornellians are happy. 

It is a fact not generally known, but true, 
nevertheless, that the 'Varsity crew, in its first 
three mile trial, smashed the record for a still 
water course into small pieces. The fresh- 
man crew has rowed a mile and a half very 
close to the record time. The freshmen's race 
with Yale and Columbia freshmen is creating 
great interest, and it is generally believed that 
Yale will have to row faster than ever to get 
ahead of "Courtney's babies." 

The University has just lost 5i,75°iO°° by 
the decision of the United States Supreme 
Court in the case of William Fiske vs. Cornell 
University, by which Mrs. Jennie McGraw- 
Fiske's will is broken. The loan will delay 
the erection of several new buildings. 

The abandonment of the course of journal- 
ism has caused considerable indignation 
amongst many students. The course was 
highly successful and very popular and was 
discontinued only on account of the extra 
amount of work thrown upon Prof. Smith. 

Prof. J. L. Laughlin of Harvard has been 
elected Professor of Political Economy and 
Finance, and James Morgan Hart, of Prince- 
ton, Professor of Philology. Both men will 
take charge of their departments next fall. 

L. E. Ware, '92, has been re-elected to the 
staff of the Cornell Daily Sioi, as one of the 
junior editors. Mr. Ware will have charge of 
the special editions published Commencement 
week. 

Miss Mary Goddard is a member of the 
Sage Choral Circle, which gave a most enjoy- 
able concert recently under the auspices of 
the Cornell University Christian Association. 

L. E. Ware has been elected a member of 
the Cornell Dramatic Club, and has been cast 
for a part in "My Awful Dad," a comedy to 
be presented by the club during Commence- 
ment week. 

Wearers of the Crimson. 

The defeat of Yale at base ball and the 
victory of Harvard at the Mott Haven games, 
on Saturday, seemed to make Harvard 
students exceeding hilarious. Not content 
with celebrating the victories with bon fires, 
cannon firing, fire works, cheering and glee 
club singing, a few miscreants took great de- 
light in daubing with red paint and artistic 
skill many of the college buildings and that 
most sacred of all Harvard possessions, the 
statue of John Harvard. The face, breast 
and legs were completely covered, while the 
large granite stone upon which the statue 
rests is conspicuous with the number of points, 
32, won at Mott Haven, and the score of the 
Harvard-Yale game, 9-8. An indignant crowd 



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surrounded the statue on Sunday morning, 
doubting if such a piece of vandalism could 
have been perpetrated by Harvard students. 
The outrage was probably done by a very 
few men, but its effects are reflected upon the 
whole body of Harvard students, and nearly 
every one feels that he must bear part of the 
shame and responsibility and do his utmost to 
make the name of "fair Harvard" as unsullied 
as possible. For this purpose a largely at- 
tended mass meeting was held in one of the 
college buildings, on Monday evening, and 
resolutions were adopted expressing the unani- 
mous sentiment of the undergraduates that 
the wanton defacing of Harvard's walls and 
monuments was viewed with hearty indig- 
nation, to make reparation by public subscrip- 
tion to repair the damages, and to express 
deep regret at its occurrence. A very excited 
discussion arose as to advisability of employ- 
ing a detective to ferret out the offenders. It 
was finally voted to use a portion of the money 
subscribed for this purpose, and a committee 
composed of the presidents of the four classes 
was elected to have charge of the affair. On 
Tuesday this committee resigned, and a 
second mass meeting was held in the evening, 
at which Mr. Charles M. Thayer presided in 
his usual graceful and dignified manner. At 
this meeting, it seemed to be the sentiment of 
a large majority that it was not the duty nor 
the right of the students at large to employ a 
detective against their fellow students. It 
was said on very good authority that the 
Faculty did not wish a detective to be em- 
ployed. Although still very indignant and 
desirous of bringing the offenders to justice, it 
was voted that a detective should not be em- 
ployed, but that the money should go toward 
the expense of repairs, and the same com- 
mittee was again elected. It is estimated 
that about 5400 will be necessary to make 
good the damage done. 

It is thought that the Faculty has some sus- 
picion of the guilty parties. It is possible 
that the action of Saturday night may greatly 
restrict athletic contests in the future. Little 
else is talked about in the college world but 
this vandalism and the results of final exami- 
nations. The daily Crimson, of Wednesday, 
editorially speaks of the second mass meeting 
as follows : "It is to be regretted that the 
mass meeting last evening adjourned without 
taking any definite action against the vandals 
whom Monday's meeting was unanimous in 
condemning. The project of hiring detectives 
was undoubtedly repugnant to many, but it 
was far better than no action at all. The first 
meeting showed Harvard is thoroughly indig- 
nant, unwilling to recognize the perpetrators of 
the outrage as belonging to themselves and 
determined to do their best to rid the college 
of the presence of such vandals. By rescind- 
ing their vote Harvard students have put 
themselves in an attitude of insincerity. The 
one thing which showed that Harvard was 
thoroughly in earnest was the determination 
to bring the culprits to light. If Saturday's 
culprits had been made to feel the full 
strength of college sentiment there would be 
no question of future vandalism. But now 
the offenders are to be shielded from punish- 
ment, and future celebrators will have nothing 
to fear but verbal reproofs, while they may 
hope to have their mischief repaired by public 
subscription." 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communiratiiins to this department are solicited. 
They should lie addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Wait a Whii.k Lo.ngek.— L. C. wishes to 
know what she shall do about writing to a 
person who has promised to send her stamps 
for her letters to him and then hasn't sent any 
or even a letter to explain. The Answerer 
must be pardoned a smile. If your correspon- 
dent was to write first and hasn't done so, it 
looks as if his was one of those promises 
which are made when we stroll on the sands by 
the sea. Don't worry about it. Still, don't be 
too hard on him. Some one may have stolen 
his letter and the stamps. The chances are 
not in favor of this, however. As to writing to 
him, that depends on the nature and extent of 
your acquaintance with him. Be cautious in 
regard to correspondents. The Answerer has 
seen young men exhibit to their fellows letters 
such as you might write in this case. You 
know what the lawyer said — it seems as if it was 
John Hopkins, but the Answerer isn't sure — 
"Never destroy a letter and never write one." 

Choose Acquaintances Carefully — N. 
E. M. wishes to know if it it is right to bow to 
a gentleman of questionable character ; if not, 
what should she do when that person bows to 
her? The Answerer must reply to the ques- 
tion by asking one: How do you happen to know 
the gentleman of "questionable character.'"' 
If you have been properly introduced to any- 
one, by a mutual friend in whose judgment you 
have confidence, it is right for you to recogo- 
nize such acquaintance until you have proof 
that his character really is questionable. 
Beware of tattlers. Do not cut anyone 
because of what gossips may say. On the other 
hand, if you feel that you do him no injustice 
in thinking that he is not a person whom 
your parents or your best friends would care 
to have you know, avoid him, if possible. 
The answer to the second question is supple- 
mentary to and dependent upon the first ; but 
you will remember that the gentleman always 
waits for the lady to bow ; hence the recogni- 
tion is hers to control as she may please. 

The Human Family. — M. asks for the 
size of the human family. The human family 
consists of about 1,450,000,000 individuals. In 
Asia there are about 800,000,000 ; on an aver- 
age 120 to the square mile. In Europe 
there are 320,000,000, averaging 100 to 
the square miles. In Africa there are 210,000- 
000. In America, North and South, there are 
1 10,000,000 relatively thinly scattered. In the 
islands, large and small, probably 10,000,000. 
The extremes of the white and black are as 
five to three, the remaining 800,000,000 being 
intermediate brown and tawny. 

Whiskers. — Henry B. asks if there is any 
preparation which will grow whiskers. 
Nature is the only one Light knows of. The 
so-called hair-growers are mostly worthless 
and generally injurious. Don't try to force 
Nature, for it can't be done. 

Dear Mada.m. — George N. asks: "In 
writing to an unmarried lady is it proper to 
address her as 'Dear Madam?'" Certainly, 
unless you choose to use a more endearing 
term. If you are intimately acquainted with 
the lady, write it, "Dear Mary." Don't use 
the words "Dear Friend." 



A Hearty God-Speed. 

No man with a high ideal and love of hu- 
manity, who enters into a community and 
exerts in it the best influences of which he is 
capable, can go from it without leaving be- 
hind him a place which no new comer can 
entirely fill, because the personality of every 
man means something to his fellow creatures 
which no other man may attempt to replace. 

In saying farewell to Rev. Joseph F. Lover- 
ing, Worcester experiences a deep regret, 
measured only by the warm affection which 
has grown up in the hearts of his fellow citi- 
zens. Light joins in that farewell with a 
feeling of like regret, but it extends the right 
hand of fellowship with a hearty God-speed 
to follow the parting guest wherever he may go. 

Rev. Joseph F. Lovering, who has for a de- 
cade past been pastor of the Old South 
Church, was bom August i8, 1835, at Kingston, 
in this state. His father's name was Joseph 
Lovering and so also was his grandfather's. 
His grandfather, in fact, as a boy of fourteen, 
held the candle for the men who assumed the 
disguise of Mohawk Indians and then threw 
the tea overboard in Boston Harbor. Thus 
Mr. Lovering is a Massachusetts man from 
the beginning, and even traces the line of his 
fathers back to the Mayflower. 

He was educated at Pierce Academy, Mid- 
dleboro, at Cambridge and at Meadville, 
Penn. Mr. Lovering's inclination led him, in 
making choice of a profession, to enter the 
ministry, and in 1870 he was installed pastor 
of the Twelfth Congregational Unitarian 
Church in Boston. Later he filled pastorates 
at the Park Street Church in Portland Me., 
and in Concord, N. H. But during this time 
his views regarding church polity had under- 
gone some changes, and having made up his 
mind that he would find in the Congregational 
Trinitarian Church a field wherein he could 
more succes.sfully work, he entered into it, in 
September, 1879. Mr. Lovering came to Wor- 
cester in 1880 and on the fifth of May, of that 
year, he was installed pastor of the Old South 
Church, so that a month ago he had com- 
pleted a round ten years of service for that 
people. How valuable that work has been, the 
Congregational Church of Worcester does not 
need to be told. Depreciating his own efforts 
and never believing that he had reached the 
standard he ought to attain, Mr. Lovering has 
been better appreciated by those with whom 
he has been thrown in contact. 

When the war broke out, Mr. Lovering was 
located in Portland, and his patriotism led him 
to find himself a place among the ranks of the 
boys in blue, and as chaplain of the 7th Maine 
Volunteers he went to the battlefields of the 
South. After the war, when the Grand Army 
of the Republic sprang into existence, he was 
one of its loyal supporters, and for six years 
held the position of chaplain-in-chief. He is 
now a member of Post 10. 

It seems to be the idea that the only politi- 
cal position with which clergymen may be 
safely entrusted, is membership on the school 
board, though as far as fitness is concerned, 
why might not a preacher be an efficient 
worker in any department of the city govern- 
ment? To speak of Mr. Lovering, however, 



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he was a member of the school board for the 
six years ending with 1SS9. 

Mr. Lovering is an 18° Mason. 

Mr. Lovering's recent resignation of his 
pastorate was a great surprise to a great 
many people, but his friends have known 
for some time that his health was not 
equal to the strain imposed upon him and he 
felt that he ought to leave his work to other 
hands. He has preached his last sermon as 
pastor of the Old South Church, and is now 
at Nantucket, where, every year, he finds rest 
and the invigorating influences of the sea air. 
In leaving Worcester, he leaves many warm 
friends, who will follow with affectionate re- 
gard his work in the future, wherever it may 
be. His fellow-clergymen in the city have 
expressed their deep regret at losing him from 
the circle of the churches, and all who have 
heard his earnest, whole-souled preaching, and 
know that they have been made better thereby, 
will not soon forget him. So it is that from 
pastors and from people all over the city, 
assurances of love and esteem go out to him, 
and prayers for his happiness and prosperity 
are offered in his behalf. 



Lend a Hand. 



It appears that the Gounod Club has reached 
a crisis in its history. The annual meeting 
was held last Monday evening, and the issues 
of the future were discussed at length. The 
club does not lack for enthusiasm in itself, and 
the members are more than ever desirous of 
continuing the good work which they began 
four years ago, but it seems that the club can 
no longer perform satisfactorily the functions 
of such an organization, without being placed 
upon a substantial basis, which means that it 
has become necessary for the public, or in- 
fluential representatives of the public, to take 
hold of the work, and guarantee the members 
freedom from all but musical duties. It is 
proposed to adopt an entirely new system of 
management; if there can be found in Wor- 
cester a number of people, who are sufficiently 
interested, to approve and support this manage- 
ment, the Gounod Club will go on into the musi- 
cal history which Worcester is to make in the 
future, reflecting great credit upon the city. If 
the project fails, it will cast dishonor upon the 
city, and Worcester will lose one of its most 
worthy institutions in the realm of art. 

From a statement made by Mr. Edward N. 
Anderson, the director of the club, at the 
meeting Monday evening. Light is able to get 
a distinct idea of what it is proposed to do. 
Some of the suggestions are Mr. Anderson's 
own; others come from officers and other 
members of the club. It is plainly stated that 
it is possible for the club to go on, as it has 
been going on, for years to come, but it is be- 
yond question that there will be little profit in 
such existence, without growth. The present 
proposition is as follows ; Let the club double 
its membership, that it may be able to sing 
against orchestra, and be able to take up 
many works of importance, only singers attain- 
ing a high standard to be admitted. The club 
should have a pleasant room for rehearsal, 
and a suitable place for its musical library. 
Two of the three concerts given by the club 
each season should be with orchestra, and the 



most eminent soloists should be engaged. The 
concerts ought to be given in Mechanics Hall, 
where there would be no loss of effect, from 
lack of stage arrangements or acoustic 
properties. 

Now what is needed in the way of organi- 
zation ? Apparently there is needed an 
organization almost altogether outside the 
active singing members, of prominent business 
men, who shall give to the club both dignity 
as an organization and the requisite financial 
aid. If this could be done, probably little 
assistance would be needed from them at the 
end of the season. It is impossible to do 
business without capital. This is in brief the 
plan proposed. 

An attempt will be made to secure such an 
organization, and failing, the club will adjourn 
for one year. A committee of five has been 
appointed, who are to lay this plan before peo- 
ple who are likely to aid such a project. Upon 
their answer rests the future of the Gounod 
Club. In plain figures, the club will need 
$1500 to work with. With a board of patrons 
and patronesses and a business organization, 
the Gounod Club may yet take its rank among 
the first musical associations of its kind in the 
country. The committee includes: Mrs. 
George E. Kirby, Mrs. J. A. Rice, Mr. A. W. 
Parmalee, Mr. Benjamin A. Barber and the 
conductor, Mr. Edward N.Anderson, with two 
associate members to be named by President 
Henry F. Harris 

Light waits to hear Worcester's response. 
It believes in the Gounod Club, and believes 
that the people of Worcester are now to put 
themselves upon record as being the patrons 
of true art or simply the fire-crackers of a 
great pyrotechnic display. 

One of the interesting sights in the city on 
Saturday mornings is the drilling of the com- 
pany of High School Cadets at the Rink. 
Through the kindness of Mr. H. H. Bigelow, 
the boys are allowed the use of the building 
for drilling purposes, a privilege which they 
appreciate, and under the tuition of Captain 
Davis the company has attained a high degree 
of proficiency ; but it is to be regretted that 
its ranks are not better filled. If the school 
authorities, as in Boston, should make military 
drill a feature of the High School curriculum, 
nothing but good could result from such a 
course. The exercise, aside from its beneficial 
physical effects, would inculcate patriotic 
sentiments and give each member of the corps 
a knowledge of military movements which 
would be of value to the country in case of 
war. The present numerical strength of the 
company is forty-seven, and the officers are as 
follows: Captain, Harry S. Davis; first lieu- 
tenant, George E. Burr ; second lieutenant, 
William J. Denholm; first sergeant, C. P. 
Haselden; second sergeant, S. H. Tarbox; 
third sergeant, E. A. Denny ; fourth sergeant, 
A. L. Clark ; first corporal, W. H. Cunning- 
ham ; second corporal, H. C. Boyden ; third 
corporal, H. P. Linnell ; fourth corporal, 
F. W. Wallace. The company will go into 
camp at Sterling for a week or more this sum- 
mer, beginning July 7. When the school 
opens ne.\t September it is to be hoped that 
the cadets will start upon the new school year 
with full ranks and brighter prospects than 
ever before. 



Mental Food and Dessert. 



PREPARED KOK l.K.HT. 



There is one American author, the mention 
of whose name is sure to awaken a responsive 
smile from the reading public, namely, Frank 
R. Stockton. The present month finds two of 
his new books, "A Great War Syndicate" and 
"The Three Burglars," offered to the public, 
together with "The Merry Chanter," which 
has been published as a serial. If one is in 
search of pure recreative reading, free from 
all sensationalism and monotony and full of a 
fresh originality in conception and expression, 
he can not do better than read one of these 
latest of Stockton's work. The same faculty for 
creating ridiculous and impossible circum- 
stances for his very practical characters.which 
was exhibited in "The Casting Away of Mrs. 
Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine" and "The Du- 
santes," is prominent in his later books. It 
has been said that Stockton's forte was short 
stories and that he lost popularity when he 
became a novelist. To a certain extent this 
may be true, since in his shorter stories his 
originality of plot stands out more prominently 
than in the longer novels which have subordi- 
nated plot to character picturing. If one at- 
tempts to outline the story of one of his novels, 
"The Hundredth Man," for instance, he finds 
that the plot is thin and vapory and the story 
"Hat" when bereft of Stockton's humorous ex- 
pression. It is because of tliis genuine humor, 
free from all keenness or coarseness, that the 
American reading public still greets cordially 
each new book of the author, whether the 
humor is found in the strange conception of 
the story, as in "The Lady or the Tiger" and 
"A Tale of Negative Gravity," or in such de- 
lightfully original characters as John People 
or Mrs. Aleshine. Personally, this author is 
quite as interesting as in his literary character; 
a quiet, reserved man, with an habitual ex- 
pression, apparently better suited to the com- 
posing of epitaphs than the making of 
drolleries. Occasionally, his abstraction and 
reserve give way to a feeling of mirth, ex- 
pressed only in the mirthful twinkle in his 
eyes. His wife, who is his amanuensis, is 
quite his opposite in a social way, cordial and 
vivacious. Stockton's friends say that the 
public has much to thank him for, in that he 
does not suggest more mischief to the youth, 
for as a boy he and his brothers tasted all the 
delights of fun. One trick which they 
played was to stand the high beds on the top 
of the posts, thus bringing themselves almost 
to the ceiling, when they lay down, and 
affording them excellent opportunities for 
"pranks." At another time they ate the filling 
from meat pies prepared for "company" and 
substituted cold mush between the crusts, 
which delicacy was unconsciously served to 
.some visiting clergymen and their friends. 



Is there a child who has not been delighted 
with "Alice in Wonderland.'" Its author, 
Lewis Carroll, offers an equally charming im- 
aginative story in "Sylvia and Lruno." 

A few years ago, "The First Violin" by 
Jessie Fothergill, published in the Leisure 
Hour series, created much admiration. Ithas 
been followed by many stories of varying 



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worth, her latest novel being "A March in the 
Ranks." The scene is laid in a hydropathic 
establishment and not a little amusement is 
afforded by the talk and actions of .some of the 
nervous inmates with their manifold imaginary 
diseases. Miss Fothergill's stories are simply 
and naturally told, and, while they lack origi- 
nality and force, they form pleasant summer 
reading, being of the class denominated as 
"pretty little stories"— Alas I for that much 
abused adjective ! 

It is truly appropriate that the first in the 
"Heroes of Nations Series" should be "Hora- 
tio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of 
England," by W. Clark Russell. The hero of 
Trafalgar is given here a fitting memorial. 

Doubtless, the Kendals were lionized in 
America last winter quite as much as any 
foreigners. Admirers of Mrs. Kendal will find 
her "Dramatic Opinions" enjoyable, and prob- 
ably, because of her popularity, the book will 
add materially to the traditional checks of 
$100,000 of American money which this pretty 
actress monopolized. 

Admirers of William D. Howells will find, 
in the May number of the New England 
Magazine, an earnest tribute to him as a re- 
former in literature. The article is written by 
Hamlin Garland, who declares that Howells 
"has gamed supremacy as an American novelist 
of life." Classing him with Tolstoi and Ibsen, 
the reviewer holds him up as the champion of 
reality in literature. Few of Howells' critics 
deny that he is an excellent realist, but like or 
dislike of his works depends upon the reader's 
admiration for the purely common-place in 
nature and human nature as depicted in his 
novels. 

Howells, in tlie June Harpcr\s, in the "Edi- 
tors Study," criticises very favorably the play 
of "Shenandoah" which Worcester people 
have so recently enjoyed. Of it he say.s, "It 
has charm from the first moment until the last 
and it has passages of nobility and beauty, 
with effects which ravish the sense and kindle 
the fancy by the legitimate realization of facts 
that cannot be put into dialogue or action." 

Worcester, Mass. A. 

Newspapers About the House. 

Most housekeepers know how invaluable 
newspapers are for packing away winter cloth- 
ing, the printing-ink acting as a defiance to 
the stoutest moth as successfully as camphor 
or tar-paper. For this reason newspapers are 
invaluable under the carpet, laid over the 
regular carpet-paper. The most valuable 
quality of newspapers in the kitchen, how- 
ever, is their ability to keep out the air. It is 
well known that ice completely enveloped in 
newspapers, so that all air is shut out, will 
keep a longer time than under other condi- 
tions, and that a pitcher of ice water laid in 
a newspaper with the ends of the paper 
twisted together to exclude the air, will remain 
all night in any summer room with scarcely 
any perceptiUe melting of the ice. 



— An inquisitive goat in Jersey City, while 
prowling the streets in search of provender, 
saw an electric light wire which had fallen 
to the ground. He looked at it, smelled it, 
then touched his tongue to it. A shock pa.ssed 
through his frame and he fell dead. 



The Silent Side. 



JKNIil.IA Wl 



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Could we look Ix-Iow the surface 

Of our fellow creatures' live,^ ; 
Could we probe beneath the current. 

As a fisher seeks and dives, 
'J'ear the mask from smiling faces. 

Leaving bare the souls of men,— 
Ah ! 'twould Ixj a revelation, 

'I'liat would daunt the boldest pen. 
Could we see the bitter anguish 
_ Hearts with pride have covered up, 
Could we see tlie serpent lying 

In the wine we fain would sup, 
feer into each family "closet" 

Where the ancient "bones" are liid, 
See the gliastly mouldering horror, 

Underneatli the oak chest's lid,— 

If we knew the care and heart-ache, 

Oft concealed by fashion's robe, 
Or the sin and sorrow buried 

In a stately grand abode, 
If each man and woman living, 

Dared from custom to Ije free, 
What a new and strange procession, 

Our bewildered eyes would seel 

If the side that's ever silent. 

And the secret tlioughts that come, 
Started up with loud protesting, 

Faihng longer to be dumb, 
How our ears would sm.irt and tingle. 

And our eyes would open wide, 
Seeing self as others see us, 

Hearing from the silent side. 

For the world sees but the surface. 

But the cloak that hides the soul. 
And this earth is but a play house 

Where we all do play a role. 
And in every human Ix^ing, 

Dwells a "Jekyll" and a "Hyde," 
And the part that tells the story. 

Is the hidden silent side. 
■ccsler, Mass. 



The Lovely Editor. 
Editing a paper, says a provincial editor, is 
a pleasant thing. If it contains too much 
political matter, people won't have it; if it 
contains too little, they won't have it. If the 
type is too large, it doesn't contain enough 
reading matter; if the type is too small, they 
can't read it. If telegraphic reports are pub- 
lished, some folks say they are nothing but 
hash-ups; if they are omitted, they say there 
is a want of enterprise. If we put in a few 
jokes, folks say we are nothing but a rattle- 
head ; if we omit the jokes they say we are 
an old fossil. If we publish original matter, 
they condemn us for not giving them selec- 
tions; if we puljlish selections, folks say we 
are lazy for not giving them what they have 
not read in .some other paper. If we give a 
man complimentary notices, we are censured 
for being partial ; if we do not, all hands say 
that we are a great boor. If we insert an 
article which pleases the ladies, men become 
jealous ; if we do not cater to their wishes, the 
paper is not fit to he in their houses. If we 
attend church, they say it is only for effect ; 
if we do not, they denounce us as deceitful 
and desperately wicked. If we speak well of 
any act, folks say we dare not do otherwise; 
if we censure, they call us a traitor. If we 
remain in our office and attend to our busi- 
ness, folks say we are too proud to mingle 
with our fellows ; if we go about a bit, they 
say we had better stay at home and get on 
with our work. If we do not pay all bills 
promptly, folks say we are not be trusted ; if 
we do pay promptly, they say we stole the 
money. — If 'es/ern Journalist. 



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To the Lake Region. 



Manchester is another of England's great 
manufacturing cities, and in 1832 is said to 
have been capable of supplying the whole 
world with a sufficiency of cotton goods. It 
is also notably a charitable city, the necessity 
for such work of course coming from under- 
paid workmen. More money is raised and 
dispensed to institutions for the unfortunate 
and to special cases, according to the city's 
size, than in London itself. Situated between 
two beautiful rivers, it is surrounded by a 
mar\-elously productive and well-wooded land. 

The public buildings are very substantial 
and artistic. The modern city hall, with its 
fine peal of bells, is attractive e.xternally, while 
within, the fine hallways, staircases and suits 
of apartments, with tiled or rug-covered floors, 
form a noticeable feature of a most complete 
whole. Oak is largely used in interior finish, 
yet brick and terra cotta and brown stone add 
much in the larger apartments. The windows 
are subdued and beautiful in tone, while the 
highly artistic mural paintings in the banquet 
hall, representing scenes in Manchester's life 
which began even before the Roman conquest, 
are peculiar in grouping and coloring, though 
very beautiful. Some rooms were rather 
over decorated, but only for the time, arranged 
to suit, rather than to elevate, the peculiar 
taste of the Shah, whose party closely followed 
ours since the arrival of his red and yellow 
barge at Westminster bridge two weeks be- 
fore. The city was to entertain him, and 
through kindness of friends we saw the gold 
and silver plate, the jewelled cup and other 
articles which this heathen who had only just 
learned the use of a handkerchief, was to use. 
England throughout tried hard to please him. 

In Manchester, too, is an ice cream soda 
fountain, till last year the only one in Eng- 
land ! It was popular. Great engineering 
works are attempted with almost no apparent 
thought of funds or obstacles by these people. 
A gigantic aqueduct to supply the town with 
water from one of the lakes seventy miles 
away was proposed and nearly completed in a 
comparatively short time. 

The beautiful suburban places surrounding 
the city are as beautiful as any in England, 
and rather force one to drive in a cart that 
they may be seen, for high walls surround 
these almost castles. Natural scenery for the 
most part is preserved within, so moss- and 
vine-covered rocks, groups of fine old trees 
and hedges of hawthorn have their own sweet 
wills in beautifying all about them. 

To the southern extremity of the Lake 
region is a short trip, growing more beautiful 
as each little station is left behind, and 
Windemere is finally reached. The cooling 
and restful atmosphere of the beautiful spot 
gets the best of one's travel-stained self and 
spirits immediately. Kiggs' hotel, on a height 
near the station, extends a whole-souled invi- 
tation to accept its hospitality that cannot be 
refused, and up to its shaded yard and vine- 
covered piazzas one climbs with a most satis- 
fied feeling. Shimmering in front of the hotel, 
about a half mile distant, is the largest of the 
famous chain of lakes in this enchanting 
region. Beyond it, yes, and about it, are piled 



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hills and round-topped mountains that keep 
the lake in its position by a coaxing force. 
Their soft outlines would not stand the 
thumping and restlessness of our overgrown 
Superior or Michigan, but have no trouble in 
retaining Windy Mere in their quiet power. 

The little village is one of hotels, yet a few 
well-kept cottages and larger places add their 
charms to it. Windemere is the starting 
point for most of the coaching tours so general 
in July and August. The ordinary "coaches" 
are large open affairs very like our mountain 
wagons, so if one has his mind made up for 
pink post boys, tally-ho, horns and a many- 
caped coachman, he must arrange weather 
beforehand to have the good fortune to possess 
a friend with this ideal turnout who is "doing 
the lakes." 

Perched up on the top of a black coach 
with glowing yellow running gear, and trapped 
out with baskets, rugs and the infinite number 
of articles without which no Englishman can 
"take a turn," we rolled down through shaded 
lanes and post roads to Bownes. 

Bownes is a pure and simple farming village, 
though the center of it is packed full of small 
houses and smaller shops filled with everything 
that nobody could want and presided over by 
one member of a family who must call a 
meeting of the rest before selling his wares. 
Away from the street, backed toward the 
roadway, as if ignoring the worldliness there, 
stands one of the smallest and quaintest 
churches in England, St. Martin's. Attempts 
at frescoing rather harm its stone and roughly 
plastered walls. Its pews are crude, and yet 
it has a comfortable church look. In the 
chancel is a bit of a painted window — a 
treasure — from Furness Abbey. 

On from the village to the lake, where a large 
platform ferry took our trap across. The sail 
was a novel one, though short and sufficiently 
exciting, as the horses did not enjoy it quite. 
Once on shore, the lash wriggled and cracked 
and our four-in-hand were in the gallop before 
the post boys had gotten into the rumble. Our 
horn announced our approach to farm houses 
and villages as we passed by and through 
them, and seemed to leave behind a bit of our 
pleasure for less fortunate to enjoy. The 
country was beautiful all about. Some may 
say no more so than our own, yet there is a 
freedom when one is traveling, and this coupled 
with the almost enervating air, so restful, 
makes one feel himself apart from a world of 
rush, fuss and feathers. Nerves are asleep 
and only best feeling pervades all in a well 
arranged coaching party. 

On to Coniston, where our bays are ex- 
changed for four grays, and on we trot, this 
time for Furness Abbey. This immense ruin, 
softened by the ever present green, is the 
finest in northern England. It was founded 
in 1127 by the Earl of Boulogne, afterwards 
King Stephen. The cruciform abbey, with its 
pillars and grained arches and its huge door- 
ways with portieres of Virginia creeper, is 
superb. The abbey is three hundred feet 
long and about sixty feet wide, thoroughly 
ruined, yet its outlines are easily traced. The 
surrounding gardens, underground passages, 
minor chapels and cloisters make it the 
imaginary scene of many interesting tales. 
After luncheon in the immense oak coffee room 
of the Abbey Hotel, built in the old fashion, 
the tally-ho says goodbye and we are off for 
the lake shore again, through more shaded 
roads and beautiful places, till Riggs is again 
reached in time for dinner and a night's rest 
preparatory to another well-filled day. 



In Battle. 



]!V C. .\SHMORE, G. A. R. 



We were standing in line of battle. The 
men were very quiet, as men always are in 
the presence of danger. There was no noise 
in our lines, except the orders of the officers 
getting the men into line. In the rear, how- 
ever, could be heard the music of bands, as 
the reserves came up, and the artillery made 
considerable racket getting into position. 

I could not see the enemy, as there was a 
shrubbery in front, but the mounted officers 
were watching them through their field-glasses. 
The commanding officer of our regiment was 
near me, and 1 watched him closely. Pres- 
ently, I saw a glint of the sun on the tips of 
the bayonets away in the distance, and then a 
solitary shell passed over us with a scream, 
and burst in the rear. Suddenly a rattle of 
musketry was heard in the front, and the 
bullets came whistling past us. Not all went 
past, however, for a man dropped beside me 
with a groan, and lay on the ground wounded. 
The next instant a scream seemed almost to 
pierce the air as another comrade fell, shot 
through the heart. Then the enemies' artil- 
lery opened up, round shot and shell came 
screaming through the air. A shell burst on 
my left with a terrible noise, and when the 
smoke cleared away I saw that several of my 
comrades had been torn to shreds. It was 
fearful ; 1 began to feel very nervous. The 
sound of the enemies' musketry grew louder, 
and I knew they were advancing. A round 
shot went whizzing past my head, and the rush 
of air from it almost blinded me. Our artil- 
lery now began firing, but our infantry had not 
fired a shot. Just then an aide-de-camp came 
galloping along in hot haste, and gave an 
order hurriedly to the commanding officer, 
which was taken up and passed along the 
line : "Fix bayonets." Then followed the 
exhilarating clash as the bayonets were ad- 
justed. It sent the blood bounding through 
the whole system, and froze the cheek to very 
steel. Our artillery was ordered to cease firing 
and we were ordered to charge, and away we 
went 

I shall never know how it all ended, for just 
then I woke. It was late, and the sun was 
shining in at the windows ; I had overslept 
myself. I arose in haste. Just then 1 heard 
martial music. This was in the stirring days 
of '61, and the troops were being sent to the 
front. I rushed to the window and saw a 
regiment away up the street; it was approach- 
ing. The music thrilled me through and 
through as it had never done before. The war 
spirit was on me ! the band came nearer play- 
ing a martial strain. Crowds were cheering 
the boys in blue as they pa.ssed. I went down 
to breakfast, but my appetite was gone and I 
could eat nothing. I was restless. Before 
the day passed I had enlisted. 

H'o?xesUf\ Afass. 



The Westborough Tribune is a bright paper. 
It is newsy; it is well written. Its proprietors 
are newspaper men who understand their busi- 
ness. Westborough is a rushing town and the 
Tribune is fully abreast of the town. The 
Tribune is well printed ; it has a clean busi- 
ness appearance which means business. 



Hoodlums. 



15Y JACK SHEl'HERD. 



" Blessed art thou, O land, when thy Kiiii; is the son 
of nobles." — Eccles. x., 17. 

As this cultured old king of Jerusalem mor- 
alized and communed witti his own heart, over 
nine centuries before Christ, he concluded that 
"all is vanity." Yet he sat in oriental splen- 
dor, amid things of beauty and lu.xury we 
cannot rival at the present day. The fruit of 
his wisdom and wealth of knowledge and 
possessions must have made of the city and 
environs a charming and beautiful place, pro- 
viding the youths of that period with resource 
and enjoyment that would read like a fairy 
tale to boys of these days. He tells of the 
houses he builded — not six-story blocks, with- 
out an inch of room for yard or play-ground 
(this grand, old ruler had evidently no lago 
near to whisper "put money in thy purse"), 
the vineyards he planted, the gardens and 
orchards with trees of all kinds, the fountains 
and cisterns and handsome courts, that man- 
kind of that day should eat, drink and enjoy 
good in their labor. 

Such a princely nature as this monarcli's 
must have been the result of generations of 
nobleness. 

Have we not in Worcester, in its increasing 
wealth and culture and opportunities of leis- 
ure, some great-hearted leaders, sons of na- 
ture's noblemen, al)le and willing to provide 
some places of enjoyment and beauty for its 
Hoodlums? 

Take a crowd of them as they cluster on a 
pavement in the business part of our city. 
There is the popular boy, the centre and life 
of the gang. He boards and has part of a 
room in the si.\-story hotel before which they 
stand. He is motherless, has neither brother, 
sister, cousin or aunt at whose door he can 
enter and catch a glimpse of home. If he in- 
vites a boy to his room, the occupant of the 
other half objects. If he goes with another 
boy to his home, he has no welcome, or but a 
luke-warm one, as his dusty feet are sharply 
scrutinized — for our hearts, alas, though warm 
toward the human race, are cold to the un- 
known individual who enters our sanctum of 
household gods and bric-a-brac ! 

The popular boy among the Hoodlums I 
am picturing is not rich ; his power to attract 
lies in his sympathy for each of the crowd and 
his bohemian nature ; his interest is genuine 
in all, from the big boy, happy in a pocket full 
of spending money and blessed with father, 
mother, sisters and brothers, to the little 
hanger-on of the crowd, who is proud to look 
after his ball and happy when a seat is kept 
for him by this never failing friend, in some 
wee corner of the crowded wagonful of boys 
bound for a fishing or swimming or hunting 
trip. 

There is always a bad lad in the group, but 
boys are very democratic and recognize more 
quickly than their elders that "spark of Di- 
vinity that lies in every breast." Through 
evil and good report they stand by one another 
and all bear unflinchingly the blame that 
should rest on the shoulders of one. 

The timid boy and the fat boy and mania's 
darlingj^^and the colored boy, who, like "the 



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black lioy of Atlanta, is rising," swell the 
crowd till it would till an ordinary room. The 
outside of the house is the only place to get 
lilierty and enough air and sunshine. But 
even here, the policeman stands ready to limit 
their freedom, and lowering looks are cast on 
them from neighboring doors and windows. 

The Young Men's Christian Association 
and the club started for them are doing good, 
but they need out-door places in the vicinity 
of these crowded homes, a green square with 
pretty benches and shade trees, fountains and 
tennis courts, places to play or chat, in which 
they can gather without the fear of being 
"moved on," like "little Joe." 

It will make a better class of boys in the 
community when our wealthy and generous 
men of Worcester take hold of this still un- 
solved problem : What shall we do with our 
Hoodlums? 



What She Wants Girls to Do. 

Now that spring is with us I wish that more 
young girls — up to the age of twenty, at least — 
would gown themselves in pure, soft, white, 
with collars rolled back a trifle, revealing 
warm, round throats, tinted like rose leaves. 

Young girls are like flowers, and instead of 
rustling with silks and jingling and flashmg 
with jewelry, they should wear only simple 
gowns — gowns soft as their eyes, pure as their 
consciences, and white as their souls. 

The man does not live who could look at 
such a maiden and not be the better because 
of the reverent thought her pure presence 
awakens. — E//a Higg^inson, in Wat Shore. 



The " Impossible." 
"Impossible," as the term is here employed, 
means that which is supposed to lie beyond 
the boundaries of the possible. The world of 
iSgo would be a world full of miracles to men 
who left in 1790, could they revisit their old 
terrestrial home. If we go back to the days 
beyond the steamship and the railroad, to 
the days of the flint, steel, and the tinder-bo.\; 
to the era of tallow candles and huge wood 
fires; to the time wlien the plumlier took little 
or no part in the construction of houses: when 
the shoemaker and the tailor itinerated and 
the schoolmaster " boarded 'round ;" when 
there were no daily and but few weekly 
papers; when the telegraph liad not been 
dreamed of ; when the art of printing was 
comparatively in its infancy; when Europe 
was forty days distant; when only a few of 
the most wealthy citizens could afford a piano 
— and such a piano!— when factories were 
unknown and simplicity ruled in all things — 
in short, if we go back to the days of our 
great grandfathers, we are able to understand 
how much of the "impossible" has surrendered 
to the assaults of invention. And yet we 
often hear regrets that "the good old days" 
are gone. There are those who seem to 
lament the progress of the nineteenth century ; 
those who gaze longingly, lovingly backward, 
professing to regard the old as better than the 
new. But these unhappy pessimists are mis- 
taken. The advancement to which we refer 
as due to invention has not been achieved at 
the sacrifice of anything worth retaining. In- 
tellectually and morally our nation and the 



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human race have kept pace with scientific and 
inventive progress. Human sympathy flows 
with a broader and deeper current with every 
passing year. More work has been accom- 
plished in the fields of charity and benevo- 
lence in our century than had been attempted 
in the five centuries ne.xt preceding ours. Re- 
forms of every kind calculated to alleviate 
suffering, spread knowledge, promote virtue, 
and to exalt and purify have been and are the 
great features of nineteenth-century life. In 
all these works invention is the chief helper.— 
T/ic Invoilivc Age. 



An Antidote for Cowardice. 

Just before the battle of Antietam five re- 
cruits came down for my company. There 
were no bounty jumpers at that stage of the 
game, although the courage and patriotism 
of all the recruits could not be vouched for. 
One of the batch was named Danforth, a 
farmer's son, fresh from the corn fields, and 
as we took up the line of march to head I,ee 
off and bring him to bay, Danforth said to 
me: 

"See here, sergeant, I've made a mistake." 

"How?" 

" I hain't got no sand. I alius thought I 
had, but when I come down here and see 
what war is, I find I hain't got the .spunk of 
a rabbit." 

"That's bad." 

" So it is. We're going to have a fight purty 
soon, and I know what'Il happen. 1 shall boll 
as sure as shooting." 

"Then you'll be called a coward, and dis- 
graced forever." 

"That's so, and I don't want it. I want 
you to do me a great favor." 

"Well?" 

"Wall, if I kin git mad I'll be all right, 
and forgit my shaking. Keep your eye on me, 
and as soon as we git within five miles of the 
rebels kick me good and stout." 

After some further talk I promised him. We 
were in Hooker's Corps, and as we moved in 
agamst Jackson Danforth, obliqued alongside 
and said : 

"Sergeant, kick me or I shall bolt. 1 
haven't got sand enough to see a chicken die." 

We were moving through the timber, and I 
stepped behind him and "lifted" him twice as 
hard as I could kick. He shot aside, and next 
time I saw him we were at a fence on the edge 
of a cornfield. The fire was hot and the men 
were falling thick. I had just fired from a 
rest on the top rail when Danforth came up, 
faced the other way, and said : 

"More kicks, sergeant! 1 know I've 
dropped two of 'em, but my sand is going !" 

1 kicked him again with a good deal of 
vigor, and just then we got the order to ad- 
vance, and he was the first man over the fence. 
Half an hour later we were driven back, con- 
siderably disorganized, and as I reached the 
fence I came across Danfortli again. He had 
a rebel captain by the collar, and was carrj'ing 
the officer's sword in his hand. As he saw 
me he called out : 

"Sand is all right, sergeant. No more 
kicks. As soon as I take this chap to the rear 
I'm going back and collar old Stonewall him- 
self or die trying!" 



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One Man's View of Life. 



BY I. O. U. 



Oliver Jefferson was a man of two distinct 
characteristics: first, li is aboniinal:)le laziness, 
and second, his sublime trust in the goodness 
of Providence. 

"The Lord will provide for the lame and the 
lazy," was his favorite maxim, and he knew, 
by his own experience, that it was strictly 
true. He was the possessor of a slight limp 
caused from being thrown from a horse in 
early boyhood, and consequently he felt en- 
titled to a double claim on the promise. 

Mrs. Oliver, or Marianna, was just the 
opposite of her indolent husband ; smart, 
capable, energetic,were the encomiums applied 
in her favor. She was one of those remark- 
able women, so exceedingly scarce nowadays, 
who can work twenty hours out of the twenty- 
four, and then never be able to define aches or 
pains from personal contact with them. 

Dust, dirt and laziness were her particular 
enemies, and she was rarely known to indulge 
in a leisure moment except the few short 
hours which she begrudged in sleep. 

The tale of so strange an alliance is not a 
romantic one. 

An uncle of Oliver's had left him heir to a 
good farm, a short distance from a large and 
growing city, on condition that he should 
marry an industrious wife and take up his 
abode thereon for twenty years, at least, and 
the old gentleman intimated, a short time be- 
fore his death, that if his idle nephew followed 
these restrictions he would, at the end of that 
period, find himself a wealthy man. 

The competency of the young woman must 
be acknowledged by a friend of the deceased, 
who, having a family of marriageable daught- 
ers, selected the most promising as a candi- 
date for Jefferson's affections. 

The poor fellow had led quite a changeable 
existence. At the time this offer was placed 
before him he was a reporter on a bright little 
country paper, but had just received notice to 
quit and make room for some one who was 
not quite such an ardent lover of ease. 

He had been a dry goods clerk, a book- 
keeper, a printer, an insurance agent, had 
served three weeks in a blacksmith's shop, 
and travelled ten with an evangelist as 
musical director; he had studied telegraphy 
and electricity, and he lived in hopes of be- 
coming suddenly and enormously rich in some 
mysterious and easy manner, not yet revealed 
to his aspiring brain. 

Farming was one thing which he had missed, 
but he always intended to look into it some 
day, and now, thanks to Providence, there was a 
good farm at his disposal, and like a man 
of sense he reasoned that it would be impos- 
sible to run it without a wife, and this blessing 
was also to be provided for him. Accordingly 
he accepted his uncle's conditions, and was as 
enthusiastic about his prospects as he ever 
exerted him.self to be. 

M irianna was duly presented, and, as she 
was a bright buxom girl, he felt no serious re- 
grets on that score. 

Their married life was as harmonious as 
that of many another pair. 

Oliver often expressed a tired feeling as he 



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watched his better half stirring about briskly, 
and tried hard to instill into her mind the 
theory that frequent rest was an absolute 
essential to perfect health. On the other hand 
Marianna sought to convince him that it was 
not equally indispensable to a fat pocketbook. 

Many and many a time would she lead her 
husband to a door looking away to the poor- 
house of B , and solemnly warn him that 

that would certainly be their destination. 

"Very well," he would reply, languidly, "if 
the Lord sees fit to wind up my days there, 
I'm willing; but, Marianna, that isn't his plan. 
We shall be richer instead of poorer, I seem 
to know it, its foreordained, and what's the use 
of fretting oneself and not enjoying life as it 
comes along." 

In spite of the many discouragements which 
beset their path he always could see a bright 
prospect ahead. 

Upon looking back over his history, at a 
later date, he was willing to admit that three 
times he had been in very tight places, but 
Providence had opened almost miraculous 
ways of escape. In the first instance he had 
found it necessary to mortgage his farm, the 
neighbors said because of his mismanage- 
ment; at any rate the crops didn't pay, the 
weather was bad and Marianna was mad. 

For a number of years she had carried on 
quite an extensive poultry business, had taken 
summer boarders, besides having the whole 
care of their interesting family of six children. 

Now, to use an expressive term, she 
"kicked," and declared that she wouldn't 
bring in another cent of money if Oliver didn't 
reform. 

When his wife's labors ceased he was 
amazed that there was such a deficit in the 
family funds. Somebody must do something, 
and he vainly studied how to get over the 
difficulty. Every night, however, he reposed 
as tranquilly as ever and trusted that every 
new day would throw light on the problem. 
At last it came. A new railroad was being 
built through the town which would pass over 
a section of his land. This he must sell and 
money was forthcoming. 

"Marianna," said he, after the business was 
transacted, "don't you ever dare to doubt 
Providence again. I've just trusted all along 
and see what has come of it." 

"The gods help those who help themselves, 
generally," she retorted, as she left him to put 
the little ones to bed. 

His children were something of a disap- 
pointment to him. The mother indignantly 
said that the reason was because there was 
not one monstrosity in the whole lot. 

He would have been pleased if he had had 
a boy or girl a little different from the ordi- 
nary specimens of childhood. 

Some distant connection of his was father of 
a boy of gigantic proportions, who made a vast 
amount of money out of him, at exhibitions, 
every year. The child was a grand financial 
success, but no such good fortune seemed to 
be in store for the Jeffersons. To be sure 
there were the twins, but they were nothing 
but hearty, healthy, little fellows, and would 
attract no attention, save for their mischievous- 
ness. His eldest child and only daughter, 
Julia, was his favorite, perhaps because she 
grew so fast and inherited her father's dislike 
for manual labor. 



If there were dishes to wash or rooms to be 
put in order her willowy form would be seen 
vanishing out of a side door, and her strange 
black eyes would snap when she found her 
father and told him of her escape from the 
busy mother. 

These two took long rambles together, and 
one day Jefferson confided to his daughter that 
he thought there was gold on the land. At 
any rate there must be some metal or some- 
thing which might be turned into money, about 
the premises, or his old uncle would not have 
been so particular about his keeping it. He 
confessed having studied up the subject, and 
looked around a bit, but with no good resu't. 

The girl listened attentively, and then spent 
several minutes in deep thought. 

"No, no," she burst out, vehemently, "don't 
look for gold, pa, but something good is com- 
ing, and you won't always be poor." 

This was great comfort to the man, and as he 
looked at the strange black eyes he wondered 
if she was to be the one through whom good 
would come. 

For the next few months he forgot it, how- 
ever ; the railroad money was gone, and an en- 
tirely new emergency arose. 

A new hired man, who had just arrived in 
the country, brought to his employer the much 
dreaded disease of small-pox. Of course the 
whole family had it, the red flag waved from 
their dwelling for many weeks, but finally they 
were all well again, and life went on as usual. 
The bills of sickness were enormous, and 
mortgage number two was the outcome of the 
scourge. 

Julia suffered the least of any member of 
the family, and for once lost her idle habits. 

She was an admirable nurse, the doctor said, 
and her powerful strength in lifting the 
patients was something remarkable. Her 
friends were surprised at her as her peculi- 
arities grew more marked everyday. One day 
she was taken to a noted physician who pro- 
nounced her an electric girl. She developed 
rapidly, and began to hear what she believed 
to be supernatural noises about the house, 
such as the slamming of doors, tappings on 
the walls, and the moving of furniture. Strange 
to say, these manifestations did not alarm her, 
even when she felt sensations which were simi- 
lar to the shocks of an electric battery. 

Now her father was perfectly happy. His 
Julia far exceeded his fondest hopes, and she 
was in great demand to exhibit her powers. 

"Don't talk about Providence to me," Mari- 
anna once said when her spouse was alluding 
to their daughter's unnatural proclivities. "I 
see only the works of the evil one." 

Even this good fortune was not destined to 
last forever, for Julia, with the strange per- 
versity of her sex, fell in love with a clair- 
voyant and actually married him. 

Again her father was in straightened cir- 
cumstances. This last event was unlooked 
for. He had spent money recklessly, even 
tearing down the old farmhouse and building 
in its stead quite a pretentious country man- 
sion. 

Such words had been suggested to him as 
"attachment"' and "foreclosure," bu the peace- 
fully went his way knowing that all would 
turn out well. Julia said it would and that was 
consolation enough. 

One day in early spring he received a visit 



from a number of gentlemen who proposed 
buying more than half his farm. They were 
cityfied in appearance, and seemed anxious to 
get it at as low a figure as possible. The 
twenty years were up, and he was free to sell 
if he chose, but was cunning enough to in- 
vestigate the matter before effecting the sale. 

He discovered that the large tract of land 
was wanted by a sportsmen's club of the ad- 
jacent city, that it was the most desirable to be 
found, and he felt safe in asking a good round 
sum. 

Twenty-five thousand dollars was the in- 
come of this providential happening. 

Mrs. Jefferson was mute when her husband 
said impressively: "Marianna, you must see 
now why I 'm so strong in my belief ; first came 
the railroad, then Julia's talents, and now 
these ball players and horse racers. The 
boys are almost grown up and can take care 
of themselves, we're not afraid of small-pox 
again, and we'll lift those mortgages and just 
live and be thankful. I declare I never be- 
lieved in trusting in Providence as much as I 
do now." 

Worcester, Mass. 



A Man of Few Words. 

Old Simmons advertised for a secretary and 
when a young man presented himself the old 
fellow looked at him sharply, and in a gruff 
voice, asked: 

"Well, sir, what can you do?" 

"Don't know exactly — haven't sized myself 
up in a complete way yet, but I think that I 
can manage to hold my end up." 

"Yes, you think so. Now, sir, I want a man 
to do my writing, and 1 want him to be a man 
of judgment. Uo you understand .'"' 

"Yes?" 

"I don't want any namby-pamby fellow 
about me. I want a man to catch my ideas 
at once, and in e.xpressing them to my corres- 
pondents to use as few words as possible." 

"Think I'm your man, sir." 

"I don't want any scollops, understand, I 
want plain words — want a spade to be called a 
spade." 

"All right, sir, and if I don't suit you, I don't 
think there is anybody that can." 

"What is your name ?" 

"Spires." 

"Very good, Mr. Spires, you may go to 
work." 

When the old man took up the first letter 
that Spires had written he looked at it a mo- 
ment, and then uttered an angry exclamation: 
"Why, what do you mean here? After sign- 
ing my name you have put the word 'Sweats.' 
What did you do that for?" 

"Why, to carry out your idea of calling a 
spade a spade, for, instead of saying per 
Spires, I have simply added .Sweats, which, 
you know, means the same thing, expressed in 
a simpler way." 

"Mr. Spires," said the old man, and his 
voice trembled, "I shall take you into full co- 
partnership at once." 



— The costliest horse barn in the world be- 
longs to D. E. Crouse, and is located at Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. It has now cost the owner, a 
millionaire horseman, something like $700,000. 
Incidental expenses will make the stalsle cost 
little short of a round million. 



LlCi HT 

Some Happenings. 



ItV KlFfJENIA H. SIKIiRRS. 



[RKIUU.AK CORRESPONDENCF. ok l.uniT.l 

Nkw York, June 5, i8yo. 

The weeping skies of May have given place 
to the smiling mood of summer, and the rare 
June days are here, days for laughter and en- 
joyment. A person who does not get lots of 
fun ought not to live. The world was not 
created for smileless humanity. It was in- 
tended for hilarious human beings. So 
says that silver-tongued orator, Mr. Chauncey 
M. Depew. It was at the commencement ex- 
ercises of the business classes of the Young 
Womens Christian Association. Among the 
good things that he said to the young women 
about to go out into the world as book-keepers, 
stenographers, type-writers, and into other 
professions were these remarks: "I work all 
day, but every fifteen minutes I liave a jolly 
good time with somebody or at someone." * 
* * * * * "The type writer promotes 
morality because it prevents profanity," 
(because it obviates the necessity of reading 
our friends' handwriting,) and so on, with his 
ready word in season, with the wonderfully 
happy way he has, so peculiarly his own. 

The summer abundance of leaf and bloom is 
seen in the city as well as country. Just now 
New York is a truly beautiful city, fresh and 
delightful, the green of vines and flowers in 
window and garden as yet unspoiled from dust 
and grime. 

The close of May is practically the end of 
the gay season, though a few June weddings 
will occur. Most of society's swelldom have 
flitted to their country houses. The last 
notable function of the season is the coaching 
parade of the four hundred — not the entire 
four hundred; that would indeed be a sight 
for gods and men — but a small portion of those 
fortunate ones "on the list." The meet is at 
five p. M. in Central Park, through the drives 
and back, the finale being a grand dinner at 
the Brunswick. The 14th of May was all that 
could be desired. I found some thousands of 
persons besides myself assembled on the walks 
and greensward of the park, evidently ani- 
mated with the same idea, that of witnessing 
the unattainable glories of the four-in-hand 
parade. It was an exhilarating scene, bright 
and gay with abounding movement, color and 
life. Women in pretty light costumes with 
gay parasols, children like big butterflies 
sporting here and there in the fragrant flower 
laden air, gave animation to the scene. Over 
all, the golden sunshine that here just out of 
the crowded city streets gives lavishly of its 
bounty, and, like the quality of mercy, is not 
strained, but shines alike on rich and poor as- 
sembled in democratic ecjuality. 

But here comes the dashing procession. 
Twelve coaches wheel into line with Mr. 
Frederic Bronson leading. Everything about 
the teams is simply perfection, the bays and 
roans well matched, the coaches only differ- 
ing in combination of colors. No less fault- 
less are the beautiful and stylish women of 
whom each vehicle has its quota. Leading in 
distinction is Mr. Perry Belmont's coach, as it 
is graced by the presence of Mrs. (i rover 
Cleveland in the seat of honor on the box. In 
her elevated perch she presents a pretty pic- 



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ture, gracious and debonair, exquisitely gowned 
in primrose yellow, light veil and parasol. The 
skillful management of the wheelers and 
leaders is always observed with interest by the 
critical onlookers, especially when the mana- 
vure of turning is executed. Away they go out 
of sight. As by concerted action the throngs 
swarm over to the East drive, and patiently 
and good naturedly await the return of the 
line for about an hour— no hardsliip in this 
loveliest of all pleasure grounds on this conti- 
nent. Surely much can be forgiven the Tweed 
ring for their development of Central Park. 
Soon the tops of hats are seen through the 
trees and exclamations are heard of: "There 
they come !" Swiftly rolling over the splendid 
roads they go, a vivid flash and gleam, looking 
at a distance not unlike colossal beetles. 
There is this about it, that from their elevated 
position the occupants of tlie coach seats ol)- 
tain views of the scenery that are impossible 
to the poor who walk, or even the rich who 
ride in "chaises." Who would not traverse 
the land with coach and four, if they could, to 
view the landscape o'er ? 

In the wake of the coaches follows a train 
of the rest of the four hundred and some of 
the four thousand. Here comes a symphony 
in yellow — a showy girl in yellow and black 
draperies, yellow mail pliaeton, harness and 
accessories, handling the reins with consum- 
mate skill in the tangle of carriages. Again 
appears a smart trap, a tailor-made girl sitting 
high, stiff and trig, also guiding her horse 
with steady hand. Both of cour.se have their 
footmen behind. Here is a beautiful woman 
lolling back in her victoria with a huge grey 
feather boa about her neck. Seated high in 
air the two human automata gaze forward 
with "stony British stare." Bowling along 
comes a curious affair — a dog-cart with equip- 
ments and trappings of woe; a hearse-like 
sombreness surrounds all ; horses dead black, 
even the footman has crape about his boot; 
the harness is of lack-lustre deadne.ss ; the 
man himself is clothed in black from top to 
toe; and so they go, rolling down Fifth avenue. 
It needs the pen of a Thackeray to adequately 
portray this dazzling phase of cosmopolitan 
life in this modern Vanity Fair, its gleam and 
its glitter, its lights and shades, and masks 
and manners. If it is all glittering insincerity, 
it is apparently very real, very solid, and very 
delightful. 

Formerly it was the custom of the coaching 
party to alight at the Brunswick, much to the 
audible enjoyment of the sidewalk brigade. 
It was almost as good a show as Barnum's. 
As each fair dame gathered her huge be- 
ribboned bouquet and slowly backed down 
the little ladder, a favoralile opportunity was 
offered to scrutinize eacli point of beauty of 
face, figure and attire, but the lovely objects of 
interest never in the least appeared to mind 
the publicity, accustomed as they are to being 
"en evidence." Now the coaches disband on 
leaving the Park. 

In the numerous brilliant weddings that 
have been celebrated in May, many brides 
have set aside all superstition and prejudice 
regarding that month. .Notable among them 
was the marriage of Miss Blaine and Mr. 
Uamrosch. This bride, with a few others I 
have noticed at various times, went through 
the serious ceremony witli ungloved hands, 



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bearing a white vellum-bound prayer-book. 
To me the absence of bouquet and gloves 
seems a desirable omission, as does that of the 
artificial floral bell so felicitously replaced by 
the natural bower. Mr. and Mrs. Damrosch 
will never be obliged to economize at table in 
the matter of forks for different courses, as 
sixty dozen of them were among the wedding 
presents. Other presents of similar articles 
make it possible for them to give a small 
dinner and use only solid gold knives, forks, 
spoons, ladles, carving and serving pieces. 
Not much Jeffersonian simplicity in that 
array, certainly, and those were only a few of 
the magnificent gifts that made up a minor 
Tiffany display. 

Apropos of social functions, the leaders of 
fashion, such as Mrs. Morton in Washington 
and Mrs. Whitney and others in New York, 
are to be congratulated upon inaugurating a 
new order of things in curtailing the time and 
heavy cours js of dinners and luncheons. A 
welcome innovation that relieves the length of 
the dinner and gives relaxation is the chang- 
ing of seats by the men. At a given signal by 
the hostess, they move several seats around in 
order, thereby giving a fresh impetus to the 
exchange of wit and repartee. It is not now 
considered good form in table etiquette to 
place the knife and fork parallel on the plate 
when one has finished using them. Place 
them on the plate with their points just cross- 
ing, as they have been used, the fork on the 
left, the knife on the right. 

A friend who was present at the ceremonies 
at the tomb of General Grant, at Riverside 
Park, on Memorial Day, said that the ser- 
vices were most solemn and impressive and 
that General Alger's tribute to the illustrious 
hero was a superb one, as, turning with bared 
head toward the entrance of the tomb, he said 
in tones of deep feeling: "To you, beloved 
commander, could we but call you back to- 
day with others that have gone," mentioning 
names and saying how few there were left of 
the old comrades. All that he said was an 
affectionate testimony not only to the general 
and commander, but to the man himself and 
his personal character. 

The day was further made memorable in 
New York city by its fitting selection as the 
day of tlie laying of the corner-stone of the 
Washington Memorial Arch. 

As I passed the statue of Admiral Farragut 
in Madison Scjuare, I could not repress a 
smile at its comical appearance. At the base 
were many emblems and floral devices ; 
draped acro.ss the figure the silken stripes 
showed in startling relief against the dark 
bronze; while surmounting the massive brow 
was an immense laurel wreath, three or four 
sizes too large and falling over the eyes. 
Though meant in patriotism, I could but 
think it would be better taste to leave the 
figure itself undecorated, while strewing the 
base with tokens of faithful appreciation as 
freely as may be desired. 



— Edward Atkinson declares that the an- 
nual production of eggs in this country equals 
in money value the country's annual produc- 
tion of iron. The eggs are beaten as pro- 
duced, while the iron stays by the owners, and 
is subject to taxation as it accumulates from 
year to year. 



L I(i HT 

In Leisure Moments. 



BV A BUSY MAN. 



When I was last in Boston, a couple of 
weeks ago, a Bohemian friend of mine took me 
for a table d'hote dinner to a curious little 
restaurant just off Milk street. He assured me 
that it was a familiar place to him, but for me 
it had the charm of novelty. Our dinner was 
wholly "Frenchified," and the sweet potatoes, 
evidently fried on oil, and the remarkable 
salad compounded of all sorts of things, tickled 
my country-bred palate immensely. But the 
proprietor of the place pleased me most of all. 
He was not averse to a chat, and I learned 
that he was an Alastian. He was born in 
Strasbourg and was there during the siege. 
After the war, when Alsace was ceded to 
Germany, like a true Frenchman he refused to 
live ;there longer, and so came to America. 
And parbleu ! how he fumes at the mere men- 
tion of the war. He has three fine boys grow- 
ing up, he told me, whom he has dedicated to 
La Belle France, and he becomes quite radiant 
in the thought that he will yet live to see them 
fight on her soil and help to take Strasbourg 
away from "those insolent Prussians !" There's 
patriotism for you. 



I heard recently a beautiful story about 
little Julia Hall, the daughter of President 
Hall, of Clark University, whose sad death 
so shocked us all, a few weeks ago. The 
anecdote as I tell it here is true in every 
detail. I am not sure that even President 
Hall knows of it, but it came to my ears from 
an unquestionable authority. Some time ago 
a half dozen children were at President Hall's 
home, at play with Julia and Robert, his chil- 
dren, and among them were two little boys. 
After a time it was proposed that the party 
should go out for a walk, the plan being to go 
in couples. One of the little boys, who may 
be called Charlie, wanted Julia for his com- 
panion and Julia also favored the plan; but 
another of the playmates also desired to have 
her company. With a little of childish 
jealousy, he said to Charlie : "Your papa 
hasn't got so much money as mine, and you 
can't have as nice clothes as I do." Of course 
Charlie felt hurt. As a matter of fact, he was 
dressed, by a sensible mother, probably, in a 
playtime suit, while his aristocratic companion 
wore clothes which would have been much 
more in place in the house. But this sad be- 
ginning of snobbishness had its rebuke. Julia 
saw how matters stood, and though she was 
only seven years old, her good, pure heart and 
lovable nature spoke out at once. Crossing 
to where Charlie was, she placed her hand in 
his, and said, simply: "God looketh upon the 
heart, but man upon the outward appearance 
only." Those who knew the bright, sunny- 
natured little girl may, perhaps, realize from 
this simple incident how great has been the 
loss of the world in which she had so biief a 
part. 

Mr. John L. Chamberlain of the Quinsig- 
amond Bank relates the following new story 
about Cyrus Field, the great New York finan- 
cier and Atlantic cable constructor. When 
Mr. Field was younger he was the president 
of an Albany bank. His cashier was guilty. 



like William Pitt, of the heinous crime of 
being a young man and to add to his guilt he 
was unmarried. On account of these enor- 
mities Mr. Field suspected him of planning to 
rob the bank and escape to Canada. On New 
Year's eve Mr. Field was strolling along the 
sidewalk in the vicinity of the bank and was 
surprised to see the cashier suddenly cross the 
street in such a manner as to suggest a desire 
to avoid observation and enter the bank. 
Fearing that his suspicions were about to be 
justified, he entered the hallway and looked 
through the glass of the door in time to see 
the cashier emerge from the vault with a small 
tin trunk in his hand and disappear in the di- 
rectors' room in the rear. Mr. Field waited a 
moment, then opened the door softly, walked 
across the office with light footsteps and flung 
open the door of the inner room, expecting to 
find the cashier surrounded by the evidences 
of his guilt. "Sir," he exclaimed in tones of 
thunder, "I have detected you." His stern 
eyes fell upon the amazed cashier and saw 
him calmly sewing a suspender button upon 
his trousers. 

If prohibition has nothing else for Wor- 
cester, it has given us cause for devout thank- 
fulness that the crowd which Mechanic street 
was wont to drive forth at 1 1 o'clock, every 
night, no longer disgusts decent people who 
may be obliged to be out at that hour. It was 
a regular thing for the sidewalks at the 
junction of Mechanic and Main streets to be 
crowded, as soon as the saloons closed, with 
men in various stages of intoxication, who 
passed among themselves, with loud and 
boisterous laughter, obscene pleasantries and 
curses, and generally made the air redolent of 
viciousness. A delegation usually boarded 
the "last car" going to each of the several 
parts of the city, and made their room very 
much more desirable than their company. 
Business men who are frequently detained 
down town till late, and other decent people, 
are glad to be rid of such a nuisance. 



— The fine gold weighing scales made in 
Philadelphia and intended for the mint at New 
Orleans, a few years ago, are marvels of me- 
chanical invention and expert workmanship. 
The larger of the two pair has a capacity of 
10,000 ounces, troy, or about 785 pounds 
avoirdupois, and when loaded to its full weigh- 
ing capacity will indicate the variation of one- 
thousandth of an ounce. The other and 
smaller pair are intended for lighter work. All 
its bearings are of the finest agate, which have 
been ground with remarkable precision. The 
instrument is believed to be the most delicate 
in the world. It will give the precise weight 
of a human hair and is susceptible to the 
slightest atmosplieric changes. 



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**Good Bread and Cake DutU AVhet the v\i>- 
petite.** 

KiNE Bakery ! ! 

HIOUKST Ol'ALITY ONLY. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO, 15 PLEASANT ST. 

All (iooila Hot at :>,.:!ii. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, Silver and Ni« k«I IMatiiij;, 

PuIighitiK-, Hroii/.iii^ and I^acqueringr, 

i:«>|i1ating: Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MvVSSICOTT. PHOI*. 

Over Collar Laundry. Harton Place. Worci-ster. Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton F*lace. 

COI-LARS AND CUFFS I-AITNDEUKD IN SV- 
PKKIOK STVLK. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOI>: & Co.. PROPS. 

LE i JOLLY ^ FRENCH * DYEING 

AND * CLEANSING \ HOUSE. 

First-CIass Work at Short Nolire. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro^s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring; it with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. T. BIELVIN, PKOFKIETOK, WALNUT ST . 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St.. "Worces ter. Mass. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. R EU BIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTU R E FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
320 Main St., W^orcester, MaBS. 

TURKIJH B/1Tn5. 

F. AV. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
8 a.m. tog p. m. Sundays, 

8 to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln Housi 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New York Training School, gives 

^v MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



^ W. A. ENGLAND, 

re g^ i 1>KALEH IN 

™ FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

EEPAIltIN*; FIUJMI'TI.Y DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



CH.\KLES I.. WRIGHT. 



:iiAKI.l-;s II. WOCJIJLUCK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

ested IS cordially .nv|ted to come and see it. The "Wo o.-k l'niv.M-Hal I W Open" "%y s^^^^^ 



a butti ^ 

door. Must h<! s-rn U' 
No carpenter L.in .iihn 
ing. Hundreds ,.l ,l,,ll 
the most reason.ible tei 
Factory less than two i 



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for Ml l,i,„l , ! . • ' '"■ S'l'-^'I";"'' ••""' '""^f '^•"•r seen. We are prepared to make 

ules- wal'rlro^'r.ileasan'^^ilS'c'aVs.'^'-''^"'" "™""'"^ ''"'"= ^""' ^^"-'^'^"™ B"aranteed. 



No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



GUY'S * CROCKERY * STORE, 

221 Maio Street. 

COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHING. 



Decorated Dinner Sets, $5.25, $6.87, $8.67, $9.50. 

Tea Sets, $2.87, $3.50, $4.25. 
Toilet Sets, $1.89, $2.50, $3.50. 

IMMENSE STOCK 

Silver Plated Goods, Lamps, Vases, Etc., German Cooking Ware. 

GOODS SOLD FOR CASH OR INSTALLMENT. 

Guy's Crockery Store. 



2:21 MATX STREET 



WORCESTER. 




STONE LAWN AND CEMETERY VASES. 

Objections are made to Iron, as it draws the heat of 
the sun, and consequently dries the earth, while the iron 
destroys the life of the plants. Iron also necessitates fre- 
quent painting. These great objections are entirely over- 
come by this material, the nature being such that it ad- 
mits the air to the roots and retains the moisture. 

They are made in beautiful patterns, as shown in the 
annexed cut, and in color closely resemble light granite. 

They are warranted not to be injuriously affected by 
the heat in summer, or frost in winter, and they continually 
harden by exposure. 

NEALE & GOULDING, 

171 Maio Street. 

Open Monday, Friday and Saturday Evenings. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 



TEACHER OF 



Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

ST UDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HER KESIDKNCK, 39 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

^ SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION 4- 

Cla-rls B-a.ild.in.gr, *iS2 Xv^aixi St. 

Kouiii 43. Take Elevator. 

Next Term Begins April 24. 

Instruction given in Elocution, Vocal Technique and 
Physical Culture, also a thorough system of Gesture 
taught. Call, or send tor circular. Address Miss Stella 
M.Haynes, principal, graduate of N. E. Conservatory 
School of Oratory. ^^^ 



MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^'Ladies' f Hair *. Dressing^- 

CHItDKEN'S HAIR-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 NIAIN STREKT. 

MlS-S M. E. TiBBETTS, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SI'ECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

S'iS Ib^ain St., I^ooro. 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. ^__ 



Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS^' 

No. 387 Main street. Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

*«WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 
Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. I.. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

^^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMP1NG4- 

I^^o. 2 ■^^T'a.ln-u.t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 



L I (i H T 

Something to Eat. 



[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Ginger Cake. 

Two eggs, one cup sour milk, one cup mo- 
lasses, one cup brown sugar, two teaspoonfuls 
saleratus, one heaping teaspoonful ginger, a 
little salt. 
Raspberry Vinegar. 

Take seven pints of berries, pour over them 
one [|uart of vinegar and let them stand one 
night. Strain, and to every pint of juice add a 
pound of sugar; boil fifteen minutes and bottle 
for use. It will keep unsealed, if well corked. 
Sour Milk Biscuit. 

Take one quart of sour milk, one-half cup 
of butter, one heaping teaspoonful of soda dis- 
solved in one tablespoonful of hot water, stir 
all together, then add flour until stiff. Turn 
on bread board and knead very little ; cut out 
and bake in a quick oven. 
Cream Cake. 

One cup pounded sugar, two-thirds cup but- 
ter, four eggs, one-half cup milk, one-half tea- 
spoon soda, one teaspoon cream of tartar, 
three cups flour. Filling — One-half pint of 
milk, two small teaspoons corn starch, one egg, 
one teaspoon vanilla, one-lialf cup sugar. 
Graham Gems. 

One cupful of graham flour, one tablespoon- 
ful of butter, one tablespoonful of sugar, two- 
thirds of a cup of Inittermilk (sour milk will 
do), one egg well lieaten, scant teaspoonful 
saleratus, beat well and pour into greased tins, 
which have previously been heated quite hot, 
by allowing them to .stand on back of range 
while preparing the mi.\ture. Bake in a hot 
oven. 
Coffee Charlotte Russe. 

Sweeten and flavor one pint of thick cream 
with coffee. Beat stiff with an egg beater. 
Soak one tablespoonful of gelatine in one 
tablespoonful of cold water. Dissolve with 
one tablespoonful of hot water. Strain into 
the cream. Stir well. Line a mound with 
lady-fingers. Pour in the cream and keep on 
ice. One tablespoonful of water will not cover 
the gelatine, so it must be stirred occasionally, 
that it may all become softened. About three 
talilepoonfuls of powdered sugar will be 
enough to sweeten the cream. Have the coffee 
very strong for flavoring; one-fourth coffee 
and three-fourths water boiled will make it 
right. ISeat the cream until it is thick, setting 
the bowl containing the cream on a pan of ice ; 
this will make it thicken quicker. The gelatine 
may be dissolved in hot water or hot coffee, 
and then strained through a coarse cloth or 
wire strainer into the cream. The object of 
useing the bit of gelatine is to keep the whipped 
cream stiff. Cut the ends of the lady-fingers 
square across, so they will stand up in the 
mould ; leave a little space between them. 
Pour the cream into the centre of the mould, 
trim the fingers evenly around the top, so when 
the russe is turned out it will keep its proper 
shape, and set away on ice for an hour or more. 
Sponge cake may be put in place of the lady- 
fingers. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F, MELLEN, 571 Main St., 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 



T. D. GARD, 

^:'^ Worker in Gold and Silver * 

AND REGALIA M'F'G'B, 

393 Main St., Up One Flight, Worcester, Mass. 



« NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

Claflin*8 best Cabinet Photog:raphB, ^2 a doz. 

until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

manufacturers of 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FRAMES KE-GILDED. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 
30 Foster Street, Opp. Rink, Worceeter. MagB. 

* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.* 

Offlce, First National Hank Kuildiiij;, 

^10 I^^^a-irL St., "Vv^orcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

K. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 

GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 



C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Frame Is/I'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engravings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Caiueras, Lenses, Paper, Plates. Etc. 

4t Park St., Worcester. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattress of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 Park St., Worcester. 

TENEMENTS TO LET. 

124 Elm street, opposite Elm Park, three tenements, 7 
rooms each, hot and cold water, hard floors, gas lighted 
by electricity, finely finished, large store rooms. 

43 Russell street, overlooking Elm Park, two tene- 
ments, 5 rooms each, all modern improvements, store- 
rooms. Apply toC. W. BOWKER, 114 Elm street or 
1S7 F ront street. _^__ 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



« OXYGEN IN DISEASE * 



COMPOUND OXYGEN TREATMENT, 



The Rational Cure for Chronic Diseases. 




U. S. COMPOUND OXYGEN CO. 

The apparatus shown by the above cut is 

that of a "Home Treatment." 



More than 17,000 reputable physicians — many 

of them eminent in their profession 

— in the United States, 

use Oxygen. 

500,000 gallons were administered in disease 

in New York city alone last year. Let 

the reader judge|whether or not 

Oxygen is a valuable 

therapeutic. 

Send for Pamphlets, or call at rooms and see 

more than 100 testimonials from well 

known \A^orcester people. 

SEE ABOUT IT YOURSELF. 



BK.\NCH OFFICE, 

NO. 37 PEARL STREET, 

Kooms 2 and 3 Chapin Block, 

"^^7" orcester, 1>^ a, s s. 

v. M. SIMONS, Medical Actuary, 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury. There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours : 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

]V[iss H. rvl. PROCTOR, 

02 Summer Street. Worcester, Mass. 



n/INITOU 
QINQER 
Cn/inPflQNE 

Is acknowledged by all to be far superior 
to any imported ginger ale. 

Thousands of people who have visited the 
famous Manitou Springs testify to the supe- 
rior quality of the 

* flflMlTOU * 
QINQER ^^ CHflnPAlQNE 

Ask your Grocer for it. 

LT.5niTniC0 

aqents. 



L I (I H T 

About the House. 



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[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of tlie paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

** If carpets are faded and dull have them 
wiped with a wet cloth, taken from warm water 
containing a pint of oxgall to every gallon of 
water. 

^* When you h.ive a surplus of asparagus, 
the best known plan to keep it in good condition 
is to place the thick ends in water or bury half 
length in sand. 

»* Before any garment is wetted in the wash, 
it should be thoroughly examined to see if 
there are any spots or stains which need 
special treatment. All stains made by acids 
should be treated with some alkaline prepara- 
tion, while almost all fruit stains will readily 
yield to boiling water, which should be poured 
through them to prevent the stain spreading, 
as it might do if they were dipped into the 
water. 

f^* Lettuce certainly has a sedative action 
on the nervous system, and can be usefully 
employed in insomnia. 

»* According to an English barber frequent 
washings of the head will produce baldness. 
Another important agent in causing baldness 
is the use of fancy toilet soaps in shampooing 
the head. A good brush and comb are suffi- 
cient to keep the head clean. 

„.* In preparing cloths for the wash, it is 
well to remember that any articles wetted by 
water or perspiration should be dried before 
being thrown into the general receptacle for 
soiled clothing, particularly during summer 
weather, as there is always the danger that 
such articles will become mildewed. 

»* To keep steel and Oriental embroideries 
from tarnishing, fill a small bag with camphor- 
gum, and hang in a larger bag. If left un- 
covered it stains whatever it comes in contact 
with. 

JK* Dr. Thomas S. Ellis, in a book on "The 
Human Foot," finds that the exercise of 
dancing is one of the most important means of 
promoting and maintaining the strength of the 
foot. In walking, he says, the inner borders 
of the great toes should be retained almost 
parellel to each other, and he condems the 
military position with the toes turned outward, 
both walking and standing. Dr. Ellis declares 
that quite as much mischief is done to the feet 
by wearing ill-made socks or stockings as badly 
shaped shoes. He considers that a stocking 
with a separate stall for the great toe is always 
desirable. 

** A damp cloth dipped in common soda 
will brighten tinware easily. 

^» When giving the final polish to stoves, 
before putting away for the summer, mix the 
blacking with a little kerosene instead of water, 
to prevent rust. 

ji(* In doing up sateens do not use any 
starch. 

,* It is just as necessary to keep salt from 
absorbing bad odors as cream. A sack of best 
salt standing where there is a smell of fish or 
any objectionable odor will absorb the flavor. 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



It is— 

Why is it .' 

'ihat so many people reasonable in other matters 
and buying a good article of tea and coffee expect 
a delicate and wholesome beverage prepared in 
vessels which are utterly unfit for tlie use of civ- 
ilized beings. 

We don't know 

Wliy it is tliat people e.\tremely particularly about 
the most cleanly service in the dining-rocmi pay so 
little heed to tlie impure and al)solutely unclean tea 
pot or coffee boiler in the kitchen, from which their 
palates are separated only by the mask of a silver 
urn and a china cup. 

The Orientals 

Have understood for ages the true philosophy of 
tea and coffee making. That to have their native 
beveages in perfection they must never be pre- 
pared in metaHc pots, but always in those having 
a glazed surface. 

Connoisseurs 

Are delighted in the use of "Granite" Iron and 



"Pearl Agate" as wholesome as china, 
as metal. 



durable 



Keep moving 

Right along— do the "Alaskas"— how could the 
clamor of "cut prices" possibly affect their sales. 
We can give you the e.\act size you want. Prices 
actually cheaper than the worthless things that 
have no e.xcuse for being on earth. 

Free as the air. 

A little cook book of 63 pages. Vou don't have 
to buy something to get it. Just ask for it, that's 
all — only for Saturday, however. Receipts for all 
sorts of dainty disli — every one worth trying — 
prooving advertising something of course. Granite 
iron ware in this case, but none the worse for that . 

Not a Word 

As yet about oil stoves. Why, they haven't 
seemed to need it. "Florence," there's magic in 
the name, it's come to be a household word, as 
well known to the Worcester housewife as 
"Alaska." both representing the best in their re- 
spective lines. 

Look Sharp 

.■\nd early Saturday and you will find here a few 
damaged refrigerators, the last, we hope, we shall 
have to offer this year. They won't cost you much 
— more's the pity for us. 

From everywhere 

Come to us kitchen wares. Little things many of 

them, couldn't do witliout them though, if you 

tried. 

Fly Drivers, Traps, Killers. The ingenuity of 

man vs. the persecuted tly. 

Unconsidered Odds 

And ends from every department that are con- 
stantly accumulating in a large store, are in the 
basement, e.\aniined, sorted, slauglitered, incom- 
plete sets, slightly imperfect goods, anj-thing fall- 
ing below our high standard goes here and finds 
ready buyers at a price. 

REMINDERS. 
Feather Dusters, Infant Baths, 

French Force Lamps, 
Water Sprinklers, Lemon Squeezers, 
Door Mats, Dish Covers, Chamois Skins. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



15 

Of Clothes and Clothing, 

*, A tiny bow-knot of rose diamonds is a 
fancy in small pins. They are used as bonnet- 
pins, at the throat, a little one side, and in 
almost any way the owner may fancy. They 
cost $75- 

*» For summer, young girls will wear im- 
mense black hats, flat as a plate, and loaded 
down with flowers. The individuality of each 
will consist in the peculiar convolutions of the 
brim, which is bent and folded, contorted in 
all varieties of a cocked hat or picturesque 
Gainsborough effects for some faces, and 
turned down all around like a lamp shade on 
others. 

*» China and India silk in white make 
beautiful toilets for receptions in summer. 
The silks are exquisitely fine and rich. When 
ornamented with buds, sprays or leaves in 
white silk the effect is lovely. 

*„ Fine habit cloth blazers are edged with 
gold, silver or black cord, with girdle to match. 
They come in navy blue, tan, mode, black and 
cream. More costly ones are of fine English 
worsted serge, edged with gold cord, and come 
in black and navy blue. Still more costly ones 
are of fine habit cloth, faced with armure silk, 
with girdle and cord edge. 

*# If you are going to do much walking in 
the country, either on the mountain or in the 
woods, you will add greatly to your comfort by 
your selection of shoes. Oxfords, with over- 
gaiters, and tourist Tuxedos, are excellent, 
stylish and comfortable. 

*, Simple costumes are the best for car 
travelling. If dresses and wraps are elaborate 
the wearer will be uncomfortable on a warm 
day in the cars, and will look even much more 
uncomfortable than she really is. 

*» Dress skirts still continue to be flat and 
close fitting, longer at the back than in front, 
and trimmed only, if trimmed at all, with braids 
of varying width, straight about the bottom, 
either of wide galloons of gold, silver, steel or 
embroidery the same shade of the dress or a 
contrast. Many are of woollen mixed with 
silk, and have sleeves of silk in another shade, 
made with large pleats, much puffed on the 
shoulder, and coming down tight at the wrist. 
Some young girls wear capes in two or three 
rows, which come up on the shoulder nearly to 
the ears, and fall back in front to show the 
throat, with its encircling chain of gold beads 
or braidings. 

^* For summer, at seaside and mountains, 
fine French felt hats with silk velvet binding 
are very taking. They are a novelty and come 
in choice colors. 

jK* Black net and black tulle, as the modistes 
say, will be the elegant dresses of the coming 
summer. The demand for the material is said 
to allow about ten yards for every woman in 
Worcester. 

*» Sea costumes now occupy the attention 
of an immense number of ladies, as the rush 
across the ocean is increasing. Dark blue 
serge leads. It stands the moist sea air well, 
and its color comports with that of the water, 
and is the typical and practical color as well. 
All-wool plaids in dark colors are also popular, 
and are made with plain skirts. The waist is 
box-plaited with belt. 



L I (I HT 

Facts for Fine Costumes. 



ch.a.^te:x^ II. 



Dear me, I am tired ! 
What is the matter? 
Well, I have settled one thing positively. 
Do tell me what is. 

Well, you know I am to spend the summer at Saratoga. 
Why, you have but just moved here from New York. 

1 know it, but 1 don't intend to give up my summers at Saratoga on that account. 
Wish I was going with you, but I haven't begun a single summer dress yet. 
It's a perfect bother, that's a fact, I have been at my dressmaker's nearly all day. 
I am having five new dresses made. But I must tell you about this morning's experience. 
You see I had told my dressmaker, to begin with, that I was determined to have my 
dresses both stylish and comfortable. 

"All right," she said, "but we shall have to begin with your corsets." 
I will get any corset you say, only let's have it right. 

Now, "you get a Royal Worcester, No. 66o," also, for your fancy silks, you get the No. 
666 to match the shades. They are all-silk satins. 

I never let on a word. But for three years I have bought Royal Worcester Corsets of 
Madame Feud in New York. She told me to be sure to get all my corsets at 328 Main street, 
when I came to Worcester to live. 

However, I wanted to hear what my new dressmaker had to suggest. So I said to her, 
"How do you know these Royal Worcesters are any better than any others or even as good.'" 

"Well, in the first place, the models that they are made from are absolutely correct in 
proportion, so the corsets must fit perfectly. I have demonstrated that. I can fit a dress over 
a Royal Worcester with positive certainty and assurance. If a corset is unequal in its propor- 
tions, it is impossible to fit over it. Then again, they are made so beautifully — every detail is 
thoroughly finished." 

But are they not very e.xpensive ? 

"No, indeed ! They are the cheapest corsets in the market for the value you get. You 
can buy them from $1 to %\2 a pair, and more, according to the materials. 

Another point of supremacy is their lighttiess. They combine extremes of lightness, 
durability and stylish proportions. 

The Pongee No. 608, for instance, is the lightest of all known corsets. As for wear, 
Pongee will wear till you wish it wouldn t. 

Why, only this morning I received a letter from a friend in California, who runs the larg- 
est retail corset house in the West. He writes : 

"Our trade is probably as particular as that of any house in the land. We would not 
dare to crowd inferior goods upon them. The Royal Worcester Corsets have proved eminently 
satisfactory" 

The remarkable success of these corsets is accounted for in the fact that the makers keep 
up with the times. They are progressive. They don't wait to be whipped into an idea ; they 
lead. 

People now demand light garments, and that hygienic principles and correct porportions 
be observed. 

If corset makers will not keep up with the spirit of progress and reform, then their 
goods must drop out, that's all. 

I w«.f/ have corsets that keep pace with all the improvements in my profession, then I 
can produce fine costumes. 

There is no use bothering with those that don't do it. 

This is why I advocate Royal Worcester Corsets. I can always depend on them to be 
absolutely correct in style." 

Needless to say, I was convinced. 

I had been through all this with my New York dressmaker, but I was anxious to know 
if this lady was well posted. 

I have decided, too, that your Worcester dressmakers understand their profession. 
On my way home I visited this Royal Worcester Corset House, 328 Main street. 
As Madame Freud said, they have the most complete corset stock I ever saw, and such a 
cosy fitting-parlor, too. The beauty of it is, they have a corset specialist in charge. You can 
get fttedbeiore you leave. No guess-work about it. 
They have corsets at all prices, and the loveliest novelties in neckwear. 

After all, for me, I think their Pongees are a little the nicest of anything I ever wore. 



DR. CONANT'S 

^^ COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS ^^ 

ALSO 

Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths area luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours. 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. M KS. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 24^4 School Street, Worcester, Mass. 

If you \v:int a piano thai will last a life-time, 
get the celebratt'il 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO,, 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAIS/LS & SON. 

HAVE VOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 

ONLY »ir,. ■RAMTO*?? f>M,v »ir,. 
ONLY «ir>. L:>r\.i'^j\j\Dr only »15. 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's i Music i House, 

4.3 PLKASANT STREET. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 22 PEARL STREET. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 



'Phone" 45-3. 



S. H. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



NEW KODAKS 



"Yon press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles and Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THE EASTJIAN COMI'ANY, 
Send for catalogue. IIOCHESTEK, N. Y. 




ly T(i H T 

You May Smile. 

Too Many Toes. 

On the wharf at Kittyhunk wharf inlet 
there .stood a mite of a boy. A.s we rowed 
ashore from the fishing yawl he eyed us crit- 
ically, and when we came within hailing dis- 
tance he sang out, without the least embar- 
rassment : 

"Been a-fishin', fellers.'"' 

"\es," replied our good-natured host. "We 
fished for an hour two this morning." 

"Git any.'" 

"Yes." 

"How many ?" And a pair of eager eyes 
swept the bottom of the tender for evidence. 

"Can you count, sonny ?" asked the smart 
man of the party. 

"Kinder." 

•'Well, we've got just as many fish as you've 
got fingers and toes. Now, how many have 
we caught .■"' 

"Twenty-two," came the prompt response. 

"Oh, no." 

"Then you're lyin.'" 

"Then we're what ?" 

"Lyin'." 

"Oh, no." 

"Betcher to cents you are, an' put up the 
money." 

"All right," said the smart one. "Here's a 
dollar. Now count your fingers and toes, and 
if you haven't just twenty the dollar's yours." 

Two little bare feet came down over the 
stringpiece of the wharf, and as a brown, 
chubby hand made a grab for the dollar 
(and got it) the writer will cease to care for 
the regard of his fellowmen if that Kitty- 
hunk urchin didn't have six toes on each 
foot. — Frank Leslie's Newspaper. 
For Scrubbing Only. 

A Columbus avenue man whose wife has 
gone away for the summer and left him to 
temporary widowhood, happened to notice the 
condition of the overflowing cream pitcher, at 
his lonesome Friday breakfast, and called in 
the servant : 

"How much cream is left here ?" he asked. 

"A quart, sir." 

"But we don't need so much now ! Half of 
it must be wasted !" 

"Ah, no, sir, it isn't ! Sure I use it to scrub 
the oilcloth in the kitchen !" — Exchange. 
A Printed Ship. 

Miss Madison (of New York) : How did 
you like the gondola your uncle sent you from 
Venice? 

Miss Calumet (of Chicago) : — We didn't 
like it at all. It was a dreadful black color, and 
was too slow for anything; but papa had it 
painted red and white, and put a naphtha-en- 
gine in it, so that it is very nice now." — Yale 
Record. 




/hoe HOUSE- 
MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 



19 

G. F. HARWOOD, D, D. S, 

Room 13, Knowles Building, 

'l.S iVItiiri «t., VVoreewter. 

(L^- 'Elevator. 



MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FDK I.AIIIES AND CHII.DKKN ONLY. 

353 Main Street, C:nruer Maple, Worcester, Mass. 

SS^Office hours— 9 toi2 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 

ment at the homes of patients by appointmen t if desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

S3S iN^ain. St., 
Kasliionable Ivlillinery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
Iiersonal attention to every customer. Her long experi- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Open all the year, and pupils may enter at any time. 
Graduates successful. Terms reasonable. Number of 
pupils Umited. Write for particulars. 

<3-eo. C CreelxnarL, lE'rin.cipal. 

44 FRONT ST.. WOKCESTEK. MASS. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

Hiv^iss S. Ij. Xja.T'C'Treri.ce, 

ROOM 30. - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D E: N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $S per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

Ci^^Special attention given to the care of children's 
teeth. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a, m.; i to 4 p. m. 

47 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
E. L. S U M N E R, 

g- KROEGER&SONS g 
I WHEELOCK & CO. i 

379 Main St., Worcester, (Over Putnam & Thurs- 
ton's Keetanrant.) 

DR. KENISON, 

325 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Corns, Bunions and Bad Nails 
Treated Without Pain. 

Separate Rooms for Ladies and Gents. 

OFFICE HOIKS. 8 .4. M. to Vi, 1 to 6 P. M. 



Mrs. Dr.Wm. Lee 




Office hours: 9 to 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 2. 



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Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



BOOKS TO READ. 

Everybody reads nowadays. No house 
but must have its library. It will surprise 
you to see how wide a range there is for 
choice of a Bookcase. You may have a good 
one for five dollars or a hundred. Sliding 
glass doors are delightfully convenient. Oak, 
cherry.walnut and mahogany are the popular 
woods. All the better grades have adjust- 
able shelves. We have a particularly choice 
variety of Furniture for the Library. We 
want you to see it. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, "DAnf An 
139 Friend Street, DUblUU. 

CALIGRAPH ! 

PAKIS EXPOSITION ! 

HIGHEST AWAKI) I ! 

GOLD MEDAL !!! 

Secured by the Caligraph ! 



100,000 

DAILY USERS. 




Sin|;le Case, No, 
Double Case, N 
Special, No. 3, 



The American Writing Machine Company, 



HAKTFOIID, CONN. 
Branch Offices :— 227 Broadway, N. Y.; 14 W. 4th 

Street, Cincinnati, O.; 1002 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 



LI Ci MT 

Out and About. 



Some of the big Worcester bachelor doctors 
who have never tried it, are of the opinion 
that promiscuous and indiscriminate oscula- 
tion, so often indulged in by sweet girl grad- 
uates, and other sweet girls who graduated 
many years ago, is liable to be serious in 
its consequences, and for proof they mention 
a New Worcester woman who kissed a Lin- 
coln Square man seven years ago, and last 
week departed this life. 



Speaking of unmarried physicians, it is 
quite remarkable that the pretty girls of Wor- 
cester have allowed so many of them to go so 
long unfettered. A doctor with a good prac- 
tice is cjuite a fellow, socially, at least, and 
under good government is likely to make a 
good husband. 

Transposing the subject, it is worthy of re- 
mark, the number of husbandless girls, here- 
abouts, who, day by day, are waiting for the 
coming gloaming with its natural attachments. 
Some of the present girls teach, some of 
them sell ribbons, some of them clerk it, and 
others live on pa's money. Turn a search-eye 
into their inmost hearts, and you will find that 
they are all waiting for the coming man. And 
why shouldn't they ? Eve set woman-kind 
a good example, and an Adamless Eden has 
never been popular along the whole line of 
history. 

Over nine-ninths of the girls say that they 
don't want to get married, but they do just the 
same ; over nine and one-half tenths of the 
men say that a wife is a nuisance, but they get 
one just the same. There are exceptions, of 
course ; take a woman with a disposition that 
would split a board fence at twenty paces, 
and it is just as well that she should not bring 
up a family, and incidently, it might be re- 
marked, that there are some men, even in Wor- 
cester, who would make a greater success in 
jail, than they would in the bosom of any 
family. 

Still, taking the general average, and speak- 
ing generally, marriage is a pretty good sort of 
affair. The cross-grain girl unmarried, is a 
nuisance to her sister's children, and there is 
nothing like having children of her own to 
bring her down to hard-pan, and make a de- 
cent woman of her. 



Many a man who hated children as cordially 
as a Kentucky colonel hates water, has been 
known to do the stocking-feet drill, and take 
real pleasure in it. You never know what is 
in a man until he gets married. 



Still the sad, sad news is again chronicled, 
that there are sixty thousand more women in 
Massachusetts than there are mates for them, 
but the hospitable West and the generous South 
are doing all they can to relieve the old Bay 
State. 

If it were as easy for a young lady to get 
a young man to marry her, as it is for the same 
young lady to get the same young man to 
squander his meager salary in dummy rail- 
road rides, frothy ice cream and chocolate 
drops, there would be more families in Wor- 
cester. 






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NANTUCKET, MASS. 
Open the year around. Rates, $2.50 to $3.50 per day. 
CHAKLES H. MOWIIY, Proprietor. 

[[^=SEND FOR CIRCULARS. 



PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— : o: — 

-4- Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

« TRAVELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 



C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Established 1865.) 

The best goods, the most honorable dealing, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS AND NIUSIC. 

454 MAIN STKEET. 




J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT » 

492 Main St., 

Worcester. 




FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

In Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 



NEAR SUMMER. 



WORCE.STEK, MASS. 



1.1(1 HT 



New Manufacturing Industry. 

A company of capitalists of which Ex-Gov- 
ernor John L. Beveridge of Cliicago is Presi- 
dent, realizing the superior advantages of 
eastern made goods, are to have their business 
located in Worcester, and have negotiated and 
perfected arrangements with the West Side 
iMachine Co., No. 28 Bellevue street, and have 
given them the exclusive license to manufact- 
ure for the United States the "Ware Auto- 
matic Damper Regulator" which is fully 
secured by letters patent in this and foreign 
countries. It consists of a new and novel de- 
vice to control the dampers of steam and hot 
water boilers, hot air furnaces, registers, etc., 
by means of an improved double indicator 
thermostat placed in any room in the house 
connected by wires with an electric battery 
and a simple evenly balanced machine in the 
cellar which works by gravitation. The con- 
struction and system has been thoroughly 
tested with the best possible results. The 
superior advantages of this system over all 
others now known are : 

First — There is no clock work, which sooner 
or later you are sure to forget to wind, and 
thus ground the battery. With this it is 
simply impossible, for it needs no winding, and 
as the electric circuit is in contact for but an 
instant of time, the strength and efficiency of 
the battery is preserved. 

Second — There are no springs to wear out 
or break, no eccentrics to slip and prevent its 
working, and its motion is positive. An even 
and agreeable temperature can be maintained 
at all times, which is condusive to health and 
comfort, by simply placing the points of the 
indicator upon the highest and lowest degrees 
desired. The rise and fall of temperature 
causes the thermostat to move by expansion 
and contraction until a contact is made and 
the damper is instantly opened or shut as the 
conditions call for. 

Third — It is economy, for while it preserves 
the fire it prevents it burning too freely, and 
the impossibility of grounding the battery, 
which is the most annoying and expensive 
matter in connection with electric control of 
temperature. 

Fourth — Being most simple in construction, 
most positive in action, most economical in 
in cost, overcoming all the objections of others, 
l.ibor saving, health producing, it fully meets 
the wants of everyone. It can be seen in op- 
eration at the store of Braman Dow & Co., 
No. 7 Washington Square, Worcester, Mass., 
where all interested are cordially invited to 
call, and a careful investigation is most 
earnestly solicited. The West Side Machine 
Co. now have in process of construction fifty 
of them for parties in Chicago where some are 
now being used with perfect satisfaction, "In 
time of peace prepare for war." Now is the 
time to place orders to insure an early fall 
delivery. No economist can afford to be 
without one. Price, testimonials and all par- 
ticulars upon application. 

Wii,sT Side Machine Co. 
28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 
Chas. L. Wright. Chas. H. Woodcock. 



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PREVENT THE ^" ^'^'^ ''"""^ -should he witliout O/.ono.s. 
SPREAD Ik'dpans, utentsils, cloths and every thint; em- 

OF INFECTION. , , • . , 

ployed 111 a sick room .should be cleansed with 

OxgKqs 

DISINFECTANT. 

A small quantity sprayed about the room with an ordinary at- 
omizer will almost instantly purify the air. A basin of diluted fluid 
in the room will keep the air perfectly pure and wholesome. Send for 
our book of instructions. Ozonos has no smell of its own is abso- 
lutely non-poisonous and so harmless it is taken internally in its di- 
luted form for certain disorders. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
BOSTON CHEMICAL CO.. 26 India square, Boston. 



L. L. POWKl.L. 



-A. IRIIMAN. 



L. L. POWELL & CO., 

Real Estate Agents, 

RC^ANOIvE, X'IKCtINIA. 

The Magi c City of the South. 

Population in 1880, 400; In 1890, 25,000. 

Cordially tender you, and any of your friends, an invitation to see our prosperous City, and 
should be more than pleased to have the privilege of extending the courtesy of car- 
riages for that purpose at any time most convenient to yourself. 
Respectfully, 



L. L. POWLL & CO., 



17 Third Ave. Southwest. 



ROANOKE, VA. 



Famous OilRangb 

4ft)WtRfULRf«V' lAUNDRir 




For Family Use. 



lift heat<.-d. The wicks can Ix- bin' 
Miflicient jmwer to do all the cookinL; 
less than half the cost of the coal stoi, 
Write us fur further information and i 



I Oil l::iiu;i'. and is fully the equivalent 
' ■ i-lit to work over. Is is cleanly 
. at the rear, where it does not 
dr,.|)of oil in the tank. It has 
nd, at 
untry. 



SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

fM.VKKlIS. IJOSTOX, IMASS. rol; SAl.K IJV 

J. W. GREENE, 51 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST KECliU'KD, A NEW LINE UK 

Kine H^tchincfs. 



3SS 3iv^..£^IiT ST. 




zz 



L,I(iMT 




WHITNEY'S 

LINEN STORE. 



Great Sale of 



Summer Blankets, 



$2.50 Per Pair. 



MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



LICi HT 



A. W. TIFFANY 




-^ Ocalist i and i Optician ^ 

E Examination free. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fasliionable Hat, 




& Atliletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 



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STORAGE 



Metropolitan Storage Company, corner Southbridge 
and Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for Sleighs, 
Carriages, Furniture, Merchandise, ana all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and wtrll ventilated. Apply 
at building. J. H. I>1CKIK, M'g'r. 

Bronze medal Silver Gold Grand Diploma 

iS79- 1S80. 1881. 18S2. 

Awarded \Vm. Laugher for upholstery and drapery. 

Wni. Lauqher, 
upholsterer, 

HAS REMOVED TO 

677 MAIN ST., COR SYCAMORE, 

where he is prepared to execute orders in the same first- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 

the past. 

Bedding, Shades and Draperies ^ 

» Furniture Repairing and Carpet Work. 



LIFE AND ENDOWMENT 

POLICIES. 

-f COMBINED - LIFE - AND « ACCIDENT^^ 

Term Annuity and Coupon 

Annuity Endowments. 

Jtistus E. Allen, 
Agent: The Travelers Insurance Company. 



5FK1NQ i 

i FKINTINQ 
O. B. Wood, 

No. 3 Maple St. 



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THE 50UTH ! 

THC^SOUTH ! 

Bedford Citj Land and Improve- 
ment Company, 

BEDFORD CITY, VIRGINIA. 



Chartered by a Special Act of the General Assembly. Authorized Capital, Si, 000,000. 
'ar value, g 1 0.00. AMOUNT ISSUED, $300,000. Non-assessable. 



Everj Dollar Paid in 
Goes Toward the Development of the Property. 



BEDFORD CITY is a flourishing city of 4000 inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk & 
Western Railroad, midway between Lynchburg and Roanoke, the surrounding county being 
extremely rich in mineral resources. It is the county seat of Bedford County, is lighted by 
electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It industries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing $100,000, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
of building a S75.ooo hotel, and a railroad station to cost $40,000. 



This is a Good Investment ! 



The Bedford City Land and Investment Company olfers its Stock at 

$6.50 PER SHARE. 

Make Remittances Payable to 

F. W. PRESCOTT & CO., 

BANKERS AND BROKERS, 

No. ^4 Devonshire Street, Boston. Mass. 

Fiscal .Agent for the Bedford City Land and Improvement Co. 

Erosiiectus Eree I >y NIail 



TRANSFER AGENTS: 

INTERNATIONAI. TRUST COMEAKY, BOSTON. 



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hidnr 




46 iHB 48 FRONT 5T. 



James H. Dennis, IVL'g'r. 



Clikkord & Johnson, 
4-PR/1C:TlCflL UPH0LJTEKER5-^ 



All kinds of Dra- 
pery and Upholstery 
work to order. 

HAIR MATTRESSES 



Our own make. 
First-class Turk 
ish work a specialty. ^^^ 




Particular atten- 
tion given to re-up- 
holstering in all its 
branches. Estimates 
furnished upon ap- 
plication. Original 
Designs a marked 
Feature. 



425 MAIN ST., COR. FRONT ST., UP ONE FLIGHT, WORCESTER. 

THE SUMMIT HOUSB 

On Wachtasett IVIountain 

Will open the season of '90 May 24, under new management. No pleasanter place can be 
found for a day's outing, or a longer stay. Finest view in the state. Good rooms, with gas 
and electric bells. Table supplied with the best the market affords. Special attention 
given to preparing dinners at short notice. The road to the mountain top is not hard for 
horses, as it makes the ascent by zigzags, furnishing magnificent views at every turn. 
Coaches for the summit connect with morning and afternoon trains from Worcester, at 
Princeton Station. Round-trip tickets can be bought at reduced rates, and parties of six or 
more can make very favorable terms. Direct telephone from Worcester. 

A. HAKRINOTON, K/tariager. 

Post-office address, Mt. Wachusett, Mass. 



Get the Best. 

-f THE GARLAND OIL STOYE^^- 

-AT- 

O. S. Kendall & Co., 

4 B 6 NI A 1 N STREET, WORCESTER. 




* GOOD \y HEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

L. M. ALEXANDER, 

At Hill & Tollman's old stand, 

lO.'i FRONT .ST. 
Ladies' Safetit'S a Specrialty. 

Instructions frt^e to purchasers. I.ady instructor 
in attendance. Send for illustrated cataloRTie. 

"Now Good Digestion Wait on 
Appetite." 

Appetite is Largely Influenced by Pleasant 
Surroundings. 

You can find pleasant surroundings and all 
the delicacies of the season at 

ESTEY'S, 

No. 411 Main Street (Up One Flight). 
Open from 5 A. .M. to 12 p. .M., including 
Sundays. 
THREE POOL. FOUR .\LLKV.S. TWO C.\KOM. 

WORCESTER 

Ten Pin, Billiard and Pool Hall. 




STUICTr.Y TKMFEl;.\TK. I 

FIItST-CI..\SS THK»)lI(ilIOUT. 

Hours for ladies, 9 A. M. to 2 r. M. 
37 Pearl Street. J. F. WHITE, Trop. 

G. S. BOUTELLE & CO, 

niRROR flNb 

PICTURE FRflnE5 

At Manufacturers' Prices, 

FROM A LARGE STOCK OF ALL NEW STYLES. 

No. 92 Foster Street. 




SERGEANT THOMAS PLUNKETT, 
Defender of the Flag. 



[ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR LIGHT.] 
From photograph taken immediately after the war, loaned by Mrs. Plunkutt. 



I. IG HT 

Kreiqht Prepaid to Worcester. 



FACTORIES, 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



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'■^■•' 81 - 91 '^'' 

WASHINGTON-STREET 



BRANCH AT 
BAR HARBOR, ME. 



SALESROOMS, 
BOSTON - - MASS. 



A Special Feature. 



THE WINNER INVESTMENT CO. 

Handles ExclDSively Kansas City Investments, and does not handle 
Farm Mortgages. 

PAST INVESTMENTS 

through this company have yielded nearly $3,000,000.00 profits, every dollar of principal 
and interest has been paidlat maturity, and all enterprises undertaken have been uni- 
formly successful. 

PRESENT INVESTMENTS. 

We can demonstrate how to invest money safely to realize an income of six, seven, 
eight and ten per cent., and profits, in a comparatively short time, of fifty per cent., 100 
per cent., and even larger, entirely free from speculative features. 

For full;particulars!send for circulars, pamphlets and papers, or call 



William H. Parmenter, 

General Agent, No. 50 State Street, Boston; 

No. 1 Custom House Street, Providence, R. I.; Desk M., Mercantile Safe 
Deposit Co., 130 Broadway, New York City, every Wednesday. 



A NEW EDITION DE LUXE OF 

Charles Dickens's 

COMPIvKTK WORKS. 

Unquestionably the most superb edition ever attempted in this country. 

The type is large and clear, especially cast for this work, the paper is made of the 
finest materials, and the margins are ample. All the illustrations contained in the 
original editions (copies of which are now worth Jiooo) are here represented. The 
etchings by Cruikshank, "Phiz," and others, numbering over 400, have been carefully 
re-etched. Electrotypes from the original wood blocks, which were never printed 
from, have been obtained from Dickens's original pubUshers in England. Twelve 
different portraits of the author, especially engraved, appear on the different title 
pages of the volumes. All the illustrations are proofs printed on 

EHPERIAI, JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PAPER. 

The set is limited to 1000 numbered copies, and will be complete in 45 volumes, 
bound in smooth vellum cloth, gilt tops, uncut, at S3.50 per volume, and vriU be 
issued at about two volumes per month. 

Issued by subscription only, and no orders taken except for complete sets. Pros- 
pectus, with specimen showing type, page, paper, etc., with specimen illustration, 
mailed free upon application. 

LOCAt AGENTS WANTED. ADDRESS 

KSTBS & Lauriat, 

PUBLISHERS, 



BOSTON, 



MASS. 



SOMETHING NEW. 




Ask for Corticelli Braid, and see that you get it. 



For Sale by All Leading Dealers. 
NONOTUCK 5ILK CO., 

Sole Manufacturers. 
BOSTON SALESROOMS, 18 SUMMER STREET. 

Avoid imitations. 



OLDEST AND BEST. 

-f Corticelli Sewing Silk ^ 




FLORENCE HOME NEEDLEAVOKK. 

The iSSg edition of this popular series is now ready.'It 
contains 96 pages, instructing you in Netting, Knitting, 
Tatting and Embroidery. Each subject fully illustrated. 
Mailed on receipt of six cents. Mention year to avoid 
confounding with previous edition. 



Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1890. 



No. 16 



Worcester sends every year a considerable 
number of young women to the female colleges, 
and many of those who have entered these in- 
stitutions in past years have achieved honor- 
able distinction. There will be the usual 
representation of Worcester in the entering 
classes next year, and it is a pleasant thing to 
think about. The girls — the really sensible, 
level-headed girls — are coming to see more 
and more that the more education they can get, 
the better; their parents are realizing that they 
will have more helpful daughters, because of 
it ; and the young men who want the honest 
kind of helpmeets, who shall bring into their 
lives a sweetness and strength of character 
which will make life beautiful for them, are 
beginning to look more and more for college 
bred sweethearts. A girl who is worth send- 
ing to college at all will never be hurt by it. 
Next fall, many pupils will enter our Higli 
School and make choice of the courses which 
they are to pursue for several years. If there 
are among them any girls who have not thought 
about it. Light urges them to consider the 
advantages of a college education, and to take, 
if possible, a college preparatory course, 
remembering, of course, that many are not 
inclined to such work or naturally fitted for it. 
Light would point its moral by indicating the 
young women who were graduated from the 
High School with last year's class, and have 
spent a whole year in doing the preparatory 
work which they might have included in a 
college course. They are sensible girls, who 
mean to get the best out of life. College 
will never hurt you, young women, even if you 
do get married as soon as you graduate. You 
will bring to your husbands a dowry which 
will be worth more to him than either of you 
imagine. 

Forepaugh is with us again to-day and when 
we remember that there are many families 
where there are no hopeful little hearts to be 
made joyful by the sight of the peanut-chewing 
elephant and the gum-chewing lady acrobat, 
our hearts go out in profoundest sympathy 
to those who will have to rack their brains for 
some reasonable excuse for wearing the blue 
paint off Forepaugh's seats. On circus day, 
if on no other day, the circumspect and digni- 
fied citizen, as he longs to go back to boyhood, 
is bound to reflect ; "What is home without a 
family ?" 

People will soon begin to talk about vaca- 
tions — in fact, they are talking them now — and 
occasionally a busy man says : "Oh, I can't 
afford to take a vacation." It is saddening to 
reflect that there are people to whom this is 
literally and painfully true; but, generally, the 
man who says that he can't afford to take a 
vacation isn't truthful with himself. What he 
ought to say is that if he relaxes his work for a 
time, he will "lose money;" and he prefers 
money to health. It is hard to let the seaside 
barons or the mountain dukes sweep those 
bright new greenbacks in over their counters, 



but rest we ought to have, at this season oftlie 
year, even if it is only a short one. And tlicre 
are inexpensive ways of getting it, as well as 
those which are expensive. We are too 
anxious to pile up the dollars. The laboring 
man who gets a dollar and a ciuarter a day, 
and has thirteen small children, may say with 
truthfulness that he cannot afford to contem- 
plate a month at the Pier or a trip through the 
mountains; but many men in easy circumstan- 
ces deny themselves that which nature urges 
them to take. If they alone suffered, Light 
would not pity them greatly ; but it is a patient 
wife or the children who have to take the 
consequences of overwork, nervous prostration 
and dyspepsia. Light wants Worcester's 
busy men to take a vacation this year. 



Everyone is glad to hear that Worces- 
ter is to have better post office facilities in 
the near future. The petitions for sub- 
stations met with a very general response, and 
the agent of the government, in recommending 
their establishment, is meeting the wishes of 
two large sections of the population. Wor- 
cester is getting to be more and more metro- 
politan every day. 



The report of the Worcester schools, wliich 
has just been issued tlirough the usual chan- 
nels, prints a list of the "books belonging to 
the Worcester High School bought by the 
Bullock fund," the number being 451, and one 
not knowing to the facts in the case might get 
the idea that the library has no other books. 
As a matter of fact, however, the High School 
Library now has on its shelves upwards of two 
thousand volumes. About six hundred, there- 
fore, have come to it through sources 
other than that of the generous gift of Ex- 
Governor Bullock. There have been many 
private gifts; occasionally books have been 
bought by the school authorities ; but a great 
many of the number are there as the gift of the 
pupils themselves ; that is, they have in various 
ways raised money, without expense to them- 
selves, for the adding to the common store of 
printed wisdom. Hardly anyone denies that 
it is a good thing for any young person to start 
and add to a library of his or her own. Tliere 
is a time in every life when books are looked 
back upon as among the best friends of youth, 
and the more a love for books and bookish- 
ness can be fo.stered among young people, so 
much the better citizens will those young peo- 
ple make. Future generations of High School 
scholars will find in these books which their 
predecessors have left, a rich legacy, but the 
pupils who have had a part in placingthemon 
the shelves of the library have reaped in the 
consciousness of such action, whose fruits 
inure to the benefit of others, a good which is 
not easily estimated. 



And now they say that the miscreants who 
did their best to disgrace Harvard College are 
to be "quietly expelled" instead of being made 



to bear publicly the punishment tliey de.serve, 
and the reason given is that the culprits are 
found to be "among the most prominent stu- 
dents and of the best families," and on the eve 
of commencement it would be so disagreeable, 
you know. The authorities of Harvard may 
think that they are shielding the institution from 
public censure, by taking such action as this, 
but all over this country the eyes of people 
who are hostile to higher education are focus 
ing on Cambridge, with their vision assisted 
by double-barreled telescopes, in the endeavor 
to see whether it is family connections and 
dollars that have standing at this famous col- 
lege, or whether men there get rated for what 
they are worth. Worcester has sent scores 
of men to Harvard College, and among its 
citizens numbers a great many graduates of 
that institution. Light does not believe that 
they want to see their Alma Mater placed in 
such a position as this. Let the men who have 
thrown the blot upon the '.scutcheon be made 
to feel that their action merits the sternest dis- 
approval and the most rigid punishment ; and 
future students will find no encouragement for 
such acts. And the "indignation meeting" of 
the students ? What became of that ? 



If there could be gathered a complete rec- 
ord of the boating clubs which find at the 
Lake an opportunity for exercise and recrea- 
tion, there would probably be some surprise 
at the number of those which are young ladies' 
clubs, exclusively. There are several of them, 
not pretentious affairs, with high-sounding 
titles, and elaborate club-houses, but, generally, 
simple gatherings of a half dozen or a dozen 
girls who go down to to the Lake quietly, and, 
having .some special arrangement for boats, 
enjoy an hour's row at the close of day, or, 
perhaps, a picnic, of a Saturday afternoon. 
Good exercise and healthy sport it gives them ; 
and they are better, mentally and physically, 
for it. Some of these little clubs are made up 
of girls who have a plenty of leisure, and 
others include those who do daily work at 
desk or counter. It is a good thing for all of 
them, and, thanks to a prohibition that really 
seems to prohibit, the Lake has lost many 
things which injured its character as a pleas- 
ure resort, and|they need not fear to go there. 



The papers seem to agree that our repre- 
sentative has a perfect right to take off his 
coat when he makes a speech, if he wants to. 
Mr. Walker is not the kind of a man who 
is shocked if anyone appears on the street at 
4 o'clock in his 3 o'clock trousers, and what- 
ever he has to say he is pretty sure to consider 
as of more importance than his personal 
appearance. If the white-cravatted young 
gentlemen in elephant-leg trousers and em- 
broidered shirt fronts, who write despatches to 
the papers, do not like the sight of Mr. 
Walker in undress uniform, they might wear 
smoked glasses and relieve their wearied 
optics. 




' / 7;/^^Cester^a5s. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
^F" Advertising rates upon application. 



NATH'L C. FOWLER, Jr., 1 Editors and 
F. E. KENNEDY, ( Proprietors. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 
Telephone No. 141-5. 



Entered at the Post-OfEce, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book, — a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopjedia. 

Worcester, Saturday, June 14, 1890. 

To Light Subscribers. 

Frequent complaints are received at this office from 
subscribers to Light, that they do not get their papers. 
Light mails its papers with the greatest care, and the 
trouble Ues outside this office ; but the publishers will 
consider it a favor if any subscriber failing to get a 
paper on Saturday will give immediate notice at this 
office, if possible. Light will endeavor to see that 
every subscriber gets the paper regularly. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



June 14 : Sun rises at 4.07 A. m. ; sets at 
7.22 p. M. Length of day, 15 hours, 15 min- 
utes. New moon, June 17, 4 hours, 58 minutes, 
morning, E. 

Mr. Walter G. Wesson, Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, '86, a teacher in Forscythe's private 
school, Philadelphia, is at home for a four 
month's vacation, stopping with his mother, 
Mrs. D. S. Wesson. 



Mr. Frank B. Hall has just completed his 
course at the Harvard Law School and will 
soon be examined for admission to the bar. 
Mr. Hall was a member of the class of "88 of 
the High School, although his removal to 
California prevented his graduating with that 
class. Since his retnrn to the east he has 
studied law in the office of his uncle, Webster 
Thayer, Esq., and now has obtained the ad- 
vantage of a law school training. He was a 
prominent member of the Sumner Club. A 
bright speaker and ready debater, Mr. Hall has 
the elements for a successful lawyer, which his 
friends are confident that he will be. 



Miss E. A. Kimball's Home School closed 
last Tuesday for the season, and Monday even- 
ing the young ladies received their friends and 
regretful adieus were said. There was no 
formal reception, but the young ladies re- 
ceived and entertained those whom they had 
invited, and a very pleasant evening was 



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passed, a large number calling. The pupils liv- 
ing out of town left for their homes on Tuesday 
and Wednesday. Some live in the eastern part 
of the state, some in New Hampshire and New 
York, and still others as far west as Michigan. 
Most of the pupils of the present term will re- 
turn in the fall, when Miss Kimball will occupy 
the large and commodious house now occupied 
as a residence by Col. A. G. Estabrook. 
During the summer it will be remodelled and 
put in perfect condition for school purposes 
and Miss Kimball has already had applica- 
tions for a large number of pupils to enter the 
school, which has been very successful in the 
past, and will undoubtedly continue so in the 
future. 

Mr. C. L. Gorham is on the briny deep and 
when he lands he will be in Europe. 



Society has been looking forward for some 
time to an event which occurred Tuesday 
morning, when Mr. Edwin Prentiss Sumner 
and Miss Bertha Louise Perry were married. 
Although both of the parties have large circles 
of friends in the city, the ceremony was a very 
quiet one, the people present being members 
of the families. It took place at the residence 
of the bride's mother, Mrs. Charles H. Perry, 
on Highland streeet, and the house was beau- 
tifully decorated with flowers for the occasion. 
Rev. Edward Grier FuUerton performed the 
ceremony. Mr. Joseph H. Perry, the bride's 
brother, gave the bride away, and Misses 
Mildred and Belle White, her nieces, were the 
maids of honor. A wedding breakfast was 
served and at noon Mr. and Mrs. Sumner left 
for New York. On their return they will re- 
side at the comer of William and Sever 
streets. Those present at the wedding, 
besides those named above, were : Mr. and 
Mrs. George Sumner, Miss Sumner, Mr. and 
Mrs. William Sewall, Mr. Arthur Sewall, Mrs. 
Joseph H. Perry and Miss Anna Perry. 

Mr. Zelotes W. Coombs, a graduate of the 
Worcester High School, '84, and now an in- 
structor in the University of Virginia, at 
Charlottesville, is at home for the summer va- 
cation. Mr. Coombs was valedictorian of his 
class, and is remembered as one of the 
brightest men whom Worcester has ever sent 
to Amherst. He is, of course, at the home of 
his father, Mr. George W. Coombs. 



Hon. Velorous Taft of Upton is still quite 
ill, and has had one or two bad days, recently. 

The Young People's Society of Christian 
Endeavor of the Church of Christ has elected 
as officers : President, Mr. F.H.Greenwood; 
vice-president, Mr. R. L. S. Whittemore ; sec- 
retary. Miss Iva V. Smith; treasurer, Mr. 
Walter H. Hadley. The time for electing 
officers has been changed to June and Decem- 
ber. 

The semi-annual meeting of the High School 
Association will be held on Monday evening, 
June 30, when the usual reception to the grad- 
uating class will be given. The president of 
the association is Mr. William E. Starr, who 
was principal of the English department of the 
High School from 1846 to 1856, and it is likely 
that there will be a large attendance of the 
older members of the association. This, how- 
ever, will not prevent an equally large attend- 



ance of the recent graduates, and it is likely 
that a large number will improve their last 
opportunity to meet Mr. Roe in his capacity of 
principal of the school. He has been so much 
a part of the school life that future meetings of 
the association will have less interest for many 
of the graduates, who, in attending, have had 
for their first desire a wish to hear once more 
the cordial welcome of their old head-master. 
At this meeting of the association, therefore, 
the graduates ought to turn out and give Mr. 
Roe a good-bye greeting worth having. 



Mr. Edward H. Keith, '91, of the High 
School, last week photographed the teachers 
of the school in a group. The corps of in- 
structors assembled on the steps in front of 
the building, and there are twenty-five persons 
represented, sixteen ladies and nine gentle- 
men, including the drawing teacher. The 
picture is a very interesting one, some of the 
likenesses being excellent, and others, which 
exhibit the varying emotions of the souls 
within, having intrinsic merit of their own. 



A pretty good one comes from the Clinton 
Courant, which prints under the dignified 
heading of its "State and County" news, the 
remarkable item: "Westminster is rejoicing 
in a new hearse." 



The elegant Walling residence in Millbury 
sheltered a merry party last Monday evening, 
the occasion being a small reception given by 
the Misses Walling for their guest. Miss 
Mabel Daly of Rochester, New York. The 
magnificent drawing-room was handsomely 
decorated with flowers. Progressive games 
were played, the prize winners being Miss 
Nettie Atwood and Mrs. Walter Whitney, 
who won the first and "booby" prizes respec- 
tively, for the ladies, and Mr. Charles Searles 
and Mr. H. M. Goddard, who bore away like 
honors for the gentlemen. After the games 
came dancing and everybody had a delightful 
time. Those present included : Mr. and Mrs. 
H. M. Goddard, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Hakes, 
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Searles, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Whitney 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morse, Miss Nettie 
Atwood, Mr. Leander F. Herrick, Mr. Harry 
Allen, Mr. Charles Mumford, Mr. W. F. 
Aiken, Mr. Frederic Howard and Mr. Will W. 
Carter of Worcester, Mr. Charles Cook, Miss 
Ruth Cook, Mr. Irving B. Sayles and Miss 
Sayles. 

Miss Lulu Howe of Winchendon and Miss 
Eva Sibley of Waterville have been visiting 
friends in the city during the week. 

A large party from the First and South 
Unitarian Churches went out to Sterling, Wed- 
nesday afternoon, as the guests of Dr. Charles 
H. Davis, at his cottage in Lake Park. Tennis, 
base-ball and the usual picnic diversions 
passed the day pleasantly and the party came 
home at 7.30 o'clock. 



The annual meeting of the Epworth League 
of the Boston District of the Methodist 
Church, which was held at Webster Square 
Church, on Tuesday, brought out a large at- 
tendance, twenty of the si.xty leagues in the 
state being represented. Rev. F. H. Knight 
of Jamaica Plain presided. There were two 



sessions. In the afternoon, Rev. W. H. 
Thomas, D. D., of this city, led the devotional 
exercises, Rev. W. G. Colesworthy of Hyde 
Park delivered an address on "The Objects, 
Methods and Aims of the Epworth League," 
Mr. Angus A. McLaughlin treated the subject, 
"The Epworth League : Why denomina- 
tional?" Miss Elizabeth Strongman of Bos- 
ton and Mrs. Frank L. Jenks of Worcester 
read papers respectively, on "The Literary 
Work of the Epworth League" and "The 
Social Life of the Church," and Mrs. Mattie 
E. Brackett of Worcester also read a paper. 
In the evening. Rev. John Galbraith led the 
devotional exercises. Joseph K. Greene, Esq., 
delivered an address on the suliject, "How 
can the League Help the pastors.'" and Dr. 
Chadbourne, the presiding elder, spoke at the 
close in his always interesting way. The 
Epworth League corresponds to the Young 
People's Society of Christian Endeavor in the 
other denominations, but it is strictly a denom- 
inational society, making the interests of 
Methodism its first consideration, after the 
spiritual good of the members themselves. 
The league is well represented in Worcester 
and the local branches are in prosperous con- 
dition. 

The Sunday-School of the Church of Christ 
has voted to picnic at Quinsigamond Park, 
Wednesday, July 2, 1S90. 



The piano pupils of Mr. George N. Morse 
and Miss Edith L. Smith's pupils in elocution 
and physical culture are to give a joint recital 
at Association Hall, Wednesday evening, 
June 25. The program arranged includes 
pianoforte selections, readings and e.xercises 
by Miss Smith's pupils in physical culture. 
The pupils who are to take part are: Miss 
Cora M. Braman, Miss Amy A. Creamer, Miss 
Grace E. Gabriel, Miss Maude A. Gabriel, 
Miss Lottie E. Lamson, Miss A. May Lytle, 
Mrs. C. A. Richardson, Mrs. W. H. Mossman, 
Miss Mabel H. Prentice, Miss Ethel Smith, 
Miss Annie M. Sheehan, Miss Minnie 
Shelton, Miss Ida M. Sutton, Mrs. Webster 
Thayer, Miss Florence E. Tolman, Miss Julia 
B. Williams, Miss Florence L. B. Wood, Mr. 
Walter S. Bliss, Master Herbert E. Davis, 
Master George A. Gabriel. 



Rev. M. H. Harris has just been made a 
Doctorof Divinity, the degree being conferred 
by St. Lawrence L'niversity, of which Mr. 
Harris is a graduate, as Light told some time 
ago. 

The ball teams of St. Mark's School, South- 
boro, and the Groton School, played their 
annual game at the Grove Street Grounds, last 
Wednesday. After the game, the Groton boys 
were entertained by Mrs. Edward L. Davis 
and Mrs. J. Edwin Smith, and the St. Marks 
boys by Mrs. Charles F. Washburn. 



At Horticultural Hall, next Thursday even- 
ing, one of Mrs. J. C. Cutter's Shakespeare 
classes is to give a recital of scenes from "The 
Merchant of Venice." The preparations have 
extended over the past five months, and it is 
planned to make it one of the finest entertain- 
ments of the kind ever given in Worcester. 
The class will have the assistance of Mr. J. 
Vernon Butler, who has set to music. 



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especially for this occasion, the songs which 
are to be introduced — a very creditable work, 
by the way— and of Miss Lillian French, who 
will sing. The cast for the readings is as 
follows: Vuke 0/ I'f/iuf, Mr. Aldus C. 
Higgins; Shy lock, Mr. Thomas Piper; An- 
tonio, Mr. Edward W. Pierce; Bassanio, Mr. 
George K. Clark; Cratiano, Master Harry 
Cutter; Lorenzo, Mr. Frederic Howard; 
Salauio, Miss \y\'g%\ns; Salarino, Miss Anna 
Calhoun; Old Gohho, Miss Viola Bowman; 
Launcelot Gobbo, Harry Cutter; Tubal, Mr. 
Higgins; Clerk, Miss Mary L. Daniels; 
Portia, Mrs. Idelle Edwards ; /('j-jyVi;, Miss 
Marie Steele; Xerissa, Mrs. Thomas Piper. 
The recital will be given under the direction 
of Prof. Townsend and Mrs. Cutter. So much 
interest has been shown in the classes that 
Mrs. Cutter has decided to offer, next season, 
to the member who shall write the best essay 
on a Shakesperian subject to be assigned, the 
Century Dictionary, as a prize. The recital 
next Thursday evening is something unlike 
the ordinary evening of readings, and will 
have unusual interest. 



Mr. and Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, Alderman 
George C. Whitney, Mrs. E. H. Wentworth, 
Mr. A. A. McLaughlin, Mrs. Elizabeth C. 
Roath, and Mr. C. W. Russell will represent 
Worcester at the International Sunday-School 
convention at Pittsburg, Penn., week after 
next. 

Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., editor of 
Zio?is Herald, is to preach at Coral Street 
Church to-morrow morning. 



The Worcester churches are making Wau- 
shacum and Quinsigamond their favorite 
picnic grounds, this year. The Lincoln Square 
Baptists go to the former ne-xt Wednesday ; 
July I, Union Church claims it ; July 8, the Old 
South; July 9, the Universalist ; July 10, Pied- 
mont, and July 11, the Pleasant Street Bap- 
tists. Dates for Quinsigamond Park are as 
follows: To-day, A. H. Hammond's and 
Brown & Simpson's employes; June 20, 
Daughters of Pocahontas; June 21, All 
Saints Church ; June 21, Regulus Lodge, K. 
of P. ; June 28, Park Church; July i. Pilgrim 
Church; July 2, Church of Christ; July 3, 
Salem Street Church; July 5, Colvin's foun- 
dry employes; July 7, Dewey Street Baptist 
Church; July 8, Summer Street Church; 
July 9, Webster Square M. E. Church. 



Misses Katherine and Edith Baldwin, who 
have been studying art in Paris for the past 
year, have returned home. 



The ladies of the Webster Square Church 
are making arrangements for a strawberry 
festival of the old fashioned kind, to be given 
at the church ne.xt Tuesday evening. The 
shortcake will be of the old-fashioned kind, 
and the social time afterward will also partake 
of the genuine old-fashioned idea. It ought 
to be a very successful affair. 



Mr. Alfred S. Roe has just received from 
the Riverside Press the copies of his me- 
morial sketch of the late Austin Carey Field. 
The book is a beautifully printed volume of 
42 pages, laid paper witli wide margins being 
tlie rule, and as a frontispiece it has a finely 



engraved portrait of Mr. Field. 'I'he book is 
bound in wliite and gold. Mr. Roe dedicates 
the hook "To the many pupils of Mr. Field, 
wlio in the Worcester High School drank 
inspiration and profit from his teachings." In 
tlie preface he says: "In tlie following pages 
I have .sought to tell, in the simplest way 
po.ssible, tlie story of my friend's life, and of 
tlie regard that all wlio knew him had for him. 
As he was modest and unobtrusive, so my re- 
cital is brief and restrained. * * * This 
book has been prepared solely for his friends." 
On the title page appear tlie words which all 
Mr. Field's pupils remember hearing him use: 
"I would teach you so as to merit your good 
opinion ten years hence, rather than your favor 
to-day." The book itself contains a sketch of 
Mr. Field's life and letters from several hands. 
Rev. Charies H. Parkhurst, D. I)., A. M. 
Bridgman, Rev. W. V. W. Davis, Prof. W. S. 
Tyler and President Julius H. Seelye of Am- 
herst College, who knew him in college life, 
and Miss Annie M. Russell, Mr. George B. 
Churchill, Mr. James Mahony, Mr. A. D. F. 
Hamlin and Mr. Zelotes W. Coombs, who 
knew him either in the High School or at 
college, are among those who write about Mr. 
Field as they knew him. The book is sure to 
be a valued souvenir to all who knew Mr. 
Field. 

Mr. George L. Sanford, who has been a 
member of the firm of Sanford & Davis, 
printers, for several years, has retired from 
that firm and bought out the book and station- 
ery business of his brother, Mr. Charles E. 
Sanford, which he will continue. Mr. Sanford 
understands the business thoroughly, and he 
is known as a man who does the squarest 
kind of dealing. There is no question as to 
his success in the old business. His friends 
will all be glad to see him in the store. 

Mrs. B. Spencer of Springfield has been 
visiting friends in town this week. 

The closing recitals at the Worcester County 
Music School are to be given next week, at the 
First Universalist Church, on Monday, Thurs- 
day and Friday evenings. The programs ar- 
ranged will present a large number of pupils 
and they will undoubtedly give, as Mr. Sum. 
ner's pupils always do, very enjoyable concerts 
Orchestral accompaniment is to be a feature. 



A strawberry festival and a dramatic recital 
attracted a large party to the Church of the 
Unity, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Alia Wood- 
ford's pupils gave the entertainment, those 
taking part being Misses Edith M. Hardy, 
Sadie Parsons, Gertrude Trinder, Efiie Adams, 
Mattie Houghton and Lulu Isaacs. The en- 
tertainment closed with a rendition of "Aux 
Italiens," by Miss Annie Carberry, with piano, 
violin and music accompaniments, Mr. Ed- 
ward Bates singing the usual lines. A farce en- 
tided "A Regular Fix" was also given, the parts 
being taken by Messrs. W. S. Morine, Elliott 
Hall, Charies Gather, Frank Bigelow, Edward 
Bates, Misses Florence Sears, Edith Wheelock, 
Minnie Bigelow and Mrs. W. E. Bowen. It 
was thoroughly enjoyable and was artistic in 
every way. 

Dr. and Mrs. Charies L. Nichols have ar- 
rived in Europe. 



Old Glory. 



To-day is the birthday anniversary of our 
flag. For one hundred and thirteen years the 
Stars and Stripes have waved over the fairest 
land upon earth, passing through foreign and 
civil war, borne into some of the bloodiest 
conflicts the world has ever known, marching 
onward with a civilization that has made the 
world wonder, and never borne as the flag of 
unholy conquest or oppression. "Old Glory" is 
what the men who have fought for it have 
named it, and the name is well given. Not 
"Old Glory" altogether, however, for it has a 
newer glory with every year, and awakens to- 
day a spirit of patriotism not less strong and 
fervent than that which has inspired its de- 
fenders in other days. 

Within the past year there has been a 
notable revival of interest in the flag for its 
own sake, and in the schools its history has 
been carefully taught. Incidental to this has 
come the movement to place the flag before 
the pupils of the schools as a daily object 
lesson, and hundreds of schools throughout 
the commonwealth have been provided with 
flags intended to be displayed daily through- 
out the year. In some cities the school boards 
have made appropriations for this purpose, 
and in others, the flags have been provided by 
generous private citizens. The Messrs. Nor- 
cross took the initiative in Worcester, in pre- 
senting a flag to Woodland street school, and 
in one or two other local schools flags have 
been secured through the efforts of pupils and 
teachers. 

But how many people really know the story 
of the flag — not its glories on the field of battle 
or the record, perhaps, of its stars ; but how it 
came to have the stripes and the stars, and 
when it was first unfurled ? Every American 
is fond of saying that the Star-Spangled 
Banner is the most beautiful ensign possessed 
by any nation on the globe, and we all believe 
it to be true. How came that happy combi- 
nation of colors to be adopted as the national 
ensign ? 

Worcester has a special interest in the his- 
tory of the flag, for it was the old Massachu- 
setts Spy which, in its issue of March lo, 
1774, gave what is believed to be the first 
suggestion for an American flag. The sug- 
gestion came in a poem written in commemor- 
ation of the Boston Massacre, where the writer 
burst forth : — 

"A ray of bright glory now beams from afar, 
The American ensign now sparkles a star, 
Which shall shortly flame wide through the skie-s." 

So much for Massachusetts and the begin- 
ning of the flag. 

In 1775, the Philadelphia Troop of Light 
Horse used a standard in which thirteen 
stripes had a place in one corner, but the 
colonies began their struggle for independence 
without a national flag. The men of Massa- 
chusetts had the pine tree flag and banners 
bearing other devices, and in the south the 
blue flag with the silver crescent waved over 
Fort Moultrie; but the flag under which all 
should fight unitedly was not unfurled until 
two years of the war had passed by. 

It seems unfortunate that we do not know 
to whom we are indebted for the design of the 
flag as it was finally adopted. No record re- 



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mains of the discussions or suggestions which 
probably took place before Congress passed, 
on June 14, 1777, the resolution: "Resolved, 
That the flag of the thirteen United States be 
thirteen stripes alternate red and white; that 
the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue 
field, representing a new constellation." This 
is the only actual record that remains, and 
this gives to us the 14th of June as the birth- 
day of our flag. Preble, the historian of the 
flag, suggests that the Marine Committee may 
have fathered the resolution, but no one 
knows. 

And then, how came the stars and stripes to 
be adopted? It has been urged that they 
were suggested by the coat-of-arms of Wash- 
ing^ton, which contained both ; but this is con- 
jecture. The poetic and inspiring explanation 
of the colors is that the red was chosen to 
represent defiance of oppression, the white 
for the purity of the cause, and the star- 
gemmed blue to represent trust in heaven. 

The first flag was made by Mrs. John Ross, 
who occupied a house which which was at last 
accounts numbered 239 Arch street, in Phila- 
delphia. Here she was visited by General 
Washington and a committee of Congress, 
who engaged her to make the flag according 
to a drawing which Washington supplied. 

So the flag was given being, and although 
it took some time to make the display of the 
colors general throughout the country, it was 
the banner that inspired the Continental troops 
through the dark hours of the late years of the 
struggle, and which witnessed the surrender at 
Yorktown and the evacuation of New York. 

On the 13th of January, 1794, a bill was 
passed changing the number of stars and 
stripes to fifteen each, this being done in 
consequence of the admission of Vermont and 
Kentucky to the union, and so constituted it 
was worn by our navy in the war with Tripoli 
and the second war with Great Britain. 

When Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana and 
Indiana had been admitted to the union, how- 
ever, it was thought desirable that the new 
members of the sisterhood should in some way 
be given recognition in the flag. After much 
debate and discussion, a law was enacted, 
through the efforts of Hon. Peter Wendover, 
of New York, as follows : — 
"An Act to Establish the Flag of the 
United States. 

"Sec. I. Be it enacted, &^e., That from and after the 
fourth day of July next, the flag of the tJnited States 
be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; 
that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. 

"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That on the ad- 
mission of every new State into the Union, one star be 
added to the union of the flag ; and that such addition 
shall take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding 
such admission." 

The law was approved April 4, 181S, and 
since that day no change has been ordered in 
our flag. The constellation grew to thirty- 
eight states with the admission of Colorado, 
and when Light is three weeks older, there 
will be four new stars for North Dakota, 
South Dakota, Montana and Washington. 

Though the sons of the Confederacy dis- 
carded the flag of their fathers and through 
four years of disunion fought under another 
ensign, it remained still the flag of the United 
States. 

There is needed but a reference to the 
literature of the flag. Poets have sung of it ; 
historians have written of it ; statesmen have 



glorified it. It was our Senator Hoar, who, a 
dozen years ago, said : "I have seen the 
glories of art and architecture, and mountain 
and river; I have seen the sunset on Jungfrau, 
and the full moon rise over Mt. Blanc; but the 
fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked 
was the flag of my country in a foreign land. 
Beautiful as a flower to those who love it, 
terrible as a meteor to those who hate, it is the 
symbol of the power and the glory and the 
honor of fifty millions of Americans." 



The portrait which Lioht prints upon its 
first page this week is that of a man whose 
name stands high upon the scroll of honor 
whereon are inscribed the names of the heroes 
of the Rebellion. To him the title "Defender 
of the Flag" applies with more than ordinary 
force, for it was while actually bearing the 
colors of his regiment and facing a fearful 
storm from southern guns, that he lost both 
the arms which had done such valiant service 
for the Union. 

The engraving which Light presents to-day 
is made from a photograph taken soon after 
the war. It is the only one ever made show- 
ing his armless sleeves, and the only one in 
which the flag for which he fought is pictured 
vrith him. The photograph was kindly loaned 
Light by Mrs. Plunkett. 

Thomas Plunkett was an Irishman, brave as 
the knightliest warrior who ever carried a 
sword. He was born in County Mayo, Ire- 
land, fifty years ago, and came to this country 
when he was only three years old. He first 
lived with Father Wells in Boston, and thence 
he went to Maine, but afterward he located in 
West Boylston, where first he lived with Mr. 
J. S. Cutching, and then with Deacon Newton, 
in whose family he was brought up. Young 
Plunkett worked at the bench in Deacon New- 
ton's shoe shop, his brother, the present 
Alderman Francis Plunkett, being with him, 
until the call for volunteers came in 1861. He 
was one of the first to enlist, and it is said he 
was not quite of age, but he was so anxious to 
enter the service that he claimed to be older 
than he really was. 

He was mustered into the United States ser- 
vice, August 23, iS6i, and went to the front 
with Captain Pelham Bradford's company, 
afterward Company E of the Twenty-first 
Regiment. The Twenty-first saw plenty of 
service, and young Plunkett made himself 
known as a fighting soldier in the battles of 
Roanoke Island, New Berne, Camden, the 
second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain 
and Antietam. 

At Chantilly, the regiment went in with 400 
men and came out with half that number. 
After the battle there was a call for volunteers 
to go and look for the wounded, and Plunkett 
was among the first to volunteer. While in 
the woods searching for a friend who was 
among the missing, he captured a Confederate 
and brought him into camp. For this he was 
made a sergeant. 

But it is with the battle of Fredericksburg, 
December 13, 1862, that Sergeant Plunkett's 
name is inseparably connected. The Twenty- 
first was in the second line of battle, and when 
the men of the first line lay dead upon Marye's 
Hill, brave men who had been torn and crushed 
by the fearful storm of sliot and shell, the 
second line of battle came into action. Up 



the hill went the boys of the Twenty-first, 
bullets whistling around them, shells bursting 
in the ranks, and comrades falling like wheat 
before the cradle. Upward still they went. 
Color-Sergeant Collins of Company A fell, and 
then it was tliat Sergeant Plunkett seized the 
colors and went forward to the farthest point 
reached by the Union troops. During the 
battle, when the regiment was about forty 
rods distant from the Confederate infantry, a 
shell aimed at the color guard brought the 
standard to the ground, the banner wet with 
the blood of the brave sergeant who bore it. 
A piece of the shell nearly severed the right 
arm from his body, and but for a book which 
was buttoned inside his coat, would have 
ended his life, but it turned and struck his left 
arm, making another frightful wound. 

Plunkett fell forward upon the flag, and the 
stains of his blood are there yet. As the 
visitor looks upon it in the rotunda of the State 
House, how eloquently it speaks of the heroic 
bravery of one of the men who fought for us ! 

He was sent to the rear and taken to a 
hospital in Fredericksburg, but it was neces- 
sary to amputate his arms. On Christmas 
day, 1S63, he was well enough to go home, and 
the whole regiment turned out to escort him 
to the station. At the Massachusetts head- 
quarters in New York he was made a lion, and 
the enthusiastic reception was repeated in 
Boston, and again when he reached West 
Boylston. 

After the war. Congress granted Sergeant 
Plunkett a total disability pension, and 
awarded him a medal. In 1S79 he was ap- 
pointed a messenger at the State House and 
was put in charge of the coatroom. He died 
in Worcester, Tuesday. March 10, 1885. 

When he entered the war, he was engaged 
to a Miss Lorimer of Worcester, and after the 
loss of his arms he would have released her, 
but she would not hear of it, and they were 
married on Thanksgiving Day, 1863. 

The only time that the brave soldier ever 
complained of the loss of his arms was during 
a sickness, when he wished that he might in- 
dicate the seat of his pain. 

He was a great friend of John B. Cough's 
and affected a reconciliation between him and 
the people of West Boylston, after Mr. Cough 
had said that he would never speak in that 
town again. 

He loved flowers and requested that they 
should always be kept upon his grave. 

Worcester has not forgotten the demon- 
stration at the time of Sergeant Plunkett's 
death. The whole city turned out to do him 
honor, and Mechanics Hall witnessed one of 
the grandest spectacles it has ever known. 
All over the country, people who knew his 
story spoke of his bravery and lamented his 
death. That he could have passed through 
two decades of life, seemingly helpless as he 
was, with so cheerful a spirit, so manly a 
front, and so strong a resolution, is a practical 
lesson in patriotism which has rarely been 
duplicated on the pages of history. 

Worcester may feel proud that he was her 
citizen, and younger generations may re- 
member him for what he has done. He was 
one of the men who saw his duty and did it, 
and never murmured because his country had 
taken so much from him. Light honors 
itself in honoring the Defender of the Flag. 



About Folks. 



Mrs. F. B. Kimball of I'eterboro, N. II., 
has been in the city the past week, on a visit 
to her parents. 

Whatsoever Circle of the King's Daughters, 
of Trinity Church, gave an entertainment at 
the residence of Rev. William H. Thomas, D. 
D., last Monday evening, and raised a consid- 
erable sum of money, which will l)e used for 
purchasing flowers for the church during the 
year. Mr. George N. Morse, pianist, Miss 
Lottie E. Lamson and Dr. F. (}. Lamson, 
banjoists, Mr. Joshua B. Blair, flutist, Mr. A. 
E. Riggs, cometist, Mrs. J. E. Evans and Mr. 
J. J. Daesen, mandolin and guitar, Mr. John 
L. Brand, 'cellist, Miss Florence M. Sears, 
violinist, Mr. James A. Brennan, tenor, and the 
Cecilia ladies quartet, gave a musical pro- 
gram which the diversity of talent represented 
could not but make enjoyable. Mrs. Alia 
Woodford, always delightful in her readings, 
rendered "Aux Italiens." 



Mr. Charles Carroll, one of Worcester's 
most popular newspaper men, is away on his 
vacation, which he will spend in Little Rhody. 



The Polytechnic seniors expect to have 
great fun in their ball game which they are to 
play on Thursday, June 24. The game will 
take place on the Grove street grounds, and 
will probably be one of the most remarkable 
exhibitions ever witnessed within the enclo- 
sure. The entire class participates in the 
game, each "nine" having half of the members. 
Mr. Everett J. Lake will captain Team A, and 
Mr. Harry P. Crosby Team B. The former 
will have for players Messrs. Herbert E. 
Austin, Albert J. Reinbold, Jr., James P. 
Anderson, Jcseph H. Devlin, Loring N. Far- 
num, E. H. Rockwell, A. P. Smith, Henr>- E. 
Warren, Harrison P. Wires, James H. Clancy, 
Charles H. Faulkner, George W. Perry, 
Clarence K. Prince, E. C. Rice, Stanley H. 
Rood, Alton L. Smith, Windsor T. White. On 
Team B will appear Messrs. Julius W. Bug- 
bee, Arthur B. Larchar, Ellis W. Lazell, 
Warren E. Mumford, Charles A. Pierce, W. 
L. Smith, Francis W. Treadway, Merrill W. 
Allen, David R. Collier, Frank A. Gardner, 
Charless H. Jennes, Paul B. Morgan, George 
H. Nutt, Lee Russell, Charles F. Treadway, 
Louis E. Booth, Charles S. Cook. The um- 
pires will be Messrs. Albert P. Allen and Al- 
bert B. Kimball, '89. The game will be 
called at 2.30, and there will be fun enough for 
a circus. 

Mr. Edwin A. Sumner and his son have 
returned from Europe after a delightful trip. 
Most of the time was spent in Spain, but of 
course they did not miss the Passion Play at 
Oberammergau. 

Children's Sunday has never been more 
generally observed in Worcester than on last 
Sabbath. Some fifteen of the Evangelical 
churches prepared special services, all having 
elements of novelty, and all being suitable 
observances of the day. Naturally, flowers 
had a large part, and the decorations were as 
elaborate as opportunity afforded. At Pied- 
mont Church, in the morning. Dr. Mears 
christened fourteen children, and thirteen who 



were christened in 1SS4 were presented with 
bibles, according to the usual custom of the 
church. At five o'clock there was a Sunday 
School concert, in which the building of the 
tal)ernacle, and also the building up of the 
church, by the primary departments, made 
pretty features. At Plymouth, whose pulpit 
was occupied during the day by Rev. C. H. 
Daniels of New York, who, by the way, was 
formerly a Worcester man, and a member of 
Plymouth Church, there were services of simi- 
lar order. At I'ilgrim Church, in the morn- 
ing. Rev. C. M. Southgate baptized six child- 
ren, and five received bibles. There was also 
an evening service. At the Old South Church, 
Rev. Elbridge Mix, of Fall River, preached 
again for Mr. Lovering, and there was a ser- 
vice at six o'clock. At Central Church, at 
Union, at Summer Street, at Laurel Street, at 
the First Baptist, at Trinity, at Grace, at Web- 
ster Square, at Dewey Street Baptist and at 
the South Baptist there were similarly appro- 
priate services. During the day. Rev. George 
H. Gould, D. D., occupied the pulpit at Salem 
Street Church ; at Webster Square Church, 
Rev. C. E. Dorr, of Mexico, N. Y., a brother 
of Rev. Henry Dorr, preached, and at Park 
Church, Rev. A. E. P. Perkins, D. D., preached 
in the morning and Mr. Seelye Bryant in the 
evening. Two churches will have their 
Childrens' Day services next Sunday, the 
Main Street Baptist and Park Church. 

The Main Street Baptist Sunday-School has 
voted to picnic at ChauncyjLake, Westboro. 
The date has not yet been fixed. 



Mr. Louis W. Southgate, a graduate of the 
Polytechnic Institute, '85, has recently re- 
ceived the degree of Master of Laws at the 
commencement at the National Llniversity in 
Washington. Mr. Southgate and his younger 
brother, Pliilip W., Polytechnic Institute, '89, 
are both in the Patent Office, but the former 
will resign his position and open a law office 
in Washington. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Osborne's friends 
gave evidence of their regard for that gentle- 
man and his wife, Monday evening, by assem- 
bling at their residence, 2S5 Pleasant street,and 
participating in the festivities usually attendant 
upon a wooden wedding celebration. The 
Worcester Brass Band, of which Mr. Osborne 
is a member, sent forth its sweetest strains 
from its station upon the lawn, before enter- 
ing the house to mingle with the crowd. 



George Bancroft, who was secretary of the 
navy under President Polk, is the oldest ex- 
cabinet officer, both in age and date of service, 
now living. Mr. Bancroft recently fell on the 
steps of his residence in Washington and was 
quite severely injured, but he is now recover 
ing. He will be ninety years old next Octo- 
ber. Just now, about his birthplace, up on 
Salisbury street, is beautiful with surrounding 
foliage. It is one of the most noteworthy 
places which Worcester people can show to 
out of-town visitors. 



Worcester people who visit Oakham say 
that it has in it the making of one of the most 
popular summering towns in the county. A 
boom in that direction might not be altogether 
an unlikely thing. 



About Folks. 

Little Lillian E. Johnson, three and a half 
years old, sang a hymn entitled, "Saviour, 
Hear Thy Little Children," which greatly 
interested the hearers, at the Sunday School 
concert at Trinity Church a week ago. 



The ladies of the South Unitarian Church 
are to bold a strawberry festival in Pilgrim 
Hall, next Tuesday evening. Strawberries 
and ice cream and cake will be served, and a 
pleasing entertainment will also be given. 



Rev. George S. Chadboune, D. D., presid- 
ing elder of the Boston District of the Metho- 
dist Conference, paid Worcester a visit early 
this week. 

On Tuesday evening of last week. Dr. J. K. 
Warren entertained his Sabbath-school class 
of Plymouth Church, at his residence, 68 
Pleasant street. It was the seventh gathering 
of the kind, for Dr. Warren has made it an 
annual affair. An hour was spent socially, 
and then there was a supper, the usual banquet 
feature of toasts not being omitted. Dr. 
Warren introduced Mr. Frank R. Hood as 
toastmaster, and he called for speeches from 
Mr. Sumner A. Kinsley, on "Our Annual;" 
Mr. Frank E. Penniman, on "Our Class and 
Its Leader," to which Dr. Warren pleasantly 
responded ; Mr. Will P. Crosby, "Our Absent 
Members;" Mr. F. E. Gamwell, "Our Church 
and Sunday School;" Mr. Hood and Mr. 
Albert H. Inman gave a class prophecy ; then 
Mr. Arthur Chapin spoke for "Our Hand- 
some Man," Mr. Ralph Holman for "The 
Advantages of Our City to Young Men," and 
Mr. Edward A. Taylor for "Our Country." 
Messrs. A. D. Kimball, Frank Metcalf and 
Walter L. Mellen were also called up for 
speeches. Everybody present enjoyed the 
affair very much. 

Mr. Frank S. Fay is fishing in Maine. 



Rev. Charles M. Southgate has been repre- 
senting the Pilgrim Church Young Peoples 
Christian Endeavor Society and the Worces- 
ter Union, at St. Louis, this week. Mr. E. B. 
Miles represented the Piedmont Church 
society. 

Wednesday was rhetorical day at the High 
School, and the exercises in the hall included 
the reading of an essay on "Sunnyside" by 
David M. Earle, and a reading, "The Friar 
of Orders Gray," by Miss Sadie P. Waite, 
both being pupils of the second year class. 
Mr. Frank N. Hair, '87, now of Baldwin City, 
Kansas, as noted elsewhere in Light, also 
played delightfully a piano selection. 



The Young Mens Bible Class of Main Street 
Baptist Church gave a complimentary supper 
and reception to their teacher, Mr. Vernon P. 
Squires, at the church vestry, Thursday eve- 
ning. Mr. Squires has been teaching at Wor- 
cester Academy during the past year, and now 
goes to teach in a Normal School in New York 
State. He is a very talented and very popular 
young man, as the expressions of goodwill on 
Thursday evening indicated. Mr. W. E- 
Lewis presided and a musical program in- 
cluded a reading by Miss May Shelton, songs 
by Mrs. Arthur E. Hill, Mr. George H. 



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Learned, Miss Elizabeth P. Parmalee, bone 
solo, with harmonica accompaniment, by 
Messrs. Wendell P. Dewey and Seth Tarbox; 
piano solo, Miss May Lewis. After the sup- 
per, Rev. C. H. Pendleton, speaking for the 
class, surprised Mr. Squires by presenting him 
a student's Oxford Bible. He expressed his 
thanks.- In the way of toasts, Mr. Squires re- 
sponded for "Our Class;" Mr. Arthur E. Hill, 
the president of the class, for "Our Organiza- 
tion and its future ;" Mr. J. E. Raycroft read 
the response prepared by Mr. Fred L. Ward 
for the toast, "The Ladies ;" and Mr. E. G. 
Guy, superintendent of the Sunday-School, 
responded for "The Relation of the Class to 
the Sunday-School." Then there was a 
social time, and Mr. Squires was the recipient 
of cordial handshakings and expressions of 
goodwill. The class has voted unanimously to 
ask Rev. Mr. Pendleton to take Mr. Squires's 
place as teacher. 



The Sumner Club declamation contest, 
which is to take place at Curtis Hall, next 
Friday evening, promises to be one of great 
merit, and much interest is manifested in it. 
A gold medal is offered by Sumner Club 
alumni for first prize ; the active members of 
the club offer a silver medal for second prize, 
and Mr. Samuel H. Putnam contributes the 
"Life of Samuel Adams" for third prize. The 
judges are Col. Rockwood Hoar, representing 
the alumni ; Prof. E. Harlow Russell, for the 
club, and Hon. E. B. Stoddard, representing 
a friend of the club who has volunteered to 
defray the expenses of the contest. The pro- 
gram has been arranged so as to give it 
variety and excellence, Mr. John H. Howell 
having kindly consented to sing, while Miss 
Alice E. Denny will play a piano solo and 
Messrs. F. W. Hoppin and G. H. Salie will 
play banjo selections. The -program is as 
follows : 

Piano Solo: 

Miss Alice Denny. 

DECLAMATIONS. 

War is Actually Begun, Patrick Henry 

Harry H. Hill. 
Henry W. Grady's Speech at New York, 

William P. Goodwin. 
The Black Horse and His Rider, George Lipfard 

T. F. Cummings. 
Banjo and Guitar: "Eva Schottische," 

Messrs. Fred W. Hoppin and Geo. H. Salie. 

DECLAMATIONS. 

King Robert of Sicily, H. W. Longfellcnv 

Aldus C. Higgins. 
Supposed Speech of Regulus to the Carthagenians, 

Walter S. Bliss. Elijah Kellogg 

American Battle Flags, Carl Schurz 

H. P. LinneU. 

Bass Solo: "The Postilion," Molloy 

Mr. John H. HowelL 

DECLAMATIONS. 

First Settlement of New England, Edward Everett 

Charles Baker, Jr. 
Flying Jim's Last Leap, Aiwti 

Edward A. D. Moss. 
Banjo and Guitar: "With the Tide," Schottische, 
Messrs. Hoppin and Salie. 

PRESENTATION OF PRIZES. 

The club has issued invitations to its friends 
and the hall will undoubtedly be filled. 



One of Light's staff was stopped in front of 
the Church of the Unity, on Elm street, last 
Sunday evening, by an old gentleman, evi- 
dently a stranger in the city, who asked the 
location of the nearest Methodist church. On 
being directed to Grace Church, on Walnut 



street, he exclaimed that he wasn't looking for 
a "Grace" or "Trinity" or a "Bethel," but 
wanted an old-fashioned Methodist church 
without any Episcopal adjuncts. The Light 
man regretted his inability to furnish the de- 
sired information and left the aged stranger 
mourning over the "decay of the old Methor 
dist spirit in Worcester." 



Cadet Ramirez of the Highland Military 
Academy, accompanied by his father and two 
sisters, left Worcester Thursday morning for 
Washington, whence they will go to Canada, 
and after a brief visit will return to their home 
in Mexico. 

Should the weather be favorable, Mr. Caleb 
A. Wall's historical field meeting on the old 
Coal Mine Farm, on Plantation street, to-day, 
will attract a large attendance. At 3 o'clock, 
he will give an address on the first settlers in 
that section, and their locations. The 1.30 
and 2 p. m. dummy trains from Washington 
Square will connect at the Lake with a 
steamer for Natural History Park, near the 
place of meeting. 

Mr. H. W. Smith, janitor of the Young 
Mens Christian Association building, did a 
kind thing one day this week. He hired a 
team and took half a dozen urchins for a drive 
around the lake. 

Mr. Frank N. Hair, whose musical abilities 
have, in the past, made him well known in 
Worcester, is at home for a three months va- 
cation. He is now instructor of music in 
Baker Academy, at Baldwin City, Kansas. 



Mr. Charles E. Passmore, who has a beau- 
tiful collection of shells at F. A. Knowlton's, 
goes away next week. He has a splendid 
variety of cats-eye pearls, which cost but a 
quarter each, and make charming ornaments. 



Mr. Allerton S. Cushman, Polytechnic 
Institute '88, and now with the Michael Breen 
Mining and Milling Company, Ouray, Col- 
orado, paid Worcester a brief visit early in the 
week. 

Mrs. L. F. Walch starts June 23 for the 
seashore. She will occupy her cottage at 
Gun Rock, Nantasket, for the season. 



The Lake boat-house of the Young Men's 
Christian Association was formally opened 
Tuesday evening, with a charming illumina- 
tion, and a large number of the members en- 
joyed a good time. Mrs. A. C. Munroe and 
Mrs. George R. Bliss represented Old South 
Church in serving refreshments, Secretary 
McConaughy and Mr. Bliss assisting. 



Thursday evening the strawberry festivals 
blossomed out profusely, especially in the 
Methodist churches. Trinity, Grace, Coral 
street, Laurel street, St. John's Episcopal, and 
Dewey Street Baptist enjoyed the berry ; and 
the Young Peoples Society of the Church of 
Christ had a social at the residence of the 
pastor. Rev. A. B. Chamberlain, 59 Jacques 
avenue. 

A LOCAL EXPERIENCE. 

"Pm all broke up," ne sadly sighed. 

As he returned to town. 
"A love affair?" "No," he replied; 

"A hammock let me down." B« 



Mental Food and Dessert. 



PREPARED FOR LIGHT. 



To keep pace with the growing interest in 
Russian government and people, each month 
brings us one or more interesting histories of 
this nation. Two of the latest and most accu- 
rate, as well as entertaining, are : "The Story 
of Russia," by VV. R. Morfill, and "Russia; 
Its People and Literature," by Emilia I'ardo 
Bazan, translated by fanny Gardiner. The 
latter book was first delivered in the form of 
essays at the Spanish Athenasum in Madrid. 



One reason for the absorbing interest which 
Americans feel in the Russian problem is 
found in the excellent, forcible essays on the 
subject by Kennan in our magazines and 
periodicals. The question has often been 
asked, how Kennan chances to be such 
an authority on the subject and if he has really 
studied the question personally. The answer 
is found in the fact that in 1885 he travelled 
150,000 miles for the purpose of investigating 
the exile system, about which he had learned 
some facts in his earlier explorations in 1S65 
and 1S70. 

Visitors to Northampton, in the Connecticut 
Valley, are always greatly interested in, and 
curious about, a small, dark, quick-motioned 
man who seems to take a keen interest in all 
people and affairs about him, who speaks in 
a nervous manner and with a peculiar accent 
and to whom the towns-people pay that 
peculiar deference bestowed upon an indi- 
vidual superior in some way to "the natives." 
Inquiry discloses the fact that the man is 
Cable, one of the most successful writers of 
our day. His "Bonaventure," found in the 
paper-covered literature of the summer, is as 
full of wit and pathos as are all of his 
sketches. His style is unique because of the 
Creole dialect in which the stories are largely 
written and which becomes the sweetest of 
music when read by this author. 



In Cable, we have again an example of a 
literary man who has toiled by slow stages up 
the road to fame. His father died young, 
leaving the family poor, and Cable began life 
as a clerk. After serving in the Confederate 
army (for he was a native of New Orleans) he 
was obliged to earn his living as errand-boy, 
later becoming a surveyor. It was for the 
New Orleans Picayune that he first wrote his 
humorous sketches. At this time he evinced 
that firm obedience to conscience which has 
marked him as a leader of a Bible class in 
Tremont Temple, Boston, or in the old Ed- 
wards church in Northampton, for when an 
editor on the Picayune he gave offense and 
lost his position because he refused to criti- 
cice a theatrical performance. At present, he 
finds much delight in his home in Northamp- 
ton, on the shores of picturesque Lake 
Paradise, while he and his twin daughters 
have many a delightful "tramp" up the Hamp- 
shire hills and down the Connecticut valley. 



"A Rambling Story," by Mary Cowden 
Clarke, is full of pleasure for the reader. 
This author is best known to us as a Shaks- 
perian authority, her "Girlhood of Shakspere's 
Heroines" being a book dear to all girls' 



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hearts. Equally well known is her concor- 
dance to Shakspere's plays, representing six- 
teen years of mental work on her part alone. 

"Pactolus Prime," by Albion Tourjee, treats 
of the negro question, a bootblack in Wash- 
ington being the instrument through which 
the author's opinions are expressed. 

Among other books for summer reading 
are : "Kit and Kitty," by Blackmore, a simple 
sketch of rural life, but scarcely worthy of the 
author of "Lorna Doone ;" and "Prince 
Fortunatus," redolent of the heather, the per- 
fume of which always comes to us through 
Black's novels. Unfortunately, one tires of 
the same general scenes and characters in 
Black's novels, and to many readers "the 
sample copy" proves the most entertaining. 

In the "Feet of Love," by Anne Aldrich, 
one will find far more dross than gold. The 
book has been compared to the "Quick or the 
Dead," by Am^lie Rives, which proved, two 
years ago, entertaining or disgusting, accord- 
ing to the mental composition of the reader. 

"The Lawton Girl," by Harold Frederic, 
gives more satisfaction and less of a sense of 
wasted time. The scene is laid in Thessaly, 
N. v., and the story will prove excellent 
recreation on a hot summer's day. 

\['orccstcr, Mass. A. 



Worcester people always feel a special in- 
terest in whatever Colonel Thomas Wentworth 
Higginson writes, because he was once a Wor- 
cester man and always has a good word for 
the Heart of the Commonwealth. In "The 
Afternoon Landscape," a neat little brown- 
covered collection of his poems, we have an 
excellent souvenir of an old friend. The poems 
throughout have that gracefulness which 
so universally characterizes Col. Higginson's 
expression. One of the first half-dozen in the 
book will at once be remembered as the one 
that he read at the authors' readings given 
under the auspices of the Women's Club, a 
year ago. It is "Sixty and Six," beginning : 

"Joy of the morning, 

Darling of dawning, 
Blitlw little, lithe Utile daughter of mine," 
and then follow such charming poems as "The 
Soul of a Butterfly," "To My Shadow," "Wait- 
ing for the Bugle," "The Last Palatine Light" 
and "The Memorial Ode." His earlier poems 
are represented, and the book closes with a 
number of translations, most of which are 
Petrarchan sonnets. These are not great 
poems, perhaps, and scholarship sometimes 
holds the spirit of them in thrall, yet they are 
so graceful and so characteristic of the writer 
that they make for themselves an attentive 
audience at once. "Waiting for the Bugle," 
written by the soldier for his comrades, is one 
of the most interesting, and has, uncon- 
sciously, perhaps, the greatest pathos, where 
he says: 

"Though the bivouac of age may put ice incur veins, 
And no fibre of steel in our sinew remains ; 
Though the comrades of yesterday's march are not 

here, 
And the sunlight seems pale and the branches are sere,— 
Though the sound of the cheering dies down to a moan, 
We shall find our lost youth when the bugle is blown." 
Altogether we are glad to have this pleasant 
keepsake which bears Col. Higginson's name. 
The book is published by Messrs. Longmans, 
Green & Co. Putnam, Davis & Co. have it. 
Price $1.00. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

It I.S Amkrican.— Agriculturist wants to 
know the origin of the Irish potato. The 
Irish potato isn't Irish at all, and there has 
been some difficulty in deciding where it is 
really indigenous. It is a native of tropical 
and sub-tropical America, and was taken to 
Europe by the Spaniards, from South America, 
in the sixteenth century. It was carried into 
Ireland from Virginia by a slave-trader, in 
i5C>5, and to England by Sir Francis Drake, 
twenty years later. The Irish famine of 1S46 
resulted from the excess to which the cultiva- 
tion of it was carried. It has become one of 
the greatest food plants of the sterner latitudes 
and the potato and .Indian corn may well be 
called the two greatest gifts which America 
has given to the world. 

Great Cor.vetists.— L. D wants to know 
who is the best cornet player in Worce.ster ; 
in Massachusetts; in New England; in the 
United States, and, in fact, in the world. Jules 
Levy is generally acknowledged to be the 
greatest cornetist in the world, and conse- 
quently, in the United States. For New 
England, Walter Emerson of Boston and 
Bowen R. Church of Boston may contest for 
the title; and in Massachusetts Mr. Emerson 
leads. The Answerer has no local prejudices, 
but Mr. E. I). Ingraham would probably re- 
ceive more votes than any other local cornetist, 
if the people who understand the instrument 
voted on it. 

June, Dear June.— J. C. D. asks: "Where 
can I find the line which the funny papers 
print, nowadays: "What is so rare as a day in 
June?" It occurs in James Russell Lowell's 
poem, "The Vision of Sir Launfal." 

Turkish Bath.s. — Mr. T. W. says: "Do 
you recommend Turkish baths?" On general 
principles, yes. The Turkish bath is a luxury, 
and its hygienic cjualities of the highest order. 
There are people, who, perhaps, may not be 
benefited by this bath, but these are compara- 
tively few. A Turkish bath once a week is 
not liable to hurt anyone, and may do him con- 
siderable good. 

Gold Beating. — T. H. asks how thin gold 
can be beaten. The gold beaters of Berlin, at 
the Paris exposition, showed gold leaves so 
thin that it would require 282,000 to produce 
the thickness of a single inch, yet each leaf is 
so perfect and free from holes as to be impen- 
etrable by the strongest electric light. If these 
leaves were bound in book form it would take 
15,000 to fill the space of ten common book- 
leaves. 

AiiOUT Bangles. — Florence Y. says: "I 
wear bangles. My most intimate friend claims 
that they are not fashionable nor in good taste. 
Is she right?" Your friend evidently is a 
woman of sense, although rather too pro- 
nounced in her judgement. It is all right to 
wear bangles if you want to, but it is ever so 
much better not to. Bangles have a persis- 
tent way of continually jingling, and one can 
tell the approach of a bangled girl as surely 
as he can a cow with a bell around her neck. 



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Origin of Local Names. 



BV R. li. CLARK. 



Local names are often significant. Origi- 
nally, perhaps, they always are. One can 
hardly reason otherwise. An original name 
applied to a locality must necessarily have 
soi/u meaning. An uttered, rational word is 
never a mere empty sound. A local name is a 
sign for something. It is for that something 
that names are important and interesting ; it 
is for that that they are instructive. In the 
lapse of time the original import may have 
been disguised, or have faded away. But the 
impress once made is still there, though 
hidden, and its signification, though forgotten, 
may be restored, and often found full-fraught 
with instruction. 

The geographical nomenclature of a conti- 
nent never lies in a single stratum. There is 
layer upon layer. The records of one people 
are deposited upon the records of another, — 
silent records of which written history takes 
no notice. The student of geology has sight 
that can penetrate the opaque strata of the 
earth's surface, and read the mysteries of its 
dark interior. So the student of language can 
delve among these buried records of departed 
or extinct nations, and find fossil remains 
from which to determine the fashion and 
form of spee(;h in eras far remote. But this 
is only a figure. These remains all lie upon 
the surface. They cling to the mountains, 
rivers, creeks ; they cluster in the valleys, and 
hang to the hill tops ; they adhere to the early 
settlements, towns, camps, castles, every- 
where. Here are materials with which to 
build a history, abundantly more, as related to 
the whole, than Agassiz required to recon- 
struct the complete skeleton, and picture the 
living animal. 

What mean the Phoenician names scattered 
through all the principal islands of the Medi- 
terranean, and through Italy, Spain, and 
Britain, more or less .'' What traces of the Mos- 
lem Empire in the Arabic names of places 
scattered over Egypt, Northern Africa, Persia, 
Syria, and the hosts of such names in Spain 
and Portugal ? The last bear witness to an 
Arab occupancy and rule of nearly eight 
centuries. India hints, in the names of its 
mountains, seas, rivers, of the origin of a race 
whose birth and being are in darkness. In 
Palestine, there are names to-day, given by 
the early Canaanitish tribes before the He- 
brews had become a nation ; and by the 
Hebrews, too, ten centuries before the Mos- 
lems, now in power, had received their faith. 
Egypt is Turkish to-day, in its inhabitants, but 
its great cities, temples, river, are not called 
by Turkish names. Look to Greece: seek 
for the sources of her philosophy, religion, 
mysteries. Translate, as a Greek, if one can, 
the names Arcadia, Elis, Dodona, Pharsalus, 
Phocis, Achaia, Thesprotia. In what language 
did those names originate ? Who spoke that 
language, and when ; and where is that nation 
now? 

But let us look nearer home. The name 
"Worcester" bears on its face a foreign stamp. 
No local name of that meaning and termin- 
ology has ever originated on this continent, 
nor in any other country, save one. Its mean- 
ing has often been explained. One author 



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says that the Romans found a British settle- 
ment on the island, held it as a military post, 
and named it l^igorna (a borrowed name, if 
true) ; that the Saxons called it Wigorna- 
ceaster (Lat. castrci), whence Worcester. 
Another gives it as Wcgara-ceaster, "a war 
castle." But the Vicar of Twickenham, 
a more scholarly authority, makes it a com- 
pound of three words, viz., Huiccii, the name 
of one of the original (.'') clans of Britain, 
classed as Cymric (because, forsooth, nothing 
is known of its origin, or whether possibly the 
name may not be eponymic) ; ware, a Teutonic 
word, meaning "people," and castra, Latin for 
"camp." In the Saxon parts of Britain this 
last word becomes Chester; in the Anglian 
and Danish portion, it is easier, whilst by the 
joint influence of the Saxon, Anglian and 
Norse, it assumes a midway form, eesier, 
though probably, for a long time, the e as well 
as eh not softened, but pronounced like k. 

This high authority would call Wo-r-ces-ter 
a corruption (!) of Hwic-wara-ceaster — "the 
camp of the people, Huiccii." 

If the map of Britain be examined, the 
geographical location of the -chestcrs, -easters, 
and -eesters will seem to favor, if not corrobo- 
rate this last derivation. The -casters do 
not overlap the -eesters, nor vice versa. The- 
cesters are all hemmed in, as it were, 
midland, and toward Celtic Wales, 
where the form is syncopated to caer, as 
Caerleon, or still further, to car as Carnarvon, 
the word as in Celtic formation generally, be- 
coming a prefix. (Observe that about two 
thousand names in Ireland commence with the 
Erse, bally, "a town," and nearly a hundred 
in the Isle of Man ; not one, however, in 
Wales. The reason is evident.) 

Finally, the more numerous -chesters are 
largely in the south, though more widely 
scattered, with the wide-spread Saxons, and in 
the purely Saxon districts that form is uni- 
versal. 

Worcester, Mass. 



The Foundation of Wealth. 

Most of our millionaires laid the foundation 
of their fortunes by saving. It is said Sena- 
tor Farwell commenced life as a surveyor. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt began life as a farmer. 

Postmaster General Wanamaker's first sal- 
ary was $1.25 a week. 

A. T. Stewart made his first start as a 
school teacher. 

Cyrus Field began life as a clerk in a New 
England store. 

Andrew Carnegie did his first work in a tele- 
graph office at $3 a week. 

Moses Taylor clerked in Water street, New 
York, at %z a week. 

Whitelaw Reid, our minister to France, did 
work as correspondent of a Cincinnati news- 
paper at ;^5 per week. 

George W. Childs was an errand boy for a 
bookseller at $i, a month. 

Jay Gould canvassed Delaware county. New 
York, selling maps at S1.50 apiece. 

The same or better opportunities exist to- 
day for bright, energetic young men to suc- 
ceed than existed when the above millionaires 
began their business life, but to accomplish it, 
the same perseverance and economy which 
characterized their early career must be ob- 
served. 



CIou(ds Before Dawn. 



EDMUND SMITH MIDDLETON. 



While mount is lit with silvered flood, 

That sun will turn to gold, 
The clouds come down to kiss the earth, 

Made by the night more bold. 

In mountain vales and woodland dales, 

In hidden nooks and hollows, 
The clouds descending roam at will, 

Soft flitting like the swallows. 

As flowers drink the dew at night, 

To quench the thirst of day, 
So in the night the clouds to earth 

With hunger wend their way. 

Each weary cloud of trembling mist, 

Will choose some mossy dell, 
And silent drink the nestling dew. 

Cool draughts from nature's well. 

One snowy bank alights in vale, 
And ghdes through forest scene. 

Another skims 'cross rippling brook, 
Then sails o'er low-land green. 

And let it be on hill or pool. 

Or by green meadow's face. 
They touch the rills, and grass, and leaves, 

With sweet and dainty grace. 

But wlien the sun with stronger ray 
Brings morn and summer heat, 

The timid clouds leave earth for sky. 
And rest in blue retreat. 
Worcester, Mass. 



Barnum on Success. 
The king of showmen, P. T. Barnum, says: 
The safest plan and the one most sure of suc- 
cess for the young man starting in life is to 
select the vocation which is most congenial 
to his tastes. He should then be careful to 
keep himself in good health, for that is the 
foundation of success in life — the substratum 
of fortune. Shun rum and tobacco. You 
must have a clear brain to make money. You 
cannot carry on business successfully if your 
brain is muddled and your judgment warped 
by intoxicating drink. Keep out of debt. 
Debt drags a man down more than anything 
else. It destroys his self respect and makes 
him almost despicable in his own eyes. Put 
what money you have and all you may save, in 
the future at interest where it will be well 
secured. Real estate is the most safe of all 
investments. Money at interest, with good 
security, will work more faithfully than any- 
thing else in the world. It never stops, day 
nor night, no matter if the weather be wet or 
dry. Engage in one kind of business only and 
stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until 
your experience shows that you should 
abandon it. Whatever you engage in make it 
your constant aim to be and to have the very 
best in your line. When sure that you are in 
the right path persevere. To make money 
dishonestly is the hardest thing in life. There- 
fore preserve your integrity. Remember that 
the road to wealth lies in expending less than 
we earn. 



In Love With Ourselves. 
When another commits a fault, it is a great 
dead tree half decayed, bare and hideous, but 
when we do it ourselves, oh my God ! think of 
the reasons, climbing around it like a thousand 
clinging vines, covering with soft love every 
branch and twig, turning it into a beautiful 
object. — Robert G. Ingersoll. 



Ambleside and Keswick. 



An eight o'clock start required a seven 
o'clock breakfast, preceded by a six o'clock 
rap, announcing time, tub, liot water and 
boots. Tlie cool, neatly-furnished room had 
for its only wall decorations a mirror, a youth- 
ful portrait of Albert Edward, and the in- 
quisitive runners of Virginia creeper that 
would grow in between the wall and window 
casing, and these were altogether too little in 
their interest to wake one thoroughly at the 
first offence of Boots, who, in time, came again 
and with much more than usual English 
fervor impressed upon me that in order to start 
at eight I must get up. 

Lake trout, eggs and bacon, toast, tea and 
orange marmalade were never so inviting be- 
fore. The fresh air from Lake Windermere 
blowing in at the vine-covered windows was a 
continual combination in appetizing qualities 
of Hood's Sarsaparilla, Scott's Emulsion and 
Fellow's Hyperphosphites. Our party, again 
in the best of spirits, mount the coach, and 
with wonderful cadenza from the horn, ac- 
companied by staccato notes from the lash, we 
are far on our way, skirting higli hills and 
dashing through shady lanes to Ambleside. 

The beauties of this little village are the 
honest, quiet ones that almost all the lake 
settlements possess, though here is a sputter- 
ing waterfall that follows a steep roadway, 
doing its best to entertain with its pranks and 
music. By its side are rustic seats and nooks, 
planned by nature and helped by true art, 
from which one may more thoroughly enjoy 
the brook's frolics. About, all is beautiful. 
The, jewels of lakes set in the rich green 
enamel connected by brooks spanned by grey 
stone bridges ; the fine old country .seats 
among trees almost in second childhood, 
guarded by liuge iron gates and ru.stic porters' 
lodges, make this drive one ©f continued 
beauties. Now and then a pasture peacefully 
filled with sheep and young lambs, so de- 
lighted with some unknown thought that they 
evidently try to fly in tlieir awkward antics, 
with legs, head and tail all in unusual positions 
as they bound from the ground in impossible 
ways. 

A little way from the shore of Grassmere 
Lake is De Quincy's cottage, and not far 
from him lived Wordsworth at Rydal Water. 
Harriet IVIartineau's cottage is near at hand, 
and the nook Mrs. Hemans called Doves 
Nest. All is so poetic and beautiful here tliat 
all the little houses might well take the same 
name. The churchyard near at hand, at 
Grassmere, contains the graves of Words- 
worth and Coleridge. All is reposeful, the 
grass is deep, the trees are low, with sweeping 
branches, daisies and corn flowers add quiet 
color, and the brook babbles loud enough to 
make the silence felt. 

Keswick is our Mecca, and the twenty-five 
mile drive, with changes of horses, walks up 
various hills and other incidental earthly e.\- 
periences, are over. Keswick is proud of her 
lead pencil manufactories. They are interest- 
ing, but, like some people, Keswick does not 
fully realize her strongest points. 

Saturday night, with its attendant crowd of 
villagers filling the streets and overflowing 



LICiHT 

into the black oak lined and floored inns are 
surely such Saturday nights as one sees no- 
where else. The crowds are orderly and the 
pewter tankards and mugs of fresh brewed 
ale, "right from the wood," have only a refining 
effect upon them. Such interesting stories as 
these old villagers tell ! What points they 
give to seekers, for odd keepsakes, and how 
truthful they are ! 

Just after dinner, at the beginning of twi- 
light, one should go to Cro.ssthwaite Church. 
.She liroods cozily among her children that have 
so lovingly come back to her shadow. The 
turn-stile makes little ceremony in allowing 
one to enter, and [once witliin "God's acre" 
the interest of the place overwhelms one. The 
verger, bent and grey, just remembers Southey 
and tells how he and his wife walked across 
the fields to service, and how he was taught "to 
respect 'is learnin' by my Father the verger 
has was." The church within is much in its 
former state. Two effigies, with date of 1527, 
represent Lord Derwentwater and liis wife, and 
a more modern one has been erected to Southey, 
although he lies liuried in the church yard. A 
bit of glass from P'urness Abbey is a treasure 
here. The old font still does its duty, while 
the main doorway, approached from under a 
broad-seated porch, is still fasteped by a huge 
oak log built into the wall like a huge bolt, to 
be drawn or pushed in its office, but impossible 
to be removed. 

Why this church contains a banner dedi- 
cated to St. Mungo, buried at Glasgow, no 
one could say, but, nevertheless, here were the 
quarterings : 

"The Hsh that never swam, 
'1 he bird that never Hew, 
The bell that never rang, 
And the tree that never c^rew," 

representing his four miracles. So interesting 
was the church that nothing but to return to 
it for service on .Sunday would do. It is 
sometimes fortunate that the Church of Eng- 
land's service does not depend wholly 
upon a sermon. However, 'twas an educating 
and instructive forenoon. Arriving a bit early 
for service, there was an opportunity to watch 
the arrivals of Gainsborough's models, and 
Cruikshank's friends, as they dismounted from 
their carriages or walked in at the little gate. 
However different their picturesque appear- 
ance, all had come to the one end. 

After a rambling walk home by Greta 
Hall, with its .soft yellow color showing 
through the green as one approaches it up 
the winding drive laid out by Southey's 
direction and planned to insure the satis- 
faction he had in knowing just who was next 
to be ushered into his bow-windowed library, 
we are quite ready for the substantial cold 
luncheon awaiting us in the large, low dining- 
room at the Cap and Bells. The joints dis- 
played on the serving-table are in their Sun- 
day clothes ; the cold asparagus in mayonaisse 
with liorders of parsley rivals in attractiveness 
immense strawberries served fresh from the 
plants in crisp lettuce leaves. Everything 
aljout the house partakes a bit of the special 
Sunday air. 

After a time for letters or a little rest, one is 
prepared for another pleasant walk. Starting 
ingby the main street,past the more pretentious 
houses, one is soon directed through a short 
cross-country walk to a winding road with 



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small cottages here and there along it till a 
high hill is seen off to the right. A short 
walk to its summit discovers most interesting 
Druidical remains. The stones, varying in 
breadth from three to five feet and of a little 
greater heighth, are set in an almost perfect 
circle. There is a certain lack of regularity 
that one might hope to see in a temple, yet a 
large block lying near .some upright stones one 
can easily imagine to have been an altar be- 
fore which mysterious rites were pcformed. 
The view from this chosen site is wonderfully 
extensive, but cattle seem to enjoy it princi- 
pally, few caring to take the walk. 

While resting beneath some hawthorns, a 
little way down the hill, may it be the good 
fortune of every traveller to taste the delicious 
tea kindly offered by the wife of the good- 
natured innkeeper, whose hospitality was un- 
bounded when America was mentioned. 



He Didn't Hear Jenny Lind. 

"Did I ever hear Jenny Lind?" said 
J. C. Stewart of the Fat Men's Club, 
the other day. "No, but I'll tell you 
how near I came to hearing her. You 
probably don't remember when the Swed- 
ish songstress came to America under 
the management of P. T. Barnum, but I don't 
think I'll ever forget it. It was a good many 
years ago, and I was a boy, a pretty good- 
sized one, knocking around New York city. 
The night of Jenny Lind's concert came, 
and I was crazy to hear her ; but 1 didn't 
have any money, and there I was. I hung 
around the door of the theatre after the con- 
cert had begun. By-and-by several gentlemen 
came out bareheaded. I was willing to adopt 
almost any means to get inside, .so 1 went up to 
one of those who had just come out, and said : 

" 'Say, Mister, let me have your check so I 
can get in and hear Jenny Lind sing.' 

" 'Why, they're not giving out any checks, 
my boy,' he replied. 'When one gets inside he 
checks his hat, and if he wants to go out be- 
tween times he goes bare-headed, and when 
he goes back the absence of his hat indicates 
that he has been inside.' 

"Well, a bright idea struck me — at least I 
thought it was a bright idea. So I quietly 
went up to the entrance, and, unseen, took off 
my hat and pushed it up under my vest. 
Then, putting on a bold face, I walked into 
the theatre without being molested. I sat 
down in a vacant chair and waited for Jenny 
Lind. Presently a big, heavy-set fellow came 
and sat down beside me. He made some 
ordinary remark, and then said : 

" 'Say ! These people tliink tliey're pretty 
smooth here, and that no one can get in with- 
out paying, but I fooled 'em. I just shoved 
my hat up under my vest and walked in with 
the other bareheaded fellows that had come 
out before.' 

'"Is that so? ' 1 replied, thinking it was a 
great joke. Why, that's just the way I got in.' 

"'Noudid, eh ?'said the big man with a grin. 

'You . I just sized you up for getting in 

that way. Now, you get out of here.' 

"1 didn't wait," concluded Mr. Stewart, "for 
the man who laid the trap into which I fell so 
easily was a special policeman. That's just 
how near I came to hearing Jenny Lind." — 
.4 mcrican Jlfusician. 



IZ 



The Captain's Return. 



BY FRANK CLARKE. 



A bright lamp shed a mellow light through the 
tasty shade and illuminated a warm and hos- 
pitable room. Luxury without presumption, 
the happy union of thrift and comfort. A 
mother with her son and daughter were 
seated about a table. All wore an air of ex- 
pectancy. The son broke the stillness. 

"His step may sound on the stair any mo- 
ment, mother. The Dolphin was towed in 
from the heads five hours after she was sighted 
from Point Lobos. Grace will fill a sealskin 
very nicely this winter, no ?" and the compla- 
cent youth munched away at a huge slice of 
bread. 

"I do not care for the sealskin, Frank, as 
much as you think. If mamma is once easy 
about the home I will willingly do without the 
sealskin." 

Capt. Thome had been absent on a cruise in 
one of the merchant vessels making San Fran- 
cisco their headquarters. He had undertaken 
the long voyage "to make a little stake" as he 
cheerfully said to his wife, to raise the mort- 
gage on the home and to secure a competence 
for his three dear ones. A cablegram from 
Melbourne had said: "Homeward bound to- 
day, bringing the little stake." 

What a load this had lifted from the loving 
heart of his wife ! Through the chicanery of 
his agent, the home, bought upon a partial 
payment, had been so complicated in its titles 
and liabilities, that the mortgage upon it had 
been foreclosed and the time for redemption 
almost expired, when Mrs. Thome received 
her husband's welcome message. 

At noon, the following day, the six months' 
right of redemption upon the foreclosed mort- 
gage would expire. Inexperienced in business 
and unfamiliar with finance, misled by the real 
estate agent who made the foreclosure, Mrs. 
Thorne did not know how to protect her home. 
Therefore she awaited her husband's return 
that evening with double interest. Advised 
by the scoundrel who should have aided instead 
of embarassed her, she supposed the only 
means of preserving her comfortable home, 
greatly enhanced in value since its purchase, 
was by the payment of four thousand dollars 
which could only be produced by her husband 
and only be of avail if he arrived before noon 
the next day. 

When the Dolphin swung into place beside 
the wharf. Captain Thorne placed a wallet 
containing fifteen thousand dollars in his 
pocket, started briskly up town, walking along 
in the dusk with a preoccupied air and looking 
forward with fond delight to a meeting with his 
wife and children. 

The bright little home, cheerful with affec- 
tionate expectancy, had chilled into anxious 
suspense and still the sailor had not come. 
Wearied with waiting the daughter retired. 
The mother and son went down to the ship in 
the middle of the night, but could learn noth- 
ing more than that the captain had started up 
town early in the evening. His delay in com- 
ing home was so foreign to his custom. 

The morning brought no news, and the cap- 
tain had not reported at the shipping office. 
Mrs. Thorne knew that nothing but some un- 
foreseen calamity could keep him away at such 



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a time. Frank stood out bravely to the end, 
keeping up a brave front. 

"No news is good news," he said, "and 
twelve o'clock has not yet struck ; our home is 
yet ours and father may be occupied by some- 
thing unknown to us." 

Occupied ! If they but knew how he was 
occupied, their loving hearts, now torn 
with anxiety, would have frozen with 
horror. At the time to which this story 
refers, there existed in San Francisco a 
peculiarly efficient and bare-faced death trap 
extending for blocks along the water front. 
Between the wharves and the solid ground 
there was a wide planked way, resting on piles, 
extending along the busiest of the city's 
thoroughfares. Beneath this planking the 
mud of the bay was covered with several feet 
of water, its depth depending upon the tide. 
In some places at low tide the mud rose above 
the surface of the water, a black, filthy mass, 
treacherous to the unfortunate entangled in its 
depths. The planking over this bottomless 
slime was left gaping with holes along its 
whole length. These openings varied in size 
from those only large enough to catch a 
horse's foot, to apertures through which a man 
might easily fall. No warning of any kind, no 
barrier of the frailest character warned the 
passers-by or offered assistance to those who 
might stumble through the rotten planks. 

At eleven o'clock on that last day, Mrs. 
Thorne, taking her son with her, left the house 
to see the broker and make one last appeal 
for an extension of time. 

After her departure, Grace, acting upon a 
sudden impulse, decided to make a trip to the 
Dolphin and inquire for herself. As she 
hurried along the unfamiliar way, avoiding 
coal carts, trucks and buggies, she was 
brought to a sudden stop. Another step and 
she would have been precipitated into a yawn- 
ing aperture in the planking on which she 
walked. Drawing back with a shudder her 
eye was caught by a curious object in the 
black slime below. Looking earnestly again 
a terrible presentiment came over her. 

Captain Thorne, with the vision of his wife's 
sweet face before his eyes, wondering what 
changes had come over the pretty head of his 
golden-haired daughter, uttered an exclama- 
tion as he suddenly found the planking open 
in front of him and, unable to recover, fell a 
distance of twelve or fifteen feet, striking the 
water with a splash. As he raised his head 
above the surface he could with difficulty re- 
gain his breath in the stifling foul water in 
which he had fallen. To add to his embarass- 
ment he found the water not two feet in depth, 
the bottom being a soft mud into which he sank 
in spite of himself. 

In vain he struggled to extricate himself 
from the foul mire. Deeper and deeper he 
sank. He cried for help. He caught and 
clung to the barnacled side of a pile near him. 
Chained in the mud he could not move and 
only with a drowning man's energy could he 
keep his head above water. He heard a cart 
rumble along the planks above him and 
shrieked with all the power of his lungs. The 
driver in the cart passed on unheeding. He 
listened intently for a footfall, and heard a 
quick thumping growing plainer and plainer 
upon his ear. When it seemed almost over 
him he raised his voice, now hoarse with 



shouting, with one supreme effort to attract 
attention, but the footfalls died away in the 
distance. 

Then the full realization of his terrible fate 
flashed upon him. Chained to that horrible 
cess-pool, unable to turn, people passing and 
repassing above him, he could not make a 
sound, doomed to a lingering death with the 
means of safety within such tantalizihg reach. 
In the darkness his stiffened arms grew numb. 
His head whirled. 

It was ebb tide by morning and as the 
wearied man yielded to his exhaustion, the 
waters withdrew slowly, and he clung only me- 
chanically to his hold on the barnacles. 

The tide was changing. The broad blue 
line was creepmg, creeping up on the brown 
waters of the bay. Gradually the flood rose, 
nearer, yet nearer to the closed eyes and 
parted lips. 

"Really, miss, you would do well to with- 
draw. The man is dead and it will take some 
time to remove the body. The crowd will be 
unpleasant for you." 

"But he may not be dead. I want to see 
who he is. Quick, see, the water is rising." 

The girl trembled with horror. Even in that 
disguised, mud-covered face below, she, think- 
ing only of her father and some ill that might 
befall him, could not be satisfied. 

The policeman went to the nearest wharf, 
jumped in a boat, and with the boatman's aid 
brought the body out from under the dock and 
laid it on the wharf. 

A crowd immediately surrounded the man, 
but through it the girl, wild with excitement, 
pushed her way. As she obtained a place 
beside the drowned man, the policeman said: 

"Get a wagon ; he is not dead but drunk. 
He has had a close call, though." 

Relieved that life yet remained, the girl bent 
over him. His face had been washed by the 
boatman. With a cry she would have thrown 
her arms about the unconscious man's neck, 
besmirched as he was. 

"He is my father," she said, "please bring a 
a carriage. He is not intoxicated but seriously 
injured." 

"He is not seriously injured, miss; he is com- 
ing to his senses," said the boatman. 

The officer drove the crowd back. The ex- 
hausted man opened his eyes. His first 
thought was his treasure. 

"My pocket-book," he murmured anxiously, 
as he feebly put his hand to his breast. Find- 
ing it safe he rested a moment, then with a 
sudden return of his faculties, looked around, 
understood the situation and arose quickly, 
but unsteadily to his feet. Grace threw her 
arms upon his wet shoulders sobbing : 

"Papa, my darling papa ! Thank God, you 
are safe." 

In his daughter's caress the captain thought 
of his endangered home. 

"What time is it? Where is your mother.'" 

"We must be quick or it will be too late. 
Mamma is at the agent's office now, it is nearly 
twelve." 

They entered the carriage, the driver 
whipped up the horses and they went rattling 
over the cobble stones away from the wharf. 

Mrs. Thorne arose wearily as the clock 
struck twelve on the mantel in the office of 
Smooth & Company, real estate brokers. 



"Then we must give up our home." And 
she turned to go. But her white face blanched 
to a deeper pallor upon seeing the mud stained 
apparition of her husband enter the door, with 
Grace clinging to his arm. 

"Not yet, my dear," said the Captain. "Mr. 
Smooth, I tender you four thousand dollars 
for a deed to my property; the time for re- 
demption has not yet expired." 

A roll of damp bills was lying upon the desk 
of Smooth & Company when the clock ceased 
striking. The Captain embraced his now 
happy wife, Grace gently allowed the tears to 
brim her eyes, and Frank, with his father's 
hand in his, managed to remark, despite the 
lump in his throat : "I told you so." 



To Clean Laces. 
A method sometimes used to clean and 
whiten very delicate lace is to baste the lace 
smoothly on a linen cloth, then to fold the 
lace inside, and to put the cloth in a bowl and 
cover it with the best olive oil, letting it soak 
for ten hours. It should then be boiled for a 
quarter of an hour in water having in solution 
a small quantity of pure, fine soap. Rinse in 
cold water, put through a very thin starch 
water and dry. Do not at any step of the 
process wring or rub the lace, but squeeze and 
press it gently. When dry, many of the loops 
and meshes may be put into shape bypassing 
pins of various sizes or a bodkin through them. 
Firm lace may, after careful basting upon 
cloth, be cleaned by a gentle scrubbing with a 
fine brush dipped in a strong solution of cas- 
tile soap. To clean thoroughly it must be 
brushed on both sides. After rinsing in soft 
water containing a very little powdered alum, 
dip a soft cloth in starch water and slightly 
moisten the lace on the wrong side, then lay a 
thin cloth over it and press on the same side 
with a moderately hot iron. Point lace that 
is very much soiled may be cleansed in this 
way. 

Care of Curtains. 
The taking-down of curtains in the spring 
time, and preparing them so that they may be 
unearthed in the autumn without crease or spot, 
is a work of more actual importance than re 
adjusting these same when the house is to be 
put again into winter dress. Chenille draper- 
ies seem especially to invite the depredations 
of moths, but a little precaution will put these 
tiny despoilers to flight. Chenille curtains 
should never be wiped off, nor should they be 
shaken vigorously. When taken down, the 
curtains should be laid at full length over a 
clean sheet stretched upon the floor, then thor- 
oughly brushed on both sides with a moderately 
stiff clothes-brush. Now sponge both sides 
thoroughly with tepid water, to which has been 
added two tablespoonfuls of turpentine. Lay 
them carefully away on shelves or in long 
cedar boxes. India silk or pongee curtains, if 
much soiled, can be cleansed by rubbing them 
lightly with the hands through lukewarm suds 
made of pure white .soap. This must be done 
quickly, and the curtains rinsed several times 
afterwards in clear, cold water. The next pro- 
cess is to wring them out, fold and roll tightly 
in a dry cloth. Care must be taken to iron 
them lightly before they are quite dry. 



L I Ci HT 

Some Fashions of the Day. 

BY EUOF.NIA H. SIEBERS. 
[regular correspondence of licht] 

New York, June 12, i.Sgo. 
Just at this time of the year one is struck 
by the sweeping reductions made in nearly 
every line of dress goods. For first choice in 
early spring you must pay the first 
price, or possess your soul in patience and 
postpone your outing, but you naturally desire 
to prepare your outfit ere the summer solstice 
paralyzes brain and fingers. 

It is vexatious to see remnants of the same 
material that you paid a goodly sum for weeks 
ago, now being sold at a bargain. Here is a 
window of French sateens marked 15 cents, 
reduced from 35 cents. There, India silks 
are shown at half price. All wool yachting 
cloth, so pretty and serviceable for Mount 
Dessert and the coast, is selling at 59 cents, 
and 52 inches wide. As a woman dearly 
loves a bargain, she deliberately puts herself 
in the way of temptation by going shopwards 
these charming days of June. Plaid surah 
at 69 cents is just the thing to fashion into a 
blouse to enable that old biack silk skirt to 
brave one more season's wear. A good selec- 
tion is a black and white check, with yellow 
Ime. Again, there are black pongees and lace 
striped surahs not to be despised at 49 cents. 
Wraps, cloaks and jackets have all felt the 
effects of a fall in figures. Sicilian mohair 
will make a useful traveling suit. 

Miss Schreiner, the much-talked about New 
York beauty, who, although six feet tall, is so 
well proportioned as to carry her height 
easily, is having a beautiful costume 
prepared, being a checked skirt in creams 
and browns with a brown cutaway, the 
front and roll collar of which are faced 
with the check. The shirt and tie are of cream 
with fine polka dots, completed by a brown 
surah sash, very wide in front, tied on one side 
and ends falling nearly to the foot of skirt. 
The fair possessor of this stylish gown has re- 
cently become engaged to a Mr. Thomson, 
who is said to be very short. It is curious how 
the very tall and very short incline towards 
each other. Miss Schreiner is the grand- 
daughter of William Cullen Bryant. 

As a gay party mounted to go a-coach- 
ing the other day, they furnished capi- 
tal material for notes. Only one wore a 
real road coat, which is quite the proper thing 
to do, however. It was made of mastic kersey 
close to the throat with strap across. The 
only adornments were large pearl buttons. 
One lady wore a dark green cloth suit and 
belted blouse. The most conspicuous seat 
was taken by a pretty woman in a garnet and 
yellow, wide striped wool with big coaching 
hat and veil. Another noticeable gown was a 
black India with stripes of white polka dots. 
The gorgeous one of the party wore a poppy 
red dust-coat of surah silk, with yoke of black 
and gold passementerie, with shoulder frills. 
These fanciful cloaks are said to be the rage 
in Merrie England for race meets and coach- 
ing parties. They were a jolly crowd and left 
in high spirits as the toot of the horn sounded, 
."^n odd fancy in summer styles is the fashion 
of taking a different color of silk for every 
breadth of the skirt. The changeable taffetas 



]} 

are used for this purpose. For instance, one is 
of violet and mauve, one in blue and gold, 
another in pink and blue, and so on, the 
whole being thickly veiled with black net 
which does not reveal the difference of the 
silk, but only the changing lights and the 
shadows discreetly blended. The bodice is 
lined with a single one of the silks, a thick 
ruching of same appearing at foot of the skirt. 
The various cotton gowns are simply made 
without other trimming than white embroidery, 
or .sort of coarse cotton passementerie in white 
or cream. 

For dainty country house gowns and for 
summer receptions there is a return to em- 
broidered white muslin, sweet and refined look- 
ing. 

White cloth dresses are much worn at seaside 
resorts, braided in silk, mingled with gold. All 
the shades in light mourning are now generally 
popular, pearl grey, the violet and mauve tints, 
and all the intermediate tones from white to 
purple. A new method of trimming used in 
plaid and figured fabrics is the reversed hem. 
The lower edge of the skirt is turned upon the 
right side and covered with a band of a differ- 
ent color from the dress but matching the 
accessories. Corsages vary so much that no 
one type can be said to predominate, while the 
different sleeves are legion in number, although 
upon examination are variations copied from 
the Valvis style, familiar to us in the Medici 
pictures. Hosts of small capes are worn and 
many small wraps have velvet in their compo- 
sition. 

A pretty fashion for white throats is the 
wearing of long embroidered scarfs of white 
tulle tied with long flowing ends. 

In my humble opinion, the three most essen- 
tial gowns for a lady's summer wardrobe are a 
black lace, net or grenadine dress ; this must be 
of the best material one can afford, for nothing 
looks worse than cheap, stiff or rusty black, 
though it can be fashioned ever so plainly, the 
second for morning wear, a pretty gingham, 
with ribbon belt and ends; for the third, alight 
wool, say in neutral shade like mastic of 
of fine check, with a little plain material for 
vest, collar and cuffs. After these I would 
choose a foulard or India silk of some medium 
or dark shade; then any of the many pretty 
white patterns either with or without colored 

border. 

Choosing a Wife. 
I believe the mother has many times more in- 
fluence, in fixing the destiny of the boy |in the 
present life and eternity, than the father, and 
that the wife has a powerful influence in making 
the business success of her husband. Not in 
talking "shop" in the home, but in being a true 
woman. Young man, beware. Choose a wife 
wisely. With few exceptions, in that choice you 
settle your destiny. Remember that after the 
strain upon tlie energies of the terrific compe- 
tition of our times, at the close of each day the 
tired worker must be soothed and quieted in 
repose, in the loving heart of a noble woman, 
one who joyfully and strongly, yet quietly and 
lovingly, carries her part of the burden of life. 
I have been surprised at the success of many 
a man 1 intimately knew, which has only been 
explained when I saw his noble wife. I have 
never known a man to much improve a 
woman, but 1 have known many instances of 
noble women making a man out of "rather a 
poor stick."— //on. Joseph //. Walker. 



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Blarney Castle. 



BY HERBERT H. TAYLOR. 



The most interesting place that I visited in 
Ireland, with the exception of the Lakes of 
Killarney, was Blarney Castle, about five 
miles from the beautiful city of Cork. The 
most inexpensive mode of reaching Blarney 
from Cork is via the Muskerry Light Railway, 
but tourists, I learned, usually preferred a 
jaunting-car, which affords an enjoyment of 
the charming scenery of the river Lee. 

I experienced some little difficulty in arrang- 
ing terms with the carman, as each time that I 
inquired the fare, 1 was met with the same re- 
joinder: "Step right up and I'll leave it to 
you, sir." He finally consented to drive a 
party of four for twelve shillings ; "that will be 
ten shillings for myself and two shillings for 
the horse," he explained. So we mounted the 
car and started in search of the mystical 
blarney stone. The horse, which never Could 
have laid claim to being a "flyer" in his 
palmiest days, took his own time over the 
trip, although the driver occasionally suggested 
to him the propriety of increasing his gait, 
accompanying the suggestion with a resound- 
ing whack upon the poor animal's ribs, which 
would have killed any ordinary horse, but this 
one had evidently been there before, for no 
one accused him of going faster than a walk 
during the entire journey. "Paddy," however, 
enlivened the time by the recital of diverting 
narratives, coupled with a rich brogue and 
pure unadulterated Irish wit, until we came in 
sight of the celebrated ruins. 

Cftstle Blarney was built in the fifteenth 
century, by Cormac McCarthy, and before the 
introduction of gunpowder must have been an 
impregnable fortress. All that remains of 
the original castle is the massive donjon 
tower, one hundred and twenty feet in height. 

The groves of Blarney, formerly adorned 
with statues, grottoes, bridges and rustic orna- 
ments, are still very beautiful. 

At the entrance to the castle, souvenirs in 
the shape of pictures, medals, ornaments, etc., 
are offered for sale by one of Ireland's fairest 
shamrocks. I was beguiled into purchasing 
several, and as she pointed to the stone stair- 
way that led to the top of the castle, this 
vivacious daughter of Erin ejaculated, "Faith, 
you have little need to kiss the stone, you have 
blarney enough," and feeling that, although in 
a strange land, I was not entirely unknown, I 
began the laborious ascent. Upon arriving at 
the summit the first sight that met my gaze 
was the magnificent castle recently erected by 
Sir George Colthurst, the present proprietor of 
Blarney. The modern castle is but a few rods 
distant from the original site. 

The principal attraction at Blarney is, of 
course, the world-renowned "Blarney Stone," 
without which the place would scarcely have 
been celebrated. This wonderful stone is 
supposed to endow whoever kisses it with 
that "sweet persuasive eloquence" so per- 
ceptible in the language of the Cork people. 
Father Prout alludes to the stone in the 
following lines: 

"There is a stone there. 
That whoever kisses, 
Oh, he never misses 
To grow eloquent. 



L Id HT 

'Tis he may clamber 
To a lady's chamber, 
Or become a member 
Of Parliament." 

Windele says: "A touch of the Blarney 
Stone creates a smooth and graceful liar of 
the first magnitude." The much sought for 
stone is fastened by two iron bars to a pro-' 
jecting buttress at the top of the castle, and to 
kiss it one must hold on by the bars and pro- 
ject his body beyond the wall. I induced two 
of my friends to hold me while I accomplished 
this feat, and as they manfully suppressed 
any inclination they may have had to let go, I 
passed through the ordeal safely. As we were 
preparing to descend, one of the gentleman in 
the party, cleanly shaven and wearing a silver 
cross upon his watch-chain, was mistaken for 
a Catholic priest and reverentially addressed 
as the "Father," to our intense amusement. 

A book is kept at the castle, in which 
visitors are requested to inscribe their names, 
addresses, etc. Among the interesting re- 
marks, I noticed the following from some ap- 
preciative son of Erin: "Miss Annie Riley 
kissed the Blarney Stone to-day; I'd rather 
she kissed me." 

Sir Walter Scott is said to have visited the 
castle in 1825, and devoutly kissed the wonder- 
ful stone. 

The demesne of Blarney is wide and ex- 
tensive and suggestive of feudal times. Every 
rock and tree in the vicinity has a legend. 
Blarney Lake, a quarter of a mile from the 
castle, is an enchanted spot. Tradition says 
that at certain seasons a herd of white cows 
rises from the bottom of the lake and grazes 
upon the pastures by its banks. Another 
story is that a famous red trout dwells in this 
lake that will not rise to a fly. 

The plate chest of the last McCarthy who 
held Blarney lies buried here ; three of his 
race hold the secret which will never be re- 
vealed until a McCarthy is again lord of 
Blarney. Every year some of the McCarthys 
walks to the lake, hoping to be addressed. 

Captain Wood thus laments the fall of 
Blarney : — 

"Oh, Blarney Castle, my darling ! 
You're nothing at all but a stone, 
And a small little twist of ould ivy ! 
Och, wisha, uUalioo, allagone." 

li 'orccster, Mass. 



Anglo-Maniacs vs. Americans. 
The tendency against "aping" as noted by a 
bright contemporary of this city, seems to be 
on the increase. Many of our young ma- 
chinists and mechanics when away from work, 
assume all the mannerisms and affections of 
the "purported" English. Anglo-mania seems 
to be an almost entirely eastern disease. In 
the west, people are proud that they are 
American. If many of the "apes," as they 
are most appropriately called, could only go 
to the other side of the water and see the 
originals they would find themselves patterned 
after a very ordinary class of the English. 
The gentleman on the other side of the water 
dresses as quietly as does the average Ameri- 
can. It is only the cockney that the Anglo- 
maniacs make such a dismal attempt to imi- 
tate. 

Why can not citizens of this grand republic 
appreciate the privileges of their birthright? 
If to be a Roman was, at one time, to be a 



king, to be an American is to be a sovereign. 
Here are his rights and opinions respected. 
Here he enjoys freedom of speech, of thought, 
and, to a reasonable extent, of action. We 
cannot boast that the sun never sets on Ameri- 
can dominions, but what land in the world 
has reduced its national debt to such an ex- 
tent as America has in a period when the 
other great nations of the world have been in- 
creasing at just about the same rate. Me- 
chanics, stop and think, for liy so doing you 
will appreciate the grandeur of being an 
American citizen. — Practical Mccltanic. 



Sun-Cooked Strawberries. 

For years I had been experimenting to get 
the best method of preserving strawberries, 
and had not found a satisfactory mode, says 
Miss Maria Parloa. A friend in Pennsylvania 
told me how she made her preserve, which was 
delicious. Last summer I tried a good many 
ways, and while several of the methods gave 
fairly satisfactory results, nothing was such a 
perfect success as the Pennsylvania rule. I 
shall preserve all my strawberries by it this 
year. Here it is : 

Sun-cooked Strawberries — Pick over the 
strawberries and weigh them ; then put them 
in the preserving kettle. Add to them as many 
pounds of granulated sugar as there are straw- 
berries. Stir, and place on the fire, and con- 
tinue stirring occasionally until the mixture 
begins to boil. Cook for ten minutes, counting 
from the time it begins to boil. Pour the pre- 
serve into large platters, having it about two 
inches deep, and place in the sun for ten hours 
or more (the rule said twenty-four, but I found 
that one day of sunshine answered). The 
preserve is now ready to be put into jars and 
placed in the preserve closet. It will keep 
without sealing, but 1 used the Mason pint 
jars, as they are as convenient and cheap as 
any article one can use. 

Remember that these preserves are put into 
the jars cold; that no water is used in cooking 
them, nothing but the strawberries and sugar;, 
and that they will be very rich, so that only a 
small quantity need be served to a person. 
The flavor of this fruit is perfect. Only fine, 
ripe strawberries should be used. The platters 
of preserve can be placed on a table in a sunny 
window, or on a sunny piazza. It is so early in 
the season that there is not much trouble with 
flies. I do not see why the fruit could not be 
put in the jars and the jars placed in the sun 
for two days. I shall try it this year with 
some of the preserve. It would make the 
work much easier. 



She: — Did you let father know you owned 
a great deal of real estate ? 

He : — I hinted at it. 

She : — What did he say ? 

He: — He said "deeds speak louder than 
words.' — Miinscy's II 'cckly. 




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Sell Fine Ready Made 

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Ciastorii Uepartment 

Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 



"Good Bread aud Cake Doth Whet the Ap- 
petite." 

KiNB Bakbry ! ! 

HIGHEST OITALITY ONLY. 

GEORGE G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASAMT ST. 

All Goods Hot at 3.30. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, surer. Brass and Nickel Plating, 

Polishing, Broii/Jng and Lacquering, 

Keplatlng Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PROP. 

Over Collar Laundry, Uarton Place, Worcester, Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Place. 

COLtARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOIv & CO., RROPS. 

LE i JOLLY i FRENCH * DYEING 



AKU t CLEANblNG t 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro,s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring it with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. T. MELVIN, PROPRIETOR. WALNIIT ST. 

TURKUn BflTH5. 

F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
8 A.M. to9 p. M. Sundays, 

S to 12 A. H. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House. 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New York Training School gives 

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and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



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W. A. ENGLAND, 



DEALER IN 



FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



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GUY'S * CROCKERY » STORE, 

221 Main Street. 

COMPLETE HOUS^FURNISHING. 

Decorated Dinner Sets, $5.25, $6.87, $8.67, $9.50. 

Tea Sets, $2.87, $3.50, $4.25. 
Toilet Sets, $1.89, $2.50, $3.50. 
IMMENSE STOCK 
Silver Plated Goods, Lamps, Vases, Etc., German Cooking Ware. 

GOODS SOLD FOR CASH OR INSTALLMENT. 

Guy's Crockery Store. 

221 IVTAIN STKKET. WOHCKSTEK. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CH.\KLES H. WOODCOCK. 



WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

The "Wright Counter .Shaft and .CUitch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
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Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 

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Buy the Stuart Stock, Adjustable to any Size. 



Fits closely to the 
window and will not 
admit flies. Does away 
with Corner Irons, Car- 
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The window can be 
raised or lowered while 
the screen remains in 
place, or the screen can 
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These frames can be easily fitted to any ordinary window by simply sliding the sticks along on each other to 
the required size, fastening by nail or screw and sawing off projecting ends. The frame thus made is much cheaper 
and in appearance far superior to those made by mechanics generally ; is capable of adjustment from sizes given 
down to nothing, and insures perfect lifting and accurate joints. .Strip or slide for slide of window and bead to 
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GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

ST UDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK RESIDENCE, 39 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

^♦Ladies' If. Hair i Dressing*^ 

CHILDREN'S HAIR-CCTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Blain St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 rvIAIN STREET. 



Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 



BEAH & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

2-^S l!v£a.xrL St., ^^oom. X, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 



Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKIHG ROOMS-f 

No. 387 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

**WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not Umited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

H-ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING4- 

iTo. 2 TT^alrL-o-t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 



W. H. TWICHELL, 

Oold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanlo St., Worcester, Mass. 



I.I(i MT 

Sometliing to Eat. 



[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Asparagus a la Creme. 

Asparagus h la creme is one of the most 
delicious of soups, yet is seldom found except 
on tables where the cook is an accomplished 
chef. It is not difficult to prepare. First cut 
the points off a bunch of asparagus, and lay 
them aside. Cut up the remainder of the 
asparagus in small pieces, and add to it a pint 
of white stock, with a fried onion, and cook 
the whole till it is tender enough to pass 
through a puree or flour sieve. After strain- 
ing the soup add a pint of boiling milk and 
two tablespoonfuls of butter, mixed with two 
tablespoonfuls of flour, and finally the aspara- 
gus "peas." Let the soup cook ten minutes 
longer, stirring carefully all the time. If the 
"peas" are large, it is better to parboil them 
in a little stock before adding them to the 
soup for this boiling. Add a cup of boiling 
cream last of all, and serve the soup, if you 
wish, with dropped eggs. It is more delicate, 
however, with croutons ot dry toasted bread. 
Russet Apples. 

Russet apples that are ready for use about 
this season make a very good pickle. Take 
out the flower of the apples ; stick about three 
cloves in each ; add an ounce of mace and an 
ounce of ginger (the preserved or candied 
ginger is the best that can be obtained at this 
season), a lemon and three pounds of sugar to 
each quart of vinegar. Boil the apples in 
this syrup, which should just cover them, till 
tender. 
Apple Pie. 

The next time you make an apple pie, make 
it without sweetening it, and when it is done, 
remove the upper crust and add the sugar. 
The flavor is superior. 
Banana Custard. 

A delicious dessert is banana custard and 
sponge cake. Make a boiled custard, let it 
become cold, then just before sending it to the 
table slice bananas into it. 
Jelly for Invalids. 

Soak an ounce of gelatine in half a pint of 
cold water for an hour or more. It is an ad- 
vantage to soak ge'atine over night when 
convenient, because it is then more easily dis- 
solved. Boil six ounces of lump sugar in a 
pint of water, skimming it until clear, then 
throw in the soaked gelatine, let it boil slowly 
for five minutes, removing all scum as it rises. 
Dissolve in a basin one-quarter of an ounce of 
citric acid, in lump, in half a gill of boiling 
water, pour the jelly on to this, when more 
scum will rise, which should be carefully 
taken off. Now add a gill of wine and a little 
lemon flavoring, and when nearly cold put the 
jelly into a mold. Lemon juice can be used 
instead of the citric acid, but the jelly will not 
then be so bright. 
Sponge Gingerbread. 

Three cups flour, one cup molasses, one of 
sugar, one of sour milk, one heaping table- 
spoonful butter, two teaspoons saleratus, two 
teaspoons ginger, one of cinnamon. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. MELLEN, 571 Main St, 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 



* NOW IS YODR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

Clatlln'g best Cabinet Photographs, «3 a doz. 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FBAMES R£-OII.DED. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 Foster Street, Opp. Rink, "Worcester, Mass. 

* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.* 

Office, First National Bank Building, 

•4XO ^v^aiaa. St., "^^T'orc ester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Frame Nl'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engravings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Park: St., Worcester. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattress of any §^ade 
or your old one made over, eend us your order. 
We gruarantee first-class work. 

13 F*ark: St., Worcester. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTURE FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
220 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

TENEMENTS TO LET. 

124 Elm street, opposite Elm Park, three tenements, 7 
rooms each, hot and cold water, hard Hoors, gas lighted 
by electricity, finely finished, large store rooms. 

43 Russell street, overlooking Elm Park, two tene- 
ments, 5 rooms each, all modern improvements, store- 
rooms. Apply toC. W. BOWKER, 114 Elm street or 
187 F ront street. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 



Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



Suffrage for Women. 
Sixteen States now have school suffrage for 
women. Kansas has municipal suffrage. 
Wyoming is the first State whose daughters 
are politically free. It is our hope that South 
Dakota will be the second. This year, for 
the first time, the judiciary committee of the 
United States House of liepresentatives has 
reported in favor of a sixteenth amendment 
enfranchising women. — Woman's Journal. 



A Girl's Athletic Costume. 

With the thought of common-sense in dress 
manifest all around us, a girl's costume for 
athletic sports can be loose, and still lady-like. 
A divided skirt below, a wide, light-weight 
skirt over it, reaching just below the ankles, 
and a loose blouse, would be all that prac- 
ticability would demand. — Ellen Lc Garde in 
Ladies' Home Journal. 

Back Again ! 



Having this day sold to GEORGE L. SANFORD 
all my right, title and interest in the business of SAN- 
FORD & COMPANY, I would thank the public for 
the patronage Ijestowed upon me, and would request a 
continuance of the same for my successor. 

CHARLES E. SANFORD. 

Worcester, June 2, 1S90. 



As will be seen by the above notice, I am back again 
in the old bookstore where for so many years, I was 
pleased to meet my many friends. As in past years I 
shall try to merit any patronage which may be bestowed 
on me. GEO. L. SANFORD. 

For the present the name will remain SANFORD & 
COMPANV. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Nliss H. ^sA. PROCTOR, 

92 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



HflNlTOU 
QINQER 
CMflnP/IQNE 

Is acknowledged by all to be far superior 
to any imported ginger ale. 

Thousands of people who have visited the 
famous Manitou Springs testify to the supe- 
rior quality of the 

* nflMlTOU * 
QINQER * CHflnP/lQME 

Ask your Grocer for it. 

E.T.5niTn^C0 

aqents. 



L I d M T 

About the House. 



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[Readers of Light are cnidi;illy invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household I'Mitor, I.Kllir, yg Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



**When ironing, if a starchy deposit at- 
taches itself to the iron, it may readily be 
removed by sprinkling a small handful of 
salt on a piece of old carpet or thick cloth, 
and passing the hot iron over it several times. 

"*,ii.Wash oilcloths in warm borax water and 
wipe with a soft flannel wrung out of skimmed 
milk. Ink stains may be removed liy weak 
oxalic acid. 

*jitWhen whitewasliing your cellar add an 
ounce of carbolic acid to each gallon of wash 
before applying. 

*jifGrease spots may be removed from carpets 
by first covering with powdered chalk, and 
then passing over them a hot iron, the spot 
and chalk first being covered with soft brown 
paper. 

*»When doing an ironing it is a help to the 
tired mother to select one rod of the clothes- 
rack upon which to hang articles that need 
repairing. When a button is missing, 
a rip or rent in little aprons or a 
hole in a stocking, hang the garment on the 
one selected rod ; then when the clothes are 
folded to put away, they need no examining, as 
the pieces[requiring a few stitches are all in one 
place. Make it a golden rule to never put an 
article away unmended. 

*,tTea stains on linen usually succumb to 
an application of glycerine and egg yolk 
washed off with clear water, but if this fails 
dissolve a quarter of a pound each of chloride 
of lime and common soda in three quarts of 
boiling water, and dip the stains in the solu- 
tion, which should be kept bottled up and 
ready for emergencies. 

%Black ink spots may be taken from white 
goods by dipping the soiled parts in melted 
tallow, letting it lie for awhile, and then wash- 
ing the ordinary way. 

**A pair of sho^is will last much longer if 
purchased two months before they are needed, 
and allowed to season in the atmosphere of a 
)iouse that length of time, as American leather 
is cured too quickly to develop its best wear- 
ing qualities. It is better also to have two 
pair of shoes, and wear each alternately a day 
at a time. 

*j(\'ery full skirts, however nicely lined, 
are not as graceful as the full skirt un- 
lined put over a cambric gored skirt faced a 
foot high from the bottom with the dress 
goods. 

*jfSilk underwear should be washed through 
several cool waters in which .soap and borax 
have been dissolved. All silk wear should be 
squeezed by the hand rather than rubbed, 
although especial spots must be rubbed 
with a little soap. 

,* To clarify molasses,heat over the fire, pour 
in one pint of sweet milk to each gallon of 
molasses. The impurities will rise in scum, 
which must be taken off before broken by 
boiling. 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



24 

REFRIGERATORS, 

ic for each letter of the alphabet— almost— and so we 
numU-r them— fourof this lot— numbers A, IS, C, I)— 
have been used. All the others are new— subject to 
slight imperfections, as scratches and bruises, not 
one of them materially injured, most of them would 
pass for perfect, in reality a cleaning out of a line of 
samples, marked and numU-red as below and ready 
for sale Saturday morning. No duplicates, only 
this one lot. Don't forget they are ".-Maska" re- 
frigerators and warranted the equal of those sold by 
us at the regular price, with the exception of the 
outside imperfections, which will be carefully pointed 
out. There is no way to mistake the fact, this is the 
refrigerator bargain of the season. 



Number. 



Original price. 
$20 70 



23 40 
ig So 



19 80 
2340 
19 So 

19 So 
27 00 

20 70 
23 00 

6 30 
10 So 
14 40 
14 40 

9 00 



Price to-day. 
»920 

8 80 

9 00 . 
6 00 

15 00 

13 00 
673 

14 00 

17 00 

14 50 

15 00 
19 50 
14 50 

18 00 
4 75 
8 00 

II 00 
10 50 
6 50 



W, 14 40 10 50 

X, 19 So 14 50 

If you want a refrigerator you'll buy one of these. You 
ever knew a mere price list to tell so eloquent a story. 






It will take just TEN minutes of your time to make 
ice cream if you use the Gem. We're going to show 
you liow'to do it soon. Here's the prices : 



2 quarts, 

3 quarts, 

4 quarts, 
6 quarts, 
8 quarts, 

10 quarts, 
14 quarts. 



»i 57 
189 
231 
298 
379 
497 
639 



Crown Ice Chippers, 46c. 
Gem Ice Shaves, 46c. 



KI.UKKV 

In the basket department. Uig line of lunch bas- 
kets, 25 cents, each worth 50 cents. Picnic baskets 
less than their worth. 

NEVER BREAK, 

That's the name of a new steel stove ware. Cleanly, 
cheap, everlasting. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



15 

Fine Feathers for Fine Birds. 



L I MT 

Facts for Fine Costumes. 



*»A very old fashion, now being revived, is 
that of cording each seam of the bodice, and 
also the 'closely gored skirt. A heavy cord, 
usually covered with silk, is carried around 
the bottom of the skirt. 

♦^Notwithstanding the prevalence of floral 
garniture, many charming toques and prin- 
cesse bonnets are simply trimmed with loops 
of velvet ribbon about an inch wide, either 
alone or combined with a single spray of 
flowers. 

*,The Spanish mantle is an exceptionally 
stylish garment, and will be worn during the 
summer with dressy toilets of every descrip- 
tion. It consists of a fichu shaped shoulder 
cape of real lace, in Chantilly and Spanish 
patterns combined, with long scarf ends that 
cross at the belt and fall low on the dress 
skirt. 

*»A light and sensible petticoat, suitable 
for almost all dresses, is made of dcru pongee. 
Gray American surah is also utilized for such 
skirts. A simple hem, briar-stitched, is often 
the only finish. 

*,The bridemaids at a recent wedding wore 
small wreaths of blue forget-me-nots in their 
hair, and carried bouquets of the same blos- 
soms. The ushers wore enamelled forget-me- 
not pins in large scarfs of white repped silk. 

%Puce is a much-favored color in fine silk 
stockings. It is not like the old-time tint of 
that name, but is a clear, bright shade of helio- 
trope. 

*»Ladies who affect a masculine style of 
dress have a considerable variety from which 
to choose, the present season, such as Vassar 
shirts with starched sheath-shaped bosoms, 
standing collars to match, shirt studs, four-in- 
hand scarfs, loose surah belt sashes and seal 
scarf pins. 

*,Many of the "sweet girl graduates" of the 
present season will wear gloves and slippers of 
white undressed kid, with white silk stockings. 
Others will still prefer the light tan Su&de, 
which has been so long in vogue, with silk 
stockings to match. 

*„Now that parasols covered with accor- 
dion plaiting are in vogue, it is an easy matter 
for a skilful woman to renovate her old one in 
this way, using silk or some thin fabric. 

*,An economical and withal stylish coat for 
a child of four years is of plum-colored cloth, 
short, a full skirt gathered to a round waist, 
and three capes one above the other, pinked 
at the edges. 

*»Tea gowns, said to be marvels of ele- 
gance, are made of brocaded silk, gold gal- 
loon and mousseline de sole. 

*,Gloves of heavy glact5 kid are the correct 
thing for shopping and traveling, and the fin- 
est of Sutde for dressy wear. 

*, Accordion-plaited skirts and skirts which 
are accordion-plaited in front only, and others 
that are plain in front and accordion-plaited in 
the back, are still in favor. 

%It is now fashionable to have the gloves 
and hoisery correspond in tone. 



CXaZjSu^TEI^ III. 

Come, Harriet, we must take the Physical Culture lecture now. 
Already, Mabel. 

By the way, do you know Miss Light is going to give us a special lecture this morning? 
No ! what about .' 

You knew some of us were forming an athletic club and are to spend the summer in 
"outing" together. Why can't you join us, Harriet? 

Perhaps I will. But what is the special lecture about ? 

Well, you see, if we go off this summer we want to travel as light as possible. We must 
needs dress up occasionally, you know, and if we travel with Professor Light, and we all hope 
she can go, she is so lovely — it will^'not do to violate the great hygienic law that she is forever 
telling about. 

That's a good preface, but what is the Professor's special talk to be about ? 
Well, well, don't get excited. You see, she thinks young ladies of twenty — two are liable 
to get giddy, so she is going to give us some practical points on dress. Here she comes; now 
you can hear it from her. 

Well, young ladies, I have decided to join you in your "outing" trip this summer. 
I shall not give you a very long talk this morning — 

I have a few hints, however, as]you wished me to suggest about suitable garments. 
You say you want to be able to attend an occasional reception at the hotels, and that your 
outing costumes will not permit of it under my rules. 

Now let us see. Don't be too sure. I suppose you are thinking that you can't dress up 
suitably without your corsets. 

You are evidently thinking of the gymnasium and the prohibition of corsets there. 
Now I am going to tell you a few secrets. 

One reason I forbid corsets in the gymnasium is because so many of you will persist in 
wearing those abominable stiff corsets, in which you can't take a natural breath or make a 
graceful movement. 

You would be surprised if I told you I wear corsets at the exercises. 
What ! you wear corsets in the gymnasium, and in rowing and playing tennis ? 
Yes. 

And you forbid our wearing them ? 
Yes, when I see that you don't wear the proper kind. 

What !s the proper kind. Miss Light? You never even told us that there was so much as 
one proper kind of corsets. 

Well, I know of only one that is suitable for all kinds of out-door sports and at the same 
time without a superior for drawing-room costumes. 

Do for mercy sake tell us what they are, Miss Light. 
Well, they are Pongee silk. Royal Worcester No. 608. 

I knew you would want to use your reception dresses this summer, so I have come to tell 
you about these corsets. 

I haven't told you about them before because I wished first to make a thorough test of 
them myself. 

I have worn them in all our exercises this term — and at all the receptions, too. 
They are absolutely hygienic. They weigh but a few ounces. Nothing could be more 
flexible than these corsets. They permit of the utmost freedom in breathing and in every 
movement of the body. 

Now, girls, I am perfectly willing that you wear these Royal Worcester Pongee Corsets. 
You will even find them beneficial. I have thoroughly tried them and do not hesitate to 
advise them. 

Oh, Professor Light, where did you get these wonderful Pongees ? 

At 328 Main street, Worcester, the Royal Worcester Corset House. You will know the 
place by the beautiful revolving wax figure in the window, wearing a white satin corset. 
These corsets are popular everywhere. 

The Vassar professors told me about them and urged me to wear them. So the next time 
I went to Worcester I went to 328— I always get my neckwear there— and inquired if they 
kept the Royal Worcester Pongee Corsets. 

"Yes, indeed," said the saleslady, "they are made at our factory." 

Now, girls, I propose that we all take our first outing in Worcester, next Saturday after- 
noon, and each get an outfit of Pongee Corsets at 328 Main street. 
Hurrah for Profes.sor Light and the Pongee corsets! 



DR. CONANT'S 

* COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS 



Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths are a luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours, q to 12 a. m.; 2 to ? and 7 to 9 p. m. M RS. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 2^'A School Street, Worcester, Mass. 

If you want a piano that will last a lite-time, 
get the celel>ruted 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C.F. HANSON* CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4- WORCESTER DYE HOUSED* 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADArvIS & SON. 

HAVE YOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 

15. 

ONLY Sil5. 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's )(. Music i House, 

43 PLEASANT STREET. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FIE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 32 PEAKI. STREET. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DE.\LERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3. 



S. H. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



NEW KODAKS 



"Yon press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles and Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THE EASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. KOCHESTEK, N. Y. 




L I(J H T 

Please Laugh. 

Progress in Art. 

"Are you taking painting lessons, Mamie?" 

"No ; I quit yesterday. I don't like my 
teacher." 

"Why not?" 

"He has such a disagreeable way of talk- 
ing. He told me that if I kept on for some 
time longer I might be able to whitewash a 
fence." — Exxhaiige. 
A Far-Seeing Editor. 

A down east editor offered a prize of )J5o 
and a year's subscription for the best written 
proposal of marriage from a young lady to 
him. He picked out a nicely written, elegantly 
composed epistle from a beautiful and wealthy 
widow, answered it, accepting the proposal, 
and, threatening her with a breach of promise 
suit, finally scared her into marrying him. — 
To-wauda (Pa.) Re7'!e'w. 
A Good Deal Larger. 

Brightwits Boy : — Father, was there ever 
any ship which carried more people than the 
City of Paris? 

Brightwits Father : — Yes, my son, the 
Mayflower. She carried all the ancestors of 
American society. — Ebiiira Gazette. 
An Interesting Interview. 

Clerk : — If you please, sir, I shall have to 
ask you to excuse me for the rest of the day. 
I have just heard of — er — an addition to my 
family. 

Employer: — Is that so, Penfold? What 
is it, boy or girl ? 

Clerk:— Well, sir, the fact is— er— (some- 
what embarrassed) — it's two boys. 

Employer :— Twins, eh ? Young man, I'm 
afraid you are putting on too many heirs. — 
Afu>isey^s Weekly. 
Cause and Effect. 

Cora :— Miss Fussanfeather's hair used to 
be black. I see it has turned to a chestnut. 
How do you account for that ? 

Clara:— I believe she has been using the 
funny papers to do her hair up m.— Vonkers 
Statesman. 
Money in Races. 

Blinks:— You don't mean to say you've 
found a sure way to make money at the races ? 

Jinks :— Sure as shooting. I never fail. 

Blinks:— My! My! Do you buy tips? 

Jinks: — No; I sell them. — A'ew York 
Weekly. 
Moonlight Not Needed. 

She (rapturously);— Oh, what is more enjoy- 
able, more productive of ecstatic bliss than a 
walk on a moonlight night ! 

He (slyly):— I don't know, unless it's a walk 
on a night when there is no moon — Lawrence 
American. 




[2 

G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S, 

Room 13, Knowles Building, 

GIH Nlain Kt., Woreester. 

([^Elevator. 






MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 



(l-Virmerly with Dr. Cole.) 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FOK LAOIESANU C 11 1 LDK liN ONLY. 

;J53 Main Street, Corner Maple, Worcertter, MnnH. 

CS^Otiice hours— 9 to 12 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 
nient at the homes of patients by appointmen t if desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

©3S Is^a-irL St., 
Ka.slnionat)le Nlillinery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long experi- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Open all the year, and pupils may enter at any time. 
Graduates successful. Terms reasonable. Number of 
pupils Umited. Write for particulars. 
O-eo. O- OreeliTLa-an, ^rincipstl. 

44 FltONT ST., WOKCESTEK, MASS. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

Is^iss S- Xj. Xj£t-^7rre3a.ce, 

ROOM 30, - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 



DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D B N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $8 per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D K N T I S T 

{g^Special attention given to the care of children's 
teeth. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a. m.; i to 4 p. m. 

47 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
E. L. S U M N E R, 

g KROEGER&SONS g 
I WHEELOCK&CO. i 

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Of Coming Tilings, 

Saturday, June 14. 
Mr. Elliot Swan's Farm, Plantation st.,— 
Historical meeting; address by Mr. Caleb A. Wall. 
3 p. m. 

Sunday, June 15. 
Plymouth Church — Kev. Charles H. Rice, of Dan- 
vers, preaches. 10.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. 
Monday, June 16. 
First Universalist Church— Worcester County 
Music School; first of closing recitals. 7.45 p.m. 
Tuesday, June 17. 
Lake— Annual regatta. New England Amateur Row- 
ing Association. 

Piedmont Church — Social meeting of teachers of 
Sabbath School. Evening. 

Webster Square M. E. Church— Old-fashioned 
strawberry festival. Evening. 

Pilgrim Hall — Strawberry festival of the South 
Unitarian Society. Evening. 

Wednesday, June 18. 
Lake Waushacum— Lincoln Square Baptist church 
picnic. 

Thursday, June 19. 
First Universalist Church— Worcester County 
Music School. Second of closing recitals. 7.45 p.m. 

Horticultural Hall— Recital of scenes from the 
"Merchant of Venice." 8 p.m. 

Friday, June 20. 
Curtis Hall— Sumner Club; prize declamation 
contest. 8 p.m. 

First Universalist Church— Worcester County 
Music School. Last of closing recitals. 7.45 p.m. 
Saturday, June 21. 
Lake— Annual picnic, .^.11 Saints Sunday-school. 

Wednesday, June 25. 

Association Hall— Recital by pupils of Mr. George 

N. Morse and Miss Edith L. Smith. 7.45 p.m. 

Thursday, June 26. 

Mechanics Hall— ".\ Night in Camp" festival; 

by Worcester City Guards. 

Commencement Time. 

Amherst College. 

The approach of commencement is causing 
Amherst to put on its best appearance. Already 
an occasional alumnus is finding his way Ijack 
to Amherst, and next week will bring many 
more. The new Alpha Delta Phi house, in 
which many Worcester people are interested, 
will not be completed in time for an opening at 
commencement. Worcester is unrepresented 
in the graduating class of this year, quite an 
exceptional occurrence, but the Kellogg speak- 
ing of Monday evening, in which three Wor 
cester boys participate, will nevertheless bring 
her and the Worcester High School into the 
events of Commencement week. Entrance 
examinations begin Thursday, June 19, at 9 
o'clock. 

The program for Commencement week is as 
follows: Sunday, Baccalaureate sermon; 
Monday, 4 P. M., Hardy prize debate ; 8 i'. M., 
Kellogg speaking; Tuesday, gymnastic exer- 
cises by juniors, Class Day exercises, Hyde 
prize speaking; Wednesday, Alumni and Phi 
Beta Kappa meetings. Commencement exer- 
cises, Alumni dinner. 

Col. and Mrs. A. George Bullock are living 
in Princeton for the summer, as usual. 

At the Rutland Music Festival, last week, 
the artists appearing included Mile. Clementina 
de \'ere. Miss Emma Juch, Miss Helen 
Dudley Campbell, Mr. W. H. Lawton and 
Mr. D. M. Babcock, all of whom have sung in 
Worcester, and all but Miss Campbell at our 
Festival. Mr. Carl Zerrahn conducted. 



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Despite all the fault found with street car 
conductors, we must admit that they have 
their sorrows as well as the rest of us, and 
that they encounter a great many disagree- 
able people. I heard President Pratt of the 
Consolidated Street Railway tell a pretty good 
story the other day. He said that some time 
ago an excited lady came to him and wanted a 
conductor discharged because he had not 
stopped the car for her. Mr. Pratt investi- 
gated the case and there were disinterested 
parties enough to prove that the lady had 
simply stood on the sidewalk and looked at 
the car, without even waving the proverbial 
parasol. The conductor said, in his defense, 
"I try to be reasonably sharp in looking out 
for people, but I am no mind-reader." "I 
thought he was excusable," remarked Presi- 
dent Pratt, and the chances are that he was. 



Speaking of street-car conductors, there is a 
great deal of difference between them. Of 
course the public regards them as natural ene- 
mies, at least, that seems to be the case, and it 
is only now and then that anyone stops to 
consider that they are a hard-toiling, often 
overworked set of men, who do not get ex- 
actly princely salaries, and have to keep their 
fur smooth even when it is rubbed the wrong 
way about forty times a day. A gentleman 
who lives at the south end, said to me as 
we rode down town together, the other day ; 
"I think we have the most gentlemanly set of 
conductors on this line now that we have ever 
had." Really there are some very pleasant 
men among them. There is a young fellow 
whom I have been told is a Swede, and an- 
other who is the handsomest man on the road, 
since he did away with his brown beard,and two 
or three others whom I might mention, whom 
I have noticed as being invariably courteous 
and obliging and having the ability to preserve 
their equanimity when they are beset by the 
irascible passenger. It isn't Christian nor 
gentlemanly to condemn conductors as a class 
because occasionally one sees a grouty fellow 
who prefers to be disagreeable to being oblig- 
ing- 

But why is it, ladies, that you don't remem- 
ber to go to the farther crosswalk? How 
many times have you glared at the poor con- 
ductor as the car has swept past you, while tlie 
driver points his thumb to the next crossing! 
You think it terribly unaccommodating, no 
doubt ; but there is a good reason for it. It is 
the company's rule, you know, and the object 
is to stop the car so that it will not block the 
entrance to the street intersecting with that on 
which the car runs. It is a very wise and very 
necessary thing, then, to move the car along to 
the crosswalk beyond the intersection, as you 
are sure to realize when you drive a carriage 
through the street. So don't imagine that the 
conductor chuckles with fiendish glee at see- 
ing your discomfiture. As a matter of fact, he 
would rather the car should not be kept waiting. 



Sad thought! What will those blonde and friz- 
zled Germans do when they come up to "do the 
orchestral" for our next festival ? Jo .Sauer's 
glory has departed. They will have to bring 
their original packages with them. 



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Carriages, Furniture, Merchandise, ana all kinds of 
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electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It industries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing Jioo.ooo, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1890. 



No. 17 



Within a few days, Worcester will turn out 
hundreds of young men and women to seek 
their fortunes in this city or elsewhere. The 
graduates leave the school-house with the halo 
of education about them. They have con- 
quered books, and expect to conquer business. 
They go out into the world ready for business, 
strong in their own belief of their ability. 
Will Worcester's business take care of them.' 
will she keep her bright young men within her 
own city or force them out into other places? 
Too many young men liave left Worcester in 
the flush of their youth, thinking that business 
opportunities were greater elsewhere. The 
tendency to leave home as soon as the educa- 
tion is completed has done much to injure 
Worcester, and even Boston, large as she is, 
has sul^ered from this emigration. Keep the 
young men in Worcester. Trove to them by 
business dollars that there is no place under 
the sun which is so willing and able to offer 
them the inducements which will secure busi- 
ness success. 



A young lady of Vassar College answered 
in her clear Iwld voice that she was twenty-live 
years of age, when the census-taker pro- 
pounded the awful question. The papers 
throughout the country have heralded this 
example of honesty. There are lots of girls in 
Worcester who would as honestly answer 
"twenty-five," for twenty-five is not a very old 
age for a woman. 

President Eliot, of Harvard, is a plain 
spoken man, with some business particles 
mixed with his intellectual brains. In speak- 
ing of college education in business he said : 
"No education cansupply a youth with natural 
shrewdness and good judgment, but college 
education makes of a youth who possesses 
those natural faculties a much more effective 
man of business than he would be without 
that education. I am not sure that thorough 
mental training helps a man to buy and sell 
profitably in ordinary trade; but it is clear 
that in every business which is conducted on a 
large scale and therefore demands administra- 
tive power, the college-bred men liave a great 
advantage. They get a large share of the 
highest positions in manufacturing, mining, 
railroading, insuring and banking all over 
the country." A man is a man with a college 
education or not. The more man he is the 
more the higher education will do for him. 
Education makes fools of fools, and wiser 
men of wise men. The more a man knows 
generally the better he can work specifically. 

Years ago Miss Louisa Alcott said: "When 
I had the youth I had no money ; now I have 
the money I have no time; and now, when I 
get the time, if ever I do, I shall have no 
health to enjoy life." Miss Alcott's life was a 
long hard struggle to provide the necessary 
food and lodging. She succeeded, but not 
until after dark lines had grown around her 
eyes, and her fair cheek bore the marks of 
wrinkles. Indeed it is a pity that men as well 



as women struggle through the best part of 
their lives, work day and night, meet and 
overcome obstacles, a prolonged hurdle-race of 
business difficulties and professional disap- 
pointments, only to find that old age has 
gained his strongest grip when there is suffi- 
cient in the locker to give bodily and mental 
comfort. In the majority of cases the ripe 
enjoyment of life, through this terrible struggle 
for gain and livelihood, conies too late for the 
worker to enjoy it, and just in time for the 
children to scjuander it. 

One cannot watch too carefully the books 
for the young. The cheap New York pam- 
phlet "libraries" are made up chiefly of flashy 
dialogue, unreal situations, varnished immor- 
ality, without a suggestion of literature in the 
whole. These and the Sunday- .School books 
contribute largely toward the mental food of 
the young folks. The Sunday-School book is 
never immoral, yet these books cannot be too 
carefully selected. The Boston Herald 
speaks of "A fond mother curious enough to 
examine the novel her fourteen year old daugh- 
ter had brought home from the Sunday School 
library. Although written by a woman of fine 
character, it was found to contain six propo- 
sals of marriage, five of them being fully de- 
tailed, one shipwreck, one bankruptcy and two 
blighted hearts." The writer recalls a con- 
versation with a representative of a leading 
religious publication society, of Boston. In 
response to a question, the gentleman said : 
"If the manuscript has a good moral, we print 
it, and work it off on the trade." If any class 
of reading should go through the finest mill of 
criticism and have the chaff all beaten out it is 
the religious book, which to the young, at least, 
is supposed to picture practical Christian duty. 
A good moral is not sufticient. A writer may 
be of the salt of the earth, yet woefully ineffi- 
cient to write upon Christianity. Wishy- 
washiness is bad enough among the pages of 
profane literature ; it is inexcusable within the 
volumes which are supposed to reflect and 
teach the living principles of life and death. 
The majority of Sunday School books are well 
fitted to fill their place, but there is liardly a 
Sunday School library which does not contain 
a few volumes unfit for intelligent reading. It 
is as wrong to over-write religion as to not 
write it at all. 

The more one keeps out-of-doors these 
delightful days, the better lie or she will be. 
There is nothing like the tonic of the open air. 
A walk along Worcester's shady streets, and 
a climb up Newton Hill, in the early morning 
or evening, will do much for suffering human- 
ity and little for the doctors. 

If the fathers and mothers of Worcester 
would walk along Main street, pleasant .Sun- 
day evenings, they would see many of their 
boys and girls laying the foundation of future 
smallnessin the general and extremely danger- 
ous pastime of indiscriminate flirting. The 
police cannot interfere, for the law unfortu- 



nately docs not reach such cases. This evil 
is carried on until no respectable girl without 
male escort dares to be seen on Main street 
during the Sunday evening hours. The free 
and easy freedom of the street is reaching a 
point beyond decency. 

The new doctrine of out-of-door exercise is 
introducing Nature to thousands who have 
looked upon her as a sort of mythological Santa 
Claus, to be taken by children only. The 
bicycle, and especially the safety bicycle, has 
opened to waiting thousands the beauties of 
Nature and ;the exhilarating fresh air of the 
open country. To the cycler is given the full 
benefits of all-out-doors. 



The Boston & Albany Railroad, in connec- 
tion with a few others, has discovered that the 
brakemen are more valuable alive than dead 
and that a little effort on its part to aid in 
preserving their lives might be good business 
policy, and in pursuance of that idea it 
has done what it ought to have done 
twenty-five years ago, put patent couplings 
and air-brakes on its freight cars. 



It is suggested that there are several other 
men in Worcester, who could to advantage 
emulate the example of Congressman Walker 
in pulling off their coats in getting down to 
business. 

Competition in business is all right. The 
more competition the better the business. 
Any fool of a man can succeed if the current 
is running his way. It's the man who success- 
fully struggles against obstacles and conquers 
at the finish who leads and controls business. 
Legitimate success means honest competition. 
Running down your neighbors isn't competi- 
tion, nor business. Lasting success is made 
by minding your own business, and always 
speaking a good word for your business rival. 
To libel your neighbor because he is a busi- 
ness competitor simply means that you are 
afraid of him. 

The building operations at the .South End 
have been notably extensive this spring, and 
beside the four or five specially elegant resi- 
dences that have been erected, there have been 
built a good many comfortable dwellings for 
and by people of the middle class. Now and 
then a tenement block goes up, but it usually 
rents slowly and has a hard time in finding the 
the kind of tenants most desired. There is a 
lot of room in Worcester yet; and it is to be 
hoped that the day is far distant when it must 
yield up its claim to being "a city of homes." 

Don't pitch into people. Folks are bad 
enough without their sins being bulletined at 
every street corner. Don't cover up wrongs, 
but it isn't sustaining evil not to be continu- 
ally nagging your friends about another's 
shortcomings. Say a good word when you 
can. If you can't think of something pleasant 
about somebody it's likely that no one can 
find anything decent to say about you. 




\iO^(JESTERj^A^S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published ev^ry Saturday. Price $3.50 per 
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LiGRT is of coDwenient size for taindii^. and a inhuue 
of it makes a handsome book.— a full record of local 
happeninss. as cv->ni«iuent to handle as an encydopsdia. 

WoKcrsTER. Satordat, Junk ai, 1890. 

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About Folks. 



CThe public is cvxiiially inrited to contribute articles 
of general interest, oew^ gv-ssip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and ivcepcions. 
annonnoements of oieetings, and anything rejecting 
the good diMngs of good people.] 



June 21 : Sun rises at 4.07 .\. M. : sets at 
7J4 P. M. Length of day. 15 hours. 17 min- 
utes. Moon, first quarter. June 15. S hours. 54 
minutes, morning. E. 



It has been a great week tor weddings, most 
of them quiet altairs, to be sure, but only be- 
cause that happyened to be the taste of the 
participants. 

The most notable of Wednesday's weddings 
was that of Miss Mary S. Davenport, a 
daughter of Mr. James F. Davenport, to Mr. 
De\\"itt Clinton Wheeler, Jr.. of New Ycwic 
city. The wedding occurred at the Hotel 
Adams, and for the occasion the hotel parlors 
were beautifully decorated. Mr. George Lef- 
nngwell. of H.irtford, Conn., was best man, and 
the little daughters of Mrs. Samuel Da\-ei»- 
port, Mamie and Florence, who are cousins of 
the bride, were bridesniaids. Mr. Burton H, 
Wright, of this city and Mr. Robert Batchel- 
ler of North Brookfield. acted as ushers. Rev. 
Alexander H. \"inton j>erformed the cere- 
mony. It was said after the wedding that 
Miss Davenport made the prettiest bride of 
the year. Be that as it may. she was \-ery 
charming, in a dress of white tulle o\-er white 
silk, and a bonnet of white tulle trimmed with 
lilacs. At the reception fcJlowing the wed- 
ding, Mr. and Mrs. Davenport, the parents of 
the bride, and her \-ounger sister. Miss Julia 
Da\-enport. assisted in rec^aving. Mr. Wheeler 



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has a government position in New York city, 
and thither he takes his wife to live, after a 
two weeks' honeymoon. There were many 
elegant gifts. Those present included Mr. De- 
Witt Clinton Wheeler and Miss Clara Wheeler, 
father and sister of the bride. Mrs, Frank H. 
Estabrook and Mrs. Hutm of New York, 
the bride's uncle, Ex-Governor William 
Chiflin of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. .-^dams 
Davenport Claflin, Mr. Francis Batcheller of 
Boston, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Y. Simpson. Mrs, 
.\nna Davenport, Colonel and Mrs. Henry E. 
Smith, Judge and Mrs, Hamilton B. Staples, 
Master Frank Staples. Mr. and Mrs. Henrj- 
.\. Howe. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. South- 
wick, Dr. Ray W. Greene. Mr. and Mrs. 
James J. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. 
Prentice, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kendrick. Mr. 
and Mrs, E. W. \'aill, Mr. Thomas H. Gage. 
.Mrs. L. M. Siblev, -Mr. Fred D. Siblev. Mr. 
Will T. Sibley. Mrs. .Mar>- E. Lathe." Miss 
Martha L. Lathe, Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Da\-is, 
Miss .Anna Y. Milliken, Miss Jennie L, Ross, 
Miss Iixie Gray, Miss Lillie Gray, Miss Cora 
A. Start. Miss Eva Converse, Miss Maud 
Cl-irk, Miss Hutchins, Mrs, Henr>- Bush of 
New Braintree, Mr. Miller of New York, and 
Miss Belle Duncan of North Brookfield. 



On Wednesday morning. Miss Florence 
Snow was married to Prof. Edgar S. Shum- 
way of Rutger's College, the ceremony taking 
place at the residence of the bride's father. Dr. 
W. N. Snow, ;o Edward street. Rev. J. L. 
Jenkins of Pittsfield performed the ceremony, 
the members of the family being the only 
people present. The professor and his charm- 
ing wife started at once for New York City, 
where they sail, a week from to-day, for 
Europe. They will return before college 
opens in the fall, and will, of course, reside in 
New Brunswick, N. J., where the college is lo- 
cated. 

.\nother Wednesday moming wedding was 
that of Miss Ella L. Stevens to Captain Geor^ 
H. Hill, a son of .Mr. Wade H. Hill, which 
took place at the residence of the bride's 
father, Mr. George I- Stevens. 6S Woodland 
street. Rev. .-Vlexander H. Mnton performed 
the ceremony, and the immediate relatives 
were the only witnesses. Captain and Mrs. 
Hill went on the same day to New York, and 
after visiting several other cities, will go to 
Comwall-on-the-Hudson. where Captain HiU 
is commandant of the New York Military 
Academy. 

.■\ quiet little 6 o'clock wedding on Wednes- 
day took place at the residence of Mr. Austin 
Maynard. at Lake \"iew. the jxarties being 
Miss Susie M. MaysaTxi and Mr. William 
Reed. Rev. D. O. Mears. D. D„ performed 
the ceremony. 

Miss Sarah B^e Coffin and Rev. Hamilton 
Edgar Chapman were married at the bride's 
home, 105 Summer street. Tuesday afternoon, 
the oniciating clergymen being Rev. Alonio 
Sanderson and Rev. \". .\L Simons. 



Thursday also had its se\-eral weddings. 
Two occurred at the homes where the wedded 
couples are to reside. One was that of Miss 
.Minnie M. B. Wheeler to .Mr. EUiott W. 
Brigham. whicli took place at 17 Newbury 
street. Rev. Edward G. FuUerton omciating. 



The bridesmaids were Misses Carrie Wheeler 
and .\lma G. Leathers, and Messrs. Edward 
Brigham and Bertram E. Leathers were the 
groomsmen. The decorations and gifts were 
alike beautiful. There was one pretty inr, 
vation. Master Perley Parker, the bride - 
little cousin, was dressed as Lord Fauntlero , 
and, after presenting her a basket of fiowcr< 
received the first kiss. 



.Another wedding at the couple's future 
home was that of Miss Jennie M. Tainter to 
Mr. James H. Sutton. Thursday evening. Rev. 
Henry Dorr performing the ceremony. Only 
a few friends were present. 



Miss .■Vlice Goddard. a daughter of Mr, 
Dorrance S. Goddard. was wedded on Thur> 
day. also, to Mr. John Sack\-iUe West, c 
Tiverton. R. 1. It took place at Mr. Goddaro - 
residence on Southbridge street, and Kf. 
Ebenezer Cutler. D. D., tied the knot. M:s., 
Goddard is remembered as a teacher in the 
the High School and as a proficient classical 
scholar. She has been recently a teacher in 
Baltimore. 

Worcester f)eople had a part in a wedding at 
Newton. Thursday noon, that of Miss E. S. 
Clarke, a daughter of Mrs. A. L. Clarke, of 
Santa Barbara. Cal.. and a relative of Mr. J. 
H. Clarke of this city, to Dr. George F. Hard- I 
ing of Boston. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D 
assisted by Rev. G. W. Shinn. D. D.. pt : 
formed the ceremony. The bridesmaids we:; 
Miss Fanny Clarke. .Missjosephine Smith and 
Miss Mary Clarke of this city and Miss 
Florence Harding of Boston. Mr. E. Sutton 
of .\ndover was the best man. Messrs. Ernes; 
L. Thayer and Will L Smith of this citj- a:. . 
Messrs. H.S.Potter and. A.. B. Potter of Newton 
were the ushers. .A tour to Europe is in order. 



It is s,-ud that the Freedley-Vinton nuptials 
at -All Saints Church, next Tuesday, will be 
the most notable wedding of the season. The 
bride. Miss A'inton, is a sister of Rev. .Alex- 1 
ander H. Yinton. who will omciate. assisted 
by other clergymen. It is to be a choral wed- 
ding and will take place at i: o'clock. The 
gnoom is Mr. Angelo Tillinghast Freedlev, 
a Philadelphia lawyer. .A very large number 
of invitations has been issued and the social 
world will be present in force. There will be 
no large reception. 

-Another church wedding is set down for 
Wednesday evemng. at the Main Street Bap- 
tist Church. The parties are Miss Martha 
Jennie .Alton, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. 
N. .Alton, and Mr. Walter Lincoln Brown, a 
son of Mr. J, K, Brown. It will bean evening 
wedding, the hour set bdng S o'clock, and a I 
reception follows. 

During the next two weeks Worcester 
people will ha\-e a busy time time of it, and i: 
will be unreasonable of you to expect to hod 
your friends at home, more than two e\-enings 
in the week. The coming week, in particular, 
will be a busy one. In a social way. there are 
two church weddings to be looked for, and 
and nobody knows how many more which wiB - 
come under the head of unannounced family i 
acFairs, Then, too, it is to be a recital week, 
and Horticultural Hall is engaged for five 
davs. On Mondav. Tuesdav and Wednesdav 



evenings, Mr. Walter Scott Kennedy gives his 
closing soir(5es, and these are to be followed 
by Mr. lien T. Hammond's closing recitals on 
Thursday and Friday evenings and Friday 
afternoon. On Wednesday evening, Mr. 
George N. Morse and Miss Edith L. Smith 
have their recital at Association Hall. It will 
be the last week of the public schools' summer 
term, although the graduation of the High 
School will not occur until the Monday follow- 
ing. The Polytechnic Institute, Worcester 
Academy and the State Normal School, how- 
ever, will have their commencements on 
Wednesday and Thursday. So it will be a 
lively week. 

Miss Bertha R. Houghton arrived home 
from .Mt. Holyoke College and Seminary, 
Thursday evening. 

Mrs. Charles C. Baldwin gave a tea, last 
Saturday, at 1 1 Cedar street, the idea being to 
make it a "welcome home" for her daughters. 
Misses Katherine and Edith Baldwin, who 
have been in Paris, engaged in art study, for a 
year past. The invitations were general, and 
a large number were present between four and 
seven, the hours assigned. The house was 
beautifully decorated, especially noticeable 
being a large bank of daisies. The Misses 
Baldwin will remain at home during the vaca- 
tion, and then return to Paris for further study. 



.Mrs. T. K. Earle and family are at Newport. 

Mr. Elmer C. Rice, whose name does not 
appear in the list of i'olytechnic graduates, in 
the article entitled "Orange and Black," on 
another page, graduates in the mechanical 
engineering department. He is one of the 
solid men of the class, and has had several 
positions offered him, but has not yet settled 
his plans for the future. Mr. Rice has been 
the editor-in-chief of the H' I' /, and his 
friends have for some time expected to hear 
that he would enter the newspaper profession. 



Mr. Thomas B. Hamilton has been in New 
York and Philadelphia, during several days 
past, on a business trip. 



Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Higgins have been en- 
tertaining a friend whom they met at Atlanta, 
Rev. William Shaw, who is a representative 
of the Congregational Sunday School and 
Publishing Society, his territory embracing the 
states of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. At 
the Wedne.sday evening meeting at Piedmont 
Church, he was introduced and spoke interest- 
ingly of his work. 

Mr. James A. Norcross entertained the All 
Souls Church people at his pleasant Lake 
residence, last Wednesday. 



Those who in past years have been con- 
nected with the Sunday evening meetings at 
the old school house at Valley Falls, will be 
glad to hear of the present condition of that 
work. Last .Sunday afternoon, at 3.30, there 
was a Children's Day gathering, and the little 
room was filled. Recitations by .Miss Hay- 
worth, Miss Bauer and the Misses Bauer, 
Stearns and Rich, .Masters Harold and Robert 
Marble, with music by the quartet, Mr. and 
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. E. H. Marble, and Mr. 
.Vrtliur and Dr. Carl Crisand, readings led by 



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Mr. Young and the leader, .Mr. 1-.. II. .Marble, 
with a talk to the children, both young and 
old, by Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., made up a 
program that was not only enjoyable, but full 
of valuable lessons to all. The regular Sun- 
day evening gatherings at 6.30 are held with 
an increasing interest and attendance. 



Congressman and Mrs! Walker are ex- 
pected home to-day. 



The officers, teachers and substitute teach- 
ers of Piedmont Sunday School met in the 
church vestry, Tuesday evening and discussed 
the question "How can the scholars, teachers 
and officers of our Sunday Schools promote the 
best interest of our schools during the summer 
vacation?" I'receding the discussion there 
was a season of sociability and refreshments 
were served in the ladies' parlor. Then came 
the gathering in the gentlemen's parlor. Mr. 
William Woodward, assistant superintendent, 
presided, and later called the superintenpent 
to the chair. Mi.ss \'.. A. Kimball first dis- 
cussed the question from the pupil's point of 
view; Mr. C. Henry Hutchins spoke for the 
teachers, and Mr. Marvin M. Taylor, superin- 
tendent of the -Sunday .School, for the officers. 
Remarks were made by Mr. William Wood- 
ward, Rev. William G. Tuttle, and Rev. Dr. 
Mears. The meeting closed at ten o'clock. 



Rev. W. V. W. Davis occupied the pulpit 
of a Portland church last Sunday. 



Mrs. John C. Cutter's Shakespeare class 
covered itself with honor, at the recital of 
scenes from "The Merchant of Venice" at 
Horticultural Hall, Thursday evening. The 
parts were most judiciously assigned and the 
pupils showed that hone.st, careful training is 
bound to produce good results. The music 
used was arranged especially for the occasion 
by Mr. J. Vernon Butler and a delightful fea- 
ture was the singing of Mr. Frederic Howard 
and Miss Lillian French, as well as the piano 
playing of Mr. Butler. The parts were taken 
as follows: Duke of Venice, Mr. Aldus C. 
Higgins; Shylock, Mr. Thomas Piper; Anto- 
nio, Mr. Edward W. Pierce-, Bassanio, .Mr. 
(Jeorge K. Clark; Gratiano, Master Harry 
Cutter; Lorenzo, Mr. Frederic Howard; 
Solanio, Miss Lulu Ellis; Salarino, Miss 
Anna Calhoun; Old Gobbo, Mi.ss Viola Bow- 
man: Launcelol Gobbo, .Master Harry Cutter; 
Salarino, Miss Lulu ICllis ; Tubal, Mr. A. C. 
Higgins; Clute, Miss Mary L. Daniels; I'ortia, 
.Mrs. Idelle Edmands ; Jessica, Miss Marie 
Steele; Nerissa, Mrs. Thomas Piper. 



Mr. Louis E. B. Lamson was graduated 
from Boston Dental College last Wednesday. 
On Wednesday of next week, Mr. Arthur W. 
i;idred will be graduated from the Harvard 
Dental School. Both young men are well 
known in VV'orcester and have bright futures 
before them. 

I.v Mfc.moria.m. — Died, in this city, June 16, 
Abbie Talbot, wife of M. B. Stratton. It is 
probably given to but few to exemplify more 
strongly the Christian virtues of patience and 
resignation under affliction than was done by 
the late .Mrs. Stratton through her prolonged 
and painful illness. Stricken in the prime of 
life with a disease which by rapid strides de- 



prived her of the use of her limbs and left her 
to linger for weary years, a helpless invalid, 
with pain for her closest companion, she bore 
her sufferings and deprivations with a degree 
of fortitude which was a constant surprise to 
all. The visitor to her sick room found her 
cheerful and hopeful, and, even when enduring 
the keenest suffering, uncomplaining. Truly 
.she was "patient under affliction," living a life 
whose influence for good could not help mak- 
ing itself felt by all who came within its reach. 
She leaves a large circle of friends who cannot 
but mourn her loss, even while feeling relieved 
that her long term of suffering has come to an 
end, and that she has "entered into rest." 

Rev. Joseph F. Lovering has been in the 
city during the week. 

The High School committee has recently 
given seven diplomas to pupibi who were 
formerly in the High School class of '89 but 
did not graduate. Jeremiah A. Riordan went 
to Holy Cross College, and W. C. Howe, Ed- 
ward li. Kent, Harry .Sinclair, W. N. Stark, 
Frank H. Stone and William D. Thompson to 
the Polytechnic Institute, not completing their 
courses at the High School. The committee 
judges their work in the other institutions to 
have rendered an equivalent for what they 
may have lost, and consequently awards the 
diplomas. 

Mr. George F. Blake has returned from 
Scotland, where he went to attend the wedding 
of Mr. Philip W. -Moen and Miss Struthers, at 
Edinburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Moen are to come 
to Worcester in August, and until then will 
travel on the Continent. The Miiises Moen 
are travelling in the Scottish lake region. 



Mr. Joseph S. Dennis of Chicago is visiting 
his sister, Mrs. S. D. Mayo, 5 Congress street, 
and other friends in the city. 



The Millbury Choral Union gave in Mill- 
bury Town Hall, Thursday evening, a most 
enjoyable entertainment, it l>eing a presenta- 
tion of George F. Root's dramatic cantata, 
"The Haymakers." The piece was well staged, 
and the music was artistically rendered. The 
society is just closing its first year. It has 
given two miscellaneous concerts and in the 
cantata of Thur.sday evening showed its 
strength to great advantage. Its success is 
largely due to the work of the conductor, Mr. 
Charles I. Rice, the value of whose training 
was made apparent. "The Haymakers" Ls a 
light pleasing work, in two parts, and the large 
audience thoroughly enjoyed it The solo 
parts were sustained as follows : Farmer, 
baritone, Mr. W. L. Proctor; John, bass, Mr. 
Charies Lovell; William, tenor, Mr. Harry 
Goddard; Snipkins,a iiueie,h3ss, .Mr. Harry 
H.Allen; .l/dry, .soprano, .Mrs. H. .M. God- 
dard; Dairymaid, soprano. Miss Olive 
Powers; y-^K«a, contralto. Miss Lovell. The 
choruses were given by the club, which num- 
bers about forty voices. All the solo parts 
were well done, and after the singing of a 
serenade, Mr. Allen was presented with a 
beautiful basket of roses. Valuable assistance 
was rendered by .Miss Ida .Manson, pianist, 
and Mr. T. E. Bottomly, as stage manager. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Marble are to enter- 
tain .Miss Mary Howe to-morrow. 



Orange and Black. 

The coming week will be a gala one for the 
Polytechnic Institute. It marks the goal to 
which the twentieth class in the history of the 
school has looked forward for three and a 
half years. On Wednesday, class day exer- 
cises will be held on the campus— a large 
orange and black banner floating from the 
granite turret of Boynton Hall. On Thurs- 
day, commencement exercises will be held at 
Association Hall, and the class of 1890 will 
be formally released from the loving care of 
alma mater. 

The class which is about to graduate num- 
bers thirty-nine (including three members of 
the class of '89, who returned and took the 
course in electrical engineering), and is larger, 
by five men, than any previous graduating 
class. Nearly sixty individuals have been 
connected with '90, for a longer or shorter 
period, since it started in January, 1887, but 
many have fallen by the wayside, overcome 
by the rigorous course of study, or for other 
reasons, and now only this 65 per cent, of the 
original membership comes for\vard to receive 
the reward of merit. 

Ninety leaves behind it a record of which 
any graduating class might be proud. The 
classes at the Institute vary greatly in their 
general make-up and in ability and brilliancy. 
It has become a maxim at Boynton Hall that 
a class which graduates in the odd years is 
seriously handicapped — it is absolutely certain 
to be composed of grinds, book-worms and 
non-athletic men, as a rule. On the contrary, 
the boys who leave the Institute in the even 
years are sure to be the most jovial, hail- 
fellow well-met sort of fellows who ever came 
together anywhere. This was true of '84, 
famed for its mighty class book, of "86, and of 
'88 with its host of brilliant men and clever 
achievements. The friends of the class of '90 
think it is no exception to this rule, and the 
class itself, full of a pardonable pride in its 
past record and future prospects, is confident 
that it is "the people," from every possible 
point of view. 

1 ndeed, the class is composed of very even 
material. They all are closely cemented to- 
gether with one common fellowship, and, 
together, have weathered storms which would 
have shattered individual effort. 

In athletics, '90, while having no particular 
man to whom it could gaze up in open- 
mouthed wonder, has nevertheless, as a class, 
proved itself invincible. In football and base 
ball, the only games calling for concerted 
action, it has on every occasion but one borne 
off the championship of the school. That one 
was the base ball game with '92, last spring, 
which resulted, because of the late hours 
which several '90 men were obliged to keep 
about that time, in a victory for the juniors. 
In other fields of effort, the class has made 
itself strongly felt — it would be idle to rehearse 
here its many achievements. 

No doubt the facts that Tech classes are 
put through such a rigorous course of training 
and are denied so many social advantages, 
make the young men who graduate eager to 
get into real life, where, in their eyes, things 
will be considerably easier and more con- 
genial. True it is that the graduates of 



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Worcester's practical school seem to have but 
little difficulty in obtaining reputable situations 
of some kind, and some of these situations 
turn out to be highly desirable. 

Class day is the day to which the class and 
its friends look forward to with most pleas- 
uref or the exercises then are of so varied 
and popular a nature that they cannot fail to 
be interesting. The Institute campus is the 
place and 2 i'. .m., Wednesday, the time. The 
program follows : 

Overture: Pique Dame, Suppe 

Worcester Brass Band. 
March: Dorscht, Wiegand 

Band. 
Class Oration : The Independent Newspaper, 

Elmer Cook Rice 
Music: Song for Cornet, Rieger 

Solo by Mr. McCauley. 
Class History, George Herbert Nutt 

Class I'oem, Loring Nelson Farnum 

Music: LaChasse Infernal, Koellins 

Class Statistics, Clarence Knight Prince 

Music: Clarinet Solo, variation brilliante, arranged and 

performed by H. I. Osborne. 
Class Tree Oration, Joseph Henry Devlin 

Music: (a) Gavotte, First Love, Berger 

(b) Student's Favorite. 

Thursday morning is occupied by the read- 
ing of thesis abstracts in the chapel at Boyn- 
ton Hall. Thursday evening marks the 
giving out of the diplomas at Association Hall, 
and the early hours of Friday morning will be 
occupied in a grand banquet at the Bay State. 
Many have already accepted positions or 
have some definite occupation in mind into 
which they will enter at the end of a vacation 
of uncertain length. 

Francis W. Treadway, of Cleveland, O., 
whose picture graces the front page of this 
week's Light, is the president of the class. 
Born in New Haven, Conn., he, with his 
parents, removed to Cleveland in 1S79, <i"d 
passed through the common schools of that 
city, graduating from the West High School 
with the class of '86. It is his intention to 
study law at Yale, during the next two years, 
with a view to beginning then the practice of 
his chosen profession, probably prefacing 
actual work by a short course of study in 
some law office. He graduates from the civil 
engineering department. 

In the department of chemistry, unusual 
success is attending the efforts of the coming 
graduates to obtain situations directly in their 
line. 

Julius W. Bugbee, a native of Shrewsbury, 
has already begun work for the Nashua Iron 
and Steel Company, of Nashua, N. H. 

Arthur B. Larchar, Webster, has a position 
with the Steel and Nail Works, at Wareham, 
as analytical chemist. 

Warren E. Mumford, also of Webster, will 
be with the South Boston American Steel 
Car Wheel Company after July i. 

Ellis W. Lazell, Spencer, takes Instructor 
Uesper's place in the department of chemistry 
at the Salisbury Laboratories. 

Herbert E. Austin, Holden, has offers to 
teach and to enter a large manufacturing 
establishment, but has as yet come to no de- 
cision. 

Charles A. Pierce and Albert J. Reinbold, 
jr., both of this city, have a t\vo-months' 
vacation in mind unhampered by any perplex- 
ing business thoughts. 

r>erett J. Lake, Rockville, Conn., pursues 
an advanced course of study, entering the 



junior class at Harvard in the fall. He will 
doubtless be heard from on the 'Varsity foot- 
ball team. 

Nine graduate as civil engineers. 
James P. Anderson, Springfield, begins 
work, within a short time, for the Edge Moor 
Iron Bridge Company, of Wilmington, Del. 
Several '89 men are now with the same firm. 
Joseph H. Devlin, Worcester, will take a 
vacation. Mr. Devlin was chief surveyor of 
the party which followed out John Oilman's 
peculiar ideas on railroads, last summer, and 
is, consequently, well up on everything per- 
taining to modern narrow guage con.struction. 
Loring N. Farnum, North Andover, has 
several excellent positions in view, but has not 
yet decided where he will cast his fortunes. 

Edward H. Rockwell, Leominster, is think- 
ing of further study before going into active 
business life. 

Arthur P. Smith, Springfield, goes into the 
office of the city engineer at Cleveland, Ohio. 
William L. Smith, of this city, and a gradu- 
ate of the high school, goes, with Mr. Ander- 
son, to the Edge Moor Iron Bridge Company, 
at Wilmington. 

Henry E. Warren, Leicester, and Harrison 
P. Wires, North Brookfield, have not settled 
upon anything, as yet. 

The department of mechanical engineering 
sends forth nineteen young men skilled in the 
lore of the Washburn shops. 

Merrill W. Allen, West Brookfield, contem- 
plates another year at the Institute, in the 
course of electrical engineering. 

Harry P. Davis, Worcester, is in Europe on 
a sight-seeing tour and will return in Sep- 
tember to be Professor Kimball's assistant in 
the physical laboratory. 

Paul B. Morgan, Worcester, and Charles F. 
Treadway, Cleveland, Ohio, sail immediately 
for Sweden, to continue their studies. Mr. 
Morgan goes to Monkfoss first, entering a 
large iron manufacturing establishment there. 
Mr. Treadway will be at Domnarfit, also with 
a manufacturing firm. In January, both 
enter the School of Mines attached to the 
Swedish University at Stockholm. It is con- 
sidered the best school of its kind in the 
world. 

George H. Nutt, of this city, sails for 
Europe July 3, on the State of Indiana of the 
State Line. Two months will be occupied in 
visiting Glasgow, London and Paris. It is a 
pleasure trip. In September, Mr. Nutt begins 
work in the machine shop of a large local con- 
cern, with the intention of becoming more 
familiar with the practical details of the pro- 
fession. 

Louis E. Booth, Worcester, has a two 
months' vacation in mind, and will probably 
remain in this city with a local manufacturing 
firm. 

Harry P. Crosby, of Maynard, will enter the 
employ of the Thomson-Houston Company at 
Lynn. 

Clarence K. Prince begins work July 7 as 
draughtsman for the H. B. Smith Company of 
Westfield, manufacturers of boilers and radi- 
ators. 

Stanley H. Rood will take a vacation, prob- 
ably returning to the Institute in the fall as 
assistant to Professor Kimball in the depart- 
ment of physics. 
Alton L. Smith, of Springfield, will remain at 



the Institute as assistant to Professor George 
I. Alden, the head of the mechanical engineer- 
ing department. 

George W. Perry, Putnam, Conn., will take 
up railroad work, probably entering the em- 
ploy of the bridge department of the New 
York and New England Railway. 

Windsor T. White, Cleveland, O., begins 
work, about Sept. i, for the White Sewing 
Machine Company of that city. 

Lee Russell, Worcester, will, as usual, main- 
tain his camping-out school at Lake Winni- 
piseogee during the summer months and will 
probably go into teaching in the fall. 

Charles H. Jenness will enjoy a long rest at 
his home in Chicopee with the intention of 
entering, in October, the draughting room of 
some manufacturing concern. 

David R. Collier, whose home is in far-away 
Eugene, Oregon, and who has not returned 
there since the beginning of the course, will 
again deny himself the pleasure of a trip to 
his people, and will begin work at once. 
Where he has not yet decided. 

Charles H. Faulkner, Keene, N. H., will 
spend the summer months at his home, prob- 
ably beginning work in the fall with some 
Keene or Lowell manufacturing firm. 

James H. Clancy and Frank A. Gardner, 
both of this city, have long vacations in mind 
uninterrupted by the demands of trade. 

Three members of the class of "89, who re- 
turned last .September to take the special 
course in electrical engineering, receive their 
new degrees this June. 

James A. Baylis of Montreal enters the em- 
ploy of the telephone company of that city. 

Albert B. Kimball of this city is undecided 
where he will go, but will probably join his 
fortunes with one of the large electric light or 
power companies. 

Albert P. Allen, Northboro, is contemplat- 
ing an offer from a telephone company in New 
York city. 

Of the 39 men in the class, 14 have actually 
accepted positions already, and 17 know ex- 
actly in what manner they will begin work in 
September. M. 



It is worth while to look in at the new Public 
Library building, just now, if you can win the 
favor of Mr. Osborne, who looks out for visi- 
tors. The methods adopted for making the 
building fire-proof are probably unknown to 
most people. The fire-proof tiling between 
iron beams, asbestos covering for the posts, 
and other arrangements, are worth seeing. 
Wire lathing is also being used. 



The people of Worcester like to enjoy a 
drive in the open air. The very rich and the 
very poor ride behind two horses, the one in 
their own barouches, the other in the open 
horse car. The fellow with a moderate salary 
finds one horse good enough. 



Worcester canoeists will be interested in 
reading Charles L. Norton's directions in The 
Christian Union for making a good canoe, 
which may be built with such tools as are 
found in nearly every house — namely, a saw, 
hammer, plane, screwdriver, bradawl, gimlet, 
paint-brush, and, of course, jack-knife. 



LI g H T 

The 87th Anniversary. 



The Worcester Light Infantry is 87 years of 
age, and grows more hale, hearty and healthy 
as the years go by. Another birthday celebra- 
tion occurred, last Tuesday, and the members 
enjoyed it to the full measure of its possibili- 
ties. The company opened the "exercises" by a 
street parade, marching as a battalion, with 
Captain F. Linus Child in command. Lieuten- 
tant Harry B. Fairbanks acted as adjutant, 
and Sergeant William F. Gilman was sergeant- 
major. The company officers were Lieuten- 
ant Fred G. Davis, Sergeant Phineas L. 
Rider, and Sergeant Winslow S. Lincoln. 
Battery B band headed the parade. A dress 
parade was held on the common. The veterans 
formed under command of Captain Levi Lin- 
coln. The veterans in line were : Colonel 
W. A. Williams, Colonel Levi Barker, Captain 
Thomas E. Leavitt, Captain George F". Peck, 
Samuel Sawyer, Edward P. Thompson, 
Thomas Talbot, Major F. G. Stiles, Captain 
J. J. Upham, Captain Joel Prouty, George C. 
Taft, Charles Belcher, Lewis S. Nichols, Lieu- 
tenant J. Stewart Brown, Henry C. Thomp- 
son, E. F. Carrico, A. G. Walker, G. W. 
Macomber, James W. Hunt, George E. Kirby, 
James E. Dennis, S. F. Babbitt, Edward A. 
Campbell, Henry Morse, Daniel J. O'Leary, 
Lieutenant Ira Woodcock, Lieutenant Robert 
H. Blair, Charles W. Fiske, W. F. Ross, 
Edward H. Crosby, Robert C. Edson, 
C. M. Stewart, Lieutenant C. F. Bigelow, 
Robert Kessell, C. G. Gilman, J. E. Morse.. 

At eight o'clock the actives and veterans 
marched to Continental Hall, where a regular 
hungry-man's banquet was ready for the eat- 
ing. At the hall the following "old" soldiers 
were patiently waiting : Colonel James M. 
Drennan, William Bush, Captain John A. 
Lovell, Jairus B. Lamb, A. A. Coburn, Samuel 
Stratton, H. R. Cummings, George A. Park, 
Charles H. Prentice, John E. Bradley, Edward 
H. Kendrick, Channing Smith, Arthur E. 
Davis and Jonas H. Bartlett. 

Captain Child presided at the festive board, 
and introduced as toast-master Lieutenant 
Fred G. Davis. Mr. Davis wore his dignified 
smile and full uniform, and looked the 
ideal toastmaster. In the most skillful man- 
ner he "handled" the two hundred men, kept 
everybody in good humor, and didn't fan into 
life a single Dixey minstrel joke. 

The toasts ran as follows : "Past Comman- 
ders," Capt. Levi Lincoln; "V'eterans," Major 
F. G. Stiles; "Honoraries," Captain William 
A. Gile; "Infantry of '61," Lieutenant J. 
Stewart Brown; "The Militia," Major E. R. 
Shumway ; "Emmet Guards," Captain Wil- 
liam Regan ; "City Guards," Captain W. A. 
Condy: "Battery B," Lieutenant C. F. Bige- 
low; "Grand Army," Jairus B. Lamb; "Conti- 
nentals," Captain E. A. Harris; "President of 
Veterans," Colonel W. A. Williams. 

Captain Thomas E. Leavitt, of Orange, is 
recovering from the "Infantry rocket," fired in 
his honor. 

Major F. G. .Stiles read a letter from Mrs. 
Elizabeth T. Lincoln, widow of the late 
General William S. Lincoln. 

At the tables were : 

Head Table: — Captain F. Linus Child, 
Lieutenants Harry B. Fairbanks and Fred G. 



U.ivis of tlie active company, Colonel Levi 
Barker, Colonel W. A. Williams, Captain 
James M. Drennan, Captain W. A. Gile of 
the Veterans, Major E. R. Shumway, Second 
Regiment; Captain Thomas E. Leavitt of 
Orange, Captain William Regan of the 
Emmet Guards, Captain W. A. Condy and 
Lieutenant Edwin V,. Barrett of the City 
(iuards. Lieutenants C. F. Bigelow, L. G. 
Bigelow, Joseph Bruso, jr., and Assi.stant- 
Surgeon William T. Souther of Battery B. 

Centre Taisle:— Channing Smith, Robert 
Ke.ssell, Lewis S. NiccoUs, Otis E. Putnam, 
Dr. W. H. Kaymenton, A. A. Rheutan, Lieu- 
tenant H. H. Fairbanks, Lieutenant George 
M. Rice 2d, Captain Edward A. Harris, Lieu- 
tenant George II. Harlow. 

Right Table:— Arthur C. King, John P. 
Irwin, William E. Fairbanks, W. Nathaniel 
Brooks, Lucius W. White, Charles S. Ilolden, 
John Fuller, Arthur P. Shaffer, James W. 
Allen, Charles L. Allen, ,\rthur A. I'richard, 
Fred D. Sibley, Frank D. Freeman, William 

F. Gilman, Almond F. Townsend, Robert C. 
Edson, Charles M. Stewart, John E. Moore, 
Winslow S. Lincoln, George Learnard, P. L. 
Rider, (ieorge W. Macomber, Clarence R. 
Macomber, George A. Park, Charles H. 
Prentice, John E. Bradley, Edward H. Ken- 
drick, Sergeant F. A. Hatch, Arthur E. Davis, 
Fred M. Clark, jr., N. E. Mansfield, F. E. 
Woodcock, Herbert F. Blood, Geo. A. Smith, 
James H. Gannon, Tom Walters, jr., Herbert 
H. Warren, D. D. S., Corporal H. Ward 
liates, Fred L. Ward, William S. Lincoln, H. 
J. Kettell, G. O. Bridges, F. A. Keyes, Edwin 
S. Clark, A. F. Hyde. 

Left Tahle:— Captain Joel N. Prouty, 
Lieutenant Ira Woodcock, Sergeant J. B. 
Lamb, Samuel F. Babbit, Thomas Talbot, 
Captain John A. Lovell, Captain Jolin J. 
Upham, Lieutenant H. A. Johnson, Major F. 

G. Stiles, Adjutant J. Stewart Brown, William 
Bush, Henry C. Thomson, C. G. Gilman, E. 
F. Carrico, Charles W. Fiske, Will F. Ross, 
Captain George F. Peck, Edwin A. Campbell, 
Henry E. Morse, Past Secretary W. L. I.V. A. 
Herbert R. Cummings, E. H. Crosby, Lieu- 
tenant Robert H. Blair, .Samuel Stratton, J. 
H. Bartlett, A. A. Coburn, J. W. Hunt, 
George E. Kirby, Dennis F. O'Leary, E. P. 
Thompson. 

The Veteran Association elected the follow- 
ing officers: President, W. A. Williams; Vice- 
presidents, I vers Phillips.Winslow S. Lincoln, 
F. G. Stiles; secretary, P. L. Rider; Treas- 
urer, Levi ISarker; Membership Committee, 
Levi Lincoln, Herbert A. Currier, C. F. Bige- 
low; Historical Committee, J. Stewart Brown, 
Levi Lincoln, F. G. Stiles, P. L. Rider, James 
M. Drennan. 

Samuel Sawyer of Millbury was in the line. 
He is 78 years old. He joined the infantry 
sixty-two years ago, when he was only sixteen 
years old and trained off and on for twenty- 
five years, and in 1861, when forty-nine years 
old, enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts 
regiment and served three years in the war. 

No one who spends an hour in Elm Park 
will begrudge the money expended in making 
it one of the most delightful spots of its kind in 
the state. It is quite likely that the Boston 
Public (Jarden is the only park in .Massachu- 
setts which surpasses our own beautiful pleas- 
ure ground. 



LICiHT 



About Folks. 

Mrs. M. J. C. Throop gave a reception last 
Monday, to mark the closing of her young 
ladies' school for the summer. The school 
opens again ne.xt October and is to have 
accommodations for a larger number of stu- 
dents. 

Mr. Caleb A. Wall's historical field meeting, 
last Saturday afternoon, on the old Coal Mine 
Farm of Mr. Elliot Swan, on Plantation street, 
opposite Wigwam Hill, was one of the most 
interesting of the series he has held. Parks 
Commissioner James Draper, whose model 
farm is a short distance south on the same 
street, presided, and Mr. Wall gave a very in- 
teresting account of the first settlers on these 
and other old farms in that section along the 
west shore of Lake Quinsigamond. The his- 
tory of those old estates was traced back to 
the first proprietors, at the beginning of the 
town. The address will be printed in full in 
pamphlet form, and will constitute, with the 
others given elsewhere, an important contribu- 
tion to our local history. 



Summer Street Church is to picnic at 
Woodlawn Grove, Lake Quinsigamond, on 
Wednesday, July 2, and in case of rain on that 
day, the picnic will take place on Thursday, 
the 3d. 

A considerable number of South End resi- 
dents have signed a petition which has been 
brought to their notice in Putnam & Thurs- 
ton's, during the present week, asking the 
Street Railway Company to run a car to the 
South End, leaving Market street at 11.30 P. 
M. The last car now leaves at 11 o'clock. It 
is understood that the company will look favor- 
ably upon the petition when it is presented, 
and it is likely that the car will be placed in 
service. The petition has the names of 
several prominent citizens. 



Dr. J. K. Warren visited Manchester, N. 
H., early in the week. 



Four Worcester churches had their Chil- 
dren's Day obser\'ances last Sunday. At Park 
Church, in the morning, Rev. E. G. FuUerton 
preached a sermon to the children and in the 
evening a Sunday School concert was given, 
under the direction of the superintendent, Mr. 
Asa L. Kneeland. At All Souls Universalist 
Church, four children were baptized in the 
morning, their names being Alice May Bush- 
nell, Lucy Ramona Scott, James Schouler and 
Malcolm Gray, and in the afternoon a concert 
was given by the Sunday School children, 
under the direction of Mrs. Hooker, the super- 
intendent. The Main Street Baptist Sunday 
School had a concert at six o'clock, the exer- 
cises being conducted by the superintendent, 
Mr. E. G. Guy. The Free Baptists also had 
a concert at six o'clock. Several preachers 
from out of town occupied local pulpits during 
the day. At the Old South Church, Rev. R. 
DeWitt Mallory of Lenox preached; and an- 
other Berkshire man visited us, Rev. J. L. 
Jenkins of Pittsfield, who exchanged with Rev. 
Daniel Merriman. D. D., of Central Church. 
Rev. Leon D. Bliss, assistant pastor of Central 
Church, preached at Union Church and Prof. 
Edward P. Smith of the Polytechnic Institute 



conducted the services at Pilgrim. Rev. 
George A. Hood spoke on the work of the 
American Congregational Union, at Salem 
Street Church, and at Piedmont Rev. Prof. L. 
T. Bertrand of Paris told about mission work 
there. Rev. C. B. Rice of Danvers preached 
at Plymouth Church. Rev. Austin S. Garver 
preached at the First Unitarian Church his 
last sermon before going to Europe. Rev. 
Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., editor of ZioiCs 
Herald, preached at Coral Street Church in 
the morning. The pulpit of Trinity Church 
was occupied by Rev. W. H. H. Butler, D.D., 
of Newport, and that of Laurel Street Church 
by Rev. John T. Hayslett of New Bedford, 
assisted by Rev. A. W. Whaley of Chelsea, all 
three clergymen being members of the African 
M. E. conference which had been in session 
here during the week. Prof. William R. Ship- 
man, D. D. of Tufts College, preached at the 
First Universalist Church, and Rev. Almon 
Gunnison, D. D., preached at his former 
church, All Souls, in Brooklyn. 



Miss Carrie A. Steams' lecture at Gifford 
School Hall, Avon, Tuesday evening, on 
"Archaeological Research in Yucatan; Its 
Ancient Cities; with Ruins Photographed," 
was well attended, and extremely interesting. 
Miss Steams has given years to the study of 
her subject, and there are few scholars with a 
more thorough knowledge in the premises. 



Mr. Charles D. Sherman, Polytechnic In- 
stitute, '90 (special), leaves for his home in 
New Haven, Conn., Monday, and will sail for 
Europe Thursday on the State of Nebraska of 
the State Line, for a three months' tour in 
England, Ireland, Scotland and on the conti- 
nent. Mr. Sherman will be accompanied by 
his brother, Mr. E. F. Sherman, of Boston, 
who expects to remain abroad a year or more 
for study in Germany. 



June 30, 1790, Freeborn Garrison preached 
the second Methodist sermon ever delivered 
in Worcester. The Methodist Social Union 
is to celebrate the event at its meeting and 
banquet at Grace Church, next Monday even- 
ing. An interesting program has been 
arranged by Dr. Emerson Warner and Mr. A. 
S. Roe. A history of each of the local Metho- 
dist churches will be read. 



Mr. T. S. Livermore's music pupils gave a 
successful recital at Livermore Hall, Roch- 
dale, Thursday evening. 



The platform rhetorical exercises at the 
High School, Thursday, included a reading, 
"Three Sisters," by Angeline W. Wray, given 
by Miss Gertrude Cheney, and a recitation, 
"The Legend of Bregenz," by Adelaide Ann 
Proctor, given by Miss Katie Collins, both of 
the first year class. Mr. Nathan W. Green, 
of the senior class, also gave a pleasing song, 
"The Friar of Orders Gray." 



Mrs. I. J. Lansing is to entertain the Salem 
Street Sunday School at her home, 120 Lincoln 
street, to-day. The affair is in the nature of a 
lawn party. 



Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Davis, the Misses 
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander DeWitt, Eben 
Francis Thompson, Esq., and Mrs. Frank L. 



Coes, agranJsoiiof c.x-AlJermaa Loring Goes, 
are to sail next Saturday from Boston, on the 
Pavonia, of the Cunard Line, and will tour the 
the continent. 

Lieut. G. H. G. Gale, U. S. Army, and 
formerly of this city, has been transferred 
from Fort Lowell, Arizona, to Fort Vancouver, 
about six miles from Portland, Oregon. As 
the change is a very desirable one, Lieut. 
Gale is much to be congratulated upon his 
good fortune in having received the detail. 
He is a son of Mr. George W. Gale, clerk of 
the Board of Overseers of the Poor. 



Mr. T. D. Gard attended a Masonic cele- 
bration at Manchester on Friday of last week. 



Mr. Lincoln Holland, of Holland & Have- 
ner, starts Monday for Cottage City, where he 
will open a branch cycle and sporting goods 
store and riding school. Mr. Holland and Mr. 
Stanton, the head repairer, will ride the land 
distance between Worcester and Cottage City 
upon their safety bicycles. 



One of the best and most creditable ap- 
pointments made by President Harrison is the 
selection of Colonal A. G. Bullock, of Wor- 
cester, to be a government commissioner to 
the World's Fair in Chicago. — N. V. Sun. 



News of Our Students. 



The Royal Purple. 

Worcester has one representative in the 
graduating class at Williams, this year, Mr. 
Erastus Hopkins. 

Mr. W. S. B. Hopkins, Jr., enters the fresh- 
man class here next year. 

"Hi Juvenes," the first of the preliminary 
commencement exercises, took place yester- 
day, Friday. Now they have a week's vaca- 
tion and must return next Saturday. Then 
there will be e.xercises every day through the 
following Wednesday. The seniors wear caps 
and gowns after "Hi Juvenes." 

Next week is examination week for the 
undergraduates. Most of the Worcester 
boys will return home when these are finished, 
on Friday, and will not stay to the closing 
exercises. 

Mr. Sam Crook, who broke the world's 
record at Worcester, in the standing high jump, 
has been in active training again lately, and 
next week at the Manhattan Athletic Club 
grounds will try to break the world's record in 
the standing broad jump. He would undoubt- 
edly have done this at Worcester had the 
ground been in better condition. 

Mr. F. F. Carr, who surprised everybody by 
giving Wells such a close race at Worcester, 
in the mile run, and who in consequence 
became a member of the Manhattan Athletic 
Club, has been entered as a representative of 
that club to contest for the eastern champion- 
ship at the Staten Island Club grounds on 
next Saturday. 

Harvard. 

Worcester has one representative in the 
graduating class, Mr. Robert M. Washburn. 

Mr. Robert S. Baldwin attended the class 
day exercises yesterday. 



The Books of Summer. 



'REl'ARKD 1-'()H LIGHT. 



Among the many necessary articles to be 
taken away to the seashore or mountains are 
books — not heavy reading,but light, recreative, 
hooks which shall furnish both enjoyment 
and profit. Short stories are always in de- 
mand, especially in tlie summer, for reading 
aloud on the sand or the verandah ; this sum- 
mer we have two excellent volumes of 
short stories; "Tales of New England" by 
Sarah Orne Jewett," and "Day and Night" 
by T. R. Sullivan. 

Miss Jewett's stories, whether long or short, 
are especially interesting to New England 
readers, because of the fresh, quaint, descrip- 
tions of scenery and people. Her short stor- 
ies are really more successful than her novels, 
since the latter partake more of long-drawn- 
out sketches and lack plot. 



Mr. Sullivan's stories were first published in 
magazines, for the most part, but are so origi 
nal that one can gain much pleasure by a sec- 
ond reading. One of the most graceful and 
entertaining of the stories in the volume is, 
"Through the Gate of Dreams." 



The story of the rise and success of the 
millionaire, George W. Childs of Philadel- 
phia, is always an interesting narrative. 
Truly a self-made man, he has shown as great 
judgment in the distribution of his wealth as 
he d'd perservance and talent m its accumula- 
tion. H« has been cosmopolitan in his bene- 
fits — to his liberality are due the memorial 
windows to Cowper and Herbert in West- 
minster Abbey. His generosity is great and 
it would seem as if he had himself followed 
the motto, which he once gave another, "The 
secret of success is doing good and being 
kind to others." Childs' Recollections of prom- 
inent men are full of interest — a portion only 
is published as yet, but if this is indicative of 
the whole, we may e.xpect a treat in biography. 
The author was an intimate friend of Grant, 
and his reminiscences of this hero of American 
history are replete with interest. 



Tolstoi's peculiar views on social questions 
are voiced again in his new novel, "The 
Kreutzer-Sonata." The subject treated is 
marriage, one of the chief characters being 
made to advocate celibacy because people so 
quickly tire of each other. The novel, like all 
by its author, deals with real life and many 
parts are full of noble thoughts, but it is some- 
what broader in tone than any American read- 
ing public is prepared to receive. Edmund 
Gosse says of it : "It is a book which no sane 
man would have published." 



The literary world was somewhat startled 
last year by a peculiar book, entitled "Life on 
an African Farm." Its author. Miss Olive 
Shreiner, daughter of a missionary, made a 
reputation as an original writer and the public 
have, by no means, forgotten her. In "The 
New Review," she has written the first of two 
papers on "Heaven and Hell." In the first 
paper. Hell is treated in an allegorical way, 
its author regarding the two places as simply 
states of our being. The desire and rush for 



ly I(l HT 

wealth and position, leading to the evils of 
envy, malice and injustice to others, represent 
the place which we commonly regard as "the 
abode of the wicked." 



"A Waif of the Plains," by liret Harte, 
seems more labored and stilted than the other 
books of this popular writer, yet the book is 
meeting with a large sale and many admirers. 
Bret Harte is not a pseudonymn as so many 
people suppose— his real name is Francis Bret 
Harte. His occupations have been many, 
literature forming a later profession with him. 
He has tried mining, school teaching, type- 
setting and various other pursuits. Bret 
Harte is very nice, in its proper sense of 
accurate, about everything which he does. 
At one time, he re-wrote four times a note on 
an indifferent subject, before he sent it to a 
friend, tliough the note was written on an old 
piece of paper, the only available stationery. 

A second story is told, showing his fas- 
tidiousness in dress. At one time, while 
travelling with friends, he and his wife were 
very late to breakfast. Finally, Mrs. Harte 
appeared and, in answer to anxious inquiries 
for husband, explained that he was still de- 
tained in trying to find a cravat which should 
match his stockings in colors. 

VVorces/er, A /ass. A. 



Girls as Students. 
President Taylor of Vassar College is one 
of the few men who are chivalrous enough to 
give woman her just dues. If ever a man 
had an ample opportunity to study the ability 
and capability of girl students, the president 
of a woman's college indeed has, and as the 
result of that study he announces his convic- 
tion that "if boys and girls were placed to- 
gether in the same college, with exactly the 
same chances and opportunities, the girls 
would not only compete with, but would sur- 
pass the boys, not only because of equal brain 
ability, but on account of superior application 
on the part of girls. Girls will, as a rule, de- 
vote the evening to study while the boys are 
frolicking." 



How to Walk up Hill. 

"I saw two girls with their escorts walking 
up our hill," says an observer of girls. "One 
of them went up like a rubber ball, bouncing 
and bounding at every step, chattering briskly 
to her companion as she went and .stopping 
now and then to pant a little, and take a fresh 
start both with her bounding way of walking 
and with her chatter. Presently her friend 
went quietly along. She was letting the young 
man beside her do the talking, and she was 
mounting the long hill with short, elastic steps. 
She used her heels as well as her toes ingoing 
up hill. It is a good rule for hill climbing and 
one to be remembered in going up stairs, re- 
marks a Boston Transcript writer. Women 
doctors say and many women prove it in prac- 
tice, that by going up slowly, with the foot — 
hee'l and toe alike — put firmly on each stair, 
one may arrive at the top of four flights of 
stairs really rested, instead of gasping for 
breath as when one runs up stairs. Going up 
stairs is a good form of exercise, if one goes at 
it in the right way to get its benefits. 



Sunset from the Old Home. 



)1Y JOHN IJEWKLL SWAIN. 



'I'he d.iy is drawing to a close. 

J lie Tiimmtains clothf themselves in shadows ; 
Down tliTounli tlic gatliering dusk 1 walk, 
lo h.-.u the river fairies talk. 

What are they sayins; in the meadows f 
VVlio knows f 

If e'er tile spirits of the dead 

Come back to whisper to the living, 
'Tis when the evening mists arise, 
And from the hright-hued evening skies. 
We see the smiles they're giving. 

In the broad door- way, looking west, 

We gather, as the day is dying. 
I'erhaps, when we are called away, 
Ciur spirits, at the close of day, 
May gather in the same old way ; 

But God knows best. 
Worcester Acadetny. 



One of a Very Few. 

A Worcester educated dude writes to the 
"correspondent editor" of the New York Led- 
ger. Once in a while a fellow of his gracious- 
ness will crop out to be sat on by every de- 
cent man with brains. His letter and the 
Ledger editor's answer are given in full : "A 
Thixkkr (Worcester, Mass.) writes: 'I am 
a young man of the age of nineteen, and 
have been for the last three years a hard stu- 
dent, working day and night at study until I 
have partially undermined my health. No 
one can be a greater admirer of girls than I 
am, and, when in their company, I always try 
to amuse and entertain them, yet I am con- 
scious that 1 never succeed and always fail of 
entertaining them. What surprises me is that 
young ladies and young men can find any 
amusement or entertainment in the silly gab- 
ble in which they always indulge in in prefer- 
ence to good, sound, sensible conversation. 
The other evening, I was at a friend's house, 
where there were several young men and 
women assembled, who kept up a constant 
gabble of small talk for some time, when 
some one asked why I w<is so quiet. I re- 
plied that I had yet to hear the first sensible 
remark from any of them, and, therefore, I, 
of course, had nothing to say. At this, several 
of tliem seemed, to my surprise, considerably 
offended. Now, what I want answered in 
next week's Ledger \s, why is it that young 
women never are satisfied with sensible con- 
versation.?' Aus-wer: This letter has been 
selected for printing because it is typical of 
numbers written by a cla.ss of young men who 
have not penetration enough to see their con- 
ceit. Here is a young snob who considers 
himself so sensible that he cannot find any 
society worthy of his tolerance. The fact 
simply is that 'Thinker' is an ignorant book- 
worm, who has nothing to carry into society 
except useless scholarship, poor health, van- 
ity, awkwardness and spleen. The young 
ladies, of course, abominate such a combina- 
tion, and he attempts to wreck his petty re- 
venge by accusing them of 'silly gabble.' 
Much of their conversation may not be pro- 
found, but it serves the purpose of lightening 
a pleasant evening. The young people might 
as well enjoy themselves while they can. 
There'll be enough of the sterner side of life 
for them later on." 



10 



Fashions in the Metropolis. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



[regular correspondence of light.] 



New York, June 19, 1S90. 

The summer textures are indeed too many for 
description, each seeming more desirable than 
the last seen. Going out yesterday with 
shopping thoughts intent, I soon entered the 
busy district devoted mostly to fair woman's 
need.s, between Nineteenth and Twenty-third 
streets. One of the largest and best patronized 
houses that does, 1 believe, the second largest 
business in New York, displayed some lovely 
robes and gowns. One was an odd affair con- 
sisting of a Japanese style of over-garment, 
made of pale blue silk, embroidered on each 
front with flying cranes about the size of 
sparrows. The lower edge was turned up 
with red ravers. All this was over a dainty 
white lace petticoat of Valenciennes and mus- 
lin that peeped out from the waist down the 
front. It was Oriental and peculiar in its 
swathed effect. 

Another robe or house gown very delicious 
to look at, was made entirely of buttercup 
yellow crape, soft and delicate, but I fancy 
Venus herself, fresh from the waves and all 
unworn in her celestial beauty, would hesitate 
to array herself in one of these '-arrange- 
ments." 

In another window I noticed a curious look- 
ing object, that at first glance appeared not un- 
like some mediaeval contrivance of torture. It 
was made of solid and highly polished brown 
leather, and designed to clasp the lissome form 
of Mademoiselle Belone as she canters through 
the park — in other words, a leather equestrian 
corset. 

Of the lovely things inside of that storehouse 
of lovely things, only time and space forbid 
me to speak at length. Asking for some lace, 
I was shown a bewildering assortment of new 
designs and patterns though I could not look 
at anything under one dollar per yard. I have 
reference to the trimming laces in white for 
silk and other dresses, not to the fine real 
laces. Point de gene is a favorite lace, woven 
in coarse and fine threads, and is very pretty 
in two tones, cream and white. Those in 
hcTU, with a gold cord outlining the pattern, 
are very pretty and very expensive. 

Then the variety in exquisite neck wear of 
all sorts and descriptions is a joy to the eye, 
but a drain on the purse. Soft full ruffles of 
cobweb-like mousline de sole, coquettish and 
mist-fine fichus, and cloud-like tulles and airy 
scarfs would tempt the soul of the veriest 
feminine anchorite living. 

A costume that is popular and often seen of 
mornings is a shirt front and natty sailor hat, 
with short veil. 

From the multitude of varying styles there 
would seem to be a distinct fashion of apparel 
for every individual hour of the twenty-four. 
Hammock gowns to idle in on shady piazzas 
are long, straight and artfully careless and 
easy. There are dresses to ride in, walk in 
dine in ; gowns to play in, to dream and to 
flirt in; and each and every one, things of 
beauty in their respective spheres. Awfully 
"fetching" are the little bright scarlet or blue 
light weight jackets, set off with brass buttons 



LI(i MT 

and white facings in cuffs, pockets and collars 
and worn over white waistcoats and shirts. 
For camp-life in resinous woods are trim, short 
little brown or navy blue plaited flannel skirts, 
with plain blouse. 

The ribbons were never so choice and artis- 
tic. It is well for every maiden to have a 
reserve force of bows (also beaux) to do duty 
on different occasions. They fill a useful part 
in the economy of artificial life and can be 
changed with will, but always with discretion. 

A London fashion writer says there is no 
place like the picture galleries to study human 
nature and women's gowns. I think so myself 
for I have tried it. However pretty may be a 
dress and faithfully described, if seen on a 
real woman's back it is more interesting, es- 
pecially if the wearer is well known and one 
about whom society is desirous of hearing. 
This same writer speaks of Ellen Terry at an 
artist's exhibition, with her grown-up son. 
One can scarcely fancy the lovely Portia with 
such an appendage. She was quite conspicu- 
ous for the plainness of her suit, composed of 
dark, thick, rough-faced cloth, with blouse 
bodice belted and loose open jacket. A round 
bolero hat of black, trimmed with pompons, 
was simplicity itself. In direct contrast was 
Mrs. Henry Irving — how seldom we hear of 
that personage — in a bright red gown sparingly 
dotted with black. The loose front of crepe de 
chine was held in place by a Greek belt. 
English women are fond of black and red. 
Mrs. Kendal often wore a bright scarlet silk 
skirt and black velvet habit basque. I did 
not think it becoming to her, however, while 
the way she wore her hair added five years to 
her age. I have no space left in which to 
speak of some marvellous hats I saw, but of 
those and other features of fashion, as the 
novelists say, more anon. 

Unanimous Vote For Light. 

Worcester, June 16, 1890. 
Dear Light: 

We must have it; unanimous 
vote of the entire family. Enclosed find check 
for amount of one year's subscription, $2.50. 
Sincerely yours, 

HENRY E. SMITH. 



Mr. Addison M. Thayer, the author-lecturer, 
and of the publishing house of A. M. Thayer 
& Co., Boston, in a social letter to one of the 
editors of Light says : "Last Friday, while 
returning from a trip West, my wife and I de- 
cided to stop over at your city. It was my 
intention to call at your office the next morn- 
ing before taking the S.20 express for Boston, 
but owing to the inclemency of the weather 
and lack of time I was obliged to give up my 
idea. Soon after leaving the station, on our 
way to Boston, my attention was turned to the 
fact that two-thirds of the people in our car 
were reading Light, and I remarked to my 
wife, that my friend Fowler must be doing 
well in his new venture, and that I felt I ought 
to write him a letter of congratulation on my 
return home ; hence, the cause for forwarding 
these lines. I feel also called upon to add 

that Mr. , who is a civil engineer of 

your city, and whose hospitality I enjoyed 
while in Worcester, informed me that the 
good people in that city were more than 
pleased with Light as a literary production." 



About Business. 



The Business Situation. 

However various lines of trade miy be 
affected by local influences, there can be no 
doubt of the great activity in general business, 
and the growing expansion of the volume of 
transactions. The bank exchanges demon- 
strate this fact in an unmistakable way, for 
during the past month there has been an in- 
crease in the bank clearings ol 2i}4 per cent., 
while excluding the part which the active 
speculation on the New York Stock Exchange 
has played the improvement is nearly 19 per 
cent. In any review of the business of the 
country, however, there is no occasion to leave 
out the transactions on the stock exchanges, 
as they represent great interests, and naturally 
have an important effect upon the general 
business of the country. The total increase in 
clearings at New York alone during May was 
5708,000,000, while in Boston the increase came 
hard on to $100,000,000, or iJ507, 201,989, against 
§408,804,782 for May, 1S89. The activity here 
still continues, the gross clearings for the first 
week in June amounting to $126,611,084, 3. 
larger amount than has ever before passed 
through the clearing-house in one week, and an 
increase over the corresponding week last year 
of nearly ji'A per cent. The continuous im- 
provement in railroad earnings also adds to the 
weight of testimony in favor of the steady 
growth in prosperity of the business of the 
oountry. The valuable tables dI the New 
York Fittancial Chronicle set this forth in a 
clear light. For the third week of May, ,87 
roads show an increase in gross earnings of no 
less than 16.03 P^r cent, over the same week 
last year. For the fourth week 44 roads show 
again of 11.32 per cent., with indications that 
the ratio of gain will be still larger when re- 
ports are received from the other roads. It is 
an important fact also that the gains this year 
are made over a large increase last year. For 
the whole month of May it is estimated from 
the returns already received that there will be 
an increase of nearly 1 1 per cent, on 81 roads. 
The general railroad situation seems to be 
taking on a more kindly aspect, largely, per- 
haps, as a result of the "getting together" of 
separate, and in many cases conflicting, rail- 
road interests. There is a general feeling of 
confidence in trade circles, based upon the 
more encouraging outlook for the crops and 
the general industrial prosperity. But the 
better outlook has discouraged somewhat the 
speculation in grain, with the result of lower 
prices for wheat. In general trade, too, it is 
not the season for much activity in merchan- 
dise, and the demand is restricted largely to 
the supply of immediate requirements. Cotton 
fabrics are still firm, with an advancing ten- 
dency, in sympathy with the high cost of raw 
cotton. Woolens are dull and without new 
features. Wool is firm and stocks on hand 
are well reduced, but trade is quiet. Country 
prices for the new clip are firmly held. The 
English market is firm for wools suitable for 
this country. Hides are very firm, but trade 
is quiet. Leather also holds up under the 
firmness of hides, aud there is a fair demand 
for all grades. English buyers are reported in 
the market buying splits. Boots and shoes 
are steady and the manufacturers are all busy. 
India-rubber is active and firm and offerings 
are well taken. — Boston Advertiser. 



Auerbachs Keller, 



Near one of the picturesque street corners 
in Leipzig, in a house grotesque with pro- 
jections of wood and wrought iron, is a very 
interesting caf(5 and wine room. One enters 
through a low doorway, and passing from tlie 
first room, whose niches are filled with slielves, 
whose shelves are filled with bottles and whose 
bottles in turn with wine— shall we pursue 
this description ?— to a larger one, the dining- 
room of the establishment, he takes his seat at 
one of the small, square tables standing none 
too evenly on the white sanded floor, and 
orders his wine and crackers; for he's probably 
breakfasted or lunched at one of Leipzig's 
many fine hotels. 

This room is a basement room, not a cellar. 
Heavy arches support the floor above and the 
lunettes formed by them against the wall are 
the places chosen to illustrate the story that 
has made this place one of Germany's many 
Meccas. 

Here Goethe with his student companions 
used to come for the beer and wine ever 
necessary to the life and enjoyment of a 
German, and had he not done so, he would 
never have given us Faust. Smoke and fumes 
have partially obliterated the frescoes, but one 
painted in 1525 remains, to show us the class 
of work that impressed the poet. 

Among the more recent frescoes in this room 
are two representations of "Kneipers." In 
one, upper class people are represented as 
singing the praise of wine, while in the other 
a reckless crowd, with Brander sitting on a 
keg,is probably joining in the Flea song. This 
part of the restaurant is what one usually 
sees. 

A few steps lead one into an oblong room 
lighted only by gas and ventilated solely by 
the doorway. At the right end Faust and 
and Mephistopheles are seen on the Brocken, 
opposite are the heroes, surrounded by 
students, while Mephisto, quietly boring holes 
in the deal table, draws from it any sort of 
wine called for by his companions. L'pon 
the ceiling other scenes from the poem are 
pictured, the best illustration being the scene 
in Margaret's cottage, the duel, the visit to the 
witches' kitchen and the final parting of 
Faust and Margaret as Goethe ends the first 
part of his story. At one end of the room 
stands a huge cask, the very one upon which 
Faust and the Devil rode up these steps and 
out of this room so long ago. 

Not far from the cask is a double oaken 
door firmly fastened. It is an aggravating 
door. It leads somewhere, and as we begin 
to feel the effects of the diabolic place we want 
to go through it. Where does that door lead ? 
we ask, but no amount of interest we show 
moves the ober kellner a bit till we try the 
sesame of silver. The door opens as if on 
oiled hinges, and armed with candles, 
to defeat the darkness, we go down 
a few more steps. In .some places 
the narrow musty tunnel is so low that we are 
forced to stoop in order not to destroy the 
draperies of cobwebs festooned in such pro- 
fusion about us. On either side bottles in 
straw, crates, dust or boxes line the alleyway. 
We turn through many byways and learn that 



hidnr 

we are in the underground passage to the 
University, with which these wine cellars 
connect. 

At last we reach a widening in the walk. 
The room then found is about eight feel square. 
In one corner, built of stone, and having a 
large chimney hole above it, is a huge elevated 
fireplace. Upon it, beside some corroded 
copper, are bits of broken crucibles. All 
candles save our guide's are e.\tinguished 
and we are actually in all that remains of 
Doctor John Faust's laboratory. This dark 
hole is the real place where Mephistopheles ap- 
peared to the old alchemist in 1490, and from 
which, renewed in youth by the sale of his soul, 
he went out through the solid wall with his 
owner on the miraculous cloak, just four hun- 
dred years ago. 

Merited Endorsement by the Government. 

After exhausted experiments and competi 
five tests the Government at Washington 
has ordered for the Boston Post Office and 
Sub-Treasurj', large quantities of ozonos in 
both liquid and powder form to be used during 
the ensuing year. Hereafter no other disin- 
fectant will be accepted in these departments. 

The action of the Government in specifying 
ozonos as the only disinfectant to be used in 
future and the unqualified adoption of this 
great deodorizer by the City of Boston for her 
Fire, Police and other departments, thoroughly 
establishes the superiority of the preparation 
and is a liberal and merited endorsement of 
the well grounded claims of the manufactu- 
rers that ozonos stands without a rival, and is, 
without doubt, the most thorough, harmless 
and economical disinfectant ever introduced 
to the American people. 

Minnie Hauk has bought the villa Trieb- 
schone, on Lake Lucerne, which was Wag- 
ner's residence when he composed ".Siegfried." 

Light can be found on sale at the following 
news-stands : — 
A. F. Bragg, 332 Main street. 
L. H. Browning, 568 Main street. 
.■\. \V. Barber, 7 Main street. 
(t. W. .\rmstrong. Union Depot. 
I'. M. Converse, 60 (iafton street. 
.■\. M. Driscoll, 78J4 Front street. 

F. A. Easton. post-office. 

C. H. Fisiier, 201 Main street. 

}{. L. Hopkins, 190 Pleasant street. 

G. K. Mellor, 432 Main street, 
r. H. Murpiiy, 15S Front street. 

F. Oxiey, 648 Main street. 

Prentiss & Bowler, 120 Chandler street. 

G. M. Richards, 23 .\sh street. 
M. Schlesinger, 238 Front street. 
M.J. Twomey. ^ Green street. 
.Sullivan Bros., 164!^ Front street. 
A. C. Woodward, 88; Main street 

E. H. Brandes. iS Washington square. 
Whittaker & Johnson. 160'^ Chandler street. 
W. H. Willard, 133 Chandler street. 

F. M. Harris lS; Co., 814 Main street. 

W. S. White, corner Davis and Piedmont streets. 
Denhohn & McKay. Boston store. 
E. A. .Millish. 903 Main street. 
H. F. Chamberhn, Westboro. 
George French, Milbury, Mass. 
E. E. Dickerman, .Spencer, Mass. 
H. M.Jtirout. Leicester. Mass. 
Forest Beal, South Worcester. 
Charles Bruso, New Worcester. 
.■\t the oflSce of Light, 339 Main street. 
A limited number of back copies can be had by apply- 
ing at the Light office. 



II 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited 
1 hey should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Bi.l'SiiiN(;._Florence says: "I am often 
ashamed of myself on account of blushing so 
easily. Can blushing be cured >" The An- 
swerer can be.st reply by quoting a paragraph 
recently cut from the If,:^/ S/iorc. It reads : 
"If young girls only knew what a sweet and 
charming thing is a blush to the weary eyes 
of most men they would not be so chary of 
that pure flame of color. There is a little 
chamber in the life of every woman into 
which she must one day lock all her blushes, 
her first sweet hopes and faiths, her first girl- 
ish innocence ; and she may never have any 
of them back again, either, no matter how 
hard she may try or how regretfully she may 
long for them. The lock grows rusty and 
the key will not turn ; the hand that holds it 
trembles and the tears in her eyes hide the 
way. Be glad while you may in your girlhood 
and blushes, and make the most of them, so 
that when you come to turn the key on them 
their fragrance will cling to you and keep you 
sweet and pure through all your years." 

/Eoi.Lw Hari'.— C. T. K. asks for direc- 
tions in making an /Eolian harp. Make a box 
of thin boards, smooth, hard and dry, say four 
feet, and five inches deep by six acro.ss. Glue 
a half-inch strip of tough wood, such as ap- 
ple or beech, across the top, at or near each 
end, to serve for a bridge. At one end place 
five, six or seven round-headed screws, nails 
or pegs, firmly inserted, to hold the strings: at 
the other glue or otherwise fasten a rack with 
holes and pegs like those of a violin or guitar; 
these are for taking up the free ends of the 
strings and timing the instrument. Now 
stretch your strings of catgut or fine steel 
wire, such as are used on pianos, of var\ing 
thickness, and in number five, six, seven or 
more. Tune them in thirds or fifths, put them 
in your window, raise the sash a bit, and wait 
for ^olus. 

Legal Tenders.— J. T. N. asks if one, 
two, three and five-cent pieces are legal ten- 
ders. One, two, three and five-cent pieces 
are legal tenders up to twenty-five cents, while 
ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty-cent pieces 
are legal tenders up to $10. 

Ten O'CLOCK. — Mary says : "1 have sev- 
eral gentlemen callers, two or three of which 
call regularly. How late should I allow them 
to stay.'"' If any of your young men stay 
regularly after 10 o'clock, don't allow them to 
call regularly. The man who will persistently 
keep a lady up after 10 o'clock isn't likely to 
be a gentleman. 

The Stage.— .Mabel B. asks : "Would you 
advise a young lady to study for the stage?" 
The study part of it will do you no harm, if 
you don't go upon the stage. Your chances 
of success upon the stage, like those of ninety- 
nine one-hundredtlis who think they have 
dramatic talents, are about as good as being 
struck by lightning, and lighteing seldom 
strikes in Worcester county. 

The Depth ok the Oce.w. — John Y. N. 
asks for the greatest known depth of the 
ocean. Opinions differ, but it is generally 
stated that the greatest known depth of the 
ocean is $yi miles, or 25,720 feet. 



12 



Mark Antony's Widow. 



BV AMY RANDOLPH. 



"Mark Antony's widow!" said Mrs. Mel- 
thorpe, sharply. "Again! Didn't I desire 
you to tell her, yesterday, that I was en- 
gaged ?" 

Hyacinth Melthorpe hesitated. She was a 
tall, angular girl of fifteen, with feet and hands 
pitifully in her way, and big, frightened eyes. 

"Mamma," she ventured, "won't you see 
her? She is very pretty and young and she 
looks so dreadfully tired." 

"No, I won't," said Mrs. Melthorpe. "I am 
going down to my brother-in-law Harper's 
with Norine, and I have no time to spare for 
poor relations." 

"Oh, mamma, hush! She will hear you !" 

"Let her hear me. The truth never yet 
did anybody any harm. Mark Antony would 
marry her, when he might have had I'rudentia 
Goldiland, with her quarter of a million." 

"Mamma, she is your brother's widow." 

"Be silent, miss!" said she. "Is it for a 
slip of a thing like you to contradict me? 
Tell Mark Antony's widow to go about her 
business!" 

At this moment, however. Hyacinth was 
reinforced by a slight, fair-haired little woman 
in a very plain black gown, who valiantly pre- 
sented herself on the scene. 

"Do not blame Hyacinth, Mrs. Melthorpe," 
said she. "I called to see you because I have 
just returned from a visit to Harper Lodge" — 

Mrs. Melthorpe stiffened visibly. 

"She is pretty, in a wax doll sort of fashion," 
thought Norine, who herself was a sort of 
Junonian belle — large, languid and pink 
cheeked. 

"Yes," said Mrs. Melthorpe. "But if you 
will allow me to mention it, Mrs. Mark Antony, 
it was hardly the thing for you to besiege my 
poor dear brother-in-law — even at his own 
house." 

"His wife was Mark Antony's sister " 

"Humph!" said Mrs. Melthorpe. "If you 
expect, madame, to be adopted by all Mark 
Antony's relations, you will find yourself con- 
siderably mistaken. You are young, and 
perhaps inexperienced. Allow me to warn 
you that too much pushing will not be tolerated 
by the family." 

Mrs. Mark Antony Maywood colored to the 
very roots of her golden fringe of hair; she 
would have spoken, but her sister-in-law kept 
the floor. 

"If you will read the newspapers," said she, 
"you will perceive that there are plenty of 
situations as companions, stenographers, 
amanuenses to be had." 

"But" 

Again Mrs. Melthorpe struck in. 

"Or I would recommend you to learn tele- 
graphy, or purchase a typewriter and practice 
diligently upon it. Anything would be pre- 
ferable to becoming a burden upon your 
friends !" 

Mrs. Mark Antony withdrew silently; 
Norine Melthorpe tossed her head; Hyacinth 
burst into tears. 

"Oh, it was too cruel," faltered Hyacinth. 
"You might at least have offered her a cup of 
your chocolate, Norine." 



LI<J H T 

"Nonsense," said Norine. "The woman 
has got to be taught to know her place ! Let 
her go to work !" 

"But she never was brought up to do any- 
thing. She was rich when Uncle Mark 
Antony married her," pleaded Hyacinth. 

"She might have had a few thousand dollars 
— nothing to what Prudentia Goldiland would 
have inherited ; but it is no fault of ours that 
Mark Antony threw them all away. Her 
mother should have brought her up differ- 
ently." 

"Mamma, it's just the way you have edu- 
cated Norine. She can't even sew on her own 
shoe buttons !" protested truthful Hyacinth. 

"How dare you argue with me," you imperti- 
nent minx?" retorted Mrs. Melthorpe. "Go 
down stairs and help Bridget, at once ; and 
don't you ever dare again to dictate to me !" 

So the packing went on, for although Mrs. 
Melthorpe had only written to her wealthy 
brother-in-law that she would spend a few 
weeks at Harper Lodge, with his permission, 
as dear Norine's health was delicate, and 
Hyacinth, sweet child, was growing a great 
deal too fast, still she had made up her mind 
to remain there permanently, when once she 
had obtained a footing. 

"And I wonder," thought indignant Hya- 
cinth, "what mamma calls that but pushing." 

The Melthorpes went down by train the 
next week but one, leaving the packing boxes 
on storage and taking only nine trunks. F"or 
Harper Lodge was not many miles from Sara- 
toga, and Mrs. Melthorpe intended that "dear 
Norine" should have the benefit of the fashion- 
able season. 

"Albert Harper is as rich as Croesus," 
thought the maneuvering mother, "and there's 
no reason that some of the money shouldn't 
be spent on his nieces !" 

She had not seen much of the Harpers of 
Harper Castle, of late years, because there liad 
been no very particular warmth of affection 
between herself and her sister. "If I had 
supposed," reasoned Mrs. Melthorpe, "that 
Artemis was going to marry rich, I should 
have treated her vei-y differently those years 
that she lived at home with me." 

The elegant open landau with its deep bay 
horses glittering with gold plated harness, and 
its two coachmen in black livery, was waiting 
at the station. Norine entered it, more like 
royal Juno than ever. Mrs. Melthorpe bustled 
after her, and Hyacinth seated herself timidly 
at the back of the carriage. 

"This is something like, said Norine, lan- 
guidly exultant. "Mamma, we've been grubs 
all our lives, now we are commencing to be 
butterflies. I must say, I like to feel my 
wings." 

Col. Harper met them at the door — a superb 
arched portal beneath a row of Corinthian col- 
umns. He was a handsome, middle gentle- 
man, his hair just sprinkled with gray, his 
keen, dark eyes sparkling through eye glasses. 
Norinne kissed him effusively. Mrs. Mel- 
thorpe squeezed his hand. 

"Pray walk in," said the colonel. "I was 
just considering the propriety of writing to you 
when I received the letter announcing your 
speedy visit." 

"My dear Albert! Of writing to us?" 

"Yes," said Col. Harper, ushering them into 
a stately drawing room. "I do not know that 



my affairs particularly affect the rest of the 
family, but I had decided to let you know of 
my second marriage." 

Mrs. Melthorpe gave a gasp. Norine 
looked appalled. No thunderbolt could have 
taken them more by surprise. 

"Artemis has been dead a year now," went 
on the colonel, in cool, business-like accents. 
"The lady who has honored me by entrusting 
her future to my care is a connection of this 
family. Evelyn, my dear," (beckoning to a 
slight figure which up to this time had lingered 
among the shadows of the bay window draper- 
ies), "I wish to introduce you to my late wife's 
sister and her daughters, Mrs. Melthorpe — 
young ladies — this is Mrs. Harper." 

"Why !" cried out Hyacinth, in her impul- 
sive fashion, "it is Uncle Mark Antony's 
widow!" 

Mrs. Melthorpe had reddened as if boiling 
carmine paint had been poured through all her 
veins. Norine grasped at her lace neck frills 
as if she found difficulty in breathing. Mrs. 
Harper greeted them with a certain calm 
graciousness, like a queen receiving her sub- 
jects. 

"I tried to tell you about it that day in the 
city," said she. "I should have liked to ask 
you to our quiet wedding; but you declined to 
hear me out. You desired me to read the 
newspapers, or to buy a typewriter, or some 
thing of that kind. I could not get a chance 
to explain to you that Col. Harper was a friend 
of mine in the old days before I married Mark 
Antony, and before he was bethrothed to Miss 
Artemis Maywood." 

Mrs. Melthorpe and Miss Norine returned 
to New York in the evening train. After all 
that was come and gone they deemed it best 
speedily to retire from the field. But Mrs. 
Harper put in a plea for Hyacinth to remain 
at the Lodge. 

"She was the only one who spoke kindly to 
me," said she. "Without intending to be an 
eavesdropper, I heard her begging for quarter 
for me. That it was cavalierly refused was 
no fault of hers. You will stay with me, dear 
little Hyacinth?" 

"If mamma does not object," said Hyacinth, 
secretly wondering if the world was coming to 
an end. 

"Mamma" did not object in the least. It 
was something to have that tall school 
girl provided for, she thought. 

"But what Col. Harper could have seen to 
fancy in Mark Antony's widow," said she 
afterwards to Norine, "I can't imagine !" 

Perhaps all this was a lesson to Mrs. Mel- 
thorpe ; perhaps not. There are some people 
who will never learn much in the school of 
that grim old pedagogue. Experience! 



Oscar Wilde's Novel. 
Oscar Wilde contributes the complete novel 
to the July number of Lippiiicott^s Magazine. 
It is entitled "The Picture of Dorian Gray." 
Not only is Oscar Wilde one of the most in- 
teresting figures of the day, but he is a re- 
markably clever and original writer, as he has 
shown himself to be in his essays, poems, and 
short stories, and above all in this, his first 
novel. The story is strikingly original in con- 
ception, is strong in interest, and fitted with a 
dramatic and tragic climax. 



IvICiHT 



Worcester Co. Music School. 

The eighteenth annual closing recitals of the 
Worcester County Music School were given 
this week at the First Universalist Church on 
rleasant street. The recitals were of a high 
standard, the pupils displayed thorough train- 
ing, and the audiences were fashionable and 
decidedly musical. The programs are given 
in full : 

MONDAY EVENING PROGRAM. 
Trio — Evening Hymn. Mozart 

Misses Clara E. Willis, Florence Muzzy and Catherine 

M. Bent. 
Song— Echoes, Southwick 

Miss F. Mabel Rice. 
Pianoforte Solo— Spinning Song, Morceau 

Miss Annie O'Day. 
Song — Cross and Crown, Dana 

Mr. Waldo H. Bixby. 
Song— Queen of the Earth, Pinsuti 

Miss Mannie Snow. 
Pianoforte Solo, Morceau 

Miss Rice. 
Song— Good Night, Sweetheart, Simons 

Miss Muzzy. 
Song — Two Children, Behrend 

Miss Mirriam Skinner. 
Song— Inchcape Bell, Hughes 

Master Arthur L. Washburn. 
Sonata, D Major, Pianoforte and Violin, Op. 4, 

Mendelssohn 
Third Movement. Allegro agitato. 
Miss Florence M. Dodge and Mr. Ewald Weiss. 
Song — Love's Sorrow, Shelley 

Mr. Patrick O'Connor. 
Song— A 1 ragedy. Cutter 

Miss P'lorence M. Gates. 
Pianoforte Solos. Morceau 

Miss Edith G. Kinney. 
Song— The Wine Ganger, Foster 

Mr. Arthur W. Marsh. 
Song— Angus McDonald. Roeckel 

Miss Florence Wood. 

Sonata, D Major, Pianoforte and Violin, Op. 21, Gade 

Third Movement. Allegro Molto vivace. 

Miss Margaret H. Griggs and Mr. Weiss. 

Song— It Was a Dream, Robyn 

Mr. Frederick E. Bartlett. 

Quartet— A Spring Song, Pinsuti 

Misses Harriet I.. White and Mary E. Convery, Messrs. 

Benjamin Whitmore, Jr.. and Charles E. Hitchock. 

THURSDAY' EVENING PROGRAM. 

.Song— The Mighty Deep. Jude 

Mr. Nathan W. Green. 
Violin Solo — Berceuse. G<»dard 

Master Earnest L. Smith.. 
Song— Behold the Harvest, Fiorini 

Miss Lizzie Calhoun. 
Pianoforte, Concerto, D Minor, ist Movement, Op. 40, 

Mendelssohn 
Miss Florence M. Gates. 
Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 
I'ianoforte, Concerto, D Minor, 2d Movement, Op. 40, 

Mendelssohn 

Miss Bessie K. Pelton. 

Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 

Song— The Waiting Heart, T Orrey 

Miss Mary E. Convery. 

VioHn obligato by Mr. Weiss. 

Song— Creole Love Song, Smith 

Mr. Walter S. Cook. 
Song— In Paradeso, Hiles 

Mrs. Clara H. Bliss. 
Song— No Lips Can Tell. Tri>tere 

Mr. Talmage B. Jordan. 
Pianoforte, Concerto, D Minor, 3d Movement, Op. 40, 

Mendelssohn 
Miss Florence I. Everett. 
Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 
Songs— If Laws Severe (The Jewess). Halevy 

Mr. George H. Learnard. 
Song— Dear Heart, Mattel 

Miss Margaret H. Griggs. 
Song— The Lord My Shepherd Is. Bohni 

Miss Sadie C. Hooker. 
Recit and Aria — The Full Moon is Beair^ing, 

(Bride of Kerron) , Smith 

Mr. Benjamin Whitmore, Jr. 
Pianoforte, Concerto, F Minor, 3d Movement, Op. 21, 

Chopin 
Miss Nellie M. Tucker. 
Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 



FRIDAY EVENING PROGRAM. 
Quartet— The Mellow Eve is Ghding, Holden 

Misses Harriet L. White and Lillian Howard, Messrs. 

Benjamin Whitmore, Jr., and Charles E. Hitchcock. 
Pianofore, Concerto in E Minor, ist move- 
ment. Op. 11, Chopin 

Mrs. Clara H. Bliss. 

Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 

Song— In My Swift Boat, Concoiie 

Miss Clara E. Willis. 
Sonata, for Pianoforte and Violin, 1st move- 
ment. Op. 13, Grieg 
Miss Mabel B. Jennison and Mr. Weiss. 
Recit. and Aria— And (lod said Let the Waters (Crea- 
tion), Rollingand Foaming Billows, Haydn 
Mr. Hitchock. 
Song— Beauty's Eyes, Tosti 
Miss Hattie L. Bruce. 
VioHn obligato by Mr. Weiss. 
Pianoforte, Concerto, E Minor, 3d Movement, Op. 11, 

Chopin 

Miss Gertrude E. Nash. 

Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 

Sr,n<r.; ) Persian Love Song, De Koven 

songs j still as the Night, Bohm 

Miss Howard 
Song— The Gay Hussar, Diehl 

Mr. Charles F. Orcutt. 
Pianoforte, Concerto, G .Minor,3d .Movement, Op. 25, 

Mendelssohn 
Mr. Louis E. Mason. 
Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 
Song— Spring Song, Lynes 

Miss Harriet L. White. 
Violin obligato by Mr Weiss. 
Solos and Chorus — O, Sing to God, Gounod 

Miss Howard and Mr. Whitmore. 
Pianoforte and orchestral accompaniment. 
The pupils were assisted by Mr. Kwald 
Weiss, first violin; Mr. Fred A. Jordan, sec- 
ond violin; Mr. Michael Kiedl, viola; Mr. 
John L. Brand, violoncello; Mr. Joseph Kiedl, 
double bass; Mr. Henry I. Osborne, clarinet. 



Borax for Hoarseness. 
A writer in the AA-i/na/ A\\on/ ches a num- 
ber of cases in which borax has proved a most 
effectual remedy in certain forms of colds. 
He states that in sudden hoarseness, or loss of 
voice in public speakers or singers from cold, 
relief for an hour or so, as if by magic, maybe 
often obtained by slowly dissolving, partially 
swallowing, a lump of borax the size of a gar- 
den pea, or about three or four grains, held in 
the mouth for ten minutes before speaking or 
singing. This produces a profuse secretion of 
saliva, or "watering" of the mouth and throat, 
probably restoring the voice or tone to the 
dried vocal cores ; just as "wetting" brings 
back the missing notes to a Hute when it is too 
dry. 

It's hard work to keep your sons in check 
while they're young; it's harder still to keep 
them in "cheques" when they grow older. 

The sight of a fat man trying to look grace- 
ful in a bathing suit is what makes the little 
bald-headed fishes stand on their tails and 
grin. 

In making charcoal for gunpowder it is 
always kept for three or four days in air-tight 
cylinders before picking over, and ten days to 
a fortnight before it is ground. This, it is said, 
is done to counteract the well-known tendency 
to fire if exposed too soon after it is made. 

Sugar cane, according to Mr. I). Morris, is 
nowhere found wild, and it has been supposed 
to have lost its power of producing seed. In 
specimens received at Kew Gardens, however, 
seeds have been found. This discovery is im- 
portant, as it is anticipated that cross fertiliza- 
tion and selection of seedlings may greatly 
improve the plant. 



12 

Some Bars of Music. 

The London papers have been much amused 
at a recent experience of Sir Arthur Sullivan. 
The composer was curious to witness the fir.st 
appearance of l.eonore Snyder as (iianetta in 
"The (iondoliers," so he strolled into the back 
of the dress circle about the time of (Wanetta's 
first entrance, and as he was anxiously watch- 
ing Mi.ss Snyder he unconsciou.sly "hummed" 
her part aloud. (Jne or two indignant glances 
were cast round witliout any effect on the 
compo.ser, and at last a gentleman near ob- 
served angrily ; "I have paid my money, sir, to 
hear Sir Arthur Sullivan's music — not yours." 
It is said that Sir Arthur higlily approved of 
his interruption. 

Dr. Hans Richter has signed a ten years re- 
newal of liis engagement as conductor at the 
Vienna Opera House. This puts an end to 
the idea that he will soon visit the United 
States, and to the report that his place will be 
filled by Mr. Gerick, former conductor of the 
Boston Symphony Orchestra. 

Leo Delibes has just finished his latest 
opera, entitled "Koscia." The libretto is by 
Henry Meilhac, and one fine morning a few 
weeks ago the composer walked into the 
librettist's room, sat down at the piano and 
played through tlie entire and finished last 
act, which tlie latter had scarcely expected to 
have been begun. Meilhac expressed him.self 
as delighted with the composer's fresh and 
riowing melodic invention and the gracefulness 
of his ryhthms. 

Sullivan is writing his grand opera "Ivan- 
hoe," and has engaged for one of the parts 
Miss Lucille Hill, of Trenton, N. J., a lady 
whose manifold excellences have been cabled 
across the water. It is understood that Miss 
Pallister is also to take part in this work, 
which will be ready for production in (Jctober 

Little Josef Hofniann, the first of the recent 
army of piano "prodigies," has for a long time 
past been quietly residing in Germany, where 
he is completing his education. His next ap- 
pearance in public will as an adult pianist. 

A disgraceful scene of so-called polite soc- 
iety rowdyism was witnessed in the big Albert 
Hall, London, recently upon the occasion of 
the reappearance of I'atti. The prima donna 
was suffering from a bad cold, caught, it is 
understood, in New York, and made worse by 
the sea air on the passage. The audience 
was informed of tlie fact, but Manager Kuhe 
explained that rather than disappoint the pub- 
lic Mme. Patti would sing three songs. The 
people, however, were in bad humor, owing to 
the non-appearance of the tenor, Sims Reeves, 
and when I'atti declined encores they howled 
and stamped and raved and refused to allow 
the concert to proceed. Kuhe appealed for 
fair play, but failed to obtain a hearing from 
those well-dressed ruffians. A famous violin- 
cellist tried to charm the savage breasts, but 
with so little success that he fairly pranced off 
of the platform in disgust, taking his instru- 
ment with hin. The row continued for a con- 
siderable time, and order was only restored by 
a threat to clear the hall. Patti left the place 
after the third song much agitated at the dis- 
gusting want of forbearance. 



u 



L I Ci M T 



A Defaulter. 



BY HERR CHF.RRVTREE. 



It was late in the afternoon. Judge Ficht- 
enbaum sat in his office, busily engaged in 
writing. The Judge was a crabbed, set, old 
man. whose gruff voice and indifference to all 
about him gave him the appearance of one 
whose society was not particularly desirable, 
the inmates and other occupants of the build- 
ing knew him well enough to avoid him as 
much as possible, even in business relations. 
In his administration of justice, he seldom 
showed any mercy, but always gave the full 
extent of the law. 

The Judge had finished his writing, and 
looked up at the clock, and as he did so, the 
sound of steps on the stairway suggested to 
him the fact that little Peter Pinker was com- 
ing. He opened his secretary drawer, counted 
out thirty-two cents and laid them on the cor- 
ner of his desk. As he did so, Peter entered 
the door. 

Peter was a bright little fellow with just 
enough of the city slang to make his keenness 
perceptible. He brought the Judge the dailies 
and extras and regularly appeared at the end 
of each week for his pay, and the Judge always 
had just the right change, never any more and 
not a cent less. Peter was his mother's main 
stay, and since his father's death at one of the 
mine explosions, he helped greatly in her sup- 
port and that of his little invalid sister. 

The Judge was the first to speak, as Peter 
entered the office: "How much do I owe you, 
Peter .?" 

"Thirty-two cents, sir !" 

"There you are, Peter; just the change." 

Peter stepped forward, and, taking the 
change, started for the door, but somehow he 
did not seem to want to go, and wheeling about 
he said : "Say, Judge, would you help a feller 
what's in trouble ?" 

The Judge's keen grey eyes seemed to look 
little Peter through and through, as he re- 
marked : "Well, I don't know, Peter; what 
difficulty have you got into now ?" 

"Judge, I's a defaulter!" 

"A defaulter !" The Judge fell back in his 
chair. "How's that, Peter? I never thought 
that of you." 

"Well, yer see. Judge, little Sue fejl down 
stairs last week an' broke one of de crutches 
mudder had put up for de rent, an' de crutch 
couldn't be fixed an' I was de only one what 
had de stuff. Sue, she cried an' felt so bad. 
Judge, dat I took de boss's money to buy 
anodder. I's got to make it good to-night, an' 
I ain't had no business dis week and de pro- 
visions has got clean away wid all I's made." 

"How extensive is your defalcation, Peter ?" 

"What's dat, sir?" 

"How much have you taken, Peter, that 
didn't belong to you?" 

"A case note will make me square, sir." 

"Well, Peter, a dollar is not a very large 
sum, but you see when you want a dollar and 
haven't got it, it assumes proportions fully 
large enough. However, I will help you out of 
your difficulty;" and so saying, the Judge 
pulled out a long flat pocket book and handed 
Peter a new crisp one dollar bill. The little 
fellow's eyes moistened as he seemed for a 



moment lost in his thoughts, and as he turned 
to go he extended the Judge his hand. 

"Der's my hand. Judge, an' I'll try an' make 
it right wid yer dis week." This was all that 
was said and the office door closed after him, 
as the Judge buried himself in the evening 
news. 

A week rolled by, and Peter left the Judge's 
papers as usual, and at the end of the week, 
when he called at his office, he found the 
Judge had gone away but the money for the 
week's papers was there, where the Judge had 
always left it whenever occasion had required 
his absence from the city. 

It was somewhat late on the ensuing day 
when the Judge returned, and as he opened 
the office door he was not a little surprised to 
find Peter sitting by one of the windows. 
"Well, Peter, what is it now?" he asked. 

"Nothing, Judge, only I's come to pay yer 
dat dollar, what yer let me have last week," 
and Peter stepped up to the desk and counted 
out twenty five cent pieces. As he finished, he 
looked up at the grim old Judge and said: 
"Judge, dey all call yer a mean old man ; dat 
yer ain't got a kind word for anybody ; dat 
yer's too mean to live ; but yer's saved me 
from losing my job, an' yer's what I call a 
white man ! an' I told Sue an' mudder dat I's 
a defaulter an' as how yer helped me, an' 
mudder says de people what talks about yer 
wouldn't help any feller what's in trouble ; an' 
Sue says de angels don't all wear lamb's wool 
an' dat she is going to pray fer yer. Judge 
yer used me like a white man." 

Here Peter finished his speech; he could go 
no further; and with this little burst of oratory 
he left the Judge alone with his thoughts. 
Tears began to drop upon the Judge's morning 
paper. Crying seemed to be catching. Aye, 
crabbed old Fichtenbaum had a tender spot 
somewhere beneath his flinty exterior and 
Peter's uncouth expressions and bursts of 
slang had, it seems, found the almost un- 
trodden pathway to his heart. He looked at 
his watch, sprang up from his seat, and grab- 
bing a few pieces of paper and his green bag, 
started for the court house. Tears were lurking 
in his eyes when he stepped aboard of the cars, 
and as he thought of the poor little invalid Sue 
who was going to pray for him, the tears came 
thick and fast. There was no mistaking it. 
Judge Fitchenbaum was seen in the cars cry. 
ing. The other occupants of the cars looked 
one at the other, but the Judge seemed un. 
mindful of it all, and the tears still con- 
tinued to flow as he left the car and ascended 
the massive steps of the court-house. 

He took his place at the bar and for nearly 
an hour listened to the evidence and examina- 
tion of a young man who had defaulted from 
his employer. Then he heard the young man's 
story and when he had finished, he arose from 
his seat and, much to the consternation of all 
who were within the hearing of his voice, said : 
"This is another case of misplaced confidence 
— another case of employing men at starvation 
wages; and in the interest of this state as well 
as for the good of humanity at large, and as a 
living example to those who hire at .starvation 
wages and set so small a value upon the 
worth of confidence and trust, I herewith dis- 
charge the prisoner." 

Xorth Grafton, Mass. 



Anticipation. 



RUFUS CYRENE MACnONALFl. 



O white-robed blonde, seductive, sweet ; 
Thou floatst before me as the white clouds fleet 
Atliwart the summer day ; 

.As througli the muslin soft thy arms I see. 
Which rival it in all its purity, 
U nto my longing eye ; 

So, through to-morrow's clouds I see the hour 
When I shall greet thee, in they love-lit bower. 

With no one by. 
Boston, Mass, 

Mrs. \Arorcester Says. 

That the richest people are not the cham- 
pagne consumers. 

That some American women "presented at 
court" are unknown at home. 

That there are more summer resort hotels 
than people to make them pay. 

That fashionable people condone any sin 
because they are all in the same canoe. 

That the joys of an inheritance are much 
reduced by the collateral tax to be paid. 

That painted faces are no longer confined 
to women whose names are never mentioned. 

That people who "know everybody" are 
never quoted as being exclusive. 

That the sacrifices some girls make to 
marry a title are worse than sad. 

That the ambitious society woman and the 
book agent are always indifferent to snubs. 

That only about two dozen hairs are now 
left as a tail for the fashionable horse. 

That economy's machinery has been put in 
operation in many a fashionable household. 

That the straight-brim high hat is not a 
fashion destined to last. 

That men in positions of trust have no busi- 
ness to haunt the race tracks. 

That some of the captures of titled sons-in- 
law have not been so wonderful after all. 

That about the only thing genuine about 
the girl of the period is her appetite. 

That there is never anything the matter 
with a house anybody wants to sell. 

That, considering the experience of di- 
vorced women, it is strange they want to 
marry. 

— The prize of 40,000 francs offered by the 
French Academy for some certain test of 
death, looking to the prevention of being bur- 
ied alive, was given to a physician, who an- 
nounces that on holding the hand of the sup- 
posed dead person to a strong light, if living a 
scarlet tinge is seen where the fingers touch, 
showing the blood continues to circulate, there 
being no scarlet when the subject is really 
dead. 




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Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 

made to order in the most correct manner. 

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286 Main Street. 
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Kink Bakbry ! ! 

HIGHEST QUALITY ONLY. 

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All Goods Hot at 3. .'10. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, Silver, Brar^s and Nickel Plating, 

Folishiug:, Hronxing and Lacquering^, 

Keplating Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT. PROF. 

Over Collar Laundry, Barton Place, Worcester, Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Place. 

COLLARS A>fD CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PEKIOK STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. cook: & Co., PROF^S. 

LE * JOLLY i FRENCH « DYEING 

AND i CLEANSING ^ HOUSE. 

rlr8t-Clas8 Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro,s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from I C^ I 
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you and get 10 per cent dis- .^3 
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Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 

8 a.m. to9P. M. Sundays, 

8 to 12 A. M. 



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Opposite Lincoln House, 
Worcester, Mass. 



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Graduate from the New York Training School, gives 

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only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



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DEALER IN 

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CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



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221 Maio Street. 

COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHING. 



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Dinner Sets, $5.25, $6.87, $8.67, $9.50. 

Tea Sets, $2.87, $3.50, $4.25. 
Toilet Sets, $1.89, $2.50, $3.50. 

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Silver Plated Goods, Lamps, Vases, Etc., German Cooking Ware. 

GOODS SOLD FOR CASH OR INSTALLMENT. 

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WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

The "Wright Counter Shaft and Clutch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
scarcely perceptible shock or jar, and decidedly the best device for the purpose ever in the market. Every one inter- 
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GEO. N. MORSE, 



TEACHER OF 



Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK KESIUENCE, 29 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^♦Ladies' i Hair i Dressing^- 

CHILDKEN'S HAIK-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 IVIAIN STREET. 
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DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

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Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

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Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

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Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. 



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meet her friends at her 

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No. 387 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 



**WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
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Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 

Blanc-Mange. 

Take a small handful of moss, and wash it, 
putting it to soak in water for an hour or more ; 
then have in the double boiler a quart of good 
milk, and put this moss, clear of any water, 
into it. Let it cook until the milk thickens ; 
add sugar to it and strain. It can be flavored 
by boiling a stick of cinnamon in the milk, if 
vanilla is not agreeable, and eaten with cream. 
Quick-Made Chicken Broth. 

A chicken broth, desired at once, can be 
made by taking the wing and breast of a 
chicken, cooking until thoroughly done, adding 
rice and seasoning ; although the best is made 
by using a fowl, and having plenty of time to 
cook it slowly and skim carefully. Serve the 
broth as daintily as possible, with a crisp 
piece of toast. 
Meat Broth. 

A very nourishing broth is made by using 
different kinds of meat at the same time, say 
a knuckle of veal, some shanks of mutton 
and an old fowl, adding an onion, some bar- 
ley or rice, and a small red pepper — which, by 
the way, get in the season, and dry for the 
.soup kettle. 
Gooseberry Pudding. 

There are green gooseberries already in mar- 
ket. This calls to mind the delights of a fruit 
batter pudding made with gooseberries. An 
English batter pudding is a delicious dessert 
especially when made with fruit, but it re, 
quires care in preparation. The ingredients 
are a pint of milk, a teacup of pastry flour, 
five eggs, half a teaspoonful of salt and a 
pint of fruit. If gooseberries are used, sim- 
ply head and tail them, and set them aside till 
the batter is prepared. Separate the whites 
aud yolks of eggs. Mi.\ the flour with enough 
milk to make a smooth batter, add the yolks 
of the eggs, beaten thoroughly, and then the 
rest of the milk and salt, and finally the 
whites of the eggs. Turn half the batter into 
a well-greased tin mold, add the gooseberries 
and the remainder of the batter. Suspend 
the mold in a pot of boiling water, and keep 
the water boiling around it for I'/i hours. 
Serve it with a nice hard sauce. 
A Cup of Coffee. 

Coffee is far more delicious when made 
with egg than it is without. One egg to a tea- 
spoonful of ground coffee is about the right 
proportion for rich extract, but less than this 
can be easily used, by adding a teaspoonful 
of cold water to a well-beaten egg, and using 
enough of this mixture to thoroughly wet the 
ground coffee. Beat an egg thoroughly, add 
two tablespoonfuls of cold milk ; pour this 
mixture into a pint of boiling milk, let scald 
but not boil. Try this when you have no 
cream for breakfast coffee. 
Quick Biscuit. 

Two cups flour, one tablespoonful mixed 
lard and butter, one cup milk, one heaping 
tablespoonful baking powder, pinch salt. 
Handle little, roll out, cut quickly, bake in a 
steady oven. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. MELLEN, 571 Main St., 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 



* NOW IS YODR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

Clafliu*s beet Cabinet Photogrraphii, 9S a doz. 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FRAMES RE-OILDED. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 Foster Street, Opp. Rink, Worcester, Mass. 

* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.* 

Office, First National Bank Building, 

■410 ivCaiia. St., T^T'orcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TAXMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Pictiare Frame M'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Eng^a¥lng:B, Etchings, and Art Ooo'Sls. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Park; St., Worcester. 
RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattrees of any grade 
or your old one made over, »end ua your order. 
We guarantee first-claes work. 

13 Rarlrc St., Worcester. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTU RE FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
230 Main St., Worcester, MaBS. 

TENEMENTS TO LET. 

124 Elm street, opposite Elm Park, three tenements, 7 
rooms each, hot and cold water, hard floors, gas lighted 
by electricity, finely finished, large store rooms. 

43 Russell street, overlooking Elm Park, two tene- 
ments, 5 rooms each, all modern improvements, store- 
rooms. Apply toC. W. BOWKER, 114 Elm street or 
1S7 F ront street. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, np one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOCK 

Which must be diposed of to make room for certain im- 
provements I intend making, and new stock I must buy. 

I find on the shelves of my store some $5,000 worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to fill up your libraries. 

The books I have, the money and the room I want. 
Call and look over the stock and have what you wish at 
almost your own price. 

GEO. L. SANFORD, 

rROlRlKTllR OF Till; 

Sanford & Company Bookstore, 

304 MAIN STKEKT. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours : 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m, 

Nliss H. Nl. PROCTOR, 

92 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



Fire Insurance ! 

EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



n/lNITOU 
QINQER 
Cn/inFflQNE 

Is acknowledged by all to be far superior 
to any imported ginger ale. 

Thousands of people who have visited the 
famous Manitou Springs testify to the supe- 
rior quality of the 

* n/iMiTou * 

QINQER * CMflnP/lQNE 

Ask your Grocer for it. 

LT.5niTniC0 

AGENTS. 



1.1(1 HT 

About the House. 



[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, I,u;iit, 339 Main street. 
Worcester, Mass.] 



*« In sewing it rests you to change your 
position frequently. 

*» The simplest method of loosening wall- 
paper is to start a large kettle of water boiling 
in the room. The dampness will soon loosen 
the paper, and it may be readily stripped off. 
If the boiling water is not a possibility, mop 
the paper all over with wet cloths, and leave 
the water to soak in, repeating the proce.ss 
many times until loosened. 

*jif Half a teaspoonful of sugar will nearly 
always revive a dying fire, and, unlike the few 
drops of coal oil which servants are so fond of 
using and which have caused so many sad 
accidents, is perfectly safe. 

% Tough beef is made tender by lying a 
few minutes in vinegar water. 

*» In washing all body linen, napery and 
bed linen the practice of soaking them for 
some hours in water in which bora.\ has been 
dissolved is a good one. Nor should clothing 
be boiled beyond fifteen or twenty minutes at 
the most. None but the best soaps ought to 
be used in any kind of washing, and after 
clothing has been rubbed in the first water, 
put loosely into the boiler, with plenty of 
water to scald it in. It should not require 
rubbing again in the sudsing water. 

*» Spots may be taken out of wash goods 
by rubbing them with the yolk of eggs before 
washing. 

% Flowers can be kept fresh for some time 
if a pinch of soda or saltpetre is added to the 
water. Wilted roses will regain their fresh- 
ness if dipped a moment or two in hot water. 

*, Sour milk would better be removed from 
a tin vessel as soon as possible, as it is never 
well to permit an acid to remain in a metal 
receiver. For this reason many people object 
to canning fruits in tins. 

*,t White spots upon varnished furniture 
will disappear if you hold a hot plate over 
them. 

% Physicians assert that the condition of 
the hair is an index to the health of the 
owner, that a scanty growth indicates im- 
paired vitality, that where the hair is tliick, 
glossy and rich in color, it indicates bodily 
vigor and health, and this is undoubtedly 
true. Another alleged cause for the scanty 
growth is the custom of keeping the head 
closely covered, and this is supported by the 
fact that the peasant women of Europe, who 
work all day in the fields with little or no 
covering to the head, have the most lu.vuriant 
growth of hair. It is quite probable that 
both of these hypotheses are correct. Cer- 
tainly the Breton peasant girl, toiling in the 
fields with tlie brawn of muscle and of endur- 
ance fully equal to that of her brother, enjoys 
a degree of health greatly superior to the 
larger portion of our country-women — although 
we are not quite prepared to adopt tliat form 
of life, no, not even for the sake of beautiful 
hair; but it is quite possible, by care and 
painstaking, to preserve and improve that 
which we have. 



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The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



How to Do It. 

Th^ifs wli.it we ilhislate the ci.ming week. 




Ice cream 

How to make It It home, lluw , 1> 1 

quickly— nicely— easily— is what .-= piut.uac vo ^liuw 
you for a few days.beginning Mon. June 23,bv a practi- 
cal demonstration of the merits of^ the Gem Freezer. 

Vou have been A'A/ what is best in this line many times. 
Come to our store any time during the week and see 
the Gem Freezer in practical operation and partake 
of the product. Samples of the most delicious free. 

A Little Bit of a Bargain. 

Nine Refrigerators a "little out of sorts''— with a 
bruised face or black eye— all right for use — not so 
pretty to look at, that's all— price for them will carry 
every one of them off this Saturday. Alaskas, of 
course, no other is good enough for us. 

What is the Best 

Material from which a water cooler can be made? 
Some say of galvanized iron, others with a por- 
celain or stone lining. We say for many reasons 
there is nothing so good as indurated fibre. Nothing 
about them breakable or jamable as cleanly as por- 
celain— and this for a certainty. They keep ice bet- 
ter than either. 

/Atytm^'n€£^ier' 

A Little Word About 

Florence Oil Stoves. They cost no more than any 
other. That's a point. Whether they are better or 
worse it seems a useless thing for us to say when you 
have known them so long and well. They are no 
better than they were last year. They are just as 
u'ood. One burner S5C., two burner Si. 70, three 
Burner J2.;;. 

Things You Must Have. 

I-ly traps 20c., fly killers 25C.. fly drivers loc. Ice 
cliippers, ice shavers, ice crushers, ice picks, i« 
cream scoops, ice cream dishes, picnic baskets, lunch 
baskets,folding camp stools, telescope drinkmg cups. 
Outfits for Camping Parties. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



15 



Of Dress and Dressing. 



uidnr 
Facts for Fine Costumes. 



*, It is always safest for women who do 
not know how to combine colors, or who are 
in doubt as to what shades harmonize well 
together, to select a silk as near as possible to 
the shade of the dress. 

*» Black grenadine is a revived material, 
which exactly suits the wants of middle-aged 
women. It is light, thin, cool, servicealjle, of 
good appearance, and not too juvenile. This 
year it has assumed a more elaborate appear- 
ance, for it has been woven with intricate 
borderings in shaded flowers and leaves like 
tapestry work. 

*, For evening gowns and for combining 
with other fabrics there could scarcely be 
anything better than the fine silk muslin, to 
be had in almost any colors. Some of the 
newer kinds are not only sold 'n plain colors, 
but also with indistinct stripes in contrast to 
the ground. Voila will be worn more and 
more as the season advances. Some very 
finely tinted heliotropes show up well in this 
and the vieux rose and bois de rose tints. 
Many gowns are now being made with the 
colored borders edged with interwoven fringe. 
*» Among the favorite combinations for the 
season are camel's-hair or cashmere with 
bengaline, gay plaid silks, or silks striped, 
dotted, or flower-strewn. When these combi- 
nations are made by an artist they are very 
effective; when they are the result of unedu- 
cated fancy they are positively grotesque. 

*# Now that the bustle is completely dis- 
carded in the fashionable world, an attempt is 
made by some modistes to restore the appear- 
ance of fulness in the back by folds, plaits 
and draperies of the bunched order. But the 
most beautiful dresses in the ultra-fashionable 
world are noticeable for their simplicity. For 
those to whom the severely straight lines of 
the Directoire style seem lacking in resources 
for picturesque results, polonaise styles are 
suggested, with a petticoat made upon the 
gown form, and a polonaise falling over it in- 
graceful lines. A most comfortable and ar- 
tistic suit can be made from light weight sum 
mer goods, like camel's hair for example, after 
this very desirable style. 

*« Cashmere is always much worn, and now 
it is to be had covered with a small vermicelli 
design all over, in fine cord, and is made up 
into most stylish gowns. 

*» In arranging the hair young girls turn it 
off the face over a roll, or wear it in soft 
curls over the forehead. At the back the 
hair is drawn up to the crown of the head, 
where it is formed into small knots, cuffs and 
rouleaux, and is generally thrust through with 



*»A most beautiful suit of green, suitable for 
carriage wear, calling, or the promenade, was 
recently made with a vest of wliite appliqued 
on green. White is introduced, whenever 
possible, into the more elaborate dresses of 
the season, and as it is universally becoming 
it is hoped that the innovation will gain in 
favor. 

*» The prediction that one and two-button 
gloves are again to be worn does not seem at 
all improbable when the rapidly increasing 
length of sleeves is taken into consideration. 



cn-A-^OTEi^ rv. 



Martha, Col. Harvey has just arrived from China, so this paper states. 

What takes him to China so often, I wonder? 

I hardly know, though I understand he has some business interests there. 

But he is in business here in New York, isn't he.' 

Yes; his firm are large importers. I should like to see the Colonel. 

Why don't you invite him to dine with us.' 

That's so ; I will. I'll stop at his office on my way down town this morning. 



Colonel, good morning. 

Why, Major, how do you do ? Come in, take a seat. Well, how are you ? 
Comfortable, thank you, comfortable. Saw your arrival in the paper this morning, so came 
in to invite you to dinner to day. But look here. Colonel, what is it that takes you to China so 
often. lam getting interested to know. Are you becoming an Oriental ? 

Ha! Ha! Not quite, Major. You see, I have established a branch house in 
Shanghai. We are importing natural Silks altogether now — Pongee. 
But why do you have to be there ? 

You see, the Pongee Silks are made in the Foo Chow districts, and brought to Shanghai 
to be marketed. In 'order to get control of the very best makes, I must be on the ground 
myself. 

What sort of mills do the Chinese have? 

These Pongee, or natural silks, are made by hand. No looms have ever been invented that 
imitates them. No bleaching process is used to weaken the fibre. The Chinese are remarka- 
bly skillful in making these silks. 

Shouldn't think there would be enough of these silks used to make it pay you to run a 
house here and in China too. 

O, yes, indeed ; this silk is used in a great variety of ways, and we are headquarters for 
it all. I also import a large quantity of a certain choice grade of Pongee for a Corset 
manufacturer. 

For corsets? Who in the world uses it for corsets? 

The Worcester Corset Co., of Worcester. These people are the largest makers of fine 
corsets in the United States, and probably in the world. 
But is Pongee strong enough for corsets ? 
Bless you, yes ! Did your wife ever have a Pongee dress ? 
Yes. 

Well, did you ever know of her wearing it out ? 

No, that's so. Every little while I hear her say, "Dear me, I do wish I could wear out 
that Pongee dress of mine, so I could have a new one." 

That's it. Well, now, the Pongee I get for this corset house is a fine grade, made by 
certain weavers in the upper Foo Chow district. I am extremely careful in selecting the stock 
for this house, for they are very particular. 

True, it is an exacting business, but I like it on that very account. I enjoy bringing out 
fine goods. That is why I am so particular with this corset house. They keep calling for 
better goods. They want the BEST. So I have to be very careful to keep the standard up, 
and watch my weavers. This Worcester Corset Co., since they began to import through me, 
have more than doubled their business with me each year. Why, yes, their import this year is 
more than THREE TIMES that of last year. 
This corset concern must do a large business. 

O, they do. They have a large branch in Chicago, and a retail store in Worcester. 
But they don't use Pongee exclusively, do they ? 

O, no ; but they make eight or nine styles of Pongee. Their No. 608 alone is made in 
four lengths. They are without doubt the most popular corset on the market to-day, judging 
from the quantity of silk used. 

Well, Colonel, I have been greatly entertained, but I must hasten on. Remember, you are 
to dine with us to-day. 



DR. CONANT'S 

* COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS ^^ 

ALSO 

Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths are a luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours, 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 to ^ and 7 to 9 p. m. M KS. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 24'A .School Street, Worcester, Mass. 

It you want » piano that will last a life-time, 
get the celfl>r:it.-il 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSE^^ 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAMS & SON. 

H.WE VOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 

ONLY 1SI.5. ■RATSJTOQ'? ONI,T »15. 

ONIY S15. lD.rt.lN J V-'O.'^ ONLY »ir>. 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's i Music i House, 

43 PLEASANT STREET. 

ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing^ a Specialty. 

NO. 32 PEARL STREET. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DE,\LERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 



"Phone" 45-3. 



S. H. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



NEW KODAKS I! 



"You press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles and Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THE EASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. BOCHESTEK, N. Y. 




L I (I H T 

You Needn't Laugh. 

It Took Time. 

Ml.ss Fa.v.w :— Mr. De .Smith, I do not l)e- 
lieve you love me truly. 

Gus De .Smith ;— That's where you are 
fooling yourself, Miss Fanny. My love for 
you is not a passion that comes anil goes. It 
has taken me five years to persuade myself 
tliat I really love yo\x.— Ti:riis Sif tings. 
No Sleep in Ten Days. 

Smart :— I haven't slept for ten days. 

Woolen : — Not for ten days. 

Smart:— Not a wink. 

Wooden : — Why, man, how do you keep 
up? 

Smart :— Oh, I sleep nights instead. 
Paternalism. 

Census Taker (with his little list) :— Have 
you any children, madam .' 

Madam :— Two girls. 

"Black, white, octoroon, Indian, Chinese, or 
Japanese.'" 

"Sir!" — A^cw York Sun. 
The Eyes Have It. 

Widow: — Now, my dear sir, promise me 
your vote on this bill ? 

C0NGRE.SSMAN : — But, my dear madam, 1 — 

Widow: — Now look me in the eye and 
promise. 

CoxGRES.S-MAX: — Madam, the eyes have it. 
Not Quite a Fool. 

"How do you manage to find your way 
across the ocean ?" said a lady to a sea captain. 
"Why, by the compass. The needle always 
points to the north." "Yes, I know. But 
what if you wish to go south ?" — Pittshiirg 
Dispatch. 
What Broke Up the Assembly. 

Si'UD.wvay: — It's astonishing what these 
sleight-of-hand men can do. I saw Professor 
Blitzen once spin an ordinary top upside 
down on a ceiling for fifteen minutes. 

Blinker : — That was a mere trick. I knew 
a man in Utica that could dance for half an 
hour on top of a picket fence. 

JlME.s (contemptuously): — That's nothing. 
Old Dave Persimmons, down in Lee town- 
ship, could put a black walnut between two of 
his toes and crack it. 

Griffu.m (with a sneer) : — Do you call that 
strength? Jeff Chitwood, a fellow I used to 
know down on Crooked Creek, could balance 
a blacksmith's anvil on his nose. I've seen 
him do it many a time. 

SwiLK : — I don't doubt it a bit. I got on a 
north side cable car yesterday. Took a 
transfer at Diversey street. Car was right 
there — didn't have to wait a second — 

Spudawav, Blinker, Jimes and Griffum 
(vociferously) : — That's a lie ! — Cliicago 
Tribune. 



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^ $399 ' 
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G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S., 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 

518 IVIain «t., Worcester. 
(I^=EIevator. 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FIJK I..\1IIF.S AND CHII.IIKKN ONLY. 

S.'ia Main Street, Corner Maple, Worcester, Mass. 

IEi*"Oflice hours— 9 to 12 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 

ment at the homes of patients by appointment i f desired. 

BELLE E. BROWN, 

S3S 3tv4:a,in. St., 
F^asliionaljle Millinery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss lirown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long experi- 
ence m this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of s atisfaction. 

Worcester Select Sdiool of Shorthand and 
T.ipewritinK. 

44 Front Street (Room 36), Worcester, June 21, '90. 
Business Men ,>/ Worcester: 

Gentlemen— If you have no stenographer, why not 
come up to our school (as others have done) and dictate 
your letters to the advanced pupils, and have them do 
the work neatly and quickly at reasonable rates.' If you 
wish a stenographer and tyi>ewriter, please come to us, 
as we may be able to supply your wants satisfactorily. 

Very respectfully. 
liEO. C. CKEEI.MAN. Principal. 

Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

Jiv^ass S. Xj. Xja,T«rTe3a.ce, 

ROOM 30, - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D B N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $S per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D K N T I S T 

EEl^Special attention given to the care of children's 
teeth. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a. ni.; i to 4 p. m. 

47 Park Street, Worcester, Mass, 
E. L. S U M N E R, 

g KROEGER&SONS S 
I WHEELOCK&CO. i 

379 Main St., Worcester, (Over Putnam & Thurs- 
ton's Kestaurant.) 

DR. KENISON, 

326 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Corns, Bunions and Bad Nails 
Treated Without Pain. 

Separate Rooms for Ladies and Gents. 

<»FFH K HOl'KS, 8 A. M. to 12, 1 to r, P. M. 



Mrs. Dr.Wm. Lee, 



Burnside Building. 
Room 5. 

Oflfice hours: q to 
12.30; 2 to 5. -Sun 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




2^ 

LADIES 

WHY WILL YOU 

Spend several months' time and work for 
what can be learned in a couple of days. 

Our new complete Taylor's System will cut 
any kind of dress or outside garment. Price 
55.00. Taught free from now to July 15, and 
also taught by appointment out of term. 

Open from 8 A. M. to 6 p. M. 

Wednesday and Friday until 10 P. M. for the 
benefit of those who cannot call during the 
day. 

IVIRS. L. Nl. SPRING, 

87 Orange S treet. 

* NEYER A HOUSE * 

With too many closets, or a chamber with 
too much drawer-room. The generous mod- 
ern Chiffonier is a joy to the housekeeper's 
heart. There are in our warerooms many 
new and very charming designs in Chiffon- 
iers, Drawing Cases, Bureaus, Bedsteads, 
and Chamber Furniture of all kinds, which it 
would give us pleasure to have you examine. 

EVERYTHING IN FURNITURE 

Is offered at moderate prices, and in great 
variety, by 

KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, D ah j-ati 



139 Friend Street, 



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LI (i HT 

Of Coming Things, 

Saturday, June 21. 

QuiNsiGAMOND PARK— Annual picnic, All Saints 
Sunday-school. 

WooDLAWN Grove— Union picnic. Christian En- 
deavor Societift of Pilgrim, Piedmont, Main street 
Baptist, Old South Churches, and Church of Christ. 
Dummy at 9.35. 

Sunday, June 22. 

First Baptist CHimrH — Baccalaurate sermon be- 
fore class of '90, Worcester Academy, preached by Presi- 
dent Andrews of Brown University. 7 p.m. 

Plymouth Church— Rev. Joel Swartz, D. D., of 
Gettysburg, Pa., preaches. 10.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. 
Monday, June 23. 

Horticultural Hall— First of Mr. Walter Scott 
Kennedy's closing recitals. 8 p.m. 

Grace Church. — Worcester Methodist Social 
Union. Meeting and banquet. 7 p. m. 
Tuesday, June 24. 

Horticultural Hall— Second of Mr. Kennedy's 
soirees. 8 p.m. 

All S >ints Church— Vinton-Freedley nuptials. 
12 m. 

Old South Church— Meeting ofWorcester Union, 
Voung Peoples' Societies of Christian Endeavor. Ad- 
dress by Rev C. M. Southgate, delegate to the St. Louis 
convention. 745 p.m. 

Wednesday, June 25. 

Association Hall— Recital by pupils of Mr. George 
N. Morse and Miss Edith L. Smith. 7.45 p.m. 

Polytechnic Institute Campus— Class Daye.\- 
ercises, class of '90. 2 p.m. Salisbury Laboratories — 
reception by the class. 4 to 7 p.m. 

Worcester Academy— Commencement exercises. 
10 a.m. 

Horticultural Hall— Last of Mr. Kennedy's 
soirees 8 p m. 

Bay State House — .\nnual reunion. Polytechnic 
Alumni. Business, 6 p.m. ; banquet, 8 p.m. 
Thursday, June 26. 

Mechanics Hall— "A Night in Camp" festival; 
by Worcester City Guards. 8 p. m. 

Poly'technic Institute — Commencement exer- 
cises. Boynton Hall, 9.30 a.m. ; Association Hall, 
7,45 P ni. 

Horticultural Hall— First of Mr. Ben T. Ham- 
mond's closing recitals. 8 p.m. 

State Normal School — Graduation e.xercises, 
26th and 27th classes. Reading of theses, 9.30 a.m.; 
valedictory addresses, and anniversary address by Mrs. 
Alice Freeman Palmer, ex-president of Wellesley col- 
lege, 2.15 p.m. 

Friday, June 27. 

Horticultural Hall— Mr. Hammond's closing 
recitals. 3 and 8 p.m. 




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The Lincoln Square Baptist Church people 
are among the first to visit Waushacum, from 
Worcester, this year. They had their picnic 
last Wednesday. 

The Washingtons opened their Lake house 
Wednesday evening with a hop, which was 
enjoyed by a large party. 

A flag raising at the school house at Jeffer- 
sonville, last Saturday, brought out a lot of 
patriotic sentiment. Rev. Calvin Stebbins, Mr. 
Cyrus G. Wood and Capt. A. A. White made 
addresses. 

Rev. Alexander H. \inton and Rev. Dr. 
William R. Huntington, now of Grace Church, 
New York, are among the clergymen who will 
be present at the laying of the corner-stone of 
St. John's Episcopal Church in Athol, next 
week. 

The strawberry is still on top— of the short- 
cake, and the South Unitarian people gave a 
large number of people an opportunity to 
sample it, at Pilgrim Hall, last Tuesday even- 
ing. 



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WORCESTER, MASS. 



Out and About. 



The daddies of Worcester will recall the 
glorious old days of the one-ring circus, where 
there were two lady riders, a clown who was 
really funny, a couple of bare-back riders, a 
half-dozen vaulters, one band, and no me- 
nagerie. 

To-day is the day of circus-trusts as well 
as the day of sugar-trusts. The big circus 
has three rings, a hippodrome track, five or six 
hundred people, three or four shows in one, 
which so aggravate the multitude that they 
don't enjoy any one of them, trying to see 
them all at once. Such is the greed for getting 
the whole of one's money's worth. 



Then there is the menagerie which was put 
in to help make the show gigantic and afford 
reasonable excuse for millions of pas and 
mas who take the children just to see the ani- 
mal.s, and yet crowd close up to the circus ring 
where the painted girl jumps through a hoop 
of painted fire. 

Circus day is a great day, even in Wor- 
cester. Musical Worcester, artistic Wor- 
cester, religious Worcester, New Worcester 
South Worcester, the West .Side of Worcester, 
with all the towns around the county circle 
lay down their common fifty cents to see the 
"greatest show on earth." 



There is as much of a menagerie outside the 
circus tent as there is inside. A sort of con- 
glomeration of human samples, sampling 
everj'thing, from eye-feasting to pink lemonade 
guzzling. 

The circus ground is certainly cosmopolitan. 
"Alike the brown and wrinkled fist, the gloved 
and dainty hand," with the wrinkled fist get- 
ting a little ahead every time. 



The study of natural history is to be recom- 
mended, and the young particularly should be 
allowed to see the "animals of all nations." 
It is indeed sad to see able-bodied women 
and stronger-bodied men fairly yanking the 
innocent children along through the menagerie 
in the mad rush to get a front seat in the big 
circus tent. 



The excuse for going to the circus to take 
the children to see the animals is about as 
thin as the excuse for not going to church be- 
cause the meeting-house is so near that one 
doesn't get the exercise of a walk in going 
to it. 



There is nothing very bad about going to a 
circus, except the encouragement given in 
supporting those people who are willing to 
risk life and limb, and who are not likely to 
lead any better nor more moral lives than a 
great many people who never go to the circus. 



If it is wrong to go the circus, it is certainly 
worse to harness up, pile the children into the 
carry-all, and drive five miles to see the free 
street parade. 

Square above-board wrong-going is far 
better than peeking between the blinds to see 
the bad show go by. 



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Population in 1880, 400; In 1890, 25,000. 

Cordially tender you, and any of your friends, an invitation to see our prosperous City, and 
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BEDFORD CITY is a flourishing city of 4000 inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk & 
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electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It industries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing §100.000, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
of building a $75,000 hotel, and a railroad station to cost $40,000. 



This is a Good Investment ! 



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Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1890. 



No. 18 



Notwithstanding that our system of edu- 
cation is far ahead of the educational plan of 
years ago, and that the grade of intellectual 
attainment is approaching the apparent limit 
of human mind possibility, and further that 
liberal education is becoming popular and 
general, it is a statistical fact that during the 
last fifty years the number of college students 
has not kept pace with the increase of popu- 
lation. There are, of course, more college 
graduates, but not enough to make up for the 
stupenduous increase in population. To ac- 
count for this is a difficult task. It has been 
said that the decline in the proportionate num- 
ber of college men is partly due to the un- 
business like methods of college management, 
a number of the college presidents and other 
officers being worn-out clergymen or other 
professional gentlemen who know more in the 
inside than they are able to bring to the sur- 
face, to impart to the listening student. A 
stronger reason is, perhaps, that shrewd busi- 
ness men appear to have no increased respect 
for the college bred man over that given to the 
one who has received a thorough common 
school education. It is not what the college 
does for the man while he is in college, it is 
what it gives him to take into the practical 
world of business trade and lousiness pro- 
fession, which will enalile him to earn his 
living, and a little over. So long as the col- 
lege professor and the college-made man hold 
themselves as a little better than those who 
have not been able to experience their edu- 
cational advantages, just so long will the solid 
business man refuse to recognize the ad- 
vantages of the discipline which the higher 
institutions of learning have given to their 
graduates. The practical things of this world 
and the college yards appear to live on differ- 
ent streets, instead of heartily meeting on the 
common ground of general good will to busi- 
ness and broad progression. 



Mr. George W. Childs is upon record as 
saying that the secret of success is "the doing 
good and being kind to others. It is so easy 
to set out right in this world, and to form 
character by training one's self to acts of 
generosity and kindness. Presently it becomes 
natural to do good and be unselfish." Mr. 
Childs is right, success in life depends almost 
entirely upon starting right, but Mr. Childs 
forgets to furnish rules which will enable a 
man or boy to always start in the right di- 
rection. A young man starting in business or 
professional life is like a locomotive on a single 
track with five hundred switch-branches in 
front of him. Like the locomotive, the young 
man has "steam up" and enough fuel to carry 
him any reasonable distance. To him, unless 
he has strongly formed ideas, all the branches 
seem to go towards equally good destinations. 
Nine-tenths of the failures of life would have 
been prevented had those who made failures 
been able to discover the business or profes- 
sion for which they were best fitted. Half the 



lawyers of to-day would have made better 
shoemakers, or hackmen for that matter; half 
the ministers know more about tlieology than 
they do about Christianity ; half the doctors 
would meet with more success shoeing a horse 
than they do in amputating an arm ; and 
some of the businessmen, striving for business 
fame and money, would have been of more 
benefit in the world had they taken up some 
profession. It is all very well for Mr. Childs, 
or for anybody else, to tell young men to start 
right, but what the young man wants to know 
is which is the right way, and nothing but an 
analysis of each individual case will be of 
any special use. The father and mother, if 
they have any intelligence whatever, can start 
the child correctly if they watch and study the 
child as they ought to do. The inability, or 
lack of interest, or rather love of inaction, on 
the part of a greater proportion of the fathers 
and mothers of to-day and yesterday, account 
for a large number of the failures which never 
would have occurred had the parents given 
even reasonable attention to the bringing up 
and starting out of their children. 



In Maine no-license has been in force for a 
considerable time. In the small Pine-Tree 
towns it has been more or less successful ; in 
the larger places, like I'ortland and Rangor, 
its enforcement has been the worst kind of a 
farce. When Worcester voted "No," both 
parties all over the country looked upon the 
result of the vote as a decisive answer to the 
ve.xed question of license or no-license. Wor- 
cester has had no open bars for two months, 
and the number of arrests for drunkenness 
during those months is about one-fifth of the 
number during the corresponding months of 
last year. No-license then has kept eighty per 
cent, of the former drinking men out of the 
lock-up. Without going further, these figures 
give the voters of no-license opportunity to 
present substantial evidence of the advantages 
of prohibition. To the city government, as 
well as to the voters, is due the success of no- 
license ; unenforced law is worse than no law 
at all. 

The staid business man may not believe in 
it, and many an enterprising merchant con- 
siders the volume of talk of about the consist- 
ency of wind, but for all that there never was a 
great thing done which was not the crystali- 
zation of a preamble of words, and many 
words, different words, and sometimes hot 
words. The Fourth of July oration may seem 
in these days rather stale, the snapping of 
fire-crackers and the booming of cannon may 
strike unpatriotic ears, but some of their 
noise keeps alive union and patriotism. Busi- 
ness is a serious thing, and actions more than 
words mean business and increase of business, 
but no business was ever great without its 
wheels were oiled with enthusiasm, and no 
man was ever prominent who did not love 
business generally as well as his own business. 



A city is known by its business men; the 
better the bu.sine.ss the better the homes; the 
more enthusia.stic the business men the more 
good fellowship, which coupled with com- 
petition makes business lively and progressive. 
The two liundred .solid Ijusiness men of 
Springfield, members of the River City's 
Hoard of Trade, broke bread together, re- 
cently, and every man applauded to the echo 
anything .said which might help Springfield. 
President Stone made a rousing speech, in 
which he said he believed in advertising 
Springfield, pu.shing Springfield, and booming 
Springfield in every possible way. With him 
it was "Springfield fir.st, the re.st of the worid 
afterward." The spirit of the meeting was for 
a thorough, organized Springfield boom. Wor- 
cester is twice the size of Springfield, her 
business men are as enterprising, as wealthy, 
and the volume of Worcester's business is 
probably twice as large as that of Springfield. 
LiCHT cannot teach Worcester business men 
their business, but Light can suggest, poor 
as the suggestion may be, that an organization 
of Worcester's men would materially assist in 
fostering friendly feeling, and could not do 
otherwise than make business brisker, and 
bring Worcester more prominently before the 
business world. Worcester business men be- 
lieve in advertising their goods, for the more 
tliey .idvertise their goods, the more they sell. 
The same correct business methods, which 
they give to their individual business, can be 
applied to legitimate methods of booming the 
healthiest, the largest, and the most beautiful 
country-city in Christendom. 



The Boston Law School annually turns out 
about as many embryo lawyers as there are im- 
portant cases in the docket ; in some towns 
there are only about fifty families to each 
physician ; in almost all cities there are twice 
as many clerks as there are vacancies, and 
opportunity for about one in forty reaching 
the position of manager or partner. The num- 
ber of doctors, lawyers, clergymen, managers 
and clerks is sufficient to supply the demand 
for several years. The trades are not full ; 
there is room for thousands of skilled me- 
chanics, engineers, draughtsmen, and in other 
trade-professions which require the application 
of skillful hands with the trained assistance of 
brains. The graduate of the scientific school 
seldom waits long for a business opening. 
What business wants to-day is not striped- 
trowsered dudes, but men who know how to in- 
telligently use their hands. 



Worcester presents her compliments to the 
Blackstone Valley, now that the sewage pre- 
cipitation works are "a-goin'," and hopes, as 
Mr. Edward Winslow Lincoln would say, that 
"the kine of indigent" — was it indigent ? — 
"manufacturers" may now be able "to dip 
their noses in a pellucid stream." Yes, thank 
you, Millbury: we are slow, up here; but we 
arrived on time. 




^^'77vi^b(t^STER>\A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy, 
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F. E. KENNEDY, Publisher. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 

Telephone No. 141-5. 



Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 



Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title pagre. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopedia. 

Worcester, Saturday, June 28, 1890. 

Light Sent Out of Town. 

Subscriters to Light who leave the city during the 
summer can have their papers sent to any address they 
may desire, and changed as often as wanted. Buyers of 
Light can have any issue or number of issues mailed to 
them by paying the usual price per copy, five cents. 

Light for next week will be issued on Friday morning, 
in order that its employes may observe the Fourth in a 
becomingly patriotic manner. 



About Folks. 



I.I(iHT 

usually plays the part, was unable to appear. 
It is quite likely no one in the audience 
noticed anything unusual in her appearance in 
the part, but the members of the company 
watched every move and listened to every note 
of the fair singer. Behind the curtain she was 
complimented on every hand. And they were 
doubtless happy moments to her when the 
audience called on her to respond to three 
well-deserved encores. Miss Pevear possesses 
a strong, sweet soprano voice and a good 
figure for the stage. These, it is hoped, will 
make her fame and fortune." Mrs. Gould has 
received some flattering offers for next season, 
among others the principal part in the new 
play to be brought out by Henry E. Dixey. 
Her success on the stage is not unexpected, 
but her Worcester friends are not less pleased 
to hear of it. 

Mr. Edmund S. Barton, librarian of the 
American Antiquarian Society has returned 
from a pleasant trip to the Adirondacks. 

The residence of Mr. Charles E. Lincoln, at 
Barber's Crossing, was a blaze of glory, Mon- 
day evening, when about 100 friends of his 
daughter, Miss Luta Belle Lincoln, took poss- 
ession by storm and presented Miss Luta with 
an elegant gold watch and chain, the presenta- 
tion speech being made by Mr. Robt. S. Sweet- 
ser of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
The occasion was the graduation of Miss Lin- 
coln from the Normal School. The B. S. 
Club presented her with an elegant stand of 
white flowers, with the letters B. S. in red in 
the center. A splendid banquet was served 
later in the evening. 



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of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 

June 28: Sun rises at 4.10 A. m. ; sets at 
7.25 P.M. Length of day 15 hours, 15 minutes. 
Full moon, July 2, 9 hours, 23 minutes, morn- 
ing, W. 

Mr. James Mahony, a teacher in the High 
School in 1885-6-7, and now an instructor in 
the Boston Latin School, came up to Worces- 
ter last Thursday and paid the High School a 
visit. Old fellow-teachers and former pupils 
were glad to have his cordial handclasp again. 

Mrs. Helen Pevey Gould has returned to 
her home for the summer. She has had a 
brilliant season in opera, having been one of 
the principal sopranos of the Henderson Opera 
Company, which had the western rights to 
Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera, "The Gondo- 
liers." She returned home before the season 
ended, having met with an accident by falling 
on the stage, followed by a severe illness. She 
is not able to leave the house and it will be 
some time before she will be strong enjugh to 
travel again. A Minneapolis paper says: 
"Miss Helen Pevear made her debut to a 
Minneapolis audience at last Wednesday's 
matinee in Gianelta, the leading female part in 
"The Gondoliers " Some weeks ago she had 
been assigned the often thankless task of 
understudying the part, and just before the 
curtain went up Wednesday she was asked to 
get ready and go on, as Miss Reed, who 



Mr. Edwin G. Longley, of the wholesale 
department of Macullar, Parker & Co., Bos- 
ton, is visiting his brother, Mr. Edward E. 
Longley. 

The Worcester people who attended the 
Harvard Class Day exercises were Mrs. 
Charies F. Washburn, Miss Miriam Wash- 
burn, Master Arthur Washburn, Hon. Edward 
L. Davis, Misses Lillie and Theresa Davis, 
Mrs. W. E. Rice, Miss Christine Rice, Col. 
and Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, Mr. Robert S. 
Baldwin, Misses May and Alice Baldwin, Miss 
Mabel Crawford and Miss Cora J. Goodwin. 
At the Yale-Harvard ball game, which Har- 
vard won by a score of 4-3, there were present : 
Mrs. Reuben Colton, Miss Georgie Stone, 
Miss Mary Eaton, Misses May and Alice 
Baldwin, Miss Gertrude Wood, Miss Walker 
of Jamaica Plain, Miss Christine Rice, Miss 
Clarissa W. Smith, Mr. Charies F. Aldrich, 
Messrs. Harry W. and Will L. Smith, Mr. 
George A. Stearns, Jr., Miss Nellie W. Curtis 
and Miss Mabel J. Stone. Quite a number of 
Worcester people will probably attend the 
decisive game of the Yale-Harvard series, to 
be played at Springfield to-day. 

Mr. G. W. Ingalls and family have gone to 
Monument Beach for the summer. 



Mr. Ben T. Hammond's closing recitals 
took place at Horticultural Hall, Thursday 
and Friday, a large number of pupils appear- 
ing to excellent advantage. Thursday even- 
ing. Miss Emily G. Whittemore and Miss 
Mary L. Starr and Mr. B. D. Allen, pian- 
ists, assisted, and the pupils appearing were 



Mr. D. Walter Rolston, Miss Mary E. Cody, 
Miss Anna L. Smith, Mrs. Lottie S. Lander, 
Mr. John B. Ratigan, Miss Jessie L. Pond, 
Miss Mary E. McLaughlin, Mr. DeWitt 
Morey, Mrs. Charles E. Munroe, Miss Nellie 
H. Lovell, Miss Teresa Larkin. Friday after- 
noon Miss Agnes Mannix was the pianist, the 
pupils appearing being Miss Mary A. Milnes, 
Miss Kate V. Clifford, Mr. Ralph C. Knapp, 
Miss Cora L. Fisher, Miss Lizzie H. Norton, 
Mr. Harry C. Robinison, Miss Emma Fay, 
Miss Hallie E. Battey, Miss Neally Rounds, 
Mr. C. Clarkson Kenyon, Miss Emma L. Wil- 
lard. Miss Kate E. Carberry, Miss Nellie T. 
Foley, Mr. Frank N. Prescott, Miss Louise 
Midgley, Miss Sara Dorrington. Last even- 
ing, Mrs. S. E. Lawton, harpist, Mr. Charles 
H. Grout, pianist, and Mr. Walter G. Ingalls, 
organist, assisted, and the pupils to appear 
were Miss Eva M. Martin, Mr. Lucius W. 
White, Miss Lilla B. Houghton, Miss M. 
Annie Warren, Mr. Mortimer Howard, Miss 
Agnes B. Gallagher, Mr. Eugene A. O'Con- 
nor, Miss Maud Knowlton, Mr. Addison E. 
McGaffey, Miss Agnes Mannix. After the 
recital Mr. Hammond gave an informal re- 
ception, entertaining his pupils and their 
friends in a delightful way. 



Miss Mary Baker, a graduate of Worcester 
High School and now an instructor in St. 
Mary's School at Concord, N. H., is at home 
with her aunt, Mrs. W. B. Chamberlain. 

President Fuller, of the Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, attended, last week, the commencement 
exercises of two institutions, of each of which 
he is a trustee, Gushing Academy at Ash- 
burnham, and St. Johnsbury Academy at St. 
Johnsbury, Vermont. Dr. Fuller was formerly 
principal of the latter institution. Dr. Fuller 
also gave the address at the State Normal 
School at Westfield, last Tuesday, his subject 
being "The Obligations of Educated Men and 
Women to Their Fellows." 



Miss Maria Broad, now living in Natick, 
has been spending the week with friends in 
this city. 

A choral wedding is a novelty in Worcester, 
and the marriage of Miss Ida Welles Vinton 
to Mr. Angelo Tillinghast Freedley, of Phila- 
delphia, at All Saints Church, last Tuesday, 
was a notable event. The church was beauti- 
fully decorated with flowers. Mr. S. B. Whit- 
ney, organist of the Church of the Advent, Bos- 
ton, presided at the instrument, and the music 
throughout was very beautiful and impressive. 
The "Wedding Hymn" of Keble, selections 
from "Lohengrin," the Mendelssohn march 
and other selections were rendered. The brides- 
maid was Miss Tyler of Philadelphia, the 
best man being Mr. James V. Ingham, also 
of the Quaker City, and the bride was given 
away by her brother, Mr. Marion A. Vinton of 
New York. The ceremony was performed by 
Rt. Rev. Bishop Paddock, assisted by 
the bride's brother. Rev. Alexander H. 
Vinton. The ushers were Mr. George T. 
Dewey, Messrs. C. Hartman Kuhn, Charies 
M. Lea and Sidney W. Keith of Phila- 
delphia, Mr. Henry A. Peckham of 
Albany, N. Y., and Mr. H. Vinton Hayes of 
New York. The bride wore heavy corded 
white falle, trimmed with old point lace, a 



family heirloom. The veil, also of old point 
lace, was caught in front by a sun of diamonds, 
and pearl and diamond ornaments were worn. 
The bride carried a bouquet of brides roses 
and lilies of the valley. Miss Tyler wore 
crepe of light green, bonnet matching, trimmed 
with pink roses. After the ceremony, a wed- 
ding breakfast at the residence of Kev. Mr. 
\'inton, 13 .Ashland street. Mr. and Mrs. 
Freedley will go abroad and will then reside 
in rhiladelphia. Worcester society was 
present en masse at the wedding. 



Mr. George C. Burrage leaves Worcester 
next Tuesday for Chautauqua, N. Y., where 
he will spend the summer in company with 
college friends. 

Mr. Walter Scott Kennedy's closing soirees 
were given at Horticultural Hall, on Monday, 
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Mr. 
Kennedy played the accompaniments, and the 
pupils taking part were : On Monday evening, 
Mrs. Holohan, Miss Collins, MissLayng, Miss 
Barrett, Miss Gore, Miss Hatch, Mrs. Wood, 
Miss Phetteplace, Mrs. Chadbourne, Mrs. 
Irwin, Mr. Flynn, Mr. Flagg, Mr. Harrington; 
on Tuesday evening, beside several of those 
named above, Mr. Howard, Miss Shorey, Mr. 
Watson, Mr. Dorris, Miss Blanchard, Miss 
Pevey ; on Wednesday evening, Mr. Snow, 
Mrs. Carrie King-Hunt, Mr. Howard, Miss 
Mack, Mr. Flynn, Mr. Flagg (harp accompani- 
ment by Mrs. Lawton), Miss Munroe, in 
Wagnerian selections, also Miss Collins and 
Mr. Chilson. 

Rev. L. H. Hallock, D. D., of Waterville, 
Me., is to preach at Plymouth Church, to- 
morrow, at 10.30 A. M. and 7.30 p. m. 



The wedding of Miss Martha Jennie .Alton 
and Mr. Walter Lincoln Brown, at the Main 
Street Baptist Church, Wednesday evening, 
was one of the charming events of the season. 
The pulpit was prettily decorated with flow- 
ers, and up to the altar the bridal party pro- 
ceeded. Dr. George O. Ward and Mr. W. E. 
Norcross, ushers, leading, followed by the 
maids of honor. Miss Mabel S. Wicks, Miss 
Alice Rose Brown and Miss Mabel Herrick, 
of Lynn, then Miss M. Lizzie Norcro.ss, the 
bridesmaid, the bride ccompanied by her 
father, Mr. John N. Alton, and ushers, Mr. 
Frank W. Ward and George M. Coe. The 
groom and best man, Mr. Frank S. C. Wicks, 
were in waiting, and Rev. C. H. Pendleton 
uttered the words which made the two one. 
Mr. C. P. Morrison was organist. The bride 
wore a dress of white faille silk, en traine, 
with pearl trimming, white gloves and a veil 
of tulle. On her head was a wreath of white 
roses and in her hand a bouquet. Miss Nor- 
cross wore pink faille silk, princess style, point 
lace trimming, pink gloves and white roses. A 
reception in the church parlors followed, Mr. 
and Mrs. Alton and Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Brown, 
with Miss Norcross, receiving with the bride 
and groom. A large number of friends were 
present to offer the wannest of congratulations 
and the sincerest of good wishes. Mr. and 
Mrs. Brown are off on a honeymoon trip and 
on returning are to reside at 3 Nor- 
wood street. Those present at the wed- 
ding and reception included Mr. and Mrs. 



ly I (j H T 

G. W. Herrick of Lynn, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence 
Kincaid of South Gardiner, Me., Mr. J. II. 
Brown of New York, Miss Maud Kincaid of 
Lewiston, Me., Miss Gertrude Woolworth of 
Clinton, N. Y., Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Houghton, 
and George Houghton, and Miss Marion 
Eaton of Natick, Mrs. Entwistle of Ports- 
mouth, N. H., Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Breed, Mr. 
Myer Hirchberg and Mr. Simon Hirchberg of 
Boston, Mrs. Reed of Braltleboro, Vt., Mr. 
and Mrs. A. S. Winter and Mr. A. J. Winter, 
of Millbury, and of home people, Hon. and 
Mrs. Joseph H. Walker, Dr. and Mrs. H. Y. 
Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Norcro.ss, 
Prof, and Mrs. D. W. Abercrombie, Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel Mawhinney, Mrs. Cliarles H. 
Pendleton, Mrs. Willard Ward, Mr. and Mrs. 
W. E. Howe, Mr. and Mrs. John Peacock, 
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. 
Guild, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Overholser, Mr. 
and Mrs. H. B. Swart, Mr. and Mrs. J, W. 
Gray, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Harrington, Mr. 
and Mrs. C. F. Marston, Mr. and Mrs. H. 
Cady, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Wicks, Capt- 
and Mrs. Frank E. Goodwin, Mrs. C. A. 
Streeter, Miss Mabel C. Streeter, Miss May 
Upham, Miss Anna B. Collier, Mr. Clifford 
Johnson, Mr. Arthur J. Bean, Mrs. William J. 
Eddy, Mrs. Harrison P. Eddy, Mr Walter 
Knowles, Miss Carrie Knowles, Miss A. Maud 
Dodge, Mrs. E. R. Ware, Mr. L.E.Ware, Mr. 
and Mrs. Churchill, Miss Fannie Churchilh 
Miss Florence Churchill, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. 
Durkee, Mr. Samuel L. Durkee, Miss Martha 
Ward, Miss Ida Peacock, Miss Florence Pea- 
cock, Mr. J. F. Stone, Dr. Arthur Y. Greene, 
Miss Mae Montgomery, Mr. Will W. Lewis, 
Miss Addie M. Goulding, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. 
Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Walker, Mrs. 
W. B. Gage, Mrs. George W. Harlow. 



Miss M. Lizzie Holbrook and Clementine 
A. Sheldon have just been graduated from the 
State Normal School at Westfield. 



Mr. Frank A. Whipple, formerly of the 
Polytechnic Institute, and now with Darling 
Brothers, is at Westfield, where that firm is 
at work on the new building for the State 
Normal School. 

The Winslow Tennis Club seems likely to 
get to playing soon, now. Grounds have been 
secured on Pleasant street, between Russell 
and North Merrick, and the committee in 
charge has begun work on them. It is hoped 
to have the courts ready for a formal opening 
on the Fourth. The South End Raccjuet 
Club has given up the lot at the corner of 
Charlotte and Woodland streets, and is nego- 
tiating for another piece of ground. 



Mr. Albert S. Allen's music pupils gave a 
very pleasing recital at Gorham's music rooms, 
yesterday afternoon. 



On Wednesday afternoon and evening oc- 
curred the installation of Rev. Almon Gunni- 
son, D.D., as pastor of the First Universalist 
Church. Dr. A. A. Miner, of Boston, deliv- 
ered a sermon in the afternoon, and in the 
evening the formal installation took place, the 
church being handsomely adorned with 
flowers and well filled with members of the 
church and friends from abroad. Rev. C. H. 
Eaton, D.D., of New York, preached the ser- 



mon, which was of an exceedingly brilliant 
nature. The address of welcome was cordially 
given by Rev. K. A. (Iray, pa.stor of All Souls 
Church. Congratulatory remarks were made 
by Rev. James Pullman, of Lynn, and Rev. 
Dr. E. L. Rexford, of Boston. 



A special musical service on the subject of 
Christ's resurrection and ascension will be 
given at Pilgrim Church to-morrow evening. 
The choir of about forty voices will be a.ssisted 
by Mr. Frederic Howard, baritone, and Mrs. 
George A. Bigelow will also sing a .solo. A 
fine program will be presented. 



Mr. B. D. Allen's pupils are to give recitals 
next Monday afternoon and evening, at his 
studio, 173 Main street. 

Mrs. Col. Horton, and Miss Lucy Horton, 
of Buffalo, are guests of Mr. E. C. Newcomb. 



Mr. Chas. B. Chamberlain returned to Bos- 
ton last Saturday. 

Miss Grace M. Bigelow returned yesterday 
from Miss Salisbury's school at Pittsfield. 



Worcester people are glad to know of the 
honor shown Mr. Charles E. Fish, in his se- 
lection to be principal of the Phillips Exeter 
Academy, though they will regret to have him 
leave the city and his excellent school for 
boys. 

Miss Alice W. Norcross of the High School 
class of '90, has been graduated from Mrs. 
Mead's Hillside Seminary at Norwalk, 
Conn. Miss Norcross was valedictorian of 
her class and goes to Wellesley in the Fall. 



Principal Roe of the High School attended 
the re-union of the class of '70, at Wesleyan 
L'niversity, last Monday. 



Mrs. Edward E. Longley, of Cedar street, 
has developed decided talent in porcelain 
decoration, and has produced many exquisite 
designs in vase and tea-set adornment. Mrs. 
Longley's work shows the result of a natural 
taste and ability rarely met with. 



Rev. C. F. Burroughs, pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church, Wiscasset, Maine, is visit- 
ing his cousin, Mr. George C. Dewhurst, of 
Wyman street. 

A. W. Edson, A. ^L, of Worcester, is mana- 
ger of the School of Methods, at the Martha's 
Vineyard .Summer Institute. 

Mr. C. W. Reed, of this city, sang at the 
graduating exercises of West Boylston High 
School, on Friday of last week. 

Miss Etta Goddard, who has been visiting 
Mrs. Asa Allen in Holliston, returned home 
early this week. 

Rev. Charles Wadsworth, Jr., was married 
last week, in Philadelphia, to Miss Agnes 
Elmira Wood, a daughter of Mr. Thos. Wood. 



Worcester people who attend the Chautau- 
quan gathering at Lake View, South Framing- 
ham, every year, are planning for the coming 
session. It begins July 15 and continues ten 
days. 



More Friend Than Master. 



For ten years past a man has presided over 
the educational destiny of the youth of Wor- 
cester who have improved the highest oppor- 
tunities that Massachusetts offers in her com- 
mon pubHc schools, and it would be strange 
indeed if he could come to the end of that de- 
cade of uninterrupted service, without winning 
either the disapproval or the warm esteem and 
respect of those whose children had been en- 
trusted to his charge. In the case of Mr. 
Alfred S. Roe, the principal of Worcester 
High School, Light has no need to say that 
the latter is the case. 

Next Monday, Mr. Roe will preside for the 
last time over the school with which he has 
been so long identified. It is useless, in the 
compass allowed this article, to attempt to re- 
view the causes which have led to the severing 
of the ties that have bound him to pupils and 
teachers and all having to do with his work. 
It is useless to attempt, here, to mirror the 
sentiment of the community. But of Wor- 
cester's respect and regard for Mr. Roe, proof 
has already been given in the private and 
public expressions of the best men and women 
of Worcester, who have known him and 
watched his work for many years. They know 
that his influence upon the young people whom 
it has been his duty to instruct has always 
been good ; they realize that he has lived the 
life of a Christian man and an upright citizen ; 
they have been convinced that he has per- 
formed his duty to the city in a manner that 
sets him above reproach ; and they know, as 
their children have told them, that he has 
been to his pupils more a friend than a master. 
Light feels that this is an appropriate time 
to voice the general regard of the people for a 
man whose qualities of heart and head have 
been of such potent influence upon the com- 
munity. It cannot say of Mr. Roe half the 
kind things that it would be glad to say, or 
that its readers would like to have it say, for 
space is lacking; but it can, in a general way, 
show respect for his sterling virtues and ad- 
miration for his successful administration of a 
public office. 

Alfred Seelye Roe was born in Rose, Wayne 
County, New York, and is now in the prime of 
life. He and his people are New Yorkers, 
though the line goes back to the Mayflower. 
His father. Rev. Austin M. Roe, is a Metho- 
dist clergyman, and from his mother, Polly 
Seelye, he gets his middle name. They were 
Long Island people, and, indeed, Mr. Roe is 
the first of his family born off Long Island for 
seven generations. 

A Methodist minister, while he may not get 
on the grass, has to "keep moving," and so 
Alfred moved about in Northern New York, 
during his early boyhood, getting his edu- 
cation as he went. 

In i860, he entered Falley Seminary, at 
Fulton, N. Y., where he studied, with some 
interruption, for six years. 

The interruption which came to him was the 
call of his country. It was during the civil 
war. Mr. Roe was scarcely more than old 
enough to join the army when he enlisted in 
Company A, Ninth New York Heavy Ar- 
tillery, on the 2ist of January, 1864. The 
regiment, which was commanded by William 



I, I (i HT 

H. Seward, Jr., a son of the then Secretary of 
State, was ordered to the defenses about 
Washington, and was then made a part of the 
Sixth Army Corps, with which it fought until 
peace was proclaimed. It is given by Fox a 
place among the 300 "fighting regiments" of 
the war. 

When Jubal A. Early swept down upon 
Washington, the Sixth had something to say 
to him, and during the conversation, on the 
9th of July, 1864, Mr. Roe became a prisoner. 
He was imprisoned, for the most part at Dan- 
ville, \'a., until the 22dof February, 1865, when 
he was paroled. He rejoined his regiment, 
and on the 17th of October of that year was 
honorably discharged from the service. 

As a teacher, Mr. Roe began his career 
very young, occupying the position of school- 
master while many older than he were still in 
the student's bonds. When he left Falley 
•Seminary, in i865, he entered Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, at Middletown, Conn., and was gradu- 
ated therefrom in 1870, taking the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. He not only held an honor- 
able place in college, but worked his way 
through, by his own exertions. Three years 
after graduation he was given the degree of 
Master of Arts. 

In December, 1870, Mr. Roe went to Ash- 
land, in this state, where he taught school for 
five years. While in Ashland he met and 
married Miss Nora A. Metcalf. His family 
life has been an exceptionally pleasant one. 
Of four children three are living. 

In 1875, Mr. Roe came to Worcester, and 
entered the High School as a teacher of 
natural and political science and rhetoric, Mr. 
Joseph W. Fairbanks being then principal. 
Mr. Roe at once showed marked ability in the 
work assigned him, and won the confidence of 
those who were watching the progress of the 
school to such an extent that when Mr. 
Thurber, Mr. Fairbank's successor, stepped 
down from the principal's platform he 
was asked to take charge of the school. 
By a curious coincidence he became principal 
on the 29th of November, 1880, while he had 
entered the school as a teacher on the 29th of 
November, 1875. Mr. Roe continued active 
class work after becoming principal, having 
three recitations each day. When Mr. Joseph 
H. Perry became a teacher, he relieved Mr. 
Roe of the chemistry; and when Mr. John I. 
Souther came, he took the classes in physics. 
Mr. Roe has still continued, however, with his 
class of seniors in political economy and civil 
government. Beside this, he has had each 
year a class of boys preparing for the Poly- 
technic Institute, this involving a recitation in 
college mathematics and English, in the after- 
noon, a service which Mr. Roe has always 
cheerfully performed without compensation. 
Most of the Worcester boys in the Institute 
owe their ability to pass the rigid examinations 
to Mr. Roe's work with them. 

It would be hard to tell the whole story of 
Mr. Roe's ten years' work as principal of the 
High School. Every class that has been 
graduated since he was at its head has some 
reason of its own, as well as the many reasons 
which all the graduates have in common, for 
admiring and respecting him. Every graduate 
who did what he ought to do in the school, 
and many who did not wholly perform their 
part, can testify to being a better man or 



woman because of the influence he has had 
upon them. Mr. Roe has signed his name to 
over 700 diplomas, and that number of gradu- 
ates represents as many families and several 
times the number of individuals, who have had 
a vital interest in the school, lender his di- 
rection, 159 boys have successfully prepared 
for admission to the Polytechnic Institute. To 
Harvard, to Yale, to Cornell, to Williams, to 
Amherst, to Dartmouth, to Vassar, to Smith, 
to Wellesley, and to other colleges have gone 
scores of pupils who realize that because Mr. 
Roe was principal of Worcester High School 
they were set on the right road to greater 
wisdom. 

And Mr. Roe has taught his pupils, as they 
can never forget, something more than the 
mere x plus y equals z — the mere shell of 
education. He has taught them what good 
citizenship means, and how to live useful 
lives ; and he has made the school not a prison, 
but a delightful place, whence they went re- 
gretfully, not joyfully, away. 

It is due to Mr. Roe's suggestion that the 
walls and corridors of the building have been 
beautified. Very bare indeed they were when 
he first saw them. Now, every class has there 
some memorial to which the members return 
and say with pride, "This is our picture," or, 
"8 — gave this bust." When Mr. Roe went to 
the school, there were in the whole building 
19 busts and pictures; now there are no; 
consequently, 91 have been added. In the 
main hall alone, where there was none, twelve 
have been placed. Mr. Roe has been in, of 
and for the school, and when he leaves it, to 
those who have loved the school because of 
its pleasant associations, the best part of it 
will be gone. 

In his life as a citizen, Mr. Roe has been 
what he has been in his school — straight- 
forward, honest and everywhere respected. He 
is a member and has been for several years a 
trustee of Grace Church. He was for several 
years vice-president of the Worcester Co- 
operative Bank. He is an active member of 
Post 10, G. A. R., and of the Worcester So- 
ciety of Antiquity, before which he has read 
several very interesting papers. He is a 
member of the Society of American Folk- 
Lore, and frequently contributes to the 
society's journal. Mr. Roe became a member 
of the Masonic fraternity almost as soon as 
he reached the required age, having joined 
Rose Lodge, in his native town. He after- 
ward transferred his membership to North 
Star Lodge, at Ashland, and then transferred 
back to Rose Lodge. He is a member of the 
Worcester Masonic Mutual Relief Association. 
Mr. Roe is a man of no slight literary ability, 
and, indeed, has always found time to do more 
or less work with his pen. He is an indus- 
trious historical student, and in familiarity 
with general history probably has no superior 
in the city. Mr. Roe has written a history of 
his native town, which awaits the finishing 
touches before going to the printer. Houghton, 
Miftlin & Co. have published a work entitled 
"American Authors and Their Birthdays," 
which Mr. Roe prepared. He has also re- 
cently written a memorial of the late Austin 
Carey Field. Mr. Roe has for many years 
been sought after as a reader and as an orator, 
and in the latter capacity is called upon every 
year to deliver addresses on Decoration Day 



and at other times. Some of his addresses 
have been published. Notable among them is 
that which he delivered before the fifty-second 
annual convention of his college fraternity, 
Alpha Delta Phi, at Middletown, May 28, 
1884. It was an able reply to Charles Francis 
Adams's assault on (jreek, entitled "A College 
Fetich," Mr. Roe calling his address "Greek 
and Its Latest Critic." Other published ad- 
dresses which should be mentioned are those 
on "John Brown : a Retrospect," and "The 
Youth of the Rebellion," delivered before 
Post 10 in 18S3. This makes no account of a 
great deal of work which Mr. Roe has done 
for local and other newspapers. In 1876-7 he 
wrote daily editorials for the Syracuse Stan- 
dard. 

In politics, Mr. Roe is a republican, but his 
"partisanship" is not "offensive," from the 
fact that he believes in getting the best man 
for the place. He is a firm believer in no- 
license, and frequently speaks at temperance 
meetings. 

Something has been said of Mr. Roe's in- 
terest in and work for the High School ; but 
more pages than Light can command would 
be needed to tell the whole of what he has 
done. It was due to his efforts that the Wor- 
cester High School Association was organized 
in 1886. He has encouraged the debating 
societies which have been so great a lienefit to 
their members; he has arranged inexpensive 
excursions to the homes of famous men and 
memorable places, which have been a source 
of great profit to the pupils, and in every way 
possible has sought to do good among his 
pupils. 

The school itself has grown under Mr. Roe's 
management to be one of the largest single 
High Schools in the county, because he has 
won the confidence and respect of his pupils, 
and inspired in them a desire to make the 
most out of their school opportunities. 

Mr. Roe has held his position as principal 
four years longer than any other occupant of it. 
In forty-five years, since the school was organ- 
ized in 1845, it has had thirteen principals, or, 
really, fourteen, since one served at two differ- 
ent times. In twenty years, since 1S70, it has 
had five principals. Mr. Roe has held the 
position ten years ; the other ten years are di- 
vided among four of his predecessors. It is a 
striking commentary on Mr. Roe's success in 
the school. 

He leaves the principalship of the school 
with the blessings of hundreds of pupils, 
present and pa.st, to follow him forever, and 
the unspoken thanks of hundreds of parents 
as well. He has left upon the school and 
upon the city an impress which will never be 
effaced, and has proven himself a man of a 
thousand. 

Light speaks for the people of Worcester, 
in saying that none of her citizens deserves 
more honor or respect, or has more of the 
warm regard of the people. 

Mr. Richard M. Raymond, remembered for 
his fast walking as an amateur, while in the 
High School, is home from Yale Medical 
School for his vacation. "Dick" is wearing 
the blue in Mott Haven contests nowadays. 

Prof. George H. Haynes, of the Polytechnic 
Institute, is spending the summer at his home 
in Sturbridge. 



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Teachers' Vacations. 



It is hard work — that of teaching ; those 
who don't believe it will if they try it. But the 
teachers are given a long vacation ; if they 
didn't have it there might be no teachers. 
Appended are the vacation addresses of some 
Worcester teachers who will partake of ozone 
outside of the heart of the Commonwealth. 

High School— ^Jennie I. Ware, South Fra- 
mingham; Mary P. Jefts, Drewsville, N. H.; 
Benj. B. Holmes, Haverhill; Mary L. Bridg- 
man. South Amherst; Mary Trumbull, Sandy 
Hill, N. Y. ; Rachel L. Moore, Scarborough, 
Md.; Maud A. Dodge, Blue Hill, Me.; Sally 
H. Delano, Marion; Charles S. Merrick, 
Wilbraham; Helen M. Parkhurst, City; 
Prank L. Mellen, Brookfield; George B. 
Churchill, Natural History Camp; Miss Caro- 
line P. Townsend, Worcester, later, Amherst. 
Mr. Joseph H. Perry spends the summer in 
the employ of the United States Geological 
Survey in this State. 

Adriatic School — Emma A. Porter, Wal- 
tham. 

Ash Street — Sarah A. Boyd, Cherry Valley. 
Belmont Street — Tirzah S. Nichols, Auburn; 
Emma E. Hayward, Ashby. 

Blithewood School — Flora A. Strong, Starks- 
boro, Vt. 

Bloomingdale School — Jennie M. Fairbanks, 
H olden. 

Chandler Street — M. Ella Clark, Paris, 
France ; Kate E. Smith, Florence. 

Dix Street — James Jenkins, Martha's Vine- 
yard; Carrie L. Paige, Hardwick; Mary A. 
Hayward, Ashby; Anna T. Cavanough, Old 
Orchard ; Alice W. Giddings, West Brook- 
field. 

Edgeworth Street— Hattie L. White, Boyls- 
ton Centre ; Margaret Scott, Burlington, Vt. 

Freeland Street — Myra H. Baker, Phillips- 
ton. 

Gage Street — Ella W. Foskett, Brimfield; 
Nellie F. Saunders, Canton; Annie Brown, 
Nantucket; Marion C. Tucker, North Brook- 
field; Mary J. O'Connor, Clinton; Anna T. 
Kelley, Westboro; Kate J. Matthews, West- 
boro. 

Lake View — Susan R. Hartwell, Rochdale. 
Lamartine Street — Annie G. Thompson, 
West Falmouth ; Anna B. Collier, Detroit, 
Mich. 

Ledge Street— Charles C. Woodman, P'air- 
haven ; Emma L. Cowles, Amherst; Maria 
P. Cole, East Brookfield ; Carrie E. Howe, 
Paxton. 

Millbury Street— Elida M. Capen, Charlton 
Depot; Hannah Sheehan, Whitinsville; Hen- 
rietta M. Wright, East Templeton; Miriam F. 
Proctor, .Spencer ; FMla J. Lyford, Spencer. 

Oxford Street— Ella L. Dwyer, Grafton ; 
Catherine T. Nevins, Nantucket. 

Providence Street — Thomas J. Higgins, 
Lake \'ievv; Julia A. Bunker, Melrose. 

Quinsigamond School — Edith G. Loring, 
Southville; Sarah E. Earley, ijpencer; Mary 
J. Newton, Greenfield. 

South Worcester — Ellen M. Boyden, Bever- 
ley; Lydia W. Ball, Upton; Mary C. Paige, 
Hardwick. 

Sycamore Street— Janet Martin, Clinton; S. 
Lizzie Carter, Isle of Wight, N. Y. 
Summer Street— Alice Chapin, Auburn. 



Thomas Street— Annie B. Porter, Manches- 
ter N. H.; Clara H. Bemis, Spencer. 

Union Hill— Elizabeth McFarland, Saund- 
crsville. 

Valley Falls School— Cora J. Ball, Grafton. 

(Ireendale School— Annie W. Newell, Mill- 
bury. 

Wasliington Street— Charles T. Haynes, 
West P.oylston; Ida L. (iaskill, Blackstone. 

Winslow Street— Jessie M. Nichols.Erie, Pa.; 
Sarah M. Averill, Plainfield, Ct. ; Julia E. 
(Ireenwood, Presque Isle, Me.; Ella E. God- 
dard, Cottage City ; Gertrude E. Nash, North- 
field Farms; A. Cali.sta Hale, Hubbardston. 
Hattie Partridge, Niantic, Conn.; Mary 
Drake, Islesboro, Me. 

Woodland Street— Joseph Jack.son, l-.urope ; 
Ann S. Dunton, Barre; Mary M. Lawton, 
Providence, R. I.; M. Rosalie Goddard, Cot- 
tage City. 

Lines of Business. 

The government reports on the condition of 
the crops are the most satisfactory indications 
of a prosperous season this fall that have yet 
appeared. The condition of the cotton crop 
is given as 88 8-io per cent., against 86 4-10 per 
cent. cent, last year. The acreage of cotton 
is lyi per cent, larger. In 1889 the crop 
reached 7,250,000 bales, the largest ever raised, 
yet the advices up to date indicate an increase 
over this large amount. The wheat outlook 
is not so good, the crop being estimated at 
430,000,000 bushels, against 490,000,000 bushels 
last year. 

Seattle celebrates the anniversary of her 
big fire by pointing with pride to 56,000,000 
worth of new buildings that have arisen from 
the ashes of that disastrous conflagration. 

Perhaps the most conspicuous characteris- 
tic of the English tradesman is the calm ef- 
frontery with which he assumes to know what 
his patrons ought to buy. You enter a shop 
and call for a pair of tan-colored gloves; the 
chances are that the only pair is in the show- 
window and that pair is not the size you re- 
quire. 

"We have a complete line of dark browns," 
says the tradesman. 

"I wish a tan color," you explain. 

"We have not stocked up in tans," the 
tradesman says. "The truth is that tans have 
gone out and the demand is all for browns. 
You'd better take a pair of these at three and 
six — I assure you they are quite the thing. 
Lady Hortan was in this morning and ordered 
a dozen pairs." 

You cannot escape this impertinent crea- 
ture unless you bully him ; he assumes to know 
what you ouglit to want, whether you want it 
or not. On general principles he will assure 
you that what he has in stock is al' the rage ; 
what he has not got is quite out of fashion. 

Husband — Well, my dear, if you are going 
to town to-day, I suppose you will want some 
money ; here's S20. 

Wife — What do I want of money ? I told 
you I was only going shopping.— ///^^^f. 

— The biggest edible oysters in the world are 
found at Port Lincoln in South Australia. 
They are sometimes more than a foot across 
the shell, and said to be of the finest flavor. 



Please Pass the Diplomas. 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

Light anticipated the commencement exer- 
cises of the Polytechnic Institute, somewhat, 
in its issue of last week. Class Day exercises 
were held on the campus, Wednesday after- 
noon, a fine day favoring the occasion. The 
program as announced a week ago was faith- 
fully carried out, and the large number of 
people in attendance testified to the interest 
felt in the class. A reception followed, in the 
Salisbury Laboratories, where the band fur- 
nished music for dancing, and refreshments 
were served. 

Thursday afternoon, from four to six. Dr. 
Fuller gave his customary reception to the 
graduating class, a large number being present. 
Dr. and Mrs. Fuller received, the ushers being 
Messrs. Harry L. Dadnum, Fred A. Bigelow 
and Frank E. Bradford of the class of '91. It 
was a very pleasant affair. 

The theses had been read in Boynton Hall, 
as usual, in the morning, and in the evening 
the graduation exercises took place at Asso- 
ciation Hall. Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., 
offered prayer, and Hon. P. Emory Aldrich, 
president of the board of trustees made a 
statement of the work of progress during the 
year. The address was delivered by Prof. 
Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton College, on 
"Municipal Reform." The valedictory address 
by Mr. Alton L. Smith followed, and then 
President Fuller made an address. The de- 
gree of Bachelor of Science was conferred 
upon the following graduates : 

Department of Chemistry— Herbert Ernest 
Austin, Holden; Julius Walter Bugbee, 
Shrewsbury, Everett John Lake, Rockville, 
Conn.; Arthur Burgess Larchar, Webster; 
Ellis Warren Lazell, Spencer; Warren Eugene 
Mumford, Webster; Charles Austin Pierce, 
Worcester. Department of Civil Engineer- 
ing—James Prince Anderson, Springfield; 
Joseph Henry Devlin, Worcester; Loring 
Nelson Farnum, North Andover; Edward 
Henry Rockwell, Leominster; Arthur Parks 
Smith, Springfield; William Lewis Smith, 
Worcester ; Francis Wilcox Treadway, Cleve- 
land, O.; Henry Everett Warren, Leicester ; 
Harrison Parker Wires, North Brookfield. 
Department of Mechanical Engineering- 
Merrill Waldo Allen, West Brookfield ; Louis 
Edwin Booth, Worcester; James Hugh 
Clancy, Worcester; David Rufus Collier, 
Eugene, Oregon; Harry Porter Crosby, May- 
nard; Harry Phillips Davis, Worcester; 
Charles Henry Faulkner, Keene, N. H. ; 
Frank Arthur Gardner, Worcester; Charles 
Harvey Jenness, Chicopee; Paul Beagary 
Morgan, Worcester ; George Herbert Nutt, 
Worcester; George Williams Perry, Putnam, 
Conn.; Clarence Knight Prince, Worcester; 
Elmer Cook Rice, Worcester; Stanley Hale 
Rood, Worcester; Lee Russell, Worcester; 
Alton Lincoln Smith, Springfield; Charles 
Frederic Treadway, Cleveland, O. ; Windsor 
Thomas White, Cleveland, O. Department 
of Electrical Engineering — Albert Powers 
Allen, Northboro; James Adams Baylis, Mon- 
treal, P. Q. ; Albert Beede Kimball, Worces- 
ter; Joseph Oliver Phelon, Cherry Valley, N. 
Y. Non-Graduate— Albert Joseph Reinbold, 
Jr., Worcester. 



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Messrs. Gardner, Rood, Nutt, Larcher, A. 
L. Smith and Devlin received the $75 prizes 
awarded to the six men having the highest 
average for the entire course. 

Class suppers were held by the classes of 
"90, '88, '86 and '83, at the Bay State and the 
Lincoln House. 

State Normal School. 

Our educational institutions have been 
favored unusually in the fine weather of the 
week ; and the State Normal iSchool had the 
best day of all, for Thursday, though warm, 
brought a fine breeze. In the morning, the 
young ladies of the twenty-sixth and twenty- 
seventh classes who were selected to read their 
theses occupied the time, the papers being 
without exception entertaining and meritorious. 
In the afternoon, the large hall was filled 
with the friends of the school. Miss Florence 
Malbone Dodge delivered the valedictory of 
the twenty-sixth class and Miss Mattie 
Josephine Black that of the twenty-seventh 
class, the former's subject being "The Use of 
the Dictionary" and the latter's, "Manual 
Training." Diplomas were awarded and the 
anniversary address was given by Mrs. Alice 
Freeman Palmer, Ph. D., Ex-President of 
Wellesley College. 

The graduates are as follows, Worcester 
being understood as the residence where no 
other town is given: Twenty-sixth class — 
Maud Sophie Bosworth; Herbert Eugene 
Buxton, Ashford, Conn. ; Flora Browning 
Chamberlain ; Florence Malbone Dodge ; Alice 
Gertrude Draper; Alice Little Eames; Eliza- 
beth Christine Finn; Mary Agnes Flynn ; 
Costella Gertrude Gale, Guilford, Vt. ; Marga- 
ret Jane Gartland; Mary Gertrude Geary; 
Mary Catherine Henry ; Anna May Hewett; 
Lena May Hurlburt, Richford, Vt. ; Harriet 
Howe Maynard, Townsend; Annie York 
Milliken; Anna Grace Moore; Amy Murray; 
Rupert Henry Murray; Kate Evans Parker 
Newhall; Minnie Partridge, Medway; Jeao- 
nette Witherby Scruton, Canton, N. Y. ; Ella 
Louise Smith; Mary Eleanor Whitly, Fitch- 
burg; Mary Emma Williams, Webster. 
Twenty-seventh class — Amy Maria Aldrich, 
Westboro ; Emma Susie Barrett; Mattie 
Josephine Black; Emma Jane Cooper; Anna 
Gertrude CuUen; Maud Elizabeth Davis, 
Holden; Kathline Elizabeth Dwyer; Har- 
riet Elmira Greene, Wrentham; Luta Belle 
Lincoln; Charlotte McFarland; Annie Theresa 
McGrath ; Mary Catherine O'Connor; Mary 
Helen Rogers, Holden ; Sarah Agnes Rus- 
sell, Amherst; Florence Louise Seagrave, 
Uxbridge ; Edith Maria Studley ; Nellie Das- 
combe Temple, Gardner; Florence Helen 
Towne, Mendon. 

■Worcester Academy. 

Commencement week began with the bacca- 
laureate sermon by President Andrews of 
Brown, Sunday evening. Monday evening 
came the Dexter prize speaking, in which 
Messrs. Harry O. Forbush and Andrew 
Adams won first and second prizes, and Em- 
mons Bryant received commendation. 

Graduation exercises were held Wednesday 
morning in chapel. A class of twenty-four was 
graduated, as follows : Albert Edward Bailey, 
North Scituate; George Allen Battelle, 
Dover; Ralph Dolbear Blanpied, Millbury; 



Fred Hamilton Clarke, Jamestown, R. I.; 
Frederick Wilkinson Colburn, Holliston ; 
Herbert Allen Day, Warren ; Robert William 
Drawbridge, Middletown, N. H.; Charles 
Haigh Ellis, North Billerica; Frank Lemuel 
Fullam, West Brookfield ; Merwin Jephtha 
Gibbons, Westfield ; Harold Dexter Hazeltine, 
Warren, Pa.; Henry Webster Hobbs, Ux- 
birdge ; John Hope, Augusta, Ga. ; Edward 
Mellen Makepeace, Worcester; Frederick 
William Marvel, Rehoboth ; Edgar Smiley 
Nash, Philadelphia, Pa.; Herman Wesley 
Parker, West Acton ; Frank Ernest Perkins, 
Miller's Falls; William Littlefield Ripley, 
Holliston ; Louis Dickerman Russell, Lynn ; 
Robert Gasten Smith, Plainfield, N. J.; Eras- 
tus Jones Starr, Spencer; Nelson Tracy 
White, Holden ; Thomas Melvill Womersley, 
Greenfield. 

The Alumni dinner was served in the new 
gymnasium, and addresses were made by Hon. 
Joseph H. Walker, Dr. R. J. Adams of Boston, 
District Attorney Francis A. Gaskill, Dr. Al- 
bert P. Marble, Rev. M. H. Bixby, D. D., 
Providence ; Dr. R. A. Guild, librarian of 
Brown University; Rev. R. H. Ferguson, of 
Burmah ; Mr. George Justus Briggs, '89 ; and 
Mr. John Hope, '90. 

Mr. Walker's gift of ;?s,ooo and the simil- 
arly generous gifts of Hon. Chester W. 
Kingsley of Cambridge and Mr. William H. 
Dexter were occassions for rejoicings among 
the graduates and friends of the school. 

Amherst College. 

Platform pyrotechnics are over for the year, 
and the conquerors and the conquered 
are counting up their respective gains and 
losses. Worcester was well represented among 
the winners. Mr. Charles E. Hildreth won the 
Sophomore Kellogg prize of fifty dollars, for 
excellence in declamation, with the greatest 
ease, his speaking being far superior to that of 
any of the other contestints. 

Among the ten best orations written by mem- 
bers of the Sophomore class upon the lives of 
British statesmen was included that of Mr. 
Charles E. Burbank upon Richard Brinsley 
Sheridan. 

The prize of twenty-five dollars for the best 
Latin essay upon the subject "The Romans 
and Their Language," fell to Mr. Lewis T. 
Reed. All three of the above named are 
Worcester High School graduates of the class 
of '87, and Messrs. Hildreth and Reed are ex- 
presidents of the Sumner Club. 

At the praise service in College Church, last 
Sunday, Messrs. Walter H. and Charies E. 
Hildreth assisted as soloists. Mr. Charles 
Hildreth was also choregus at the Sophomore 
class supper, a week ago. 

At least two Worcester boys will be in the 
Freshman class next year, Harry E. Whit- 
comb, a son of G. Henry Whitcomb, and 
Ernest M. Makepeace. 

Among the visitors to Amherst this week 
have been Messrs. George B. Churchill, Wil- 
liam E. Chancellor, and George W. Wilder of 
'89. 

Of course the great topics of conversation 
among Amherst men are the resignation of 
President Seelye, the appointment of new pro- 
fessors, and the generous gifts to the college. 
{Continued on T-wenty-first Pagc.^ 



Some Gift-Books. 



PREPARED FOR LIGHT. 



One of the most perplexing subjects for 
people to decide is just what will make a 
dainty and inexpensive gift to one's friends. 
If one's purse be well tilled, the dit'liculty is 
somewhat lessened, but in these days of many 
demands and drains upon the income, we often 
look about in despair for some remembrance 
which is within our means and in accord with 
our tastes. To nearly everyone, a book is a 
gift most gratefully received and carefully 
cherished. Perhaps, in no more enduring and 
profitable form can friendship be transmitted 
than through the gift of one of the many 
beautiful and excellent books which can be 
found at the book-stores of Worcester to-dav. 



How often do we hear people come into a 
book-store and say: "I'm in a great hurry and 
I want some pretty, inexpensive little book. 
What have you .'"' Let us then briefly look 
over the stock and see what meets our fancy. 



The rage for the white and gold coloring 
in furniture and decorations has even fastened 
upon book-bindings and some of the daintiest 
of this summer's gift-books are found in this 
binding. "Ballads and Lyrics," by Long- 
fellow, is the first volume to greet the eye and 
the title suggests the pleasures contained 
within. "The Skeleton in Armor," followed 
by translations and lyrics and ending with 
sonnets, full of harmony and beauty of thought 
and style, give to the reader a rare treat of 
music for the ear and soul. As we read we 
feel that Longfellow must have followed his 
own voice, — 

"Look, then, into thine heart and write! 

Yes, into life's deep stream." 



An artistic little book in blue and white 
proves to be "The North .Shore Watches and 
Other Poems," by George Henry Woodberry. 
The author, known to us as the biographer of 
Edgar Allan Poe and al.so as a writer of 
sketches of other well-known Americans, shows 
as much genius in his poetry as in his prose 
writings. 

"A Child's Garden of \'erses," by Robert L. 
Stevenson, was first published some years ago, 
but comes again in a dainty form. Many of 
these verses are full of humor, as they are not 
only intended for children's reading, but also 
are supposed to be the product of a child's 
mind. The general verdict, however, would 
be that not many children would write such 
finished poems as these are. 



Admirers of Browning will find delight in 
"Asolando," a book of verse dedicated by the 
poet to Mrs. Arthur Bronson, whose hospi- 
tality he enjoyed often at Asoli. In the pre- 
face, he explains the title of the book, saying 
the term is derived from the verb, "asolan- 
dare — to disport oneself in the open air — to 
amuse oneself at random." The verses, 
surely, are full of beautiful touches and those 
people who object to Browning's poetry, be- 
cause of its abstruseness and psychological 
nature will find the true poet of nature and 
human affections pictured in these poems. 



Though the majority of the small gift-books 



are poetical, there is one small, prettily-bound 
volume in blue and gold, representing an 
author always admired. DeQuincy's "Con- 
fessions of an Opium Eater" has always 
charmed scholars by its fanciful, original con- 
ceptions, and musical, flowing style. 

In a similar binding, we find (loldsmilh's 
"Vicar of Wakefield." 

In pa.ssing by these dainty volumes, all 
Worcester people cannot fail to admire the 
little book, "Bird-Songs About Worcester," 
by Harry Nelson. This is an instructive as 
well as pleasing remembrance. 



The name of Helen Hunt Jackson always 
awakens sympathy in our hearts. We owe to 
her one of the strongest and best-written 
novels of our day, ranking with "Uncle Tom's 
Cabin" in its noble underlying purpose, 
namely, "Ramona." Though Mrs. Jackson is 
best known as a prose writer of fiction, her 
first literary efforts were in poetry. It was 
after the death of her first husband. Captain 
Hunt, and her subsequent loneliness, that her 
first poems were made known to the world. 
One little son had died shortly before his 
father's death, and when the second son and 
only remaining child died a few months after 
Captain Hunt's decease, Mrs. Jackson's grief 
was deep and found vent in her cry to God 
for resignation. It is related that Mrs. 
Jackson made her younger son promise, on 
his death-bed, that, if it were possible, he 
would come back from the spirit-world to visit 
her. He never came and Mrs. Jackson always 
ridiculed spiritualism because she said, "had 
it been possible, Rennie would have come 
back." Mrs. Jackson's first poem, "Lifted 
Over," and signed "Marah," was printed in the 
Nation in 1865. In the next year, "Tryst" 
appeared under the signature of "H. H.," 
which she used ever afterward. Her verses 
were collected and published in 1S70, but a 
later and fuller edition soon followed. These 
"verses" by "H. H." form a volume of the 
most beautiful and ennobling poems ever 
written by an American author, say her critics. 
.Some even would rank her above Mrs. 
Browning as a female poet. Though some- 
what sad in tone there are many poems not 
altogether full of pathos. Doubtless, the 
poem by which she is best known is her 
"Spinning," in which life and its duties are so 
beautifully compared to the work and faith of 
"the blind spinner in the sun." 



If one is in search of a more expensive 
book, he can find many works of our best 
known authors in sealskin, morocco and half- 
calf. A neat little volume in morocco is 
"Sartor Resartus," by Carlyle. An illustrated 
edition of "The Rose and the Ring," by W. M. 
Thackeray, written under the pseudonyum of 
"M. A. Titmarsh," is an attractive book. 



Among the sets of author's works in neat 
cloth bindings are Emerson's Essays and 
Poems, Hawthorne's Works and Whittier's 
Prose and Poetical Works. And so, among 
all these books so daintily bound and pleasing 
to the eye, we find that all 

■ — —"To one of these four ends conduce, 
For wisdom, piety, delight or use." 
Worcester, Mass. A. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

TiiK OisTKiCT OK Coi.I'.mhia.— Mrs. T. 
asks: "Is the District of Columbia a terri- 
tory ?" It is a Federal district, an anomaly 
in our system of government. It had a terri- 
torial government in Grant's administration, 
from 1871 to 1874 ; betore that time, from 1802 
to i87i,it had a municipal government. Since 
1874 it has been governed by commissioners 
appointed l)y the President and Senate, and 
responsible to Congress, not to the Washing- 
tonians. The inhabitants of the district have 
no votes. 

Passenger Trains.— George K. asks for 
the cost of pa.ssenger trains: From $75,000 
to $120,000. The ordinary express train rep- 
resents from $83,000 to $90,000. The engine 
and tender are valued at $10,500 ; the baggage 
car, Siooo; the postal car, $2000; the smoking 
car, $5000 ; two ordinary pa.ssenger cars, $10,- 
000; three palace cars, $15,000 each; total, 
$83,000. Many of the trains which pull up to 
or out from the Grand Central Depot, New 
York, are worth $150,000. 

About Rings. — Miss R. asks if it is good 
taste to wear more than three rings, two on 
one hand and one on the other : Two rings 
are about the right number, but three can be 
worn with propriety. More than three is in 
bad taste. 

Markieij at Eighteen. — A young lady 
writes: "I am 18 years of age; a good house- 
keeper, and said to have a fair disposition. I 
am also healthy and strong. I am engaged to 
be married to a gentleman five years my sen- 
ior. He urges a marriage in September. My 
mother objects wholly on account of age, and 
desires me to wait at least two years. My 
lover emphatically objects to the delay, and 
twice has intimated that he would not wait a 
year. What shall I do ?" Your young man 
is either devoid of good sense, or else doesn't 
love you as he should the woman he is to 
marry. He is unreasonable, and lacks manli- 
ness. Better seriously consider not marrying 
him at all. 

The Centre of Population. — N. T. Y. 
asks for the centre of population of the 
United States: The centre of population is 
in Kentucky, one mile from the south bank of 
the Ohio river, and one and one-half miles 
southeast from the village of Taylorsville. 

The Company Has or Have?— Mr. T. 
N. C. asks : "Which is gramatical, 'The 
Company has purchased land,' or 'The Com- 
pany have purchased ?' " The former. 

Lake Quinsigamond.— Charles B. asks: 
"From what source was derived the name of 
Quinsigamond ?" From the Indians, Quin- 
sigamond being the name of the tribe. Lake 
Quinsigamond was formally known as Long 
Pond. 

Value Received.— Henry T. asks: "Is 
a note good if 'value received' is not written 
upon it?" It is, unless the maker of the note 
can prove there was no consideration. 

—A medical journal estimates that during 
its seven weeks' prevalence in the United 
States the grip killed 12,000 people. 



10 



About Folks. 



Mr. John A. Lake is in Chicago. 



Dr. John F. Adams entertained a party of 
New York, Boston and Providence gentlemen, 
members of the American Academy of Den- 
tal Science, last Saturday. A trip to the Lake, 
with lunch at the Quinsigamond Club, and a 
steamer ride in the Apollo, furnished pleasant 
diversion. 

Generally speaking, our pastors occupied 
their own pulpits last Sunday, though there 
were some visitors. At the Old South, Rev. 
C. L. Holbert preached; at Plymouth, Rev. 
Joel Swartz, D. D., of Gettysburg, Pa., was 
the preacher. Rev. Albert Bryant preached 
in Rev. Mr. Lansing's place at Salem Street 
Church, and his son, Mr. Seeyle Bryant, oc- 
cupied the Belmont Church pulpit. Rev. D. 
O. Mears, D. D., preached at Piedmont 
Church a sermon which aroused a great deal 
of interest, the preacher in his sermon speak- 
ing warmly in favor of Principal Roe of the 
High School and his work. Rev. Austin S. 
Garver was on his way to Europe, and Rev. J. 
C. Duncan of Clinton preached in his place at 
the First Unitarian Church. Rev. Mr. Dun- 
can also preached for the South Unitarian 
people in the afternoon. At the First Baptist 
Church, in the evening. President Andrews of 
Brown University preached the baccalaureate 
sermon before the graduating class of Worces- 
ter Academy. Rev. D. W. Hoyt of the 
Adams Square Baptist Church preached in 
Millbury. Rev. Edward Everett Abercromlsie, 
a graduate of Worcester High School, '85, and 
of Wesley an University, preached at Trinity 
Church. He is now located at Madison, N. J. 



Mr. Frank S. Fay and Miss Allie J. Davis 
enjoyed a day's outing at Nantasket last Sat- 
urday. 

Worcester rejoices in the knowledge that 
Mr. Rogers Finch Gardner has been admitted 
to the United States Military Academy at 
West Point. It is some time now since Wor- 
cester has been represented there, although 
several candidates — bright boys, too, — have 
tried it and failed. Mathematics, they say, are 
what prove too much for so many men. In 
Mr. Gardner's case, this was no obstacle, and 
his training in the course of mechanical engi- 
neering at the Polytechnic Institute undoubt- 
edly stood him in good stead. Mr. Gardner is 
deservedly popular here, and is sure to do 
Worcester great credit. He is a son of Lieut. 
John W. Gardner, U. S. Navy, and was grad- 
uated a year ago from the Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute. It will be two years before 
he can return to Worcester. Meanwhile, he 
may thmk of many friends here who are wish- 
ing him all possible success. 



Mr. O. H. Weston and Mr. Edwin Ames 
and their families are catching Vineyard 
Sound breezes down at Cottage City. 



A somewhat unique song service will be 
giuen at Central Church, Sunday evening. 
The combined choirs of the church, number- 
ing fifty voices, assisted by soloists, will sing 
nearly one-half of the oratorio of the Messiah. 
The accompaniments will be played by piano 



L I(i HT 

and organ from a score arranged from the 
orchestral score by Prout, the eminent English 
musician. The soloists will be as follows: 
Miss Helen Weston, of Boston, soprano ; Miss 
Henrietta M. Ager, soprano; Mrs. J. W. Pitts, 
soprano; Miss Alice B. Hammond, contralto: 
Mr. E. N. Anderson, tenor; Mr. Alfred 
Thomas, tenor; Mr. W. A. Anderson, basso. 
Mr. Charles H. Grout will play the organ and 
Miss May E. Eldridge the piano. The ser- 
vice is at 7.30. 

It is quite remarkable the number of prom- 
inent Worcesterians who sit in their shirt 
sleeves since the Hon. Mr. Walker appeared 
coatless, "for one time only." Of course the 
hot weather has had nothing to do with it. 



Col. Henry E. Smith is to continue the busi- 
ness of Childs, Smith & Co., alone, after the 
first of next month, his partner retiring, while 
the firm name will be Henry E. Smith & Co. 
Col. Smith is a thorough-going business man, 
whose practical knowledge and native ability 
have combined to make him a successful 
merchant. In boot and shoe jobbing he 
knows what there is worth knowing. 



Mr. James H. Wall, of the Providence 
Evening Telegram staff, has been in town this 
week. 

We are pleased to receive a copy of that 
bright Worcester publication. Light, the 
recent venture of Messrs. Fowler and Ken- 
nedy, which appears to have achieved a 
notable success in the four months of its 
existence. It contains a great variety of 
interesting matter, not the least so being an 
article on "Origin of Local Names" by R. B. 
Clark, formerly principal of our high school. 
We shall be glad to see Light regularly. — 
Milford Gazette. 



The Common People. 
In Europe, rank is first of all a question of 
birth. Mr. Gladstone must go in to dinner 
after a boy if the boy happens to be a duke. 
We believe in blood in this country, but we 
expect it to tell in achievement before it is ac- 
corded the first place of honor. It is true that 
Americans are sometimes accused, not always 
unjustly, of tuft-hunting; but the titled 
foreigner is sought after over here because he 
is a vara avis, a social curiosity, and not be- 
cause Americans were born with that instinc- 
tive deference to rank which is so general on 
the other side of the Atlantic. An hereditary 
legislature has always been impossible here. 
The regulation uniform of society, the dress- 
coat and white cravat, may be defended upon 
certain grounds which we need not examine 
now ; but there should be no tolerance for the 
affectation of a tone, a mannerism, which is at 
war with everything expressive of originality 
or even of individuality. We would not imply, 
of course, that people of good society are 
necessarily common-place or dull. Wit and 
humor are always welcome among sensible 
men and women ; but we have remarked a 
tendency to make a fetish of forms, to set up a 
Draconian code on the authority of Mrs. 
Grundy, which is only too suggestive of 
another famous lady's "prunes and prisms." 
But commonplace people are not confined to 
any sphere of life. — A ew Orleans Picayune. 



To Dorothy. 



BY CORNELIA WESSON BOYDEN. 



I would not that thy skies be always fair, 

My Dorothy, or that thy path with flowers 

Be strewn ; but that God's blessed sun and showers 

In equal measure fall. 'Tis this my prayer. 

For if thou knew not aught of pain or care, 

Thou couldst not taste so sweet a joy as ours, 
Who, having both, accepting each as dowers 

From God, find Him revealed, and thus our share 

Of joy, outweighing pain, grows sweet and pure. 
And if thou ne'er wert tempted— 'tis no gain 

To conquer where no foes attack ; but sure 
Of grace above, the fiercest foes are slain. 

And Dorothy, I would thy heart with love 

Be filled ; and, lastly, dwell with God above. 
Worcester, Mass. 



Health for a Dollar. 

The woman with the interesting pallor, 
the violet-shaded eyes and willowwand form 
has given place to abuxom jade, whose cheeks 
are red as the dawn, with brown, muscular 
hands, who, amid a wreck of matter and crash 
of worids, would never feel a tremor of her 
steel-strung nerves. The pale, the nervous, the 
flaccid-muscled woman has not disappeared 
yet, and these read with hopeless envy the di- 
rections given by the books for the attainment 
of rosy beauty, their own lives being too filled 
with work, too narrow or too straitened to 
make the use of any of these prescriptions 
possible. But athletic exercise, with its re- 
sultant health, happiness and beauty, is to be 
had, and that at a price within the means of 
every woman, no matter how poor or how hard 
worked. Ninety cents will purchase all she 
needs to string her muscles up firm and make 
them elastic ; to set her blood pulsing warmly 
under the skin ; to fine away too lavish out- 
lines or fill up hollows. A pair of small dumb 
bells are to be had for thirty cents. These 
are a good weight to begin with, but should not 
be used violently at first. Two towels of heavy 
Turkish crash cost the same sum each. On 
rising in the morning begin practice at once. 
With a dumb bell in each hand lift the arms, 
touch the shoulders with the bells and straigh- 
en the arms out smartly at right angle from 
the body. Do this smoothly and regularly ten 
times. Then touch the shoulders and lift the 
bells ten times straight up on either side of the 
head. Hit out from each shoulder ten times; 
drop the bells at full length of the arm and 
draw them up to the armpits ; vary these 
motions in the twenty or thirty different direc- 
tions possible, as one's cleverness sug- 
gests, thus exercising every muscle. Begin 
with only two or three the first morning, and 
increase as the strength increases. Finishing 
w.ith the bells, set a mark on the wall at a 
height of four or five feet, and standing on 
the left leg, try to to touch the mark with the 
right toe ten times, doing the same afterwards 
with the left. The mark can be raised nearly 
afoot more as one's agility increases. Then 
set hands on hips and jump up and down ten 
times. Next spring into the bath, a warm one 
is best, sponging oneself off with cold water 
afterwards, and dry the skin with vigorous 
manipulation of the rough towel. Try that 
for a month, and see whether health and beauty 
are not the consequence. 

A book recently appeared entitled, "Lec- 
tures to Married Men. It did not sell, as 
there was no demand for it, the present supply 
being ample. 



Here and There. 



A local druggist puts out a sign reading, 
"Try our new soda drink, 'Champagne Mist'." 
We have not tried it, but we presume it is in- 
tended to supply the place of the champagne 
missed since the dry season set in. May i. 

One of the Tech seniors went to New York, 
the past week, to investigate some promising 
offers of employment. While there, a railroad 
friend gave him a pass to Pittsburg, Penn., 
and return. A few hours before starting for 
I'ittsburg, he decided to call upon a married 
cousin, who lived in Harlem. When he ar- 
rived at the house he found her in despair at 
her husband's absence. She had planned to 
go to Boston, on the boat, that night, with her 
husband and four children, but her husband 
found he could not get away. The arrival of 
the unfortun.ate Tech senior cleared matters 

up, and telephoning to her husband that F 

was there and would take care of her, she 
carried him with her to the boat and on to 

Boston. F says he did not appreciate the 

trip with those four children half as much as 
he would the trip to Pittsburg. 

Apropos of the Tech commencement this 
week and the fact that '90 is the tir.st class to give 
a ball at the Institute, invitations to the recep- 
tion were eagerly sought by the lady friends of 
the seniors. A party of three determined to di- 
vide up their cards among their lady acquaint 
ances, but owing to a misunderstanding as to 
who should invite her, a very popular young 
lady failed to receive her card. One of the three 
seniors met the young lady on Elm street a 
few days after the invitations had been sent 
out, and he says the coolness of her manner 
was such that he could hear the water freezing 
in the puddles and some large flakes of snow 
actually began to fall. Suspecting the reason 
for her coolness, he hurried home and dis- 
covered that no card had been sent to her. 

The next morning Miss received three 

invitations by the first mail and the senior 
says that she has regained her bright smile. 

One of the "civil" graduates of the Tech. 
received two offers, among others, of employ- 
ment, one at two hundred dollars a month in 
Jamaica, W. I., and the other of less than half 
that amount in a Massachusetts city. He ac- 
cepted the smaller offer. When asked why he 
did so, he replied : "I made some inquiries 
about the Jamaica offer and discovered that 
there was always a vacancy there because as 
soon as a man went down there he died. Now 
I prefer being alive in Boston to being dead in 
Jamaica." Who can say he was not wise ? 



It is a fact that a Worcester ice dealer pur- 
chased, during the present week, two summer 
shirts for which he paid $50, that is, $25 each. 
They are supposed to be about the nicest 
thing in their line in town. The days are gone 
when the plumber could look condescendingly 
down on the iceman as an unsuccessful rival. 



L T Ci M T 

men in our block, appropriated named the 
"Clothes-basket" nine, it being necessary for 
each man to have a good-sized basket sus- 
pended from his neck in order to catch the 
ball at all. Poor playing and lots of fun will 
be the characteristics of the game. 



11 



A Poem of Practical Things. 



BY I HOMAS A. WKKMAM. 



Shortly after the Fourth, a game of base 
ball is to be played between a nine composed 
of "Our Boarders," mostly retired capitalists, 
and a team made up of the young business 



The Columbus Tower. 
The Columbus or World's I^'air tower, llie 
plan of which has been accepted by the Board 
of Managers of the Chicago F.xposition, is 
almost an exact counterpart, in proportion to 
its height, dimensions, etc., of the tower to be 
erected at London. Both are designed by the 
same firm of Washington architects. The 
Columbus tower will be just 250 feet higher 
than the London tower. From the base to the 
apex it will be 1500 feet, and the highest in 
the world. At the base it will be 433 feet in 
diameter, and it will have four principal en- 
trances eighty feet wide. The column, so to 
speak, will be 38 feet inside diameter. On the 
first floor there will be eight elevators, capable 
of accommodating fifty people each, and mov- 
ing at the rate of 250 feet per minute. The 
.second story will have four elevators, moving 
at 250 feet per minute, and on the top floor 
there will be two elevators. The dome will be 
200 feet in diameter, and the same height. The 
globe at the top of the tower will be 30 feet in 
diameter, and illuminated by sixteen powerful 
electric lights, and can be seen at a distance 
of thirty miles. The whole immense structure 
will be made of steel, and will cost $2,000,000. 
Considering that the Columbus tower will be 
nearly three times as high as the Washington 
monument, the ascent to the top of it will be 
a genuine novelty. 

How Postage Stamps Are Made. 
As soon as they emerge from the hydraulic 
press, postage stamps are gummed. The 
paste is m.ide from clear starch, or rather its 
dextrine, which is acted upon chemically and 
then boiled, forming a clear, smooth, slightly 
sweet mixture. Each sheet of stamps is 
taken separately, placed upon a flat board, 
and its edges covered with a light metal frame. 
Then the paste is smeared on with a large 
whitewash brush, and the sheet is laid between 
two wire racks and placed on a pile with 
others to dry. Great care is taken in the 
manufacture of this paste, which is perfectly 
harmless. This gratifying fact has been con- 
clusively proved by an analysis recently made 
by an eminent chemist. After the gumming, 
another pressing in the hydraulic press follows. 
Then another counting— in fact stamps are 
counted no less than thirteen times during the 
process of manufacture. The sheets are then 
cut in half, each portion containing 100 
stamps, this being done by giris with ordinar>- 
hand shears. Next follows the perforation, 
which is performed by machinerj'. The per- 
forations are first made in a perpendicular 
line, and afterwards in a horizontal line. 
Another pressing follows, this time to get rid 
of the raised edges on the back of the stamps 
made by the dies; and this ends the manufac- 
ture. A separate apartment is devoted to the 
packing and sending off the stamps to differ- 
ent postoffices. It will be seen by this ac- 
count that any absurd rumor concerning the 
poisonous or unclean properties of postage 
stamps is utteriy without foundation. 



This world has many surprises, 
Some pleasures, and very much pain ; 

It has myriadsof doubts and surmises, 
Ti> weary and wear out the brain. 

One moment the pulses are darting 
With message of cheer to the soul ; 

The next, with joy there is parting, 
And the message ne'er reaches its goal. 

With friends there is a fondness of greeting. 

Of love and of heart-words that burn ; 
liut Time takes friends with its fleeting. 

Who only in mem'ry return. 

There are hearts once glad, without numljer, 
That are stricken and tired with strife : 

We can lighten the loads that encumber, 
And shorten the years of their life. 

We can point with finger of cheering. 

T'o the silver-lined clouds overhead. 

Bevond, where the sunshine is nearing, 

To eiispirit where hope is now' dead. 

■'orcester, Mass. 



In Remembrance. 



There is a .story told of an oriental city, 
where, in an institution of profound learning, 
the trustees met to elect a worthy applicant to 
a vacant chair. Through no fault of his own 
the professor was delayed and mi.ssed his 
chance of appointment, which was given to 
another. Learning of this on his arrival, he 
quietly withdrew, after sending to the com- 
mittee a glass so full of water that it could not 
contain a drop more and placing on its surface 
a single rose leaf, which in the language of 
flowers means, "I will not trouble you." 

These gentlemen were so charmed by his 
modesty, that they created a new chair, and he 
was called to fill it. 

Dissimilar in point of fact, but the same in 
spirit, was the resignation of the pastor of the 
Old South Church. Like Moses of old, in his 
meek self-depreciation, that only proved his 
ability for his great work ; and like Paul, who 
counted all things as refus, for the oppor- 
tunity of seeing his Master, so the Rev. Mr. 
Lovering, with his heart full of tender, cling 
ing affection for the historic church of Wor- 
cester and its people, has modestly withdrawn, 
counting himself as not sufficient for the great 
possibilities of its promising future. 

Surely, amid the crowd of humanity, jostling 
one another to reach some prominent place 
in the ranks of the great, this spirit is as rare 
as it is beautiful. 

The words that told the members of the 
Old South Church of their pastor's decision, 
fell upon unprepared ears and like a solemn 
knell awed and hushed them. 

But the memory of such a man will be like 
the fragrance of sweet flowers and the hope of 
the church will be that his mantle of humility 
and self-sacrifice may fall upon his successor, 
who shall build, not for himself, but ever 
breathe the spirit of St. Paul, when he said, 
"(7od forbid that I should glory, save in the 
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the 
world is crucified unto me and I unto the 
world." Jack Shepherd. 

Worcester, Mass., June 25, 1890. 



iz 



The Red Grenadier. 



BV CHARLES \V. LINNELL. 



It was decided at a family council that 
Lydia Randall should spend the summer at 
her aunt's home, in Greenville. Randall /<V<r 
had been born and bred in Greenville, but was 
now, owing to the invention of an unrivalled 
car coupling, a New York capitalist. His 
daughter Lydia, aided by her own wit and 
beauty, and backed by her father's millions, 
had been the reigning belle of the past season. 
Mr. Randall had anticipated a brilliant mar- 
riage for his daughter, and his hopes would 
very likely have been realized, for desirable 
suitors were numerous, but for an unfortunate 
accident. 

Lydia witnessed the initial performance at 
the Madison Square of "The Red Grenadier," 
in which Mr. Kirby Dale played the hero's 
part and straightway fell in love with the hand- 
some young actor. 

Ridicule and remonstrance were alike un- 
availing. Fascinated by the rich uniform and 
daring actions of Mr. Dale upon the stage, she 
visited the theatre as often as possible, coming 
away every time with her affections fixed 
firmer than ever upon the undesirable young 
man and contmuing her visits until the closing 
of the theatre for the summer put an end to 
them. 

There was a mystery about Kirby Dale. No 
one seemed to know anything about him, 
beyond the fact that he had appeared in a 
minor part at a prominent theatre, three years 
ago, and by the force of his talents and adapt- 
ability had risen to playing the star role in 
"The Red Grenadier," at the Madison Square. 
That was the sum of the information 
gathered by Mr. Randall concerning him and 
the spice of mystery surrounding him only 
added fuel to the flame of Lydia's adoration. 

Under the strain of her parents' opposition 
and her own despairing knowledge of the hope- 
lessness of ever meeting Dale in society, 
Lydia's health had visibly failed. 

In hopes of restoring both mind and body to 
a healthful condition, her parents decided to 
send her into the country, back to the old 
family homestead in Greenville, rather than 
attempt to continue the social success she had 
already made, by taking her to Newport. 

Miss Lydia arrived at her aunt's house in 
early June, a vision of metropolitan grace and 
beauty to the country neighborhood. 

In a few weeks the simple life with its abun- 
dance of fresh air and pleasant exercise re- 
stored the bloom to her cheeks and the sparkle 
to her eyes. 

The contrast between it and the hurried life 
of New York, with its unceasing whirl 
of society and fascinating undercurrent 
of forbidden love, quieted her overstrained 
nerves and brought some measure of peace to 
her mind. Lydia Randall was a good girl and 
away as she now was from the object of her 
infatuation, she recognized the inevitable, 
and made a conscientious effort to erase his 
image from her heart. 

The village boasted of but one family of 
summer residents — a Boston family named 
Howard, who had built a wide-verandahed 
villa at the farther end of the town, near the 
river. 



lylCl HT 

The family had spent their summers in 
Greenville, and consisted of a widow lady and 
two daughters. 

There was also a son named Arthur who 
had never been seen in the village, but it was 
understood that he had been completing his 
education in Germany and would be at home 
the coming summer. 

It was July before the Howards arrived. 

Lydia, a little tired of the monotony of 
country life, welcomed their advent as afford- 
ing an opportunity for congenial society. 

Miss Randall senior had always been a 
favorite of the Howards, and the day after 
their arrival a basket phaeton, in which were 
the two young ladies, stopped at her gate. 

They called, as they frankly confessed, to 
obtain an introduction to Miss Randall's niece, 
who, they had heard, was staying with her and 
to invite both her niece and herself to take tea 
with them the following evening and assist 
them to welcome their brother home. 

"I understand Mr. Howard is returning from 
Europe ?" said Lydia. 

"Well, at present he is coming from New 
York," replied the elder Miss Howard with a 
slight hesitation, and immediately changed the 
subject. 

The next evening found Lydia and Miss 
Randall at the Howards. 

At seven o'clock Mr. Arthur Howard ar- 
rived from the station and was immediately 
introduced by his mother to her guests. Lydia 
noted with a woman's quickness of perception 
that he was under thirty, well-built, irreproach- 
ably dressed and evidently cultured and agree- 
able. 

But there was a strangely familiar air about 
him that she could not account for. 

She had observed Miss Howard's embarass- 
ment in replying to her question the previous 
evening and wisely judged that it might not be 
agreeable to the family to inquire if they had 
ever met before. 

The evening passed pleasantly and rapidly 
and Mr. Howard insisted upon seeing the 
Misses Randall to their gate. 

He asked and received permission to call 
the following day. 

After that first evening there was no longer 
any monotony in country life for Lydia. Arthur 
Howard was a constant companion ; so much 
so that his family protested that he spent more 
time in her society than in theirs. 

Time and intimacy failed to satisfy Lydia 
where she had met Mr. Howard before. She 
learned that he was a Harvard graduate but 
how he had spent the time since graduating 
four years ^go and the present summer she 
could not ascertain. So she finally gave up 
the solution of the problem and abandoned 
herself to the enjoyment of his society and 
evident admiration. 

Day by day the image of Kirby Dale grew 
fainter in her heart and as the summer went 
on faded entirely out and its place was filled 
by one whom she knew was more worthy of its 
resting place. In September both Lydia and 
the Howards were to leave Greenville; the 
Howards returning to Boston and Lydia join- 
ing her family at Lenox. 

A few days before the separation the crisis 
came. Arthur Howard declared his love and 
Lydia accepted it. 
All that remained to complete their happi- 



ness was the approval of their respective fami- 
lies. 

The Howards, mother and daughters, were 
only too happy to welcome the graceful, 
wealthy New York beauty as daughter and 
sister. 

Lydia wrote her father and mother a full 
account of what had happened and had not 
much doubt of a favorable reply. 

But she was mistaken. Miss Randall, foresee- 
ing the result of the summer's intimacy, had 
kept her brother informed of what was passing 
in the village, and he had informed himself in 
regard to the Howards. 

Arthur Howard, a member of an old Boston 
family, with a comfortable mcome and an as- 
sured position in society, was a very different 
prospective son-in-law from Kirby Dale. 

But there was also a mystery about Arthur 
Howard. Mr. Randall had discovered the 
same gap in the young man's history that 
Lydia had done and fearing that it concealed 
some disgraceful folly, decided to withhold his 
consent to their engagement until he could 
come to Greenville and ask Mr. Howard to 
account for the missing years. 

When he came he sought a private interview 
with Arthur and candidly told him his reasons 
for withholding his immediate consent. Arthur 
at once offered an explanation which cleared 
the mystery up and astonished Mr. Randall 
beyond measure. 

"When I was at Harvard," he said, "I was 
a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. I 
made a great success in its amateur theatricals 
and resolved when I graduated to make the 
stage my profession. 

My family naturally opposed my resolution 
and to please them I adopted the stage name 
of Kirby Dale. Under that name I have made 
a success in the New York theatres and played 
the star part in "The Red Grenadier" at the 
Madison Square last season. 

I have now had enough of the stage, having 
proved to my own satisfaction that I could 
succeed upon it, and have made arrangements 
to begin the practice of law in Boston this 
coming winter." 

To say that Lydia was surprised to learn 
that her former stage ideal and her accepted 
lover were one and the same would be putting 
it very mildly. 

The elusive resemblance that had so long 
baffled her was explained now and when she 
confessed her former infatuation to Arthur he 
was complimented by the idea that he had won 
her heart belore he was aware of her existence. 

Mr. Randall often says to Lydia since her 
marriage, that while he had sometimes thought 
of a foreign titled husband for her, his imagi- 
nation had never pictured the fact that she 
would secure for herself soexhalted a person- 
age as a /?<•(/ Groiaiiit-r. 



— Prof. E. L. Nichols foreshadows a very 
agreeable picture. He says that in all proba- 
bility the day is not far distant when brine, 
cooled below the freezing point of water, will 
be carried under the streets in pipes, as steam 
is now, supplying from central stations a very 
convenient substitute for ice in the domestic 
household. By freezing in our own house water 
which has been previously boiled, it will then 
be possible to avoid contagion from impure 
sources. 



Facts and Fashions, 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEIIERS. 



[regular CORRESI'ONIIENCE OF LIGHT.] 



New York, June 36, 1890. 

One evening last week a stately gathering 
of Columbia's sons assembled in the Metro- 
politan Opera House to celebrate the hundred 
and thirty-sixth annual commencement of 
New York city's greatest educational insti- 
tution. The occasion was one of special 
interest because of the steps taken towards the 
completion of the university idea of Columbia. 
It is the first time in the history of the college 
that all the departments united in one com- 
mon commencement. The occasion was also 
notable in that the degree of Master of Arts 
was conferred upon two young women. 

The two feminine names in the long list of 
sterner titles looked oddly enough, but are a 
convincing evidence of the rapid strides that 
women are taking abreast of man in the race 
for intellectual guerdons and achievements. 
The law school was not represented because 
of the lengthening of the course. The new 
school of philosophy is a year old. These 
facts go to prove that the college is raising 
her standards and aiming to establish a uni- 
versity that shall in all its parts be worthy of 
.America's most prominent city. 

In President Low's admirable address there 
was much of interest to the laity. Even Mr. 
Carnegie, with his ideas on the subject of the 
non-essential acquirements derived from a col- 
lege training as necessary to a successful 
business career, could but agree with Mr. 
Low in his belief that the best physician, 
lawyer, man of science, philosopher and man 
of letters, will be the men who, before they 
begin to specialize, lay the head foundation of 
a general culture, and that specialization is the 
child of general culture and not the mother of 
it, a sympathy with all learning being an in- 
dispensable attribute of all great men. 

This is the efflorescent season in the fields of 
intellective tillage and hot-house growths of 
forced expansion, as well as in the lovely 
natural gardens abloom everywhere with 
wealth of June roses. And the essays and 
theses of the sweet girl graduates are filling 
the land with innoccuous platitudes and 
Utopian visions. Far be it from me to deny that 
among these same sweet girls are strong and 
able minds, but needing the contact with life 
and its lessons to aid and urge onward the 
progressive march of universal development. 

One of these occasions.in a small way, I have 
recently attended in the closing exercises of a 
kindergarten in this city. Such a happy, 
merry little group of bright-faced children 
they were, giving their illustrated songs and 
games with a charming, natural grace of 
manner, devoid of that painful pose of stiffness 
often an accompaniment of such exhibitions. 
The kindergarten system is much to be 
commended in every particular, preparing the 
plastic mind of the child to go in the right 
direction in the coming years — not as some 
think, stimulating the young brain too early, 
but furnishing healthy and interesting occu- 
pation for both head and busy fingers, while 
ail-unconsciously preparing the way for a 
proper taking hold of serious school life in 



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later days. Happy, indeed, are the children 
of this last quarter of this nineteenth century, 
for them a golden age. F.verywherc are evi- 
dences of care for their well-l)eing, their likes 
and di.slikes are considered, and countless in- 
ventions and diversions are constantly appear- 
ing to minister to their pleasure. 

Just now the shop windows are given up to 
a display of the multifarious fashions for the 
small folk. Not only is it a favored age for 
the small being smiled upon by fortune, but 
the offspring of poverty and misfortune — 
life's flotsam and jetsam — come in for their 
share of the advantages of philanthropy. 

One of the great blessings in the way of pub- 
lic institutions in this city of New York, is the 
Children's Free Library, at 590 Seventh ave- 
nue, incorporated two years ago. The good 
done these little people is incalculable. Aside 
from the delights of fairy and army stories, 
travels, adventures and romance, they are 
kept from the evil influences of the street and 
are taught practical lessons in honesty, in- 
tegrity, industry, forbearance and culture. 
The youngest has a keen regard for the rights 
and customs of his neighbor, and the young 
lady in charge has time for many oral lessons, 
many love pats and gentle words, that will be 
as enduring as the memory of the child receiv- 
ing them. 



t3 



Woman's Work. 
I'art five of the twentieth annual report of 
the Massachusetts bureau of labor statistics, 
just issued, affords just the kind of figures that 
have long been wanting in this State, and will 
prove of invaluable service to the advocates of 
equal industrial rights and privileges for 
women. * * * It is this point — the dis- 
parity of wages between males and females 
doing the same work, and the poor pay 
of women generally — that is of chief interest 
to the friends of woman's advancement. 
Taking the lowest rate of wages for the first 
comparison of relative male and female pay, 
it appears that of actual wages paid to 24S,- 
200 employes of both sexes, 8.99 per cent, of 
all males receive less than $5 a week, 4. 85 per 
cent, less than $6, and 6.77 percent, less than $7. 
About one-fifth of all males average less than 
$1 per day. The females working at this low 
scale of wages comprise 72.94 per cent, of all 
the workers. In the higher scale of wages we 
find that 1 1. 21 per cent, of all males receive 
59 but under $10 per week, 13.71 per cent. $10 
but under $12, 1937 per cent. $12 but under 
Si5.and 1949 per cent. $15 or over. These 
males, who comprise $63.78 percent., or nearly 
two-thirds of all males, receive $1.50 or more 
per day. Only 10.26 per cent, of the females 
employed are paid similar wages. As the 
scale of wages rises, the number of females en- 
joying them grows steadily less. Of a total of 
7,257 workers receiving J20 a week and over, 
only 26S are females. The figures simply 
show that in the employments in which the 
very lowest wages are paid, women constitute 
over 70 per cent, of the workers, while in the 
employments where as high as J20 a week are 
paid they constitute hardly over 3 per cent. 

A well-known lawyer declared one day at a 
dinner that the biggest thing he ever done was 
to cross-examine a man until he did not know 
whether he was married or not. 



Musical Folks. 



The .Strauss concerts were a grand success 
financially and popularly, but as to their being 
a musical revelation in regard to showing us 
Americans how much better their playing is 
than that of our own orchestras, they were a 
flat failure. The programs were very light, and 
any American orchestra of fair standing can 
give the music played here ec|ually as well if 
not better. Edward Strauss's perception of 
some of the better numbers is not good, nota- 
bly the serenade l)y Moszkowski. It should 
be played by the stringed instruments instead 
of making the reed in.struments carry the 
theme. If a local conductor would dance and 
hop around as Strau.ss does, the press and 
public would ridicule him, and regarding his 
violin playing, the least said the better ; his 
bowing especially (to use a slang phrase), is 
way off. Quite a number of people no doubt 
will say that they never heard the "Blue 
Danube" so well played. \'erytrue; but they 
have heard it played perhaps by four or five 
instruments, or maybe piano alone, and then 
hearing it played by an orchestra of thirty-five 
pieces it will sound very different. This is 
not an ideal orchestra to tour the country, it 
being too small in numbers. The idea of a first- 
class European orchestra having two cellos 
and two violas. It is ridiculous. In speaking 
of orchestras, we might quote Capt. Cuttle in 
"Dombey and Son" and say of the Hoston 
Symphony, it is "an orchestra as is a orches- 
tra," but to compare Strauss to Nikisch would 
be like comparing a canal to a railroad. 



Mr. Eniil Mahr, the violin virtuoso, whose 
abilities as a musician and original methods of 
instruction at the New England Conservatory 
of Music have made him a much-talked 
about man in musical circles, is having 
his genius appreciated. Mr. Mahr came 
from England about three years ago. He was 
a pupil of Joachim, and played as concert- 
meister in the Richter and Henschel concerts 
in London, and was also chef d'orchestre in 
Mayence. He also enjoyed the distinction of 
being one of the first violins in Wagner's Bay- 
reuth festival. Mr. Mahr's playing illustrates 
great purity and dignity of style and clearness 
and precision of technique and intelligent in- 
terpretation. Mr. Mahr organized the New 
England Conservatory string quartette, and is 
its leader; and he is also at the head of 
stringed instrument teaching at the Conserva- 
tory. Mr. Mahr teaches the choicest music of 
the great masters, and his original method of 
imparting instruction to his pupils has made 
him perhaps the most successful teacherof the 
violin in the countrj'. It is Mr. Mahr'sideato 
organize a stringed orchestra at the Conserva- 
tory, next season, which will include all the 
pupils of suflicient proficiency and ability. 
The teaching of orchestral music at the Con- 
servatory is an important feature, and is grow- 
ing in proportions, and to Mr. Mahr is due the 
pre-sent development of perhaps the largest 
class in stringed in.struments, including the 
vioia, of anv'in America. Personally Mr. 
Mahr is a genial, kind-hearted gentleman with 
just the right amount of magnetism to enable 
him to carry his pupils with him, and retain 
their love and esteem, while he is imparting to 
them a knowledge of the grandest instruments 
which musical genius has ever produced. 



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Manual Training. 



BY ALDUS CHAPIN HIGGINS. 



"I'ublic education is the real vital question 
of the time." Our state has exercised the 
right to train and care for her children for so 
long a time, that it has become the unwritten 
law that she will continue to do so; and when 
1 say "our" state it is with a feeling of pride, 
for no state in our union excels Massachusetts 
in its educational advantages. 

As industry attains higher stages in its de- 
velopment, its processes become more compli- 
cated, and as has been wisely said : "In the 
peaceful struggle for supremacy that nation 
will be uppermost, which has most availed 
itself of the help of a sound education." 

What is a sound education ? The training 
that makes a man mentally active, socially 
useful, and morally good. To accomplish this 
requires head, hand, and heart training; men- 
tal, manual, and moral training. The neglect 
of any one of these is ruinous to the perfect 
man. 

There is nothing at all new in the idea of 
increasing the value of a man by teaching him 
at an early age to make use of his hands. 
When we stop to think of the countless efforts 
that have been made within the last two centu- 
ries solely to develop the brain power, it is in- 
teresting to consider what the effect would lie 
if a reasonable part of this outlay in mind and 
money had been given to the training of the 
hand with its marvellous possessions and to 
the bringing into closer co-operation the taste 
and judgement, the eye and the hand. 

In collections of the handicraft of the old 
masters we see specimens of work that excite 
our wonder and admiration. We see the 
armor and lance that were worn and used by 
some warrior of old ; we see the iron chest with 
its ingenious lock guarding the treasure which 
was hoarded by some miser; we see the deli- 
cately wrought screen with its slender leaves 
and flowers, and we wonder where these mas- 
ters of art were educated, thinking as we study 
these marvels of design and workmanship, if 
there is not some better way in which we may 
become more thoroughly acquainted with the 
greater wonders and accomplishments of our 
own times, than by merely admiring the works 
of intelligent, labor-loving men. Can we best 
appreciate the writings of .Shak.speare, Bacon 
or Macaulay by simply reading them, or by 
combining with such reading the study and 
practice of writing ourselves.' 

Consequently, can we afford to leave out of 
our education so important a factor in life as 
the training of the hand.'' Shall we go on 
learning theory without practice until we find 
to our chagrin when it is too late that the suc- 
cess which would have resulted from practice 
of theory is beyond our reach. In this con- 
nection, the following quotation from Herbert 
Spencer most clearly puts the aim of educa- 
tion. "The aim of education should be to 
prepare us for complete life, therefore educa- 
tion should furnish the individual with the 
means of providing for his existence." Now I 
contend that in this education wliich shall pre- 
pare us for complete life, manual training can 
not be left out. Channing says: "Manual 
training is a school where men are put to 
acquire energy of purpose and of character, a 



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conquest which is far more valuable than all 
the knowledge of the schools." 

We should make a sharp distinction between 
technical, industrial, and manual training 
These terms are so often confounded, that 
many of the controversies now existing are due 
to the misunderstanding of their meaning. A 
technically trained man is one who is educated 
both in the theory and practice of at least one 
of the many branches of engineering which re- 
quires the mastery of an extended course of 
study. The word industrial applies to the 
learning of a specific trade, or the thorough 
preparation for any useful pursuit, however 
humble. It is now necessary to select a name 
for those schools which on the one hand give 
a much broader training, not necessarily aim- 
ing so much at a special branch as at intelli- 
gence and general culture in more than one 
direction, and which on the other hand fall far 
below the mathematical theories and elaborate 
researches of the technical schools. Such is 
the manual training school. It teaches no 
trade, prepares for no profession, but gives a 
wide training in both practical arts and in liter- 
ary and commercial fields. It stimulates and 
develops the mind, trains the eye and the 
hand, and opens all those windows of the 
mind by which one can look out upon the 
activities of life. In short, manual training 
has again been defined as "Training in 
thought-expression, by other means than ge.s- 
ture and verbal language, in such a carefully 
graded course of study as shall also provide 
adequate training for the judgement and exe- 
cutive faculty." 

The specific object of manual training is to 
make the hand do the greatest variety of work 
with the highest skill, to develop to its greatest 
extent all its untrained powers. In doing this 
we often do just the opposite of learning a 
trade. To learn one thing develops only cer- 
tain powers. If you tie one hand of a child it 
is impossible that it will develop to its full 
power, as it would were it to have years of 
constant practice. We especially note the 
possibilities of human development when we 
see in the case of the loss of any of the senses 
how wonderfully developed the others become. 
Hut let us beware lest, like the eyeless fish in 
subterranean streams, we by constant disuse of 
our natural gifts, lose them. 

Manual training does not mean learning a 
trade any more than history means learning 
a trade. There should be trade schools and 
there should be technical schools. But the 
object of the manual training school is to teach 
the art of doing. It trains the eye. It trains 
the hand. One does not take the study in 
chemistry here in our High School expecting 
to become a chemist. Neither does one in the 
manual training school take a course in carpen- 
try expecting to become a carpenter. It is not 
desirable to learn a trade too early. Learning 
a trade confines and dwarfs. It calls from us 
all that does not appear necessary for the 
work we have chosen. We have often been 
told that because we shall find no special use 
for a study in the future, it is no reason for 
dropping it. Our education must be symmet- 
rical and we must train ourselves in those 
vnays that will give us the broadest prepara- 
tion for complete life. 

There is no longer any room for doubt that 
where the reasoning powers are trained by 



mental processes alone, without the aid of the 
eye and the hand, and while the brain is filled 
with rules and facts, the application of the 
principles taught is rendered difficult. The 
pupil is not taught to make those applications 
nor does he see any use in the principles. They 
are to him only theories, and, therefore, a mere 
matter of memory. Life would be a monoto- 
nous affair if there were no practice of theory. 

The Greeks talked of a double system of 
natural laws, one system discoverable by con- 
templation, and the other founded upon experi- 
ments. Though no one to-day holds to this 
old fallacy of a double system of natural laws, 
we have something like it in the incomplete 
union of theory and practice. 

Let a pupil, beside simply training his brain 
powers, take, for instance, a thorough course 
of shop training, learning the use of tools 
under a skilled master, learning to work well 
in wood and metal, learning exactness, first by 
making a drawing, then by working exactly to 
that drawing, and the theories learned in 
books will be applied, and when he goes out 
into the world to fight the battle of life for 
himself, he will be trained .so that he will be a 
master, not a slave; a leader, not a follower. 

It scarcely needs illustration to prove how 
much power a man has accjuired, yet that 
power comes only with patient, self-sacrificing 
labor. We smile as we read of the hero of old 
who commanded the sea to obey him. And 
yet we say now to the lightning : "Carry this 
message," and hardly have we spoken when the 
answer is received. Man has been represented 
as wresting from nature her treasures by his 
supreme power, but it is only by yielding to 
nature first that she reveals herself to him. 

So it is necessary that we not only train our 
minds but develop in every member of our 
bodies the highest dexterity, that we may be 
able to perform our part in the manipulation 
and control of all the forces of nature which a 
wise creator has entrusted to mankind. 

U'oncsfer, Mass. 



— Tte following is the only verse in the Bible 
that contains the alphabet : "And I, even I, 
Artaxerxes, the king, do make a decree to all 
the treasures which are beyond the river, that 
whatsoever Ezra, the priest, the scribe of the 
law of the God of heaven, shall require of you 
it will be done speedily." — Ezra, vii , 21. 

— It is e.stimated at the War Department 
that if any foreign power should tackle this 
country it would be confronted by the enor- 
mous total of 7,000,000 fighting men. Of 
course it would take some time to put that 
host in the field. 

— A gold dollar can be beaten into a sheet 
thirty-three feet long and sixteen and one-half 
feet wide. It is first necessary to get hold of 
the gold dollar. 




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N. B. — Special Attention Given to Ordering Fine Tools and Instruments. 



Davis & Co. 

Sell Fine Ready Made 

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MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 



Custon:i department 

Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 
^'Good Bread aud Cake Duth Whet the Ap- 
petite." 

KiNE Bakery ! ! 

HIGHEST gCALlTT ONLY. 

G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASAKT ST. 

All GoodH Hot at 3.30. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold, Silver, Hra88 and Nickel Plating;, 

Foligliing, Bronzing^ and Lacquering;, 

Replating: Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PROP. 

Over Collar Laundry, Barton Place. Worcester, Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Place. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDEKE1> IN SC- 
PEKIOB STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., PROPS. 



W. A. ENGLAND, 

DE.^LEK IN 

FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

KEPAIKIJJG PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



GUY'S * CROCKERY * STORE, 

221 Main Street. 

COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHING. 



Decorated Dinner Sets, $5.25, $6.87, $8.67, $9.50. 

Tea Sets, $2.87, $3.50, $4.25. 
Toilet Sets, $1.89, $2.50, $3.50. 

IMMENSE STOCK 

Silver Plated Goods, Lamps, Vases, Etc., German Cooking Ware. 

GOODS SOLD FOR CASH OR INSTALLMENT. 

Guy's Crockery Store. 

2'^l IvlAlN STKKET, VVOKCKSTKK. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CH.^KI.ES H. WOODCOCK. 



"WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 



The "Wright Counter Shaft and Clutch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
scarcely perceptible shock or jar, and decidedly the best cievice for the purpose ever m the market Every one inter- 
ested is cordially invited to come and see it. The "Woodcock i;niversttl Door Opener." By simply pressing 
a button on either side of the door, it causes the door to swing open. Can be quickly and cheaply apphed to anv 
door. Must be seen to be appreciated. A Carpenter's Guage for Hanging I»oors accurately a 
No carpenter can afford to be without it. "The Swivel Crotch Center.'_^ Nc 
Hundreds of dollars saved. "A Cuff Holder." The cheapest and best < 



„ „^. ^, , „.id very quickly. 

_.- broken drills by work catch- 
ing, iiunareasoiaouarssavea. -a lu.i no...e.. x „c ...«i^=. » if '•J"^'''^"i ^Vf" ?-'''"'*!S,'i™r,'S^^ 

th? most reasonable terms for all kinds of special machinery. Repairs promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 



No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 



MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College ol Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK KESIOENCE, 89 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 



MISS C. KENNARD, 

-fLadies' <i Hair i Dressing^ 

CHILDBENS HAIK-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Grouf8 Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 NIAIN STRKET. 
Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A Sl'ECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

BEAH & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

2-i5 Ji^Axiri. St., I^oom. 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and g uarantee satisfaction. 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS^* 

No. 387 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable^ 

*«WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 main ST. 
Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 



H^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

I^To. 2 "^Tv^alrL-v^-t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order, 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 



L I Q H T 

Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 

Puree of Celery. 

Boil two heads of celery in phnty of salted 
water, an onion, a blade of mace and some 
whole pepper. When done drain them and 
pass them through a hair sieve. Melt a piece 
of butter in a saucepan, mix a little flour with 
it, then the celery pulp and work it well on 
the fire, adding a little cream of milk and 
some of the gravy of the ducks. 
Fruit Cake Without Eggs. 

One cup each of butter, brown sugar, mo- 
lasses and sweet milk, four cups of flour, one 
pound of raisins, one teaspoonful each of 
cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and soda. 
Parsnip Fritters. 

There is no more delightful way of serving 
cold mashed parsnip left from dinner for 
breakfast than in balls. Mix up the cold par- 
snips with the white of an egg and a 
little cream to hold it in shape, and mould it 
into little balls, which should be dipped one 
by one into the beaten yolk of an egg, and 
finally dropped into gently steaming hot fat 
and fried three or four minutes till they are 
of a nice brown color. 
Good Breakfast Muffins. 

Break two eggs in a bowl and beat till very 
light, add a pinch of salt and by degrees three 
cups of sweet milk and one quart of flour in 
which is well mixed three teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder. Beat this mixture very hard 
and nearly fill the gem pans, which have been 
well greased, and bake fifteen or twenty min- 
utes in a hot oven. If these are made right, 
they will be found delicious. 
A Lesson in Roasting. 

And now for the lesson in roasting. Sup- 
pose we take a calf's heart, and make a dish 
which for economy and delicacy is not half 
well enough known, although it will be after 
a few hundred more girls have learned how 
to prepare it. You wash the heart thoroughly 
in cold water, to remove the blood, and cut ou 
the veins and arteries. This may not be 
a pleasant task to every one, still it is no more 
unpleasant than preparing fowls or game. 
Make a stufiing with one tablespoonful of 
bread crumbs, one tablespoonful of chopped 
onions, one salt-spoonful of powered sage, 
one-half a salt-spoonful of salt, and a tiny bit 
of pepper. This you may moisten with milk 
or water. After it is prepared put it into the 
cavity caused by the removal of the arteries, 
and sew the edges together, Slice an onion 
and brown it in a tablespoonful of clarified 
dripping; skim out the pieces of onion, re- 
serving them for use, brown the heart in sea- 
soned fat, then put it with the onion in a deep 
dish, and half cover with boiling water. Bake 
in a hot oven one hour, basting every ten 
minutes; add more water if necessary. When 
the heart is done you may make a gravy by 
thickening the water that is left in the dish 
with a little flour wet in cold water, just as you 
did in the mutton gravy. You will find this a 
very nice occasional dish for dinner, and a 
very inexpensive one. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. MELLEN, 571 Main St., 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 

* NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

ClaUin'a best Cabinet Photographs, l»2 a doi. 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Mai n Street, Walker's Block. 

HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

manufactureks of 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FRAMES RE-GILDED. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 Foster St reet, Opp. Rink, W^orcester, Mass. 

* FIRST NATIONE FIRE INSURANCE CO. » 

Office, First National Bank Building, 

-4XO ^»Xa,i23. St., T^Torcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATM AN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 



C. A. BOYDEN, 

Plcttare Krame Nl'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engravings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Park St., Worcester. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattress of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 Park St., Worcester. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTURE FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
220 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



LE * JOLLY i FRENCH i DYEING 

AND i CLEANSING * HOUSE. 

First -Class Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Grois & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from I ^ I 
LIGHT, and bring it with g 
you and get 10 per cent dis- .^ 
count from regular prices. g I 

C. ' tT MELVIN, PROPRIETOR, WALNUT ST. 



MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, np one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 




TENNIS! 

A. L. BURBANK & CO, 

Sole authorized outtUters of the 

Worcester Tennis Club 

And all the Schools, Colleges and Leading Clubs of 
Worcester County. 

Complete Sets, $5.50 

AND UPWARDS. 
All the popular Rackets. 

SLOCUM, SEARS, TATE. 
Manufacturers of the CELEBRATED 

YORK RACKKT, 

Strung with Red and White English Gut, $4.50. Equal 
to any J>5.5o Racquet. Liberal Discount to raemlsers of 
Clubs. 

FLANNEL SUITS. 

Long Tronsers, $3.00 to $8.00. 

Short Trousers, $2.00 to $5.00. 
SILK SASHES, 

$1.75 to $3.50. 

BLAZERS, CAPS, SILK BELTS, 

SWEATERS, JERSEYS. 
SPORTING SHOES of every description. 

Battiiog Suits & Tights 

Sole Agents for A. G. Spaulding & BruB. 
BASE BALL AND TENNIS. 

A. L BURBANK & CO., 

351. :tv£a.irL Street. 



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About the House. 



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articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion whicli would Ix' interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Kditor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*»If there is any suspicion of carpet bugs, 
do not have a carpet relaid until you have wet 
the cracks of the Door for a distance of a 
foot or more from the sides of tlie room with 
the solution of corrosive sublimate, and the 
edges of the carpets with benzine and car- 
bolic acid. 

*»After removing your shoes put them in 
correct position by pulling up the uppers and 
lapping the flap over and fastening one or two 
buttons. Then pinch the instep down to the 
toe, bringing the fullness up instead of allow- 
ing it to sag down into the slovenly breadth 
of half-worn footgear. A boot that is kicked 
off and left to lie where it falls, or is thrown 
into the closet, will soon lose shape and gloss. 

*»In cleaning small onions for chow-chow 
or other purposes, leave them an hour in hot 
water, and they will pop out of their jackets 
like grapes, and will not burn your eyes while 
doing it. 

*,To avoid the odor which too often fills 
the house when cabbage or other green vege- 
tables are boiling, follow these simple direc- 
tions : Put your cabbage in a net, and whpn 
you have boiled it five minutes in the first pot 
of water, lift it out, drain for a few seconds, 
and place carefully in a second pot, which you 
must have full of fast-boiling water on the 
stove. Empty the first 'water away, and boil 
your cabbage till tender in the second. 

*,To wash dishes quickly : Dishpan nearly 
full of hot water, and a white cloth; spread a 
large, thick towel over the table at one side. 
Wash dishes quickly and turn upon the towel 
to drain. Dry knives, forks and spoons, wash 
and wipe pans, etc. Pour out the water, 
spread wiping towel over the dishes and leave 
them. After a while you may set them away 
if you like, for if the water was warm and 
clean, they will be dry and shining. 

*#White sheepskin rugs, when soiled, may 
be cleaned by scrubbing with soap and water. 
Afterwards dry thoroughly in the sun. 

%Fasten one of the cheap, three-fold towel 
racks securely to the kitchen wall, near the 
stove, and it will serve to hang your jelly-bag 
on, which should be provided with four loops 
of strong tape in place of the usual strings. 
Slip the two loops opposite each other on tlie 
outer arms of the rail, and the alternate ones 
on the middle arm. You will find it far more 
convenient than tying the bag to the backs or 
legs of chairs. 




The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



THE FREEZER "BOOM." 



People know a good thing when they see it. 
Extraordinary sales of the "Gem" proof 
positive. 

Saturday, the last day of our practical demonstra- 
tion—make it memorabli— The(;em,what else could 
it l>e riglitly named ? What but a "Gem" could 
freeze cream solid, smooth, perfect in so httle time- 
six minutes t \'(iu don't believe it .' Come and see. 
That's the record made by a dozen watches, every 
hour in the day. No guess work about it. Great 
"bill of fare" for this last day. Ice cream free as 
the air for those who are pleased to partake. 
Dainty Dishes. 

A recipe book of ninety-six pages by Mrs. Korer, 
of the Philadelphia Cooking School, free with each 
freezer. Over two hundred recipes lur Plain, Phila- 
delphia, N'eapoHtan, Delmonico, French and Eng- 
li-ih creams, water ices, sherbets, frozen fruits, frozen 
beverages, granites, frozen puddings and desserts. 

Gem Ice Chipper, 46 cents. 

Gem Ice Shave, 46 cents. 



THE GEM FREEZER. 
It Uses Less Ice. It Freezes More Quickly. 

It produces a better cream than any other freezer on 
earth. Let those who have no business of their own 
to give attention stand back and "growl" as the 
"Gem" moves along out of sight of the rest of the 
procession— but not in the rear. "It was ever thus." 
This is bound to be ice cream week, can't help 
it— hot weather— July 4th— dry time, everything con- 
spires to make it so. Ice cream and cake tools, 
therefore, to the.end of the chapter. 

Melon Moulds for Frozen Puddings, &c. 

2 pint, 65 cents. 
2'-3 pint, 75 cents. 

3 pint, 85 cents. 
3'i pint, 95 cents. 

4 pint, $1.00. 

Ice Cream Bricks for Packing. 

2 pint. 

3 pint. 

4 pint. 

5 pint. 

Ice cream dishes, 50 cents. 

Icecream scoops, 20 and 25 cents. 

Ice picks, ID cents. 

Press for fruit extracts, a dozen kinds, from 25 cents 

to54-25. 

Ice crushing machines, $4.50 and $7.00. 



Ice Bags and Mallets. 

Ornamental Frosting Tubes. 
Charlotte de Vasse Pans. 
"Turk's Head" Cake Moulds. 
Angel Cake Pans, four sizes. 

Lady Finger Pans. 
"Keystone" Cake Beater. 



CROCKERY DEPARTMENT. 

Special. 

French china ice cream sets, handsome assorted 
hand-painted decorations, 12 cannelle plates and 
tray to match, f 5.00. 

Roman Punch Dish. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



15 

Exterior Complications. 

*» Some of the new lace collars and cuffs 
are so deep as to merit the title of jacket sets. 
The collars are extended to the depth of a 
yoke and the cuffs reach the elbows. 

*, The Indian silk fronts are also much 
used for teagowns, especially a deep old- 
rose, worked all over with white mar- 
guerites, closely clustered together for the 
border, and sparsely scattered the rest of the 
depth. 

*» Jet embroideries are in great demand. 
They are applied to net, chiffon crepe, silk, 
satin and velvet, as well as to moire. The 
beads are very closely set, and the patterns are 
so arranged that they stand out well and 
boldly. 

*» Grenadine is also used as a ground work 
for embroideries of all kinds, but the newest 
fashion is without doubt bold scroll designs 
after the renaissance order, carried out princi- 
pally in cord and gold, shaped to the require- 
ments of skirt and bodice, and so cleverly ap- 
plied they seem to be part and parcel of the 
original material. White satins thus treated 
were among the most beautiful dresses worn 
at a ball. 

*» Sleeves having grown longer, gloves are 
becoming shorter. The rule still is that no 
part of the arm is to be exposed, and the 
glove must extend up under the sleeve. Sufede 
and Saxony gloves are still worn, stitched in 
the same color on the back, or, less stylishly, 
in a contrasting color. 

% All hats now worn, whatever the shape, 
are trimmed with flowers and ribbon. 

*, Among the summer dresses ^cru nain- 
sooks will be very largely worn, embroidered 
in white or color, and also ifcru gauzes em- 
broidered in white, which are used for very 
elegant gowns mounted on changeable silk, 
accompanied by a hat of dcru straw with 
flowers to match the glacd silk, and a parasol 
of the silk. 

*^ Black hoisery is still very generally worn, 
though not to the exclusion of mode, tan and 
gray shades, that match the low shoes and 
slippers of russet leather and undressed kid 
now in vogue. Black silk and balbriggan 
stockings are worn on cool days, while the 
sheer lisle-thread stockings of pure onyx black 
are chosen for summer weather. Narrow- 
striped black and white or tan and ^cru stock- 
ings are to be worn with gray, black or tan 
shoes, though the preference is for those of 
solid color. With evening dresses the hosiery 
and slippers may match the dress in color, 
but the economical as well as refined fancy is 
for having them match the gloves instead. 

*» Summer woollen gowns made by French 
modistes have full sliirt fronts, with Direc- 
toire frills and bands of metallic galloon, in- 
stead of severely plain English waistcoats. 
These full fronts are becoming to slight fig- 
ures, and they are made of light silk, either 
dcru pongee, or perhaps the dcru linen batiste, 
which is again in favor. The woollen bodice 
has a jacket front cut off square at the waist- 
line, while the ba k and sides are fitted quite 
long, and cut in six square-cornered tabs ; the 
full silk front is made as long as the sides, 
and trimmed below the waist. 



L I (i HT 

Facts for Fine Costumes. 



Scene — AVw ] 'ori- City. Salon of Sigtiora Pattia. 

Enter Mile. Trillet. 

Ah ! Bon jour, madame. Pardon, am I late for my lesson ? 
Yes, a little late ; but wliat is the matter ; you seem troubled .'' 
Oh, Signora, I am so discouraged! I shall never, never learn to sing decently, 
and I do SO want to. 

Why, Mile. Trillet, what has happened '> I think you have a most excellent voice, 
and I hope to soon correct your bad breathing. 

That's just it, madam. I cannot breathe at all as you wished me to. I have to 
take breath twice as often. Oh, I never CAN sing. 

Ma cherie, do not be discouraged, but let me show you once more how to breathe. 
There, this way — see .' Take plenty of time to fill your lungs with air, and then let the 
breath out very, very slowly — so ; just as you need it. Just see how long I held it and 
talking all the time. 

Oh, oui ; I see; but I cannot get as much airinto my lungs as you do, and what I get 
in goes out very quickly, too. I feel almost stifled when singing. I never DID have 
much breath anyway. 

Did you have plenty of breath when you were a child. Mile ? 
Oh, oui, madame ; but not for many years. 
Excusez-moi, Mile., but may I ask what size corset you wear? 
I wear No. 20, Signora. 
And what is the make? 
I do not know ; they are imported. 

Now, cherie, pardon if I am very plain with you. You can never control your 
breath with that corset on. It is several sizes too small, and oh, dear, now I feel of it, 
how stiff it is ! I would as soon wear a board. 

Why, madame, what do YOU wear? Is there anything better? I supposed I had 
the best ones in the world. 

For many years I had corsets made to sing in, having elastic sides and various 
other devices purporting to be of service, but last year the house which does my cus- 
tom work sent me something new. 

Oh, what is it ? Do you like it, Signora ? 

I liked it so well I have never worn any other kind since. The corset was made of 
one thickness of PONGEE SILK and very flexible bones of the choicest WHALE- 
BONE. 

May I see one of these wonderful corsets anywhere in New York? 
Yes, indeed, but I have an extra pair here; just the size you OUGHT to wear. 
There ! how is this for a corset ? 

A corset, Signora ! Well, well! I should hardly imagine it was meant for a cor- 
set. It issoftas a HANDKERCHIEF. 

Now, Mile., please take this home and put it on. To-morrow morning come in at 
10 o'clock and take your lesson, and I shall be surprised if your breathing is not im- 
proved. 

Where are these corsets made, Signora ? 

It is called the Royal Worcester Pongee Corset. It is manufactured in Worces- 
ter, Mass. Here is their card. You will see that they have a retail store, 328 Main 
street, Worcester. 

Well, Signora, I am very much obliged to you for your interest in my welfare. I 
will come in to-morrow morning and report. 

Adieu, Signora. 

Adieu, Mile. 



DR. CONANT'S 

* COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS ^v 

ALSO 

Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths area luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours, 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 to ; and 7 to 9 p. m. M KS. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 24^ Schou'l Street. VVorcester. Mass. 

If you want a piano that will last a life-time, 
get the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C.F.HAMSON&CO., 317MA1NST, 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 SoQthbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAIVlS & SON. 

HAVE YOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 

ONLY »15. 'RA'MTO^? ONLY »15. 

ONLY «15. iO/Al-^ J V-'O.'^ ONLY «15. 

Headqaarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's 1^ Music i House, 

43 PLEASANT STREET. 

ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 3!J PEAKL STREET. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3. 



S. H. SHATTUCK. 



F. O. BUSHNELL. 



NEW KODAKS 



"Yon press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New StyUv. iiud Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THE EASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. ROCHESTEK, N. Y. 




ly I(l H T 

Laughagraphs. 

Feminine Generalship. 

Miss DkFasiiio.n- (breathles.sly)— O mother! 
It won't do to wait three weeks liefore having 
my party. We must send out the invitations 
at once, and have it this week. 

Mks. De Fashion :— Goodness me ! What's 
the hurry ? 

Miss De Fashion :— That odious Miss Ue 
I'retty, whom Mr. Richfellow so much ad- 
mires, has a boil on lier nose. — jVi-w i'ori 
IlWi/y. 
Let Us Draw the Curtain. 

Smith : — What are you loafing around 
town at this time of night for ? 

Brown:— 'Fraid to go home. Wife told 
me to be sure and remember something, and 
I've forgotten what it is. 

"It wasn't dry goods or groceries, was it ?" 

"No." 

"Baby food, tacks or theatre tickets.'"' 

"No ; but I have just thought of it." 

"What was it?" 

"She wanted me to remember to come home 
early." — Cliicago Jountal. 
Evidence Enough. 

Judge : — Are you guilty or not guilty ? 

Prisoner :— Not guilty. 

Judge (to witness) : — How much was the 
stolen watch worth ? 

Witness : — Your honor, it was worth 5150. 

Priso.n'er (taking the watch from his 
pocket) : — That shows that he can't be be- 
lieved. Do you think that watch is worth 
%\t,Q'>— Jeweller's Weekly. 
Quick Conversion. 

Small Bov :— What'U I do with this money- 
bank .' 

Mamma : — Put it away, of course. It has 
a dollar in it that your aunt gave you, and 
some change that your papa and I put in. 

"Not now. There isn't any money in it 
now, I spent it." 

"Spent it ? What did you do that for ?" 

"Why, the minister preached so hard against 
hoarding up riches, that I got converted 
and spent what I had."^AVny York Weekly. 
Willing to Let it Drop. 

An old negro in Albany was brought up on 
a charge of stealing and tried in the .Superior 
Court during Judge Wright's time. 

The case was presented to the court by a 
prominent young attorney, the .solicitor, and 
the old negro was ordered to stand up. 

"Have you a lawyer.'"' asked the court. 

"Naw, sah." 

"Are you able to employ one ?" 

"Naw. sah." 

"Do you want a lawyer to defend your 
case ?" 

"Not particklar, sah." 

"Well, what do you propose to do about the 
case ?" 

"We — II — II," with a yawn, as if wearied of 
the thing, "I'm willin' ter drap de case 's 
fur as I'm consarned." — Atlanta Constitu- 
tion. 
He Knew His Wife. 

"Here is a birthday present from your wife, 
sir." 

"Very well; I'll send you a check in the 
morning. — St. Joseph News. 



]2_ 

G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S., 

Room 13, Knowles Building, 

niiS Main St., Woicesster. 

I^'^Elevator. 



MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

:tr.!J Main Slre.it. Corner Mnple, Worcester, MasR. 

I-&"Oftlce linurs-i)tol2 A. M.; 2 to 4 p. M. Treat- 

nient at the liniiies uf p.atients by appointment if desired. 



BELLE E. BROWN, 

S3e :^/£a,irL St., 
Kashionable rvllllinery. 

Trimmed Hats a specialty. Miss Brown devotes her 
personal attention to every customer. Her long experi- 
ence in this city and her well-known taste is a sufficient 
guarantee of satisfaction. 



WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 



O-eo. C Creelz».a,n, Principal, 

44 Front Street, Worcester. Mass. 
I[;^Typewriting done at reasonable rates during the 



Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

ROOM 30. - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

DENTIST 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $S per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

([^^A lady assistant will be in attendance. 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
E. L. S U M N E R, 

^ KROEGER&SONS S 
I WHEELOCK&CO. i 

379 Main St., Worcester, <Over Putuaiu & ThurB- 
tuu*§ Keataurant.) 

OR. KKNISON, 
326 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Corns, Bunions and Bad Nails 
Treated Without Pain. 

Separate Rooms for Ladies and Gents. 

OFFICK HOURS. 8 A. M. to 12, 1 to 5 P. M. 



Mrs. Dr.Wm. Lee 

339 Main St., 

Burnside Building, 
Room 5. 

Office hours: 9 to 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




^0 

LADIES 

WHY WILL YOU 

Spend several months' time and work for 
what can be learned in a couple of days. 

Our new complete Taylor's System will cut 
any kind of dress or outside garment. Price 
$5.00. Taught free from now to July 15, and 
also taught by appointment out of town. 

Open from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. 

Wednesday and Friday until 10 P. M. for the 
benefit of those who cannot call during the 
day. 

iviRS. L. m:. Sirring, 

87 Orange Street. 



A sunny, well-appointed Dining Room 
makes cheery the whole house. The best 
investment you ever make in house furnish- 
ing provides substantial and handsome Side- 
board, Table and Chairs for your Dining 
Room. Artistic merit, solidity, convenience 
and variety mark the new designs for 1890. 
Solid Oak Dining Room Sets, including a 
Sideboard, from $40 up. It will please you 
to look them over in our spacious ware- 
rooms. If you buy, we guarantee satisfac- 
tion, and deliver free in Boston and its 
suburbs, and the depots. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 

46 Canal Street, DAntAn 
139 Friend Street, DUblUll. 

CALIGRAPH ! 

PAKIS EXPOSITION 1 

HIGHEST ATVARD!! 

GOI-D MEDAL M! 

Secured by the Caligraph ! 



100,000 
DAILY USERS 



LI <i HT 

Out and About. 




Single Case, No. 1, 
Double Case, No. Z, 
Special, No. 3, 



There is a social club ; no matter where ; 
'twould be unkind to mention location or 
names. The usual dozen married couples 
were enjoying games of whist. Then came a 
lull. The subject of ''kissing before engage- 
ments for marriage'' came up. Every woman 
present stoutly declared that she had never 
been kissed until after the troth was plighted. 
One of the men had a poor memory. "We 
used to kiss, sometimes, didn't we .'" he re- 
marked to his wife. "No, sir," she replied, 
with insincere indignation, "you never kissed 
me until after we were engaged ; you tried to, 
and you fought for the privilege, but you 
never succeeded." "Is that so?" the husband 

remarked; "I've kissed so many " 

"What's that ?" the wife broke in. There was 
a pause ; a sad, sad pause. Intense, but sup>- 
pressed excitement was visible on the faces of 
the other married men. "I say," said the 
poor man, "I've kissed you so many times 
that I can't remember when I began." Then 
the game began again, and misdeals were 
frequent. 

While Hon. Mr. Blank waspracticing law a 
boy sidled to his desk. "Take off your hat," 
Mr. Blank said. "I ain't got my hat on," re- 
plied the boy. "What do you mean by con- 
tradicting me?" demanded Mr. Blank. "I 
ain't got ray hat on," persisted the boy ; "it's 
my brother Joe's hat." "Oh," Mr. Blank said, 
as he repressed a smile ; "well, the next time 
you have an errand here, bring Joe with you 
so that he can take off his hat." 



The American Writing Machine Company, 

HAKTFOKD, CONN. 

Brauch Offices: — 227 Broadway, N. Y.: 14 W. 4th 

Street, Cincinnati, O.; 1002 Arch Street, Poiladelphia. 



A couple of Worcester's handsome doctors 
met on Elm street, the other day. "How are 
you, doc ?" said one. "Hello, doctor," re- 
plied the other; "I've got some news for you. 
I'm 38 years old, I had twice as much prac- 
tice this month as I had last, and I'm going to 
get married in July." His friend put his arm 
around him, and grasping one of his hands, 
whispered, "It is hard, doctor, but cheer up, 
old fellow, you'll live through it." 

With Worcester's beautiful drives, well 
kept roads, and great diversity of scenery, 
the man without a horse misses half the fruits 
of living. A horse can be made an expensive 
luxury, but with economy, if a man will take 
care of it himself, a horse and buggy will not 
cost much more to maintain than cigar bills. 
Many Worcesterians are living in apparent 
style, horseless and yardless, when the same 
amount of money would give them a com- 
fortable home, a mile or so from the city, and 
a horse to drive them to town. 



Few men realize the joy a horse will give a 
family, particularly the women folks, who, 
without one, either have to walk it or horse- 
car ride it. While the open horse-car is hardly 
a romantic chariot, and while there is little 
exhilaration in being pulled over familiar 
streets, the open horse-cars to people of mod- 
erate circumstances mean an opportunity to 
enjoy a healthful ride at the cost of two glasses 
of soda water. 

Better sing "Home, Sweet Home," so that 
folks who hear it will stop to listen and be- 
lieve that the words you sing are true, than to 
try to screech out a Nilsson song which even 
Nilsson in her palmiest days was afraid of. 



"1 spiimiM 



NANTUCKET, MASS. 
Open the year around. Rates, #2.50 to $3.50 per day. 
CHARLES H. MOWKY, Proprietor. 

II^^SEND FOR CIRCULARS. 



PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— :0:— 

-^ Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* TRAYELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 



C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Established 1865.) 

The best goods, the most honorable dealing, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS AND M:USIC. 

464 MAIN STREET. 




J. B. Woodwortli, 

* ARCHITECT* 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 




FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

in Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 

NEAR SUMMER. WORCESTER, MASS. 



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^Continued from Eighth Page."] 
Carnelian and White. 

The Commencement season at Cornell has 
been unusually brilliant this year. duests 
from out-of-town were plentiful, and more stu- 
dents than ever before remained in Ithaca. 
The extraordinary attraction was, of course, 
the boat-race, which resulted, as everybody 
expected, in a brilliant Cornell victory. Class 
day was a brilliant feature of the week and the 
class of '90 entertained their friends royally. 
The Senior promenade brought many out-of- 
town visitors and was charming from every 
point of view. Considerably over two hundred 
degrees were awarded on Commencement day. 

A feature of the week, not generally known, 
but highly appreciated by those who learned 
of it, was the gift of $4,000 from iMr. J. J. 
Hagerman of Colorado Springs, to be used in 
fitting up the new athletic grounds. Next year 
Cornell will have as fine an athletic field as 
any college in America. 

The Varsity and Freshmen crews went to 
New London, Commencement night, and have 
been adding lustre to Cornell's aquatic glory. 
For the first time in fourteen years, crews 
representing Cornell and Vale have met, and 
in the ensuing struggle the Cornell freshmen 
were victorious over Vale's men, and Cornell's 
joy is simply unbounded. The '\'arsity crew 
had an easy time with Pennsylvania, and Col- 
umbia did not enter a \'arsity crew. With a 
new boat house and a new athletic field, Cor- 
nellians feel confident that the next few years 
will see Cornell lead in athletics as well as on 
the water. 
Under Greylock's Shadow. 

Mr. Louie E. Ware of Cornell stopped here 
on his way home last Saturday. 

Rev. Charles M. Southgate was present at 
"Hi Juvenes" on last Friday morning. 

Mr. E. N. K. Mears represented the 
Williams Weekly board at the banquet of the 
Rejected Manuscript Club, on Friday even- 
ing. 

College has closed, but as all the Worcester 
boys will stay to commencement, they will 
not be home until next Thursday. 

Mr. Alfred P. Perkins responded to one of 
the toasts at the sophomore banquet last even- 
ing at the Taconic Inn. 

From Saturday morning to Wednesday 
night there will be exercises, concerts, recep- 
tions and kindred attractions at almost every 
hour of the day and night. This is the busy 
season in a college town. 



Mr. A. S. Allen acted as organist at the 
Children's Day service at West L'pton, last 
Sunday. 

Irwing Brothers' big show is at Agricultural 
Park. It is a genuine old style one-ring cir- 
cus, with quality instead of quantity. The per- 
formers are artists, the clowns funny, and the 
horses noble specimens of trained intelligence. 
The closing entertainments will be given to- 
day. 



— About 5000 barrels per day of crude petro- 
leum are consumed for fuel in Chicago. 
In the use of this oil for fuel about 500,000 
tons of soft coal per annum are supposed to 
be displaced, counting three barrels of oil as 
the equivalent of one ton of coal. 



HEALTH Be warned. Keep your bath-rooms, clos- 

IS BETTER ets, sinks, waste pipes, etc., free from those 

THAN WEALTH deadly poisonous gases. Prevent Typhoid 
Fever, Diphtheria and all infectious diseases by purifying your prem- 
ises with 

OxgKqs 

DISINFECTANT. 

The only odorless, non-poisonous and absolutely safe deodorizer. 
It never fails. No family should be without it. It is so economical 
all can afford to use it. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 26 India square, Boston. 



Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine Etchiings. 

The latest publications and the largest collection ever 
shown in Worcester. 

3S3 3s^.A.IiT ST. 

TURKIJH BAlTn5. 



F. W. FIEI.n, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 

S A.M. tog p. M. Sundays, 

S to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House, 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New Vork Training School, gives 

^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOCK 

Which must lie dipused of to make room for certain im- 
provements I intend making, and new stock I must buy. 

I find on the slielves of my store some $5,cxx) worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to till up your Hbraries. 

The books I have, the money and the room I want. 
Call and look over the stock and have what you wish at 
almost your own price. 

GEO. L. SANFORD, 

IKOl-RlliTOR OF THK 

Sanford & Company Bookstore, 

:!(;4 M.VIN STKKKT. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury. There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to ii a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Miss H. M. PROCTOR, 

92 .Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 

* STORAGE * 

Metropolitan .Storage Company, corner Southbridge 
and Beacon streets. Worcester. .Storage for Sleighs, 
Carriages, Furniture. Merchandise, and all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and well ventilated. .'Vpply 
at building. J. H. DICKIE. M'g'r. 




WURCESTER. 



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LTOHT 




WHITNEY'S 

LINEN STORE. 



Great Sale of 



Summer Blankets, 



$2.50 Per Pair. 



MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



LICiMT 



A. W. TIFFANY 





-^ Ocalist i and t Optician ^ 

Examination free. Satisfaction snarant«ed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester. Mass. 

EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fashionable Hat, 
Fine Furnishing 
& Athletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 



LIFE AND ENDOWMENT 

POLICIES. 
-^-COMBINED ? LIFE * AND * ACCIDENT^- 

Term Annuity and Coupon 

Annuity Endowments. 

Justus E. Allen, 

Agent: The Travelers Insurance Company. 



The artist paints so wondrous fine 

That he makes a famous name ; 
The printer cannot draw a line, 

But he gets there just the same. 
If for a printer you shouldjSeek, 

Needing one whose work is good, 
You'll find him at 3 Maple street, 

And his name is O. B. WOOD. 



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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1890. 



No. 



19 



Fourth of July orators throughout the 
country were recently given a general invi- 
tation to advocate the endorsement and sup- 
port of the effort being made by the Society 
of the Sons of the American Revolution, to 
raise a fund for the purpose of sending to 
France some testimonial of the regard of the 
American people, in a spirit similar to that 
which prompted them to send us the Bartholdi 
statue. It is a grand idea and makes every 
American heart beat with cordial feeling for 
the people of Lafayette. But when reflection 
turns upon the length of time that it took to 
secure the money merely for the pedestal of 
the Bartholdi statue, or of the neglected tomb 
of Grant at Riverside, or even to tlie Pilgrim 
statue at Plymouth, which was so long in 
getting to completion, it seems as if we are 
likely to wait a while before we send any testi- 
monial across the water. The truth is, we 
Americans are absorbed in money-getting. 
That is a polite way of saying that we are 
somewhat selfish. Yet when something starts 
us, we are generous enough with our dollars. 
Let us wait a little and finish up what we 
have on hand before we attempt anythingjas 
great as the testimonial to the French ought 
to be. We must remember that the leaders of 
the Confederacy are talking of furnishing the 
funds to build the Grant monument. 



It begins to look as if we might get our 
electric lighting done at reasonable rates. The 
city council offers to pay forty-five cents per 
light until some other price is arranged ; and 
this means that an attempt will be made to get 
the lighting done at a lower price, by some 
other company, if the one at present doing the 
work does not want to take the gilt edge off its 
stock. Worcester may look forward to light- 
ing its homes, as well as its streets, by electric- 
ity, if all goes well. Out in Pittsfield, a place 
about one-fifth the size of Worcester, they are 
lighting private residences by incandescent 
lamps, metering the current, and the sul> 
scribers say that it costs less than gas, while 
between the light from a gas-jet and that from 
a shaded incandescent lamp there can of 
course be no comparison. Think of it, house- 
keepers : No gas leaks, no matches, no stiff 
stopcocks to strain at, no standing on tip-toe 
to reach the burner. Instead, simply the press- 
ing of a convenient button in the wall, not to 
speak of graceful and attractive fixtures. Of 
course, a globe will burst occasionally, or a 
wire will burn out; but these are trifles. It 
becomes more and more evident that the clear 
white light is to become the universal illumi- 
nator before the end of the next decade. 



Isn't it somewhat remarkable that two such 
churches as Plymouth and the Old South 
should be so long without pastors ? Or is it 
possible that outside of Worcester they think 
that we have become so moral since no-license 
set in that we do not need any more pastoral 
work ? In each of the churches named, there is 



a chance for some preacher to make himself an 
eminent citizen in a great community. Ply- 
mouth Church has a large membership of 
young people and of influential men, while the 
same is true of tlie Old South, and the latter has 
a magnificent new church home. It is a long 
time now since Rev. Charles Wadsworth, Jr., 
said good-bye, or since Dr. Noble was a.sked 
to come. Worcester doesn't like to have its 
religious stock depreciated by such long-time 
vacancies. Where are the men to come in 
and break the bread of life to us? Tlie field 
is ripe for the sickle. 



The young valedictorian of the graduating 
class of the High School, in referring to His 
Honor the Mayor, termed him "a freshman," 
to carry out, as he said, tlie pleasant fancy of 
his predecessor. It was one of Mayor Wins- 
low's favorite remarks, in speaking of the 
High School, that he entered upon his term of 
service with the class of '89, and was gradu- 
ated with it. Li(;HT does not know enough 
about forecasting the political future to say 
whether our present mayor began last Monday 
as a freshman and will take a full course of 
four years, as Mayor Winslow did ; but it is 
sure that everj-one who heard his pat, sensible 
remarks to the boys and girls felt pleased to 
have such a pleasant custom as the presenta- 
tion of diplomas to the city's children by the 
city's chief executive. 



Worcester is one of the cities which believe 
in the colleges and take an interest in all that 
pertains to them, as the local anxiety over the 
outcome of the Harvard-Vale base ball contest 
at Springfield, last Saturday, gives evidence. 
There did not seem to be as much interest as 
usual in the boat-race at New London, on the 
Friday preceding, and as ^'ale won that, as 
well as the ball game, the local Harvard sym- 
pathy did not have much chance for an en- 
thusiastic expression. As to the boat race, it 
was to be noticed that both Harvard and Yale 
failed to approach the time made by Cornell, 
in its race with the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. For some reason Cornell seems to lead 
the lists, on the water. The crew has not 
suffered a defeat since July, i8cS4. when the 
University of Pennsylvania was the victor, and 
since 1873, out of twenty-nine contest.s, Cornel! 
has been victorious in twenty-one. When it 
is remembered that the personnel of the crew 
changes, from year to year, as the men leave 
college, it seems remarkable that such a record 
can be made. The captain of one of Cornell's 
rival crews, which rowed at Ithaca, some time 
since, said that, to him, at least, the mystery 
was made plain, for after he had walked up 
the hill which the Cornell men climb daily, he 
thought they must get a chest expansion and a 
lung power which no amount of training could 
provide. Far from being a jest, the idea is 
very near the truth. The Cornell buildings 
are set on one of the steepest hills in Christen- 



dom, above the town, and it is said that the 
Cornell students think nothing of a sprint to 
the top. It must be here that the crew gets its 
lung-power. It seems a pity that a three 
cornered race between Harvard, Yale and 
Cornell can not be arranged ; liut the two New 
ICngland colleges are unwilling. It makes 
Worcester wish, too, that the causeway at 
Lake Quinsigamond might vanish in thin air, 
and leave a course that used to be the Mecca 
of the crews. Will that suspension bridge 
ever become a reality, and will Harvard and 
Yale then row on Quinsigamond water, as they 
did in years gone by ? 



The man or woman, or the boy or girl, who 
goes boating and then skylarks about as if he 
or she had an ocean steamer's deck for a 
platform, is liable to come to grief. It is in- 
teresting to watch people who take boats at 
Lincoln Park and go off, up or down the Lake, 
in quest of pleasure. There are scores of 
pretty boats— light, cedar craft, built to go 
through the water speedily and easily ; and 
the fancy of the boatman usually prefers one of 
these to the heavy tubs which have been left 
over as relics of an earlier day. But some of 
them, while as safe as a grandstand, when 
properly used, are capricious when carelessly 
managed, and it becomes more of a wonder 
every day that drownings are not more fre- 
quent. Even the casual visitor to the Lake 
must have noticed the carelessness displayed 
in some of the boats. As a matter of fact, 
there is an occasional capsize which doesn't 
get into the papers, and the victim steals 
quietly home in the dark, to get a change of 
clothing and a general chorus of exclamations 
from the family circle. Salisbury Pond has 
had one sad accident this year, and it is to be 
hoped that people who go boating will bear it 
in mind. There isn't a more pleasant or more 
healthful exercise, when properly enjoyed ; but 
to play tag or blindman's buff, or tug-of-war 
with shawls and overcoats, while aboard a 
light rowboat, may furnish employment for the 
undertaker. Don't "fool" in the boats. 



There is a call for some one to write a book 
of etiquet which shall be neither snobbish nor 
prudish, vulgar in detail nor false in ideas. 
Many books supposed to tell the fledgling how 
to shine in polite society have been written 
and printed and laid away and forgotten. The 
philosphy of etiquet awaits its Emerson. I5ut 
meanwhile, let Light suggest that the book 
of real etiquet will be a thin volume, unpre- 
tentious and unemblazoned. It will tell the 
reader two things: Be natural ; be obliging. 
On these it may enlarge, but it will not get far 
beyond them. It will not prescribe the style 
of note paper to be used, nor will it say that 
one must be uncomfortable to be fashionable. 
It will leave those things to the common 
sense. And where is there no common .sense ? 
Well, there will not be much real etiquet. 




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Worcester, Saturday, July 5, 1890. 

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July 5: Sun rises at 4.13 a. m. ; sets at 
7.24 p. M. Length of day, 15 hours, 11 minutes. 
Moon, last quarter, July 8, u hours, 43 min- 
utes, evening, E. 

Of the ten members of the High School 
who were given honors at graduation, six 
were prominent members of the debating so- 
cieties. Mr. Charles }5aker, Jr., is an ex- 
president of the Sumner Club, and Mr. Robert 
K. Shaw, the salutatorian (second honor), and 
Mr. Charles B. Earle, were members of the 
same society. Messrs. Wells H. Ellinwood 
and Herbert C. Lakin, the valedictorian (first 
honor) are ex-presidents of the Assembly. 
Miss Gertrude A. Burrage was a prominent 
member of the Aletheia Club. 



Hon. and Mrs. George S. Barton attended 
Byron Weston's silver wedding anniversary at 
Dalton, on Friday of last week. 



The wedding of Miss Caroline Richmond, 
of Providence, to Mr. Joseph Walker, of this 
city, a son of Hon. Joseph H. Walker, last 
Monday, was pronounced one of the prettiest 
events of the I'rovidence social season. The 
wedding took place at the residence of the 
bride's father, Mr. Walter Richmond, the 
president of the Cable Tramway Company. 
The house was prepared with lavish care, and 
there was a large attendance of relatives, 
with only a few friends from outside the fam- 
ilies. The maid of honor was Miss Phebe 
Campbell, of Providence, and the best man 
was Dr. Frank L. Day. Mr. George Walker, 



L I (I HT 

of Worcester, brother of the groom, Messrs. 
Knight C. and Harold A. Richmond, of 
Providence, brothers of the bride, Messrs. 
Arnold E. Talbot and Eli Whiting Blake, Jr., 
of Providence, and Edward Everett Hale, Jr., 
of Boston, were the ushers. Rev. Augustus 
Woodbury, of the Westminster Unitarian 
Church, performed the ceremony. The 
Worcester people present were Hon. and Mrs. 
Joseph H. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Adams 
Davenport Claflin, Dr. and Mrs. Henrj' Y. 
Simpson, Mr. Henry Y. Simpson, Jr., Miss 
Marion Simpson, Master E. H. Simpson, Col. 
and Mrs. Henry E. Smith, Mrs. Samuel 
Davenport and the Misses Davenport. Mr. 
and Mrs. Milton Shirk, of Peru, Ind., were 
also present, Mrs. Shirk being a sister of the 
groom. 

Mr. Thomas Osborne, who has been in 
charge of the erection of the new Free Public 
Library I3uilding, has gone to Burlington, Vt., 
to take charge of the construction of the new 
insurance building there. 

The new residence of Mr. Joseph Turner, 
president of the Torrey Razor Co., at 40 
Richard street, was thrown open Tuesday eve- 
ning, and a house warming was held, lasting 
from eight o'clock to eleven. The nicely 
furnished house was illuminated in every room, 
the grounds surrounding the house being dec- 
orated with Chinese lanterns, and the guests 
made themselves at home on different parts of 
the lawn. Refreshments were served during 
the evening. Post 10 Band, twenty-five pieces, 
was stationed at one corner of the lawn and 
rendered a fine program. 

Announcement is made of the engagement 
of Gen. A. B. R. Sprague to Miss M. Jennie 
I>arbour. 

Mrs. L. M. Sibley and Miss Esther A. 
Harding, two kindergarten teachers in whom 
Worcester has come to have a great deal of 
confidence,have arranged to conduct a training 
class for the study of Froebel's system, begin- 
ning at the first of next October. Miss Hard- 
ing's Oxford street kindergarten school closed 
last week, but will reopen next September. It 
has been very successful, as has, also, Mrs. 
Sibley's school in the past. 



Cornell University has bestowed upon Prof. 
George I. Alden, of the Polytechnic Institute, 
the degree of Master of Mechanical Engineer- 
ing, he having taken the necessary course of 
study in absentia. 

Miss Clara M. Kendall, a daughter of the 
late John G. Kendall of this city, was married, 
at Brantford, Ont., last week, to Mr. R. Henry 
Harris, of the Ansonia Clock Company, New 
York. 

Our several empty pulpits are sure to bring 
a number of ministerial visitors to Worcester, 
every Sunday. Aside from these there were 
few changes in the corps of preachers last 
Sunday. At the Old South, Rev. R. O. Post, 
of Springfield, 111., preached; at Plymouth, 
Rev. L. H. Hallock, D. D., of Waterville, Me.; 
at Salem Street, Rev. \'arnum A. Cooper, 
formerly pastor of Trinity Church, and now 
superintendent of the Home for Little Wan- 
derers, Boston ; at the First L'nitarian, Rev. 
Grindall Reynolds of Boston ; at the Church 



of Christ, Rev. E. W. Dorst, of Boston. Rev. 
Edward G. FuUerton of Park Church and 
Rev. D. H. Stoddard of Dewey Street Baptist 
exchanged pulpits. Rev. William G. Tuttle 
preached at the Church of the Covenant ; 
Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, D. D., of New 
Orleans, preached at Coral Street M. E. 
Church. In the Episcopal churches, it was 
St. Peter's Day. 

Mr. B. D. Allen's studio was the scene of 
two pleasing recitals last Monday. In the 
afternoon, piano pupils of Mr. Allen, vocal 
pupils of Ben T. Hammond and violin pupils 
of Mr. J. N. Truda united in rendering a pro- 
gram which had variety and attractiveness. 
Those taking part were Miss M. Annie War- 
ren, Miss Lilla B. Houghton, Miss Maud A. 
Knowlton, vocalists, Miss H. Maria Wright, 
Mr. F. E. Muzzy, Miss Florence Holt, Mr. 
Harry C. MuUett and Miss Mary Starr, pian- 
ists, Miss Ruth Brewer and Miss Lucy M. 
Day, violinists. The recital was a decided 
success, both in the exhibition of the pupils' 
abilities and in the pleasing idea of combining 
the three forms of musical entertainment. In 
the evening, the recital was Mr. Allen's, his 
assisting vocalists being Messrs. BenT. Ham- 
mond and Addison E. McGaffey. 



Mr. Charles H. Morgan has been appointed 
one of a board of mechanical engineers to 
whom, in addition to the board of engineers of 
the navy, .Secretary Tracy will submit designs 
and bids for the manufacture of big lathes 
which the navy department is to use. 



Rev. I. J. Lansing, pastor of Salem street 
church, returned from his Adriondack vacation 
tour, last Monday night, and on the following 
night his people crowded his residence, at 120 
Lincoln street, to ask him if he had been hav- 
ing a good time, and if he didn't think it was 
warm, and whether he would preach next 
Sunday — to all of which he replied affirma- 
tively. Rev. Mr. Lansing looks well and says 
he feels well. That is enough ; isn't it .'' 



Mr. Ernest A. Edkins, whose poem on an- 
other page, entitled "A Saddle Song Before 
Battle," has something of the Aldrichian lilt, 
was formerly a resident of Worcester and has 
many friends here. 

The W. H. S. Cadets will go into camp at 
Lake Waushacum, next Monday, under the 
leadership of Captain Harry S. Davis, the 
handsome commander of the very handsome 
little band of young soldiers. The boys call 
their camp Camp Roe, and expect to have 
even a better time than they had last year. 



Mr. W. L. Smith, a graduate of the Poly- 
technic Institute, '90, leaves next Monday for 
Denver, Col., where he has accepted a position 
in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad. 

A very quiet home wedding was that of 
Miss Frances Esther Dyson, a daughter of 
Councilman Joseph M. Dyson, to Mr. John H. 
Vanderbeer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., last Tuesday. 
It took place at the bride's home, No. i Staf- 
ford Street, Rev. Langdon C. Stewardson, of 
.St. Mark's Church, performing the ceremony. 
None but relatives attended. Mr. and Mrs. 
Vanderbeer will reside in Brooklyn. 



L T Ct H T 



The Vacationers. 



Miss Lizzie Messenger has been at Ports- 
mouth, N. H., during the present week. 



Mrs. C. F. Allen and Miss Lizzie Allen are 
at Cottage City. They occupy their cottage 
on Kennebec avenue. 



Miss Mary Fox is up among the New 
Hampshire Alps. 

Mr. E. A. Fawcett and liis family are Fal- 
mouthites for the summer. 



Lee Russtll is at the The Weirs, Lake 
VVinnepeseogee. 

Miss Alice 15ean is at Falmouth. 



Mr. George Sumner's people are occupying 
their Shrewsbury summer home. 



Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 1'. Rugg have been 
down on the island that Nan took for several 
days past. 

Mr. Wm. H. Burns is contemplating a Eu- 
ropean trip this summer. 



Mr. T. K. Corbiere, bookkeeper for Wm. 
H. Burns & Co., will spend a two weeks' va- 
cation, accompanied by Mrs. Corljiere, at 
Hath, Me. 

Mr. Alfred S. Roe and his family started 
Thursday for Fulton, N. V., at which place 
and at his old home in Rose, Mr. Roe will 
spend the summer, returning to Worcester 
late in August. He contemplates a European 
trip in the fall, and his companion will be his 
father-in-law, Mr. Alvah Metcalf, of Asliland. 



Mr. F. B. Rice elects to look out upon the 
blue waters of Narragansett Bay, from his 
cottage on Conanicut Island, tliis season. 



Cohasset entertains Mr. and Mrs. George 
F. Blake, Jr., who are occupying Mr. Horace 
W. Wadleigh's villa there. 



Mrs. David Scott spends the summer at 
Biddeford Pool, Me., and will return in Sep- 
tember. She will stop at the New Mansion 
House. 

Mr. Fred B. Thompson is at Cottage City 
and will make a long stay of it. Of course 
he will go blue-fishing and down to Katama 
for an occasional clam-bake. 



Mr. Fredrique R. Lewis has gone to West 
Haven, Conn., for two months. 



Mr. W. A. Gile's family are at Franklin 
Falls, N. H., for a stay lasting until Septem- 
ber I. 

Miss Mary Fox has gone to the White 
Mountains. 



Rev. and Mrs. A. H. Coolidge of Leicester 
have gone to Europe. 



Dr. Charles H. Davis and his family are 
paying Neptune a visit before going to their 
cottage at Sterling for the summer. 



Miss Jeanie Lea Southwick, president of 
the Art Students Club and teacher of drawing 



in the public schools, spends her vacation this 
year in Europe. She sailed from New York, 
Wednesday, on the Red Star steamer Prics- 
land, for Antwerp. Italy and France are her 
objective points, other than Belgium. 

Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sumner, accompanied 
by Mrs. M. J. Sumner will spend the summer 
at Bailey's Island, Me. 



Mr. David F. Putnam will pa.ss the summer 
in Rutland, Mass. 

Mrs. Dr. J. P. Rand is visiting her father at 
Monson. 



Mr. Harry H. Chamberlain has been the 
guest of Col. George A. Bullock's people, at 
Princeton, over the Fourth. 



St. Albans, Vt., is Mrs. William Lawrence's 
stopping-place for a month or so. 



Worcester relatives of Miss Belle Starrett 
of Greenville, N. H., are showing her the 
beauties of the most beautiful inland city of 
the east. 



Mr. Louis E. Booth is finding recreative 
blessings in Vineyard air and water. 



Dr. John F. Adams's family, including Mr. 
Philip W. Adams, Mr. Walter S. Adams, 
Miss Mary Adams and Master John Adams 
have gone to Old Castine, Me., and Dr. and 
Mrs. Adams will soon join them, the plan 
being to remain through the summer. 



Mr. and Mrs. Alvah W. Bigelow are beneath 
the leafy shades of the local Methodist Mecca, 
at Sterling. 

Mr. E. H. Vaughan is another of the Nan- 
tucket sojourners. 

Miss Josephine Barnard has this week been 
the guest of Miss Mabel Barker at the latter's 
home in Pittsfield. 

Rev. F. D. George has gone back to New 
Hampshire soil, but only for a brief season. 
To-morrow he will preach from his old pulpit 
at New Hampton. 

Mr. Charles C. Woodman, principal of 
Ledge Street School, is at Fairhaven. 



Dr. E. L. Melius and his family spend the 
season at Leicester. 

Mr. Leopold Strauss's family goes to Fal- 
mouth Heights, next Monday, for the season. 



Capt. William Dodge, keeper of Three 
Sisters Light, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence 
River, a veteran of the late war, is in Worces- 
ter for a visit with friends on William street. 



Miss Flora E. Burton and Miss Cora L. 
Fisher are up in the Green Mountain State, 
at Williamsville, where they e.xpect to remain 
throughout the present month. 



Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Pratt are the guests 
of Rev. O. C. Bailey, at Chelsea, Mich., Mrs. 
Bailey being their daughter. 



Mr. V. P. Townsend, postmaster at Quinsig- 
amond is on his way to "Yurrup." He must 
be glad to get rid of the sight of those various 
ways of spelling the name of his charge for 



awhile. Miss Phila A. llallett, his iieice, is 
with him. 



Miss Mary Davis is home from Salem, 
wlierc she has been during the past month, as 
a pupil of Mr. Ross Turner, the artist. 

Mr. G. Henry Whitcomb and his family are 
at Chautauqua, N. Y. 



Mr. Harry S. Seeley is in New Hampshire 

Miss Mamie Greene, a daughter of Mr. 
John W. Greene, is visiting her roommate at 
Miss Capron's Northampton School, at the 
latter's home in Minneapolis, Minn. 



Mr. John N. Morse, Jr., and Mr. A. M. 
Thomas are to start for Europe next week. 



Mrs. Louis Burdett has gone to spend two 
or three weeks in and about New York. 



Mr. P>ed W. Prentice is taking a three 
weeks' vacation, Saco, Me., furnishing new 
scenes for his Worcester-wearied eyes. 

The Gray cottage on Pequot avenue at 
Cottige City has just been opened for the 
season. Mrs. Frank (iray, the Misses Gray 
and Master Gray are there. 



Lieut. H. A. Johnson, of J. H. Clarke & Co., 
is attending the re-union of the .Society of the 
Army of the Potomac, at Portland, Me. 



Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Prentice have been 
entertaining this week, at their home on Wood- 
land street, Mr. Edmund Benchley, formerly 
of Worcester and now of Rochester, N. Y. 



Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Pierce of Milford have 
for tlie past week been the guests of Mrs. G. 
A. Whiting. 



Mrs. E. E. Wesby and daughter of Worce.s- 
ter have been visiting Mrs. H. E. Holmes in 
Mittineague. 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beals, of Fall River, 
are visiting at Mr. Henry H. Houghton's. 

Miss CamilleM. Clark is spending the month 
of July with relatives in Detroit, and vicinity. 
She attended the National Music Teachers' 
association convention held in Detroit the past 
week. 

Mrs. L. H. Rumery has left the city for 
Haverhill, wliere she will spend July and 
August visiting friends. 



The declination of Mr. B. B. Holmes, Miss 
Florence Snow and Miss Annie M. Russell, 
teachers in the High School, to be candidates 
for re-election, leaves three vacancies, beside 
that in the principalship, to be filled, and if 
the new-comers do their work as well as those 
who retire, the school will have cause for 
great satisfaction. Mr. Holmes does not an- 
nounce his plans for the future, but he is a 
thorough classical scholar and will undoubt- 
edly be able to locate in a congenial place. 
Miss Snow has become Mrs. Shumway, and 
Miss Russell has also done with school teach- 
ing. 



The First Universalist Church has its an- 
nual observance of Lily Sunday to-morrow. 



A Worcester House. 



Worcester has always been noted as being 
a city of homes. Its beautiful streets have 
not been lined with rows of closely crowded 
blocks or apartment houses, but have been 
adorned with beautiful residences surrounded 
by tasteful lawns. Within the past year or 
two many beautiful homes have been added to 
the already long list of residences which bear 
witness to the industry and thrift of Worces- 
ter's great manufacturers. One of the more 
recent houses is that of Hon. Edwin T. Marble, 
a picture of which Light this week presents to 
its readers. 

The house is one of the most beautiful and 
comfortable of the numerous pretty residen- 
ces which adorn the South End, and is well- 
known to all frequenters of that part of the 
city. 

It is situated on a slight elevation on the 
west side of Main street, directly opposite 
Freeland street. A gently sloping lawn ex- 
tends to the sidewalk, while a semi-circular 
carriage-drive brings one to the main entrance, 
and, ascending the broad granite steps, one 
reaches a wide verandah, supported by taste- 
ful columns. 

From the vestibule one enters the main hall, 
a broad, spacious corridor stretching well 
towards the rear of the house. As one enters, 
the elegance and beauty of the wood-work can- 
not but be noticed. The front part of the hall 
is finished in Mexican mahogany, while the 
vestibule is of the same material, with a quar- 
tered oak floor. The outer doors have plate- 
glass windows; the inner, elegant designs in 
stained glass. Soft Wilton carpets cover the 
floor of the hall, and a heavy wainscot forms 
the lower border of the frescoed walls. At the 
right of the corridor, heavy mahogany doors 
open into the drawing-room, which, like the 
hall, is finished in mahogany, an elegant man- 
tel and mirror surmounting the tiled fire-place. 

Across the hall is the reception room, with 
finish similar to that of the drawing-room, and 
elegantly furnished in plush. The large front 
window, with the beautiful stained glass 
borders, gives a delightful air of comfort to 
this cosy little room. Like all the rooms on 
the lower floor, the walls are tinted a rich 
cream buff, with a terra cotta frieze. The 
tiling of the fire place is of onyx and chocolate, 
harmonizing admirably with the rich ma- 
hogany mantel. 

Passing through the arched hallway we find 
the finish of the rear portion of the hall to be of 
cherry, and on the left the library, of the same 
material. The marble mantel, tiling and cur- 
tain-grate are elegant and tasteful, while a 
bay projection extends from the south side of 
the room. 

In the northwest corner of the house is the 
dining-room, which is one of the most ele- 
gantly designed and furnished rooms of its 
kind in the city. Finished in natural oak, with 
a heavy wainscot and appropriate frescoes, 
with heavy oak furniture to match, the room 
is a perfect picture. The mantel piece and 
mirror, almost reaching the ceiling, are sup- 
ported by elegantly carved columns, and the 
fireplace is surrounded by tiles of beautiful 
Mexican onyx. 
The necessary adjuncts of a dining-room. 



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the kitchen, pantry and butler's pantry, are all 
fitted up in the most approved manner. The 
wood work is all of North Carolina pine. 

From the western end of the hall rises the 
elevator well, and a car finished in cherry and 
finely upholstered will save the climbing of 
many stairs. 

On the south side of the house is the car- 
riage porch, reached by a short corridor from 
the main hall. 

A small conservatory and the lavatorj- oc- 
cupy the southwest corner of the lower floor. 

From the centre of the house, on the right 
of the corridor, broad staircases lead to the 
upper stories. At the first landing is a 
large stained glass window, and a broad 
window seat upholstered in red plush. 
The corridor on the second floor rivals 
the one below in elegance, the selected 
red birch finishing which predominates on this 
floor being something unusual and very strik- 
ing. The guest chamber, over the drawing- 
room, has its walls papered and ceiling fres- 
coed, being like the others on the second floor 
in this respect. The tiling of the fire-place is 
of blue and orange, and the finishings are of 
the same general nature. 

The reception-room chamber has a bay- 
front and broad window seat and beautiful 
stained glass transoms, while the fire-place is 
surrounded with dark terra cotta bricks. 
Heavy marble set bowls and roomy closets 
adjoin each chamber. 

The library-chamber and adjoining dress- 
room make a suite of which any one might be 
proud. The tilings in this room are of Mexi- 
can onyx. 

The dining-room chamber is a dainty room, 
the hydrangea, and the convolvulus tiles, 
with chocolate background, making a unique, 
but beautiful combination. 

In the L the rear chambers and sewing- 
room are finished in North Carolina pine. 

The sewing-room is furnished with the re- 
quisite tables, drawers and closets that make 
it one of the most useful rooms in the house. 

Half way up the next staircase, a pretty 
little balcony furnishes a cosy little retreat for 
a warm afternoon. 

The third floor is finished in white-wood, 
stained like cherry. Three chambers, with 
dark frescoed walls and lighted by pretty 
circular and odd-shaped windows, surround a 
large hall, while the southeast room will be 
used as a billiard room. The floor of the 
billiard room is of birch. 

The wojd work in the servants' room in the 
L is of North Carolina pine, as is the finish- 
ing of the bath-rooms. 

Descending to the basement, the various 
cellars and drying-rooms are all cemented and 
admirably adapted for the purposes for which 
they were constructed. Under the kitchen is 
a model laundry, with ranges, tubs and a 
clothes chute from the upper stories, which 
make the work of that nature as easy as pos- 
sible. 

All over the house speaking tubes and auto- 
matic bells and lighting apparatus of the most 
approved character are employed. The chan- 
deliers throughout the house are of old brass, 
harmonizing admirably with the handsome 
wood-work which makes the residence one of 
the mo.st notable in the city. 

The house is constructed in what is known 



as modified colonial style, and the interior is 
most admirably adapted for comfort and con- 
venience. It is just such a house as a man 
might feel he deserved after long years of hard 
labor, and which is but a just reward of the 
industry which lias made the owner the well- 
known and respected citizen he is. 

Light gives its space to a description of 
this house, not believing that Worcester's citi- 
zens are unduly curious to know what it is like, 
but rather believing that glimpses of such 
homes help to educate men and to give to them 
ambitions which might not otherwise be ob- 
tained. 

It is a noticeable fact that this residence is 
one of a trinity of mansions which have risen 
this spring to grace the southern end of Main 
street, which will vie with each other for su- 
premacy. The reference is to the residences 
of Mr. A. M. Stone and Mr. Gilbert H. Har- 
rington. Light cannot but be proud of these 
evidences of prosperity which mark the growth 
of our beautiful city and offers heartiest con- 
gratulations to its fortunate fellow-citizens. 

Too Much Shade. 
Houses in places otherwise unexceptionable 
are often so closely overhung with trees as to 
be in a state of humidity, by preventing a free 
circulation of air, and by obstructing free ad- 
mission of the sun's rays. Trees growing 
against the walls of houses, and shrubs in con- 
fined places near dwellings, are injurious also, 
as favoring humidity ; at a proper distance, on 
the other hand, trees are favorable to health. 
On this principle, says Dr. James Clark, it may 
be understood how the inhabitants of one 
house suffer from rheumatism, headache, dys- 
pepsia, nervous affections, and other conse- 
quences of living in a confined, humid atmos- 
phere, while their nearest neighbors, whose 
houses are otherwise situated, enjoy good 
health ; and even how one side of a large 
building, fully exposed to the sun and to a free 
circulation of air, may be healthy, while the 
other side, overlooking damp, shaded courts or 
gardens, is unhealthy. Humid, confined situa- 
tions, subject to great alternations of tempera- 
ture between day and night, are the most 
dangerous of all the physical qualities of the 
air, and humidity in general is the most in- 
jurious to human life. Dryness, with a free 
circulation of air, and a full exposure to the 
sun, are the material things to be attended to 
in choosing a residence. — Medical Classics. 



A Breath of Summer. 



BY EDMUND SMITH MIDDLETON. 



A glory rests on woodland chase» 
Gay music plays the forest stream, 
White lilies from the rushes gleam 

Across the haze on meadow's face. 

The cows are browsing o'er the lea, 
Beneath the breeze the wheat tops yield, 
Tbe honey clover scents the field 

Where sips and sings the busy bee. 

On orchard tree a robin sings. 
Amid white clouds and bluest sky 
A butterfly sails idly by, 
With sunlight on its golden wings. 

Red roses glow on bushes green, 
Sweet mignonette of modest hue. 
With violet and pansy blue. 

Make glad and fair the summer scene. 
rcester^ Mass. 



Graduates Now. 



The army of Worcester High School grad- 
uates has received the addition to its raiilcs 
which the month of June reguharly Ijrings. 
The members of the class of '90 have said 
good-bye to their High School days and have 
set tlieir faces towards the future. 

Monday was a favorable day for the gradua- 
tion of the class, so far as a clear sky and dry 
atmosphere could go, but it liad a torrid sun 
that made High School Hall a veritable steam- 
box in the afternoon, and even during the ex- 
ercises of the evening no one would imagine 
that the air had been refrigerated. 

The building was beautifully decorated with 
the best that nature offered — it always is. 
The junior class of every year takes the same 
satisfaction in doing the work that every other 
junior class has had ; and the result is always 
pleasing. 

How the crowd rushed in and swallowed up 
the seats, and fumed and fussed and perspired 
that afternoon ! How the laundrymen chuckled 
as they realized that Dame Fashion compelled 
the wearing of "boiled" linen in place of 
Scotch flannels! Ah, such a day it was ! 

The young ladies and gentlemen who sat 
upon the platform made a much prettier spec- 
tacle than they realized. Soft white dresses 
on the one hand and very correct black on the 
other, made a contrast that is always striking. 
On the platform with them sat the principal, 
the mayor, members of the school board and 
several clergymen, and they all looked as com- 
fortable as they could, which wasn't too much 
so. 

The exercises had their special interest for 
the immediate friends of the participants, and 
their general interest for the friends of the 
school. The program was rendered as follows : 
Salutatory, with Oration, "Tiie Fairies in 'Midsummer 
Night's Dream'," 
Robert K. Shaw. 
Essay, "The Art of Conversation," 

Gertrude A. Burrage. 
Oration, "Patriotism," 

Charles Baker, Jr. 
Essay, "The Requisites of Good English Writing," 

Mary D. Lewis. 
Song, "The Mighty Deep," Jmle 

George E. Stewart. 
Essay, "A World Without Newspapers." 

Ellen T. McGiUicuddy. 

Oration, "The Gifts of Greece and Rome to the 

World," 

Charles B. Earle. 

Essay, "A Comparison Between Johnson's and 

Thackeray's Swift," 

Mabel R. Moore. 

Chorus, "Venetian Boat Song," Hatton 

Class. 
Oration, "The Value of Words," 

Wells H. EUinwood. 
Essay, "Snow Bound," 

Katherine H. Taft, 
Oration, "The Study of Current Topics," 

Herbert C. Lakin. 
Chorus, "The Wanderer's Night Song." Rubinstein 

The valedictorian paid an eloquent tribute 
to Mr. Roe, and when Mr. Roe responded, it 
was with a depth of feeling which held the 
closest attention of the audience. 

Mayor Harrington spoke in an earnest way 
to the graduates, before presenting their 
diplomas, and after the transfer had been ac- 
complished, the class sang the class song, the 
words of which, written by Miss Althea 
Bigelow, Light was the first to print, some 
time since. 



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The class numbered 105, but this included 
seven pupils wlio left the school some time 
since, one going to Holy Cross College and 
the others to the Polytechnic Institute. This 
makes '90 really next to the largest cla.ss ever 
graduated, '87 having had 105 pupils beside 
those who left for college or the Institute. 

As Mr. Roe's address to the graduating 
class might fairly be considered his vale- 
dictory address, it was, of course, heard with 
the deepest interest and attention, and after 
the exercises it was frequently spoken of. 

The regard felt by the graduates of the 
school for Mr. Roe, however, had its direct 
expression at the meeting of the High School 
Association in the evening. The exercises in 
the hall were of the usual order. The musi- 
cal part of the entertainment came from tlie 
orchestra, Miss Mabel B. Jennison, '90, who 
played a piano solo, Mr. George E. Stewart, 
'90, who sang, and Mr. Hoskison Gates, 'S7, 
whose vocal solo, "The Kerry Dance," was 
particularly delightful. The president, Mr. 
William E. Starr, had something to say to the 
graduates, and when he alluded in a cordial 
way to Mr. Roe, the applause was something 
tremendous. The president of the class of 
'90, Mr. Charles C. Milton, eloquently re- 
sponded to the address of Mr. Starr, accept- 
ing the welcome to the High School Asso- 
ciation; and then everybody had a good time 
watching the expression on Mr. Roe's counte- 
nance when Mr. Milton, setting forth the love 
and regard of his pupils for him, asked Mr. 
Roe to accept a magnificent roller-top desk 
and chair which was suddenly brought forth 
from room 37 and set upon the platform. Mr. 
Roe's response was characteristic, having a 
dash of fun and, as well there might be on 
this occasion, a dash of tears. The Friday 
before he had received from the junior and 
second year classes a gift of the Century 
Dictionary. Eighty-nine, top, sent him an 
order on a book-store for $35 worth of books. 
Mr. Roe, being a man to appreciate these 
things, made it manifest that the love his 
pupils and friends felt for him was recipro- 
cated. 

Mr. Charles ISaker, Jr., entertained those 
present with the story of the class from enter- 
ing the school to graduation. 

The very air seemed to pulsate with sym- 
pathy and regard for Mr. Roe, and the im- 
pression was strengthened by the words of all 
the speakers. During the evening, graduates 
constantly crowded about him, to shake hands 
and give assurance of their esteem. 

After the exercises in the hall, the graduates 
found refreshments in the second corridor and 
afterward enjoyed dancing on the first floor. 

Light penetrated into a good many of the 
corners, but it could not begin to tell the 
names of all who were there. Below, however, 
are noted some of them : Mr. Nathaniel 
Paine, Mr. Charles A. Chase, Major F. G. 
.Stiles, Mr. J. Stewart Brown, Mr. George B. 
Churchill, Mr. B. B. Holmes, Mrs. Jennie I. 
Ware, Miss Carrie P. Townsend, Mr. William 
F. Abbott, Mr. Frank L. Mellen, Mr. E. I\L 
Woodward, Mrs. Sarah Brigham, Miss Mary 
E. Whipple, Miss Nellie M. White, Miss 
Annie M. Russell, Miss Mary Jillson, Mr. and 
Mrs. Forrest E. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
Beals, Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Over- 
holser, Mr. Charles Martin Thayer, Mr. RoUa 



C. Walbridge, Mr. J'aul A. Davis, Miss Clara 
L. Brigham, Miss Mollie E. Taft, Rev. Ed- 
ward ICverett Abercrombie, Mr. John P. Put- 
nam, Mr. Clarence K. Prince, Mr. Elmer C. 
Rice, Mr. Harry N. Rice, Mr. Wallace M. 
Turner, Mi.ss Alice i\. Arnold, Miss Lillian S. 
Atwood, Mi.ss M. Nettie Estabrook, Mr. 
Arthur J. Bassett, Mr. Fred A. Bigelow, Mr. 
Robert IC. Bigelow, Mr. Herbert F. Blood, 
Mr. George C. Burrage, Mr. Harry L. Dad- 
num, Mr. Charles F. Davis, Mr. E. A. Gage, 
Mr. Hoski.son Gates, Mr. William A. Mickey' 
.Mr. Sumner A. Kinsley, Mr. James H. Mc- 
Inerrny, Mr. George E. Partridge, Mr. Frank 
A. Richardson, Mr. L. E. Ware, Mr. Fred E. 
Wheeler, Miss F. Lillian liarber, Mi.ss M. 
Josephine Black, Miss Edith M. Brown, 
Miss Flora B. Chamberiain, Mi.ss Grace 
L. Crawford, Miss Lillian M. Crawford, 
Miss Elizabeth W. Dennis, Miss Florence M. 
Dodge, Miss Alice G. Draper, Mi.ss Mary R. 
Green, Miss Florence M. Kilburn, Mi.ss Maud 
A. Knowlton, Miss Geraldine B. Longley, Miss 
Anna G. Moore, Miss May C. Pierce, Miss 
Jennie L. Ross, Miss Marion H. Shumway, 
Miss Helen L. Tew, Mr. Fred W. Collier, Mr. 
William E. C. Fairbanks, Mr. John J. Heron, 
Mr. Harry R. Hildreth, Mr. Walter M. Hunt, 
Ms. W. H. Jackson, Mr. }L N. Paige, Mr. A. 
C. Peterson, Mr. Richard M. Raymond, Mr. 
Mark N. Skerrett, Miss Cora J. Goodwin, 
Miss Miriam Gray, Miss Gertrude L. March, 
Miss Loria J. Midgley, Miss Mabel J. Stone, 
Mr. William A. Bacon, Mr. Widiam H. Lar- 
kin, Jr., Mr. Henry L. Phillips, Mr. Charles T. 
Tatman, Miss Grace M. Bigelow, Miss Addie 
M. Biscoe, Miss Mabel B. Bradford, Miss 
Clara L. Brown, Miss Jennie B. Brown, Miss 
Mabel J. Crawford, Miss Grace P. Denholm, 
Miss Efiie B. Draper, Miss Mamie E. Fay, 
Miss Bertha R. Houghton, Miss Jiertha E. 
Longley, Miss Jennie McCready, Miss Lillie 
A. Nichols, Miss Maud A. Parker, Miss Alice 
J. Perry, Miss Florence Vi. Sears, Miss Mabel 
C. Streeter, Miss Ella (;. Shaffer, Mr. Henry 
J. Gross, Mr. Walter H. Hildreth, Mr. C. H. 
I'ierce, Miss Annie M. Adams, Miss Emma 
S. Barrett, Mr. George Barker, Miss Lucia F. 
Upham, Mr. Albert J. Reinbold, Jr., Miss 
Minnie Howard, Mr. C. Leslie Chamberlain, 
Mr. Loring N. Farnum, Mr. Gilbert G. Davis, 
Mr. John Nelson, Miss Gertrude Whiting, 
Miss Delia Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Farns- 
worth. Miss Carrie Hildreth, Miss Mary G. 
Covell, Mrs. C. S. Duckworth, and many 
others. 

A few mor e days like those of a week past 
and people will begin to tap their foreheads 
when they see a man wearing a high collar. 
Fancy what it is in Washington, and who will 
wonder that Congressman Walker took off 
his coat, or that Speaker Reed wears flannels ? 



Light, is the brief and suggestive title of a 
weekly paper published at Worcester, Mass., 
and is an exceedingly creditable specimen of 
journalistic enterprise. The editors evidently 
know their business. Every page is bright 
and cheery, and it looks well after the news 
and affairs of its own city. If the Worcester 
people know a good thing when they see it, 
they will surely patronize "Light." Such a 
paper is a bredit to any city. — Troy. N. Y. 
Biulsct. 



A Saddle Song Before Battle. 



BV ERNEST A. EDKINS. 



The revel no longer holds sway, and the morrow is 

dawning, 
Impatient my charger doth chafe at his bit in the stall. 
The guests have all gone with the last dark hour of 



Afar stretch the curving gray shores, where my patli 

intermingles 
And loses itself in the sinuous belt of the sand,— 
A vanishing, shimmering Une which the sea ever singles 
To mould at its pleasure,— the terminal loop of the 

land. 
To my love's lattice window 1 look, where perchance she 

is hiding 
1 o watch me depart ; and a last long libation I pour 
To her lips and her eyes and her manner so sweet and 

confiding,— 
Then ho! for whate'er may befall me adown the dim 

shore I 
Jlion, N. V. 



Cornell's Journalism Class. 



BV LOUIE EKVILLE WARE. 



No college announcements of recent years 
have attracted so much attention among news- 
papers, and a certain class of their readers, as 
those pertaining to the course in journalism 
offered the past two years at Cornell Uni- 
versity. No subject has been more thoroughly 
presented, and no subject less thoroughly 
understood than the real object of this course. 
The recent discontinuance of the course has 
added lo the general misunderstanding in re- 
gard to the matter, and it may be of general 
interest to Light's readers to learn just what 
this course is and what end its originator had 
in view. 

The man who first thought of the idea was 
Prof. Brainard G. Smith, who for several years 
has been at the head of the department of 
elocution and oratory at Cornell. Previous to 
his coming to Cornell he was for several years 
city editor of a prominent New York daily, 
and he had been through the whole round of 
newspaper work, from reporter to editor. 
Knowing so well the hardships that a new 
man undergoes in beginning a newspaper life, 
and appreciating the fact that many young 
men waste a year or more of the best period 
of their lives in discovering that they are 
not fitted for journalistic work, he conceived 
the idea that some notion of journalism, its 
hardships and its pleasures, might be given to 
college men whose tastes called them in that 
direction. To that end, the course in Journa- 
lism was announced as one of the courses in 
English Literature. 

Some twenty-five young men immediately 
took up the work under Prof. Smith's guidance. 
The class met three times a week and for 
several weeks the professor gave interesting 
talks, describing the various departments of a 
daily paper, the duties of the members of the 
editorial staff, and giving, as well as possible, 
a clear conception of the way newspapers are 
made, and the policies of the more prominent 
journals. The details of copy writing, proof 
reading, and the various styles of paragraphs, 
editorials and local writing were described, 
and after a month of this, the class was organ- 
ized like the staff of a metropolitan journal, 
with Prof. Smith as managing editor. The 



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men received their assignments and "worked 
up" the various events happening in college 
and town. During a murder trial in town, the 
whole staff was present, and at chapel ser- 
vices, ball games and lectures the young men 
were seen. When the class met, the copy was 
handed in and criticised in the presence of the 
class. The college papers were also regularly 
criticised, and in them a marked improvement 
is noticeable. 

The work done by the class in the past two 
years has been excellent, and the results ob- 
tained are up to the expectations of all inter- 
ested. Much to the regret of many, both in 
the faculty and in the student body, the course 
is given up during the coming year, owing to 
the amount of work in other branches which 
Prof. Smith has to attend to. 

Despite the many amusing things said by 
the daily press in regard to the class, the work 
has been a success. It has not aspired to 
make editors out of college boys, nor does it 
claim to be a "school" of journalism. Simply 
teaching the rudiments of newspaper work, 
and placing a man where he can enter an 
office with some knowledge of the manage- 
ment of affairs, there seems no reason why the 
members of this class should not be able to 
help a little in improving American journalism. 
That the course has not been wholly a failure 
is quite apparent from the fact that already 
several men who have worked under Prof. 
Smith are filling good positions, while hand- 
some offers are frequently received by the 
professor and members of the class. 

While no striking revolution will, probably, 
be noticeable, due to the organization of the 
class, yet if some of the false ideas of news- 
papers and newspaper men held by the general 
public, are corrected, the work of the class 
will not be wholly in vain. 
Cornell University. 



About Folks. 



The Last of the Colleges. 

Col. W. S. B. Hopkins and son, W. S. B., 
Jr., have been present at the commencement 
exercises. 

At the sophomore banquet last week, Mr. 
E. N. K. Mears read the history of his class, 
and Mr. A. P. I^erkins made a very witty 
speech upon the Faculty. 

Mr. John Cooke who graduated here with 
honors last year, was present at commence- 
ment. He has been teaching during the year 
in an academy in Owego, N. Y. He will 
spend his summer at his home in Worcester. 

Commencement is over and when this paper 
is printed all the Worcester boys will be home 
again, except Mr. A. P. Perkins, who will 
spend the first few weeks of his vacation at 
Peabody. 

Those who met Mrs. Harris E. Adriance 
on her brief stay in Worcester last summer 
will be interested to know that she was one of 
the patronesses of the junior promenade on 
Tuesday. 

Rev. Daniel Merriman, D. D., read the 
Scripture lesson, in the opening service before 
the Y. M. C. A. of Williams College, at 
Williamstown, last Sunday. 

Col. W. S. B. Hopkins has been elected 
president of the Alumni Association of Wil- 
liams College. His class was '55. 



Thank the Lord ! or the highway depart- 
ment, or some other responsiljle party, for 
that repaying of Main street between Pearl 
and Foster. It is a good job well done, and 
C. O. Richardson & Son did it. 



Mr. and Mrs. William E. Lewis were as- 
sisted by friends to celebrate their fifteenth 
wedding anniversary, last Monday evening. 
Their residence at 140 Chandler street gave 
forth the sounds of hilarity until a quiet came 
with the presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 
of several valuable gifts, Mr. L. T. Converse 
being the spokesman. 

The Always Everywhere Associates enter- 
tained their former pastor. Rev. Joseph F. 
Lovering, at the residence of Mr. E. Roscoe 
McAfee, No. 9 Preston street, last Tuesday 
night. 

LuiHT likes to be appreciated, and it gets 
a variety of expressions of this nature, every 
day. The latest form of appreciation is mani- 
fested by a party or parties unknown, who 
appropriated three of the copies which LlOHT 
nailed on its bulletin board, this week. This 
is even better than the old lady who stopped 
and read entirely through the article on Prin- 
cipal Roe, which was spread open on the 
board, early in the week. 

The Worcester Tennis Club is the first of 
the local fraternity to arrange a tournament 
this season. It will be held next Monday, and 
Messrs. Charles B. Earle and Randolph 
Crompton have charge of the entries. 

Rev. and Mrs. D. O. Mears, D. 1)., enter- 
tained the people of their congregation at 
their residence. No. 48 Queen street, Tuesday 
evening, in the most seasonable way possible, 
that is, with a lawn party. Messrs. George 
F. Orr, H. B. Lincoln and Aaron G. Esta- 
brook exercised direction over the affair, and 
Mr. Charles F. Marble had an eye to the deco- 
rations. Gaily lighted with lanterns, hung 
from trees to the house, and crowded with a 
jolly lot of people, the lawn presented a 
charming spectacle. A pleasing idea was the 
arrangement of a well-curb about the bulk- 
head leading to the cellar, from which, in an 
"old oaken bucket," lemonade was drawn 
for the thirsty people, Mr. John Knight being 
the chief dispenser. During the evening, 
there was something in the way of piano 
music and Mrs. A. W. Ingraham sang "The 
Old Oaken Bucket." On Thursday afternoon, 
Dr. and Mrs. Mears entertained the children 
of the primary department of Piedmont Sun- 
day school, with their teachers, it being a 
pretty fete in honor of the seventh birthday 
anniversary of their little daughter, Miss 
Helen Mears. 

The New Worcester, Belmont and Ledge 
street schools raised flags on the last days of 
school, having appropriate exercises. Laughed 
at or sneered at, as it has been by some, the 
school flag movement gains recruits steadily. 
Worcester is keeping up with the procession. 

Rev. Daniel Poor, D. D., of Philadelphia, 
will preach on Sunday at Plymouth Church, at 
10.30 A. M and 7.30 P. M. 



Mental Food and Dessert. 



PREPARED FOR I,I(;HT. 



Worcester people will find interest in a 
book by Andrew P. Peabody, L.L. D., entitled 
"Harvard Graduates Wliom'I Have Known." 
Among those whom Dr. Peabody knew, ad- 
mired and eulogizes, is the late Stephen .Salis- 
bury. Perhaps of less local but no loss in- 
tense interest are his sketches of Nathan Dare, 
Jared Sparks and others. 

One of the best known students of history 
and literature in New England is Edwin D. 
Mead of Boston. He is, moreover, a thor- 
oughly practical man with a sound judgment 
on all matters of state and business. During 
the school agitation in Boston, a short time 
ago, he delivered a forcible and convincing 
address. This address has been published in 
pamphlet form under the title of "The Roman 
Catholic Church and the Public Schools." 
Though the immediate occasion of the address 
has passed, the reader finds benefit and 
pleasure in Mr. Mead's clearly expressed 
views on this vital question of our times. 



Nearly all libraries, public and private, con- 
tain Justin McCarthy's "History of Our Own 
Times" — a history of England from the begin- 
ning of Queen \'ictoria's reign down to the 
present decade. American readers find this 
book of interest because it presents faithfully 
the feeling in England towards America, at 
the time of the civil war and at earlier and 
later periods. Mr. McCarthy has been bold 
in his statements and has Ijrought upon him- 
self the indignation of some of the British 
aristocracy by his plain, unvarnished truth 
about them and their relatives. Their criti- 
cisms, however, have not prevented the book 
from reaching a great sale in Europe and 
America and the publication of this same 
author's "History of the French Revolution" 
is sure to meet with as ready purchasers. The 
style is clear and forcible, lacking monotony 
and with enough of the philo.sophical style to 
show the author's logical and well-trained 
mind. 

To pass, by a rapid transit, from theories 
and facts to nonsense, pure and simple, we 
find ourselves amused by two neatly-bound 
paper volumes "Stage Land" and "Idle 
Thoughts of an Idle P'ellow," by Jerome K. 
Jerome. When we use the e.xpression "non- 
sense, pure and simple," we seldom think 
what the term means — how much of our non- 
sense lacks simplicity and often purity — too 
often nonsense or humor verges upon face- 
tiousness or vulgarity. In these books of 
Jerome's, we have a refined humor and much 
shrewd sense mingled with the ridiculous 
notions and expressions. In the "Idle 
Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" no one can read 
the chapter on "Vanity of Vanities" without 
gaining recreation and amusement, combined 
with many worthy thoughts. It is a book to 
be highly recommended for summer reading. 



Among the classes of books largely in de- 
mand at present is that literature which deals 
with home life and comforts in either an ideal, 
fictitious way, or in a real, practical style. A 
few years ago, it was the fashion to speak 



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sneeringly of household magazines and books 
containing advice about house-keeping. Per- 
haps a part of this sneer was due to the fact 
that these magazines attempted to combine 
with their useful, practical hints about house- 
keeping a class of literature of an inferior 
order. 

The present day finds in our domestic maga- 
zines contributions from the best of authors on 
all subjects pertaining to home life, and such 
magazines as the Jenness-Millcr magazineand 
Mrs. Logan's new home journal take high rank 
among this cla.ss of literature. 



Among the names of writers one feels sure 
to see occasionally in the best of these home 
magazines, is that of "Marion Harland" or 
Mrs. Terhune. Thoroughly domestic and ar- 
tistic in her taste-s, her home is delightful and 
her table gives witness of the excellence of 
her recipes with which all house wives are 
familiar. 

Marion Harland was first known as a novel- 
ist, but it must be confessed her succe.ss in 
this line is inferior to that of her writings on 
domestic subjects. When she first desired to 
have her "Common-Sense Stories" published, 
her own publisher refused to do the work and 
ridiculed the idea. Undaunted, she went to 
see Mr. Scribner, who was then an invalid and 
who knew her family. For the latter reason, 
he consented to try the experiment, though he 
expected to lose money thereby. His fears 
were not realized, for in ten years ioo,ooo 
copies were sold. 

Mrs. Terhune's mantle of capability in the 
home and power of imparting her knowledge 
gained by experience to others, has fallen 
upon her daughter, Mrs. Christine Terhune 
Herrick. Already, many people have rejoiced 
in the excellent article, "Three Meals a Day," 
in Haiper^s Bazar of late. A new book, 
"Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means," affords 
as much profit to the wealthy as to the poor, 
for the secret of housekeeping in a comfort- 
able, dainty, yet inexpensive way, is well out- 
lined here, and this is the aim of all good 
housekeepers. A. 

Marion Graham, or "Higher Than Haipi- 
NE.ss," by Meta Lander. Revised edition; 4SO pp. 
IJoston : Lee & Shepard, 1S90. 

This faithful attempt to interpret many of 
the deep problems of life, to set forth the 
eternal verities which remain unchanged 
through all the events of life, rellects great 
credit upon the insight and literary skill of 
the author. 

The story turns upon the rejection of 
Maurice Vinton, Marion's lover, because of 
his acknowledged atheism. The keynote of 
the book is the great law of love and service 
which finds its fruit in self-sacrifice. Marion's 
courage of conviction, Vinton's honest bat- 
tling with doubts and unbelief and his final 
victory of faith, appeal to the deepest sym- 
pathies and are the leading features of the 
book. 

Among the strong passages of the book, 
the statements of Vinton in respect to the 
recent changes in theology as he viewed them 
after his desperate search for trutli deserve 
special notice. He says: "It pains me to find 
so strong a sectarian feeling ; to see how, in 
discussions professedly for the truth's sake, 
prejudice and passion creep in and, imbitter- 







ing their spirit, swerve men aside. Oh that all 
Christians would leave their hair-splitting 
metaphysics, their bitter and often worse than 
profitless controversies, and burning with love 
to Christ, would labor, with one heart, to 
satisfy the hungerings of immortal souls. * • 
Does not God judge the character by its di- 
rection rather than its position ? its tendency 
rather than its attainment? And may there 
not be many .souls in thick darkness, yet in 
some blind way seeking the light, far away 
from God, yet moving, however indirectly, 
towards Him, although they reach Him only 
in the liright dawn of the eternal day." 

L. D. B. 

—Miss Harriet Hosmer has announced that 
she will present to the art institute, of Chicago, 
the cast of the clasped hands of Mr. and Mrs. 
Browning, which was cast at Rome some 
years ago. It is valued very highly for its rare 
beauty and sentiment and because of the allu- 
sion made to it in Hawthorne's "Marlile 
P'aun." 

— I'erliaps the most striking feature of the 
July Century is the long-expected debate on 
"The Single Tax," by Edward Atkin.son and 
Henry George. Mr. Atkinson opens the dis- 
cussion in a paper on "A Single Tax upon 
Land"; Mr. George replies in "A Single Tax 
on Land Values," and there is a rejoinder by 
Mr. Atkinson. 

—The July number of "Our Little Men and 
Women" reaches our table promptly, as usual. 
The little stories and verses are attractive and 
charmingly illustrated. The child who is .so 
fortunate as to have this magazine is filled 
with new delight as each number comes from 
the post-office, and its happiness for the time 
is complete. D. Lothrop Company, Boston, 
publishers. 

For a Short Vacation. 
A correspondent who says he has "been 
there," and so ought to know, writes to Light 
thu.sly: "In discoursing of a sea voyage, a 
short time since, Liiinr recommended a trip 
to Halifax on the old-fashioned boats. To 
those to whom a long sea voyage is not a 
pleasure, a trip of seventeen hours to the 
bright and enterprising town of Yarmouth, 
N. .S., on the new steel Clyde-built boats, 
would be a pleasure and a profit. Then a 
ride over the W. C. K. R. to delightful, sleepy 
Digby, brings you to the entrance of the 
Annapolis Basin, where, transferring to a com- 
fortable boat, you glide over the smoothest of 
smooth water for twenty miles before arriving 
at the ancient town of Annapolis. Thence by 
rail— the W. & A. R.R.— to Paradise, Kentville, 
Grand Pic, — Evangeline's land, — Windsor 
and Blomidon, the home of ".Sam Slick," and 
thence to Halifax. A boat from there skirts 
the soutliern shore of Nova Scotia, sailing on 
smooth water, touching Lunenburg, Liverpool, 
Lockport, Shelburne, Barrington, back to 
Yarmouth, having lieen all around Nova 
Scotia. To those who have but a few days to 
be absent, a trip to Yarmouth and back, 
entering and leaving both ports, Boston and 
Yarmouth, by daylight, is recommended." 



Census Taker: — What is yourage.madam? 
Mature Ladv : — Here's your S'oo, sir. — 
CJiiiago Tribune. 



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Baby Mortality. 



IIY J. 1'. KAN[), M. I) 



Last year 1500 people died in Worcester. 
Over one-third of these failed to reach the 
age ot hve years, and more than one-fifth 
never saw a second birthday. These figures 
have but little significance to the heartless 
statistician ; to him they are but problems 
in arithmetic. But you, whose personal be- 
reavements make up the loss, know that how- 
ever the figures may look upon paper, the 
death rate has been terrible. It matters not 
to you should one or a thousand die ; if that 
one is yours the loss is irreparable. 

Three hundred and thirty-one little babies 
died last year ! As many sorrowing mothers 
to-day. The city records the apparent cause 
of death ; the real cause is sometimes sadly 
overlooked. 

I read in a recent paper, notice of the death 
of a little one who had taken "smallest baby" 
premiums in two successive exhibitions. 
Those who read the account of our own ex- 
hition know how such shows are conducted. 
Six months old and weighed only four pounds ! 
Exhibited in close, crowded rooms every 
afternoon and evening until 10 o'clock, and 
night after night carried home in the frosty 
air ! I wonder what return the attending 
physician made of the "cause of death !" We 
talk about^the cruel Hindoo mothers, and 
send out missionaries to convert them. Is 
there anything in heathendom more heathen- 
ish than this ? No wonder some pitying angel 
took the child away ! 

Many causes of infant mortality are irre- 
mediable. Henry Ward Beecher said, "The 
way to be healthy is to choose a healthy 
father and mother to be born from." He 
might have carried the thought still farther 
and included the grand-parents as well. Cer- 
tain it is that from the necessities of nature, 
many are "born to die." They do not start in 
the race of life with a ghost of a chance for 
winning. But it is just as certain that the 
lives of others are in the mother's keeping. 
She holds the balance of power and deter- 
mines the result. Does she realize this.' 

Every child has an innate right to live. The 
laws of God and man concede this. Nature 
has furnished that child with supplies of 
nourishment. It is birth-right, but the un- 
natural mother, for the trifling bauble of fash- 
ion, of convenience, of freedom to Hit in gay 
society, deliberately withholds these supplies ; 
denies him his right, and substitutes the in- 
ferior products of man's invention. The 
child dies, and the stricken mother wonders 
why. 

Right here I wish to enter a protest against 
the wholesale "baby farming" that is prac- 
ticed even in New England. In every large 
city there are places called "baby farms," 
where unwelcome children are boarded 
out to die. The keeper receives a moder- 
ate, sometimes a fabulous price, for de- 
liberate inattention. It is tacitly understood 
that no child leaves the institution alive. They 
die of disease, starvation and neglect and the 
law has no power to indict the keeper for di- 
rect and wilful murder. Now what I have to 
say is this ; it is a mean and cowardly act for 
a mother to commit her offspring to an insti- 



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tution like this. Yet the mother who can 
nourish her child and will not, but consigns 
him to a feeding bottle and to an uninterested, 
uninstructed, unintelligent domestic, is just as 
truly guilty, though not, perhaps, in the same 
degree. The act of the one is done knowingly 
and maliciously ; of the others, let us char- 
itably suppose, ignorantly, and without 
thought. The result is many times the same. 
Neither has any right to be a mother. Neither 
could justly complain in the helplessness of 
age should her children desert her. I am not 
speaking of the willing mothers, and nearly 
all of them are willing. I am not speaking of 
the feeble mothers, alas ! how many are such. 
Nature has no parallel to a mother's devotion, 
never-failing, long-suffering and kind. Who 
can forget his mother's love? But there are 
mothers so thoughtless and giddy, so unnat- 
ural and cruel that they disgrace the sacred 
name, and arethemselvessufiicient reason why 
many children die young. Others, with best 
intentions, are unable to provide for their 
children. 

Something must be done ; artificial methods 
must be adopted and these are often so un- 
healthful and pernicious, that when you stop 
to consider, you cease to wonder why the child 
dies, and only wonder how it could have lived 
so long. 

Walking down Front street the other day, I 
noticed a large display of popular nursing 
bottles in the show window. Their long flexi- 
ble tubes dangled in the sunlight ! How 
handsome ! How convenient ! Could any- 
thing serve its purpose better.' No, if that 
purpose be to make well babies sick and 
hurry the sick ones to their long home. How 
do they do this? Smell of one that has been 
used for a week and see for yourself. "Oh ! 
but," says some particular body, "mine are 
perfectly clean. I soak them in soda water." 
I have examined many "perfectly clean" nurs- 
ing tubes and wondered where the dirty ones 
were. Now, with no disrespect for any- 
body's opinion, I doubt if the woman lives 
who can keep a long nursing tube properly 
cleaned through the hot weather. What is 
the result? A disturbed stomach, cholera in- 
fantum, death. A nursing bottle with a short 
nipple is bad enough ; by constant attention it 
may be kept comparatively sweet, but add to 
that nipple a si.x-inch tubing of soft porous 
rubber— it ought to be inspected by the 
"Board of Health." 

And, lastly, one word to everybody. Chil- 
dren are injured by eating candy. Grandma 
always has some in her pocket for the baby. 
Papa does not dare to come to his darlings 
without it. Aunt Mary always buys a pound 
when she goes home, and Uncle John gives 
each of the children five cents to buy a little 
for himself. Everybody claims the right to 
give the baby a bit of peppermint. Poor thing ! 
Turn your eyes for a moment and somebody 
slips one into your mouth. Let him cry a bit in 
the cars and all the old ladies begin to fumble 
in their pockets and soon the peppermints are 
passing along the seats like water buckets 
towards a fire. The poor child's stomach is al- 
ready disordered. Perhaps he has "worms" or 
is "teething." You send for a doctor, change 
his food a dozen times, sterilize his milk, keep 
on giving him candy every time he cries, then 
wonder why the "doctor doesn't hit his case." 



You say, what makes my child so dainty, so 
irritable by day, so restless at night ? What 
makes his tongue so white, his breath so foul ? 
C-A-N-n-v ! Spell it ; it will help you to re- 
member ; and lest you should forget, write it 
down. Perhaps that's what's the matter with 
the baby. 

Worcester, Mass. 



Exercise in Old Age. 

.Somewhat different advice must be given 
with regard to bodily exercises in their refer- 
ence to longevity. Exercise is essential to the 
preservation of health ; mactivity is a potent 
cause of wasting and degeneration. The vigor 
and equality of the circulation, the functions 
of the skin and the aeration of the blood are 
all promoted by muscular activity, which thus 
keeps up a proper balance and relation be- 
tween the important organs of the body. In 
youth the vigor of the system is often so great 
that if one organ be sluggish another part will 
make amends for the deficiency by acting vi- 
cariously, and without any consequent damage 
to itself. In old age the tasks cannot be thus 
shifted from one organ to another; the work 
allotted to each sufficiently taxes its strength, 
and vicarious action cannot be performed 
without mischief. Hence the importance of 
maintaining, as far as possible, the equable 
action of all the bodily organs, so that the 
share of the vital processes assigned to each 
shall be properly accomplished. For this 
reason exercise is an important part of the 
conduct of life in old age, but discretion is 
absolutely necessary. An old man should 
discover by experience how much exercise he 
can take without exhausting his powers, and 
should be careful never to exceed the limit. 
Old persons are apt to forget that their staying 
powers are much less than they once were, 
and that, while a walk of two or three miles 
may prove easy and pleasurable, the addition 
of a return journey of similar length will seri- 
ously overtax the strength. 



A Modern Need for Sleep. 

There is not one man or woman in ten 
thousand who can afford to do without seven 
or eight hours of sleep. All those stories 
written about great men and women who slept 
only three or four hours a night make very in- 
teresting reading; but I tell you, my readers, 
no man or woman ever yet kept healthy in 
body and mind for a number of years with 
less than seven hours of sleep. Americans 
need more sleep than they are getting. This 
lack makes them so ner\'ous and the insane 
asyulms so populous. If you can get to bed 
early, then rise early. If you cannot get to 
bed till late, then rise late. It may be as 
Christian for one man to rise at eight as it is for 
another to rise at five. I counsel my readers 
to get up when they are rested. But let the 
rousing-bell be rung at least thirty minutes be- 
fore your public appearance. Physicians say 
that a sudden jump out of bed gives irregular 
motion to the pulse. It takes hours to get 
over a too sudden rising. Give us time, after 
you call us, to roll over, gaze at the world 
full in the face, and look before we leap. : — T. 
De Witt Talmage, in Ladies' Home Journal. 



A Vacation in Vermont. 



Peacham, Vt., July 3, 1S90. 
About this time the Boston and New York 
Sunday papers are sending off their special 
"solitude" writers to write up some primeval 
and, at the same time, poetic spot in an out 
of the way corner of the world. 

With remarkable unanimity, they all strike 
out for the backwoods of Maine. Here they 
immediately create, if they do not find, a 
howling wilderness. 

They make a mistake in going to Maine, for 
the Maine woods have such a famed loveli- 
ness that a horde of summer visitors is an- 
nually attracted there, and solitude docs not 
begin till their departure. 

If they want the all-wool, yard-wide defini- 
tion of the term, let these writers come, one at 
a time, into northern Vermont. 

Up in this stretch of hills a man who was 
born naturally tired can get into a state of in- 
nocuous desuetude that is unapproachable this 
side of the grave. 
There are lots of such cases here. 
The scenery is the only redeeming feature 
in this part of Vermont. This scenery con- 
sists principally in hills, and they are indeed 
grand and inspiring in the extreme. In one 
respect you are much better off here than in 
the Maine woods. You can pick out a hill 
from the hotel window that you think is best 
adapted to your purposes, and you have al- 
most an infinite variety from which to choose. 
The hills have always been \'ermont's 
strong hold, and in Caledonia county they 
stick up in a most strange and unaccountable 
manner. It is singular that they should clus- 
ter so thickly in this part of New England, 
when Massachusetts and Connecticut are 
fairly pining for two or three ranges of em- 
bryotic mountains to set off their weakly 
highlands. But it is very easy to frame a 
plausible theory to account for their presence 
here. When the granites and the shales and 
the homblends and all the other terrible things 
came grinding and crushing their way down 
from the north pole across the continent, two 
or three million years before the Christian era, 
they were so tickled to get out of Canada and 
they liked the Vermont air so much, that they 
concluded to stop there for four or five hun- 
dred centuries and see how the climate agreed 
with them. And forthwith they all piled in and 
took up as much room as possible. After the 
earth had swung aroung its orbit two or three 
hundred thousand times, farm life got rather 
monotonous for the young and progressive 
hills and they slid off one night into Massa- 
chusetts. But the solid citizens, not having 
cooled at this stage, were quite content to re- 
main, for they feared the ill effects that 
might result from so sudden a change of base. 
And here they are to this day. 

There are two ways of reaching Caledonia 
county from Worcester. You can either ride 
on the cars or walk. It is preferable to ride 
on the cars as far as Plymouth, N. H., or to 
White River Junction, if you take that route, 
but when you leave these place there is not 
much choice between walking and journeying 
in one of the "mail trains" that infest this re- 
gion. Of course, you get there more quickly 
if you walk, but it is rather tiresome, phys- 



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ically. On the other hand, a voyage in a mail 
train produces such an intense feeling of de- 
jection that it prevents one from deriving the 
fullest enjoyment from his vacation. 

The engines of these "mail trains" burn 
wood and meander along at the rate of about 
five miles an hour. In an emergency, the en- 
gineer can hit her up to eight, but when ten 
miles an liour is reached, it is current rumor 
that the cylinder heads always blow out. The 
e.\press trains, which are small in nunil)cr, but 
very select, burn coal and are able to attain 
quite a respectable speed. It is fun to stand 
in the baggage car of one of the mail trains 
and watch the fireman throw in the wood. He 
goes about it in such a soulful, earnest sort of 
a way that instantly gives one the impression 
that his heart is in" his work. When one of 
these engines is feeling particularly good it 
can burn two or three cords of wood in a run 
of fifty miles. This does not give the fireman 
a good chance to view the scenery along the 
road. If he gets any spare time at all, which 
is improbable, he expends it in removing 
the splinters from his hands. A good, live 
fireman ought to get his hands full of slivers 
and splinters every twenty miles. 

These accommodation trains stop at every 
crossing, junction and way-back suburb on 
the line of the road. The passengers, if they 
are not overcome by ennui, are pleased to im- 
agine for what in the world the train stops at 
these places. Nobody ever saw a passenger 
get on or off at these places. But it rests the 
engine, and then the engineer and the con- 
ductor probalily go out and cut down a few 
young trees to last for fuel until the ne.\t stop- 
ping place is reached. 

The towns not immediately adjacent to the 
railroad are reached by a stage which makes 
one round trip per day. The stage is usually 
a black-topped vehicle of the two-horse va- 
riety, and is built for hill-climbing and strong 
for tlie ponderous loads of mail l)ags, butter- 
boxes, egg-crates and "city folks," which it is 
obliged to carry during the summer time. The 
seats are upholstered in leather and are very 
slippery and uncertain, as a rule. The in- 
iquity of this is manifested when the stage 
ascends the star hill on the route. Then the 
passengers facing the rear of the stage gently 
slide in the Japs of the persons sitting opposite. 
This is all right when you slide into the right 
lap and such a catastrophe would :be even 
joyously awaited on certain occasions, but for 
practical purposes a seat that would be less of 
a toboggan slide is more appropriate. 

The .stage driver is not generally a very im- 
portant personage. At least, he doesn't show 
his importance when at the railroad station. 
Here the bustle and confusion of the train's 
coming and going is altogether too exciting for 
a man of his quiet temperament. He sneaks 
around as if he had just lost his best friend, 
and when the train comes is usually seen quiet- 
ing his prancing horses, and inwardly cursing 
(and sometimes outwardly) the railroad com- 
pany for tolerating such a thing as a safety- 
valve on their locomotives. When he has left 
the depot, though, and is fairly on the way to 
Wayback, he lets himself out in a measure and 
acts as if he had fully his share of the earth. 
The average stage-driver is well informed and 
delights to talk politics. 

The small boy that roams around the village 



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always makes a deep and lasting impression 
on the visitor from the city. This village 
youth is of an uncertain age. He is too young 
to be of any service on the farm and is old 
enough to scorn the menial work which the 
"women folks" would inflict on him about the 
liou.se. His attire strikes the beholder as 
being the very acme of coolness and comfort. 
He is as free and untrammelled as is possible. 
The query "Do you wear pants ?" has no 
special significance to him. "Do you wear 
overalls ?" is the one question that can make 
his whole nature throb an energetic affirmation. 
He wears a pair of of overalls, a flannel shirt 
and a broad brimmed .straw hat. 

No dictates of fashion can cramp his feet 
with store shoes and no demands of civiliza- 
tion can induce him to wear such a useless 
article as a nickle-plated pair of suspenders. 

The village boy spends half the day roaming 
round the vicinity of "the .store" and the other 
half swimming round in the "crik." The 
creek is a small stream of water which flows 
through every village and is of no special use 
except to afford a bathing place for the boys. 
It never fails to contain a "deep pool." The 
depth of this pool is uncertain. If you are in- 
quisitive enough to inquire, you will get an- 
swers ranging all the way from ten to one 
hundred feet. 

Into this pool the village boy "goes swim- 
ming," sometimes twice a day, sometimes three 
times, sometimes four, five, or even six times 
and, on Fourth of July's, as often as he can 
come up on the bank and dress. It is 
here that his light and airy attire is appre- 
ciated. He can undress with apparent ease in 
three seconds and the return trip is made in 
six seconds without any unseemly haste. 
While he is in the water enjoying the delights 
of a total immersion, his overalls are peace- 
fully reposing on the bank or hanging from a 
limb of a tree. There is an opportunity here 
for some manufacturer of overalls to make lots 
of money. Let him rivet a brass hook on 
somewhere so that they may be conveniently 
hung on a tree when the owner goes swimming 
and they will soon drive all others out of the 
market. 

The season is backward, this year. Corn is 
not more than two and a half feet high. 

The weather is cool during the day and 
quite cold at night. There have been very few 
hot days. 

We are getting our hay in now. M. 

" Don't Bite My Dog." 
Bismarck was no favorite with women, least 
of all with clever women who dared to think 
for themselves and imagine that they could 
fathom questions of state. He was never 
tired of snubbing .strong-minded ladie.s, put- 
ting thcni down, and stamping on them. One 
day he paid a visit to the Russian Embassy 
at Berlin, where he behaved as usual, flouting 
even the mistress of the hou.se, the Countess 
Schouvaloff, herself. He took his leave at 
length, to the relief of everybody, and pre- 
sently the family mastiff was heard barking 
at the great man, as he passed through the 
court-yard. I mmediately the countess ran to 
the open window, and Bismarck heard her 
voice, saying to him in a tone of gentle en- 
treaty, "Oh, please, M. le Chancellor, don't 
bite my dog." 



Vom Himmel and Holle. 



[From the German of Richard Leander.] 



TRANSLATED BY GEORGE H. HAYNES. 



To the Editor of Light: This story of 
Richard Leander's has long been a favor- 
ite of mine, because of the unique force 
which it gives to a too much neglected truth. 
Though this translation gives but a faint idea 
of the nai vetd of the German, I hope that the 
readers of Light may yet find in the story 
something of the interest which it has had for 
myself. Very truly yours, 

G. H. Haynes. 

Worcester, June 30, i8go. 



It was at the time when the earth is most 
beautiful, and when it seems hardest to die, 
for the elders were already in bloom, and the 
roses had swelling buds. It was at this time 
that two travelers were passing along the way 
to heaven — a rich man and a poor man. On 
earth they had lived close beside each other, 
on the same street, the rich man in a large and 
elegant house, and the poor man in a little 
cottage. But since death makes no distinction, 
it had happened that they both died the same 
hour. And there upon the heavenly way they 
had again met, and walked on in silence, side 
by side. 

But the way became steeper and steeper, 
and for the rich man it soon began to get very 
toilsome, for he was thick-set and short-winded, 
and in all his life he had never walked so far. 
So it happened that the poor man soon gained 
quite a start of him, and reached the gate of 
heaven first. But as he did not dare knock, he 
sat down quietly before the gate, thinking to 
himself: "I'll wait for the rich man; perhaps 
he will knock." 

After a long time the rich man, too, arrived, 
and when he found that the gate was locked, 
and that no one opened it immediately, he 
began to shake it loudly and to pound on it 
with his fist. Then Peter came hurrying up, 
opened the gate, looked at the two, and said to 
the rich man : "It must have been you who 
couldn't wait. It seems to me you needn't put 
on such airs. Up here we haven't heard any- 
thing very clever about you, as long as you 
have been living on the earth." At that, the 
rich man's spirits had a great fall ; but Peter 
paid no more attention to him, but held out his 
hand to the poor man, to help him rise, and 
said: "Just come into the ante-room, both of 
you. The rest will take care of itself." 

And it was not, indeed, heaven itself, that 
they now entered, but only a great, spacious 
hall, with many closed doors, and with benches 
along the walls. 

"Now rest yourselves a little," began Peter 
again, "and wait till I come back ; but make 
good use of your time, for meanwhile you are 
to be considering what you would like to have 
up here. Each of you is to have just exactly 
what he wishes for himself. So be thinking 
about it, and when I come back, make no cere- 
mony, but say it right out, and forget nothing ; 
for afterwards it will be too late." 

With that he went away. When, after some 
time, he returned, and asked them if they were 
through with their considering, and what they 
wished for themselves in eternity, the rich man 
sprang up from his bench, and said he wanted 
a great golden castle, more beautiful than any 



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that the emperor had, and every day the 
choicest food. In the morning chocolate, and 
at noon every other day roast veal with apple 
sauce and rice-milk with sausages, and later, 
red groats. And at evening, each day, some- 
thing different. Further than that he wanted 
a very fine arm-chair and a green silk dressing 
gown. And the daily paper, too, Peter was 
not to forget, so that he might know what was 
going on. 

Then Peter looked at him pitifully, was 
silent for a long time, and at last asked : "And 
do you wish nothing more ?" "Oh yes!" the 
rich man broke in, hastily : "Money, lots of 
money, the whole cellar full, so much that you 
can't begin to count it." 

"All that you shall have," replied Peter; 
"come, follow me !" and he opened one of the 
many doors, and led the rich man into a splen- 
did, golden castle, in which everything was 
just as he had wished it. After he had shown 
him everything, he went. away, and pushed a 
great iron bolt before the door of the casde. 
But the rich man put on his green silk dressing 
gown, sat down in his arm chair, ate and drank, 
and enjoyed himself very well, and when he 
had taken his fill, he read the daily paper. And 
once each day, he went down into the cellar 
and looked at his money. 

And twenty and fifty years passed away, 
and fifty more, so that there were a hundred — 
and yet that is only a span of eternity — then 
the rich man had become so tired of his splen- 
did, golden castle that he could hardly endure 
it longer. "The veal and the sausages are 
getting worse all the time," he said ; "they are 
no longer fit to eat !" But it was not so ; he 
had only become tired of them. "And the 
daily paper I haven't read for a long time," 
he continued, "It's quite indifferent to me, 
what takes place, down there on the earth. I 
don't know a single man now. My acquaint- 
ances have all died long ago. The men who 
have to live there now, play such foolish tricks 
and chatter such strange stuff, that it makes a 
man dizzy to read it." Then he stopped and 
yawned, for it was very tedious ; after a while 
he went on : "With my lot of money, too, I 
don't know anything to do. What can I have 
it for? A man can't buy himself anything 
here. How can one be so stupid as to wish 
for money in heaven?" 

Then he stood up, opened the window and 
looked out. But although it was everywhere 
very bright inside the castle, outside it was 
pitch-dark ; pitch-dark so that you couldn't see 
your hand before your face, pitch-dark, day 
and night, year out and year in, and as silent 
as a church-yard. Then he shut the window 
again and sat down once more in his arm chair; 
and every day he got up once or twice and 
looked out again. But it was always the same, 
and always in the morning, chocolate, and at 
noon, every other day, roast veal with apple- 
sauce and rice-milk with sausages, and later, 
red groats, always, always, one day like an- 
other. 

But when a thousand years had passed, the 
great iron bolt rattled at the door and Peter 
entered. "Well," he asked, "how do you like 
it?" 

Then the rich man became very angry. 
"How do I like it?" I don' like it at all, not 
at all, any more than anyone would like it in 
such a good-for-nothing castle. Pray, how do 



you think a man can stand it here for a thous- 
and years ? There's nothing for him to hear, 
nothing for him to see; no one takes any 
notice of him. They are nothing but lies 
about your much praised heaven and your 
everlasting bliss. It's a most miserable ar- 
rangement." 

Then Peter looked at him in astonishment 
and said : "Have you no idea where you are ? 
Do you really think that you are in heaven ? 
You are in hell. You, yourself, have chosen 
your place in hell. This castle belongs to hell." 
"To hell?" repeated the rich man in terror; 
"but this isn't hell here ? Where then are the 
Devil, and the fire and the caldrons?" 

"Can it be." replied Peter, that you think 
that sinners are still roasted, as they used to 
be ? That hasn't been so for a long time. 
But you are in hell, depend upon it, and very 
deep in hell, so that you are greatly to be 
pitied. In time you, yourself, will become 
aware of it." 

Then the rich man fell back into his arm 
chair, held his hands before his face and 
sobbed, "In hell, in hell! Poor, wretched 
man that I am, what is to become of me ?" 

And again a hundred years passed, and yet 
another hundred years, and no one can imagine 
how horribly long the time became to the rich 
man. And when the second thousand years 
came to an end, Peter entered once more. 

"Oh!" the rich man cried out to him: "How 
I have longed for you ! I am very sad ! And 
must it remain like this always, through all 
eternity?" And after a while he asked: 
"Holy Peter, tell me how long is eternity?" 

Then Peter answered : "When yet ten 
thousand years have passed, eternity begins.'^ 
When the rich man heard this, he let his 
head fall upon his breast and began to weep 
bitterly. But Peter stood behind his chair and 
secretly counted his tears, and when he saw 
that there were so many that the dear God 
would surely forgive him, he said : "Come, I 
will show you something very beautiful. Up 
stairs in the garret, I know of a knot hole in 
the wall, where you can get a look into 
heaven." 

With that he led him up the garret stairs, 
and through all sorts of rubbi.sh, till he came 
to a little chamber. When they entered it, 
there fell through the knot-hole a golden beam 
right upon St. Peter's brow so that it looked as 
if flames of fire were gleaming about it. 

"That is from the very heaven itself?" said 
the rich man, trembling. 

"Yes," replied Peter; "Just look in !" 
But the knot-hole was very high up on the 
wall, and the rich man was not very tall, so 
that he could hardly reach up to it. 

"You must make yourself very tall, and 
stand up high, on tip-toe," said Peter. Then 
the rich man strained as much as he possibly 
could, and when at last he looked through the 
knot-hole, he saw into heaven itself. There 
upon his golden throne, among the clouds and 
stars, sat the dear God in all his majesty and 
glory, and round about him all the saints and 
angels. "Oh !" he cried ; "that is so won- 
drously beautiful and glorious, that no one on 
earth can begin to imagine it. But tell me, 
who is that, pray, who is sitting with his back 
toward me, at the foot of the dear God ?" 

"That is the poor man who on earth lived 
beside you, and with whom you came up to 



the gate. When I told you to decide what you 
wanted for yourselves in eternity, he wished 
for nothing but a footstool, that he might sit 
at the feet of the dear God. And that he, 
too, received, just as you received your castle." 

When he had said this, he went quietly 
away, without the rich man's noticing it. For 
he was still standing there on tip-toe, looking 
into heaven and could not look enough. To 
be sure it was very hard for him, for the hole 
was very high up, and he had to keep standing 
on his toes, but he was glad to do it, for what 
he saw was so beautiful ! 

And after yet another thousand years Peter 
came for the last time. There by the wall in 
the garret chamljer the rich man was still 
on tip-toe, and was gazing fixedly into heaven, 
and was .so lost in seeing that he didn't notice 
it at all when Peter came in. 

But at last Peter laid his hand upon his 
shoulder, and said : "Come with me ; you 
have now been standing long enough. Your 
sins are forgiven; I am to take you into 
heaven. It might have been far pleasanter 
for you, if you had only wished it, might it 
not ?" 

Worcester Polytecliiiie Institute. 



Summer Furnishing. 

Even people who have not cottages in the 
mountains or at the seaside are interested in 
giving their homes a summer aspect, and this 
may often be done with little trouble and but 
a slight outlay of money. The custom which 
prevails in some households of taking up the 
carpets and substituting matting is really an 
economy, as well as a hygienic measure of 
great importance. A sitting-room carpet 
which has absorbed the dust and gases all 
winter long should certainly be aired and 
beaten before it is fit for living upon through 
another winter, and it will only look the 
brighter and last the longer for a season of 
rest. As for bed-rooms, it has long been ad- 
mitted that carpets have no place there at all, 
nothing but rug.s, which can be often cleaned, 
being considered healthful and suitable. 

With matting on tlie Hoor of sitting-room, 
dining-room and hall, an immediate sense of 
coolness is realized, and if the heavy draperies 
at doorways and windows be replaced by 
cotton stuffs of light te.xture and coloring, this 
feeling is greatly increased. P'ortunately, 
pretty summer draperies are within the reach 
of all. Cheese-cloth, white and in colors, 
dotted muslin, the old-fashioned dimity, and 
Turkish cottons of beautiful tints are all in- 
expensive. Gras.s-cloth portieres, at %i a pair, 
are cool-looking and durable, and the bamboo 
and bead hangings are undoubtedly very 
effective, and suited for summer decoration. 
Chair cushions should be put away, and rattan 
and cane chairs substituted for the heavier 
upholstered ones whenever it is possible. It 
is also well to put away some of the china and 
bric-rt-brac, as over-furnishing always gives a 
sense of stuffiness in summer which is not 
pleasant. 

The care of rooms arranged in this way is 
much less, which is a great item for considera- 
tion, as work of this kind should be reduced to 
a minimum in the hot weather wherever it is 
possible. Another advantage of the summer 
change is that the winter furnishings seem so 
fre.sh and new when they are put back in 
place. They really are improved by a few 
months' rest away from the light and dust, and 
will give a pleasure almost equal to that e.\- 
perienced on their first acquirement. — Har- 
per's Bazar. 



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Facts and Fashions. 



BY EUGKNIA H. SIKRKRS. 



[regular correspondence ok light.] 
Over in Brooklyn one day of the year is 
given up to the children. The .Sunday 
schools have recently celebrated their si.\ty- 
fifth anniversary ; over sixty-thousand children 
were in line. A stranger entering the city 
would have thought a celebration of national 
importance was going on. The city wore a 
festive aspect and was in gala attire, with flags 
and bunting floating on tlie breeze. .Stands 
and arches were erected at various points, 
while bands of music enlivened the air with 
merry strains, interspersed with Sunday-school 
hymns Kleven divisions of gaily dressed 
children, accompanied by their respective 
teachers, filled the streets to the exclusion of 
the daily traffic. The velvet lawns of Pros- 
pect Park were changed into a parterre of 
brilliant hues with hosts of brightly decked 
little ones. After the usual exercises the 
festival closed with a feast of ice cream and 
cake, and the day that had brought joy to 
many youthful hearts was a happy memory. 

The weather for the past two weeks has 
been most favorable to the practising of the 
newly-coined verb — to "rizzle" — a word that I 
am told emanates from Bo.ston, where they 
seem to understand all about it. It is doul)t- 
ful if, like "metagnostic," it will find place in 
the new Century dictionary. However, it 
seems to have come to stay. To the un- 
initiated be it said that rizzling consists in 
doing absolutely nothing, converting the brain 
into the vacuum that nature abhors. Close 
your eyes and stop all action of the brain — it 
requires only a little practice to be able to 
absolutely stifle the brain, remain in that con- 
dition at least ten minutes, twenty if possible. 
Possibly the new tad of giving "puncheons" in 
lieu of afternoon "tiffin" or teas may have 
something to do with it. Puncheons must 
have been created in order to give a fillip to 
the waning masculine interest in those semi- 
soporific occasions. True, it is a bit more 
wicked than the 5 o'clock tea, but more suit- 
able for summer when cool drinks are prefer- 
able to warm ones. No one appears to know 
the exact rule for its concoction, but you are 
told to use orange juice, lemon juice, liqueurs 
like chatreuse or benedictine, cold Oolong 
tea, and a smack of wine, but in just what 
proportion no one can tell. A hostess who 
enjoys experimenting in such things made use 
of the drink and orange cups for the final 
course of a swell tea. Providing each of her 
guests with a straw she tested their tasting 
apparatus by suggesting they should gue-ss 
the ingredients of the concoction. It certainly 
was as amusing and not so embarrassing as 
the plan of the Washington senator who made 
use of some spoons to entice his guests into 
trying to name the twelve apostles. Lemon- 
ade and pine apple, or strawberry juice par- 
tially frozen, is pleasant and can be served 
with orange cups and straws. Sandwiches of 
Kochefort chee.se are served at a regular 
puncheon. It remains to be seen what lady 
will make for herself a reputation of serving 
the most delicious beverage, equal to that of 
Miss Evarts in the past for chocolate and 
Mrs. Whitney for tea. But a word must be 



n 

said in favor ot rizzling, or anything else that 
induces one to stop and pause in the mad rush 
and impetuous scramble of Gotham's whirl of 
life. Dyspepsia in one form or another is the 
bane of nearly every second person you meet. 
Therefore the rizzle idea may have its uses in 
recalling the fact that after meals especially it 
is necessary to give the sy.stem an opportunity 
to center its energies on the digestive process. 

During a morning promenade the other 
day, down town, a collection of monstrosities 
in the way of liead gear in a window on Kour- 
teenth street, came very near giving me an 
attack of dyspepsia of the brain. Hals of the 
circumference of a bushel basket, in size fit 
for Amazonian queens, and looking for all the 
world as though knocked and kicked into 
eccentric .shape during some Bacchanalian 
abandon. As for combination of colors and 
style of trimming, surely it is possible, as un- 
doulited authority says it is, to hear the .sound 
of the magnificent aurora while pulsing on its 
stately course across the zenith- -a sound as of 
the rustling of silk, sometimes sharp and 
quick, according to the intensity of the flash. 
I thought that such a conglomeration of loud 
tones might create a clamor of discordant 
cries that could penetrate into the inmost re- 
cesses of Central Park. The sailor hat .so 
much worn is refreshing in its simplicity. 

A pretty hat I saw was made by a clever 
girl who imitated one .seen in a Fifth avenue 
modiste's window. She covered her blonde 
tresses with a red straw adorned with bows of 
red mousseline de sole, and three jet blackbirds 
alighting in the fluffy folds, all for about one- 
fourth of the price of the original. New York 
women are wearing gay colors in the street 
these warm days. I noticed one sultry morn- 
ing on Fifth avenue and on Twenty-third 
street, a number of light striped shirt waists 
worn with dark skirts and the universal sailor 
hat. There is very little new in fashions just 
now, the summer wardrobes being prepared. 
Men are wearing cool and comfortable negligd 
shirts to business. The silk ones are quite 
luxurious. With their russet shoes and light 
scarfs they really look enviably indifferent to 
the humors of the "Clark" of the weather in 
his high tower of the Equitable building down 
town. 

Good Husbands. 
Bismarck held the opinion that woman's 
politics lay in the kitchen and nur.sery, and 
that they should have the interests outside of 
these spheres only when their husbands were 
content to rock the cradle. One can under- 
stand now what a delight it must have been to 
Victoria's daughter to outwit a prig who be- 
lieves that women should be but little, dim re- 
flections of the big, brilliant husbands. Men 
who hold the liroadest views upon such sub- 
jects have the happiest and most contented 
wives, who are so satisfied to trust to their 
husbands' judgment and justice that they 
never feel it necessary to a.ssert their rights, 
because they always have them. 



—The jelly fish absorbs its food by wrap- 
ping itself around the object which it seeks to 
make its own. The star fish is even more 
accommodating. Fastening itself to the body 
it wishes to feed on, it turns its stomach inside 
out and enwraps its prey with its u.seful organs. 



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Men's Clothes. 



BY LUCY M. HALL, M. D. 



Although "clothes" may not "make the 
man," they go very far toward adjusting him 
to his place in the world. 

In one of Lord Beaconsfield's novels a 
fashionable tailor is made to say, "You must 
dress according to your age, your pursuits, 
your object in life. I am dressing two brothers 
now, men of considerable position. One is a 
man of pleasure, the other will probably be a 
minister of state. They are alike as two peas, 
but were I to dress the dandy and the minis- 
ter the same it would be bad taste ; it 
would be ridiculous. No one gives me the 
trouble that Lord Eglantine does; he has 
not decided whether he will be a great 
poet or prime minister. 'You must choose, my 
lord,' I tell him. 'I cannot send you out look- 
ing like Lord Byron if you are to be a Canning 
or a Pitt.' " Lastly, he adds, "All men should 
avoid the shabby genteel. No man ever gets 
over it. You had better be in rags." That 
the great statesmen had a most vivid compre- 
hension of the effect of clothes, both upon the 
wearer and the ob.server, is manifest not only 
in the language of his novel, but in the extra- 
ordinary costumes he affected during almost 
his whole life. 

The desire to inspire awe is expressed in the 
robes of the monarch, the priest, the judge. 
The war paint and feathers of the Indian 
brave, as the gaudy trappings of the soldier, 
tend to the mental exhiliration of the wearer 
and the subjugation of the beholder. The 
felon feels a degradation in his prison stripes 
which he could never understand in his ordi- 
nary dress. Let the most brilliant gentleman 
in a drawing-room suddenly perceive that his 
boots are muddy, or that his cravat is awry, 
and the chances are that he will become awk- 
ward and tongue-tied. To msure ease of 
manner a man must be well and appropriately 
dressed, and as unconscious of this hyper- 
external covering of his body as he is of his 
integument. "The history of fashion is the 
history of folly," says a wise man; and the 
history of fashion is almost confined to that of 
clothes. Women, as a rule, devote more time 
and attention to dress than men, although in 
many periods of the world's history the extrav- 
agances, absurdities, and inconveniences of 
the costumes of the sterner sex far outrivaled 
those of the weaker. 

In the early part of the fourteenth century 
there was a culmination of follies, and we are 
told that "the dress of men became most ridi- 
culously" and preposterously "exaggerated." 
Some had their clothes made so tight that it 
required the help of two men to dress and un- 
dress them, and while the latter process was 
going on they appeared as though being 
skinned. In other cases their robes swept the 
ground. For a dandy's cloak 2,790 ermine 
skins were required, while the toes of his shoes 
measured twice the length of his foot and were 
ornamented in the most fantastic manner. It 
is also recorded of this period that, "while 
male attire had extended to the utmost limit of 
extravagance, women's dress, on the contrary, 
aimed toward a dignified and elegant simplic- 
ity." And even now — rash and unheard-of 
statement — women are not in one-half the 



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slavish subjection to fashion that men are. Of 
fifty gentlemen at an evening party, all are 
dressed so nearly alike that, if they were of 
the same size, every man of them might ex- 
change clothes with his neighbor and no one 
be the wiser; while the grammar test is often 
the only means of deciding between a guest 
and a waiter. Can any one imagine a more 
complete renunciation of individual taste than 
this, except it be under monastic, military, or 
some kindred rule ? Yonder dignified, white- 
haired judge must appear in garments almost 
identical with those of the young dandy of 
twenty beside him. And, be he fair or be he 
swarthy, the poor man is allowed no choice of 
colors. A young gentleman who not long ago 
attempted to enter an evening drawing-room in 
a sash, instead of the regulation vest, was 
warned off the premises, and his name bruited 
about in the newspapers. Every person should 
be privileged to give to the world some indi- 
vidual expression of himself through his ap- 
parel. 

The black-eyed Oriental who sells sandal- 
wood and Smyrna rugs at the bazar would 
not be half so hand.some but for the rich ma- 
roon of his cap and gown. That the soul of the 
nineteenth century man longs for the sanction 
of inexorable custom, for a little variety, is 
shown by his evident delight in any gay and 
gorgeous apparel in which he is permitted to 
appear. In the court circles of Europe the 
splendid and variously colored uniforms of the 
men, their glittering orders and decorations, 
held in place by brilliant-hued ribbons passed 
about the ne»k, across the breast, sometimes 
dangling to the very knees, are worn, to state 
the case mildly, with a very evident degree of 
satisfaction. And the eager way in which a 
man asks his neighbor, "Are we to wear our 
decorations this evening?" could not be out- 
done by a young beauty when preparing for 
a ball. This is no adverse criticism upon the 
sterner sex. On the contrary, I look upon it 
as all very right and natural, and I believe 
that the repression of these instincts, as is so 
nearly done in America, is altogether wrong 
and abnormal in its tendencies. 

It is largely from this cause that that mod- 
ern weak-brained monstrosity, the dude, has 
been evolved. Poor fellow ! he wants to revel 
in unlimited finery, but he is hedged in by 
such inexorable rules of fashion that, beyond 
a few silly exaggerations, he is helpless, and 
so, harrassed and tortured beyond endurance, 
he sinks into a state of semi-imbecility, and 
finds his only comfort in confiding his woes to 
the head of his cane. 

To be sure, there is in the choice of busi- 
ness and informal reception dress some lati- 
tude allowed. There are, also, yachting, hunt 
ing and bicycling suits, which admit of some 
variety. Then, too, I know of at least one 
New York man of fashion who, as a safety 
valve for his aesthetic taste in dress, has pro- 
vided himself with smoking-robes, sleeping- 
robes, dressing-robe.s, breakfast-robes, etc., by 
the dozen. The choicest fabrics, the most 
brilliant dyes, the richest devices in embroid- 
ery, the daintiest and most exquisite workman- 
ship of the cunning artificers of the Orient 
and the Occident, have all contributed to sat- 
isfy the longing of this man for beautiful ap- 
parel. Why must all these gracious and gor- 
geous envelopes, in which the character of the 



owner has sought for an outlet of expression, 
be shut away in the smoke-laden atmosphere 
of a bachelor's den, and he be forced to ap- 
pear in the guise of "a crow with a bib on" 
whenever he goes into "society ?" Perhaps it 
is because, if allowed full liberty, the frenzy 
for finery would so seize upon, occupy, and 
demoralize the masculine mind that a repeti- 
tion of the follies enacted in mediaeval times 
might be expected — who can tell ? Even now 
the worry over the size of his stick, the ad- 
justment of his scarf-pin, the width of his 
shirt bosom, drives many a young gentleman 
almost to the verge of distraction at the be- 
ginning of every season. What would he do 
if he had the furbelows of a woman to deter- 
mine upon ? 

A gentleman said to me : Starch is the bane 
of civilized man ; without starch he could be 
comparatively comfortable. In a flannel shirt 
there is happiness." Another says: "Nothing 
can be more ugly to look at, or disagreeable to 
wear, than a silk or any other stiff hat, to say 
nothing of the lining which poisons your fore- 
head, and the circle of constriction which 
makes you bald." Another declares that his 
legs are nearly always half frozen in winter, 
and wishes that the English custom of gentle- 
men carrying a rug to spread across the knees 
might be adopted here. 

A stalwart young fellow, who had spent 
three whole months tramping about in the 
White Mountains in knickerbockers, flannel 
shirt, soft hat and easy shoes, told me that for 
three weeks after his return to the city clothes 
he was utterly miserable, and his cramped and 
insulted muscles rebelled if he attempted to 
walk more than a mile at a time. 

And yet, in spite of these harrowing testi- 
monials, it is not to be denied that, for all 
purposes of health and convenience, the dress 
of men possesses many advantages over that 
of women, and few men of the present age 
would be willing to subject themselves to the 
discomforts and disadvantages which are en- 
dured by women because of their modes of 
dress. 

A compromise is what is needed: a little 
more variety and latitude for the exercise of 
individual taste in man's attire, more attention 
to hygiene, adaptability, and true beauty in 
that of women. 



It is going to cost over $100,000 to enter- 
tain the Grand Army in Boston next August. 
Of this amount the State is expected to give 
$50,000 and the city of Boston $25,000, while 
the remainder will be raised by subscription. 
The "boys" deserve the best kind of a good 
time and a right royal welcome, and it is 
to be hoped that there will be nothing nig- 
gardly in the way they are entertained. 




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N. B. — Special Attention Given to Ordering Fine Tools and Instruments. 



Davis & Co. 

Sell Fine Ready Made 

-f -C L O T H I N G-4- 

— AND — 

MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 



Ciiston:i Department 

Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 
**6ood Bread and Cake Doth Whet the Ap- 
petite.*' 

KiNE Bakery ! ! 

HIGHEST QUALITY ONLY. 

G. FOX & CO., 15 PLEASANT ST. 

All Goods Hot at 3.30. 

ACME PLATING CO., 

Gold. Silver, Brass and Nickel Platlug. 

Polishing;, Bronzing and Lacqnering, 

Beplating Table-ware a Specialty. 

All work hand-polished. Best work and lowest prices 

in the city. Try me and be convinced. 

J. N. MASSICOTT, PROP. 

Over Collar Laundry, Barton Place. Worcester. Mass. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton F'lace. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered witiiout extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. Cook; & Co., brops. 



^ W. A. ENGLAND, 

DEALER IN 

FINE WATCHES, 

CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

& OPTICAL GOODS. 

REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 



PRFVFNT TT-IF '^'^ ^'^'^ room should be without Ozonos 
SPREAD Bedpans, utentsils, cloths and every thing em- 

OF INFECTION. , , • . , i 1 1 i i a ;,u 

ployed in a sick room sliould be cleansed with 

OzpKqs 

DISINFECTANT. 

A small quantity sprayed about the room with an ordinary at- 
omizer will almost instantly purify the air. A basin of diluted fluid 
in the room will keep the air perfectly pure and wholesome. Send for 
our book of instructions. Ozonos has no smell of its own is abso- 
lutely non-poisonous and so harmless it is taken internally in its di- 
luted form for certain disorders. 

One botUe, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 26 India square, Boston. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CHARLES H. WOODCOCK. 



"WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 

Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 



Tt.« "W-i^ht ronnter Shaft and Clutch," iust patented. Tlie cheapest, most positive in its action, with 

scIr^elvp^fpUblf^^ia^"!^^^^^^^ 

door. Must be seen to be appreciated. A^Carpentei^J ^^"o'ilh Cen" r "^ I^o mTe brXn dr^^k worS catcl 
No carpenter can afford to be without >'■. The Swivel <;f "^^^ ^^^^^"^ best ever seen. We are prepared to make 
SI mof ?eto'n\^\e'?lli;ifora1ikinl^of ^ISma-^^^^ te^p'a1?s pron.ptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. 

Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 



No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 



TEACHER OF 



Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

ST UDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HER KESinENCE, 29 MAT ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^►Ladies' i Hair t Dressing*^ 

CHILDREN'S HAIR-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 NIAIN STREET. 



Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 



BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. BL-an and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

2^5 ^vXain. St., I^ooin 1., 
Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarantee satisfaction. __^ 

Mrs. C. a. Robbins, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, willbe pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-llEW DRESS-MAKIMG ROOMS-f 

No. 387 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

**YfORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. 'WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

— AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

^^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

I^^o. 2 "'^T^T'a.ln.-a.t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Flue Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 



W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nictcel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 



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Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Cuhnary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Currant Jelly. 

Stem ripe currents, scald them in a porce- 
lain kettle, do not let boil. .Strain through a 
course jelly bag, and then through a flannel 
bag. Allow three-quarters of a pound of 
sugar to a pint of juice. When the juice has 
boiled ten minutes, add the sugar, and let 
cook ten minutes longer. Take from the fire, 
let cool slightly, pour in glasses, and set aside 
to form. 
Rice Pudding with Berries. 

Cold boiled rice may be made into a very 
nice pudding with the addition of berries. 
Soften the cold boiled milk with milk, using 
two cupfuls of rice te one of rice, and stir 
until all the lumps are dissolved ; add three 
well-beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of butter, a 
small cupful sugar and two cupfuls of black- 
berries, raspberries, strawberries or stoned 
cherries. Bake slowly for one hour in a but- 
tered pudding dish. 
Carnaffs. 

Take some cold cooked ham and chop it 
fine, season with pepper. Put a tablespoonful 
of butter, and an even tablespoonful of flour 
in a saucepan ; mix, and add a gill of cream ; 
stir continually until it boils, take it from the 
fire, add the well-beaten yolks of four eggs 
and a half-pint of chopped ham. Put this 
into buttered cups, stand in a baking-pan half 
filled with hot water, cover with paper and 
cook in the oven for twenty minutes. Serve 
with cream sauce. 
Ginger Cookies. 

One cup of melted butter, one cup each of 
sugar and molasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda 
dissolved in one-half cup of boiling water, 
two teaspoonfuls of ginger and flour to roll. 
Cream Cookies. 

One cup of maple sugar, one cup sour 
cream, one teaspoonful of soda, a little nut- 
meg, one teaspoonful caraway and flour to 
make a stiff batter ; roll thin and cut ; bake 
in a quick oven. 
Fruit Custard. 

To one quart of milk that has been brought 
to a boiling point, but not boiled, add slowly 
four eggs, beaten well with three tablespoon- 
fuls of sugar and a pinch of salt. To prevent 
burning, prepare this in a kettle or boiler set 
inside of another in which is boiling water. 
Stir the custard until it thickens, taking care 
it does not boil, and when done remove from 
the fire. Have ready custard cups into which 
thinly sliced peaches or bananas have been 
put, sprinkled with a little sugar and water, 
turn the custard over the fruit, filling the cups, 
and set away until wanted for use. This is 
a dainty and delicious dessert if properly 
made. 
Chocolate Icing. 

Allow one pound of icing sugar to every 
two ounces of chocolate ; grate the latter into 
a saucepan, and mix with it eight tablespoon- 
fuls of water ; stir well, and let it cook gently 
for ten minutes, then add the sugar, and use 
while warm. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen*s Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 



* NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

Claflin*s best Cabinet Photo^aphs. S2 a doz. 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, ^Valke^'s Block. 



HACKETT & WINSHIP, 

MANUFACTUREKS OP 

Picture Frames and Mouldings. 

OLD FRAMES RE-GILDED. 

OLD ENGRAVINGS BLEACHED. 

30 Foster Street, Opp. Rink, Worceet«r, Maeg. 



* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.* 

Office, First National Bank Building;, 

■410 ItviCaiaa. St., T^T"© r c e s t e r. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARIC, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Frame Pvl'f' g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engravings, Etclilng;s, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Park St., Worcester. 
RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a g^ood mattreea of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We g^iiarantee first-class work. 

13 Park: St., Worcester. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTURE FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
820 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

LE * JOLLY * FRENCH i DYEING 

AND i CLEANSING i HOUSE. 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro,s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring it with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. T. MELVIN. I'KOPRIETOR, WALNDT ST. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 




TENNI5 ! 

A. L. BDRBANK & CO, 

Sole authurized outfittt-rs of the 

Worcester Tennis Club 

And ail the Schools, Colleges and Leading Clubs of 
Worcester County. 

Complete Sets, $5,50 

AND Ul'WARUS. 
All the popular Rackets. 

SLOCUM, SEARS, TATE. 
Manufacturers of the CELEBRATED 

YORK! RACKET, 

Strung with Red and White English Gut, $4.50. Equal 
to any ;f5.5o Racquet. Liberal Discount to memljers of 
Clubs. 

FLANNEL SUITS. 

Long Trousers, $3,00 to $8.00. 

Short Trousers, $2.00 to $5,00. 
SILK SASHES, 

$1.75 to $3.50. 

BLAZERS, CAPS, SILK BELTS, 

SWEATERS, JERSEYS. 

SPORTING SHOES of every description. 

Bathing Suits <^5: Tights 

Sole Agentii for A. G. Spauliliiig & ISrog. 
BASE BALL AND TENNIS. 

A, L, BURBANK & CO., 

35i:L^a.in. Street. 



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About tiic House. 

[Readers of LiCHT are cordially invited to contribute 
articleson practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekee])er. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*, A small potato with one end sliced off is 
excellent to rub steel knives with, as the juice 
of the potato exudes in just sulhcient ([uantity 
to keep the bath brick damp and the steel 
moist during the scouring process. 

*» A plan to keep asparagus is to select the 
finest heads and dry them. When wanted for 
the table put them in hot water and then boil 
for a few minutes. By this simple process the 
plant swells considerably and will be found 
very tender and linely flavored. 

** Rub the oil stains on your lamp globes 
with spirits of salts and wash in warm water. 
Clean your milky-looking water bottles by till- 
ing them with potato parings, vinegar and a 
very little soda ; let them stand for a little, 
shake well, and wash in cold water. 

*, A test of telling whether tea is genuine is 
this : Take a teaspoonful of tea, put it in a 
glass, fill the glass about half full of water and 
shake it up thoroughly. If the tea is pure, the 
water will be but slightly colored by the tea; 
but if it is adulterated the water will be quite 
strongly colored. 

** A carpet tliat is worn in the middle may 
be so changed that the outer widths will come 
into the centre and give the room quite a new 
appearance, and if the furniture is arranged 
with judgment over the blemishes, all will be 
fair. This turning makes a carpet wear just 
twice as long as it would otherwise. This 
same change of widths applies equally well to 
matting. 

% To make hot water starch : Pour boiling 
water into a bowl to heat it, pour it out again ; 
put into the bowl three tablespoons of starch, 
mix it with hot water till like cream, then pour 
in enough boiling water to make it clear and 
the desired thickness; stir it with a composite 
candle till about half an inch of the candle is 
used, then add one dessertspoonful of turpen- 
tine, and use at once. 

*, For softening hard water, where wood 
ashes can be obtained, the lye made by boiling 
some in water, and straining off the liquor 
when the ashes have settled and left it clear, is 
perhaps the best way. Otherwise use the con- 
centrated ammonia for the purpose, preferring 
the purest attainable, and diluting it yourself. 
Ijorax dissolved in boiling water, and added 
to the washing water, will soften it, and is 
particularly good when linen articles are to be 
cleansed. 




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The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



ALL THIS 



FOR 

$1.50 



An Ice Cream Freezer. 

One of the best— economizes in ice— in 
cream— in labor, and produces a cream 
as sniuotli as velvet. 

A Keystone Beater. 

One of those celebrated culiniry arti- 
cles, almost indiMiensible in the kitchen 
tor making cake, bread, etc., beating 
eggs, whipping cream, fruit, vegetables 
and making everything, fteduces the 
laUjr of cooking to a mere bagatelle, 
and produces results impossible by 
hand or any otlier method. 

A 50c. Cook Book. 

Telling how to make new dishes for 
the table, all tried and unsurpassed. 
I.I \1 RV liKOUGHT into every 
house by the use of this wonderful 
little machine. 

UNIQUE, SIMPLE and consequently easily manipu- 
lated, no parts to get out of order or comphcations 

to understand. 

Of Course 

'I'here is nothing like the Yale Gas Stove for this hot 
weatlier. You're not obliged to use coal at all dur- 
ing the summer months if you have one. All sorts 
of cooking can ;be done as readily as over your big 
stove, and no heat or dust. Costing complete, with 
oven, ?4.25. 

Not a Luxury. 

A necessity. For many reasons, for an ice cream 
freezer, pure and simple, "The Gem" is unrivaled. 
In no other can cream be frozen in from six to ten 
minutes. No other requires so Uttle ice, no other 
produces cream of so fine a giain, no other so low 
in price. 

2 qt. 3 qt. 4 qt. 6 qt. 8 qt. 10 qt. 
ft. 57 ?I.8q J2.31 $2.98 $3.79 tA.97 
"Dainty Dishes," Mrs. Rorer'sCook Book,free with 
every freezer. 



Late Buyers 

Of Refrigerators will lindtliat prices of the .Alaskas 
don't change with the season. The price was estab- 
lished the first day of January. The price is and 
has Ix'en the lowest ever named for refrigerators that 
have any pretensions to bring in the higher classes. 
When we say Upright Alaskas as low as $S and 
chests for $4 you know what we mean by low prices. 
No need for us to praise the Alaska, everybody's 
neighbors do that ; will only tell you of the K)w price. 

Have You Seen 



one of the most 
10 cents each. 



The little dainty Rose Bowl: 
"taking" new things of the 

Pretty for Wild Flowers 

Are the plain Rose Bowls, all sizes, from the little 
ones for a bud or two, to the big one for a most 
liberal bunch of buttercups and daisies. Cost 17 to 
42 cents. 

Handsome, 

Imitation cut, 7-inch Flower \*ases ; 25 cents pair. 

Rare Beauties, 

Two new ones. Dinner sets of the new quality of 
porcelain. The best characteristics of stone china 
and true porcelain united in this new fabric ; new in 
texture, new in shape, new in decoration : $30 and 
$35 for the full set of 142 pieces. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



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Frills and Plaits. 



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Facts for Fine Costumes. 



*, "Hammock" dresses are being prepared 
for elegant wear on lazy Summer afternoons. 
They are half-fitting, and without cushion or 
steels, but are nevertheless graceful, being 
made with long flowing Greek lines. Crepa- 
lines, challies, carmelites, foulards, surahs and 
China silks are the fabrics used. 

*ji5 Notwithstanding the unlimited assort- 
ment of adjustable neckwear, dresses for all 
occasions have the same styles repeated in 
attached trimmings. Two pretty develop- 
ments of the fichu idea were noted upon two 
recent designs, one being asi.\-inch frill, which 
was turned over about the low neck, and run 
surplice fashion to the waist, and the other 
had a broad ruff, standing up against the hair 
behind, and running to the belt. 

*, Plain linen sets for the neck and sleeves 
are still occasionally offered, but they are 
usually in vandykes or scallops. 

** For young girls pretty bodices of crepon 
or soft silk are plaited to a short point in front 
and back, with all the fullness carried up to 
the top, and cut out round to show the entire 
column of the neck, and simply finished with 
a little standing, inch-widerufileof the material 
doubled. Gros grain or satin ribbon two 
inches wide is twisted along the edge of the 
waist and knotted behind with two loops and 
ends, there are shoulder knots of several loops 
massed together, and two bands of ribbon 
are passed around each sleeve, one pushing 
up the fulness at the top, as a wristband, and 
each tied in a bow on the other arm. 

% For the Summer gowns of crepe de 
Chine grenadine and Indian silk, now being 
prepared, drapery and overskirts are a decided 
feature, also flounces about the foot, triple 
apron or triple flounces up the back and front, 
and apron fronts with two jabot draperies at 
the back. 

*^ The newest flower bonnets are of sweet 
peas, with str'ngs of purplish red velvet, or of 
nasturtiums of many shades, with black velvet 
strings. 

*, Red has not yet exhausted all its re- 
sources, and it again appears in as novel a 
manner as possible for a color which has been 
so much worn during the past two or three 
years in all seasons. Among the newest 
shades none is prettier, if so pretty, as the 
Eiffel Tower shade, and this tone blends well 
with several different colors, notably with the 
biscuit shades and tender greens. 

*» Pretty chemisettes to wear with any sort 
of jacket, either for the street or at home, are 
made of fine cashmere, gathered into a deep 
gorgelet at the top, and into a fitted band at 
the waist, both being embroidered in Indian 
fashion with palms of floss silk. 

*, "Picture gowns" — that is what they call 
the ideal dresses made the Society of Asso- 
ciated Artists in London, which is composed 
of gentlewomen technically trained in the re- 
production of quaint, picturesque and histori- 
cal costumes adapted to modern needs. 

*, The newest costumes of black net have 
large velvet spots set on amid arabesque and 
vermicelli designs, and are further ornamented 
with velvet ribbons, set on lengthwise, and 
ending in bows at the foot of the skirt. 



CII.A.^'TEI^ -V^. 



Scene 11. New i'ork City. Salon of Signora Pallia. 

Enter Mile. Trillet. 

Ah, bon jour, Signora. 

Good morning. Mile. How are you to-day ? 

Oh, so happy. Just see. See me breathe. I can breathe as easily as a child. Look at my 
waist. See it expand and then slowly contract. Oh, Madame, I never felt so good in my life. 
Well, well, this is a great change from yesterday. Then you were so down-hearted be- 
cause you could not breathe easily in singing. 

Yes, Madame, there has been a change in me since yesterday, for THEN, you remember, 
I had on those horrid stiff Corsets, but NOW I am wearing those wonderful PONGEES. 

I am delighted, Mile., that you are so pleased with them, but I knew yesterday, when I 
loaned them to you, that the result would be what it is. 

Oh, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness to me, Madame, and I shall order a pair 
of the Pongee Corsets to-day. 

I should advise you to surely visit their store, 328 Main street, when you visit Worcester, 
and be perfectly fitted. Miss Perry, the manager of the store, is a very skillful Corset 
specialist. 

Thank you, Signora. I shall do as you say, for I have an aunt in Worcester who has 
asked me to visit her, and I believe I shall accept her invitation. 

Now that I am satisfied. Mile., that the poor control of your breath was owing EN- 
TIRELY to your Corsets, we can now continue your vocal lessons with much encouragement, 
for you have a fine voice. 

Oh, thank you, dear Madame. I am so happy, and such a burden has been rolled from 
my heart. 

Now, Mile., let us proceed with your lesson. 

Yes, Signora, in just a moment. This morning I met my most intimate friends, Marie 
Chantet and Joanne Scalet. They were on their way to their lessons, too. They take of Prof. 
Lonado, and of course he would never say anything to them about their Corsets, so I told them 
of my good fortune, and they are going to get some Pongees right away. 

I am very glad you have become a benefactor to your friends, Mile., but now for our lesson. 

In a moment, Signora. I just happened to think how Belle Davenport would like to have 

a pair of Royal Worcester Pongee Corsets, for she is very fond of sports, and she could wear 

these while playing tennis or rowing, or cycling, or anything she wants to do. There, you see 

I cannot think of anything except these lovely Corsets. 



DR. CONANT'S 

COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS 



Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths are a hixury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours, 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 to ; and 7 to 9 p. m. MRS. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 24'A School Street, Worcester, Mass. 



If you w»iit » piai 
get the celebrHtetl 



> that will last a Ufe-tlme, 



SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSE^^ 

80 Sonthbridge Street. 

Gents' Garnifiits and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAIVIS & SON. 

HAVE YOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 
li: BANJOS? 8? 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's i Music i House, 

43 PLKASANT STREET. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Freecoing a Specialty. 

NO. 33 PEARL STREET. 

SHATTUCK & BUSHNELL, 

DEALERS IN 

PROVISIONS, POULTRY, 
VEGETABLES, ETC. 

No. 13 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass. 
"Phone" 45-3. 

S. H. SHATTUCK. F. O. BUSHNELL. 

NEW KODAKS I! 



"You press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles and Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THE EASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. KOCHESTEK, N. Y. 



L Kg HT 

Fire-crackers. 



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No I Guess Not. 

Iratk Wife (to collector) :— Don't be 
insolent, sir. I'll tell my husband and he'll 
kick you all over town. 

Collector (confidently): — I just guess not. 
My name's liill, mum, and he never footed one 
in liis life if he could help \\..— U',uhiiij^on 
Star. 

Much in a Name. 

Western Man (looking at a sailing craft): 
— What keeps the sails out straight.' 

New ^■oRK Host:— It is held taut by the 
gaff and the boom. That heavy piece of tim- 
ber at the bottom is called the boom. When 
the wind is fair, the boom swings out and stays 
there; but if the wind should suddenly change, 
it might swing back with terrible force and 
knock everybody overboard. 

Western Man : — Ah ! I see now why it is 
called a boom. We have booms in the West, 
you know. — A'fw York li'eckly. 
To Cook or Not to Cook. 

"I don't know what to make of my hus- 
band," said a young wife, tearfully ; "he begs 
me not to cook anything, but allow our 
trained cook to prepare the meals." 

"My husband was different," said a lady in 
deep mourning ; "he was emphatic in his 
orders that the food should always be prepared 
by my hands." 
"And your husband — where is he now?" 
"He is dead." — Philadelphia Press. 
Another Typewriter Lie. 

Mrs. Merritt: — I hear your daughter lost 
her place as type-writer. Did she make some 
mistake ? 

Mrs. Badger; — Yes; she fell in love with 
one of the clerks before she had given the boss 
time enough to take a liking to her.— ///^i^''- 
Blowing Guns. 

"This is where we cast our cannon," said 
the polite attendant. 

"How interesting!" said the sweet girl; 
"and where do you blow your great guns.' 
I've heard a yachting friend of mine speak of 
that so often." — Harper'' s Bacar. 
Culture. 

Mr. Wheeler : — I suwposethe great and 
mysterious Robert has many admirers in Bos- 
ton, Miss Emerson? 

Miss Emerson : — Why, yes, Mr. Wheeler, 
even the beans go through a course of Brown- 
ing before they come to the table. — Boston 
Budget. 
Helping Ma. 

Servant (at sweet girl's boudoir) :— Mr. 
Nicefellovv is in the parlow, miss. 

Sweet Girl (throwing down her novel): — 
Horrors ! And my hair is all down ! Tell 
him he'll have to wait a little, as I'm in the 
kitcheu helping mother. — Life. 
Finally Caught on. 

New Salesman: — What are you all laugh- 
ing at? I don't see anything funny in that 
story. 

Old Salesman (in a whisper): — It's old 
Spotcash, the proprietor, that's telling it. 

New Salesman (loudly) :— Ha, ha, ha.— 
Chicago Tribune. 



G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S., 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 

518 rs^ain St., Worcester. 
I^^Elevator. 



MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

POR LAIJIKS AND ( IIILIIKHN O.NI.V. 

;152 Main Street, Corner Maple, \Vorcenter, Mass. 

Ei'^Othcf hours— 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 

menl at the homes of patients by appointment if desired. 



WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Shorthand and TypcwritinL- practically taught. Our 
graduates are successful. W rite for terms. 



Ci-eo. C. Creelnaan, Principal, 

44 Front street, Worcester, Mbbh. 

It*"Typewriting dune at reasonable rates during the 



Art Embroidery and 

DecoratiYe Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

ROOM 3Q. - . - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D B N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, $.8 per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D K N T I S T 

I^^A lady assistant will be in attendance. 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
TURKIJM BflTn5. 



F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
S A.M. tog V. M. Sundays, 

8 to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House, 
Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New Vork Training School, gives 

^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 
only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

43 8 Main St.. Worcester, Magg. 

13R. KHNISON, 
326 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Corns, Bunions and Bad Nails 
Treated Without Pain. 

Separate Rooms for Ladies and Gents. 

OFFICE HOUKS, 8 A. M. to 12, 1 to S P. .M. 



Mrs.Dr.Wm.Lee, 

339 Main St., 

Burnside Building, 
Room 5. 

Office hours: 9 to 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




zo 

The picnic season has set in with a ven- 
geance. On Tuesday, the Union Church peo- 
ple went to Lake Waushacum, having a party 
of about 300, and although the weather wilted 
the picnickers' spirits somewhat, they seemed 
to have a good time. That same day, the 
First Baptist people went to Crystal Lake, 
which seems to be regaining favor among 
Worcester people, as a picnic resort, and Pil- 
grim Church staid nearer home, going to Quin- 
sigamond Park. On Wednesday, Union 
Church went to Crystal Lake; Summer Street 
Church to Woodland Grove ; St. Mark's to 
Natural History Camp, and the Church 
of Christ to Quinsigamond Park. Next 
Tuesday the Dewey Street Baptist people 
go to Woodlawn Grove and the Old 
South people to Waushacum; on Wednes- 
day, the Universalists go to Wausha- 
cum and the Webster Square Methodists to 
Quinsigamond Park ; on Thursday, Piedmont 
goes to Waushacum and on Friday the Pleas- 
ant Street Baptists to the same place. 

A good many of Worcester's bright boys 
who are expecting to become master mechanics 
and engineers and are anxious to embrace all 
their opportunities for education which will fit 
them for such work, will be sorry to hear that 
the Mechanics' Association has found it im- 
possible to arrange for its usual summer 
school at the Washburn shops of the Poly- 
technic Institute. It appears to be a matter 
of money, the Association being unwilling to 
pay the increased price asked by the Institute 
for the use of its shop and tools. At any rate, 
the school will not be opened this summer for 
the first time in several years. 



Flat to Let. 
One of the finest flats in Worcester, to let at a moder- 
ate price. Situated at 120 Elm street, facing Elm Park. 
Hot aiid cold water, gas lighted by electricity, set tubs, 
ash-shoot, private front door and hall and piazzas, good 
yard. The building is new. Three large chamliers, 
parlor, sitting-room, dining-room and kitchen with hard 
wood polished floors. Large bath room and roomy 
closets. ApplytoC. W. BOW KER, corner Elm and 
Park streets. 



A sunny, well-appointed Dining Room 
makes cheery the whole house. The best 
investment you ever make in house furnish- 
ing provides substantial and handsome Side- 
board, Table and Chairs for your Dining 
Room. Artistic merit, solidity, convenience 
and variety mark the new designs for 1890. 
Solid Oak Dining Room Sets, including a 
Sideboard, from $40 up. It will please you 
to look them over in our spacious ware- 
rooms. If you buy, we guarantee satisfac- 
tion, and deliver free in Boston and its 
suburbs, and the depots. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 



46 Canal Street, 
139 Friend Street, 



Boston. 



LI (I HT 

Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are soUcited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

G. P. asks: Who are the Massachusetts 
members of the House of Representatives 
beside Hon. Joseph H. Walker, and what 
parties do they represent ; also, when will the 
term of Senator Hoar expire? The Massa- 
chusetts delegation in the lower House in- 
cludes : Charles S. Randall, rep., of New 
Bedford, first district ; Elijah A. Morse, rep., 
of Canton, second district ; John F. Andrew, 
dem., of Boston, third district; John H. 
O'Neil, dem., of Boston, fourth district ; Na- 
thaniel P. Banks, rep., of Waltham, fifth dis- 
trict ; Henry Cabot Lodge, rep., of Nahant, 
sixth district ; William Cogswell, rep., of 
Salem, seventh district; Frederic T. Green- 
halge, rep., of Lowell, eighth district ; John W. 
Candler, rep., of Brookline, ninth district ; 
Joseph H. Walker, rep., of Worcester, tenth 
district ; Rodney Wallace, rep., of Fitchburg, 
eleventh district ; Francis W. Rockwell, rep., 
of Pittsfield, twelfth district. Senator Hoar 
was elected to the senate in 1877, re-elected in 
1883 and in 1889. His term will expire March 
3. "89s- 

Congregationaltst asks : Where in the Bible 
occur the words: "No prophecy of the 
Scripture is of any secret interpretation .'" The 
Answerer would suggest the use of a concor- 
dance in seeking the answer to such questions 
as this. You have not quoted quite correctly. 
The words are found in the second epistle 
general of Peter, i., 20, "Knowing this first, 
that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any 
private interpretation." 

Writer asks : What kind of a fountain pen 
would you advise me to buy ? The Answerer 
would advise you to buy an inkwell, a two-cent 
pen-holder and a gross of steel pens. Then 
you can go to church with a clear conscience. 

Racquet asks : Who is the champion tennis 
pl.iyer of this country ? Henry W. Slocum, Jr., 
of Brooklyn, has held the championship of 
America for two years. 

Prospective Freshman asks : What are the 
college colors of Wellesley .' of Bowdoin ? The 
Wellesley color is sapphire blue. Bowdoin 
has this year adopted new colors, garnet and 
white ; it had formerly blue and white. 

E. C. R. asks : Who is the managing editor 
and who the business manager of the New 
York U'or/d? The managing editor is J. 
Julius Chambers; the business manager is 
George W. Turner. 

Everett P. asks : Who is the greatest living 
actor? Well, opinions differ. The Answerer 
will let you choose between Edwin Booth, 
Salvini and Coquelin. Edwin Booth is the 
Answerer's choice, partly, perhaps, because he 
is an American. Richard Mansfield is rapidly 
taking rank as a great actor and may some 
day come in the list. It should be remembered 
that after Booth's severe illness, over a year 
ago, it was not expected that he could ever go 
upon the stage again; yet his tremendous 
vitality asserted itself, and during the past 
season he played with Mme. Modjeska to 
houses which marvelled at his acting, almost 
thinking it greater than ever before. 



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NANTUCKET, MASS. 
Open the year around. Rates, $2.50 to $3.50 per day. 
CHARLES H. MOWKY, Proprietor. 

(r^="SEND FOR CIRCULARS. 



PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— :o:— 

-4 Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* TMYELLISG BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 




J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT «- 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 



C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Establisbed 1865.) 

The best goods, the most honorable deaUng, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS AND rvIUSIC. 

454 MAIN STREET. 




FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

in Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 

NEAR SUMMER. WORCESTER, MASS. 



Bedford, City, Va. 

Some of our older fathers and motlurs, wlio 
were middle-aged about the time that America 
was hardly recognized as a livable infant, 
sent their sturdy sons and daughters across 
the water to build new homes for civilization's 
posterity. The tides, or the winds, or the fluc- 
tuations of a flexible compass carried most 
of them towards the frigid North; but a kind 
dispensation of Providence piloted a selected 
few towards the shores of a land of neither 
snow nor perpetual flowers ; a country where 
the north wind is filtered in reaching it, and 
where the torrid sun is not allowed to come 
within several hundred miles of its borders. 
Here in this Virgmia land Nature built her 
grandest workshop ; and here is a climate 
thoroughly temperate, always reliable, and 
never unhealthy. 

Bedford City has a population of four thou- 
sand people. It was called Liberty once, but 
is now legally known as Bedford City. It is 
about midway between Lynchburg and Roa- 
noke, on the Norfolk and Western railroad ; 
and from its location is a natural gateway of 
the .Southwest. It is an attractive town, beau- 
tifully laid out ; its business is solid, and there 
is much of it. Its manufacturing industries 
are of great importance, and everything points 
towards the fulfilment of the prophecy that 
Bedford City will be one of the manufacturing 
centres of the .South. 

Bedford is surrounded by beautiful forests, 
valleys and mountains, furnishing the grandest 
of scenery. The country is rich in minerals, 
including iron, mica and asbestos. The Blue 
Ridge of mountains bound the north and west, 
and a long range of gently sloping mountains 
cut the southern horizon line. From the lofty 
tops of the peaks the unglassed eye looks into 
fifty counties of the state. 

The city has placed a contract of twenty- 
five years for electric ligliting; an electric 
railroad is in process of construction ; and the 
freight trains bring in more freight and take it 
out, than any other city in Virginia, with four 
exceptions. 

The Randolph-Macon Academy is a mag- 
nificent building of architectural beauty, and 
is by far the finest educational institution in 
the South. This academy is located within 
the city limits. A college for young ladies 
under the patronage of the Presbyterians, and 
a female institute under the direction of the 
Baptist Church, are about to be established. 

Bedford has two banks, a great creamery, a 
very large woolen company, several immense 
tobacco houses, flour mills, roller mills, plow 
works, and other business institutions which 
make up a thoroughly successful, prosperous 
city. 

A pamphlet containing full particulars about 
this remarkable city, and also of the Bedford 
City Land Co., will be sent free upon applica- 
tion to F. \V. Prescott & Co., 54 Devonshire 
street, Boston. 



Kind Words for Invalids. 
Large-hearted people are frequently telling 
us how to care for our invalids; and when one 
has read of all the little attentions and ten- 
dernesses in the way of constant care and 
smiles and cheery words; in the giving of light 
and air and sunshine, of flowers, of fruits, of 



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delicacies, and all the thousands and one 
little things that they picture as being absolute- 
ly necessary if invalids are to live and breatli 
at all, one cannot but call to mind the many, 
many tliousands of people who lie from year's 
end to year's end on beds of suffering, with 
only the bare necessities of life ; to whom suf- 
fering is bread, despair is drink, and patience 
is dessert; to whom a kind word or a cheery 
smile is like a (iod-given holiday to a lonely 
child, and to whom a flower is a glimp.se of 
heaven. Oh, God pity and cheer all invalids 
who must lie within four wall.s, and who may 
never be out in the fields and the woods ! But 
let those who suffer on beds of down, with 
many comforts and many friends, remember 
those who lie with burning heads and un- 
cheered hearts in dark rooms tliat know neither 
sunshine nor smiles.— /fVj-/ S/iore. 



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Care of the Hands. 
Soak ill-kept hands in hot bathing soap suds 
with half a teaspoonful of bora,\ in the water, 
which acts wonderfully in removing grime. 
The hotter the water the sooner it will remove 
grime and old particles. Those who have used 
the rubber hand brushes will never want any- 
thing else. Rubber clings to the surface with 
a sort of suction, and carries away every trace 
of grime with it. An English recipe for keep- 
ing hands smooth is two tablespoonfuls 
of lemon juice, one of glycerine and the same 
of almond oil — colorless oil by the way, for ex- 
perience lends reason to the idea that most 
oils and vaseline discolor and darken the 
hands. Kn passant, hot foot-baths nightly, 
and purgatives with coarse bread, are the best 
recipe to secure white hands. Honey balsam 
is a nice preparation English lady's maids 
compound to whiten and soften hands. It is 
made of eight tablespoonfuls of pale strained 
honey heated gently, and two tablespoonfuls 
of vegetable glycerine melted into it ; when 
cold, two tablespoonfuls of rectified spirit and 
three drams of pure citric acid are added, with 
a few drops of any rich essence to perfume. 
Dissolve the acid crystals in the spirit before 
pouring into the other mixture, and bottle at 
once. 



Ladling out Punch. 
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the 
Christian Union, defends the reputation for 
morality and gentlemanliness of the average 
college student of today by saying: "I can 
remember when it was no uncommon thing 
for parties of undergraduates to rob hen roosts 
and melon patches by night, a thing which 
would now almost banish a young fellow from 
decent college society. The newspapers were 
justly indignant with the silly youths who 
daubed red paint on the statue of John Har- 
vard ; but to those who remembered when the 
college chapel was blown up with a bomb- 
shell, the modern delinquency seemed less 
serious. When a student comes out late from 
Boston intoxicated — a siglit almost never seen 
in Cambridge by daylight — the reporters make 
the most of it ; but I can remember when the 
Senior cla.ss assembled annually round Liberty 
Tree on Class Day, and ladled out liowls of 
punch for every passer-by, till every Cam- 
bridge boy saw a dozen men in various stages 
of inebriation about the college yard." 



NOTICE! 



We have sold our store at the cor- 
ner of Main and Foster streets, but 
will continue our drug business at the 
corner of Park and Portland streets, 
where we will carry a full line of 
apothecary goods. 

BRADT & FLINT, 

3SrOTICE; ! 



I beg to announce to the Worcester public 
that I have purchased the drug store at the 
corner of Main and Foster streets, where I 
shidl carry a full line of apothecary's goods. 
W. L. SADLER. 

C. W. E(;f;i.K.sii>N. manager. 



Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine Htchiings. 



3SS 3s4:.^I3^ ST. 



MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOC)| 

Whicli must be diposed of to make room for certain im- 
provements I intend making, and new stock I must buy. 

I find on the shelves of my store some ^5,000 worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to fill up your libraries. 

The books I have, the money and the room I want. 
Call and look over tlie stock and have what you wish at 
almost your own price. 

GEO. L. SANFORD, 

IKorKlETOR OF THh 

Sanford & Company Bookstore, 

.11; I MAIN STKKKT. 



* STORAGE * 

Metropolitan .'Storage Company, corner SoutlibiiilKe 
and Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for ^leighs. 
Carriages. Furniture, Merchandise, and all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and well ventilated. .Apply 
at building. J. H. DICKIE, M'g'r. 



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LldHT 




WHITNEY'S 

LINEN STORE 



Great Sale of 



Summer Blankets, 



$2.50 Per Pair. 



MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



tlCiHT 



A. W. TIFFANY 




-^ OcQlist i and i Optician 4- 

Examination free. Satisfaction snsranteed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester. Mass . 

EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fashionable Hat, 
Fine Furnishing 
& Athletic House. 

365 Main St., Worcester. 




The Travelers of Hartford. 

LIFE AND ACCIDENT. 

Justus E. Allen, 
339 Main Street. District Agent. 



The artist paints so wondrous fine 

That he makes a famous name; 
The printer cannot draw a line, 

But he gets there just the same. 
If for a printer you should'seek, 

Needing one whose work is good. 
You'll find him at 3 Maple'street, 

And his name is O. B. WOOD. 



Bronze medal 
1879. 



Silver 



Gold 



and Diploma 
1882. 



Awarded Wm. Laugher for upholstery and drapery. 

UPHOLSTERER, 

HAS REMOVED TO 

677 MAIN ST., COR SYCAMORE, 

where he is prepared to execute orders in the same first- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 
the past. 

Bedding, Shades and Draperies * 

* Fnrnitare Repairing and Carpet Work. 



2} 



THE 50UTI1 ! 

THC^SOUTH ! 

Bedford City Land and Improve- 
ment Company, 

BEDFORD CITY, VIRGINIA. 



Chartered by a Special Act of the General As.sembly. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. 
Par value, $10.00. AMOUNT ISSUED, $300,000. Non-assessable. 



Every Dollar Paid in 
Goes Toward tlie Development of the Property. 



BEDFORD CITY is a flourishing city of 4000 inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk & 
Western Railroad, midway between Lynchburg and Roanoke, the surrounding county being 
extremely rich in mineral resources. It is the county seat of Bedford County, is lighted by 
electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It indu.stries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing $100,000, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
of building a $75,000 hotel, and a railroad station to cost $40,000. 



This is a Good Investment ! 



Tlie Bedford City Land and improvement Company offers its Steele at 

$6.50 PER S HARE. 

Make Remittances Payable to 

F. W. PRESCOTT & CO., 

bankers;[and;[brokers, 

No. H Devonsiiire Street, Boston. Mass. 

FiscalJAgent for the Bedford City Land and Improvement Co. 

Prospectiis Kree \iy Mail 

TRANSFER AGENTS: 

INXERNATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, BOSTON 



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I. l(i MT 




46 ^ 48 rRONT 5T. 



James H. Dennis, IVL'g'r. 



Clifford & Johnson, 



All kinds of Dra- 
pery and Upholstery 
work to order. 

HAIR MATTRESSES 



Our own make. 
First-class Turk- 
ish work a specialty. 




Particular atten- 
tion given to re-up- 
holstering in all its 
branches. Estimates 
furnished upon ap- 
plication. Original 
Designs a marked 
Feature. 



MAIN ST., COR. FRONT ST., UP ONE FLIGHT, WORCESTER. 

THK SUMMIT HOUSK 

On Wacht-isett TVlotantain 

Will open the season of 'go May 24, under new management. No pleasanter place can be 
found for a day's outing, or a longer stay. Finest view in the state. Good rooms, with gas 
and electric bells. Table supplied with the best the market affords. Special attention 
given to preparing dinners at short notice. The road to the mountain top is not hard for 
horses, as it makes the ascent by zigzags, furnishing magnificent views at every turn. 
Coaches for the summit connect with morning and afternoon trains from Worcester, at 
Princeton Station. Round-trip tickets can be bought at reduced rates, and parties of six or 
more can make very favorable terms. Direct telephone from Worcester. 

A. HARRINOTON, N4anager. 

Post-office address, Mt. Wachusett, Mass. 



Famous OilRangb 

_^ — a^n^BU"^ '■ ATTAC^MENX 




For Family Use. 



'I'he "F.AMOl'.S," as its name implies, is 
<if the coal range. It stands firmly on lej,"-. 't ll 
and free from odor. Its tank is of Seamlt-^- I < 
Ki't heated. The wicks can be burned a-, lin 
suHicient power to do all the cooking and l.u! . 
I.ss than half the cost of the coal stove. I In a ,. 
W rite us for further information and name .il M 



in Oil Kange, and is fully the equivalent 
• ■ rl"l,t height to work over. Is is cleanly 
:i<l III is at the rear, where it does not 
I drop of oil in the tank. It has 
.11 1 tlie family the year round, at 
11 1 - .111 111 use in all parts of the country. 



SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

M.VKKKS, ISO.STON, MASS. KOI; S.\I,K I'.Y 

J. W. GREENE, 51 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. 



GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES 

L. M. ALEXANDER 




) 

/\t Hill & Tollman's old stand, 

I'jr, FKONT ST. 
Ladies' Safeties a Specialty. 

to purchasers. Lady instructor 



".\'('?c' Gooi/ Digi'stion Wait on .Ippeiile.' 



ICE CREAM A SPECIALTY. 



Appetite is largely influenced by pleasant sur- 
roundings. 



You can find pleasant surroundings and all 
the delicacies of the season at 

ESTEY'S, 

No. 411 Main Street (Up One Flight). 

Open from 5 A. M. to 12 P. M., including 
Sundays. 

THREE POOL. FOUR ALLEV.S. TWO CAROM. 

WORCESTER 

Ten Pin, Billiard and Pool Hall. 




STKICTLY TEMFKKATE.H 

FIRST-CLASS THKOIIGHOUT. 

Hours for ladies, 9 A. M. to 2 r. M. 
37 Pearl Sireet. J. P. WHITK. Prop. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 



ntly eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to ii a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Miss H. IVE. PROCTOR, 

92 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 




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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1890. 



No. 



Many of the fathers of to-day are not the 
brilliant men it was expected they would be on 
account of their unusual brightness when 
boys. How many times has the work of the 
boy who seemed capable of more than ordi- 
nary things proven but a disappointment when 
compared to what he was supposed to be able 
to accomplish. 

It is not always the clever boy who wins the 
prize of after-life, neither is it true that the 
clever boy never makes a clever man ; but 
there are so many who do not come up to the 
standard that marks the man of business as 
worthy of the confidence and respect of his 
neighbors, that it may be well to stop and 
consider why it is. 

As soon as the boy — while yet a mere baby, 
in fact — is old .enough to say a dozen words, 
some one of the family will think it their 
especial duty to teach the "cunning little 
fellow" his A B C's, and from the time he is 
able to tell the crooked S from the round O 
until the commencement-day oration is de- 
livered, there is not a breathing-spell. He has 
carried off the highest honors, and is looked to 
as the brightest boy in the city for his age. 
His head is full to overHowing. But how 
about the balance of his body.'' Can he play 
ball? No, for while the rough boys were on 
diamond he was takingjhis music lesson. Can 
he swim ? No, for when the truants were in 
the water he was putting a drab boat tossing 
about in yellow water on a piece of dry can- 
vas. He must not climb a tree or his clothes 
will be disarranged, and if he plays marbles he 
will wear out the knees of his trousers. And 
so he leaves the High School at the age of 
fifteen an intellectual prodigy and a physical 
failure. Such a body cannot stand the strain 
of so much head, and as a result he either be- 
comes an invalid or indulges in the sports he 
should have engaged in while a boy, and 
never becomes a man. Give the boys a chance 
to develop body, mind and spirits equally. 
There is about so much mischief inherent in 
every American boy, which is sure to come to 
the surface sooner or later, and it is much 
better that it should be when the doing of it 
will produce a good pair of lungs, strong arms 
and nimble feet. It is not necessary that they 
should be wild and vicious, and but compara- 
tively few boys are; but let them be simply 
boys, and endeavor to make little men of large 
boys rather than large men of little boys. 



Light has a few words to say to the young 
men who have just finished their course in the 
High School. 

Go to college if it be possible. 

While some newspapers are telling what a 
certain wealthy manufacturer has said about 
the great number of business men who have 
amassed large fortunes with but a common 
school education, there is not one of those who 
have accomplished this but would have gladly 
given, at some time in life, all he was worth to 
have had the very knowledge he would try to 



make us believe he was better off without. 

I'.very man with but a meagre education is 
often worsted in business as well as in debate 
for the simple reason that he is unable to im- 
part to others the ideas that would have made 
him victorious had he been able to com- 
mand the language that a highly educated man 
could. 

This life is but a bartering time. One man 
trades to another that which he has too much 
of for that which he lacks. A thoroughly edu- 
cated person is able to tell the real value of 
those things which the scales and rules do not 
regulate, and which go to make up more of life 
than is generally supposed, or if known, seldom 
admitted. It is not all of life to have wealth. 
Riches will bring what is for sale ; but who 
has a reputation for honor, honesty and virtue 
for sale ? At what market-house do you get 
friendship for dollars? And a clear conscience 
is hard to find, even in the "original package," 
and never on the "mark-down" counter. It is 
the educated man who fully realizes the value 
of such things, and for this reason alone, if for 
no other, every young man who is able should 
strive to avail himself of the truths of science, 
art and morals that are taught in the colleges. 



Some of you may be of the ever-increasing 
class who are not possessed of sufficient of 
this world's goods to enjoy the good of this 
world, and must needs go to work. If so, go 
to work at what you are best fitted for. Now, 
there never was a man who knew positively 
what he was best fitted for, and the exception 
can hardly be looked for in the class of 'go. 
Do not wait for some one else to tell you what 
line you are specially adapted to, for they 
know as little about it as you do, but get about 
it and find out what there is for you to begin 
at. If, after you have tried one kind of labor 
and become convinced you cannot succeed at 
it, try another. But — and pause for a mo- 
ment right here. Trying a certain line of 
business does not mean to draw your salary 
for as little as you can do in as few hours as 
the proprietor will put up with, but consists of 
doing all you can so long as there is anything 
to be done, and not resting until you are master 
of all the ins and outs of the entire subject. 
If you have chosen to lay stones in the street 
then lay stones as they should be laid. A 
stone-layer on the street who thoroughly under- 
stands his business is by far a greater suc- 
cess than the make-believe lawyer who knows 
nothing of law and cares less. The renowned 
men of to-day are the ones who know a great 
deal about one thing rather than those who 
know but a little of a great many things. 
Knowing all of one subject does not necessi- 
tate knowing nothing of any other, and the 
best experience a young man can have is to 
spend a time in seeing how people live outside 
his own city. He who travels through a num- 
ber of states or in foreign countries and visits 
the smaller towns as well as the cities, will 



come back to Worcester satisfied that it is 
about as good a place for a home as can be 
found anywhere, and will settle down con- 
tented to take up a certain line and .stick to it. 



When you have finally concluded what 
branch of business will be the best suited to 
your tastes and capacity, then strive to do to 
the best of your ability the share which falls 
to your lot. Do not rattle about in a position 
four sizes too large for you, but rather expand 
in mind and strength until the office boy's 
stool is out-grown, and be satisfied with noth- 
ing less than the occupancy of the Presidertt's 
chair. The task is not an easy one, and can- 
not be done in a week, nor a year, and seldom 
in a life time, so do not be discouraged if your 
salary is not raised the second week. Employ- 
ers do not increase pay to get more work, but 
because the boy or man has proven that he 
can do more than when he began. More 
ability must precede more pay. If you expect 
to be taken in as a partner demonstrate that 
you are capable of doing something beside 
routine work. Think, think hard, and long, 
and for yourself. Plenty of people are willing to 
do the thinking for you, but demand the whole 
product of your labor as the price for telling 
you what you could have thought out for 
yourself had you tried. Findingfault because 
things are not done to your liking is not evi- 
dence of superior wisdom, but is often proof 
of limited experience and no study. When 
your opinion is asked for have one ready to 
give. Not a hasty suggestion, but an idea 
that you have acquired by reasoning. Be a 
close observer, and try to profit by it. Antici- 
pate what is to be done next so that you may 
be prepared to do it immediately when told. 
What is to the employer's interest is to your 
interest, and you should use every endeavor to 
promote your own by working for his. In 
short, merit promotion and you will get it. 



Whom do you associate with ? Are your 
companions ambitious to rise higher in- 
tellectually and morally, or are they of that 
class of indolents who care tor nothing but a 
cheap theatre and a box of cigarettes? If .so, 
get new ones or go alone. Nothing is more 
certain than that a young man is known by 
the company he keeps. It is easier to go two 
steps down than one up the social stairway 
that leads to a good reputation. On the way 
down there are plenty of those who will enjoy 
making the journey as pleasant and rapid as 
their own has been: but. on tlie other course, 
most people are so busy trying to maintain 
the shaky position they are already in that a 
helping hand will seldom be extended. Stead- 
fastness of purpose and a will-power sufficient 
to cause you to refrain from doing what vour 
conscience says is wrong will make vour life a 
success, and always remember that "nothi' g 
succeeds like success." 




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A Week of Picnics. 



It has been another great week for picnics. 
On Tuesday, that scorcher of all scorchers re- 
corded up to date, the Old South people went 
to Waushacum, the Main Street Baptists to 
Chauncey Lake, Westboro, the Plymouth peo- 
ple to Quinsigamond Park, and the Dewey 
Street Baptists to VVoodlawn Grove. It 
would be hard to say that one party had a 
better time than another, for according to re- 
port, they all enjoyed themselves hugely, not- 
withstanding the intense heat. All e.xcept the 
Main Street Baptist people carried out their 
program of athletic sports, but the latter gave 
up theirs, preferring the shade to e.xercise in 
the hot sun. 

The committees for Plymouth's picnic did 
their work well, and all went off smoothly. 
Those who had charge were : General com- 
mittee, the officers of the Sunday School and 
Messrs. P. G. Kent, Sumner A. Kinsley, 
Walter L. Mellen, Misses Emily K. Mellen, 
Emily G. Whittemore ; finance and transpor- 
tation, Messrs. E. H. Wentworth, Everett E. 
Kent, Ralph Holmes; sports, Messrs. Edward 
A. Taylor, Edward W. Kinsley, Charles S- 
Holden, E. W. Warren, Frank E. Stimpson ; 
refreshments, Mr. Darius A. Putnam, Mrs. E. 
W. Warren, Mrs. Charles H. Morgan, Miss 
Morgan, Mrs. S. A. Sinnicks, Mrs. P. G. 
Kent, Mrs. J. W. Townsend, Mrs. E. h! 
Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Tillinghast, 
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus M. Taft, Miss Carrie C. 
Kinsley, Miss Minnie L. Burrage, Miss Emily 
K. Mellen, Miss Emily G. Whittemore, Miss 
Maynard. With all these people to "look 
after things," it was made very evident that 
the management of the affair had been placed 
in safe hands. When it came to the sports, 
"Ed" Kinsley and "Ned" Taylor had about 



LICiHT 

the nicest thing they had ever encountered. 
What prizes one didn't get, the other did. For 
instance, "Ed" took first in the 40 and 100- 
yard dashes, handicaps, the 30-yard hop, and 
the hop step and jump, and second in the 220- 
yard dash, handicap, standing broad, running 
broad, and running high jumps. "Ned," by 
way of balance, took first in the 220-yard dash, 
handicap, the standing broad, running broad 
and running high jumps, hop step and jump, 
and throwing hammer, and he took second in 
all the events in which "Ed" was first, as well 
as in putting the shot. They let Charlie Hol- 
den have second in throwing the hammer, and 
Albert H. Inman first in putting the shot. 
Master Stone won the sprints for boys. Some 
very pretty badges had been prepared, blue 
for first prize, pink for second, and Messrs. 
Kinsley and Taylor had a large collection 
when the sports were over. Of course they 
couldn't wear them all, themselves, which 
probably accounts for the fact that late in the 
day some of the pretty girls were to be seen 
wearing such startling announcements as that 
they had won the hundred yards dash or the 
running broad jump. 



While the Plymouth Church people were 
having great larks at Quinsigamond Park, 
over opposite them, at Woodlawn, the Dewey 
-Street Baptist people were similiarly enjoying 
themselves. Messrs. Waldo H. Bi.xby, Walter 
S. Cook and Dr. Charles B. Pierce shouldered 
the general responsibilities of the occasion 
and consequently have the glory to divide. 
The program of sports made provision for the 
girls as well as for their athletic brothers and, 
somehow, Messrs. Jones and Shaughessey for 
the boys and Misses Hatch and Stevens for 
the girls seemed to have borrowed the mascot 
which Messrs. Kinsley and Taylor found so 
efficient in bringing victory to perch upon their 
banners. Miss Nellie Hatch won first in the 
50-yard dash for girls, the potato race, throwing 
base ball and the egg race ; Miss Maud King 
won second in the 50-yard dash; Miss Ida 
Stevens second in the potato race and throw- 
ing base ball; Miss Leila Cunningham second 
in the egg race. Harry Jones won first in the 
hop step and jump, the 30-yard hop, the 100- 
yard dash and the single boat race and with A. 
Fames won first in the three-legged race ; W. 
Shaughnessy took second in the hop, step and 
jump and the 30-yard hop; W. Harrington 
took second in the loo-yard dash and the 
single boat race; W. Cook second in the 
swimming race ; F. Godfrey and W. Harring- 
ton second in the three-legged race; F. God- 
frey first in the doughnut race and F. Holtomb 
second. 

The Old South people had rather a better 
time than usual, at Waushacum, that same 
day. The committee in charge included 
Messrs. W. P. Hathorne, George Farnsworth, 
W. A. Putnam, George Foster, Edward L. 
Smith and George R. Bliss. The usual pro- 
gram of sports was a feature of the day's 
pleasure, and for prizes useful articles were 
given in each event. The winners were as 
follows: I co-yard dash for young men, Will- 
iam J. Denholm first ; Walter S. Bliss, second ; 
loo-yard dash for boys, John Denholm first, 
Charles Shaw second; sixth-mile dash for 
young men, J. Miuon first, Walter S. Bliss 



second ; 50-yard dash for girls, Miss Julia 
Rich first. Miss Whitney second ; boys' cookie 
race, Theodore Stoughton first; girls' cookie 
race, Miss Bessie Taft first; doughnut race, 
Arthur Boyd first, Clifford Wright second ; 
wheelbarrow race, Mrs. Clara H. Oliver first, 
Mrs. Hattie N. Watrous second ; tub race 
and throwing base ball, Harry L. Houghton 
first; half-mile run, William J. Denholm first, 
Walter S. Bliss second; loo-yard dash for 
ladies. Miss Jessie Denholm first. Miss Minnie 
Bullock second; egg and spoon race. Miss 
Louisa Foel first, Miss Bertha Salter second. 



The Main Street Baptist people elected to 
go to a new picnic ground this season, and 
they came home so thoroughly satisfied that 
it is likely the experiment will be repeated in 
future years. Inside of a ride in close cars — 
and Tuesday wasn't a day to make railroad 
travel exactly enjoyable— they went, most of 
them, in barges and private carriages, down to 
Chauncey Lake, in Westboro. Some went in 
the cars, to be sure, and in numbers the party 
approached 100. They found the scene of 
their day's outing as beautiful as heart could 
wish. Somewhat like a broad table-land, with 
groves of pines all about, and down by the 
water's edge a broad walk, it had natural 
advantages hard to duplicate. It has not 
yet been made common by large parties, and 
although there was a pavilion, no cooking- 
house as yet mars the scene, so the coffee was 
cooked above a fire kindled in rustic fashion 
over a pile of stones. The program of sports 
which had been arranged, was abandoned, 
owing to the heat. The well of delightfully 
pure, cold water, and the cans of ice-cold 
milk, quenched the thirst of the picnickers. 
Not a great deal of boating was done, for the 
shade offered greater attractions. Some of 
the party visited the Lyman School. The 
drive down was through Grafton, and, coming 
home, through Northboro and Shrewsbury. 
The most accommodating drivers in the world 
handled the reins and stops for little side 
excursions were frequent. The picnic was in 
charge of the Board of Managers of the 
Sunday School, to whom the credit for its suc- 
cess in a new field is due. Mr. Henry, the 
accommodating proprietor of the grounds, also 
comes in for his share of thanks for courtesies. 



Wednesday was the day chosen by the 
First Universalists and the Webster Square 
Methodists for their respective picnics. The 
former went to Waushacum, where they had a 
large amount of sport, and as the day was all 
that could be desired, the air being neither too 
warm nor too cool, the athletic contests were 
spirited. The great rivalry between Classes 
14 and 26, of the Sunday School, was made 
manifest in the ball game, in which Class 14 
came out victor, at the end of five innings, by 
a score of 10 to i. In the athletic contest, also, 
there was equal rivalry, and Class 14 was 
again victorious, scoring 69 points. The 
events were won as follows: Throwing base 
ball, J. Herbert Adams first, W. J. Clark 
second ; half mile run, Al Bennett first, 
Charles Poland second ; 40-yard dash, J. H. 
Adams first; Stanley C. Brennan second; 
standing high jump, Stanley C. Brennan first, 
Elmer C. Fish second : 50-yard dash for girls. 
Miss Belle Harrington first, Miss Jessie 



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Walker second ; loo-yard dash, J. H. Adams 
first, Fred Daniels second; pole vault, Stanley 
Brennan first, E. C. Fish second ; standing 
broad jump, Burdette first, E. C. Fish second, 
James G. Colles third ; potato race, Al Bennett 
first, Charles Poland second; 4o-yards hop, J. H. 
Adams first, S. C. Brennan second; running 
broad jump, J. H. Adams first, Fred Daniels 
second ; throwing hammer, E. C. Fish first, W. 
F. Knowlton second ; hop, step and jump, S. 
C. Brennan first, Fred Daniels second; sack 
race, Hoppin first, Louis Brennan second ; 
doughnut race, Hoppin first, Whitney second; 
swimming match, George Daniels first, Al 
Bennett second. Mr. J. Herbert Adams se- 
cured the individual all-round championship 
medal offered by Class 27, and Class 14, to 
which he belonged, received the prize banner. 
During the day, Bicknell's orchestra furnished 
music for dancing, which was thoroughly en- 
joyed. 

The Webster .Square people went to Quin- 
sigamond Park, where everybody played games 
and had a good time, but there were no athletic 
sports. 

Thursday, also, was a comfortable day for a 
picnic, although at times the breezes coming 
over the water were somewhat cool. The 
Piedmont party went to Wauschacum and 
followed the usual program of events. The 
sports were an important feature and were en- 
thusiastically carried out. Mr. George M. 
Bancroft acted as marshal, Mr. William F. 
Hogg as starter, Mr. H. M.Warren as referee, 
Mr. George Hayward as timer, and Messrs. 
Louis E. Lamson, George A. Clark and 
Eugene Van de Mark as judges. The sports 
resulted as follows: Main school — 100 
yards dash, over 17 years, Fred C. Curtis 
first, George E. Millersecond; under 17 years, 
A. A. Kent first, Ben Hill second; hop step 
and jump, George E. Miller first, Fred C. Cur- 
tis second ; half mile walk, Percy S. Brayton 
first, A. A. Kent second ; lemon race, A. A. 
Kent first, George E. Miller second; throwing 
base ball, Fred C. Curtis first, George E. 
Miller, second ; 50-yards backward run, Fred 
C. Curtis first, George E. Miller second; half 
mile run, Fred C. Curtis first, George E. Miller 
second; boat race, A. A. Kent first, John W. 
Higgins second ; bicycle race, A. A. Kent first, 
George T. Woodward second. Intermediate 
department — 75-yards run, George Cruik- 
shank first, Bardwell Lincoln second ; tug-of- 
war, won by Louis Chaffee; egg race for girls, 
Miss Edith Tourtellotte first, Miss Lucy 
Conant second ; 50-yards run, Howard Reed 
first, Fred Gulliver second ; 50-yards hop, 
Arthur Pratt first, George Marble second ; 
three-legged race, Louis Chaffee and James 
Amsden first, George Marble and Howard 
Reed second. In its other features. Pied- 
mont's picnic was much like those of its 
neighbors. 

Belmont Church chose Woodlawn Grove 
for a picnic ground, on Thursday. The sports 
resulted as follows : 100-yard dash for boys, 
Edward Sherman first, James Leslie second ; 
100-yard dash for girls. Miss Lettie Leslie first. 
Miss Lizzie Holliday second ; loo-yards dash, 
boys, James Leslie first, Arthur Bryant second; 
50 yards dash, under six years, Emma Clifford 
first, Jessie Pitts second; knapsack race, Em- 



mons Bryant first, Edward Sherman second ; 
running high jump, Wilson Doe first; double 
boat race, Mr. Seelye I5ryant and Miss Rhoda 
Smith first; standing broad jump, Emmons 
Bryant first; potato race, James Leslie first, 
Harry Pitts second. 

At (Juinsigamond Park another merry party 
also picknicked and had a program of sports, 
the people of the Church of the Covenant 
l)eing those who enjoyed it. The sports re- 
sulted as follows: lOo-yard dash, George 
Howland first, Fred Howe second; 100 yard 
dash, boys, Frank Howe first, John Pryde 
second; loo-yard dash, girls, Miss May Wil- 
son first, Mi.ss Chloe Bachelor second; double 
boat race. Miss Cora Barnard and George 
Howland first. Miss May Wilson and Fred 
Howe second; potato race, George Howland 
first, John Pryde second ; throwing base ball, 
Capt. A. D. Stone first. 



So far it was only the Congregationalists 
who chose Thursday for their picnic day, but 
the Adams Square Baptists, also, went that 
day to Sutton's Grove. 



The Pleasant Street Baptists picnicked at 
Waushacum yesterday, and rounded out a re- 
markable week of outings. 



Mr. and Mrs. Sidney P. Harding and Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles B. Sartelle and family are 
camping on the point of land below Quinsiga- 
mond Park. This is their second season in 
the place, and this year they have a model 
camp. They will remain until September i, 
the gentlemen going to and from their business 
in the city daily. 

Mr. Thomas B. Hamilton has been in New 
York this week on a business trip. 



A trifle warm for weddings, isn't it ? But 
that doesn't matter to Cupid and Hymen. 
Cherry Valley had one last Monday, the 
parties being Miss Mary A. Milnes, a daughter 
of Mrs. Hannah Milnes, and Mr. Neil Malcolm 
McEachearn. St. Thomas's Church, which 
was prettily decorated for the occasion, was 
crowded with friends assembled to witness 
the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. 
Henry Hague, according to the ritual of the 
Church of England. The bride was given 
away by her brother, Mr. James Milnes; the 
best man being Mr. John McAllister of 
Boston. Miss Carrie E. Brown and Miss 
Louise A. Midgley were the bridesmaids. 
The ushers were Messrs. George H. Olney 
and Joseph Marsh. The gifts were many. 
After the wedding, a small reception took 
place at the residence of the bride's mother on 
Leicester street. Mr. and Mrs. McEachearn 
went, Monday night, to Boston, and ne.xt 
Thursday will sail for Scotland, where they 
will visit relatives and friends. 



Miss Cora Tyrrell has been spending her 
vacation at Barber's Crossing, with her friend, 
Miss Lutie Lovejoy. 



It was a very small party that witnessed the 
laying of the cornerstone of the Curtis Chapel, 
at Hope Cemetery, last Tuesday afternoon, 
but the e.xercises and the event possessed un- 
usual interest. Those present were Mr. Al- 
bert Curtis, whose gift the chapel is, and the 



other commissioners of the cemetery, Mr. Al- 
bert Tolman, chairman, Mr. William Bush, 
Mr. Thomas M. Rogers and Hon. E. B. Stod- 
dard; beside Mayor Harrington, Treasurer 
William S. Barton, Mr. Loring Coes, Mr. 
David Messinger and Mr. Stephen C. Earle, 
the architect. Such speech-making as there 
was, was in the nature of appreciation of Mr. 
Curtis's gift, with remarks upon the harmo- 
nious work of the board, and something in a 
reminiscent .strain by Mr. Barton. Thechapel 
will be an attractive building and add another 
beauty to what is already Worcester's most 
beautiful resting-place for the dead. 



Mr. William H. Chase, Williams College, 
'93, leaves Monday for Pittsfield, where he will 
fill a position on the Berkshire County Eagle 
for the rest of the summer. 



The program for the evening service at the 
Old South Church, to-morrow, at 1.30, is as 
follows : 

Quartet, "The Strain Upraise," Buck 

Anthem for eight voices, "For He Shall Give 

His Angels Charge," from "Elijah," Mendelssohn 
Hymn for female voices, "One Sweetly 

Solem Thought." Ambrose- Anderson 
Response for male voices, "Now the Day is 

Over," Barnby 

The Old South quartet will be assisted by 
Misses Jessie M. D. Hamilton and Anna 
Louise Smith and Messrs. Harry A. Cook 
and J. H. Mitchell. 

Miss Luta Belle Lincoln, of Barber's Cross- 
ing, who has just been graduated from the 
State Normal School, has accepted a position 
to teach in South Lancaster. She will reside 
at the Alder Brook Farm. 



Miss Jennie Budlong, of Providence, R. I., 
is visiting Miss Gifford, of 20 Oread street. 



Mr. Charies Colby Milton is at Poland 
Springs, Me. There is a suggestion of cool- 
ness about the name, and Charles is to to be 
congratulated that he's not at home just now. 

Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Covell have departed 
for a sojourn at Ro.\bury, Vt. 

Messrs. Charles T. Tatman, L. H. Rawson 
and Richard H. Hammond, of the Polytechnic 
Institute, are camping on the east shore of 
Lake Waushacum. 

Mr. Frank E. Bradford is at Falmouth. 



Mr. J. Edwin Smith and family have gone to 
Tennant Harbor, Me., for the summer. A 
new cottage has recently been built for them 
there. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Flagg have joined 
Alderman and Mrs. Webster Thayer at Brant 
Rock. 

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cutter, who have been 
in Europe, have been in Worcester since 
Thursday morning. 

Mr. John N. Morse, Jr., and Mr. A. M. 
Thomas sail from Boston, this afternoon, for 
Europe, on the Cephalonia. 

Miss Grace A. Rice of Auburn has em- 
broidered a blue satin banner and presented it 
to the Auburn Loyal Legion. It is a very 
handsome piece of fancy work. 



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Commissioner Bullock. 



The selection of a citizen of Worcester to 
be one of the eight commissioners-at-large of 
the World's Fair to be held in Chicago, brings 
to the Heart of the Commonwealth no little 
distinction. The appointment of Col. A. 
George Bullock, whose portrait Lk;ht pre- 
sents this week, to this honorable position, has 
been duly commented upon from time to time, 
in the press of the city, and the people of Wor- 
cester, appreciating the honor which has been 
done their city, will be glad to know of the 
impression in its favor which he has created 
in Chicago and among the gentlemen of the 
commission. 

The World's Fair Commission consists of 
two commissioners from each state and terri- 
tory, and, in addition to these, eight commis- 
sioners-at-large, appointed by the President of 
the United States. These eight commission- 
ers-at-large are ex-Senator Palmer, of Detroit, 
Mich., Hon. P. A. B. Widener, of Philadel- 
phia, Judge Lindsey, of Kentucky, e.\-judge of 
Supreme Court of that state, Hon. Mark L. 
McDonald, of California, Hon. Richard S. 
Kerens, of Missouri, Hon. Henry Exall, of 
Texas, Hon. Gordon W. Allen, of New York, 
and Col. Bullock. 

These gentlemen are appointed from the 
different sections of the country, four Repub- 
licans and four Democrats, and may be said 
to more immediately represent the United 
States Government in its relation to the Co- 
lumbian Exposition than they do the states 
from which they come. The commissioners 
were recently given a banquet, at Chicago, by 
the citizens, at which six of the commissioners 
were invited to speak on different subjects. 
Col. Bullock was among the number, respond- 
ing to the toast, "The Relation of the Ex- 
position to Education and Literature." His 
speech, that of Senator Palmer and that of 
Editor Jones of St. Louis were spoken of in 
the Chicago papers as the best of the even- 
ing. 

The commissioners have selected Senator 
Palmer president of the commission, and he 
will soon appoint the committees provided for 
by the committee on permanent organization 
in their report. The details of preparation 
will be in charge of these committees here- 
after. 

While Col. Bullock has spent some forty 
years of his life in Worcester and is therefore 
a well-known citizen, probably some of his 
near friends, even, do not know the particulars 
of his career. Such particulars are always 
pleasant to know. 

Augustus George Bullock, the son of the late 
Governor Alexander Hamilton and Elvira H. 
Bullock, was born in Enfield, Hartford County, 
Connecticut, June 2, 1847, and is now, there- 
fore, in his forty-fourth year. 

His school days were passed at the High- 
land Military Academy and at Leicester 
Academy, and he fitted for college under the 
direction of the late Elbridge C. Cutler, after- 
wards professor of Modern Languages at Har- 
vard. In 1864, at the age of 17, he entered 
Harvard College, and was graduated there- 
from in 1868. 

A year of travel in Europe followed, and 
then, returning home, Mr. Bullock made him- 



self familiar with financial transactions by en- 
gaging for a short time in the brokerage busi- 
ness. He then read law in the office of Hon. 
George F. Hoar and Hon. T. L. Nelson, now 
judge of the United States District Court, and 
in 1873 he was admitted to the Worcester 
County Bar. 

Meanwhile, in 1868, when his father occu- 
pied the governor's chair, Mr. Bullock served 
as his private and military secretary, with the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. 

On the 4th of October, 1871, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Mary H. Chandler, a daughter of 
George and Josephine Rose Chandler, and in 
his family life he has been blessed by four 
children, of whom Chandler Bullock, Alexan- 
der Hamilton Bullock and Rockwood Hoar 
Bullock, are still living. A fourth son, A. G. 
Bullock, Jr., died in infancy. 

Governor Bullock died in 1882. He was at 
that time the president of the State Mutual 
Life Assurance Company, and in January, 
1883, his son was elected president and treas- 
urer of the company, which ofiices he has held 
ever since. Col. Bullock gave up his practice 
of the law and entered actively upon the busi- 
ness of the company. If the growth of the 
company's business is any standard by which 
a judgment may be formed, Col. Bullock has 
achieved eminent success. The company 
now has a general agency at Chicago and has 
recently extended its business to Missouri, 
Kansas and Nebraska. The business under 
the present management has grown rapidly to 
such proportions as to make it one of the best 
paying institutions of the kind in the country. 

That Col. Bullock has had the confidence 
and esteem of the business men of Worcester 
is shown by the positions among themselves to 
which they have elected him. He is a 
director in the Worcester National Bank and 
also a director of the Free Public Library. 
He is a director in the Worcester Gas Light 
Company, a trustee of Worcester Lunatic 
Hospital, a trustee of the Worcester County 
Institution for Savings, and president of the 
State Safe Deposit Company. 

Col. Bullock, possessing a fine education, 
and being naturally minded toward things lit- 
erary and artistic, has given some portion of 
his leisure time to study and research. He is 
a member of the Archaeological Institute of 
America, and a member of the American Anti- 
quarian Society. It might have been said, 
earlier in this sketch, that he is a member of 
the American Bar Association. 

As to his religious and political sentiments. 
Col. Bullock is a Unitarian, differing from his 
father, who was a communicant of the Epis- 
copal Church, and from his grandfather, who 
was rigidly "Orthodox." 

And as for politics, though his father was 
all his life a staunch adherent of the Republi- 
can party. Col. Bullock has been an equally 
staunch Democrat, and as a Democrat was 
appointed to the position of World's Fair 
Commissioner which he now holds. 

As the commission proceeds with its work 
of preparation for the great exposition, it will 
naturally follow that Col. Bullock and, there- 
fore, the city of his residence, will be brought 
more and more prominently before the national 
public. That he will discharge his duties 
with efiiciency and gracefully perform such 
public functions as may fall to his lot, 



there can be no doubt whatever. A 
ready speaker, polished in style and com- 
manding in delivery, and a genial man to 
meet. Col. Bullock can hardly fail of repre- 
senting Worcester at its best. 



Standing Armies. 

The Statesman's Year Book, one of the 
best statistical and reference books in the 
world, has just been received by the Public 
Library. 

From its pages Light has gleaned the fol- 
lowing figures regarding the enormous number 
of men serving in the standing armies of 
Europe and has added, for the sake of contrast, 
a table of the armies supported by the princi- 
pal states of North and South America. 



N 


ORTH AMERICA. 




United States, 


2S,40S 


Costa Rica, 


600 


Guatemala, 


3,500 






Hayti, 


6,800 


Total, 


66,572 


Mexico, 


27,244 






SOUTH Jl 


MERICA. 




BoHvia. 


3,020 


Peru, 


5.900 


Brazil, 


i5.6Sq 


Paraguay, 


623 


Ciiili, 


5.835 


Uruguay, 


3,482 


Colombia, 


5.500 


Venezula, 


3.385 


Ecuador, 


3.000 






Argentine republic, 


7,000 


Total, 


54,434 




EUROPE. 




Great Britain and 




Russia, 


812,07s 


Ireland, 


211,800 


Servia, 


18,000 


Austria-Hungary, 


323.193 


Spain, 


144,664 


Belgium, 


47,570 


Sweden and Nor 




Denmark, 


16,653 


way. 


56.324 


France, 


555.330 


Turkey, 


158.810 


German Empire, 


491.955 


Bulgaria, 


32,000 


Greece, 


24.076 


Roumania, 


38.869 


Italy, 


255.41S 






Holland, 


29.644 


Total, 


3.049.678 


Portugal, 


33.294 







How to Keep a Razor Sharp. 
The secret of keeping a razor sharp is in 
having the face perfectly clean before shaving, 
keeping the razor and strop clean, and always 
keeeping the same bevel on the razor. The 
strop should never be out of its case e.xcept 
when in use. The razor should be carefully 
washed or wiped with a wet towel to remove 
all soap, carefully wiped with a dry towel to 
remove all moisture, and stropped after using, 
on a leather strop with a stiff back. The 
strops made from a strip of leather give a 
rounded edge. A razor is not dulled so much 
by use as by grit on the face or strop, or by 
rusting from soap or moisture left on the 
razor. The back of a razor should rest on the 
strop while stropping ; this always keeps the 
same bevel on the edge. 



Mr. Choate's talent for multiplying words 
which might not signify a great deal, but 
which not only sounded well, but helped to 
create with a jury the impression that he 
sought to convey, is well known. On one oc- 
casion, in defending an insurance company 
against which a claim had been brought for 
the loss of a ship which was declared by the 
defense to be utterly unseaworthy, Mr. Choate 
made a great impression by including in his 
plea these swelling words : "And, so, gentle- 
men, burdened by her well-nigh priceless 
cargo, and carrying her far more precious 
freight of human life, the vessel started on 
her voyage, painted but perfidious — a coffin, 
but no ship !" 



The Vacationers. 



Mr. and Mrs. George D. Tew, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., Miss A. Tew, of Kansas City, ^Io., 
and Miss Helen L. Tew, of Dover, N. H., are 
spending their vacation with tlieir parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles F. Tew, ii Congress street. 



Mrs. Alice W. Beaman, of Winchendon, 
and her children, have been visiting in Wor- 
cester. 

Mrs. Dr. Annie Stewart, a member of the 
school board of Cambridge, is visiting friends 
here. 

Messrs. Paul B. Morgan and Charles F. 
Treadway are fairly on their way to Sweden ; 
in fact they ought to be nearly there, by this 
time. They sailed last Saturday. 



Mrs. J. H. Horton and Miss Horton, of 
Buffalo, N. Y., are guests of Mr. E. C. New- 
comb. 

Miss Florence M. Dodge has been visiting 
at Mr. C. H. Brigham's, in Leicester, recently. 



Mr. Rolla N. Start and family are at Fal- 
mouth for the summer. 



Mr. G. F. Wells is off on a trip to the Golden 
Gate. 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beals,of Fall River,who 
have been visiting at the home of Mrs. Beals's 
father, Mr. H. H. Houghton, have been 
spending the week at Mr. Beals's old home in 
Westfield. 

Ocean Bluffs is where Dr. and Mrs. Francis 
Brick put up, without allowing the ocean to 
put up any bluffs on them, unless perhaps, it 
be a blistered nose or two. We can tell 
better when they return. 



Mr. Benjamin R. Lewis and his family oc- 
cupy their cottage at Pigeon Cove. 



Miss Louisa Sewall Cheever is with Smith 
College friends at Harwichport. 



The Worcester sojourners at Duxbury in- 
clude Mr. and Mrs. William Llnderwood, Mr. 
and Mrs. J. A. Long, Mrs. H. W. Nutting and 
family, Mr. Stephen E. Greene and family, 
Mr. E. W. Gilbert and family, the latter in- 
cluding Misses Kittie, Ruth and Louise. 



Miss Nellie A. Phelps is with relatives in 
South Boston. 

Mr. Jerome Wheelock is on his way to Eu- 
rope. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ballard choose the 
West instead of the shore for a vacation trip. 
They are at Yellow Springs, O., and thence 
will go to Minnesota. 



Webster Thayer, Esq., and Mrs. Thayer 
have a cottage at Brant Rock for the season. 
They went down there yesterday. 

Mr. Henry H. Flint will go in August to 
Baltimore, for a vacation trip. His son will 
accompany him. 

The Paxton hills have welcomed as sum- 
mer visitors the families of Rev. George H. 



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Gould, D. D., Mr. David i\Linning, Mr. Henry 
Howe and Mr. Luther D. Goddard. Mr. 
Frederic Jeffts, al.so, has bouglit the old Lakin 
place. 

Me.ssr.s. Ira II. Stockwell and Albert W. 
Stockwell are out in tlie great wheat country. 
Just now they are at Anoka, Minn. Unless 
a cyclone should come along and play pranks 
with them, they will be gone a couple of 
months. 

Prof. Herbert D. Foster, of Worcester 
Academy, is at Iiis home in Wnithendon. 



Mr. Fred L. Gorham's people spend the 
summer in Shrewsbury. 



Mr. Will C. Howe left Thursday to spend a 
week in and about Boston. 



Miss Flora H. Clifford goes to Beachmont 
next Monday. 

Mrs. Anna C. Freeland, the artist, is spend- 
ing the summer in the White Mountains, as 
usual. She is at Gray's Inn, Jackson, N. H. 



Dr. Homer T. Fuller, president of the 
Polytechnic Institute, will go shortly with his 
family, to Fredonia, N. Y., where they will re- 
main several weeks. Dr. Fuller will attend 
the meetings of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science and the American 
Geological Society, which open August 17 
at Indianapolis. 

Mr. Will T. .Sibley, who has recently been 
at work for a Boston house, has returned to 
the employ of C. B. Eaton & Co., stationers. 



Mrs. Jay E. Phillips and son, of New York, 
will spend the summer at Sutton. 



Mr. Alton L. Smith, valedictorian of the 
class of '90, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
will return to the Institute next fall as assist- 
ant to Prof. Alden in the department of me- 
chanical engineering. 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Lord have been at 
Block Island this week. 



Col. Ivers Phillips, now of Boulder, Col., is 
in Worcester, looking over the changes which 
have taken place since he was a young man 
here. 

Mr. Charles G. Parker and his family will 
spend the summer at Monument Beach. 



Mr. W. B. Nourse has gone to Brant Rock. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Harrington, Mr. and 
Mrs. John D. Chollar, Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel 
Paine, Mr. and Mrs. George Sumner, Messrs. 
S. S. Howe and F. J. Riggs, have been at Bass 
Rock, Gloucester, during the week. 



Mr. Ezra Walls and Mrs. M. B. Walls and 
family are getting Canadian breezes in Nova 
Scotia. 



Dr. Lemuel F. Woodward has left us to get 
along as best we may for a few days. He is 
at Mt. Desert, but will return next Monday. 



A party of Worcester boys, including 
Messrs. Fred A. Bigelow, Henry J. Kettell, 
Willard B. Walworth, Charies and William 



llutchins, have gone northeast, to take in 
Maine and the Canadian provinces east. Mr. 
Walworth has recently returned from Sioux 
Falls, Dak. 

Mr. Warren A. Eldred's people expect to 
go to their summer home at Falmouth next 

week. 



Mr. William A. Denholm is regaining 
.strength at Rutland. He is recovering rapidly 
from his attack of nervous prostration. 



Mr. Richard Barker, of Bloomingdale, left 
Wednesday night for an extended trip through 
the west. 

MissW Burrington, of Danvers, is agucst at 
Mr. W. H. Blodgefs, S Wellington street. 
Mi.ss Burrington enters Smith College in the 
fall. 



Mrs. Will B. Carr, of Lowell, is at her old 
home in Bloomingdale. 



Mr. H. L. Kirschner of Kirschner & Sons 
has gone to New Haven, his former home, for 
a month. 



Mr. A. G. Smith and family have returned 
from Paxton, where they have been camping. 

Mrs. E. M. Stockwell and her daughter 
have gone to California for a six months visit. 
They will spend the summer at the most pala- 
tial sea-shore hotel in the worid. Hotel del 
Coronado, Coronado Beach, a few miles south 
of San F'rancisco. 

Miss Avis Bliven, of Providence, K. I., is 
the guest of Mrs. Frank P. Corser, of Welling- 
ton street. 

Mrs. Fred Smith of West Medway has been 
visiting Miss Flora Boyden. 



Miss Annie Tillinghast, of Providence, has 
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John N. Albee, 
and Miss Mamie Tillinghast, of Providence, is 
now their guest. 

Dr. David Harrower sails to-day in the Ser- 
via, for Liverpool, whence he will go to the land 
of the heather, where Mrs. Harrower has been 
for some little time. They will not cross the 
water for home until late next month. 



Miss Amarelle Worthington, of East Hamp- 
ton, Long Island, is visiting with Mrs. Horace 
A. Richardson, 10 Wellington street. 

Mrs. Halleck Bartlett and family, Mrs. 
Edwin Brown and family, Mrs. James P. 
Hamilton and family, Mrs. J. Fred Mason 
and family and Miss Rose Lincoln, are at 
Westport. 

Other Nantucketers are iMr.s. Henry A. 
Marsh and Miss Grace C. Marsh. 



Mr. Theodore Manning and family, of Ox- 
ford Place, are at their cottage on Pearl Ave- 
nue Ocean Spray, Winthrop, Mass., for the 
season. 

Miss E. A. Kimball of Woodland Street is 
spending a week at the Vermont House, Sara- 
toga, N. Y. 

Mrs. J. F. Lovering has returned from her 
European journey and with Mr. Lovering is 
preparing to close their house. 



About Folks. 

Succeeding the late Mr. F. B. Knowles, Mr. 
C. Henry Hutchins, the treasurer of the 
Knowles Loom Works, has been elected to 
the office of president of the corporation. 
He has also been elected a director of the 
Central National Bank, where Mr. Knowles's 
death caused another vacancy. 

The Fire Patrol boys were given proof, 
Tuesday evening, that their good work has 
been appreciated in at least one instance. Mr. 
Edward E. Longley invited them to a spread 
at Estey's dining-rooms, where they were 
splendidly dined, and during the evening Mr. 
Longley explained to his guests that as their 
prompt and efficient work at the Washington 
Square fire, on the morning of the Fourth, 
had saved a good many dollars for his com- 
pany, as well as for the assured, he desired to 
show his appreciation of their services, and 
had taken this mode of doing it. The mem- 
bers of the patrol could appreciate equally 
well Mr. Longley's generosity, and they ac- 
cordingly tendered him a vote of thanks. The 
whole thing was gracefully done. 

Worcester has had one notable wedding 
since June left us, it being that of Miss Nellie 
M. Rood to Mr. Ronald Prentiss Gleason of 
New Braintree, which took place Monday 
afternoon at the residence of the bride's 
mother, Mrs. Ellen M. Rood, 30 John street. 
The decorations used in the house were made 
by young lady friends of the bride, and con- 
sisted, for the most part, of yellow daisies and 
maidenhair ferns. The ceremony, which was 
performed by Rev. Edward Grier Fullerton, 
took place at 6.30 o'clock, and was private, 
only the immediate relatives being present. 
The bride wore white faille, trimmed with 
silk lace, and a veil of tulle, trimmed with 
roses. The best man was Mr. Alexander DeW. 
Gleason, of Boston, and the bridesmaid was 
Miss Clara Belle Rood. Messrs. George D. 
Gleason, Alexander DeW. Gleason, Will W. 
Carter and Stanley H. Rood were the ushers. 
Those present included Mr. Albert Gleason, of 
Greenfield; Messrs. Edward and Alexander 
DeW. Gleason, of Boston, and Mr. George D. 
Gleason, of New Braintree, Miss Gleason, of 
New Braintree, brothers and sister of the 
groom ; Mrs. Preble, of Cambridge ; Mr. 
Addison Irwin Gardner, of Washington, D. 
C. ; Mr. Henry Carter, Miss Preston, Mr. 
John Chamberlin, also of Washington; Miss 
Grace Chamberlin, of this city ; Mrs. Elisha 
Webb, Miss Webb, Mr. Louis Webb, of 
Petersham ; Mr. and Mrs. Burdick, of Barre ; 
Mr. Charles Sawyer, of Hudson, and of 
Worcester people, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. 
Woodcock, Dr. Frank H. Howland, Miss 
Howland, Dr. George Buttler, Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward L. Brigham, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brooks, Jr., 
the Misses Draper, Miss Bertha Hurlbert, 
Mrs. Irving E. Comins, Miss Mary Leonard, 
Miss Carrie A. Smith, Miss Hattie Gates, 
Miss Julia P. Greenwood, Miss Ellen B. 
Prince, Miss Kinsley, Miss Carrie Carleton 
Kinsley, Mr. Sumner A. Kinsley, Miss Hart- 
well, Miss Hastings, Miss Hildreth, Miss M. 
Nettie Estabrook, Miss Lessie Maynard, Miss 
Sargent, Mrs. Will W. Crosby, Miss Clark, 



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Mr. Will W. Carter, Miss Mabel Bradford, 
Miss Anna T. Weixler, Mrs. Harriet G. 
Waite, Miss Warren and Miss Sprague. Very 
cordial indeed were the congratulations and 
good wishes, for the bride, who has been for 
some time a teacher at Thomas street school, 
has scores of friends here in the city, as 
has, also, the groom, who is a Polytechnic 
Institute graduate of '87. Mr. Gleason has, 
until recently, been an instructor in manual 
training in Washington, D. C, and is now to 
occupy a similar position in the high school 
of Oakland, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason will 
start Tuesday afternoon for Oakland, where 
they are to reside. 

Rev. Henry A. Powell, D. D., of Brooklyn, 
is to preach at the Old South Church, to- 
morrow. 



One of our largest Congregational churches 
had a substitute organist last Sunday, the 
regular organist having occasion to be away. 
The young man filled the position very accept- 
ably, and probably not one person out of fifty, 
in the congregation, paid much thought to the 
selections he played, being content with the 
general character of the performance. But a 
few who had musically sharp ears paid close 
attention, and they say that they have heard 
of nothing more touching than his "offertory." 
While the boxes were going round, he played 
"Farewell, My Own," from "Pinafore." 



Rev. N. P. Woodbury, D. D., of New York, 
will preach at Plymouth Church, to-morrow, 
at 10.30 A. M. and 7 p. m. 

A youths' magazine has in its current num- 
ber an illustrated article on "How to Sail a 
Boat," which tells the boys just how to do it. 
The next in the series ought to be "How to 
Resuscitate the Apparently Drowned." 

Edward Strauss and his "merry men" of the 
Vienna Orchestra, who have been attracting 
great attention of late, are to appear in Worces- 
ter next winter, Mechanics Hall having been 
engaged for the evening of the 26th of next 
November. The playing of true dance 
music is their forte and it is this which has 
brought them so prominently into favor. 



Last Sunday was communion Sunday in 
many of the churches, and in several cases the 
services of the day had some special signifi- 
cance. At Piedmont, Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., 
preached a sermon to commemorate his thir- 
teenth anniversary as pastor of the church. 
The First Universalist Church observed Lily 
Sunday as usual, Rev. Almon Gunnison, D. D., 
preaching a sermon to the children in the 
morning, a Sunday-school concert following, 
at 6 o'clock. Rev. Daniel W. Poor, D. D., of 
Philadelphia, preached at Plymouth Church, 
and Rev. Dr. Whiton, of New York, at the 
Old South. Rev. I. J. Lansing preached his 
first sermon since returning from his vacation, 
at Salem Street Church. Rev. William G. 
Tuttle preached at the Church of the Cove- 
nant. Rev. A. T. Bowser, of Toronto, 
preached at the First Unitarian Church and 
at the South Unitarian in the afternoon. Rev. 
S. W. Thomas, a California clergyman, 
preached for the Free Baptists. The church 
admissions of the day, so far as reported, 
were : Belmont, two on profession ; Salem 



Street, two by letter; Central, one on pro- 
fession ; Pilgrim, six by letter, one on profes- 
sion ; Park, six on profession, eight by letter; 
First Baptist, one on profession, two by letter; 
South Baptist, one on profession, three by 
letter; Lincoln Square Baptist, two on pro- 
fession ; Webster Square, one by letter; Grace, 
two by letter; Trinity, three by letter; Laurel 
Street, three on profession, one by letter, four 
children baptized. At the First Universalist 
Church, also, four children were baptized. 
The summary shows that twenty-eight were 
admitted by letter and seventeen on profession 
of faith, exclusive of the eight baptisms. Of 
these, the Congregational church received 
twenty-six, the Methodist ten and the Baptist 
nine. 

Mr. John H. Howell sang at Plymouth 
Church last Sunday and will continue singing 
there every Sunday this month. 

The weather clerk has smiled benignly upon 
Natural History Camp, during the opening 
week of its sixth season, and the five score 
boys who are enjoying life under the shadow 
of Wigwam Hill are beginning to have the 
gayest sort of a time. For most of them it 
will last for seven weeks yet, as a large num- 
ber of them are registered for the season. The 
camp itself presents a pretty spectacle to the 
visitor. Nature has done all she could for it, 
and the hills and hollows, forests and open 
sward, with the lake below, frame it about in a 
picturesque way that makes eyes weary of 
brick walks and dusty streets dance with de- 
light. The camp is well officered, for, beside 
the fatherly oversight of the president, Mr. E. 
H. Forbush, there are Col. Charles E. Bur- 
bank, of Amherst, the superintendent ; Capt 
Henry L. Ballou, adjutant; Capt. A. A, 
Ewing, quarter-master; Dr. E. H. Trowbridge 
and Dr. Ray W. Greene, surgeons. Mr. Henry 
A. Kelly, an instructor in the department of 
Natural History and Hygiene in the Work- 
ingman's School, New York City, is director 
of instruction and entertainment at the camp. 
An efficient corps of instructors in gymnas- 
tics, out-door work and the various branches 
of natural history, is provided, and eminent 
educational men of this and other cities will 
lecture during the camp season. Probably 
few people realize it, but the camp is 
located on the old camping and fishing grounds 
of the Nipmuck Indians. A reference to the 
Indians suggests that the camp paper. Camp 
and Lake, is just out, and Mr. T. C. Rice 
is soon to contribute to it an interesting 
story about those very Indians. The paper 
ought to be a bright one. Mr. Kelly, who has 
had practical newspaper experience, is to con- 
duct it. As the boys improve in drill and be- 
come accustomed to the camp routine, they 
will make a fine, soldierly body of cadets, and 
the fun they will have — why, there is no limit 
to that. Light expects to look in on them, 
occasionally, and see what they are up to. 

Mr. J. E. Reed will spend the summer at 
Willimantic, Conn. For a time she will take a 
much needed rest at Gem Cottage, at the 
Camp ground. When the meetings begin, she 
will have charge of the children's part in the 
services. 

Miss Bessie S. Pierce spends the summer 
at Springfield, N. H. 



Mental Food and Dessert. 



PREPARED FOR LIGHT. 



Wherever one has traveled, the past six 
months, he is sure to have seen one or more fel- 
low-travelers reading a yellow paper-covered 
book with a picture of a young girl on the cover. 
If he attempts to see the tittle of the book, 
he is sure to think it better to read the title to 
himself rather than aloud, thus avoiding any 
possibility of mistaken pronunciation. This 
book, "Marie Bashkirtseff ; the Journal of a 
Young Artist," has awakened a great deal of 
criticism from both sides of the Atlantic. Glad- 
stone well says of it, "It is a book without a 
parallel," and no one who has read parts of it, 
even, can complain that it is in any way like 
any person's book of recent years. Marie 
Bashkirtseff, a young Russian girl, as the 
name suggests, gives to the public her journal 
from iS6oto 1S84, and it is quite safe to say that 
she could have liad but few thoughts or fan- 
cies which are not disclosed in some part of 
this volume. 

It is absurd to say that this journal would 
reveal the thoughts and aspirations of a typi- 
cal young girl of any nationality, were the 
typical girl frank enough to tell the workings 
of her mind. This young Russian girl must, 
of necessity, show the results of her peculiar 
education, but she is, morever, possessed of 
an intense emotional nature almost inconceiv- 
able. Her whole thought seems to be for self ; 
her leisure time seems to be given up to in- 
trospection. Joined with this intense emo- 
tional nature is a strange inconsistency ; at 
one time she seems full of deep religious feel- 
ing and thankfulness to God, almost in the 
same breath she writhes in rebellion against 
her sad (as she thinks), dissatisfying life. Of 
her truly can we say : '■'■Fonina varium ct 
semper mutahileest" 

No one will deny that she possesses candor, 
l>ut only a few girls would have such thoughts 
to express as she has ; our practical, sensible, 
wide-awake American girls, at least, w'ould 
not often become so morbid. 



In many parts of the book the true soul of 
an artist breathes forth ; an artist she truly 
was, as her pictures show ; perchance, pre- 
sentment of her early death, which was to cut 
her off from so great aspirations and achieve- 
ments, had an influence on her whole life. In 
closing these rambling thoughts, I would quote 
what she herself says of her journal: "This 
journal is the most useful and instructive 
book which ever was or ever will be written. 
It is the transcript of a woman's life — her 
thoughts and hopes, her deceptions, mean- 
nesses, good qualities, sorrows and joys." 
Such it is of Marie Bashkirtseff. Read it and 
then declare if many women's lives would re- 
veal, if exposed, at the same time, such in- 
tense emotion, such extreme selfishness, such 
lofty aspirations, such vain, trivial complaints. 
Truly, the girl "is without a parallel." 



After reading this journal, one surely needs 
some fresh, humorous story of practical life. 
Difficult, indeed, would it be to find a greater 
descent than from "Marie Bashkirtseff" to 
"That Dreadful Boy," by Kate Tannatt 



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Woods. The author's name, coupled with 
the suggestive title, will gain many readers for 
this excellent summer book. 



Another enjoyable paper-covered volume is 
"The Second Son," a product of the joint 
authorship of T. B. Aldrich and Mrs. Oli- 
phant. 

Max O'Rell (Paul Blouiit) amuses American 
readers. In "Jonathan and His Continent" 
we find some few things by wliich we are an- 
noyed, but there is plenty of kindly humor 
mingled with this description of "ourselves 
as others see us." Ma.\ O'Rell is a bright 
conversationalist, quick at repartee, an ex- 
cellent listener ; he is in great demand as a 
diner-out when he is in this country. Though 
his mother was an Irishwoman, an O'Reilly, 
he is a thorough-going Frenchman. He has 
declared that he likes Americans, above all, 
because they have many faults and failings 
which, in his humorous way, he uses to his 
advantage and our disadvantage, yet he gives 
us credit for much worth as a nation. 



While "Jonathan and His Continent" is 
meeting a ready sale in America, one of our 
humorist's new books, is meeting an equally 
cordial reception abroad. "A Connecticut 
Yankee at King Arthur's Court," by Mark 
Twain, is well worth reading and its author is 
popular from America to Australia. This 
writer, gaining for himself an education and 
livelihood at the same time, is well known to 
American readers, especially among the young. 
Visitors to Hartford are always shown his 
house, an odd bit of architecture with bricks 
of all colors and at all angles and with the 
front doors and windows where the back ones 
should be. He is popular both as a man and 
as an author, and his admirers and acquain- 
tances range, in all ranks, from grocery clerks 
to literary men. The origin of Mr. Clemens' 
pseudonymn, "Mark Twain," is generally well 
known. When pilot on a boat in the Missis- 
sippi, he heard the expression used as an ex- 
clamation, "Mark ! twain ! " after the depth of 
water had been sounded. In later life, when 
he began writing, he remembered the ex- 
pression and adopted it as his "nom de 
plume." A. 

Worcester, Mass. 

Light notices in the July number of the 
University Afagaziue a poem, entitled 
"Beyond the Stars," by Rev. Edmund Smith 
Middleton, one of Light's contributors. 



There is no law against the newspapers 
rivalling the magazines, even on the side of 
pure literature, if they are able to do so. Lit- 
erary journalism claims recognition of its own, 
and if one speaks to thousands through a 
newspaper, rather than to hundreds through 
a book, there can be little question as to which 
is the more desirable. — Boston Budget. 

A Western Humorist. 
Talequah, Indian Territory, July 3. 
To the Editor of Light : 

I see by Light for June 21, that Mr. Hol- 
land is to open a cycling school at Cottage 
City ; that he is accompanied by the ''head 
repairer," Mr. Stanton ; a very fitting adjunct 
to a cycling school. 

A READER OF LIGHT. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Funny I'apers asks: What has become of 
the periodical called Time ? Time, which was 
itself an outgrowth of Tid-Bits, published by 
the John W. Lovell company, was some time 
since merged with Munsey's Weekly. 

Veteran queries : Which state furnished the 
largest number of men in the civil war, and 
which the least.' How many did Massachu- 
setts furnish .' .New \o\V. sent 448,850 men 
into the Union armies, and of the loyal states, 
Nevada furnished only 1,080 men, but it was 
not admitted to the Union until Oct. 31, 1864, 
for which allowance should be made. If the 
disloyal states be included, Mi.ssissippi fur- 
nished but 545. Ma.ssachusetts sent out 
146,730 men. 

W. G. T. asks: Has Worcester ever been 
the birthplace of any actor of prominence, 
beside Tony Hart } Not to the Answerer's 
knowledge, but William H. Crane, of Robson 
and Crane fame, was born in the neighboring 
town of Leicester. If, however, we enter the 
feminine ranks, it will not do to forget "Marie" 
and "Aggie" Stone. 

Annie M. wants to know what colleges 
beside Harvard have an "annex" for women.'' 
Also have the Friends any sectarian college .' 
Columbia has recently established Barnard 
College, named for the late president, F. A. P. 
Barnard. Evelyn College at Princeton, N. J., 
is practically under the direction of Princeton 
College. Swarthmore College, at Swathmore, 
Pa., is conducted under the auspices of the 
Friends. 

Young Republican asks : Will the An- 
swerer kindly explain what "Tammany" really 
is. Well, it is neither the lady nor the tiger. 
The .Society of Tammany, or Columbian 
Order, was formed in 17S9, being the effect of 
a popular movement in New York, having 
primarily in view a counterweight to the so- 
called "aristocratic" Society of the Cincinnati. 
It was essentially Anti-Federalist or Demo- 
cratic in its character, and its chief founder 
was William Mooney, an upholsterer. It took 
its first title from a noted ancient wise and 
friendly chief of the Deleware tribe of Indians, 
named Tammany, who had, for the want of a 
better subject, been canonized by the soldiers 
of the Revolution as the American patron 
saint. The first meeting was held May 12, 
17S9. The act of incorporation was passed in 
1805. The Grand Sachem and thirteen 
Sachems were designed to typify the president 
and the governor of the thirteen original 
states. William Mooney was the first grand 
sachem. The society is nominally a charita- 
ble and social organization. It is also nomin- 
ally distinct from the "Tammany Democracy," 
but as a matter of fact, the two organizations 
have the same leaders, and the social order is 
the cloak of the political. 

C. F. H. wants to know where he can get a 
copy of the manual of the General Court of 
Massachusetts. Ask the representative of 
your ward to get you one. 



10 

A Leaf from an Old Letter. 



BY AMELIA SPURCK HEARD. 



Almost everyone, at some convenient time, 
sits down and examines and reads and re-reads 
their accumulation of old letters ; culling trom 
among them, here and there, one they wish to 
preserve, and often becoming so absorbed in 
the train of thought called forth, as to grow 
utterly oblivious of time and place, dwelling 
as it were in the veritable past. And if the 
letters should not be those of your own corre- 
spondence, but of a still farther past, bringing 
into your life a tender, pathetic, yes, tragic 
page in the life-history of one whose name has 
become familiar to many, the interest deepens; 
and I am assured my readers will be as ten- 
derly impressed as I was with this glimpse 
into the heart history of Catherine Beecher, 
coming as it does through one of these old 
letters, of a farther past than my own, and 
written in her own handwriting to a dear and 
much loved friend. Miss Beecher was at this 
period twenty-three years of age, a talented 
and very brilliant young woman. 

She was engaged to be married to Prof. 
Fisher of Yale College, and they were to be 
married after his return from a tour in Europe. 

"The Albion," upon which he took passage, 
was wrecked, going to pieces on the rocks, and 
all save one perished. Prof. Fisher was never 
after heard from. 

It is said that for months all hope seemed 
to vanish out of Miss Beecher's life, but being 
possessed of great courage and a strong will, 
also being a sincere Christian, she determined 
to take up a course of mathematical study (his 
favorite study), also Latin, under her brother 
Edward. 

Desiring to make her life useful, with her 
characteristic energy she went to Hartford 
and raised several thousand dollars, building 
"Hartford Female Seminarj'," having the 
courage to assert, and, in the face of strong 
opposition, to carry into practice her asser- 
tions, the belief that young women as well as 
young men should have the benefit of higher 
education: Latin, Greek and all that is open 
to a college student. She was wiser than her 
opposers. 

But to return to the letter. It was folded in 
the old style and postmarked Medway, Mass., 
Nov. 14th, 1823. The first part is lost, and 
the leaf I have begins by relating the kind 
and tender attentions of the family (Prof. 
Fisher's parents and sisters) toward her. She 
says: "I cannot but observe how tenderly I 
am regarded for his sake, who loved me so 
well. I have overlooked his journals, his 
books, and followed him in all his pursuits, 
have struck the same chords that have so 
often charmed his ear, have gazed upon his 
image suspended by his guitar, that seems to 
live and look at me so kindly, and dear Julia, 
if ever a finite bosom has felt infinite regret, 
mine is that bosom. Was ever so bright a 
morning veiled in darkness ; was ever such 
hope destroyed .' and of that dreadful, agoniz- 
ing hour when he perished, we have had par- 
ticulars sent to us, from Mr. Everhart, who 
has told us all the horrors of his last sad hours. 
But I will not dwell on it any longer ; I will re- 
pine no more. 

" 'What boots it when the high reward is given, 

Or wlien the soul triumphant springs to heaven V 



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"I believe, I cannot doubt, he is happy and 
that his noble mind, escaped from earth's dim 
twilight, ranges in fields of light and knowl- 
edge, in scenes of happiness ineffable and 
complete, and for me I would 'yet bear up 
awhile beneath life's pressure' till my soul is 
washed and made ready for such bright scenes, 
by a Saviour's blood, and then, oh how gladly 
would I lay this 'painful head and aching 
heart beneath the soil.' I see I have almost 
filled my sheet, and yet I have not mentioned 
the subject which I most wished to consult 
you upon. Mr. Fisher is going to erect a 
plain, simple monument for his son. He has 
written to Prof. Kingsley for a Latin inscrip- 
tion for one side, and the family are all de- 
sirous I should write something to put with his 
name in English on the other. I do not wish 
to disappoint their wishes and yet my mind has 
suffered so much from extreme excitement 
and from the vis-inertia that always succeeds 
it, that I am altogether incapacitated to write 
anything, much less anything worthy to be so 
durably recorded. But yet my friends would 
not feel satisfied if I did not make an attempt, 
and now when I have written something, they 
insist upon it that it shall be inscribed. But 
still I think if I could find something suitable, 
written by an abler hand, I could persuade 
them to substitute it; but I have no oppor- 
tunity here to select from books, for of the 
kind I should want there are but few here. 
May I not trust to dear Julia's good taste to 
help me out of my difficulties? And perhaps 

your good friends in W will assist you 

with their classic taste and knowledge ; and I 
would also avail myself of your criticism upon 
the lines I have written, as there is a bare 
possibility that they may be inscribed, as the 
family feel as if there must be something said 
in poetry, and rather than to have anything 
worse, they may have mine. As I write it 
now I see some things in it that need altering, 
but send it just as it is, hoping that you will 
suggest more suitable alterations than I could 
make. 
"While far from home and all that loved thee best, 
'Neath the dark wave thy limbs unburied rest, 
To speak thy name, one simple stone shall stand, 
Near thy loved home, raised by affection's hand. 
Oh blasted hopes ! Oh brightest vision o'er ! 
Sunk with the star we loved to rise no more, 
Vouth, Genius. Knowledge, Virtue, passed away 
In one bright blaze to Heaven's unclouded dayl 
Will you also obtain Mr. Hull's criticisms and 
alteration, for I like him so much that I must 
call him my friend and ask his friendly ad- 
vice. Remember me most affectionately to 
him and Mrs. H., also to .VIr. W., for whom I 
feel a peculiar interest, and also my compli- 
ments to Mr. and Mrs. H., and all that love 
and take care of my dear invalid. Eliza 
wishes to be affectionately commended to you ; 
she is a sweet girl and so is her sister. It is a 
mournful, pleasing task to take their brother's 
place in guiding them in the path of knowl- 
edge. Oh, you know not how lovely, how 
kind he was, but I must not begin upon this 
theme again. Dear Julia, write to me soon. 
Indeed, it will be necessary for me to decide 
upon the inscription very soon, and I wish you 
would write as soon as possible. Could out- 
ward circumstances make me happy, all would 
be well, for everything is pleasant and com- 
fortable around me, but within is the saddest, 
heaviest heart, but yet, dear Julia, it is 
warmly, truly yours. "Catherine." 



Buttercups. 



BY CORNELIA WESSON BOYDEN. 



Three little buttercups yellow and sweet, 
Somebody tossed, with a sigh, at her feet, 
Deeming the gift so poor and small, 
Not worth a "Thank you, my dear," at all. 

She, bending down with a smile on her face, 
Gathers them up with a tender grace. 
Tuckmg them into the folds of her dress 
FeeUng a rapture she would not confess. 

Somebody says, while a note of pain 
Sounds in his voice like a sad refrain, 
"Roses and Hlies the fairest and best, 
Only are worthy to lie on your breast." 

Lifting her eyes so tender and clear, 
"None of them all do I wish for, my dear ; 
These little buttercups fresh with dew- 
Sweet are to me, because given by you." 

Somebody's head swift to hers bends low ; 
What happened then ? Why, how should I know? 
Vet 'tween the leaves ot my book there are pressed, 
Buttercups three that lay on her breast. 
Worcester. Mass, 



Piano Playing by Electricity. 

According to Edward Bellamy in his "Look- 
ing Backward" amateur musicians will have 
ceased to torture musical ears in the year 
2000. All music is to be furnished by trained 
performers and supplied to subscribers by 
telephone. Mr. Bellamy has set the time for 
this musical millenium rather far ahead. 

Electricity has been applied to many won- 
derful uses in the past few decades but to 
nothing more strange than piano-playing. 

The most unaccomplished but music-loving 
family can now enjoy the entire range of musi- 
cal compositions from oratorios to the latest 
comic opera in the privacy of their own home — 
if they can afford to pay for this new electric 
invention. 

A company has lately been formed in Bos- 
ton to manufacture and sell an attachment, 
which can be applied to any make or style of 
pianoforte, and which they claim will do away 
entirely with the necessity of learning to play. 
As a representative of Light saw it, it con*, 
sisted of a handsome rosewood case about 
four feet high and two feet wide. 

The connection with a pianoforte is made 
through one of its legs and the pressing of a 
button completes the circuit and starts the 
piano playing. 

The music is sold by the foot at a reasona- 
ble price and the company claims to be able to 
supply almost any composition desired. 

Just why the insertion of a perforated sheet 
of paper into a rosewood case a foot away 
from a piano should cause that piano to play, 
is the secret of the inventor, but that it does 
the Light man can testify. 

In pieces of music requiring a full volume 
of sound this attachment can do what no 
human performer will ever be able to accom- 
plish — cover four octaves on the key-board at 
once. 

It can readily be seen what such an inven- 
tion as this will be able to accomplish. No 
player will be needed to furnish music for 
dancing and, as electricity never gets tired, it 
can always be asked for "just one more "with- 
out feeling that you are imposing upon it. 

The price — two hundred dollars, set up and 
attached — seems reasonable enough when it 
is considered that the machine will save its 
cost, where it is needed, many times over in 
salaries in a year. Winfield. 



Summer Life in New York. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



[regular correspondence of light.] 

Ni-:\v York, July lo, 1S90. 

New York is deserted, that is, by the fashion- 
able contingent. You may walk for leagues 
on Murray Hill and adjacent streets and 
avenues, and see only the grim outward signs 
in boarded doors and windows of an echoing 
silence within. 

But this is not saying that the great metrop- 
olis is an arid desert, nor that life during the 
heated term in New York is without its com- 
pensations. Many pilgrims and strangers 
there are who come within its gates to seek re- 
creation in sight seeing and other distractions. 

To this class of an itinerant public the city 
caters during the summer months, in its half 
dozen or more open theatres, concert gardens 
and other places of amusement and interest, 
otherwise these resorts could not be sustained, 
while the various [seaside resorts within easy 
access of the city contribute largely to the in- 
flux of visitors at this season. Half an hour 
by boat or rail will take one out of the glare of 
heated pavements and constricting walls to 
white stretches of sand and broad expanses of 
blue-green, foam-crested waves beneath smil- 
ing skies, to which are added finisliing touches 
in the gay colors of summer apparel worn by 
women and men at the ocean side. Much in- 
terest was attached to the opening of the sea- 
son at Coney Island, Kockaway and Long 
Beach, because of the vast improvements 
rendered necessary by the destruction of beach 
properties last year. Every year old ocean 
makes serious encroachments upon the Long 
Island and New Jersey coasts, cutting big 
gaps in bluff and driveways, a.ssailingeven the 
hotels and pavilions, forcing them to recede 
farther inland. This year promises to be 
more brilli?nt than ever at these favorite re- 
sorts. Gilmore as usual furnishes the music at 
the Manhattan Beach Hotel. He is as enthu- 
siastic as ever and his popularity waxes with 
each season's record. He always introduces 
some specialty to surprise his audiences. It 
is said he can make a "go" of any tune. It 
was he who caused the Boulanger March to 
make a hit, a fact that speaks of the merit of 
the leader, not of the composition. 

Gilmore is a great admirerof Strauss, though 
his deepest affections are enlisted for Wagner. 
Very likely he and Strauss will exchange 
leaderships this summer. The Oriental Hotel 
is perhaps the most exclusive, having more 
permament guests who return each season. 
This house and surroundings are beautiful. 
The Brighton has also been renovated, and is 
noted for its excellent cuisine. The music is 
furnished by Herr Anton Siedl and his fine 
orchestra. The display of elaborate fireworks 
is a prominent feature at Coney Island. The 
Pains of London have charge of them and 
have decided to produce this year a distinct- 
ively American spectacle. It will represent a 
memorable event in the Mexican war entitled 
"The Siege of Vera Cruz." Far Rockaway 
has had a peculiar history. Once it was, with 
the exception of Newport, the most noted 
select watering place in the country. Then it 
deteriorated until the recent building up of 
select resorts around it created a new boom 



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for it as well, and it is now steadily growing in 
favor as a place for permanent homes. The 
former glory investing Long Branch is fast 
waning into present tradition. The old song 
as sung by the showy Singard troupe, "On 
the Beach at Long Branch" is a chronicle of 
things passed away. Inexorable ocean, aided 
by the terrific storms has caused, the almost, 
entire loss of Ocean Avenue, the famous drive- 
way along the bluff. The New \ork and 
Long Branch Railroad is the only line in the 
country that has a United States senator as 
its superintendent. Norman L. Monroe, the 
New York publisher who originated that de- 
lightful cluster of cottages known as "Nor- 
wood Park" has made a number of improve- 
ments. Several other pretty places fronting 
the sea, such as Monmouth and Seabright, are 
yearly gaining in attractions, though a friend 
who has a cottage at the former place tells me 
he has had to spend a small fortune in build 
ing bulkheads and in producing his exquisite 
velvet lawns. 

Asbury Park is also one of the most re- 
markable towns on the American coast. Like 
the site of the building in the well known 
story, "the place where it now stands, twenty 
years ago was a howling wildernsss" of a 
barren sand waste. To-day it has accommo- 
dations for 40,000 summer guests. Austin 
Corbin, who has proved himself the good 
genius of the Long Island Railroad Company, 
controls the Long Beach and Cottage Com- 
pany. It is said that Long Beach is the finest 
beach for driving in the world. From the 
western extremity to Point Lookout, a distance 
of nine miles, carriages can roll along over 
hard sand, within a few feet of the Atlantic's 
surf. The beach is only an hour's ride from 
the city and business men do not find it too 
long. Long Island has opened up quite won- 
derfully of late years and people are beginning 
to appreciate its many beauties and natural 
attractions so near their doors. There are 
many pretty resorts along the sound, and bor- 
dering on the bay and ocean. Every year 
shows an increase in the better class of patron- 
age. 

Besides going down to the sea by boat and 
train, there are other modes of seeking pure 
ozone and vast expanses of vision. 

Take, for instance, a trip up to the roof of 
the Tribune Building. On these summer 
nights the view is wonderfully soft and serene. 
Ten stories above the street one seems to be 
floating high over the dark piles of brick and 
stone around one. In the upper part of the 
city thousands of lights mark the courses of 
the streets, but the tall buildings down town 
shut in the glare and are hidden by one an- 
other's shadows. There is a a glittering arch 
of red and white where the big bridge stretclies 
from city to city. Across both rivers huge 
soft-tinted lanterns are floating where the 
ferry-boats are plying their silent ways. 

A half dozen lights are twinkling on Gov- 
ernor's Island, which lies low and black in the 
water, and down the bay is the bright gleam of 
a watchful eye in a lighthouse, an eye that 
never closes from sunset to sunrise. And 
when the moon is sailing calmly through the 
spotless space of the heavens, so that the trail- 
ing contellations seem faint and far away, 
there is a thin blue veil on the water, delicately 
tinted, andfrs le as a fine piece of gauze, with 



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here and there a silver Hash or a shining .streak 
where a moving craft has disturbed the sleep 
of the waters. 



Beautiful Hair. 

"Dont wash your hair." This is advice 
given by a woman who has been at the head 
of a leading hairdressing establishment for 
the last twelve years. She says further: "I 
believe tlie average young woman drowns the 
life of her hair by frequent washing in hot 
and cold water. We send out about twenty 
young women who dress hair by the season, 
contracting for the entire family. They plan 
to give each head a combing twice a week, 
and, by special arrangement, make house-to- 
house visits daily. Not a drop of water is put 
on the hair, and every head is kept in a clean 
and healthy condition. We pin our faith to a 
good brush, and prefer a short-liristled, narrow 
brush, backed with olive or palm wood. We 
use the brush not only on the hair, but on the 
scalp as well. A maid has to be taught how 
to dress and care for the hair by object lessons. 

This instruction is a part of my duty. In 
teaching one novice, I operate on the other; the 
first thing to do when the hair is unpinned is 
to loosen it by lightly tossing it aljout. The 
operation need not tangle it. and as the tresses 
are being aired they fall into natural lengths. 
Instead of beginning at the scalp, the first 
combing should start at the end of the hair. 
In other words, comb upwards to avoid tan- 
gling, breaking or tearing the hair out. This 
racking of the hair will remove the dust. After 
this the scalp .should be brushed thoroughly. 
By this I mean that a full hour should be 
spent, first brushing the hair and then the 
head." — Nciu \'ork Times. 



It Turned the Other Way. 

There is a certain business man who is a 
very busy body, so busy that, in spite of him- 
self, he occasionally forgets some trifling af- 
fair. One evening recently he happened to 
put on a coat that had been hanging up all 
summer. After he had readied the club he 
discovered in the jacket of the garment a let- 
ter for his wife that had been directed in his 
care and which had been in his pocket three 
months or more. One of his friends at the 
whist table said : 

"I'll tell you how 1 got out of just such a 
scrape once. You take that letter home and 
quietly put it in a book ; then along in the 
evening accidently discover it." 

"I'll do that very thing," said the banker. 

He did. And while the family were seated 
about the table in the library, reading and 
chatting, he accidently picked up the book 
and glanced through it. He finally discovered 
the letter and exclaimed to his wife ; 

"Oh, here's a letter directed to you. You 
must have put it here and forgotten it. It has 
not been opened." 

As she took the letter she gave him a look 
that had a hidden meaning, and while she was 
reading the postmark liis face had time lo take 
on an expression of guilt. It took her just 
one minute to detect the scheme and reinforce 
herself with incontestable evidence of his 
guilt. Then she turned her searching eyes on 
him and said : 

"No you don't, old boy. I bought that book 
this afternoon." He saw the jig was up, and 
surrendered as gracefully as he could. 



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An Old Maid's Romance. 



BV AILEXROC NEDYOB. 



Dorothy Hapgood, or Miss Dorothy, as she 
was more familiarly called, was an old maid. 
One of the genuine, old-fashioned kind, who 
never pretended to be anything else ; and hav- 
ing reached the shady side of forty, she had 
ceased to look for the "coming man," or to be 
at all disturbed at his long delay ; and in fact 
she had little time for sentimental longings in 
her busy life. 

A seamstress by trade, she went about from 
house to house, doing the sewing for many of 
the families living in the town of N — , where 
she was born and brought up. 

Left an orphan at an early age, with no near 
relatives, she had exerted all her energies in 
making an honest living ; till now, when life 
was gliding towards the downward slope, her 
industry was rewarded by the consciousness 
of a snug little sum in the savings bank, and 
her heart was kept warm and young, by the 
hearty good will and respect of all of her 
town's people ; and many a tired mother, with 
an accumulated pile of sewing, waiting for her 
swift needle to make whole the rents in the 
jackets and dresses of a numerous brood of 
youngsters who were so often almost button- 
less and kneeless, greeted the coming of Miss 
Dorothy with heartfelt joy and satisfaction. 

Plain of feature, with pleasant brown eyes, 
and glossy dark hair, which, in spite of being 
drawn smoothly back, and twisted in a tight 
coil behind her well shaped head, yet had an 
obstinate little kink in it, together with a neat, 
trim figure, neither too slim or too stout, Miss 
Dorothy was on the whole a very nice person 
to look at. 

Making no pretence of being a fashionable 
dressmaker, and somewhat inclined to cling to 
the quaint customs of her early life, she was 
employed more by the middle class, where she 
was treated as one of the family, than by the 
aristocracy of N — , and in fact Miss Dorothy 
always dreaded a call to one of these stately 
mansions. 

In the family of the Rector of St. Mark's, 
the little Episcopal church, where she had at- 
tended service for many years, she found as 
true a home as any her lonely life had ever 
known. 

Kind hearted Mrs. Walton seemed quite like 
a sister to the spinster, while eighteen-year- 
old Mertie and her brother Herbert, or Hal, as 
he was mostly called, two years younger. Miss 
Dorothy could not have loved more, had they 
been in reality her nephew and niece ; and as 
every spring and fall since either of them could 
remember, had found her in the cozy sewing- 
room of the pleasant rectory, where for a num- 
ber of weeks she made and repaired the family 
wardrobe, they had both become much at- 
tached to her, and looked for her coming, with 
as much confidence as they did to the budding 
of the trees, or the opening of the chestnut 
burrs. 

It was late in the month of May. Miss Doro- 
thy was at her post in the sewing-room of the 
rectory, plying the needle with her usual 
energy, while Mrs. Walton and Mertie were 
also busy with their sewing, when suddenly 
Mertie, whose eyes were inclined to wander 
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window, where patches of blue sky were shin- 
ing through boughs of pink and white apple 
blossoms, and where on patches of green grass 
the dandelion reared its golden head, all mak- 
ing a most delightful picture, throwing down 
her work, exclaimed : 

"If there isn't Cousin John coming up the 
walk, mother," and jumping up, she ran out of 
the room, followed almost as quickly by Mrs. 
Walton, whose face had lighted up with a 
smile of welcome at Mertie's words. 

Miss Dorothy turned her head just in time to 
see a tall, broad shouldered figure, dressed in 
a country-made suit of clothes, a long heavy 
beard tinged with gray, and a pair of bright 
blue eyes beneath the rim of a soft felt hat, 
when the door was opened to admit him, and 
a rough though pleasant voice was saying : 

"How do ye do, Lucy ; any room for an old 
fellow to stretch himself in ?" 

"Plenty, plenty. Cousin John, always room 
and a welcome for you ; when did you come ?" 
"Thank ye, Lucy, thought ye'd say so ; jest 
come, had some trading to do in the city, and 
thought I'd fetch round here a spell before 
going home. It's powerful lonesome up at the 
old place since Miranda died, and seems kind 
of good to get away for a spell and see how 
other folks live." 

"What kind of a housekeeper have you got 
now, John ?" asked Mrs. Walton leading the 
way to the sitting room. 

"Nary one at all. Nate and I are jogging 
along alone after a fashion, with no wimmen 
folks 'round to keep us civilized. Don't seem 
right, does it, Lucy ? But the fact is, it is so 
lonesome up there, that no one will stay more 
than a couple of months, when away they go, 
and it's likely as not to be in ploughing or hay- 
ing time when I can't leave to hunt up a new 
one ; and when the last one went off in a fit of 
homesickness, I told Nate I guessed we'd see 
how we could get along alone, for a spell, any- 
way, but its a dreadful shiftless way to live 
with no wimmen folks 'round, and Nate don't 
take to it no how, and seems kind of peaked 
like," and Cousin John sighed. 

"I sav. Cousin John, why don't you get 
married?" put in Mertie, laughing. 

"I calculate that would be the best thing I 
could do, Mertie, for both Nate and myself, 
but you see to hunt up a wife would be even 
more of a job than to hunt up a housekeeper, 
and though I havn't much to offer a woman, I 
am a leetle particular as to the kind I get for 
a permanent thing; and there never will be 
another Miranda." 

"Oh, well, Cousin John, 'variety is the spice 
of life, you know, and you wouldn't want two 
wives just alike," said iVIertie roguishly. 

"There, there, Mertie,'" said her mother, "go 
back to your sewing and don't be rude," and 
Mertie, throwing a laughing glance over her 
shoulder at Cousin John, who smiled back at 
her good-humoredly, returned to the sewing- 
room, leaving Mrs. Walton to entertain her 
visitor alone. 

Picking up her neglected work, Mertie 
sewed busily for some time in silence, but after 
a while her hands fell idly in her lap, while 
her eyes gazed dreamily at Miss Dorothy 
and a little smile curved her lips. 

"Miss Dorothy, don't you ever get tired of 
sewing ?" 

Miss Dorothy held up a breadth of Mertie's 



half-worn cashmere, and gazed thoughtfully at 
a few moth-eaten holes, before answering. 

"Well, yes, sometimes, but somebody must 
make and mend, and it may as well be me as 
any one." 

"But aren't you going to take a vacation this 
summer at all ?" persisted Mertie. 

"I don't know, I'm sure, for there's the 
Browns, and the Perkinses, and the Prentices 
all waiting for me, and land knows when I'll 
get through," and Miss Dorothy bit off her 
thread energetically. 

"I guess you'll need a vacation after you 
have sewed for the Prentice children a while, 
for they always seem to be falling to pieces," 
laughed Mertie. 

"Not much faculty for sewing, Mrs. Pren- 
tice hasn't, that's a fact, but folks can't all have 
the same gift, and she makes a first-rate good 
mother," said Miss Dorothy kindly. 

"I te'l you what I wi.sh we could do. Miss 
Dorothy, you and I — go and keep house for 
Cousin John a few weeks this summer. He 
hasn't any housekeeper now, and I know he 
would be just delighted to have us come. We 
could take Hal along to be company for Na- 
than, Cousin John's boy, and you and I could 
keep house and have a lovely time all by our- 
selves. Wouldn't you like to go?" 

Down dropped Miss Dorothy's work, and 
taking off her glasses she gazed at Mertie 
with such a look of astonishment on her 
usually placid face that Mertie laughed out- 
right as she exclaimed : 

"Don't look so shocked, dear Miss Dorothy. 
Cousin John Howard is one of the nicest of 
men, and mother and father have a great re- 
spect for him ; he is mother's own cousin, and 
when she was a girl she spent a great deal of 
time at his home. He owns a little place way 
out in the country, in one of the most romantic 
spots imaginable, where his people have 
always lived and he was born and brought up; 
and now his wife has been dead for several 
years and he has great trouble in finding a 
good housekeeper who is willing to live so far 
out in the country. Now I want to go up there 
this summer, and of course mother wouldn't let 
Hal and I go alone, but if you would go with 
us, I feel sure she would give her consent. 
Won't you please think of it. Miss Dorothy?" 
and dropping down beside her, Mertie laid her 
head coaxingly in her lap. 

"Well, well, child, we'll see what your mother 
says about it first," then, with a gentle smooth- 
ing of the yellow head she continued, "but I 
must hasten and finish my work here, the first 
thing, you know, before I can make any plans ; 
so let us see what is to be done with your last 
year's cashmere;" and Mertie, feeling that she 
had made a good beginning, went back to her 
work contentedly. 

At the supper table. Miss Dorothy was in- 
troduced to Cousin John Howard, and during 
the few days he remained with the Waltons, 
Mertie lost no opportunity of bringing them 
together, till before he left, Miss Dorothy had 
consented to spend a couple of weeks, some- 
time during the summer, accompanied by 
Mertie and Hal, at his home in the country. 

The days and weeks soon pas.sed, and the last 
of August found them enjoying the bracing air 
and the quiet solitude of John Howard's pleas- 
ant home. 

I wish I could describe the quaint beauty of 



this delightful spot. Only a few miles from the 
village of A — , it yet seemed entirely isolated 
from all civilization. 

So wild and picturesque was the scenery 
around, tliat the little house, which had stood 
the storms of nearly a hundred years, seemed 
almost lost as it nestled amid the hills, 
shadowed by mountains, and with a back- 
ground of fragrant woods. 

Yet, despite its solitude, there was nothing 
dreary about it, for here the sunshine seemed 
to love to linger, and the well kept grounds 
and out-buildings, the browsing cattle in the 
pastures close by, the motherly hen with her 
brood of chicks, and even the old black cat 
asleep on the broad Hat stone by the front door, 
all made a picture which would awaken in the 
heart of a passer-by a strain of music from 
that old familiar song, "Home sweet home." 

And so felt Miss Dorothy as she busied her- 
self about the house, while .Mertie, swinging in 
the hammock just outside the door, watched 
her dreamily : and as now and then the words, 
"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like 
home," fell with quaint sweetness from Miss 
Dorothy's lips, she smiled to herself and 
thought what a splendid wife Miss Dorothy 
would make. 

Coming in from the barn with a pail of 
foaming milk in each hand, the same thought 
seemed to occur to Cousin John as he too 
watched the trim figure ; and an unusual 
spruceness of attire and a carefulness of de- 
meanor revealed to the roguish Mertie the 
state of affairs; but Miss Dorothy, all uncon- 
scious of the web that was gathering about her 
and never having even heard of the little god 
Cupid, or his mischievous pranks, moved 
serenely on her way, and seemed to be enjoy- 
ing her vacation thoroughly. 

Nathan Howard was a tall slim youth of 
twenty-one, the son and grandson of farmers ; 
yet he had inherited from some remote ances- 
tor the habits and tastes of a student and a 
great dislike to farm work. With his broad, 
intellectual brow, and deep-set, hungry-looking 
eyes, his abstracted air, and the constant com- 
panionship of a book that was ever peeping 
obstrusively from some pocket of his coat, he 
did his work about the farm so half-heartedly 
and with such evident dislike, that his father 
often watched him with a sigh, and an impa- 
tient, "Come Nate, stop dreaming," that would 
bring the color to his cheek and a pang to his 
heart. 

Devotedly attached to his father, and feel- 
ing keenly his loneliness since his mother's 
death, he strove to smother his ambitions; and 
only to Mertie, who had been his devoted 
friend and confidant since they were both 
children, did he ever pour out his longings for 
a different life and a college education. 

The two weeks of Miss Dorothy's vacation 
were drawing to a close, when one morning 
Mertie proposed as a last excursion a boat 
ride on the pond not far from the house, where 
the water lilies grew in great abundance. 

And so it was arranged; and Cousin John 
and Nathan planned their work so as to devote 
the day to the ladies, and make their last out- 
ing as pleasant as possible. 

The pond was still and smooth, and the little 
party gliding over its surface made but few 
ripples to disturb its quietness. Cousin John 
and Nathan, seated in the center of the boat. 



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had each an oar ; Miss Dorothy and Mertie 
occupied a seat at one end, and Hal with gun 
and game bag and all the equipments for a 
day's gunning, occupied the other. 

Boy fashion, he sniffed at the quiet pleasure 
of the rest of the party as they gathered the 
fragrant lilies nestling their pure heads among 
the green leaves, and seemed to take keen 
delight in rocking the boat and listening to the 
frightened cries of Mertie, who was inclined to 
be somewhat timid. 

At last, seeming to grow wholly reckless of 
danger, and as Mertie leaned forward trying 
to reach a cluster of lilies, he rocked the boat 
violently; when to the horror of them all she 
lost her balance and without a sound from her 
lips sank out of sight. 

Another plunge and Nathan was in the 
water, and grasping her in his arms as she 
rose to the surface, he swam with her to the 
shore, which was not far distant. 

Almost as pale as the insensible girl, Nathan 
knelt beside her as she lay on the ground, 
chafing her hands and wiping the water from 
her face, when the rest of the party, frightened 
and an.\ious, reached the shore. 

They hastened to the house, and applying 
the usual remedies, Mertie soon recovered 
from her swoon ; and in a few hours, save for 
a feeling of lassitude occasioned by the shock 
to her nerves, she was quite like herself again. 

But the mishap, together with the thought of 
the near separation of tlie little party, cast a 
gloom over the happy household not felt 
before. 

It was the evening after the accident, and 
they were all gathered around the lounge in 
the cozy sitting room, where Mertie, in the role 
of invalid, was lying. 

The moon had risen early and was flooding 
the room with a beautiful light. A silence had 
fallen on the little group, and the song of the 
crickets and the distant cry of tlie whip-poor- 
will were all that broke the stillness. 

Presently Cousin John walked to the door 
and looked out ; then, turning to Miss Dorothy, 
said : 

"I'd like to show you the old mill by moon- 
light. Miss Dorothy, if you feel like taking a 
walk ; it's a very pretty sight I can tell you." 

Miss Dorothy, glancing at Mertie, whose 
eyes were closed as though asleep, then at the 
silent figure of Nathan as he leaned out of the 
window, apparently star-gazing, rose and 
followed him from the room. 

As their footsteps died away in tlie distance, 
Nathan rose and, drawing his chair close to 
the lounge, bent over Mertie. 

The blue eyes opened quickly, and glanced 
up at him full of mischief, as she said softly : 

"I guess this walk will settle it; don't you 
think so, Nate.'" 

Nate laughed. "I hope so, I'm sure.forl've 
grown to like Miss Dorothy very much, and 
then father does need somebody here so 
badly. But who would suppose you had such 
a talent for matchmaking," then more gravely, 
"But do you know, Mertie, that to-day, when I 
thought we were going to lose you, 1 found 
that in every hope and ambition of my life you 
were its center, that without you 1 had scarcely 
a thought or hope. Are you glad, dear, or 
sorry .'"' 

"Glad Nate, very, very glad," whispered 
Mertie with a little tremble in her voice, and 



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then Hal, coming in rather quietly, being 
somewhat subdued by his morning's escapade, 
saw the two heads so close together, that he 
turned on his heel and slipped out again, mut- 
tering as he went, "Spoons." 

Sauntering down the road he came to the 
little bridge across the mill stream, and there, 
gazing at the water as it splashed over the 
rocks, were the figures of a man and woman 
talking earnestly. Hal crept along quietly till 
within hearing distance. 

"I'm a plain man, Miss Dorothy, and I 
havn't much to offer any woman ; but 
you've seen the the place, and you've seen 
me, and such as tliey both are, you are wel- 
come to 'em if you'll take 'em, and I'll promise 
you shan't be sorry for't" were the words he 
heard in Cousin John's voice. Miss Dorothy's 
answer was lost; but when he saw Cousin 
John's arm slip round the spinster's waist^ 
and her head rest confidingly against his 
shoulder, he concluded she had accepted the 
gift, and exclaiming under his breath, "An- 
other pair, 1 vow," went back to the house, and 
slipping quietly in, went softly to bed. 

A few months later a ([uiet wedding was 
celebrated at the rectory in N — , the Rev. Mr. 
Walton officiating, and as Mertie kissed Miss 
Dorothy, now Mrs. Howard, good-bye, she 
said to Cousin John, laughingly, "But there 
will never be another Miranda;" and John 
Howard, taking his wife's hand in his, and 
looking tenderly into her happy face, answered : 

"Perhaps not, Mertie, but 1 am very sure 
there will never be another Dorothy." 

iro?rester, Mass. 



How to Keep the Cellar Cool 

A great mistake is sometimes made in ven- 
tilating cellars and milk-houses. The object 
of ventilation is to keep the cellar cool and 
dry, but this object often fails of being accom- 
plished, by a common mistake, and instead 
the cellar is made both warm and damp. A 
cool place should never be ventilated, unless 
the air admitted is cooler than the air within 
or is at least as cool as tliat, or a very little 
warmer. The warmer the air the more moist- 
ure it holds in suspension. Necessarily, the 
cooler the air the more this moisture is con- 
densed and precipitated. When a cool cellar 
is aired on a warm day, the entering air being 
in motion appears to be cool, but as it fills the 
cellar the cooler air with which it becomes 
mixed chills it and the moisture is condensed, 
and dew is deposited on the cold walls, and 
may often be seen running down them in 
streams. Then the cellar is damp and soon be- 
comes moldy. To avoid thi.s, the window 
should only be opened at night, and late, the 
last thing before retiring. There is no need 
to fear that the night air is unhealthful; it is 
as pure as the air of midday, and is really 
drier. The cool air enters the apartment dur- 
ing the night and circulates through it. The 
windows should be closed before sunrise in 
the morning, and kept closed and shaded 
through the day. If the air of the cellar is 
damp, it may be thoroughly dried by placing 
in it a pi-ck of fresh lime in an open box. A 
peck of lime will absorb about seven pounds, 
or more than three quarts of water, and m 
this way a cellar or milk-room may soon be 
dried, even in the hottest weather. 



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Note-Book Leaves. 



BY THE TRAVELER. 



I sat in front of one of the new members of 
Worcesters family of clergymen, a short time 
since, at the graduating exercises of one of 
our prominent educational institutions. It 
was a very warm day — so warm that the per- 
spiration made every one feel that he was 
swimming in it. The reverend doctor took it 
good humoredly, and I heard him humming 
".Many a time, many a time," while we were 
waiting for the beginning; but finally even he 
seemed to think that it was rather more than 
usually warm, for he sighed to his companion : 
"Well, I've been looking for a Turkish bath 
ever since I came to Worcester, and I should 
say I've found it!" I could sympathize with 
him. I don't suppose it would be telling where 
this happ med if I said that .Mechanics Hall 
would have been a much more comfortable 
place. 

Prohibition may be a failure, but those who 
think it isn't working well in Worcester ought 
to have been down in Boston for the Fourth. 
I saw more drunken men while walking up 
from the station to Newspaper Row than I 
have seen in Worcester since the first of May. 
And I kept seeing them all day. I saw one 
fired out of a hotel where I happened to be; 
another fell all over himself just as I turned 
from Washington into Cornhill ; one of the 
Boston police actually made an arrest and I 
saw the prisoner that time. . And so it went. 
I've no desire to pass judgment on prohil'ition; 
but between Worcester as it is and Boston as 
I saw it, 1 will take several large hunks of 
Worcester, if you please. 



If it is true that at a recent Worcester 
church's picnic, someone salted the lemonade, 
it would seem that another terror has been 
added to the annual outing which we take, in 
our respective church families. The ants may 
crawl through the sandwiches ; or the spider 
mayspinhis web serenely down into the coffee- 
can ; and we may struggle delightfully with 
those fearful boats, if we happen to be at 
Waushacuni ; but we must have our liquid re- 
freshments pure and undefiled. 



I notice that Mr. Bowser was in town last 
Sunday, with "Rev." before his name. Mrs. 
Bowser will undoubtedly tell in a forthcoming 
number of the Pirss what he had to say to her 
about Worcester. 

Light met, a few days ago, a little girl who 
lives in the eastern part of the state, and heard 
a cute story about one of her sayings. .She is 
a very good little girl and a faithful attendant 
in her Sunday School class. One day the 
teacher asked the class what Christ's occu- 
pation was. None of them seemed to know 
and then the teacher said that he was a car- 
penter. "Oh, yes," said the little girl, "I re- 
member now." "And how do you remember.'" 
asked tlie teacher. "Why." said the little 
lady, "don't you know he said : 'If you destroy 
this tempi,', in three days I will build it up 
again.' " 

Our state secretary, Henry B. Pierce, of 
Abington, has announced his intention to re- 



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tire this year from the office which he has so 
long held. I happened to hear a little inci- 
dent regarding him the other day which struck 
me as being rather a good one, in view of the 
fact that he has been three times married. 
Just before he married his present wife, a 
friend dropped in to call on him at his office in 
the state house and saw a photograph of the 
secretary's prospective bride on his desk. 
"Ah !" he said, with something of a wink, 
"that's a mighty pretty girl !" "Sir!" said Mr. 
Pierce, "that 'girl' is a grandmother !" And 
although very pretty still, for she had married 
young and had a daughter, she really was. 



Redeemable Stamped Envelopes. 

Some people have an idea that the Govern- 
ment redeems postage stamps when from any 
cause they become unfit for use or are difficul- 
to use. Frequently sheets of stamps are stuck 
together, or are torn or injured. The loss, if 
any, falls upon the owner, as the Government, 
refuses to assume any responsibility for stamps 
when once sold. The agents for the Govern- 
ment, the postmasters, can redeem stamps 
which they have for sale, if through any acci- 
dent they become unfit for use. But when 
the citizen buys stamps he either uses it in 
the legitimate way or else he is out the value 
of the stamp. 

The Government, however,redeems stamped 
envelopes. If one should happen to be mis- 
directed or should become blotted, or for any 
reason a person should wish to tear open a 
stamped envelope after he had sealed it for 
mailing, he can bring it to the postofBce and 
get the face value of the stamp on the envel- 
ope in its place. He loses the envelope only. 
The reason for this difference in the treatment 
of the adhesive stamp and tlie stamped envelope 
is that the adhesive stamp can be used and 
then washed and passed as good, unless a 
careful scrutiny is made. If the Government 
should begin the practice of redeeming ad- 
hesive stamps, the opportunities for fraud 
would be increased. Then the adhesive 
stamps are manufactured at a cost to the Gov- 
ernment, while the stamped envelopes are not. 
The stamps are furnished to the public at the 
face value, and out of this has to come the 
cost of manufacture, but in the ca.se of stamped 
envelopes, they are sold at their face value 
plus the cost of manufacture. 



Understands His Business. 
There is proof that a really great man rises 
superior to the limitations of circumstances 
in the incident recently related of the 
New Hampshire landlord who made a 
requisition on a Rhode Island city for 
six young men to proceed at once to 
the mountains, and there, arrayed in tennis 
costume during the day, and conventional 
evening dress at night, a.ssist in entertaining 
the guests of the hostelry, presumably the 
maiden element for the most part, living on 
the fat of the land, meanwhile, gratis. The 
increasing scarcity of young men at our Sum- 
mer hotels has proved more deleterious to 
profit than even a combination of cold weather 
and high prices, and it was inevitable that 
something radical should be undertaken. The 
New Hampshire man mentioned is evidently 
abreast of the times. 



How to Treat Sunstroke. 



BY A WORCESTER PHYSICIAN. 



Sunstroke consists of an acute congestion of 
the brain and spinal cord together with more 
or less serous effusions into the same. In se- 
vere cases the lungs and other internal organs 
are also involved. It is especially a disease 
of high-livers and those who indulge in alco- 
holic drinks. Temperate people are seldom 
attacked. Occupation is a predisposing cause, 
as is also mental worriment, anxiety or dis- 
tress. The exciting cause is heat, but unless 
this is combined with a moist and humid at- 
mosphere it can hardly be said to produce it. 
In the dry plateaus of the West,however great 
the heat, it is hardly known, while in the 
muggy weather of dog-days in every seaport 
town it is quite common. In mild cases the 
patient feels suddenly exhausted, becomes 
faint or partially unconscious. The skin is 
cold and clammy, pulse quick and feeble, spots 
appear before the eyes and endless variety of 
sensations are referred to the head. In the 
more severe forms all the above symptoms 
are greatly intensified and coma and death 
may result. 

TREATMENT. 

Absolute rest and quiet with plenty of cool 
fresh air. All needless clothing should be at 
once removed. The head and spine should 
be packed in cold dressings, the body sponged 
over with cool water and mild stimulants be 
administered. All such cases are serious and 
a competent physician should be summoned 
without delay. 



Quills and Pens. 

Mr. Joseph Gillott was a Birmingham work- 
ing jeweler in 1830. One day he accidently 
split one of his fine steel tools, and being sud- 
denly required to sign a receipt, not finding 
his quill-pen at hand he used the split tool as 
a ready substitute. This happy accident led 
to the idea of makeng pens of metal. It was 
carried out with secrecy and uomptitude, and 
the pens of Gillott became famous. The 
manufacture of metal pens has been as im 
portant as any invention connected with busi 
ness and education since that of printing. 
There are now numerous firms which produce 
as many pens every day as all the geese in 
England could have supplied in a year. 
There is still, however, a large demand for 
quills and quill-pens ; but for common use, in 
these days of universal education, the im- 
portance of Gillott's first invention is incalcu 
lable. 

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line in the world is soon to be constructed 
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A More Difficult, Thorough and Practical 
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tution in New England. 



£utrrfiUxjft£*^ 



The graduates from these teachers go directly to the 
banks and business offices of the city and succeed from 
the start as practical accountants. 




Hinman's College, the Largest Institution in Worcester, 

Qualifies and places more young men in good positions than all the other schools combined. The tuition for the complete course, one 

year, is FIFTY-EIGHT DOLLARS. 

Business Men wanting help trained only by Experienced Business Men can find ThorougWy Drilled Practical Accountants only at 

niNn/IN'5 PU5mE55 COLLEQE. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

S TUDIO. 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HEK KESIDENCE, 39 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^♦Ladies' t Hair ? Dressing^- 

CHILDREN'S HAIK-CUTTINO, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Uain St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 MAIN STREET. 

BEAN & SOUTHWORTH'S 
Dress Making Parlors. 

Mrs. E. J. Bean and Mrs. L. E. Southworth have 
opened dress-making parlors at 

S'iS 3s/^a.i33. St., I^oorri 1, 

Where they will be pleased to see their old customers and 
welcome new ones. We do honest work at honest prices 
and guarant ee satisfaction. 

**WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 



-^^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

3:To. 2 ■^7;7"a.lrx-a.t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEVE5. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F, BOND, 571 Main Street. 
FLATIRON BUILDING. 



SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Tvliss H. WL PROCTOR, 

92 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



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Making Tea. 

Where tea is required stong, one teaspoon- 
ful to each person and one for the pot will not 
be too much. An earthen or agate iron teapot 
is best. See that it is perfectly clean and dr>', 
and make it as hot as possible before putting 
in the tea. Be sure your kettle boils, and use 
soft water if you can get it. Put the required 
amount of tea in the pot, pour the boiling 
water upon it, enough to cover the tea, let it 
stand four minutes, then add enough more 
water to make what tea you desire, and in 
three minutes more it is ready for use. 
Lemon Pudding. 

Heat a pink of milk to boiling and thicken 
with two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, made 
smooth with cold milk. When well boiled, re- 
move from the fire and add, while hot, one 
tablespoonful of butter and one cup of sugar. 
When the pudding is nearly cool, add the yolks 
of four eggs well beaten, and the juice of two 
lemons, the grated rind of one. Beat the mix- 
ture till well blended, and bake. A meringue 
may be made of the whites of the eggs beaten 
to a stiff froth, sweetened and spread on top of 
the pudding a few minutes before removing 
from the oven. This is excellent and whole- 



Lemon Jelly. 

Dissolve a box (i>^ ounces) of gelatine in a 
teacup of cold water, add nearly a quart of 
boiling watc-r, five sliced lemons, a teaspoonful 
of extract of cinnamon and a pound of sugar. 
Let cool and stir in the beaten whites of two 
eggs ; strain, pour in a jelly mould and set in 
a cold place to harden. When ready to serve 
turn out a flat glass dish, and serve in little 
glass fruit dishes, with a pitcher of whipped 
cream. 
Lemon Cake. 

Two cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of 
butter, three eggs, one cupful of milk, three 
cupfuls of flour, three level teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder ; bake in layers. For the jelly 
use the grated rind and juice of two lemons, 
one cupful of sugar, one egg, one-half cupful 
of water, one teaspoonful of butter and one 
tablespoonful of flour mixed in a little water. 
Boil until it thickens, let it cool, and spread it 
between the layers of cake. 
Frosted Lemon Pie. 

The grated rind and juice of one lemon, 
one cup of brown sugar, the yolks of two eggs, 
one-half cup of cold water and two table 
spoonfuls of flour or cornstarch. Line the 
plate with paste and fill. When baked, frost 
with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff 
froth with three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and 
brown lightly in the oven. 
Rice Snowballs. 

Boil one pint of rice until done soft, put in 
small cups, and when perfectly cold place on a 
dish, make a boiled custard of one pint of 
milk, threp eggs, half-cup of sugar, one tea- 
spoonful of corn starch, flavor with either 
lemon or vanilla. When cold, pour over the 
rice balls. This is a simple but nice dessert. 



» NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 

Clafiin'ft best Cabinet Photog^aph§, 92 a doz. 

until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 



W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Rlater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 



* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSDRANCE CO.* 

Office, First National Bank Building, 

•410 IK^ain. St., T^7"orcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Krame Nl'f' g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engrravlngs, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

■iT Park St., Worcester. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

"Wlien yon want a good mattrees of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
^Ve guarantee first-class work. 

13 F^arVc St., W^orcester. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. REUBIN, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTU R E FRAMES 

and General Art Store. 

Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
220 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

LE * JOLLY i FRENCH i DYEING 

AND * CLEANSING i HOUSE, 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 

Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro^s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring it with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

c. tT melvin, pkofriktor, walnut ST. 



WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Blace. 

COLLARS AXD CUFFS LAUNDERED Df 8U- 
PERIOK STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., BROFS. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



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About the House. 

[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*» If a careless guest spills coffee on your 
finest damask you should rub the stain before 
the cloth has been laundried with a mixture 
made by dissolving the yolk of an egg in a 
little tepid water and adding a few drops of 
wine. Wash the mi.xture off with clean warm 
water and the stain will vanish with it. 

*, Dresses not faded, but soiled, may l)e 
sponged and pressed if they will bear water, 
and all dresses worn by those who must econ- 
omize should be of that kind. Great care is 
necessary in pressing, for upon this the suc- 
cess depends. It is essential that the surface 
upon which the pressing is done be smooth 
and soft. Such a one may be made by a 
folded shawl or other heavy woollen or felt. 
It may be covered, if desired, with a piece of 
muslin. There must be no seams, or folds, or 
patches, or they will be impressed upon the 
goods, which should be ironed upon the wrong 
side or covered with a damp cloth and ironed 
until dry. 

*, A careful observation of some 390 cases 
of short-sightedness in children, conducted by 
Prof. Foster, director of the university opthal- 
mic clinic of Breslau, led him to conclude that 
too tight collars were in a large number of 
cases responsible for the trouble. He found 
the patients suffering from a chronic complaint, 
brought on by a disturbance in the regular and 
normal flow of the blood, which he traced to 
wearing of collars that were not sufficiently 
loose, and parents and teachers were cau- 
tioned to guard against continuing their use. 
The warning may be serviceable in similar 
cases everywhere. 

»* A little borax put in the water before wash- 
ing red or red-bordered tablecloths and nap- 
kins, will prevent their fading. 

% Go to bed at night to sleep, and not to 
think over the troubles of to-day nor the an- 
ticipated trials of to-morrow. One woman 
said : "I plan my next day's work each night 
after retiring." Poor, little, nervous thing, she 
looked it. 

*„ Black straw and chip hats, which prom- 
ise to be worn so much this season, can be 
kept in shape and color by brushing, when 
well dusted, with shoe polish. Fvery hat and 
bonnet should have its separate box, and be 
covered with a silk handerchief to protect 
it from the dust and light. 

*» The surest way to have clear jelly is to 
let the juice drain through a flannel bag, with- 
out squeezing it. 

*, When one is fatigued, tea is an efiicient 
restorative. It forms an agreeable, warm 
drink which is neither heating to the blood 
nor oppressive to the stomach, particularly if 
taken slowly when one is sitting quietly. 
Large quantities, however, induce nervous 
disorders. 

*, A pinch of cooking soda in the water 
where peas are to be cooked make them very 
tender, and gives them a brilliant green color 



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The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



are in order. What would you have ? Every re- 
quisite is here. Itaskets of every shai e, dimension, 
price. Covered satchel baskets, 5, lo, 15, 20, 25 cents. 
This last a big one— 10x14 inches. 
"Never Break" 

steel cooking utensels won't warp, scale, crack, 
absorb grease or taste of previous cooking. Every 
housekeeper appreciates these qualities, and then 
again you ,aii'/ break them. It's a comfort to have 
such things, you shouldn't try to keep house without 
the "Never Break." 

Bargain Days. 

That's all days with us. Good, servicable wares at 
honest prices in every department. Nolrash bought 
for the purpose of making what the trade slang calls 
a "bargain," but what is in reahty nine times in ten, 
a fraud instead. No matter what its price we guar- 
antee each article to do all the service you expect 
from it. 

"About Now." 

As the almanacs say, look out for the average house- 
wife with her little fruit cans. Five years ago the 
old "relic of barbarism" Mason jars began to yield 
reluctantly to the more advanced ideas as embodied 
in the "Lightning," and now the most firmly en- 
trenched "Mason" bow to the inevitable and takes a 
"back seat." The yearly increase in the sales of the 
Lightning Jar is enormous. True merit is the only 
reason for it. 

There Was a Time 

When less machinery was required to run the kitchen 
than now in this era of new delicacies. CJf all ma- 
chines there is none in which the difference in 
qualities is more strongly marked than in Ice Cream 
Freezers. The difference is represented exactly by 
the difference in minutes it requires in each to reach 
a given result — expressed mathmatically it is as six 
minutes is to sixty. Tne Gem Ice Cream Freezer 
has no equal in all important ways : cjuick freezing, 
saving ice, perfect work Anything else you may 
desire is sure to be found in the Gem, if it is a good 
quality you seek. 

If You Should Happen 

To miss finding just exactly what you want ready- 
made in the basket Hne, you won"t forget we can 
make for you any sort. Special sizes of covertTd 
traveling and clothes hampers, infants baskets, dog 
and cat baskets we make you, alnio:>t while you 
wait, in the most workmanlike manner. 

The Choicest China 

Is not more pure and wholesome than is Granite 
Iron Ware, "the unrivalled" for kitchen use. We 
would like you to see what there is made in Granite 
Iron. Pots and kettles, dishes and pans, every 
thought of shape for every variety of purposes, ^'ou 
can't go astray if you buy Granite Iron for any use 
requiring cleanliness and durability. 

Points. 

The Florence Oil Stoves ; twenty-five dozens don't 
last a great while here ; you know too much of its 
good qualities to allow us to keep them; i, 2 and 3 
burner stoves, 85c., <i.7o and $2.55 respectively. 
Bird Cages for parrots, canaries, mocking birds and 
robins. 

What of it ! A full size, full decoration, full quality, 
full number of pieces (10) Toilet Set for $250. 
Make a note of it, cottagers. 



Lemonade Shakers are in Order. 
Galvanized Garbage Cans, with Covers, $1. 
Good Step Ladders, 75c. for 5 foot. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



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Frills and Plaits. 



*, The favorite dress for the mountains, 
for tennis, and for outing generally, has a 
straight English skirt and laced corselet bod- 
ice made of flannel or serge, worn with a full 
silk shirt, to which is added a jacket of the 
material of the skirt. The skirt does not 
need a foundation skirt beneath, and is sewed 
to the corselet or laced bodice. 

% A black lace gown is no longer a neces- 
sity in the wardrobe, nor is a fish net costume, 
for color is more stylish than any black effect 
this season. 

*, Pretty little yachting hats are nearly flat 
Tarn O'Shanters, with soft low crowns of gay 
Scotch striped silk and tiny stiff brim of 
brown open straw, with a button of the same 
straw in the centre of the crown, and two 
brown quills pointing forward from the back 
on the left side. 

*,if Almost any dress made within the last 
two or three years can be made over in the 
simple styles now in vogue, with straight 
skirts and trimmed bodices. For instance, 
the plaited skirts of woollen gowns, if faded, 
can be turned, and their voluminous breadth 
will furnish ample material for an English 
skirt with plain front and sides and plaited 
back, and also for full sleeves. If this skirt 
is too short for the present elongated breadths 
it can be lengthened by adding a border of 
striped, plaid, or spotted wool, or else a bias 
fold of silk four inches wide, lined with crino- 
line, can be set below the edge, and simply 
stitched on, a fashion seen on many of the 
English gowns. Another plan is to trim the 
skirt with three or four rows of velvet ribbon 
of graduated widths, the lowest row three 
inches wide, falling below the edge of the 
skirt and lengthening it. Should the .skirt be 
long enough, but frayed at the edges, a bind- 
ing of thick watered ribbon three inches wide 
will freshen it, and give "character" to the 
plain skirt. The foundation skirt, after having 
the bustle and steels removed, should be 
faced with [the material of the dress, or with 
that added to lengthen it. 

*» Bright red gowns are being made of 
plain or of figured India silk, trimmed with 
insertions of black lace, and also of the black 
silk-cord passements now made without beads. 

*» Simple dresses for the country are of the 
stiped flannels, with a housemaid skirt of four 
straight breadths gathered to a belt, worn 
with a waist of the same flannel fitted 
like a basque in the back, and falling loose 
in front in sailor blouse ; the skirt is hemmed, 
and without a foundation skirt. 

*» A simply and pretty trimming for wide- 
brimmed summer hats is to cover the flat 
brim with a gathered frill of ribbon sloped 
narrower at the back where the brim grows 
narrow. This is prettily shown on a brim of 
Ophelia tulle, the gros-grain ribbon being of 
the same shade, and the low crown of em- 
broidered crape. Jewelled bonnets are worn 
in Paris, but the "milliners' jewels" are mere 
bits of colored glass that are not likely to find 
favor with American women. 



Facts for Fine Costumes. 



92^ in the shade ! Madge, I shall certainly melt and perish with these thick clothes on. 

"Survive or perish," Dorothy, I want you to go shopping with me this morning. 

I'm in for it, Madge, but DO take me where I can buy something LIGHT and THIN. 

I can do just that very thing. I want to go first to 328 Main, the Royal Worcester Corset 
House, and get a pair of Pongee Corsets before the rush begins. I was in there last Saturday 
for some niching. They have the loveliest neckwear novelties you ever siw. You should 
have seen the crowd ! Everybody was asking for 608, 608, 608. 

What is 608 ? I asked. 

Why, that's our Pongee Corset. It's a lovely Corset — a specialty. Let me show you one. 

No, thanks, I'll not stop to-day. I will come in some day when you are not so crowded. 

Well, if you believe me, I went home and found a letter waiting from Miriam Webner. 
What do you suppose she opened with ? 

I couldn't guess, Madge. What was iti" 

Think I have the letter in my bag. I'll read it to you. 

The very first thing my eyes fell on was Pongee Corsets — Pongee 608 all the way 

through. Singular, wasn't it, after my experience in the store that day ? Ah, here it is ! Now, 

listen ! 

Chicago, Wednesday, p. m. 

Dear Madge— You must surely get the 608 Pongee Corsets. They are the LOVELIEST 
things I EVER saw. 

Three weeks ago to-day I went to Marshall Field's and bought a pair. My dressmaker 
had urged me so hard to try them, that 1 went down town that morning determined to possess 
a pair of Pongee Corsets or die in the attempt. I had always worn imported corsets, but my 
dressmaker said you need not hesitate to buy a corset that has "ROYAL WORCESTER" 
printed on the inside, and get the Pongee, No. 608. Now, my dressmaker is Ai. I never knew 
her judgment to fail yet. So I was bound to have a Pongee. 

Scent' — Field^s Corset Department. To the Clerk. 

Do you keep Pongee Corsets, the Royal Worcester, No. 608 ? 

O, yes indeed ! It's one of the most popular corsets we have. What size, please? 

Twenty-two. 

Genuine Whalebone, Natural Silk. To show you how elastic these front steels are I will 
tie one in a knot. (Ties it.) 

What is the price .' 

JS3-50- 

I will take it. (Exit.) 

O, Madge, they are lovely ! My dresses fit beautifully over them, and I can walk, sing, 
ride, play tennis — do anything, and would never know that I had a corset on. 

To think of it, Madge ! These Royal Worcester Corsets are made right there in your own 
city, and you never told me. Well, be sure you get the ROYAL WORCESTER 608 Pongee. 

O, but I must tell you. I was in New York last week, and went shopping with my friends. 

While we were in Mme. Freud's buying a 608 Pongee for my friend, a man came in to sell 
an imitation of the Royal Worcester 608 Pongee I overheard him say he could sell it for less 
than the genuine 608. 

Mme. Freud was indignant. She told the drummer it was contemptible to try to palm off 
such a botch of a corset in place of the 60S Royal Worcester ; that there never had been but one 
good Pongee made and that was the Royal Worcester No. 608, and she would thank him never 
to attempt to impose on her again. Now, Madge, be sure and get the No. 608. Good-bye, 
write soon. Yours, Miriam. 

How is that for Pongee Corsets. 

James, drive us to 328 Main street, Worcester Corset Company's store. 



DR. CONANT'S 

* COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS * 

ALSO 

Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths area luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours, g to 12 a. m.; 2 to t; and 7 to 9 p. m. M KS. J. L. 
CUMMINGS, 24^2 School Street, Worcester. Mass. 

If you want a piano that will last a life-tluie, 
get the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 MAIN ST, 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 

4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSED 

80 Sonthbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAIVIS & SON. 

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ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 23 PEARL STREET. 



A sunny, well-appointed Dining Room 
makes cheery the whole house. The best 
investment you ever make in house furnish- 
ing provides substantial and handsome Side- 
board, Table and Chairs for your Dining 
Room. Artistic merit, solidity, convenience 
and variety mark the new designs for 1890. 
Solid Oak Dining Room Sets, including a 
Sideboard, from $40 up. It will please you 
to look them over in our spacious ware- 
rooms. If you buy, we guarantee satisfac- 
tion, and deliver free in Boston and its 
suburbs, and the depots. 



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hnpossibilities. 

An Original Package. 

"I have had a delightful evening," he said, 
a.s he took his Iiat and rose to go. "May I 
call again.'"' 

"I shall be glad to see you," she replied 
with a blush. 

.As he walked into the hall he saw in tlie mir- 
ror of the hat-rack a reflection of the roguish 
girl slyly throwing a kiss at him, and he 
turned back. 

"I must have that in the original package," 
he whispered.— y^tV/TYVtv/rt/ Front Door. 
Thoughtful Neighbors. 

Mrs. Ribhs: — .See here! Why are you un- 
loading those shingles in front of my door ? 
We haven't ordered any. 

Driver : — No, mum. They comes wid the 
compliments of the neighbors. You see, 
folks think from the way your boy acts, that 
you can't afford to buy any.— ^Wa- York 
Weekly. 
It Might Sound Queer. 

.Mamma : — 1 wonder what we shall call the 
baby .'' 

Johnny —I don't think we'd better call him 
any of the names papa called him last night 
when he was crying. He mightn't like it 
when growed up. — Munsey''s IVeekly. 
Blooming Culture. 

Mr. Fangle ; — I see by the newspapers 
that a Buddhist temple is being erected in 
Paris. 

Mrs. Fangle : — Yes, the French people 
are very fond of flowers; but isn't that a 
queer name for a conservatory .■' 
Useful as Well as Ornamental. 

Edith : — I'm fond of bathing, but it's a 
nuisance to have to dry one's hair when one 
comes out of the water. 

Little Laura: — My sister Maude never 
gets her hair wet when she bathes. She leaves 
nearly all of it in her dressing room. 
How a Woman Works. 

Hampden Sewall: — Doc, I wish you'd 
step down to the house and see my wife. 

Physician : — What seems to be the matter 1 

Ha.mpden Sewall: — Oh, she's been work- 
ing like a horse for two or three days and is 
all worn out. 

Physician : — Why don't you see a veteri- 
nary surgeon ? — Roihcster Post-Express. 
Too Generous. 

"Is your husband a very generous man ?" 

"Indeed he is. You remember those nice 
cigars I gave him for a birthday present ? 
Well, he smoked only one, and gave the others 
away to his friend." — The Epoch. 



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only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 
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In the Courts. 



[Light will be glad to print any news of interest to 
the Tennis fraternity ; scores of notable individual 
matches, receptions or ladies day gatherings, etc. Ad- 
dress, Tennis Editor, Light Office. 



Light believes in good, clean sport, and, 
whenever it can, will encourage the right sort 
of athletics to the extent of its ability. With 
this in mind, it purposes printing weekly such 
news, both local and national, as may be of 
interest to those who find recreation and profit 
in the game of lawn tennis, which is appar- 
ently becoming the most popular game of the 
men and v^omen of the country. 

Worcester has had for a number of years 
its devotees of the game, and while it has 
never produced a player who has taken rank 
among the prominent players of the country, 
there is a considerable number of excellent 
players in the various clubs. The oldest and 
largest club in the city is the Worcester 
Tennis Club, whose pleasant grounds and 
convenient club-house have witnessed many 
hard-fought struggles with racquet and ball. 
It was upon the Worcester Club's grounds 
that the first county championship tournament 
was played, last August, and despite the 
weather, which was wholly unfit for brilliant 
work, good exhibitions were given. Some 
twenty-four players entered the tourney, and 
the winner, Mr. George F. Crocker, of Fitch- 
burg, fought his way to victory through some 
hard-fought sets. He holds the elegant vase, 
emblematic of the championship, and will 
doubtless defend it at the tournament to be 
held in September. 

A large number of players are now absent 
from the city, but during the past week, a brisk 
little tournament has been played, which has 
shown clearly marked improvement in the 
play of many members. 

The only other tennis club in this city 
which is at present active is the Crescent 
Tennis Club, which has a fine court and 
pavilion at the South End. The members are 
mostly young players and have yet to make a 
record for themselves. 



The Winslow Tennis Club, which has had 
a prosperous existence of a year, has been un- 
fortunate in not securing grounds till recently, 
but they are now nearly ready to begin play 
on their new court on Pleasant street, near 
Merrick. There are several private courts in 
the city, but the bulk of the playing is done 
on the courts mentioned above, and it is there 
that the best players are developed. 

The recent tournament in doubles for the 
eastern championship, played at Staten Island 
last week, resulted in a genuine surprise for 
players and spectators. Some eight or ten 
pairs of the best players in the east, including 
Slocum and Taylor and Campbell and Hunt- 
ington, were entered, but it was not destined 
that either should carry off the laurels, and 
Hall and Hobart took first prize and the right 
to contest at Newport in August against the 
champion double team of the west, for the 
United States championship. Hall is a Co- 
lumbia graduate who has done some brilliant 
playing, but Hobart is very little known. 

The tournament at the Worcester Tennis 



I. I (i^H T 

Club grounds has attracted considerable at- 
tention among the local players this week. 
The playing in singles has been unusually 
brilliant and the prospects of a fine county 
tournament are good, indeed. This tour- 
nament is intended to get the men in shape 
for the more important matches later in the 
season. The scores in the matches in singles 
follow : 
Preliminary round : — 

A. P. Kirk beat F. B. Howland, 6-o,6-o, 6-i. 

D. O. Earle beat L. Nelson, 5-2, i-5, 5-2, 6-4. 

P. Lincoln beat A. V. Greene, 5-4, 3-6, 6-3, 5-5, 6-1. 

G. Crompton beat W. Nelson, 5-4, 6-c, 5-3. 

H. W. Smith beat W. Morse, 5-i, 5-2, 6-3. 

K. Crompton, C. B. Earle and J. D. Baldwin, byes. 
First round : — 

A. P. Kirk beat R. Crompton, 5-o, 6-0, 6-1. 

D. O. Earle beat P. Lincoln, 7-5, 5-i, 7-5. 

G. Crompton beat H. W. Smith, 4-5, 3-6, 5-i,5-i, 54. 

C. B. Earle beat J. D. Baldwin, 12-10, 3-6, 6-0, 5-i. 
Second round , — 

A. P. Kirk beat D. O. Earle, 6-4, 5-4, 12-10. 

G. Crompton beat C. B. Earle, 6-1, 6-3,6-4, 11-13,6-3, 
7-5- 
Finals: 

G. Crompton beat A. P. Kirk, 6-4, 11-13, 6-3, 7-5. 
Crompton's playing throughout the week 
has been marked by many brilliant features, 
and he has deservedly won the local champion- 
ship. 

Three championships have already been de- 
cided in this country this year; the ladies 
championship being won by Miss E. C. Roose- 
velt of New York, the Middle States by 
Howard A. Taylor, and the New England 
championship by H. W. Slocum, Jr. 



The next tournament of importance to New 
Englanders is that to be held next week at the 
Masconomo House, Manchester-by-the-Sea, 
under the auspices of H. Partridge & Co., of 
Boston. For several years past this tourna- 
ment has been held at Wellesley, and the 
trophy won there last year by Fred Mansfield 
will be contested for this year at Manchester. 



It is understood that the South End Racquet 
Club, organized early in the season, being 
unable to secure grounds, has dissolved. 

Mr. and Mrs. Dwight C. Sumner are at 
Bristol Ferry, R. I. 

Mr. George Lufkin of the Joslin House is 
spending a two weeks' vacation at Truro, 
Mass., accompanied by his wife. He says 
that he has not taken a vacation for eight 
years, but Light's vacation editorial started 
him oS. 

Miss May Bigelow has been at Gardner 
this week. Mrs. Charles F. Bigelow is at 
Falmouth. 

Light ought to chronicle among "The Va- 
cationers" three interesting little visitors who 
are just now away from home and are located 
in Light's editorial room. They are alliga- 
tors which came from St. Augustine, some 
time ago, and they like the Worcester air im- 
mensely. 

Flat to Let. 

One of the finest flats in Worcester, to let at a moder- 
ate price. Situated at 120 Elm street, facing Elm Park. 
Hot ai.d cold water, gas lighted by electricity, set tubs, 
ash-shoot, private front door and hall and piazzas, good 
yard. The building is new. Three large chambers, 
parlor, sitting-room, dining-room and kitchen with hard 
wood polished floors. Large bath room and roomy 
closets. Apply on the premises. 



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fairest prices in the city. 

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In Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 

NEAR SUMMER. WORCESTER, MASS. 



Doings About Boston. 



[from recular correspondent] 



The torrid wave that has hovered around 
us for the past week has driven t'-ousands 
away to the beaches and into the countrj-, and 
must have been a God-send and a veritable 
boom for the anxious and expectant landlord, 
who, in the tickle summer days, "must make 
hay while the sun shines ;" which he generally 
does without any points from outsiders. 

Sunday the boats from Nantasket were liter- 
ally packed, the other harbor steamers did a 
good business, and it was about all the Revere 
Beach and Lynn Railroad could do to ac- 
commodate the crowds that visited the famous 
Point of Pines, and the various other attrac- 
tive resorts along Crescent and Revere beach. 

The horse cars running out to Franklin 
Park were filled with people anxious to get 
away from town and take a little fresh country 
air, while roaming around this beautiful place. 
This park is a great resort of the people, as 
the cost of going out and returning is only ten 
cents; it is within the reach of all, and is 
really a very pleasant ride when the cars are 
not overcrowded. It is quite a study to see the 
different characters there represented on a 
pleasant day, all soits and kinds, all classes 
and conditions, from the well-to-do prosperous 
citizen to the lazy tramp. The Back Bay 
resident taking in the sight from curiosity, and 
the poor laborer, in his "best suit of clothes," 
contentedly puffing his "dudeen," and enjoy- 
ing the little outing, meet here on the same 
level. Family parties may everywhere be 
seen, while the typical "young fellow" and his 
best girl are as plenty as bees around clover. 

This is the dullest time in the year for dra- 
matic news. All the regular theatres are 
closed with the exception of the Boston Mu- 
seum, where "Little Lord Fauntleroy" is hav- 
ing its last week. Miss Clark and George 
Wilson are about all the favorites left of the 
original cast when produced here two years 
ago. It has not been quite as successful this 
time. While it is a beautiful little story, and 
a very good play, and has made a lot of 
money for the author, yet it has been rather 
overdone, and people are about sick of the 
"little Fauntleroy business." 

It is seldom one sees in every day life such 
a unique production of juvenile precocity as 
this young hero exhibits. Such boys might 
be brought up in a glass case, but I don't 
think you have many such specimens around 
loose at Worcester. Next week a new comic 
opera, "Fauvette," an adaptation from the 
French by B. E. Woolf, is to be given here for 
' the first time in this country. With a good 
cast, and such a fairly cool theatre as the 
Museum, it ought to be a success, as it will 
be the only place of amusement one can visit 
in town, outside of the dime museums, and 
they always seem to prosper summer as well 
as winter. 

Last week at the Oakland Gardens between 
eighty and a hundred thousand people are 
estimated to have visited the "Fall of 
Babylon," probably the grandest spectacular 
show ever produced in the country. 

W.A.TSON. 



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Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 



* STORAGE ^ 

Metropolitan Storage Company, corner Southbridge 
and Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for Sleighs, 
Carriages, Furniture, Merchandise, and all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and well ventilated, .^pply 
at building. J. H. DICKIE, M'g'r. 



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Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
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latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOCK 

Which must be diposed of to make room for certain im- 
provements I intend making, and new stock I must buy. 

I find on the shelves of my store some $5,000 worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to fill up your libraries. 

The books I have, the money and the room I want. 
Call and look over the stock and have wliat you wish at 
almost your own price. 

GEO. L. SANFORD, 



I'ROI'Kll-TOK 



Sanford & Company Bookstore, 



:iC4 ]\IA1N STIJEET. 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

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THE SUMMIT HOUSK 

On Wachusett Xlotantain 

Will open the season of '90 May 24, under new management. No pleasanter place can be 
found for a day's outing, or a longer stay. Finest view in the state. Good rooms, with gas 
and electric bells. Table supplied with the best the market affords. Special attention 
given to preparing dinners at short notice. The road to the mountain top is not hard for 
horses, as it makes the ascent by zigzags, furnishing magnificent views at every turn. 
Coaches for the summit connect with morning and afternoon trains from Worcester, at 
Princeton Station. Round-trip tickets can be bought at reduced rates, and parties of six or 
more can make very favorable terms. Direct telephone from Worcester. 

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Post-office address, Mt. Wachusett, Mass. 



Famous OilRange 




For Family Use. 



Ihe "F-AMOUS,'' as its name iniphes, is an Oil KaiiKe. and is fully tlie ecjuiyalenl 
of the coal range. It stands firmly on legs, at the right height to work ovtr. Is is cleanly 
and free from odor. Its tank is of Seamle.ss Lead and is at the rear, where it does not 
get heated. The wicks can be burned as long as there is a drop of oil in the tank. It ha' 
Sufficient power to do all the cooking and laundry work of the family the year round, at 
less than half the cost of the coal stove. Thousands are in use in all parts of the country. 
Write us for further information and name of nearest agent. 

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ON THE 



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Handkerchief. 



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MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. * 



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^^Examination free. Satisfaction griiaranteed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

EDWARD B. CLAPP, 

Fashionable Hat, 
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& Athletic Honse. 

'365 Main St., Worcester. 




The Travelers of Hartford. 

LIFE AND ACCIDENT. 

Justtas E Allen, 
339 Main Street. District Agent. 



The artist paints so wondrous fine 

That he makes a famous name ; 
The printer cannot draw a line, 

But he gets there just the same. 
If for a printer you should seek. 

Needing one whose workjs good, 
You'll find him at 3 Maple'street, 

And his name is O. B. WOOD. 



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1S81. 18S2. 

upholstery and drapery. 



Wm. Laugher, 
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HAS REMOVEti TO 

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where he is prepared to execute orders in the same first- 
class manner that has placed him in the front rank in 
the past. 

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TI1C^50UTI1 ! 

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BEDFORD CITY, VIRGINIA, 



Chartered by a Special Act of the General Assembly. Authorized Capital, Si, 000,0 
Par value, $10.00. AMOUNT ISSUED, $300,000. Non-.isse.ssable. 



Every Dollar Paid In 
Goes Toward the Development of the Property. 



BEDFORD CITY is a flourishing city of 4000 inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk & 
Western Railroad, midway between Lynchburg and Roanoke, the surrounding county being 
extremely rich in mineral resources. It is the county seat of Bedford County, is lighted by 
electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It industries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing $100,000, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
of building a 175,000 hotel, and a railroad station to cost $40,000. 



This is a Good Investment ! 



The Bedford City Land and Improvement Company offers its Stock at 

$6.50 PER S HARE. 

Make Remittances Payable to 

F. W. PRESCOTT & CO., 

BANKERS AND BROKERS, 

No. 54 Devonshire Street, Boston. Alass. 

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all can afford to use it. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
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CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



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WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 



Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not appHed to other drills. 

The "WrlBht Counter Shaft and Clutch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
scarcely perceptible shocl< or jar, and decidedly the best device for the purpose ever in the market. Every one inter- 
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a button on either side of the door, it causes the door to swing open. Can be quickly and cheaply applied to any 
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Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 

No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



* GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

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Ladies* Safeties a Specialty. 

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^^A'07v Good Digestion Wait on Appetite^ 




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Appetite is largely influenced by pleasant sur- 
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CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

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REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 

394 Main Street. 




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One of Worcester County's Famous Women. 



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Unquestionably the most superb edition ever attempted in this country. 

The type is large and clear, especially cast for this work, the paper is made of the 
finest materials, and the margins are ample. All the illustrations contained in the 
original editions (copies of which are now worth $1000) are here represented. The 
etchings by Cruikshank, "Phiz," and others, numbering over 400, have been carefully 
re-etched. Electrotypes from the original wood blocks, which were never printed 
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Vol. I. 



LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JULY 19. ,890. 



No. 



The pros and cons of electric street railways 
are being set forth by the press generally in 
the scores of cities where the use of the new 
motive power is being advocated. Worcester 
has talked a little about it, but there has been 
no general discussion. There are people who 
claim that the electricity about the car affects 
their nerves, or something of that sort ; and 
others say that it stops their watches. It is 
also claimed that the accidents to persons are 
numerous where the cars pre run by elec- 
tricity. Possibly all these objections have 
weight; but it does seem as if it would be a 
blessing for a city like Worcester to have its 
street cars moved about in some way other 
than by horse-power. Every line of cars in 
the city, except those to South Worcester and 
Quinsigamond, has one or more steep hills to 
be climbed. Pleasant street offers the worst 
one ; Lincoln street is a close second ; and 
after these come the several hills at Chandler 
street, at May street and at Lowell street, 
going to New Worcester. Now, also, (Irafton 
street has been added. No one having any 
compassion for the brute creation can feel 
other than the profoundest commiseration for 
the horses who pant and strain to tug heavily- 
loaded cars up these hills, even when an e.xtra 
tow-horse divides the work with the regular 
team. To the friend of the dumb creation, 
the vision of electric or cable cars gliding 
smoothly up the western slope of Pleasant 
street, or rolling up the long stretch to Per- 
kins street, is one which makes life seem 
pleasanter in every way. Light would like 
to see the patient horses retired from active 
service with an honorable discharge, even if 
an occasional somebody's nerves are shattered. 



That the people of the present day are com- 
ing to take a stronger interest in general 
athletics than ever before is made more appar- 
ent every year, and in no way is it brought 
more prominently to notice than in the pro- 
vision made for a program of sports at almost 
every one of the score of picnics in which the 
Worcester churches have just been indulging. 
It is only a few years ago that the base ball 
game, and, possibly, a burlesque boat race, 
constituted the entire athletic attraction of 
such an outing. Now no picnic is complete 
without a variety of dashes, jumps and other 
athletic feats, the ladies and girls frequently 
sharing in the sports with their husbands and 
brothers. It is simply an outgrowth of the 
general tendency toward the encouragement 
of athletic sport. Hundreds of people partici- 
pate heartily in these contests, who could not 
be induced to attend a horse race or a pro- 
fessional "blood-money" contest of any sort. 
The immense growth of public sentiment in 
favor of strictly amateur athletics, as being a 
healthy occupation for mind and body, is 
apparent on evei'y hand, and the chances are 
that inside of another decade the number of 
people in the moral and intellectual classes, if 
they may be so styled, who openly favor ath- 



letic .sport, will have doubled. Athletic sport, 
indulged in and encouraged for its own sake, 
is something that every citizen may well con- 
sider worthy his support. When the evils of 
professionalism creep in, he needs to cry halt 
very quickly. C'.ymnasiums and track and 
field athletics are doing the young men a 
world of good, and .so far as the gymnasiums 
go, the young women are sharers in it. And 
the next generation, more even than our own, 
will reap the benefit of it. 



Very few of us, during tlie hot season, get 
much beyond our own discomforts when we 
discuss the heated term, and those of us who 
have the sun beating in upon u.s, although we 
can run out to the nearest soda-fountain 
or devote an hour or so to finding a breeze, 
think we have a very hard time of it. But 
suppose we stop for a moment and think 
about the men who toil all day in the shops 
and the foundries.? How do they manage to 
survive it ? Some of them handle tons of red- 
hot or molten iron and steel, and face the air 
of furnaces whose heat is unparalleled save by 
similar ones, lifting, straining, seeming more 
like dwellers of the infernal region.s, in their 
grime and sweat, than like ordinary citizens, 
who may be seen after tea, perhaps, in the 
most correct of citizen's dress, walking down 
town or perusing the paper at home. It is 
altogether probable that they object to the heat 
as much as the rest of us, and yet they prob- 
ably complain less than most of us do. It is 
the way of the world ; somebody must do the 
hard and disagreeable work and leave to 
others the employment suited to softer palms. 
And probably neither party gives the other 
entire credit for the actual wear and tear of 
brain matter or bodily strength which is 
incurred. 



A scrutiny of the news-stands and inquiry 
among the venders of cheap literature fur- 
nishes ground for belief that the annual deluge 
of essentially "summer" books has been cur- 
tailed to a very large degree this year. Out 
of the piles of paper-covered books which are 
offered for the traveler's inspection, we find 
very few "light" novels which are in their first 
season. The majority of them are shop- 
worn or dated a year or two back. And if 
fewer books of this sort are being sold, the 
number of people reading them must be cor- 
respondingly diminished. There is a substan- 
tial rea.son for this state of things, too. Much 
as all of us who are inclined to give literature 
a fair chance may deplore the lack of inter- 
national copyright, we must admit that the 
lack of it has brought us some few blessings, 
and among them cheap reprints of solid 
books. These have been placed with the 
trade in considerable numbers this season, 
and they are being read by people who 
have heretofore found such reading dull or 
wearisome. As a result, we catch glimpses of 
the summer girl reading the great novelists or 



even heavier work.s, while she idles in the 
hammocks on the cottage piazza or disposes 
herself beneath her red parasol on the beach, 
and we remember that last year we saw her 
reading very much cheaper stuff. We arc 
glad of it, for lier sake and for the sake of the 
literary taste of the country. Perhaps the 
liostonian influence is doing good work, after 
all. Lkjiit must not be understood as con- 
demning "light" reading, until it degenerates 
into the domain of trash. On the contrary, 
when the body is off on a holiday, the mind 
ought to be with it. Read novels, read ro- 
mances, read stories about diamonds and 
burglars, even, if you will; but let your books 
be good books, books with some good people 
in them rather than all butterflies and moth.s, 
and above all, read only well-written books. 
This is a little sermon for a sp.are minute, but 
when you start off on that summer vacation, 
pack it in the trunk you take with you. 

Everybody is glad that the building 
fund which the Young Women's Christian 
Association has been working so hard to 
raise, has at last reached the desired figure, 
and that the erection of a commodious and 
permanent home for the association is as- 
sured. Perhaps r:)wight Keed foresaw this 
day ; at any rate, it is a pity that he could not 
have lived long enough to see the growth 
from the seed which he planted. The 
Young Women's Christian Association has 
done more than merely reach the poor girls 
ot the working classes. It has brought into 
closer and warmer relations the people of 
many different churches, between which there 
had been, perhaps, but a cousinly sort of re- 
lation, instead of the cordial si.sterhood which 
ought to e.xist. Woman, the world over, is at 
her best and her noblest when she is doing 
for others, and being so, she is at such times 
more admirable in all ways than when she is 
hampered by the dictates of social custom. 
The unanimity and heartiness of the work of 
the women who have acconqilished this much 
to be desired result has been marked. There 
can be no doubt that they have benefited by 
it, and the church in general has been bene- 
fited by it, as much as those whom it is de- 
signed primarily to aid. 



It was unlikely that the exact figures of the 
population of Worce.ster, or of any other place, 
would be obtained by the census, even under 
the most favorable circumstances ; but judging 
by the complaints which have been pouring in 
to City Clerk Towne, the work ought to 
be done over again. All Worcester is 
interested in having a fair count, and we 
expect the figures to carry us over 85.000, 
too. A contemplation of the tremendous 
infiux of Swedes and Armenians alone, to say 
nothing of other people, assures us that the 
comparative antiquity of iSSo is a long way 
behind us. Worcester wants some respect- 
able figures, and in 1900, of course, we shall 
have passed the 100,000 mark. 



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y/'SfmCESJER^A^S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy, 
ly Advertising rates upon application. 

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second-class mail matter. 



Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 



Worcester, Saturday, July 19, 1890. 



Light Sent Out of Town. 

Subscribers to Light who leave the city during the 
summer can have their papers sent to any address they 
may desire, and changed as often as wanted. Buyers of 
Light can have any issue or number of issues mailed to 
them by paying the usual price per copy, five cents. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reHecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



July 19: Sun rises at 4.24 A. M.; sets at 
7.16 P. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 52 minutes. 
t quarter, July 24, 9 hours, 44 min- 

no- W 



Moon, first ^ 

utes, evening, W 



Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Davis received 
friends, 'ast Saturday afternoon, on the occa- 
sion of their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary, 
and from four to seven the house was crowded 
with the many people who called to offer con- 
gratulations. Flowers filled the rooms with 
bloom and perfume, and the scores of beauti 
ful gifts in articles of silver and choice pieces 
of Royal Worcester ware, testified to the warm 
regard entertained for Mr. and Mrs. Davis 
among their many friends and acquaintances.- 



Soc/t'/y, the journal of the i^lite of Philadel- 
phia, says that Rev. Charles Wadsworth, Jr., 
and his new bride, are spending the summer 
in the Swiss Alps. 

More of the pastors are beginning to gather 
together their outing apparel for summer va- 
cations. At Piedmont Church, last Sunday, 
Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., preached his last 
sermon before taking his vacation. On 
Wedne.sday he went with his family to his 
farm in Essex. At Pilgrim church. Rev. J. B. 
Seabury, of Dedham, preached ; at the Old 
South, Rev. Henry D. Powell, D. D., of 
Brooklyn, N.Y. ; at Plymouth, Rev. N. P. 
Woodbury, D. D., of Philadelphia ; at Summer 
street, Rufus M. Taft, State Evangelist. Rev. 
D.W. Hoyt, of Adams Square Baptist Church, 



and Rev. H. J. White, of Pleasant Street Bap- 
tist, exchanged pulpits, and Capt. A. A.White 
preached at the South Baptist. At Trinity 
church, Rev. Louis N. Beaudry preached in 
the morning and Rev. Edward Everett Aber- 
crombie in the evening; at Laurel street, Rev. 
C. E. Holmes, of Lunenburg, occupied the 
pulpit. At the Church of Christ, Prof. A. M. 
Chamberlain, of Lincoln, Neb., preached in 
the evening. 

Rev. William H. Thomas, D. D., of Trinity 
Church, preached at the Prospect Street 
Church in Cambridgeport, last Sunday, and 
will preach at the same place, August 17. 



Rev. A. B. Chamberlain of the Church of 
Christ preaches at Providence to-morrow and 
his son. Prof. A. M. Chamberlain, of Lincoln, 
Neb., will occupy his pulpit here. 

Mr. Samuel G. McConaughy, late general 
secretary of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation, was to be tendered a reception by the 
association at Duluth. Mich., where he is to 
be general secretary, last evening. He left 
New York on Monday and took the steamer 
at Port Huron for the trip up the lake. Mr. 
Dwight F. Dunn accompanied him as far as 
Buffalo, and is to stay at Niagara Falls for 
several days yet. 

Mr. E. R. Ware spent three or four days, 
early in the week, with his family in this city, 
and returned to New York Tuesday. 



else that had any relationship to the oven. 
The party included about 150 people, and 
they kept cool — as cool as they could — and 
had a good time. They got the most enjoy- 
ment of all out of the surprise they had pre- 
pared for the host and hostess. It came in 
the way of a presentation to them of a hand- 
some extension table and an easy chair. 



Assistant Secretary Will D. B. Mead still 
smiles cordially from his post in the office of 
the Young Mens' Christian Association build- 
ing, on the visitors who come around and ask 
him — probably about 500 a week — if they 
"have got the new secretary yet?" He is 
obliged to say that "they haven't." The post 
ought to be attractive enough to bring a good 
man here. Meanwhile, Mr. Mead, as the 
"acting" general secretary, seems to be a pretty 
good man for the place, himself. The Asso- 
ciation might do worse than instal him in Mr. 
McConaughy's place. 



Messrs. Edward A. Taylor and Herbert A. 
Warren, of the class of '91, of the Polytechnic 
Institute, are at work on a civil engineering 
contract undertaken by Mr. L. A. Taylor, in 
Orange. 

The Masons went down Providence River 
and Narragansett Bay, for their annual ex- 
cursion, last Tuesday, and although those who 
went to Block Island are reported as having 
had hard work to get satisfactory "sea-legs" on, 
everybody seemed to eat clams and water- 
melon with old-time gusto and came home 
with salt breeze invigoration enough to last 
over a whole week of hot days. 



Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Conger were pleasantly 
surprised by their friends in Webster Square 
M. E. Church, last Tuesday night. The 
people of the church, on Mrs. Conger's invita- 
tion, went out to their farm in Auburn for a 
lawn party, and although the rain threatened 
at one time to put a damper on the party, it 
finally relented. Ice cream and cake were 
served and no one was heard asking for 
escalloped oysters or hot biscuits or anything 



Rev. Francis A. Gray of All Souls church 
preached at Milford last Sunday. 

Mr. Benjamin W. Fames has begun excava- 
tion for a new residence for himself which he 
is to build on his lot at No. 15 Tirrell street 
The house is to be a cottage, in the modern 
style, and according to the plans will be one 
of the prettiest dwellings in the vicinity. Mr. 
Charles A. King is the builder. 



Rev. Archibald McCullagh, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., is to preach at Plymouth Church, at 
10.30 A. M. and 7.30 P. M., to-morrow. 



The president of the First National Bank 
doesn't look as if he had passed his 80th 
birthday. Mr. Goodnow's activity and busi- 
ness ability is so commonly noticed that the 
notion that he is an octogenarian comes like a 
surprise. Last Wednesday, however, was his 
80th birthday anniversary, and a party of rela- 
tives and friends paid him a visit and the day 
was a pleasant one for all concerned. Those 
present included Prof. Frank J. Goodnow of 
Columbia College, N. Y., Mrs. George M. 
Stearns and her grand-daughter, of Chicopee, 
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Goodnow and Mrs. 
S. S. Hastings of Princeton, Mrs. C. A. Good- 
now and Misses Hattie and Kittie Goodnow 
of Sterling, Mr. and Mrs. George Richardson, 
Mrs. Charlotte E. Goodnow and Mrs. Nellie 
Cheever, with a number of children. 



William A. Bacon, of the class of '90, High 
School, has secured a position in the office of 
Drew, Ellis & Co., publishers of the Directory. 



Sheriff Nye and his deputies had a jolly 
good time among themselves, at the Bay State 
House, Thursday afternoon. The banquet 
was the compliment of the deputies extended 
to Sheriff Nye, and it was enjoyed to the full. 
During the afternoon, Deputy Sheriff William 
Hart presented Sheriff Nye with a magnificent 
gold badge, the gift of the deputies. Sheriff 
Nye had an equally pleasant part to perform 
and he asked Mr. Hart to accept a similar 
badge, the gift of his friends. Both badges, 
made in Card's best style, are splendid pieces 
of work and Sheriff Nye's is a triumph of the 
goldsmith's art. The men of law and order 
had a very social and agreeable sort of time. 



The ghost of the Oread Institute refuses to 
be laid. The school is to be opened again 
this fall by Mr. and Mrs. Man ton Van 
Schaack, who have experience in the conduct- 
ing of schools, Mr. Van Schaack having been 
principal of Kinderhook Academy, at Kinder- 
hook, N. Y., for eight years. The announce- 
ment of the plans of the new managers will be 
looked for with interest. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mitchell were surprised 
by a party of their First Presbyterian Church 
friends, at their home on Orange street, 



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Thursday evening, and presented witli a sil- 
ver tea set, butter dish and cake basket, things 
generally supposed to be acceptable to newly- 
married couples. Mr. W. G. Mcl'herson 
made a pleasant speech in presenting the gifts 
and Kev. Thomas Atkinson, the pastor of the 
church, responded for Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell. 
Then everybody had a good time. 



Major Nathan Taylor entertained, last 
Wednesday, Mr. Rufus B. Gifford, of Salem, 
one of the board of trustees of the .State Odd 
Fellows Home. 

Two recent deaths have been learned of 
with regret in many Worcester circles, social 
and professional. Dr. Windsor Newton Snow, 
who died on Tuesday morning, was the oldest 
practicing dentist in the city. Dr. Daniel 
Waterhouse Niles, who died on Thursday, 
was at one time city physician. ISoth men 
were widely and favorably known in their pro- 
fessions, and both had many personal friends 
in W^orcester. 



Messrs. William L. Davis, William R. 
Dean, A. R. Bowdish V'ernon F. Prentice and 
Charles Crompton have been at Saratoga this 
week participating in a shoot of the Saratoga 
Gun Club. 



The South Baptist Church people picnicked 
at Ouinsigamond Park on Tuesday, on 
Wednesday Hope Church had the same 
place, and on Thursday the Swedish Luther- 
ans did likewise. This practically closes the 
picnic season in the churches. Nearly all of 
them aim to have their outing early in July, 
before the exodus of vacationers begins. 



The Bay State Bicycle Club, the members 
of which were recently entertained by the Ro.\- 
bury wheelmen, are to have the latter as guests 
here, Sunday, August, 3. They are making 
preparations to give them as good a time as 
can be devised. 



Of the boys in this year's class of the High 
School, Mr. Alfred O. Bye is in Lancaster's 
Ticket Agency, Mr. Wells H. Ellinwood is 
with C. L. Gorham & Co., A. E. Clark is in the 
office of the E. W. Vaill Chair Co., A. E. 
Richardson is keeping books for Putnam & 
Davis, and Walter Fuller is in the office of the 
Safe Deposit and Trust Company. 



Mr. Edmund L. Parker and his family are 
at Cohasset. 



Mrs. Ella K. Morgan is at Long Branch. 



Mr. Joseph E. Fales is among this week's 
arrivals at Watch Hill. Mr. E. F. Biscoe 
and his family, also, are there. 



Messrs. Frank E. and Arthur A. Gale are 
vacationizing at Fryeburg, Me. 



Miss E. A. Kimball is at Littleton Common. 
Mass. 



Worcester relatives of Miss Anna F. 
Wheeler, of Brockton, are entertaining her 
here. 



The Vacationers. 

Miss P.ertha R. Houghton is visiting rela- 
tives in Westfiekl. 

Mr. and Mrs. IC. S. Nason are off on a de- 
lightful trip, which includes the pictures<|ue 
Mohawk Valley, Thousand Islands, St. Law- 
rence river and the Great Lakes. 



Mr. J. Nelson P'lagg and his family are tak- 
ing in the Isles of Shoals and York ISeach. 

Messrs. II. H. Merriam, Wilton H. Merriam 
and Edward Jerome have been at Nantucket 
this week. 

Mr. Charles A. Waite and his daughter. 
Miss Molly W. Waite, have been away this 
week on an excursion to New Brunswick with 
the railroad passenger agents of New Eng- 
land. 



Mr. Charles A. Pierce has gone to Waldo- 
boro. Me., for a vacation of several weeks. 

Mr. Fred Knowlton is at Falmouth for the 
summer. 



Miss Nellie A. Keyes is visiting at Salem 
and Wakefield. 

Mr. A. Bowman Wood is at Pomfret, Conn., 
whence he will soon go to Oswego, N. Y. 

Mrs. George G. Manninghas been at Sharon 
Springs, New York, this week. 

Mr. Fred W. Smith went to watch Hill, R. 
I., a day or two ago, and will stay there 
for some time. 

Mr. T. W. Hammond and his son, Mr. Ben 
T. Hammond, are at Poland Springs, Me. 

Mr. Aaron S. Taft has been enjoying some 
great sport in the way of fishing off Block 
Island. 



Mr. Herbert L. Barber, of Staatsburg, N. 
Y., and a graduate of Cornell University, 
class of 'go, has been in town the past week, 
visiting Mr. A. A. Barber. 



Mrs. A. C. Wilson, of Greeley, Col., for 
many years a resident of this city, has been 
spending several weeks with friends here and 
in North Brookfield. 



Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Stockwell are away 
on a vacation trip, visiting Mrs. Stockwell's 
people at Huntington and also going to New 
York. 

Mr. Stedman Clark and family are at the 
Naumkeag, Cottage City. 



Mrs. Fred H. Jones and son, of this city, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson, son and daughter, of 
Boston, are stopping with Mrs. L. F.Walch at 
Nantasket. 



Miss Jessie Nichols is at Erie, Penn. 



Mr. .'\. J. Stone is at Cottage City for a 
fortnight. 

A party including Mrs. Henry Mellen, Miss 
Bessie Mellen, Mr. Charles L. Burleigh, Miss 
Daisy Burleigh of this city, Miss Florence 
King of Southbridge and Miss Elizabeth L. 



Healy of Dudley, goes to Portsmouth, K. I., 
today, for a vacation outing. 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Eldred and Mr. 
Arthur W. Eldred went to their country plar 
at North I'almouth, last Monday. Mr and 
ami Mrs. Charles E. Minckler joined them on 
Wednesday. 

Dr. i:mcr.son Warner has gone again to the 
Azores, and, as before, travels on a sailine 

barque. 

Miss Flora IC. Clark is spending her vaca- 
tion at Hampton Beach, N. H. 



Mrs. O. W. Norcross and family have been 
having a delightful trip this week. They 
started Tuesday, and, going first to Burling- 
ton, Vt., went over into New York State, to 
Lake George, Saratoga and New York. 

Hon. Theodore C. Bates sailed for Europe 
last Wednesday. 

Worcester friends of Mi.ss Bessie Vaughn, 
of Boston, have been entertaining her this 
week. 

Mr. Charles Hamilton, Jr., of Turner's 
Island, Me., is visiting his father, Mr. Charles 
Hamilton, here. 

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Adams have been en- 
tertaining, this week. Miss Maliel C. Baird, of 
Auburndale. 



Mr. Marston Lincoln, of .\ew York, a son 
of Edward Winslow Lincoln, E.sq., has been 
in Worcester this week. 



Mrs. Alexander H. Bullock spends the time 
from now until fall at Beach Bluff, near 
Swampscott. 

Mr. William H. Bartlett went on Wednes- 
day to Connecticut. He divides his vacation 
time between Conway and Norwich. 



Messrs. W. N. Stark and W. F. Burleigh 
are avoiding the heat of the city by camping 
out at the Lake. They are on the Shrewsbury- 
side, near the Girls' Camp. 



Miss Annie V. .Milliken has gone to Port- 
land, Me., for a four weeks' stay. 



Mr. John Hewitt and his family will join the 
Falmouth colony to-day. 

Mr. M. B. Lamb and his family have gone 
to Crescent Beach. 

Mr. and Mrs. C. R. B. Claflin have been 
entertaining Miss Louise Russell and Miss 
Laura Ware, of Massillon, Ohio. 



Miss Ella Hutchins, of Maynard street, is 
entertaining Miss Jennie M. Stratton of Hart- 
ford. 

Miss Maud .S. Bosworth has gone to visit 
relatives in Lawrence, and will go to Abington 
some time next month, to remain until Sep- 
tember. She is to teach at the Center school 
in Lancaster next year. 

Mr. (jeorge D. Webb and his son are back 
from their European trip, which they made in 
the comparatively short time of twenty-four 
days. 



Famous Worcester People. 



I. — Clara Barton. 



BY ANNIE M. RUSSELL. 



How many people have sacrificed health, 
honor, even life, to attain this unsubstantial, in 
definable, something which we call fame !- 
How few people are really happy in its poss- 
ession ! The world is full of people who 
aspire to become famous ; some seek distinct- 
ion in politics, some in finances, some in liter- 
ature, some in art. Fame, to such people, is a 
term synonymous with public approval and 
praise, and the desire is incited by that most 
human of possessions, vanity. By keeping 
themselves before the public, through the 
medium of newspapers and periodicals, not a 
few of these people enjoy the distinction of 
being considered "people of note" and for a 
time, at least, they reap the benefits of their 
assiduous and, too often, financial efforts to 
gain public recogonition. 

Is this the "enduring fame .■"' Alas ! boughten 
fame is too often short lived and leaves its 
only impress in a short biographical notice. 
The fame which endures for ages is not 
sought for and searched after, but is the spon- 
taneous expression of a people's gratitude and 
devotion. In all times, among all nations, 
those men and women most held in reverence 
and love, in pride and admiration, have been 
the men and women who have made duty their 
watch-word, who have shrunk from, rather 
than courted, public notice and who, with un- 
selfish zeal, have worked for present prosperity 
rather than future greatness. 

There are few people in Worcester County 
to whose hearts tlie name of Clara Barton does 
not bring a thrill of love and sympathy. All 
hasten to join the people of the nation "in call- 
ing her blessed" and Worcester County is 
proud to claim her as a daughter. And yet. 
Miss Barton has done nothing with a view of 
gaining fame; in fact, she dislikes any sugges- 
tion that her life has been eventful and her 
life-work grand and noble. She says, "I have 
no mission; I never had a mission ; but I have 
always had more work than I can do lying 
around my feet, and I try hard to get it out of 
the way so as to go on and do the next thing." 
This sentiment is wholly in keeping with the 
life of this noble woman who, though not 
famous in the world of letters or of art, has 
gained enduring fame by the practice of the 
noble virtues of "brotherly kindness and love." 

Clara Harlowe Barton came from a quiet 
home in Oxford. She was born on Christmas 
Day, and her life has always exhibited the 
under-lying sentiment of the day, "Peace on 
earth, good-will to men." She was the 
youngest of a large family, and, from a child, 
her actions seem to have been full of unselfish 
love for others. 

When Clara was but eleven years of age, 
her brother fell from a tree and suffered inju- 
ries which made him an invalid for years. To 
his little sister fell the care and responsibility 
of his illness and for two years she was his con- 
stant nurse and attendant. Nature had gifted 
her with tact, gentleness and skill, qualities so 
necessary in a sick-room, and tliis child of 
eleven years did the work and showed the 



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judgment of a woman of twice her years. 

With increasing years, came a desire to 
gain a good education, and, though her oppor- 
tunities were limited, she succeeded in obtain- 
ing much knowledge and, especially, gained a 
good business education, being quite an expert 
accountant. For two or three years, she taught 
in this county, but she desired broader fields 
for work. 

She went to Bordentown, New Jersey, and 
there tried a hazardous experiment. Public 
schools were unknown in this vicinity, and 
Miss Barton's friend prophesied failure for her 
attempt. But, undaunted, she took possession 
of a small room and, at her own expense, 
began her duties as teacher with six scholars. 
Her persistence conquered objections and 
difficulties and in a few weeks her school 
numbered six hundred pupils and the future of 
public schools in Bordentown was safe. 

Unfortunately, Miss Barton's will has always 
been stronger than her flesh and ill-health 
caused her removal to Washington in 1854. 
Here a new and equally untried sphere of 
labor opened before her. For some time, the 
officials in charge of the Patent ofiice had been 
annoyed and harmed by betrayals of trust 
among the clerks and, knowing of Clara Bar- 
ton's great executive ability and excellent bus- 
iness education, her friends obtained for her 
an appointment as clerk in this office. This 
was indeed an innovation ! No woman had 
ever served as clerk in this place and the 
other clerks, resigning all claim to the title of 
gentlemen, ranged themselves in rows and 
stared and whistled at her as she passed on 
her way to her work. She heeded them not, 
however, and, working steadily and satisfact- 
orily, she was soon in possession of a good 
income and the admiration and esteem of her 
superiors. Three years later, because of 
suspected anti-slavery sentiments, she was 
obliged to leave the Patent Office and returned 
to Massachusetts, where she studied for three 
years, her aim being now to become a profi- 
cient nurse. 

The sounding of the note of war was to her 
the sounding of the note of action. In i860, 
she returned to Washington and was the first 
woman to care for the wounded men of the 
Sixth Massachusetts Militia, many of whom 
were her former pupils and friends. As the 
signs of war increased, she began questioning 
the propriety of going alone upon the battle- 
field as a nurse, for she believed that she 
could thus accomplish more than she could 
in company with others. Before the time for 
decision came, she was called back to Massa- 
chusetts to become, for three months, the com- 
fort of her father's last days on earth. 

Her decision was made. She sought a pass 
beyond the army lines and obtained it, after 
many unkind words and actions. It would be 
impossible in this short sketch to outline her 
noble work upon the battle-field. Volumes 
would barely suffice to record the bravery, the 
devotion, the self-forgetfulness of this woman, 
who joined herself to the Ninth Army Corps 
and, carrying her own supplies, endured cheer- 
fully all their hardships and privations. She 
was in actual danger often. At one time, 
when raising a dying soldier in her arms, a 
bullet passed beneath her arm and entered the 
soldier's heart. More than once she remained 



in places under fire, refusing to leave until all 
the wounded had been removed. 

During the battie of Antietam, she re- 
mained from early dawn until mid-night, in a 
deserted farmhouse constantly under fire. As 
the wounded were brought in, she sought to 
allay the acute sufferings by pressing bits of 
soft bread dipped in wine to the lips of the 
soldiers, made gruel from meal found in the 
farmhouse and aided the surgeons in caring 
for the injured and sick. Her throat was 
parched and her face blackened by the smoke 
but she refused to leave. "Why, somebody 
had to go to take care of the soldiers, so I 
went," she said. Is it any wonder that the 
soldiers called her "the Angel of the Battle- 
field" .' 

The war ended at last, but Miss Barton's 
work continued. She was besought by thou- 
sands of letters for news of soldiers, since her 
name had become a household word and she 
seemed to many almost omniscient. At her 
own expense, she organized "A Bureau of the 
Records of Missmg Men in the Armies of the 
United States." Congress afterwards took 
control of this and reimbursed Miss Barton 
for her expense incurred. With committees, 
she visited the cemeteries in the south and was 
able to identify and mark all but four hundred 
or the thirteen hundred unidentified graves. 

The fame of Clara Barton is not confined to 
America. In 1869, broken in health, she went 
abroad, whither her name had preceded and 
honors awaited her. It was during the 
Franco-Prussian war, while she was still in 
Germany, that she superintended the organi- 
zation of the hospitals, and advised and worked 
with the Grand Duchess Louise in ministering 
to the soldiers' needs. With the courage of 
former days, she entered Strasburg with the 
army after that terrible siege and to thousands 
of sick and dying soldiers did she seem like a 
divine messenger. 

She returned to America in 1873, f"" of 
further plans for the amelioration of suffering. 
In 1863, at a council held in Geneva, Switzer- 
land, the order of the "Red Cross" had been 
formed and a treaty prepared which many 
nations had signed and to which Miss Barton 
now sought the signature of the United States. 
This she obtained finally in 1882, after she had 
spent much time and effort in urging upon 
Congress and government officials the wisdom 
of the treaty. In an address, she clearly sets 
forth the object, namely, "to provide for the 
neutrality of all sanitary supplies, ambulances, 
surgeons, nurses, attendants, and sick or 
wounded men and their safe conduct if they 
bear the sign of the Red Cross." This insignia 
was chosen out of compliment to the Swiss 
nation, their colors being a white cross on a 
red ground ; this organization reverses the 
colors. 

More than thirty nations have signed this 
treaty and Miss Barton is the acting president 
of the "United States Red Cross," with her 
headquarters at Washington. 

While the primary object of this organiza- 
tion is to be of avail in war time, it is equally 
ready to aid in times of great national calami- 
ties like fires, floods, epidemics and the like. 
Schools for nurses send forth trained pupils, 
supplies are being constantly collected and 
arranged, preparatory for use in any emer- 



gency. Memory brings freshly to mind the 
valuable assistance which Miss Barton, with 
her slcilled assistants, rendered at the time of 
the Johnstown flood. Miss liarton, witli her 
systematic, careful mind, can well be trusted 
witli a nation's offerings to suffering mankind. 

Dr. Bellows well said of her: "If she had 
belonged to the other sex, she would have been 
a merchant prince, a great general, or a tru.sted 
political leader." Joined to this executive 
ability, is a kind, warm, heart which won for 
her the love of all her associates while she 
held the position at the head of the Woman's 
Reform Prison at Sherborn during the year of 
1S83. 

Her home is in Washington, where her time 
is busily filled with her duties, connected with 
the presidency of the Red Cross, and the 
many private deeds of charity, no less worthy 
because unknown. May her sweet, noble 
presence shed sunshine on her fellowmen for 
many years to come and let her be assured 
that, whenever she comes to Worcester, as is 
her wont occasionally, she will be warmly wel- 
comed and duly honored by those who owe to 
her so deep a debt of gratitude ! 

Worcester, .t/^ass. 

The Head to the North. 

The superstitious belief that human beings 
should sleep with their heads toward the north 
is now believed to be based upon a scientific 
principle. The French Academy of Sciences 
has made experiments upon the body of a 
guillotined man, which go to prove that each 
human body is in itself an electric battery, 
one electrode being represented by the head 
and the other by the feet. The body of the 
subject upon which experiments were made 
was taken immediately after and placed upon 
a pivot free to move in any direction. After 
some vacillation the head portion turned 
toward the north, the pivot-board then remain- 
ing stationary. One of the professors turned 
it haLf way round, but it soon regained a posi- 
tion with the head-piece to the north, and the 
same results were repeatedly obtained until 
organic movement ceased. 



Those who advocate spelling reform in the 
English language, argue that one letter out of 
every seven, used according to tlie present 
practice, is absolutely useless. 



Codfish follow the ice of an iceberg down 
until they reach the water under it, which 
place affords them an excellent feeding- 
ground. 



The government of .St. IJomingo, which 
claims to have the only original bones of 
Columbus, is desirous of forwarding them to 
the United States for use in 1S92, provided 
there be given in return for them $20,000, cash 
down, and twenty per cent, of receipts on pub- 
lic exhibition of the same. 



Benedict & Lockwood of New Canaan, Ct., 
have just made a pair of shoes for a Charlotte, 
N. C. man. They are the biggest ones ever 
made. The size is No. 32. Each shoe is 20x8 
inches. The man who is to wear them is a 
clergyman, six feet, ten inches tall, and weighs 
410 pounds, and the county in which he dwells 
is a roomy one. 



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Our Town Neighbors. 

Westboro. 

Mrs. E. B. Harvey is at the Humarock 
House, Sea View, Mass., on her way home 
from a visit to Plymouth. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Beeman are receiving 
congratulations of their friends, on the birth 
of a daughter, Ethel Morse. 

Miss Abby Leach, professor of Latin and 
Greek in Vassar College, formerly principal of 
the Oread, spent Wednesday and Thursday 
with Judge and Mrs. W. 'P. Forbes. They 
start today for a two week's stay at the Clifton 
House, Marblehead. 

Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Corey are absent from 
home, enjoying a trip to Montreal, Quebec, 
and the Saguenay. 

Boston parties are said to be behind a 
scheme to build a magnificent summer hotel 
on the shore of Chauncey Lake. It is pro- 
posed to open it next summer. 

Among the many who are sojourning here, 
the following familiar facts have been noticed 
during the past week : Mr. H. H. Winchester 
and his charming wife, nt^e Spaulding, of Bos- 
ton ; Daniel Nason, the rising young barrister, 
now of the Empire City ; F. L. Gamage, prin- 
cipal of Oxford Academy, O.xford, Me., and 
his wife; Harlan M. Tucker, who, after a 
year of work in the art schools of Paris, and a 
similar period at the Students Art League of 
New York, has laid down the palette and 
brush and is enjoying a much needed vacation ; 
Arthur H. Pierce, instructor in mathmetics at 
Amherst College; A. N. Davenport and 
family, of La Grange, Ga. ; Mrs. E. H. 
McLachlin of lirattleboro, V't. ; and Mrs. 
I-:tta B. Miller, Miss Isabelle D. Fisher of 
New York; Mi.ss Florence Pendleton of 
Rockland, Me. ; Miss Hattie R. Pierce, Woon- 
socket, R. I.; and Miss Hattie M. Farnsworth 
of Lawrence Academy, Groton. 

Many Westboro people are seeking rest, 
recreation and a tanned complexion at various 
resorts along the coast. Miss Grace E. 
Morse is doing Savin Hill, Principal Loringof 
the Grammar .School is at Hingham; G. W. 
Morse, at New London; Miss Jennie L. Rob- 
inson IS at "The Highland," White Horse 
Beach ; and Miss Hattie L. Harrington is 
along the shore of the Nutmeg State. Mr. M. 
H. Walker and wife are on the Atlantic, en 
route to Scotland ; Rev. W. W. Fay and 
family will spend their vacation at Hampton ; 
and Miss Leila Wood, of Church street, will 
start in a few davs for the mountains. 



Leicester. 

John Nelson Coolidge, Amherst 'Sy, is at 
home on a visit, having been a year connected 
with Gates College, Neleigh, Neb. He has 
enjoyed an outing among the "I51ack Hills" 
with one of his pupils, securing a quantity of 
valuable and rare mineral specimens. 

Everett A. White, Amherst '89, has re- 
turned from an extensive business trip South 
and West, going from Chicago to Quebec via 
the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river, and 
found it a most delightful pleasure trip. 

Edward Lester Marsh, Amherst '88, has re- 
turned to New Haven, where he has an en- 



gagement in mi.ssion work with one of the 
city churches, in connection with his course 
at Yale University. He has lately enjoyed an 
outingat the cottage of Miss Bessie May at 
Prout's Neck, Me. One of his friends, 
Rev. John T. Nichols, Yale Theological Semi- 
nary, 'Sy, of Freetown, Mass., occupied the 
pulpit here for two Sabbaths. 

Rev. A. H. Coolidge and Mi.ss Sara 
Coolidge and party have arrived in Scotland, 
and will make quite an extended trip in 
Europe before returning. 

Prof. C. A. Page of Leicester Academy, 
will .spend his vacation in the West. He is 
now in Minnesota, on his way to Wyoming. 

Rev. John E. Hurlbut, lately of Salt Lake 
City, preached at the First Congregational 
Church, last Sabbath. He has just returned 
from a trip to Alaska and reports that the 
journey can be made with great comfort, the 
excursion steamer made of steel expressly for 
this service being finely equipped and the 
company delightful. He gave a description 
of a glacier covering a territory as large as all 
Switzerland, and described the breaking off 
and sending to sea of vast icebergs as being 
sometliing terrific, as seen from the steamer. 
Soundings were taken at the terminus of the 
glacier and a two fatliom line failed to reach 
bottom. 

Hon. and Mrs. John E. Ru.ssell are at Green- 
field, the guests of Mr. James S. (;rinnell. 
They will soon return to their home in 
Leicester. 



As many Worcesterians know, Mr. Evarts 
was by no means slow at humor. One day, 
when he was Secretary of State, he was en- 
tering the elevator at the department to go to 
his office, and looking around on the crowd of 
passengers, remarked : "This is the largest 
collection for foreign mi.ssions that I ever saw 
taken up." 

Italian workmen are, as a rule, not fond of 
strikes; they usually resort to other means to 
get what they want. A company of Italian 
workmen engaged in the construction of a 
railway had their wages reduced. They said 
notliing, but during tlie night each of the men 
cut an inch off the end of Iiis shovel. In re- 
ply to the boss who took them to task about 
it, one of them said : "Not .so much pay, no 
lift so much earth. So much longer last work. 
Italian no fool like Merican. Italian no 
strike." 

There is a childless old woman who has a 
great fondness for spiders. Years ago, she 
set apart a small bedroom for the insects to 
make their webs in ; and, from that day to 
this, not a single web has been torn from the 
walls and ceiling. On the sides and overhead 
every inch of space is covered with the deli- 
cate work of tlie industrious spiders; and the 
one little window in tlie room is partially dark- 
ened by layer after layer of network over the 
panes. 

— The voracity of the silkworm is great,con- 
suming as it does in its life of thirty-five days 
sixty thousand times its primitive weight ; yet 
its weight on merging from the egg is but the 
one hundredth part of a grain (about forty thou- 
sand silkworms to an ounce), and its entire 
food during its life weighs less than one-half 
of an ounce of leaves. 



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Lake View, South Framingham, 
July i8, 1890. 

The eleventh annual session of the New 
England Chautauqua Sunday School Assem- 
bly, which is now in session at Lake View, 
South Framingham, is the most successful 
ever held. The attendance on opening night 
far surpassed that of any previous opening, 
and more people are on the grounds than ever 
before. 

The opening of the assembly was formally 
announced by Acting Governor W. H. Haile, 
and the evening program was pleasantly ar- 
ranged, introducing the famous Ruggles Street 
Quartet and the Assembly Soloists. Miss 
Hattie Whittier, the soprano, has already won 
the hearts of all by her sweet, strong voice 
and her winning ways, while Miss Paker, the 
alto, is no less a favorite. Mr. Wellington, 
bass, is renewing last year's acquaintances, 
and Mr. Weber, tenor, is, as always, a welcome 
addition. Prof. Schauffler is directing the 
largest chorus ever organized on the grounds, 
of a hundred and seventy voices. Some fine 
chorus work will be presented, and the musi- 
cal features will culminate with "The 
Daughter of Jairus," to be presented on Fri- 
day evening of next week. 

Miss Annie Park, with her sweet-toned 
cornet, is here, and her many friends are 
pleased to hear the magnificent rendition of 
some of the most celebrated cornet solos. 

In the normal work which is always a 
feature of Assembly life, Drs. Hurlbut and 
Dunning are at their best, and their classes 
are full, while Miss Wheelock has charge of 
the children's class. 

The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific 
Circle is well represented, and their new 
Alumni Hall is one of the attractions of the 
grounds. 

Two of the new and delightful features of 
the year are the classes in Inductive Bible 
Reading in the Life of Christ, and the Ele- 
ments of New Testament Greek. They are 
in charge of Mr. C. W. Votaw, an Amherst 
graduate, who makes his subject thoroughly 
interesting. 

On Wednesday, Mr. Leon H. Vincent gave 
the first of his series of lectures on "English 
Authors," and the masterly way in which he 
treated the life of Hawthorne was most enjoy- 
able. In the afternoon. Rev. L. A. Banks 
talked about "The Columbian River," and 
startled his hearers by strange tales of that 
region. Rev. Lysander Dickerman gave an 
illustrated lecture on "Egypt in Its Glory," in 
the evening. 

On Thursday Mr. Vincent continued his 
series, speaking on Emerson. Much to the 
regret of all present, Senator Colquitt was 
unavoidably absent, but his place was filled in 
an unexceptional manner by Rev. R. S. Mc- 
Arthur, who gave an eloquent lecture on "The 
Land of the Czar." In the evening Mr. 
Dickerman gave another lecture, entitled 
"The Pharaohs of Egypt: How They Looked, 
Dressed, Lived and Acted." 

The tennis tournament began in the after- 
noon. 



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The College Club is becoming one of the 
prominent organizations, and will to-day have 
general supervision of the exercises, which in- 
clude addresses by President Raymond of 
Wesleyan, and Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, 
ex-president of Wellesley. A banquet will 
occur this evening and to-morrow there will 
be field sports which will be contested by 
college men and which will doubtless arouse 
much enthusiasm. 

Worcester is well represented this year, the 
following people having been noticed by 
Light's representative: 

Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Barber, Harry R. Bar- 
ber, Mrs. L. A. Barber, Mrs. Henry Jerome, 
Annie J. Lewis, May L. Lewis, May D. Cul- 
bert, Mrs. Henry Shaw, Levi D. Shaw, Mrs. 
S. A. Arnold, Anna L. Arnold, Miss Amy 
Codding, Miss Addie Codding, Miss Cora 
Codding, Miss E. F. Brown, Miss I. A. E. 
Kenney, Miss S. A. Boyd, L. E. Ware, Miss 
Carrie L. Adams, Miss Pierce, Charles R. 
Luther, L. D. Luther, R. H. Luther, Mrs. L. 
J. Murdock, Mrs. W. H. Moulton, Miss E. 
Clark. 



A Remarkable Canal. 

The most remarkable canal in the world is 
the one between Worsley and St. Helen's in 
the north of England. It is sixteen miles long 
and underground from end to end. In Lan- 
cashire, the coal mines are very extensive, 
half the country being undermined ; and many 
years ago the Duke of Bridgewater's managers 
thought they could save money by transport- 
ing the coal underground instead of on the 
surface. So the canal was constructed, and 
the mines connected and drained at the same 
time. Ordinary canal-boats are used, but the 
power is furnished by men. On the roof of 
the tunnel arch are cross pieces, and the men 
who do the work of propulsion lie on their 
backs on the coal and push with their feet 
against the cross-bars on the roof. 



Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the famous Philadel- 
phia physician, is said to have lately received 
a curious present from a young lady whom he 
had rescued from nervous invalidism. It was 
a cord of white oak, chopped down and sawed 
up by her own hands, and sent as circumstan- 
tial evidence of the health she had gained by 
following his directions to live an open-air life 
in the woods. 



Cape Breezes. 



The heart contracts with power enough to 
send a column of blood y'A to nine feet high. 
At every beat of a heart of average size and 
strength, the force exerted is equal to moving 
over fifty pounds ; or to lifting a pound weight 
upward a distance of 3^4 to 4X feet, say four 
feet ; or to carrying four pounds one foot up- 
ward. 



Charles Lamb had a horror of notoriety, and 
of being "lectured" in public places. Imperti- 
nence or offensive interference of any sort he 
could not brook. An overbearing head of a 
department in an East India House ap- 
proached him one day, when Lamb was busily 
engaged, with the Paul Pry question, "Pray, 
Mr. Lamb, what are you about?" "Forty 
next birthday," he replied. "I don't like your 
answer," said the man. "Nor I your question," 
was Lamb's rejoinder. 



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Falmouth Heights, July 16, 1890. 

" Have you been here long ? " 

" No, but I have been here long enough to 
become thoroughly enchanted with the place." 

The above is a conversation I heard on the 
pier shortly after my arrival. The speaker 
was right—the "Heights" is certainly an en- 
chanting place to spend a vacation in, com- 
bining as it does, country and seashore with 
plenty of shade and plenty of sun. There 
are no hot days here. A cool, shady spot 
fanned by a breeze from the Sound can al- 
ways be found. The public is evidently dis- 
covering the beauties of this summer village 
by the sea, for more people are here now than 
ever before at this time of year. 

The Falmouth Heights of the earlier years 
of its existence is no more. Once, one saw 
only Worcester faces here, but now we have 
become as cosmopolitan in our summer popu- 
lation as Newport or Long Branch. New 
York, Hartford and Boston are largely repre- 
sented, and Fitchburg, Middleboro and west- 
ern cities have delegations at several cot- 
tages. 

In the Heights of '74 and '75 the boys — and 
girls too, for that matter — went barefoot, but 
the only bare feet seen upon the Heights now 
belong to berry-selling Indians from Marshpee 
or Gay Head. 

It has become the established custom for 
the ladies who do not bathe to sit upon the 
bluff by Hewitt's pier and watch those who 
do. Each young lady is accompanied by a 
parasol and a young man — if she can secure 
one, for the Heights are not exempt from the 
distressing lack of young men common at 
other seashore resorts. 

The bathing here is excellent, the water is 
warm, and there is no undertow. Those who 
like surf bathing, however, would not enjoy 
it, as the strong tide running through Vine- 
yard sound keeps the waves from breaking 
upon the beach. A great many swim and a 
great many more do not. There are several 
young girls who swim nicely and enjoy it 
hugely, as do those who watch them. 

The bluefishing this season is excellent, and 
parties go out nearly every day. Some funny 
incidents might be related of several of these 
excursions, among them, that of one party 
which went out early in the morning, got be- 
calmed and was out all day, but succeeded 
in capturing — one bluefish. 

Another party engaged a skipper to take 
them out, and after inviting their friends to go 
with them, went down to the pier and awaited 
their boat. At last accounts they were still 
waiting, as the boatman had obtained a better 
paying job. Emeline. 

When the average man or woman comes to 
be fitted with the first pair of glasses, some 
curious discoveries are made. Seven out of 
ten have stronger sight in one eye than the 
other. In two cases out of five one eye is out 
of line. Nearly one-half tlie people are color 
blind to some extent, and only one pair of 
eyes out of every fifteen are all right in all re- 
spects. 



People We Have Heard Of. 

— A Western paper iirints the following 
story, making us wonder if it is Senator Hoar 
to whom reference is made. It is not unlikely. 
A Massachusetts Senator, says the paper, 
used often to quote a remark which he once 
overheard in the White Mountains, at a hotel 
where he was staying;. On the piazza one day 
a girl near him said to her companion, a dam- 
sel of her own age: "Oh, Marianne, I do 
think that gown of yours is just too lovely for 
anything, and it is so appropriate to wear up 
here !" The other smiled self-approvingly. 
"Yes," she said, smoothing down the folds of 
the frock in question, "I do think this gown 
sets off the mountains l,)etter than any other 
I ever had on." 

— Austin IJob.son is an engineer as well as a 
poet, and draws a salary from the English 
civil service. Otherwise he might not be able 
to be a poet at all. 

— Bismarck was at one time a law-court re- 
porter. After passing his examination at the 
University of 15erlin, he was appointed law 
reporter in one of the city courts. 

—Henry i\I. Stanley, although he lias long 
considered himself a citizen of the United 
States, was not naturalized till May 15, 1SS5. 
He was about to start for Africa, and came 
from London to New York especially for this 
purpose. 

— The Hon. William Sprague, the famous 
ex-United States Senator, the famous boy 
statesman, the famous war governor, the fa- 
mous husband of Kate Chase Sprague, and 
the famous hero of the shotgun episode of 
Canonchet, is now chief of police at Narra- 
gansett Pier. 

—Mrs. General Grant seems to have found 
the elixir of youth. Although sixty-six, she is 
as agile as a woman of thirty, enjoying perfect 
health. Barring the weakness of her eyes, 
which were never strong, her faculties are as 
keen as they ever were. The gray in her hair 
is scarcely noticeable, her face is plump and 
of good color. Mrs. Grant dresses in rich 
black abbey cloths or silk fabrics. 

— Mr. Rider Haggard belongs to an excel- 
lent Norfolk family of Danish extraction, and 
is a tall, slight, handsome man, with full blue 
eyes, fair complexion, and brown hair. From 
eighteen to twenty-three he lived in South 
Africa, and probably knows more of the 
country and its languages than other living 
Englishman. He was a briefless barrister 
before he flowered into a successful novelist, 
and although he has published eleven long 
stories, he is barely thirty-four years of age. 

— Yassar College owes its existence to a 
woman, Miss Lydia Booth, a cousin of the 
founder, Matthew Vassar. Mr. Vassar was 
planning a hospital on the plan of Guy's 
Hospital in London, as his bequest to the 
community, when his kinswoman suggested 
the founding of a college for women, which 
should be to them what Yale and Harvard 
were to men. Immediate application was 
made for a charter, and, in 1861, there came 
into being Vassar College, which on each 
i2th of June celebrates "Founder's Day." 

—William Waldorf Astor has employed 
artists, at an expense of something like ten 



ly I C] M T 

thousand dollars, to illustrate one copy of 
each of his novels. These copies form a pri- 
vate /di/w/i dc luxe, each one being labeled 
"My personal copy" and occupying a promi- 
place in his library. Verily, few can thus in- 
dulge in the embellishment of their own lit- 
erature. 

— l"he most important and popular citizen 
of Kamsgate, England, is Mr. Francis C. 
Burnand, the editor of J'unch. He has a fine 
roomy old house, with a splendid lawn in front, 
on the great cliff to the west of the town. 
From his window he can see the white break- 
ers on the Goodwin Sands. Mr. Burnand 
spends part of nearly every week of the year 
in his seaside house. He leads a regular, 
ciuiet country life, riding for one hour in the 
morning. As is known, Mr. Burnand has a 
large family ; both his daugliters and .sons are 
pictures of robust health. 

—The King of the Belgians was having his 
portrait painted and became bored at the 
length of the sitting. "Draw a large man, 
with a big nose, and you have me," he said, 
impatiently, to the artist. 

—Somebody tells a story about a man who 
once followed the poet Tennyson around for 
hours to catch one beautiful sentence from the 
gifted man's lips. Finally the great man with 
the soul of a flower said: "Mary, you stay 
here with the children while I go and get a 
glass of beer." 



"A Little Nonsense Now and Then." 

One of Light's friends writes that at the 
summer hotel where she is stopping they are 
having great fun in prononunciation matches, 
into which they entice all new comers, to the 
infinite delight of those who have gone through 
the primary course. As samples she sends the 
following : 

One old ox opening oysters. 

Two toads totally tired trying to trot to 
Troy. 

Three tawny tigers tickling trout. 

P'our fat fairies fanning a fainting fly. 

Five fair flirts flying to France for fashions. 

.Six Scotch salmon selling sauer-kraut. 

Seven small soldiers successfully shooting 
snipe. 

Eight elegant elephants eating excellent 
edibles. 

Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nonpareil. 

Ten terrible tea pots turning turbid tea. 

Eleven educated eels enticing excitable ear- 
wigs. 

Twelve tiny tit-mice trying to turn things 
topsy-turvy. 



A Lost Rine. 



liV ElJMUND SMITH MIDDLETON. 



The other night she lost a ring, 

Amid the clover long. 
The ring itself, a trifling thing, 

Was hardly worth a song. 

At morn she woke and kissed the ring, 
Utth joy that knew no pain. 

But many morns their nights will bring, 
E*er love wakes her again. 

'Twas but a little band of gold, 
But with it, peace has flown. 
For love is gone, the heart is cold, 
And life grows sad and lone. 
sicr. Mass. 



Quester and Answerer. 

Tl'ev'houldt.'"";. "' J' <''^"'^'«"-' -e solicited. 

Arthur C. asks: What was the K. K. K.? 
--■ K. K. are the letters standing for Ku- 
Klux-Klan, the name of a secret society in the 
•southern slates of the United State.s.'bitterly 
opposed to the exercise of the electoral fran- 
chise by the negroes. ICarly in 1868 this 
.society issued lists of prescribed persons, who, 
if they did not quit the country after warning, 
became liable to a.ssassination. Gen. (;rant 
endeavored to suppress this society in April. 
Its repression by the militia in Arkan.sas was 
ordered November, 186S, and it became the 
subject of legislation at Washington, June, 
1871, under which many persons were tried 
Hnd convicted for lawless outrages and mur- 
ders. The Ku-Klux outrages were generally 
committed at night, the men being masked, 
and even their hor.ses being disguised. If you 
are interested in this subject, the Answerer 
would advise you to read "A Fool's Errand," 
by Albion W. Tourgee. 

Passion Play asks: What is the nature of 
the "Pa.ssion Play at Oberammergau" and 
what was its origin .' The Pa.ssion Play of 
Oberammergau is the only relic left us of the 
"mysteries" or miracle-plays of the middle 
ages. They were dramas founded on the his- 
torical parts of the Old and New Testament. 
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries they 
were in full sway in England, and were also 
popular in France, Spain, Italy and Germany. 
They fell into some disrepute through the in- 
troduction of Ijurlcsque and the vulgar element, 
but they suffered the most effective opposition 
in the rise of the secular drama. In 1779, '->"' 
little more than a hundred years ago, they were 
forbidden in the Catholic south of Germany, 
and the ecclesiastical hostility was supple- 
mented by like measures on the part of the 
state authorities, in Austria and Bavaria. But 
to the general order of suppression one ex- 
ception was made. In 1^133, the people of 
Olierammergau, in Bavaria, had vowed to per- 
form every tenth year the Pa.ssion of Our 
Saviour, as a token of gratitude for the cessa- 
tion of a plague which had devastated the 
country, and their vow had always been relig- 
iously observed. An appeal to Maximilian 
Joseph of Bavaria to exempt them from the 
general condemnation, was successful ; and 
with some revision it was allowed to continue. 
It was last performed in 1880, and is being per- 
formed at the present time. Several Worces- 
ter tourists have visited it, this year, if the 
Answerer is correctly informed. The Passion 
Play, which would, under the conditions of the 
stage with which we are familiar, seem impious, 
as performed by these worthy and devout 
peasants, it is said to be sacredly impressive. 
The personatorof Christ considers his part an 
act of religious worship, and is consecrated to 
his work with prayer. The players are villa- 
gers exclusively. The acts alternate with 
tableaux from the Old Testament and choral 
odes. The peasants from all parts of Tyrol 
and Bavaria attend in great numbers, and 
many travelers are attracted to the play. It is 
the only miracle play of any consequence now 
extant. 



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Summer Drinks. 



HV A MEDICAL KRIEND. 



Readers of Light are not disturbed by the 
"No License" drouth upon which we have 
entered, nor are they booked for "original 
packages" every week ; and yet when the mer- 
cury climbs up among the nineties, they can- 
not but realize the longing for something 
"wet." They may not understand the principle. 
They may not even have thought that this was 
Nature's way of preserving the equanimity of 
their bodies, yet there is no hesitation on that 
account. They drink because they are thirsty 
and they thirst because they prespire and they 
prespire because it is hot. That is Nature's 
charming method for regulating the animal 
temperature and keeping the body cool. 
Next for air to breathe is the necessity for 
.something to drink. The question is : what? 

1 am not willing to accept the boy's defini- 
tion : "Water is a colorless fluid formerly 
used for drink," however true it may be in iso- 
lated cases. An eminent physician once said 
of certain migratory people who visit fashion- 
able watering-places to improve their health, 
"If they would only drink ivnter and stay at 
home, they would be just as well off." Perhaps 
the precocious lad referred to was some rela- 
tion to the doctor. However, there are old- 
fashioned people alive yet. 

From the foregoing you can see that the 
writer is, theoretically at least, in favor of 
Nature's product. First, then, on the list of 
summer drinks we will place water and this 
may be taken either cold or hot. There is no 
objection even to ice water, if taken at proper 
times and in proper quantities. Nature pro- 
vides us with nothing else in certain seasons. 
Drink as sparingly of it in summer as you do 
in winter and it will never harm you. Indeed 
I think there is no better tonic for the stomach. 
It acts in the same manner as the cold bath 
upon the surface. Healthy reaction follows 
and the stomach becomes stronger and more 
vigorous as a result. But because a cold bath 
is good you wouldn't stay in the tub all day, 
would you .' For the same reason, iced drinks 
should be taken very slowly or in small quan- 
tities at a time, that the vitality of the stomach 
be not lowered by prolonged exposure to cold. 
Of course invalid people and invalid stomachs 
must be careful. Even quarry-men are not 
exempt. They work exposed to great heat, 
and to prevent ill effects from over-drinking, a 
handful of oatmeal is added to every bucket 
or water. The taste is not unpleasant and 
large quantities of it may be drank safely. 

Next to water, on the list, should come milk, 
but in some localities it would hardly need a 
separate entry, since normal milk contains 
about 85 per cent, of water and the crafty 
dealer easily adds to it the missing fifteen. 
However, for most people milk makes an ad- 
mirable diet for the heated season. It is easy 
to digest ; it contains a large per cent, of fluid 
elements and withal is most delicious for drink 
or nourishment. 

Next on the list 1 would place slightly acid 
preparations, like lemonade made from the 
freshly expressed juice, or home-made jellies 
dissolved in water. They are all harmless and 
pleasant to the taste. Then comes the plain 
effervescent^ soda, which is simply water 



LKi HT 

charged with carbonic acid. It forms a 
grateful drink for sick or well, relieves nausea, 
quenches thirst and in its pure state is quite 
free from objection. The danger is, that when 
lead piping is used in the fountain, the water 
is apt to become contaminated and cases of 
lead poisoning have been known to result. 
Glass tubing, or those lined with pure tin, are 
not acted upon by;the gas and are consequently 
free from danger. The ordinary syrups served 
at these fountains are harmless when freshly 
prepared, but when old and rancid, as they 
soon become, must be deleterious to the 
stomach, if not positively injurious. 

Mineral water should be considered more 
as a medicine than drink and if used should be 
done so intelligently, under the direction of a 
competent adviser. Because a water comes 
out of the earth is no sign that it is fit to be 
drank. Kerosene is produced in that way, 
but a man would show bad taste to drink it. 
Each water should Ije analyzed and then taken 
for what it contains, not because it is "fashion- 
able" or has benefited .some afflicted friend 
whose needs were wholly different from yours. 

I have not included in my list any distilled 
or fermented liquors. All contain alcohol and 
all are more or less injurious in their effects. 
Tea and coffee have no especial application 
to summer use. Most people can drink them 
with impunity but to some they are hurtful. 
Chocolate and cocoa are more nutritious and 
cause less disturbance of the nervous system. 

The secret of comfortable living these 
hot days is to drink little and often. Insensi- 
ble perspiration is going on all the time. The 
lungs are all the time throwing off moisture 
with the expired breath. Nature must find 
some way to replace this waste from the blood 
current. She gives us thirst and in its gratifi- 
cation we are answering the call from every 
vital tissue. It is water that the system 
craves, not fancy drinks or sweetened gas. 
However, the public palate is bound to be 
tickled. We would not object to a delightful 
sensation ourselves. 

II 'on ester, Mass. 

Uses of Coffee. 

It is asserted by men of high professional 
ability that when the system needs a stimulant 
nothing equals a cup of fresh coffee. Those 
who desire to rescue the drunkard from his 
cups will find no better substitute for spirits 
than strong, new-made coffee, without milk or 
sugar. Two ounces of coffee, or one-eighth 
of a pound, to one pint of boiling water 
makes a first-class beverage, but the water 
must be boiling, not merely hot. Bitterness 
comes from boiling too long. If the coffee 
required for breakfast be put in a granitized ket- 
tle over night, and a pint of cold water poured 
over it, it should be heated to just the boiling 
point and then set back to prevent further 
ebullition, when it will be found that while the 
strength is extracted, its delicate aroma is 
preserved. As our country consumes nearly 
ten pounds of coffee per capita, it is a pity not 
to have it made in the best manner. It is as- 
serted by those who have tried it that malaria 
and epidemics are avoided by those who drink 
a cup of hot coffee before venturing into the 
morning air. Burned on hot coals it is a dis- 
infectant for a sick-room. By some of our 
best physicians it is considered a specific in 
typhoid fever. — The Epicure. 



The Cobequid. 



BY C. ASHMOKE. 



In childhood's days I wandered 
Upon the sliores of Cobequid ; 
1 watched the waves come dashing in 
Upon the beach with thunderous sound, 
And then retreat and come again ; 
And just iKyond the white-caps showed. 

On turbid-watered Cobequid. 
When the Ijay was very quiet. 
On its surface were the mountains 
Pictured in inverted order ; 
And tlie clouds that o'er them gleamed 
Were upon the waters sheened— 

On the placid Cobequid. 

But when the wind blew from the west- 
Passing over Bloomidon— 
Up the bay it wildly swept, 
.\nd the ghostly white-caps gleamed 
Upon the ebbing Cobequid. 

And then the wild sea-bird would scream— 
The white sea-gull would fly aloft. 
Hovering o'er the stormy sea, 
And screaming in his wild delight 
Over turbid Cobequid. 

In the misty autumn mornings" 
When the fog was on the waters, 
And the tide was fast receding, 
I have gone upon the beaches 

Of the lonely Cobequid. 

From the distant bearing sand-bars, 
Melancholy sounds proceeded, 
As the loon with notes prophetic 
Wailed complaints so sad and lonely 
Over dreary Cobequid. 

Tekel, tekel, tekel, tekel ! 
Said the weird bird in the distance; 
Seemed as if the words of warning 
Spoken once to King Belshazzar, 
Were repeated, slowly, sadly, 

Over lonely Cobequid. 

Then upon a summer morning, 
When tlie tide was flowing in. 
It appeared as if a spirit 
Filled with joy were on the waters, 
Hovering over Cobequid. 

It is long since I have seen thee, 

O mysterious Cobequid ! 

But in dreams again I see thee 

With the sea-birds in the air ; 

And when the wind blows from the west. 

Again 1 see the white wave's crest. 

And hear again the waters roaring 

On the wild, weird Cobequid. 
Wora-stcr, Mass. 

What An Editor Is. 
There are three grand divisions in news- 
paperwork — journalists, reporters and editors. 
Speaking more accurately, there are three 
stages of development. A journalist is a calf 
reporter. He is a reporter in the miniature 
tadpole stage, when his head is so big that it 
takes all the rest of its person to shove it 
around. If he is lucky, by and by he becomes 
a reporter. After a reporter's legs wear out 
they make an editor out of him. The final 
stage of a frog you know — the extreme re- 
moval from the tadpole — is the bullfrog, too 
stiff to jump, too old and tough to eat, who 
just sits on the bank and bellows. That is an 
editor. — T/ie Journalist. 



It is reported that the sum of 13,675 000 has 
been given to forty-two American colleges 
during the last year. The gifts ranged from 
g 10,000 to ;?5oo,ooo each. 

Attar of roses is worth from twelve to fifteen 
dollars an ounce at wholesale. 



I^IOHT 



Summer Life in New Yorl<. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



Lregular correspondence of light.] 

New York, July 17, 1S90. 
Tlie opening of the Madison Square Garden 
Amphitheatre was the inauguration of a new 
era in popular summer entertainment. The 
desire for roominess and freedom from the 
ordinary restrictions of the playhouse, and the 
need of a large space in which to hold athletic 
meetings of various kinds, and to exhibit 
spectacles of the kind cultivated by the 
Kiralfys and Barnums of to-day, seem to have 
prompted the building of this mammoth place 
of amusement recently tlirown open to the 
public. 

It is certainly a magnificent liuilding, and 
has cost in the neighborhood of three million 
dollars. Everything about it is upon such a 
colossal scale that only big words seem ade- 
quate to describe it. While its vast dimen- 
sions are imposing in the extreme, there is 
something exceedingly agreeable in the ex- 
cellent proportions, giving an impression of 
gracefulness and strength in its constructive 
details. The building occupies the entire 
square bounded by Twenty-sixth and Twenty- 
seventh streets, Fourtli and Madison avenues. 
The exterior is in cream-colored brick and 
terra cotta, and the Madison Avenue entrance 
suggests the fac^ade of the Grand Opera 
House in Paris. The pillars are of polished 
granite and the entrance hall is in marble,with 
mosaic floors, and the staircases in stone and 
marble. The main hall accommodates 14,000, 
seating 8,000. The auditorium is lighted by 
4,000 lights, tastefully disposed among the im- 
mense girders and arches. The ventilating 
apparatus, an enormous sliding skylight, is, of 
course, as perfect as can be made. It is said 
that the stage contains more superficial feet 
than any stage in the world. There are also 
smaller halls for concert and chamber music, 
and for balls and theatricals. The hall called 
the Garden Theatre, to be decorated in white 
and gold, will not be opened until fall. A 
tower is to be erected, which, when completed, 
will reach 300 feet in height and command a 
view of New York harbor. 

It was with difficulty that our party gained 
an entrance on the opening night, as the crush 
at the main entrance and in the lobby was 
actually serious. The blue-coated police cap- 
tain and officers struggled gently with the 
crowd and succeeded to a small extent in re- 
lieving the pressure, by diverting it to the 
other entrances, while ubiquitous Inspector 
Byrnes stood in the background watching, and 
scores of his detectives were scattered about. 
At 8 15, when Mr. Strauss arose to give the 
signal to his orchestra, the scene fmm the 
rear of the gigantic amphitheatre was an un- 
usual one, even in New York. Almost every 
seat and nearly every box was occupied, many 
of the women and most of the men being in 
evening costume. The floor and galleries 
were full. There were so many electric lights 
that it made it painful to look upward, the re- 
flection from the white painted ceiling in- 
creasing this effect. I think I never saw a 
more representative audience than was present 
;hat night. As one looked towards the stage. 



there seemed to be sucli a ma.ss of bare heads 
and bonnets so closely placed, that it was 
dillu ult to trace the lines where the rows of 
seats were. On either side rose a high bank 
of humanity. 

There were present many of the prommcnt 
and wealthy families of the city ; no end of 
politicians, members of the theatrical and 
other professions, men about town, merchants, 
clerks and no small number of people whom' 
it would be hard to place in any cla.ss. Many 
gay parties came in from Tuxedo, Hcm,stcad 
and surrounding resorts. 

Of the entertainment offered for the diver- 
sion of the thousands gathered to enjoy the 
extraordinary occasion some exception mu.st 
be taken on acoustical principles. The musi- 
cal feature was more a pantomine than a con- 
cert. The mildly sweet and sentimental piece 
for strings alone, entitled "Prayer," instead of 
disclosing the degree of finish attained by the 
Strauss band as intended, might have been a 
closet prayer sent up in secret, as far as the 
majority of the audience was concerned. 
There was not a sufficiently robust sonority to 
carry it across the vast eclipse. The waltzes 
and polkas were better lieard. but the salient 
characteristics of the famous \'iennese orche.s- 
tra were dissipated in the great space. 

However, all that has since been success- 
fully altered. The orchestra now occupies 
an elevated circular platform in the centre, 
over which is a .sounding board. Little tables 
with three or four chairs stand about, with re- 
freshment to be had on order. The entertain- 
ment opens with the ballet, "Peace and War," 
and closes wifh that called "Choosing the 
National Flower," the Strau,ss concert occu- 
pying the interval. 

If one doesn't mind being a bit democratic, 
a capital way to see Fifth avenue and its 
notable residences is to mount the little wind- 
ing stairway on the outside of one of the new 
stages that traverse the length of the famous 
avenue. From the lofty coign of vantage 
offered by the top seats, with one's own party, 
including the useful addenda of one or two of 
the genus Iioiiio who are well informed in the 
interestmg topography and genealogy of the 
city, a really deliglitful and instructive outing 
can be enjoyed. Take it in these days, about 
or just before the gloaming, when the soft 
haze of the declining day is casting a gentle 
spell over the throbbing life of the great me- 
tropolis, stilling its stress and strife and toning 
down its sharp asperities and brown stone 
outlines. Then the roadways are compara- 
tively clear and you bowl along past the 
various clubs with their window occupants — 
poor men ! too tired to remove their hats — up 
past Delmonico's, with its huge vases in front, 
bravely overflowing with bloom and trailing 
vines; and past the never-enjoyed, glacial 
looking palace of A. T. Stewart, who now 
rests — who knows where ? Now the rise 
begins on Murray Hill. Jay Gould's house, 
opposite from the Windsor, is, comparatively 
speaking, a modest structure of plain brown 
stone, square, with large windows either side 
of the wide entrance. Looking upward, the 
dozens of fine black lines connecting his house 
with distant points, give evidence of the 
famous man's relations with that maelstrom of 
Gotham's life called Wall street. Now go 



11 



slowly by, for this is consecrated ground-con- 
secrated only to the many millionaires who 
alone can purchase it. 

Just here l)etween Fifty-sixth and Fifty- 
seventh streets there will be a notable group 
of millionaires on this FiUh-avenue block 
nex-l year. C. P. Huntington, the Bonner.si 
and W. W. Astor are all preparing to build 
there. 1 wo of the other corners of Fifty- 
seventh street and Fifth avenue are occupied 
respectively by Cornelius X'anderbilt and 
Wilham C. Whitney, so that four of the rich- 
est men of the country will be within a radius 
of 500 feet of one another. It only needs Mr. 
Kockafeller, with his $750 an hour income, to 
come and lead the gilded procession, fn- 
doubtedly both the Astor and Huntington 
houses are to be built so that the ladies of 
these two rich families may have suitable 
places in which to entertain extensively. 

Mrs. Astor will probably assume the position 
of the recognized leader of .\ew York .society, 
and in all probability Mr. Huntington's 
daughter will bring her husband. Prince Hatz- 
feld, here so as to start the new house olf with 
.a boom. The jilans of the magnificent resi- 
dences to be erected show that they are to 
have private ball rooms, as well as picture 
galleries and all tlie rest of it. No doubt the 
Astor hou.se will make a brave showing in 
rivalry to the palaces of the \'anderbilts, for 
architecture is a fad with the present Mr. 
Astor. He has made a study of it for many 
year.s, and has written entertainingly on the 
subject. It is well known that the late J. J. 
Astor's residence on Thirty-third street and 
Fifth avenue, is, to give place to a sumptuous 
new hotel, which may be called the "Wal- 
dorf," the name of the little village on the 
other side from which the Astors sprang. On 
the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth 
street Mr. .'\stor intends to erect another enor- 
mous hotel, which for dimensions, costliness 
of decorations and luxury of interior furnish- 
ing and details, will be unsurpassed in any 
one of the world's great cities. I fancy that 
billionaires only will be alile to seek the re- 
pose and exclusive atmosphere granted within 
the portals of this — to-be — superior hostelry. 



Death Painless. 
The act of dying, it is now ascertained, is ab- 
solutely free from suffering, and is really uncon- 
cious, insensibility always preceding it. Any 
anguish that may attend mortal illness ceases 
before the close, as thousands wlio have re- 
covered after hope had been surrendered have 
borne witness. Sudden and violent death, 
shocking to the senses, may not be, probably 
is not, painful to the victim. Drowning, hang- 
ing, freezing, shooting, falling from a height, 
poi.soning of many kinds, beget stupor or 
numbness of the nerves, which is incompatible 
with sensation. Persons who have met with 
such accidents, and survive them, testify to 
this. Kecordsto this elfect are numberless. 



Women will hereafter be admitted to the 
classes of the law department of the Univer- 
sity of the City of New York upon the same 
terms as men. 

It takes about three seconds for a message 
to tr.iverse the Atlantic cable. 



12 

The Blacksmith and Satan. 



A RUSSIAN STORY. 



[Translated from French to Volapuk by Louise Dow 
Benton. Retranslated from Volapuk to English by 
F. L. Hutchins, Worcester.] 



A blacksmith once lived who had a small 
boy six years old, very witty and lively. One 
day the old man went to church.and when he 
found himself before the picture of the last 
judgment, he observed particularly Satan, 
who had been pictured there, but so terrible ! 
A wholly black Satan with horns and hoofs. 

"Oh," he cried, "if I could paint such a one 
as this for my smithy !" Then he made the 
artist come and commanded him to paint on 
the door of his smithy a satan exactly like the 
one he had seen in the church. The artist 
painted it, and thereafter every time the old 
man entered his smithy he saw the Satan, 
saying to him : "Good day, fellow-country- 
man." Then he lighted his fire in his forge 
and began his work. 

Well — the black.smith lived in good under- 
standing with .Satan about ten years, then he 
sickened and died. His son succeeded him 
as chief of the family, and took charge of the 
shop. But he did not incline towards esteem 
for Satan as did his good old father. When 
he entered the smithy every morning, he never 
said to him : "Good Satan." In lieu of ad- 
dressing Satan with good words, he took his 
heaviest hammer and struck him three times on 
the forehead, and then he commenced to 
work. And when one of the followers of God 
entered, he went to church and offered wax 
tapers to all the saints; then directing himself 
towards Satan he spat in his face. 

Three years thus passed away, and daily he 
continued spitting or striking with his iron ham- 
mer. Satan suffered these insults during a 
long time, but finally he found that this over- 
ran all endurance. It was truly too much. 

"I have suffered for a long time surfeit of 
insults from that man," he thought. "It is 
necessary that I use something of diplomacy 
and that I play you a good trick." 

Then Satan took the shape of a young man 
and he went to the smithy. 

"Good day, oh my uncle," he said, "Good 
day. What would you say, oh my uncle, con- 
cerning taking me as an apprentice ? I will 
be able continually to carry your charcoal to 
you and blow your bellows for you." 

The blacksmith accepted this proposition. 
"Why not?" he replied. "Three are worth 
more than one." 

Satan began also to learn the business of 
blacksmithing. At the end of the month he 
knew more about it than the master himself, 
and he was able to do things which the master 
was not capable of doing. It was truly a 
pleasure to observe him. His master was 
plea,sed beyond all expression, regarding him, 
and became attached to him. The master had 
such confidence in the worker that often he 
did not go to the smithy, and left to him all 
responsibility. 

But one day arrived when the master had 
gone out and the worker had remained alone 
in the smithy, when suddenly he saw passing 
by in the street an old lady. Then he put his 
head out of the door and cried: 



L I H T 

"Hello, lady. Please stop here. We begin 
a new business. We rejuvenate old persons." 

The noble lady jumped immediately from 
her carriage and speedily entered the smithy. 

"What do you tell ? What say you, is it 
true ? Are you truly able to do this ?" she 
asked the young man. 

"We are forced to learn at this time our 
business," said Satan. "If I were not skilled 
to do what I promise I would avoid calling 
persons to prove my own power." 

"And how much does this cost.'" the lady 
asked. 

"One hundred and fifty roubles." 

"One hundred and fifty roubles ! Well, here 
is your money. Make me a young woman." 

Satan took the money, then he sent the 
lady's driver away into the village. 

"Go," he said, "find me two tubs of milk," 
after which he took a pair of tong.s, seized the 
lady by the feet, pushed her into the forge and 
burnt her. Nothing remained of her except 
the bones. 

When the tubs of milk had been brought, he 
turned them into a great tub, then he collected 
all the bones and threw them into the milk. 
Oh, wonderful ! At the end of about three 
minutes the lady came out of the milk, lively, 
young and beautiful. Then she ascended into 
her carriage and returned home. 

She presented herself to her husband, who 
looked at her with all his eyes, not being able 
to know his wife. 

"Wherefore do you look at me like that .''" 
the lady asked. "I am young and pretty, as 
you see, and I do not wish to have an old hus- 
band. Go immediately to the blacksmith and 
command him to make you a young man. If 
you will not do it I wish never to know you." 

The gentleman was not able to delay and he 
went. 

But during this time the blacksmith had 
returned and was now in the smithy. He 
looked all around but did not see his worker. 
He sought and sought, and asked and asked, 
but could not learn anything. No trace of the 
young man could be found. 

The blacksmith began also to work, and 
just as he struck the anvil the gentleman 
entered and went straight up to him. 

"Make me a young man," he said. 

"Do you know, what you are talking about, 
Mr. Earl? How can I make you a young 
man ?" 

"Oh, you get out ! You know perfectly 
well." 

"I truly do not know anything concerning it.' 

"False rascal. Because you have made my 
wife a young lady, you can also give youth to 
me. If you will not do it I shall not be able to 
live with her." 

"What say you? I have never seen your 
good lady." 

"Your worker has seen her, and it would be 
thought that if he knows the method to make 
this change, surely you, who have grown old in 
the business, ought to have learned it a long 
time ago. Begin your work immediately. If 
you will not, unhappiness will come to you. I 
will have you flogged with a limb of birch." 

The blacksmith was obliged to endeavor to 
change the gentleman. He led the driver 
aside and asked him how his worker had done 
in relation to the countess, and what he had 
done to her. 



Then he said to him, "Also, truly, I will do 
the same. If I fall again upon my feet it is 
good. If not, it will be neither more nor less." 

Then he began to work. He undressed the 
gentleman himself, he seized him by the feet 
with tongs, he pushed him into the forge and 
began to blow. 

When the gentleman was changed into 
ashes, the blacksmith collected the remains 
and put them into milk. Then he watched 
anxiously to see whether he would soon come 
out of it as a young man. The blacksmith 
watched for one hour, two hours, but nothing 
came. He sought in the tub but he found 
only the wholly charred bones. 

Just then messengers arrived at the smithy 
to ask, for the countess, whether the gentleman 
would soon be ready. The unhappy black- 
smith could only reply that the gentleman 
would not exist any more. 

When the countess learned that the black- 
smith had first changed her husband into 
ashes in place of making him a young man, she 
raged terribly. She collected her faithful ser- 
vants and commanded them to conduct the 
blacksmith to the gallows. It was done as 
soon as said The servants ran to the house 
of the blacksmith, seized him and pulled him 
away to the gallows. 

.Suddenly they saw a young man coming 
who appeared as the apprentice of the black- 
smith. He asked then, "Where do they carry 
you, master ?" "They intend to hang me," the 
blacksmith replied, and he told him all which 
had occurred. 

"Well, uncle mine," said Satan, "you swear 
to me that you will never strike me with a 
hammer, and that in future you will offer me 
the same esteem which your father once had 
for me, and the gentleman will not only arise 
but in a little time will become young again." 

The blacksmith promised, and swore that 
never in the future would he lift his hammer 
against Satan, but that he would burden him 
with attentions. 

The worker went hastily from there to the 
smithy and subsequently returned, bringing 
with him the gentleman, and crying to the ser- 
vants : 

"Stop, stop. Do not hang him. Here is 
your man." 

Then the servants unbound the rope imme- 
diately and left the blacksmith. 

Since that time the blacksmith has ceased 
to spit in the face of Satan and to strike him 
with his hammer. The worker has departed 
and returned no more. 

As regards the gentleman and lady, they 
began happy life again, and if they are not 
dead they are living still. 

Worcester, Mass. 



In a mountainous district of the state of 
Vera Cruz, Mexico, has been discovered a 
Toltic or Aztec city. The ruins are hid by 
trees and underbrush, and until recently 
Indians were the only people who visited this 
section. Some of the buildings were four and 
live stories high, with cornices and windows 
skillfully and artistically worked out. The 
colored fresco on the sides of the buildings is 
as bright as when first put on. Among interest- 
ing things found were many in.scribed slabs of 
stone. It is one of the most important discov- 
eries of the kind in many years. 



Mr. Simons. 



My boy has begun going to Sunday School 
He is of a very reahstic nature, and whatever 
lie hears he immediately lays by as so much 
gospel truth. He is favored by having a 
teacher who possesses, in a remarkable degree, 
the power of making her children see what she 
describes. 

Well, it was the boy's first experience in a 
school of any kind. He had not hankered 
after the Sunday School. In fact, it needed a 
little more than persuasion, simply, to start 
him out. There was nothing savoring of 
pride in his step when he went forth ; but 
when he came back there was that in his bear- 
ing that proclaimed a change in the spirit of 
his dreams. 

He was obviously full of something. We 
were waiting for him to sit down at the table. 
But there was no eating until he had un- 
burdened his mind. The flavor of the story 
will be improved if the reader knows that a 
prominent member of the church that this 
young man attends, is Mr. Simons and that 
his name is frequently heard by tliis same 
youngster. Whether he had confounded the 
man in his narrative with his fellow-church- 
man I cannot tell, but here is the tale. 

It seems that the lesson for the day was 
the story of the invitation of Jesus to the 
feast and tlie coming of Mary who poured 
over him the bo.x of precious ointment. So 
here is the way the boy got the history : 

"You see. Papa, Mr. Simons made a feast 
and he invited lots of folks to eat with him 
and among the rest came Jesus. Now Mr. 
Simons didn't use Jesus well at all ; but he 
put him way clown at the foot of the table 
and sort of let him help himself. You know 
that wasn't any kind of way to treat him, but 
that is the way Mr. Simons did. He ought to 
have brought him up by his own side and have 
done lots of things for him. I think Jesus 
thought himself misused but he didn't say any- 
thing. Well, by and by, while he was sitting 
down there eating what he could get, in came 
Mary Magdalene and she had a box of an- 
nointed oil and she just poured it all over 
Jesus. Then Mr. Simons and the rest said, 
•That's all wrong; She has no business here 
and she is a bad woman, and Jesus, you 
shouldn't let her doit; but Jesus said, 'You 
just let her alone, she knows what she's about. 
You put me way down at the foot of the table 
and paid me no attention whatever ; you didn't 
give me a chance to wash my hands nor my 
feet and not much to eat and you have just 
snubbed me, but this woman has made up 
what you lacked ; 1 tell you she is all right. I 
guess Mr. Simons felt pretty shamed, so he 
stopped talking, for a minute, but he had to 
say something more when Mary began to cry, 
for she cried and took on awfully. She cried 
all over Jesus and her tears ran over Jesus 's 
feet and washed them all clean. Then Mary 
took down her long hair ; it was very long and 
thick, and she wiped his feet dry. Then Mr. 
Simons got to talking again, and he made a 
great fuss because Mary was there at all and 
he didn't like her performance, but Jesus talked 
right out and told Mr. Simons what he thought 
of his usage and he let him know that he 
thought he hadn't been used very well. He 



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said that Mary was all right and he told Mr. 
Simons to let her alone for she knew what 
she was about. .So you see Jesus got along all 
right even if Mr. Simons didn't do the proper 
thing by him. Now, won't you tie on my nap- 
kin?" 

This ended the recital. It was quite evident 
that the boy was interested in his school. 
While I fear there was not quite the orthodox 
solemnity in the exercise, I was certain there 
would have to be no compulsion in suliscquent 
goings to the school, and 1 was right. Though 
he has had no story since quite as entertaining 
to him as that of Mr. Simons, each Sunday 
has its own particular grace. 

H'ora-stei; Atnss. r.\i|-.u. 



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To Our Unknown Friend. 



Character in Handwriting. 

Nobody contrasting the signatures of 
Charles 1. and Oliver Cromwell could doubt 
which of the two men had the .stronger will. 
It is certainly true that handwriting undergoes 
many transformations and reflects in many un- 
expected ways the changes of mood of the 
writer. Nobody need hesitate to recognize 
the temper in which a letter is written, and 
nothing is more absurd than the incoherent 
liaste with which any one in a pa,ssion expresses 
himself. Nothing, too, is more pathetic than 
the trembling characters formed by old age or 
ill-health. It is a far cry from William 1 1 1. to 
Ceorge Washington, but one seems to liave a 
parallel in the calligraphy of the two famous 
captains, which is, perhaps, also to be drawn 
between their characters as men of action. 
Men of letters are notoriously the wor-st 
writers of their time, and we look, perhaps in 
vain, for indications of character in the hurried 
scrawls which do duty for their autographs. 
There are, of course, here again, exceptions 
numerous enough to rank as examples of the 
converse rule. Addison, for instance, wrote a 
beautifully clear, if somewhat correct, hand. 
Dean Swift wrote a legible but stiff hand, 
nearly upright, a .sufficient indication of his 
independence of character. Richard H. Sheri- 
dan wrote an execrable hand. Ur. Johnson, 
again, wrote a very crabbed hand, but no fault 
could' be found with it on the score of illegi- 
bility, for nearly every letter was well formed 
and one can believe that he had the horror of 
"corrections" before his mind. \'oltaire wrote 
a small but legible hand, which seems to indi- 
cate that he must have been distinguished by 
method and precision of character. There 
was certainly no indication of genius in the 
handwriting of Edmund Burke, which is rather 
effeminate looking ; but nobody could doubt 
the individuality of Francis Bacon. Lord 
Byron was an untidy writer. Robert Burns 
had an autograph worthy of royalty. Tlie 
Italian school must have been in fashion when 
Maria Edgeworth was taught to write, for her 
hand represents primness personified, not 
unworthy of her tales. Oliver Coldsmith's 
with all its beauties, is wholly lacking in decis- 
ion, and seems to curiously reflect his refined 

but wayward temperament^ 

—A German at St. Louis scarcely able to 
speak a word of English, has applied to the 
Circuit Court there to have his name changed 
from Maximilian Edward Sullkt-mfp to Max- 
milian Edward O'Hooley. He is an applicant 
for a place on the police force.— Troy Budget. 



IIV WlM-llI.li. 

\ stnmgir iincc witli kindly thouKlit 
(.'ne d.-xy to us some p;insics brou^lit ; 
Kcceiv.d our thanks ; thun went away. 
Hut weekly brines us a iMiutiuul. 

CareU-ssly lieedwl at hrst. tlic tlowers iKjiislied. 

Withered in the hot air. dyinu with (.int pcrdinie ; 
But once their fraKrant mission known, they were cher- 
ished ; . 

.Sweet and precious Ixrcame the tiny bits of l)looni. 

'I lieir white and purple p.-lals (juiel lessons taught 
I )f an existence troubled not by human cares. 

Iji tlieir perfumed presence hushed is tlic sharp retort 
And courteous words and ways their influence declares. 

O stranger with the kindly tlioucht 
■] liat unto us your pansies brought, 
Acrepl the tlianks that are your due 
And blessings on your pansies blue. 
Voncitrr, Mass. 



How Thimbles are Made. 
The thimble is a familiar little accessory in 
every industrious houseliold, and the question 
how it is made must often suggest itself to the 
accustomed user. They are made on dies of 
different sizes. The gold, silver or steel is 
pressed over the dies by stamping machines, 
and the finishing, polishing and decorating are 
done afterwards. Some thimbles arc made of 
celluloid and rubber. These are molded. The 
process of making a gold thimble is more 
elaborate than that of the cheaper ones. The 
first step in the making of a gold thimble is 
the cutting into a disk of the desired size a 
thin piece ot sheet-iron. Tliis is brought to a 
red heat, placed over a graduated hole in an 
iron bench, and hammered down into it with a 
punch. This hole is the form of the thimble. 
The iron takes its shape and is removed from 
the hole. The little indentations to keep the 
needle from slipping are made in it, and all 
the other finishing strokes of the perfect 
thimble put on. 

The iron is then made into steel by process 
pecuharto the thinibleniaker, and is tempered, 
polished, and brought to a deep blue color. A 
thin sheet of gold is then pressed into the in- 
terior of the thimble and fastened there by a 
mandril. Cold leaf is attached to the outside 
by great pressure, the edges of the leaf being 
fitted in and held by small grooves at the ba.se 
of the thimble. The article is then ready for 
use. The gold will la.st for years. The steel 
never wears out, and the gold can be readily 
replaced at any time. 

Elaborate thimbles set in jewels are only 
made for persons who have more money than 
brains. Not long ago a gentleman in another 
city, blessed with plenty of this world's wealth, 
wanted to make a present to a young lady, 
and had a handsome cha.sed gold thTmbl. 
made. On the top of the thimble was set a 
large solitaire diamond, and around the rim 
of the thimble was set a row of diamonds and 
rubies set alternately. This thimble would 
certainly be more ornamental than useful, and 
if use<l at a sewing circle would attract a great 
deal of attention. 

In 1512 an offer of 5ioo,ooo for the copy of 
the Hebrew Bible in the X'alican was refused, 
as was the recent offer of J200.000 for the 
same Iwok made by a syndicate of wealthy 
Jews. 



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English Newspapers. 



BY RALPH EDMUNDS. 



The fact which most deeply impresses one 
who studies the economy of a great English 
paper is that no writer of education or ability 
employed by that paper is ever, save under the 
most exceptional circumstances, instructed to 
devote his abilities to gathering or writing 
news. Every writer of this kind is engaged 
in producing leaders, special articles evolved 
from his own imagination, or else he is a 
correspondent in one of the European capi- 
tals. When employed in the latter capacity 
he endeavors to hide his capability of writing 
interesting matter as completely as he possibly 
can, and his efforts are usually rewarded with 
great success. 

There is another kind of English newspaper- 
man who frequently possesses ability, although 
the results of it appear sometimes in rather 
amateurisli form. He is the London-letter 
writer of the big provincial paper. He cer- 
tainly dots not devote himself to gathering 
news, or at any rate his dispatches contain a 
very small leavening of that valuable feature. 
He hangs about the House of Commons and 
the swell clubs, and gets invited to political 
dinners and festivities whenever he can. He 
is generally regarded as the greatest scandal- 
monger in the whole realm of journalism. 
Things are tolerated in the London-letter 
column, which, if printed among news para- 
graphs, would bring the paper into everlasting 
disrepute among all self-respecting English 
journals. 

These correspondents in many cases, in- 
deed, have intimate relations with members of 
Parliament, who discharge through the letter 
an endless amount of venom upon political 
enemies. Perhaps the Dublin papers publish 
the most typical letters. The Dublin Kxpn-ss, 
a Tory landlord organ, is pre-eminent. The 
London correspondents are all much of the 
same kidney. Mr. Edward Caulfield Houston, 
who concluded on behalf of the London Times 
the remarkable bargain with the late Richard 
Pigott, is a favorite correspondent of the 
Dublin Express. The London-letter writer of 
a Tory paper has been known to publish a 
statement to the effect that Mr. Gladstone had 
taken to sleep-walking, during which he would 
continually rub his hands and moan that he 
could not wash them of the blood of Lord 
Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke. These 
extraordinary "journalists" are also in the habit 
of raking up old jokes and giving them re- 
vived human interest by putting them into the 
mouth of some eminent statesman such as Mr. 
Gladstone, for instance, who, they probably 
are quite aware, has never, during his life of 
eighty years, made anything bearing the 
faintest resemblance to a joke or a pun. Ab- 
surd and impossible things are continually put 
into the mouths of men utterly incapable of 
saying them. 

Among the English middle classes it is a 
standing reproach to be a newspaper man, and 
this sentiment is not unnatural, considering the 
fact that the only kind of newspaper man they 
meet is of the British reporter type. A good 
reporter there earns about ^3 a week, but 
does not keep so decent a home as a clerk 



earning half that sum. The bearing of the 
British reporter ruins his success at the out- 
set, for he approaches a lackey hat in hand. 
They have no knowledge in England of the 
small aniiy of direct, active, able, polished 
and knowing reporters who make the Ameri- 
can papers what they are. A "scrub" among 
American newspaper men would be a king of 
his kind in England. All this is due to the 
policy of the managers of the papers, who in- 
variably take a man away from reporting the 
instant he displays any natural ability. It 
may be intended as a kindness, but it has a 
woefully gloomy and depressing effect upon 
the news colums of the papers. 

The reporter is the least educated and least 
considered man on the editorial staff of an 
English paper. When he is engaged, his only 
qualification is that of a stenographer. His 
employers never require of him any evidence 
of literary ability, and he very seldom develops 
any. His reports are usually badly written, 
ill-spelled and stupid. The sub-editor repairs 
the spelling and grammar, but very little else, 
and the result is that, in England, events of 
the greatest mterest are invariably written 
about in the most bald and hackneyed fashion. 
The words "reported," "stated" and "tran- 
spired," used quite incorrectly, may be con- 
S'dcred as the highest flights to which the 
imagination of the English reporter can soar. 

That a large and .somewhat important class 
of men such as this should be without some 
good qualities is not to be expected. The 
British reporter is able to associate on terms 
of natural and easy familiarity with a police- 
man or any kind of flunkey or servant. It is 
in dealing with these people that he meets 
with most success in his quest for news. But 
when he wishes to interview any one of a more 
exalted station, his appearance, manner and 
breath, laden with the odors of frequent and 
varied drinks, condemn him at the start. If any 
one thinks it is snobbery on the part of Eng- 
lishmen of position to show such scant court- 
esy to reporters, let him make a personal 
accjuaintance with some of these latter. If he 
walks down Fleet street, which is the native 
heath of British journalism, he will probably 
observe a small, dirty, but locally famous, 
public house, called "The Cheshire Cheese." 
Standing in front of it he will see a fat, drink- 
.sodden man of about forty. That was my 
experience. I had previously met him in a 
business way and knew him to be a reporter 
of the London Staiuiaid. He invited me to 
come in and stand him a drink, which 1 did. 
His clothes were unbrushed and ragged, his 
linen dirty, his boots uncleaned and his hat 
battered. There was a number of other re- 
porters inside "The Cheshire Chee.se" whose 
appearance differed in detail but not essen- 
tially from that of my acquaintance. 

Many of the most distinguished literary men 
of England have been engaged in newspaper 
work at times, but seldom in news-gathering. 
Alfred Tennyson — once the peerle.ss, now a 
peer — u.sed to write .short poems for the daily 
papers, and to hang about Fleet street to pick 
up ideas for special articles. When on this 
work he would not infrequently seek the shady 
purlieus of an ancient Fleet street tavern 
called "The Cock," and he has left on record 
an immortal advertisement of that institution. 



The list of exalted persons who are willing, 
or have been, to add to their incomes by writ- 
ing for newspapers is an imposing one. Mr. 
Justice Stephen, one of the most severe 
and learned of English judges, is a constant 
contributor to the Times on legal and other 
subjects. The Rev. Lord Sidney Gondolphin 
Osborne, who died recently, was accustomed, 
years ago, when evictions in Ireland were in- 
finitely more brutal than they are now, to give 
the English public, through the Times, an 
idea of the atrocities that were committed by 
landlords in the sister isle, and also wrote a 
series of articles about the London slums for 
the same paper. Sir Edwin Arnold, the author 
of "The Light of Asia," and one of the most 
charming of contemporary English poets, is on 
the staff of the Daily Telegraph, and was at 
one time its editor. The editor of the Morn- 
ing Post, a comparatively unimportant journal, 
is a knight. Sir William Hardman. 
A'ew J 'ork City. 



Fruit at Meals. 
As a rule, a fruit dessert in the evening 
and after a mixed meal ought only to be light- 
ly indulged in, for the average stomach will 
but rarely tolerate a heavy influx of such cold 
and usually watery aliment as fruit. This is not 
the case if the fruit is eaten before or between 
the meal courses. A ripe melon eaten with 
salt or butter, before or immediately after the 
soup, can be freely indulged in. Experience 
teaches us that stewed or raw fruit may be 
largely taken between the courses. In many 
parts of the continent this custom prevails. 
The (^.ermans eat stewed fruits with many 
meats, and in warmer climes such fruits as 
grapes, plums, figs, melons and sweet lemons 
are habitually eaten with all kinds of dishes, 
or as palate refreshers between the courses. 



An Engineering Feat. 
The English will not consent to a tunnel 
under the channel, lest it might sen'eas a path 
for an invading foe, and objection is made to the 
proposed bridge across the channel, not only 
because it would obstruct navigation, but for 
the more serious reason that the project is im- 
practicable. As a compromise, M. BunanVarilla, 
a young French engineer, who has already dis 
tinguished himself, proposes to construct the 
tunnel to within half a mile of either shore, to 
build viaducts one hundred and fifty high the 
rest of the way, and to connect the tunnel and 
the viaduct with elevators running in iron 
towers. In case of danger of invasion, he 
points out, it would be a simple matter to stop 
the elevators. 



It is said that the hop vine is the best sub- 
stitute for rags tn the manufacture of paper. 
The pulp has many desirable qualities. 




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Gives Practical Points of Interest 

For every young man or woman who wishes to make the most 
of the time at their command. No school has ever grown so 
rapidly in public favor. No school employs so many teachers for 
the number of scholars. No school in this city has ever shown 
the results that have been shown this season by 

Becker's Business College. 

Our Pupils Have Taken Good Positions. 

Of all our immense graduating class this year only six pupils 
remain who have not obtained good positions. During the last six 
weeks of school the calls at the college for help were frequent and 

urgent and 

28 Pupils Took Remunerative Employment, 



In our Shorthand and Typewriting department our success has 
been far beyond that of any similar department ever in Worcester. 
Our standard is high and we allow no shoddy work to pass. Every 
pupil who graduates must write from 140 to 150 words per minute 
and read notss readily. 

We Cannot Supply One-half the Calls We Have 

For Stenographers. Every graduate thus far has secured a position 
at not less than nine dollars a week within three weeks after com- 
pleting the course. 

Parents, Can You Make a Better Investment 

Than to send your sons or daughters to Becker's College ? 




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GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO , 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Gr.iduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HKK ItESIUENCK, 29 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-f Ladies' i Hair i Dressing^- 

CUILDKKN'S HAIK-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 IVIAIN STREET. 



Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADK A SPKCIAtTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 



«*WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. AVALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

— AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.—- 

-^*ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

3:To. 2 TT^T'a-lnn-a-t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 
FLATIRON BUILDING. 



SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

iviiss H. m: proctor, 

92 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



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Sometliing to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to CuUnary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Blackberries. 

To every pound of blackberries allow a 
quarter-pound of sugar. Put the berries in a 
porcelain-lined kettle, cover tlieni with the 
sugar, and let stand one or two hours, then 
add a quarter teaspoonful of powdered alum 
to each quart of fruit. Stand over a moder- 
ate fire, and bring to boiling point. Skim, 
and can immediately as directed 
Potato Cake. 

Rub two tablespoonfuls of butter into two 
pounds of mashed potatoes ; add two pounds 
of flour, a little salt and milk enough to make 
a stiff batter; add half a cupful of yeast. 
Set the mixture to rise, and when light bake 
in cakes the size of muffins. Serve hot and 
buttered. 
Potato Soup. 

Three pints of rich milk, one pint of 
mashed potato, two tablespoonfuls of butter, 
salt and pepper to taste. Hoil the milk again, 
stirring frequently, that the potato may become 
thoroughly dissolved, and season just before 
serving. Serve very hot. 

Potato Puff. 

Two cups of mashed potato (that has been 
through a sieve) ; season with salt and pepper ; 
stir in two tablespoonfuls of butter, beat to a 
cream, add two well-beaten eggs, and one cup 
of cream. Pour into a baking dish, and bake 
in a hot oven. 
Puree of Vegetables. 

Put a tablespoonful of suet in a frying pan, 
add a sliced onion and carrot. Fry until a 
golden brown, turn the whole into a kettle, 
add a potato sliced, a few outside leaves of 
the cabbage, two talilespoonfuls of rice and 
two quarts of water. Simmer gently three- 
quarters of an hour, press it through a sieve, 
return it to the kettle, thicken with two table- 
spoonfuls of flour moistened in a little cold 
water, cook a moment, season and serve. 
Rhubarb Jam. 

Wash the young rhubarb, and cut it into 
pieces about an inch long. IJo not peel it. 
Weigh, and to each pound allow three-quart- 
ers of a pound of sugar, l^ut all in a porce- 
lain-lined kettle, bring slowly to a boil, then 
boil and stir continually for three-quarters of 
an hour. Put into jars or tumblers, and tie as 
directed. 
Orange Pudding. 

Peel three large oranges, cut them in thin 
slices, removing the seeds. Put them in a 
pudding-dish and sprinkle over them one tea- 
cupful of sugar. I5eat the yolks of two eggs 
with one tablespoonful of corn starch and two 
of sugar. Add a quarter-teaspoonful of salt 
and stir it into a pint of boiling milk. As 
soon as it thickens, remove it from the fire, 
and when it is cool spread it over the oranges. 
Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth with 
two heaping tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; 
put it over the top of the pudding and brown 
it very slightly in a hot oven. Serve cold. 



* NOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you don't get left. 
ClaBln'e best Cabiiiut I'liutugrapliB, »2 a do 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 



W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Rlater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worceiter, Maaa. 



* FffiST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. * 

Office, First National Bank Kuilding, 

■41.0 livlain. St., "'vl^T'orc ester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Ricture Frame Nl'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
En^avings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates. Etc. 

-^7 Park: St., Worcester. 



RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattress of any grade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We guarantee flrst-class work. 

13 Rark St., Worcester. 

Bring your Pictures and have them framed by 

I. R KU BI N, 

Manufacturer of 

PICTURE FRAMES 

and General Art Store- 
Studies to rent. Low prices and first-class work. 
220 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

LE * JOLLY i FRENCH i DYEING 

AND i CLEANSING i HOUSE. 

Flrst-Class Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gro.,s & Strauss. 
Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring It with 
yon and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. tT MELVIN. PKOl'KIETOK, WALNUT ST. 



WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Blace. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNUEKED IN SU- 
PER lO II STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO.. PROPS. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

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368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



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Light will be mailed to any address from now until 
March i, 1S91, for $1.25. 

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March i, 1891, for 51.25. 

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LI(iHT 

About the House. 

[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical liousekeepinK, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Kditor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

The proper way to brush the hair, .says a 
well known hairdresser, is not to brush it 
lengthwise, Init to hold the ends of the hair, 
if it is long enou.gh, and simply scrub the 
scalp with the brush. This promotes the cir- 
culation of the blood and excites the oil 
glands to action. After the hair has been 
thoroughly brushed in this way, it should be 
then finished with a few vigorous strokes 
lengthwise of the hair. 

*♦ If you are getting ready to travel, dress 
substantially. Better be too hot for two or 
three hours at noon than to be too cool for 
the remainder of the twenty-four. Arrange, 
under all circumstances, to be at the place of 
starting fifteen or twenty minutes before the 
time, thus allowing for unavoidable or unan- 
ticipated detention on the way. 

** The best if not entirely secure fasten- 
ing of your chamber door is a bolt on the in- 
side; if there is none on, lock the door, turn 
the key so that it can be drawn partly out, 
and put the wash basin under it : thus any 
attempt to use a jimmy or another key will 
push it out and cause a racket which will 
be pretty sure to rouse the sleeper and rout 
the robber. 

% To secure thorough sleep insulate each 
bed with glass. An Englishman who insu- 
lated his bedstead by placing underneath 
each post a broken-off bottle says that he 
had not been free from rheumatism or gout for 
fifteen years, and that he began to improve 
immediately after the application of thein.su- 
lators. 

%Iironzes may be plunged into boiling water 
until warm, then cleaned with soap-suds and 
dried with old linen cloths. If this is inef- 
fectual try beeswax and turpentine, rubbed on 
and off with clean, soft cloths; sweet oil 
and polishing with a chamois is another 
remedy. 

*» To keep the bright green color of .Sum- 
mer cabbage and some other vegetables, boil 
fast in plenty of water in which has been dis- 
solved a piece of washing soda the size of 
two peas ; cover until the water boils and 
then take off the lid. If the steam is shut in 
the water will be yellow and unsightly. 

*0 A shoemaker said a few days since that 
if men would adopt the English fashion of 
keeping their boots on trees they would get 
ten times the wear out of them. When the 
shoes are taken off they should be put on a 
tree at once. The leather is stretched to its 
full extent then, and all the wrinkles smoothed 
away. There is no chance for the leather to 
crack, as it does if the wrinkles are allowed to 
remain in one condition long. 

*tf Sunlight being indispensable to the pre- 
servation of the health, it is none the less in- 
dispensable to the sick in order to regain 
their health. Exclusion of sunlight from the 
sick room, unless it is imperatively necessary, 
is very unwise. The sick room should always 
be so located that the sun will shine into it as 
many hours daily as possible. 



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Frills and Plaits. 



*, The wool bareges worn a generation ago 
are revived for summer dresses, both in plain 
colors and brocaded with small blossoms, as 
gray barege with white flowers, black with 
green leaves, and dcru with roses. New 
veilings of thinnest wool have large separate 
blossoms embroidered amid the rows of drawn- 
work that border one selvage, as red veiling 
wrought with large black pansies, and black 
veiling with pans'es in all their natural tints. 
Ecru and gray batistes have bands of violet 
velvet ribbon applied as borders, with single 
long-stemmed violets embroidered over the 
fabric, while other creamy batistes have gold- 
thread borders of bands and vines most ex- 
quisitely wrought. 

*f Thin summer cashmeres in turquoise, 
mushroom, pale gray and bright red shades 
have small black lace flowers inserted all over 
the breadths, with rows of lace insertions at 
one edge for the foot of the skirt, the yoke and 
sleeve trimming. 

*» Among recently imported fabrics for 
summer gowns are diaphanous white nets and 
silk mousselines painted with flowers in their 
natural tints, arranged as a border near the 
selvage, and strewn in small sprays over the 
whole surface — roses, carnations, orchids or 
violets on pure white grounds. In black nets 
the new suggestion is cream white embroidery, 
representing real point lace wrought on a 
scalloped edge for the foot of the skirt, in a 
narrow insertion for trimming on the other 
edge, and in small sprigs in the spaces between. 

*» Small sunshades for carriage use are 
made of black net with colored ribbon, and 
also in a variety of new fabrics, and turn back 
against the handle. 

% A prominent feature of the toilettes at 
the seashore during the summer, and later in 
the season at country houses, will be the white 
cloth gowns, much braided with white silk 
braid mingled with gold. These gowns are 
the slender, sheath-like type, close at the front 
and sides, with a plain bodice and sleeves full 
on the shoulders. Those who have a preju- 
dice against an entire dress of white cloth still 
use white cloth to some e.xtent in the compo- 
sition of a summer-cloth gown of one of the 
light tints, pearl gray, light gray-blue or pale 
water-green. The sleeves, a wide vest and a 
reversed hem at the edges will be of wliite, 
sometimes covered with white and gold braid- 
ing. This order is reversed in other gowns, 
notably one of white cloth very simply cut, 
which has a reversed hem, full sleeves, and 
collar of beetle brown velvet. 

*« Walking skirts of sensible length, width 
and material are receiving considerable atten- 
tion, both in England and America, by ladies 
fond of outdoor e.\ercise in the country. They 
are 3)^ yards in width, and reach only to the 
ankles, or a little above. Rough serge or the 
so-called "blanketing" are the usual materials, 
either in dark or light gray. The jacket 
matches, and the costume is completed by a 
small sailor hat, neat collar and tie and thick- 
soled, flat-heeled boots, laced or buttoned, 
and very high in the leg. 



Facts for Fine Costumes. 



"I believe, Clara, I shall have to give up wearing Corsets this hot weather." 

"I should think you would if you are wearing those heavy, stiff things you showed me this 
forenoon." 

"They are imported — cost $4." 

"I don't care if they cost $40. I don't believe a thing is any better just bccase it's im- 
ported. Talk about imported corsets !" 

"Why, bless you, Harriet, I saw handsomer Corsets at 328 Main street, yesterday, than 
ever I saw in the whole three years I lived in Paris." 

"Of course you did, Aunt Clara, and 328 Main street is the favorite place in this city for 
Corsets. '■Royal Worcesters' are the standard every time." 

"That's so. Sue, you are right. My dressmaker made me go there and get fitted before she 
would cut my new reception dress." 

"Yes, and I saw there some of the most elegant Corsets I ever saw ; one was a beautiful 
^Bridal Corset,' — white satin — 

"Better speak for it Sue, you will need it before long, you know — (now don't blush.") 

"You better wait till somebody speaks for you, Miss Verdure ! Now don't get excited 
giris." 

"I bought me another Pongee Corset while I was there. I have worn my other a year. 
It isn't worn out, but I thought I would get me another." 

"A Pongee Corset, Clara?" 

"Yes, didn't you ever see one ?" 

"No, I always call for my old kind." 

"Well, you call for a Royal Worcester 608 Pongee." 

"Why, mother, 1 wore a Pongee all last summer, at Newport. They are the lightest and 
most genteel Corsets 1 ever saw. I won't have anything else." 

"Why didn't you tell me about them, Susie?" 

"Because mother, I knew you prided yourself on keeping up with the times, and so sup- 
posed, of course, you wore Pongees, or some other 'Royal Worcester' brand." 




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.fc COMPOUND VAPOR BATHS * 

ALSO 

Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These batlis are a luxury. Ladies and cliildren only. 
Hours, q to 12 a. m.: 2 to =; and 7 to 9 p. m. M KS. J. L. 
CUMMIXGS, 24'4 School Street, Worcester, Mass. 

If you want a piano that will last a life-tliue, 
get the celebrated 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO, 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 
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43 PLEASANT STRKKT. 

ARTHUR C. KING, 

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Summer Sizzlers. 

Not Our Finest. 

"Who was tlLit ringing at tlic front door 
last night .'" 

"The policeman." 

"What did he want.'" 

"He wanted the baby to stop crying. It 
kept him awake."— /,,>«,/(?« Tid Bits. 
And the Boarders Said Amen. 

"Don't you think," said a youth, after work- 
ing his vocal cords with intense vigor beside 
the hotel piano, "that I ought to go on the 
stage ?" 

"Yes," replied Miss Pepperton, who doesn't 
like him very well, "1 certainly do. There is 
one that leaves for the station just an hour 
and a half from novi."~Aft4sua/ Coiiritr. 
Patriotism and Business. 

M.\ui)(iP:--Yes, sir, I believe in putting an 
American flag over every school house and 
draping it in every school room. 

Gazzam : — You are very patriotic. 

Maddo.x :— That's what I am; and be- 
sides, I'm a heavy stockholder in a bunting 
factory.— ;;Vj/ Short: 
A White One. 

She: — What do you think is the popular 
color for a bride ? 

He:— Well, I don't know but that 1 am 
little particular about such things, Ijut I should 
prefer a modest white one. 
Out Where the Breakers Roar. 

Mr. Sealove (at his seashore cottage) : — 
My dear, please tell our daughter to sing 
something less doleful. 

Mrs. Sealove: — That is notour daughter, 
my love. That is the fog-horn. — A'ew York 
Weekly. 
Like the Coral Street Folks. 

"It was sad about Jobley's death," said one 
St. Paul man to another. 

"Yes ; very sad. Should think he could 
have waited till the census-taker had counted 
him." — A'ew York .Sun. 
Oh, the Wretch! 

"Ice is too expensive, Mary. You must get 
along without it." 

"But how am I to keep the beef fresh and 
the butter and milk cool ?" 

"You have a fan, haven't you ?" — Neii> York 
Sun. 
Seasonable. 

Mrs. Figg: — Ten dollars for this mirror.-' 
Last winter my sister bought one like it ex- 
actly for $7.50. What has caused this ad- 
vance .'' Is it the glass trust ? 

Dealer: — I think it's on account of the 
mercury being so high just now. 



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MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 




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Room 13, Knowles Building, 

r>l!S Main St., Worcester. 

|i;^'Elevator. 



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MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

■■Wi Mall. Str«el. Corner Maple, Won e»t«.r. Mu««. 

itS^Office hours— 9 to 12 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 

ment at the homes o( p,atients by appointment if d esired. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OP 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

"^s®- C Creeliaaan, Principal, 

44 Kront Street, WorceHfer, MaHa. 
Ei*- Typewriting done at reasonable rates durinir the 
summer. 



Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

^v^iss S. Xj. Xja-^:^rre3a.ce, 
ROOM 30, ■ - ■ ■ KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

DENTIST 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, fS per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

i^'A. lady assistant will be in attendance. 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
TURKIJH BflTH5. 

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Professional Manipulator, 

M assage. 

Personal attention. Hours 

S A.M. tQ9 p. M. Sundays, 

8 to 12 A. M. 



No, 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House. 

Worcester, Mass. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New Vork Training School, gives 

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and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 
4:iH Main St.. Worcealer. Maeg. 

UR. KKNISON, 

326 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Corns, Bunions and Bad Nails 
Treated Without Pain. 

Separate Rooms for Ladies and Gents. 

OFFICE HOUKS, 8 A. M. to 12, 1 to 5 P. M. 



Mrs. Dr,Win. Lee 

339 Main St., 

Burnside Building, 
Room 5. 

Office hours: Q to 
12.30: 2 to ;. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 1. 




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In the Courts. 



The element of uncertainty in contests be- 
tween lawn tennis players furnislies a large 
part of the pleasure which is attached to the 
game, and gives to it a zest which few other 
sports can claim without the aid of gambling. 
In a close-fought game, where a lucky stroke 
may win championship honors for one player 
or the other, interest cannot but be aroused 
and with the constant entrance of new players 
to the ranks of the "cracks," it is very fre- 
quently the unexpected that happens. 

No better illustration of this tact could be 
sought than the two unexpected defeats which 
have been experienced by the champions of 
America and of England, during the past 
week. The defeat of W. Kenshaw by W. J. 
Hamilton, at Wimbledon, England, takes the 
world's championship from the hands of the 
Renshavv family, where it has been securely 
held for a decade, and leaves the honor with a 
young Irish player who has fought his way 
brilliantly to the front. 

Slocum's defeat at Long Island by Hobart 
is of no great importance, the champion being 
in poor form and playing poorly, but it may, 
however, give confidence to some of the 
younger players and make the coming tourneys 
more exciting. 

Clarence Hobart, who with V. G. Hall, won 
the championship doubles at Staten Island, is 
making a brilliant record this year and is giv- 
ing some of the leaders a hard game. 

George F. Crocker, the Worcester county 
champion, has been a contestant at the tourna- 
ment at Manchester-by-the-Sea the past week. 



The Crompton Brothers have also been 
playing at Manchester-by-the-Sea, this week, 
but without much success. 



The Crescent Tennis Club entertained the 
Highland Lawn Tennis Club of Millbury, at 
its grounds on Freeland street, Tuesday, and 
in the matches which took place the visitors 
were more successful than their hosts. Scores 
were made as follows : 

Howard (Highland) beat Woodward; (Crescent), 6-0, 
6-0, 6-0. 

Woodward beat Whittemore (Crescent), 6-1, 2-6,5-7, 
6-4, 6-4. 

Sullivan (Highland) beat Temple (Crescent), 6-0, 6-1, 
6-1. 

In doubles: 

Sullivan and Lincoln (Highland) beat Woodward and 
Temple (Crescent), 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. 

Woodward and Howard beat Whittemore and Tem- 
ple, 6-0, 6-1. 6-1. 

SulUvan and Howard beat Whittemore and Crane 
(Crescent), 6-0, 6-0, 6-1. 

The Crescent Club will hold a tournament 
the third week in August. The prizes, which 
will be well worth winning, are to be given 
by different merchants in the city. The en- 
tries from outsiders will be limited to ten. 
Mr. L. E. Ware and Mr. H. L. Dadmun have 
already entered. 

The tennis courts which are to be laid out 
on the grounds of the Worcester Athletic 
Club, at Lake View, will not be ready for play 
for a month yet, certainly. They ought to be 
ready by September i, President Winslow 
says. 



Not a Musical Ear. 

Mr. DiiMPSEV : — Well, Johnny, what did 
you sing at Sunday-school.'' 

Johnny Dumpsev :— Oh, a boss hymn, pa ! 
It began : "I am a little greenhorn in a half 
of cheese." 

Fanny Dumpsey (indignantly): — It wasn't 
any such thing, pa! It was : "I am a little 
gleaner in the harvest sheaves." — Burlington 
Free Press. 

Some Hotel Proprietor Has It. 

The largest greenback in existence is of 
$10,000 value, and is the only one of its kind. 
At present it is not in our possession. — Mar- 
t/ia^s I'ineyard Herald. 

Now I Lay Me. 

Teacher : — Why, Flossie ! Can't you tell 
what p-r-a-y-e-r spells ? What's the last thing 
your ma says when she retires at night ? 

Flossie: — She asks papa if he's wound 
the clock and put the cat out. — Chicago Even- 
ing Post. 

Both Wanted It. 

At a big sale of bargain goods last week 
two ladies got hold of the last pair of cheap 
gloves at the same moment. Each gave a 
pull — a long pull and a pul! together. The 
glove did not part, and lady tartly remarked : 

"I got hold of them first." 

"1 beg your pardon, madam, I was the 
first one." Then each gave another pull at the 
gloves. 

"Ladies," said a clerk who had observed 
them, "we have six dozen of those same 
gloves." 

"I'm sure I don't want them," snapped one 
of the ladies, as she dropped her glove. 

"They're miles too big for me," retorted the 
other, as she dropped them on the counter. 



Let us all resolve, first, to attain the grace 
of silence ; second, to deem all fault-finding 
that does no good a sin, and to resolve, when 
we are happy ourselves, not to poison the at- 
mosphere for our neighbors by calling on 
them to mark every painful and disagreeable 
feature of their daily life ; third, to practise the 
grace and virtue of praise. — Harriet Bcecher 
Sto-we. 

A correspondent of the Spectator who loves 
birds' songs has had a happy idea in propos- 
ing that the wistful music should be taken 
down note for note by a sensitive phonograph. 
This done, the song could be reproduced 
leisurely, and "scored" by a competent musi- 
cian. "Thus," says he, "art and nature would 
go hand in hand." 



— The name "Johnny cake" is said to be 
derived from "journey cake," because emi- 
grants journing from New England to the 
West were oblige to bake their Indean meal 
cakes in the ashes of their camp-fires. 

The ancients were fond indeed of their dogs. 
It is said Homer erected a beautiful memorial 
to Argos, the dog owned by Ulysses — not out 
of marble, but in fervent verse that is far more 
enduring. When Ulysses, after his long 
wanderings, returned to his home in Ithaca, 
disguised as a beggar, his dog, then twenty 
years old, blind and feeble, was the first to 
recognize him. 



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NANTUCKET, MASS. 
Open the year around. Rates, $2.50 to $3.50 per day. 
CHARLES H. MOWRY, Proprietor. 

I^^SEND FOR CIRCULARS. 



PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— : o: — 

-4- Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* TRAYELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 




J. B. Woodworth. 



* ARCHITECT* 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 



C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Kstablished 1865.) 

The best goods, the most honorable dealing, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS AND IvIUSIC. 

454 MAIN STREET. 



4-WORCESTER DYE HOUSE-f 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Goods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 



H. ADAIVIS & SON. 
NIRS. C. A. ROBBINS, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMSH* 

No. 387 Main street. Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 



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Examiuation free. Satisfaction gTiarant«ed. 

With Chas. M. McFarland, Jeweler, 415 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

Flat to Let. 
One of the finest flats in Worcester, to let at a moder- 
ate price. Situated at 120 Elm street, facing Elm Park. 
Hot ai.d cold water, gas lighted by electricity, set tubs, 
ash-shoot, private front door and hall and piazzas, good 
yard. The building is new. Three large chambers, 
parlor, sitting-room, dining-room and kitchen with hard 
wood poUshed floors. Large bath room and roomy 
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Hub Doings. 

[regular CORRESrONDF.NCF. OV LIGHT.] 

Boston, July uS, 1890. 

It was a jolly, good-natured audience that 
very nearly filled the Museum last night to see 
the new comic opera, "Fauvette." Seldom, 
unless in the case of a benefit night, has this 
cozy theatre had such a large audience, and 
it was very cool and comfortable in the house. 
Perhaps this was one reason why everything 
seemed to go so well. It had been so long 
since Boston had enjoyed anything new in 
the operatic and dramatic line, that she 
seemed disposed to make up for lost oppor- 
tunities. Applause, encores, and tioral greet- 
ings were generously e.\tended throughout the 
entire performance. 

There is not much of any plot, hardly an 
apology for one, but the music is bright and 
pretty, the scenic display is first-class, the cos- 
tuming is quite picturesque, and the company 
on the whole is good, so it will probably draw- 
good houses while it runs. One thing notice- 
able is the absence of any topical .song, or 
local hits — without which the average comic 
opera seems to be lonesome. Doubtless this 
is a triumph artistically for the adapter, Mr. 
Woolf, of the Stjturday Evening Gazette; 
but a real live, good topical song, with plenty 
of vim and snap to it, is always enjoyed by 
the public, and has saved many a weak opera 
from failure. 

A few years ago there was always some 
light opera in town, during the summer, gen- 
erally at the Museum, and well patronized as 
a rule. Who does not remember of the success 
of "Fantine," where lively, vivacious Marie 
Jansen made her first real hit, and of such 
men as Howson and Wilson, in such produc- 
tions as the '• Chimes of Normandy,'' " The 
Mascotte," and " Olivette." Here too, Gilbert 
and Sullivan's most famous operas had their 
successful seasons from " Pinafore " down. 

Next month the Grand Army men will 
throng our streets and fill our hotels, and the 
Hub, hospitable as usual, and ever mindful 
of the noble heroes, will extend to them a 
most cordial welcome. Preparations have 
been made for months past to accommodate 
the big crowd. Rooms at the big hotels for 
the weeks the " boys " are to be here, are very 
hard to secure, and have been engaged for 
weeks. Strangers coming here then and run- 
ning their chances pot luck, will find them- 
selves left, I am afraid. Hotel and restaurant 
proprietors will have a harvest. All places of 
amusement will be well patronized. In fact, 
it promises to be one of the busiest and most 
memorable weeks the Hub has ever had. 
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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JULY 



26, 1890. 



No. 



Worcester is the Mecca of the farmers of 
New Enghind, and thither, in September, they 
make their annual pilgrimage, to exhibit the 
choicest of their live stock and the finest of 
their soil products, tangible evidence of their 
prowess as tillers of the soil. Worcester is 
proud of the great fair and welcomes the 
farmers of New England with never-failing 
regard. It is good for the people of a great 
mechanical city to look upon these proofs that 
the occupation of their fathers has not passed 
away. Lk;ht has heard the Farmer Governor 
of New Hampshire, D. H. Goodell, say that it 
is not true that New England is no longer a 
protitable agricultural country, and that it is, 
on the contrary, one of the best farming 
regions of the land. Be that as it may, the 
farmers of New England have no need to 
blush for that which they wrest from out these 
rugged hills and sometimes sandy plains. 
Light is ghid that the fair to be held in Sep- 
tember promises to be so successful an ex- 
position of the agricultural arts. 



One of the periodicals of the d.iy says that 
Mrs. Bonanza M.ackay is .advertising rewards 
for the detection of the person who circulated 
the infamous storj- that she once took in wash- 
ing in order to make an honest living. There 
are lots of people like this. But think of it— 
a woman ashamed of having done honest work 
when poverty left no alternative save dis- 
honesty. It is a sad thing, and a monstrous 
thing, too. The people whose evolution from 
poverty to riches and honor h.as been due to 
faithfulness in small beginnings are legion, 
and most of them are proud of it. Worcester 
has such people. One of its honored citizens 
to-day IS a man who, when a boy, walked into 
Worcester with his brother. They had tramped 
all the way from Maine. They were poor 
boys, but they had brams and they were 
honest. They founded one of the most 
famous enterprises of the world and their name 
is known wherever civilization has extended 
the bounds of trade. One is dead now : he 
died honored and respected. The other still 
lives and is active in his business. He has 
represented his ward in the legislature ; he has 
been an alderman ; he has done good with his 
money. He, too, is honored and respected. 
Once he had not money enough to pay his fare 
into the city. Worcester glories in the spunk 
of boys like these and so does every true 
American. When a woman like Mrs. Mackay 
thus advertises herself as having reached the 
pinnacle of snobbery, it disgusts decent people 
and outrages the idea of the republic. 

Suppose for a moment that this woman of 
millions had diverted from her great income 
one little golden stream, and founded a hospi- 
tal or a home for poor and broken down 
washerwomen. How many honest and intelli- 
jens women have been forced into the occu- 
pation by the clamor of fatherless children for 
5read and clothing ! How many have worn 
)ut noble lives in this way, which the world 



has heeded not ! Had she made .such a use 
of her wealth, what a garland of gratitude and 
honor might she have won ! Instead, she re- 
pudiates the humble occupation of earlier days 
and would have the world believe that she is 
of blood royal. Poor Mrs. Mackay ! Better 
to have been a poor washerwoman and be- 
loved by a few people, and honest, than a rich 
and famous snob. But the glittering gew- 
gaws of the Four Hundred were too much for 



The people of Worcester are generally in- 
dignant at the report of the census, which 
makes the figures representing the city's popu- 
lation so much lower than was expected, and 
in view of the careless, unfaithful and slipshod 
work which the local enumerators appear to 
have done, there will be a general protest 
against the making of this report final. Mayor 
Harrington's prompt complaint to Supervisor 
Wadlin was timely and ought to be heeded. 
The general sentiment is that there should be 
a carefully conducted recount. LifiHT be- 
lieves that the report of 82,000 people, or a 
little more, falls far short of the true figures. 
Everything goes to show that the population 
is nearly, if not ([uite, 85,000. A recount is 
what Worcester wants, and unless Supervisor 
Wadlin sees fit to grant it, a petition to the 
head of the department, at Washington, should 
be immediately prepared. 



LuiHT has no desire to condemn the Chri.s- 
tian Crusaders, just becau.se it is popular to 
do so, and it can even endure the compli- 
cations produced by a brass band apparently 
without a leader ; but when the strains of 
"Down at the Cross" float out upon the twi- 
light air, only to be immediately followed by 
"Marching Through Georgia," it is curious to 
know where this sort of thing will end. The 
Lord can be praised just as well by a brass 
band as by a church organ, but some depth of 
solemnity and appropriateness is demanded in 
the selections played. It would hardly do to 
have a church choir introduce among the 
anthems, to-morrow morning, "Tramp, Tramp, 
Tramp," or "The Wearing of the Green." 



We need the long-delayed rain liadly 
enough, by this time, goodness knows. The 
soil thirsts for it; the crops demand it; and 
humanity would like it, if for no other reason 
than to be rid of watering the lawns and the 
streets for a day or two. But as misery loves 
company, we can pause to reflect that thous- 
ands of miles away one of our cousins is yearn- 
ing for it with a yearning we know not of. 
It is the patron saint of the dudes— the 
I'rince of Wales. 



Li(;ht experiences a feeling of regret every 
time it sees a tree fall beneath the axe, but 
how much more seriously must it regard the 
maiming or disfiguring of one. Nature has 
given us nothing more inspiring or useful or 
beautiful than the trees. Seek out those 



towns where vi.sitors s.ay, "Mow beautiful a 
place! and invariably they are found to 
have beautiful trees. Such arc Lancaster and 
I'lttsfield and Westfield and scores of others 
Ihanks to an intelligent parks commission, 
Worcester has retained its best trees as few 
cities of its size have done, and to preserve and 
foster them is one of the duties of every good 
citizen. Mow could Lu.Hr hut feel indignant, 
a few days since, when a great blundering 
fellow, perched upon a street-watering cart 
while attempting to turn it about and also 
trade gossip with a friend mounted upon a 
similar cart, so carelessly guided his horses 
that the pole .struck a handsome young tree 
on Main street, just in front of Hammond, 
and gouged out a great piece of the bark and 
woody fibre. It left an ugly .scar and perhaps 
a permanent injury to the tree. There ought 
to be a penalty for such carelessness, just as 
there should be for allowing a horse to gnaw 
at a tree-trunk or for mischievous boys who 
club or stone the limbs. Too many of our 
trees are wholly destroyed, as it is. Let us 
keep what we have as long as it is possible to 
do so. 



I he great gathering of the old-time war- 
riors, at Boston, next month, will be one of 
the grandest sights witnessed in America 
since the war and one of the most inspiring 
and soul-stirnng as well. Not many years are 
left for these grand reviews. The children of 
the men who preserved this country may wit- 
ness them now and remember them hereafter, 
but soon their fathers will march in line no 
more. Let no son or daughter of a veteran, 
who can by any possible means attend the 
Encampment, neglect to do so. It will be a 
pleasure; is it not something of a duty.' 



When Anthony Comstock gets through 
with his job of clothing the statues in the 
various museums of the country, he might 
come to Worcester and try his hand with the 
irrepressible urchins who insist on going for 
swimming parties at the Lake without due 
respect for the municipal laws. The boys mean 
no harm, but they are careless and thought- 
les.s. It makes more and more apparent 
the urgent need for the erection and main- 
tenance of public bathing houses. 



A Chicago clergyman has said a harsh 
thing— that the terrible disaster at Lake 
I'epin, in Minnesota, whereby more than one 
hundred people perished, was a judgement of 
(iod upon tho.se who were pleasure-seeking 
on the Sabbath. LlcnT wants the Sabbath 
to be kept as man's needs require that it 
should be kept and an allwise Providence has 
decreed : but it al.so believes that one of the 
greatest of all divine commands is written in 
the words: "Judge not." What would this 
clergyman have said if the Johnstown disaster 
of a year ago had occurred on a Sunday ? 




' y y;/^(^CEsjER^A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy, 
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F. E. KENNEDY, Publisher. 

Offices, 339 Main Street, Burnside Building. 

Telephone No. 141-5. 

Entered at the Post-Office, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 

Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
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happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 

Worcester, Saturday, July 26, 1890. 

Light Sent Out of Town. 

Subscribers to Light who leave the city during the 
summer can have their papers sent to any address they 
may desire, and changed as often as wanted. Buyers of 
Light can have any issue or number of issues mailed to 
them by paying the usual price per copy, five cents. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



July 26: Sun rises at 4.31 A. m. ; sets at 
7.10 p. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 39 minutes. 
Full moon, July 31, 4 hours, 24 minutes, even- 
ing, E. 

Miss Lottie Dame was married on Monday 
to Mr. Joseph L. Dean, of the firm of Paine 
& Dean, sign painters. The ceremony was 
performed by Rev. W. V. W. Davis, at The 
Manse, on Ashland street, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Dean went quietly away for a trip through the 
Connecticut Valley. 



Miss Carrie Manthorne's friends in Lincoln 
Square Baptist Church called on her last Mon- 
day evening, at Mr. George I). Hart's resi- 
dence, 53 Main .street, made her a present and 
spent an agreeable evening. 

During the latter part of May, Mr. George 
P. Critcherson and family, who have resided 
in Worcester for many years past, moved to 
Savin Hill, near Boston, the better to ac- 
commodate Mr. Critcherson, who was for- 
merly one of the leading photographers in our 
city, but who is now in a similar business in 
Boston. Some of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. 
Critcherson, residing in this city, desiring to 
express to them their regrets at losing sucli 
valued companions from their daily life, de- 
cided to take possession of their place of resi- 
dence on the fourth of July, which they did, 
and a right royal good time was experienced 
by all. The party left here on the early morn- 
ing train for Boston, and returned on the late 



LICiHT 

train at night. A most abundant supply of 
refreshments was offered. Games of whi.st, 
base ball, foot ball, etc., were entered into 
with zeal, considering the great heat of the 
day. In the evening a very liberal display of 
fire works was made on the lawn in front of 
the house. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. J. 
B. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Pink- 
ham, Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hayter, Mr. and 
Mrs. P. F. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. 
Ball, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Hollis, Mr. and 
Mrs. Jacob Holden, son and daughter, Mr. 
and Mrs. W. H. Seaver and daughter, Mr. 
and Mrs. L. A. Hastings, son and daughter, 
Mr. J. Henry Waohburn and Mr. Frank W. 
Washburn, Mrs. Anna Allen, Miss Lilla Belle 
Allen, Mr. William McCready, all of Worces- 
ter, and Mr. and Mrs. Richardson of Boston. 
As the time to leave for home drew near all 
joined in singing "Auld Lang Syne," and ex- 
pressed to the host and hostess the great 
pleasure they had enjoyed throughout the 
whole day. 

Mr. George F. Hutchins, of the Knowles 
Loom Company, has been granted a patent 
for a harness mechanism for looms. 



People on the street Tuesday afternoon won- 
dered at seeing the police patrol wagon, drawn 
by a fine span of black horses, conveying 
through the streets our handsome mayor and 
our dignified city marshal, accompanied by 
several strangers. The latter were members 
of the city government of Lawrence. They 
came here to inspect the workings of the police 
telephone and visual signal system. The 
party of visitors included Mayor John W. 
Crawford, Aldermen Frederick M. Libbey 
and Otis Freeman, Jr., Councilman Robert 
Barker, Chief of Police Clinton P. Vose and 
City Clerk W. T. Kimball. They were driven 
about the city and agreeably entertained. From 
here they went to New Haven. 

Mr. Rufus M. Taft, state evangelist, spoke 
at the seventh annual bible conference at Cres- 
cent Beach, last Tuesday. His subject was, 
"The Bible as a means of leading souls to 
Christ." 

Some one has been compiling statistics con- 
cerning the legislature of 1S90. Among the 
young men is mentioned Representative 
Sprout, whose age is given as thirty-one. 
There were only twelve members less than 
thirty years of age. For personal char.acter- 
istics, only three of Worcester's representa- 
tives were mentioned. "Sprout," the statisti- 
can says, "was eloquent ; Glasgow was judicial; 
Moriarty was entertaining." 



Rev. Archibald McCuIlagh, D. D., pastor of 
the Ross street Presbyterian Church, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., will preach at Plymouth 
Church, to-morrow, at 10.30 A. m. and 7.30 p. m. 



Alderman A. Frank Gates entertained a 
party of friends at Quinsigamond Park last 
.Saturday. It was one of those occasions where 
there is no ceremony and all have a good 
time. A shore-dinner was served and after a 
good time the party returned on the \'enus 
early in the afternoon. Among those present 
were : Mayor Francis A. Harrington, City 
Marshal W. .Ansel Washburn, Alderman 
A. Frank Gates, Councilman Henry G. Taft, 



Mr. R. James Tatman, Gen. Robert H. Cham- 
beriain, Mr. Charles F. Mann, Mr. R. W. Clif- 
ford, Mr. George P. Kendrick, Mr. E. H. Ken- 
drick, Mb Jesse Smith, Mr. David H. Hay- 
ter, Mr. Charies N. Hair, Mr. C. H. Wood- 
cock, Mr. Waldo E. Sessions, Mr. George 
Sessions, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Warren, Mr, 
A. F. Prentice, Mr. H. A. Green, Mr. John B. 
Watson, Councilman C. H. Pinkham, 
Mr. J. A Rice, Mr. L. E. Brooks, Dr. P. P. 
Carney, of Clinton ; Mr. William Goss, Mr. A. 
J. Magna, of Holyoke; Mr. F. M. Clark, Mrs. 
J. A. Lowe and son and Miss Grace Kennedy, 
of Danvers; Mrs. A. F. Whittemore and son, 
Mrs. A. L. Sawyer, Miss Emma Whittemore, 
Mrs.C. H. Benchley, Edward Wright,|Captain 
Hiram R. Williamson, Mr. C. S. Cook, Miss 
Hall, Miss Drennan, Dr. O. F. Harris, Mr. J. 
F. Warren, Mrs. Walter B. Barnard, Miss 
Lena Thompson, Miss Sadie Hallett, Mr. M. 
D. Mirick, and Mrs. F. G. Davis of Water- 
bury, N. Y. 

Mrs. Ella M. Keith gave a 5 o'clock tea, for 
Miss Gertrude E. Bone, of Quinsigamond, on 
Monday. 

Miss Addie M. Blenus, a daughter of Mr. 
Charles W. Blenus, was married on Wednes- 
day, at her father's residence on May street, 
to Mr. J. William Patston, the architect. Rev. 
Francis A. Gray, pastor of All Souls Uni- 
versalist Church, performed the ceremony. 
Those present were for the most part mem- 
bers of the two families interested. Mr. and 
Mrs. Patston started for a drive to Framing- 
ham, where they will remain for a time. 

The Worcester pastors were pretty generally 
in their pulpits, last Sunday, although Dr. 
Mears is still away, with one or two others. 
At the Old South, Rev. S. P. Wilder of 
Janesville, Wis., formerly of North Brookfield, 
preached ; at Piedmont, Rev. Ebeneezer Cut- 
ler, D. D., preached in the morning and Rev. 
William G. Tuttle in the evening; at the 
South Unitarian, Rev. Mary T. Whitney of 
Millbury preached ; at the Lincoln Square Bap- 
tist, Rev. C. M. Bowers, D. D.; at the South 
Baptist, Rev. A. R. Mitchell of North Ux- 
bridge ; at Grace, Rev. Edward Everett Aber- 
crombie ; at the Church of Christ, Prof. A. M. 
Chamberlain of Lincoln. Neb. 



The laying of the corner-stone of the new 
Pleasant Street Baptist Church will take place 
Tuesday, August 5. 



The secretary of Harvard University re- 
ports that Worcester boys have passed the ex- 
aminations recently held here under the direc- 
tion of Mr. Charles Martin Thayer, 'S9, as 
proctor, as follows : Preliminaries — J. W. 
Loynd, Edward H. Warren, G. A. Ellsworth, 
Edward A. D. Moss, Edward Melius, Earl 
Brown, A. M. Morse, Roger B. Merriman, J. 
Sargent, S. A. Lawton, Alexander H. Bullock, 
M. Lincoln and H. H. Chamberiain; finals— 
Charles B. Earle, Lincoln Davis, Reginald H. 
Washburn, L. E. Carr, Herbert C. Lakin, 
Frank F. Dresser, Chandler Bullock, William 
H. Morse, Jr. 

The fall term of Mr. Charies E. Fish's 
school for boys is to open September 10, when 
the new principal, Mr. John W. Dalzell, will 



enter upon his duties. Mr. Dalzell comes 
highly recommended, and is especially fitted 
for this work, since he has prepared boys for 
Harvard for ten years past. The gentlemen 
of the advisory board feel much gratified at 
having been able to secure his services. 

The Sunday school picnic .season may be 
considered as veritably closed with the closing 
of the present week. On Tuesday, Laurel 
Street Church picnicked at (juinsigamond 
Park, on Wednesday the Presbyterians went 
to the same place, and the Free Baptists were 
there on Thursday. On Thursday, also, the 
German Lutherans picnicked at Woodlawn 
Grove. 

Rev. Calvin Stebbins is to preach in Mont- 
pelier, Vt., to-morrow. 

The mills of the Wicks Manufacturing Com- 
pany are to go into active operation again, Mr. 
Joseph F. Wicks and Mr. Godfrey K. Mellor 
having formed a copartnership. They will 
manufacture worsteds, running about thirty 
looms. Mr. Mellor's drug business will be 
managed by Mr. Walter K. Mellor. 



Mr. J. L. Morse's residence on Webster 
street was the scene of a pleasant party 
Thursday evening. About fifty members of 
the Granite State Social Union assembled 
there and played whist, as well as enjoying 
other diversions. Dr. J. P. Rand read several 
pleasing selections. 

Mr. W. H. Kinnicutt, who was joint mana- 
ger with Mr. A. B. Swart of the A. F. Bur- 
bank Co., has sold his interest in the store and 
is at present visiting in Connecticut. In 
August he will attend the summer session of 
the School for Christian Workers at Spring- 
field. The object of the summer sessions is 
the promotion of physical culture. Mr. Kinni- 
cutt will probably enter Association work in 
the fall. 

Mr. W. D. Berry, who has had charge of 
the Y. M. C. A. boat-house during the absence 
of Mr. Plummer, and has been extremely pop- 
ular by reason of his uniform courtesy and 
good nature, will also attend the summer ses- 
sion of the School for Christian Workers. 



The people of the First Presbyterian Church 
find Curtis Hall too small for their rapidly 
growing numbers. The Sunday services will 
be held in Horticultural Hall after the first of 
September, and some smaller hall in which to 
hold the weekly prayer meetings will be 
secured. 

Mr. Horace M. Hedden, who sold his Ash- 
land street house to the Pleasant Street Bap- 
tist Church, is to become a South End resi- 
dent once more. He has purchased a lot con- 
taining i,8oo square feet of land, on King 
street, and will at once erect on it a house in 
colonial style. Mr. Hedden formerly resided 
on Woodland street. 

Rev. William E. Merriman, D. D., of Bos- 
ton, a brother of Rev. Daniel Merriam, D. I)., 
is to preach at Central Church tomorrow. 

Mr. A. H. Brooks, the predecessor of Mr. 
Fred H. Blake as organist at Union Church, 
is now located in Denver, Col. 



The Vacationers. 

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Allen, Col. Levi 
Barker and Miss Lizzie H. Barker were in the 
White Mountains a week ago with a Raymond 
excursion party. 

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hancox, and Mrs. 
Hancox's sister, Miss Lillian French, of Hud- 
son, have been having a delightful trip in the 
White Mountains. They were at the Summit 
House a week ago. 



Mrs. R. M. Fairbanks has been visiting her 
daughter, Mrs. Pratt, in North Milford. 



Misses Mary and Clara Hayes are among 
recent visitors to Milford. 



Mr. Everett Rhodes is spending his vacation 
at his home in Grafton. 



Mr. Rufus B. Fowler is at "The Uplands," 
Bethlehem, N. H., and will remain there until 
September i. 

Miss Ida W. Johnson is spending the sum- 
mer at Shrewsbury. 



Mrs. Charles E. Grover and Mrs. Lettie L. 
Haskell of th's city are registered at the Co- 
lumbian, Saratoga Springs. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Whitney have been 
visiting Mrs. Whitney's parents at South Mil- 
ford. 

Mr. Robert S. I'arks, of Fitchburg, Poly- 
technic Institute '91, is on a trip to the Azores. 



Mrs. J. Davis has been visiting her sister, 
Mrs. G. H. Partridge, in Winchendon. 



Mr. Frank B. Hall leaves to-night for Old 
Orchard Beach, Me., where he will spend a 
week, and next Saturday he will join a party 
of Worcester boys at Wadley Falls, N. H., 
where they are to manufacture, jointly, sum- 
mer diversion. The party will include, beside 
Mr. Hall, Messrs. Harry L. Dadnum, Frank 
E. Bradford, Arthur J. Bassett,W. F. Burieigh 
and W. N. Stark. 

Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Robbins are visiting 
friends in West Medway. 



Judge and Mrs. Samuel Utley are living for 
the summer at Kirby Hotel in Grafton. 



Mr. Thomas Fletcher is visiting friends in 
Truro, N.S. 

Mr. H. T. Starkey and Misses Effie and 
Nettie Starkey have also gone to Nova Scotia. 
They are at Monkton. 

Watch Hill, R. I., is where Mrs. J. H. 
Clarke and family are getting ocean breezes. 



Col. A. George Bullock and his family have 
been at Bar Harbor for several days. 



Mrs. James G. Alexander, Miss Alexander 
and Mrs. William Rowan are making a stay of 
several weeks at the Vineyard. 



Mi.ss May C. Whitmore, of 22 Portland 
street, is enjoying herself in Milwaukee and 
Chicago this month, and writes her friends 
that she is delighted with her trip and with 



Chicago, the great metropolis of the west. 
She will remain in that vicinity until the G. A. 
R. encampment in Boston, August 12. Her 
mother, Mrs. Whitmore, returned Monday, 
very much pleased with the western tour. 

Rev. Henry A. Stimson, formcriy pastor of 
Union Church, and now of St. Louis, with 
Mrs. Stimson is spending the summer at East- 
hampton, L. L 

Mr. Charies Newton and Master Ned New- 
ton have been at Paxton this week. 



Dr. John O. Marble and his family are at 
Watch Hill, R. L 

Mr. Charles H. Carpenter's people are at 
their cottage in Cottage City, and are enter- 
taining there Mrs. Narcissa Warden. 

Other Cottage City dwellers just now are 
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Warren, and Mrs. 
Alexander H. Dean and daughters. 

Alderman and Mrs. George C. Whitney are 
at their Westminster summer residence. 



The Misses Swan, daughters of Mr. George 
Swan, have been spending several days in 
I'axton. 

Mr. D. H. Eames and his family are at 
Rockland, Me. 

Mr. Lewis Dean and his family are occupy- 
ing their recently purchased cottage at Cottage 
City. 

Mr. Frank J. Darrah, the artist, is at Var- 
mouthport. 

Mrs. Charles M. Farnum is visiting friends 
in Taunton. 



Mrs. Edward E. Longley is at the Cheshire 
Hotel, Fitzwilliam, N. H., and will spend the 
summer there. 

Rev. Charles H. Pendleton, pastor of the 
Main Street Baptist Church, spends his vaca- 
tion at Warwick, R. I. 

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Lovell and Misses 
Grace M. and Alice Bigelow will spend the 
summer, as usual, at Kennebunk Beach, Me. 
They went there last Thursday. 



Misses Mary, Eleanor and Catherine Camp- 
bell will visit relatives in Vermont during the 
coming month. 

Miss Georgie Stone and Miss Elizabeth 
Hopkins are with friends at Tennant Harl>or, 
Me. 

Mr. William H. liurns and his family are at 
Strawberry Hill, Nantasket. 



Mrs. Eliza Croome, of 133 Pleasant street, 
has been .spending this week at Lake \'iew. 
South Framingham, at theChautauqa A.ssem- 
bly. 

Mrs. William H. Jourdan has been at Glou- 
cester for a week or more. 



Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Brown have been 
at Newport this week. 



Mrs. Charles Blake and her .son, Elwyn 
Blake, have been visiting Mrs. W. F. Taylor, 
in Webster, this week. 



L I<i H Ti: 



Senator Parker. 



Among those of our citizens who have been 
sent by Worcester to the General Court of 
Massachusetts, in the past few years, none 
has been more entitled to the respect and re- 
gard of his constituents than the gentleman 
whose portrait Light has pleasure in pre- 
senting on the first page of its present issue. 

Senator Parker is essentially Worcester's 
senator, for the district which he represents, 
the First Worcester, includes six wards of the 
city, one, four, five, six, seven and eight, in- 
cluding 10,768 legal voters. Wards two and 
three are a part of the Fourth Worcester dis- 
trict, which includes, also, the city of Fitch- 
burg, and the towns of Holden, Lancaster, 
Leominster, Lunenburg, Princeton, Sterling, 
West Boylston and Westminster, the senator 
from which is Hon. Alfred S. Pinkerton. 

Senator Parker has of course been the 
cynosure of many eyes during his two years 
in the Senate. He was elected to succeed a 
man whose record had been a good one dur- 
ing the years 1887 and 1 888— Hon. Ed- 
win T. Marble, and he was looked to 
for an equally favorable representation 
of the district. His constituents have not 
been disappointed. Senator Parker's work 
at the State House has been marked by sound 
statesmanship, thoughtful utterances and un- 
varying wisdom. He ranks next to the presi- 
dent of the Senate, being the chairman of the 
committee on judiciary, a post at which his 
service has been unusually valuable. 

It is impossible for all the people to be 
personally acquainted with those whom they 
choose to represent them in the councils of 
state or nation. Neither have they time or 
opportunity to examine into the records or the 
qualifications of their public servants. They 
must intrust largely to the leaders of political 
parties the selection of such men as will do 
honorable work and creditably represent 
them. Worcester has been, generally speak- 
ing, fortunate in its representatives, and it has 
been a source of satisfaction to the public 
that the delegation at the State House should 
be a good one ; but as the public official is the 
servant of the people, their desire to know 
what he is and has been in his private life, is a 
perfectly natural one, and, far from being due 
to morbid curiosity, it is a just and legitimate 
desire. 

Like many of his colleagues in the General 
Court, Henry Langdon Parker is a lawyer. 
He is a Massachusetts man, for he was born 
at Acton, in the county of Middlesex, October 
7, 1832. Being, therefore, not quite fifty-eight 
years of age, he is in that prime of life when 
men are supposed to possess the greatest 
acumen in matters of judgment and to be best 
fitted for ripe and sober statesmanship. 

Mr. Parker prepared for college at Appleton 
Academy, in New Ipswich, N. H., and at 
Lawrence Academy, Groton. He entered 
Dartmouth College in 1852, and was gradu- 
ated, in the regular course of events, with 
the class of '56, having among his classmates 
Governor Prescott and Lieutenant-Governor 
Haile. 

For a time, Mr. Parker became pedagogue, 
and was for a brief period principal of an 
academy in South Woodstock, Conn. He 
then began studying law, being for a time in 



the office of Peter C. Bacon, and in 1859 was 
admitted to the bar in Worcester. He prac- 
tised for a time in Hopkinton, but in 1865 he 
located in Worcester, and has practised law 
here ever since. For almost twenty years he 
had an office in Flagg's block, but since 
the Walker building became "The Wasps' 
Nest" he has occupied a room there, in com- 
pany with Mr. George H. Mellen. 

In 1870, Mr. Parker first occupied the house 
where he still resides, on Main street, at the 
South End, and ward seven has had in him a 
worthy citizen. Though a quiet and unde- 
monstrative man, he impresses one at once as 
being a "solid citizen," and his deliberative 
manner bespeaks the thoughtful man, who 
weighs well what he may say or do. 

Had Mr. Parker pushed himself to the fore, 
he would undoubtedly have been an official 
representative of the people long before his 
public service actually began. But being, as 
has been said, a quiet man, he waited until 
the office sought him. Perhaps the large 
measure of respect and confidence which is 
his, is to a certain extent due to this fact. 

In 1882 he was elected a member of the 
school board from ward seven, and being re- 
elected at the close of his term, he served con- 
tinuously until January, 188S, in that capacity. 
Mr. Parker was elected to represent ward 
seven at the General Court in 1886, during 
which year he was a member of the commit- 
tees on probate and insolvency and on drain- 
age. He was returned to the House in the 
following year, 1887, and during that year in- 
troduced a bill to require savings banks 
throughout the commonwealth to report and 
publish lists of unclaimed deposits. The com- 
mittee on banks and banking, and the savings 
banks commissioners, strenuously opposed 
the bill, but the justice of the measure was 
generally recognized, and it became a law. It 
is one of the best acts ever fathered by a 
Worcester representative. After its passage, 
over $600,000 which had lain unclaimed in the 
banks was turned over to the rightful owners, 
and a great deal has since been similarly 
placed. It was a simple question of the 
money being in the hands of wealthy corpor- 
ations who had no right to it or going to the 
relatives of the original depositors — many of 
them, of course, being poor people. It is a 
well-known fact that people often deposit 
money in banks without informing their fami- 
lies or friends. In the event of sudden death, 
the heirs know nothing of it. The publication 
of the lists which Mr. Parker's bill required 
brought to hundreds of people news of money 
to which they were entitled and would other- 
wise never have received. 

While in the House, also, Mr. Parker did 
wise and active work for Worcester in the 
fight over the sewage which made Millbury so 
nervous, but his efforts were not seconded to 
to the best advantage. He was also instru- 
mental in securing the passage of the bill re- 
quiring the teaching in the public schools of 
the hygienic effects of the use of alcohol. 

In 1S8S Mr. Parker remained quietly at 
home, but in the fall of that year, he was 
looked upon as the proper man to succeed 
Hon. Edwin T. Marble as senator from the 
First Worcester district. To this position he 
was elected, and doing the year 1889 he served 



as a member of the committees on judiciary 
and on rules, and was chairman of the com- 
mittee on public service. 

Last fall he was re-elected to the Senate 
and during the present year has had the hon- 
orable distinction of being chairman of the 
committee on judiciary, which is reckoned as 
being the highest ofiice after the presidency. 
He has also been chairman of the committee 
on rules, and chairman of the committee on 
election laws. Senator Parker has of late 
been brought particularly to the notice of the 
people of the commonwealth from the fact 
that he introduced the order calling for the 
West End Railroad investigation, and was 
chairman of the investigating committee. 

Throughout his legislative career, Senator 
Parker has shown himself to be an honest, 
able, straightforward servant of the common- 
wealth. He has won the confidence of the 
people because he has merited it, and the 
subtle chicanery of politics has not furnished 
the reason or the method for his elevation to 
the positions which he has held. 

In his private life, Mr. Parker has won the 
regard and esteem of all who know him. As 
had been said, he is quiet in the bearing and 
thoughtful in his speech, but to those whom 
he meets on intimate terms, a delightful con- 
versationalist, the most refined language be- 
ing the vehicle of his speech, while his dis- 
cussion of affairs of the day is always penetra- 
tive and entertaining, made not less so by 
his appreciation and occasional graceful use 
of the humorous. 

Mr. Parker is something of a horticulturist, 
having a garden in which he gratifies his 
love for the raising of flowers and fruits, and 
he has been for fifteen years a member of the 
Worcester Horticultural Society. Two years 
ago he was elected its president, and still oc- 
cupies that position. 

Mr. Parker is the senior warden of St. 
Marks Episcopal Church, which he assisted 
in organizing during the fall of 1887. He has 
also been a director of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association. 

He is a member of the Dartmouth College 
Alumni Association and of the fraternity of 
Psi Upsilon. 

Mr. Parker, now a widower, has been twice 
married, his first wife being Isabel H. Mason, 
a daughter of Rev. David Mason, and his 
second, Helen F. Gooding, a daughter of J. 
Gooding, Esq., of Bristol, R. I. He has five 
children living. The eldest, Mr. Henry L. 
Parker, Jr., is a graduate of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, and is now in the census department at 
Washington. Miss Grace A. Parker, his elder 
daughter, was graduated at the Normal Art 
School in Boston last June. Mr. William 
H. Parker, another son, has been admitted to 
the Polytechnic Institute, but owing to ill 
health has not yet entered. Another son, Mr. 
George L. Parker, a young man of great 
promise, and well known in many circles of 
the city, died not long ago. Beside these, Mr. 
Parker has two younger children, a son and a 
daughter. 

Because of his character as a man and a 
citizen, and his services for the state, Mr. 
Parker will be long remembered and honored. 
Light is glad to express in some measure the 
esteem in which he is held. 



Eyes and Ears. 



BY THE I'ROWLKK. 



It has often seemed to me curious that so 
few men wear button shoes. Lacings are the 
popular fastenings and probably ninety per 
cent, of the men who wear easy shoes choose 
that kind. They contend that they are easier 
to fasten and that they look better. I don't 
think they do look better, and with the patent 
button fasteners we have nowadays, and, con- 
sequently, no dropping off of buttons, it seems 
to me it's as easy to wield a buttonhook as it 
is to try and coax into relationship refractory 
strings and eyelets. If button shoes are 
properly fitted, they wear to look well until 
worn out. I find the cheapest way to wear 
shoes is to have two similar pairs constantly 
on hand, and wear them alternately. In this 
way, two pairs will wear about as long as three 
which are worn one after the other and dis- 
carded. As for the button shoes, though, 
there are a few choice spirits who stick by 
them. There is one Main street shoe store 
which does a very large business, and they tell 
me that they have only five regular customers 
who call for button shoes — this out of several 
hundred, probably. But I notice occasionally 
a citizen who wears them. District Attorney 
Francis A. Gaskill is one ; Treasurer Charles 
M. Bent is another; and Mr. John M. Barker 
is another. 

It is the season of casual encounters in the 
railway stations. People who suppose one 
another to be hundreds of miles away, or who 
have lost all idea where to place one another, 
meet by chance, one going east, another south, 
north or west. It is one of the pleasant things 
about the summer that these glimpses of famil- 
iar faces come in this way. There is a flavor 
of cordialitj' in these chance meetings ; a pleas- 
ant sense of one's having friends though they 
be scattered by the absurd customs of the sea- 
son. One likes his neighbor the better for 
having shaken hands with him in the minute 
between the coming of one train and the going 
of another. There is just a mere scrap of talk, 
a word of gossip, a tiny bit of a story, a bon 
mot, and away both speakers whisk in opposite 
directions. It is certainly one of the pleas- 
antest features of vacation season. 



I rode out of Boston a few days ago and, 
instead of trj'ing to spoil my eyesight, like the 
young woman across the way, who was reading 
a fine-type novel, I occupied myself in wonder- 
ing about my fellow-passengers. Right in 
front of me sat two young men of prepossess- 
ing appearance, and as their conversation 
became a debate and then a heated argument, 
people about them could not but hear it. It 
waa about religion, and one, I found, was a 
Congregationalist and the other seemed to be 
a Baptist. They argued shrewdly and per- 
sistently. "Vou don't seem to admit that you 
have any faults about your creed or your 
polity," finally said the Baptist — if he was a 
Baptist. "That's all right," said the other ; 
"I've told you why I think you're wrong in 
some respects and we're right. Perhaps I'm 
wrong, but I'm as stalwart a Congregationalist 
as I am stalwart a republican." The train 
had reached South Framingham by this time 



lylClHT 

and an active-looking man of middle age, who 
sat in the seat in front of the theological de- 
Ijaters, gathered up his belongings and pre- 
pared to leave. .As lie did so, lie faced about 
and said to the young man who had proclaimed 
himself a "stalwart": "My friend, there is 
one thing better then being a Congregation- 
alist." "What is that, sir?" was the reply. 
"Being a Christian," said the gentleman, and 
he left the train. "Do you know who that 
was?" said the party who occupied the seat 
with me, chuckling. "No," said I ; "who is 
it .'" "That is Dr. D— ," he said, "and lie is 
one of the ablest men in the Congregational 
Church, in the country." The young man 
ought to have known it, too. It might have 
done him good. 

Worcester has a lot of sensible boys whose 
birth with the golden spoon in their mouths 
has cast no shadow of snobbishness over their 
lives. It is a lucky thing for them. They 
may wear diamonds of their own some day. 
I have run across three young men whose 
parents are wealthy enough to make the earn- 
ing of money entirely unnecessary to their 
comfort and well-being, who are voluntarily 
working regularly during the hot months. 
One engaged to do clerical work, "for two 
reasons," he said, "to pass the time which 
couldn't be loafed away, and to get a supply 
ot pocket-money," — "a resolution," his father 
added, "of which I heartily approve." An- 
other is at work in his father's mill. A third 
is working in a store. Two of these young 
men are college undergraduates, the other is 
preparing for college. No one of them would 
be obliged to work an hour unless he wanted 
to. That is the beauty of it; it is their own 
election. All of them have scores of friends 
in the highest social circles of the city, and 
move therein with the grace becoming their 
station in life. They are giving visible evi- 
dence of their belief in the gospel of work and 
the nobility of labor. I am proud to claim 
their acquaintance, and I am sure that Light 
is proud of them because they are Worcester 
boys, too. 

The people on a street car of the New 
Worcester line, going south, Wednesday eve- 
ning, had a hearty laugh, which was brought 
about in this wise. On the front seat sat a 
young laboring man and his wife, and the 
latter carried a baby, who was making Rome 
howl with a vengeance. He looked over his 
mother's shoulder with an e.xpression that 
would have soured fresh cream. He howled 
gloriously for a considerable time. The car 
stopped at Hawthorne street, and my atten- 
tion was drawn by a lady who had just left 
the car. She had in her hand the proverbial 
peppermint, which she held up to me with a 
pleasant smile, and asked me to give it to the 
baby. I passed it to a pretty young lady in 
the next seat, and she gave it to the baby. 
What a change came o'er the spirit of his 
dreams ! The wail was hushed at once, and 
permanently, and as the baby began indus- 
triously sucking the peppermint, the thirty or 
more people who were watching the operation 
smiled or chuckled or laughed aloud, accord- 
ing as they were amused. It was only a 
trifling incident, but it probably sent a score of 
tired people home to supper in better humor 
than they would otherwise have had. 



Cape Breezes. 

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FAi.Moirn, Hkk.iits, July 24, ,8yo. 

Bluefishing is the principal attraction to 
sojourners on the Heights this season. A 
party of four caught eighteen fine specimens 
in three hours, off Succanes.sett Lightship 
last week, and could have caught as many 
more, as the fish were biting splendidly, but 
one of the ladies w.is seasick and the balance 
of the party gave up the sport rather than keep 
her in misery. 

One does not know until he has been sea- 
sick himself how good it sounds to hear the 
words, "We're going home." 

Mr. .Norman Fitts, of Worcester, is the 
happy posse.ssor of a small sail boat, in which 
he takes his friends to different poinU of in- 
terest along the coast. 

Last week came the League of American 
Wheelmen meet at Cottage City. I went over 
on Saturday to see the procession and race. 
On the pier, just before the return steamer left, 
was a crowd of bicycle men. They had spied 
one of tlieir comrades taking to a young lady. 
I heard them debating and pretty soon they all 
began to shout, "We want lirigham, we want 
lirigham," and they kept it up until they got 
him, although he hated to leave his companion 
awfully. 

As I sit at the window to-night I can see 
Mr. George F. Hewett playing the only hose 
on the Heights. He has recently had a well 
dug and a windmill built to force the water 
into his house. This is the only windmill on 
the Heights and forms a unique addition to 
the landscape. 

Mr. Loring N. Farnum, now of Boston, but 
a member of the class of '90, W. P. I ., has 
been spending a few days with friends on the 
Heights. Emeline. 



Our Shade-Makers. 
There are four hundred and thirteen species 
of trees found within the limits of the United 
States and territories, sixteen of which, when 
perfectly .seasoned, wi'l sink in water. The 
heaviest of these is the black ironwood (Con- 
dalia ferrea), found only in Southern Florida, 
which is more than thirty per cent, heavier 
than water. Of the other fifteen, the best 
known is the lignum vita- (Guaiacum sanctum) 
and the mangrove (rhizophora mangle). Texas 
and New Mexico are the homes of a species 
of oak ((juercus grisea) which is about one and 
one-fourth times heavier than water, and 
which, when green, will sink almost as quickly 
as a bar of iron. It grows only in mountain 
regions, and has been found westward as far 
as the Colorado desert, where it grows at an 
elevation of ten thousand feet. All the species 
heavier than water belong to tropical Florida, 
or in the arid west and south-west. 



— Lake Superior is larger than any other in- 
land sea except the Caspian and the Albert 
Nyanza with its lately discovered extension. 
The Caspian covers 176,000 square miles and 
has a depth of but 250 feet. Lake Superior 
has an area of 32,000 square miles and a 
depth of 1000 feet. 



The Vacationers. 



Worcester friends of Mrs. Fred A. Man- 
chester of Westford are entertaining her here. 

Mr. G. M. Piper and his family are at the 
Highland House, Belchertown. 

Hon. and Mrs. Samuel Winslow, and Miss 
Alice Robbins are expected to sail for home 
one week from to-day. 

Messrs Albert H. Chaffee and Herbert A. 
Currier have been in the White Mountains 
this week. 

Mrs. C. M. Buzzell and Miss Lillie A. Suther- 
land, of Biddeford, Me., who have been visit- 
ing friends here, have returned home. 

Mr. N. S. Liscomb and his family find sum- 
mer recreation in Shrewsbury. 

Mr. W. S. Flint is at Pittsfield, Mass. 

Dr. J. M. Barton has been at Norwich and 
New London, Conn., and is expected home to- 
day. 

Mrs. Chester Bancroft, who recently re- 
turned from a trip to Colorado, is visiting 
friends at Athol. 

Mrs. S. M. Collier and her grand-daughter. 
Miss Sadie Keith left last Saturday for Bos- 
ton and the principal harbor resorts. They 
will be gone two weeks. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fay and Miss Flora 
Fay are at Cottage City for the summer, as is 
their wont. 

Mr. and Mrs. Maynard B. Clapp are at 
Paterson, N. J. 

Miss Ida E. Andrews, of Pittsfield, is visit- 
ing her brother, Mr. Albert W. Andrews, in 
this city. 

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Lawrence, Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Linus 
Sibley, and several of their friends, are at 
Buttonwood, R. I. They occupy "Snow- 
bound" cottage. 

Mr. Fred Goddard is the guest of Mr. W. H. 
Thomas, Jr., a son of Rev. Dr. Thomas, at the 
latter's place at Norwalk Islands, on the Sound. 



Prof. John E. Sinclair, of the Polytechnic 
Institute, left last Monday for San Bernardino, 
Cal. 

Mr. George L. Clark has been at North 
Sandwich, N. H., recently. 



Col. Rockwood Hoar has been having a fine 
time on a yachting trip and has been at Bar 
Harbor this week. 

Mr. D. Osborne Earle, captain of last year's 
Harvard freshmen crew, is at York, Me., with 
other members of the crew. 



Miss Kate E. Smith is at Northampton. 



At Bass Rock, Gloucester, are located 
Mr. and Mrs. John Howard Jewett, Miss 
Shiela M. Jewett, Mrs. Benjamin A. Barber, 



I^I d H T 



Miss Edith Barber, Mrs. B. F. Lee, Mrs. O. 
S. Hammond, Mrs. C. A. Hathaway, Mrs. J. 
G. Hathaway, Mrs. E. E. Forbes, Miss Emily 
Wood. 

Mr. and Mrs. Alzirus Brown have opened 
their cottage at Cottage City. 



Mrs. A. E. Peck is spending the summer in 
Princeton. 

Mrs. J. F. Adams and son are at Auburn- 
dale, the guest of Mr. J. H. Baird. 



Mrs. E. E. Abbott and Miss Emma Green 
are at the Vineyard. 

Mrs. Arthur Elwood and her son. Master 
Edward Elwood, are at Bridgeport. 



Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Moen are expected 
to sail for home about Aug. 15. 



Principal Joseph Jackson, of Woodland 
street school, has arrived safely in Europe. 



Dr. S. W. Cooke is at Broad Cove, Me. 



Mrs. Mary L. Fairbanks and Miss Tirzah 
Fairbanks are at Cottage City. 



Mrs. H. Randall, Miss Laura Randall and 
Master Stephen Randall will spend two or 
three weeks at North Scituate, R. I. 



City Clerk E. H. Towne is enjoying a vaca- 
tion. 

Mrs. J. H. Newbury is spending the sum- 
mer at Newbury, Vt. 



Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Cowden are at Beverly. 



Mr. Frank S. Fay will go to Nantucket 
to-day and remain a week. 



Mrs. H. A. Wheeler is at Saratoga. 



Mr. L. H. Browning, who knows how to 
sell as many Lights as anybody on the cir- 
cuit, is at his old home in Hubbardston. 



Mr. Horace M. Hedden and his family are 
at Falmouth Heights. 



Dr. Herbert Warren is home from the Vine- 
yard. 

Mrs. George F. Pollard is entertaining Miss 
Mary Miles of Spencer. 

Mrs. F. R. Hillman and her children are at 
Northampton. 

Miss Nettie Carson and Miss Carrie Sears 
are at Center Harbor, N. H. 



Rev. W. V. W. Davis, with his family, is at 
his cottage on the Highlands, at the Vineyard. 

Mr. and Mrs. Osgood Plummer have gone 
to The Weirs, N. H. 



Mrs. A. G. Lewis is at Bethlehem, N. H. 



Rev. Almon Gunnison, D. D., pastor of the 
First Universalist Church, will be at Thousand 
Islands, St. Lawrence River, next month. 



Mrs. Thomas Bennett is at Wilmington, Vt., 



where she will soon be joined by her son, Mr. 
George S. Bennett, and her daughter, Mrs. 
M. F. Bagley. 



Mr. Charles B. Sanford is taking a West- 
ern trip, going as far as St. Paul. 



Mrs. Frank H. Rice and Miss Minnie Rice 
are at Princeton. 



Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Healy are at New- 
port. 

Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Miller, Miss Harriet B. 
Vose, Miss Effie L. Bennett, Miss Mary L. 
Johnson and Miss Edith C. Johnson are at 
Kennebunkport, Me. 



Mr. Calvin Foster is at Star Island, Isles of 
Shoals. 

Miss Blanche Kelley is at Newburyport. 



Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Gross and members 
of their family are at Block Island. 



Mr. George W. Aldrich, and his sons, 
George and Ralph, are at Brant Rock. 



Miss Minnie Madans is spending her vaca- 
tion in Boston and vicinity. 



Miss Alice Smith will leave for Narragansett 
Pier next week. 

Mr. Ben T. Hammond returned from South 
Poland, Me., this week, but will go off for 
another vacation trip in a day or two. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hammond, Mr. R. H. 
Hammond and Miss Mabel Hammond are off 
on a trip to Prince Edward Island, via Hali- 
fax. They will be gone a week or more. 



Mrs. A. O. Stevens is expected from New 
York to-day on a visit to her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. John N. Albee. 



The annual excursion of the Builders' Ex- 
change will be to Crescent Park, down Provi- 
dence River, next Tuesday. 



The Old South Church has called Rev. 
Henry D. Powell, D. D., of Brooklyn, to its 
pulpit, and another Brooklyn man. Rev. 
Archibald McCullagh, is likely to become 
pastor of Plymouth Church. 



Mrs. Frank P. Douglas, one of the proprie- 
tors of the Bay State House, and his family, 
have gone to St. John, N. B. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Comfort are at Pigeon 
Cove. 

Mr. George Burchard is credited as a recent 
arrival at the Great Head Hotel, Winthrop 
Beach. 

Prof. Herbert D. Foster, of Worcester 
Academy, is one of the attendants at the Chau- 
tauqua gathering, at Chautauqua, N. Y. 



Miss Bessie Mead, of Pittsfield, is visiting 
her brother, Mr. Will D. B. Mead, assistant 
secretary of the Young Men's Christian Asso-^ 
ciation. 



In the World of Letters. 



Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet, ad- 
vocates the inspiration of energy and ddinite 
purpose. In his interesting paper on Geor<;e 
H. Baker, he says: "This waiting for the 
Muse is a mistake — altogether a mistake. 
You must go to her. True, there are times 
when no poet can write ; but how are you to 
know of your unproductive seasons without a 
fair trial.' Read used to tell a story of some 
Yankee poet who resolved to wait for an im- 
pulse from the Muse ; he waited thirty years, 
and at the end of that time concluded himself 
no poet, although his youthful poems gave 
promise of great things. That man, perhaps, 
wanted but industry to make him immortal. 
I hold that there is a labor connected with all 
great literary achievements sufficient to drive 
any but a man of genius stark mad. This the 
world will never believe. It has an idea that 
poets write as birds sing, and it is this very 
false idea which robs us of half our honors. 
Were poetry forged upon the anvil, cut out 
with the axe or spun in mill, my heaven, how 
men would wonder at the process ! What 
power, what toil, what ingenuity." The im- 
mortality possible tlirough industry is a whole- 
some theme upon which to meditate. 



G. & C. Merriam & Co., of Springfield, 
Mass., have brought suit in the United States 
Circuit Court to compel Texas Sif/iiigs to 
stop the sale of a dictionary which they claim 
is an infringement of their copyright of Web- 
ster's Unabridged — a reprint made from photo- 
lithographic plates of the edition of 1847. 
Purchasers, they say, have been deceived into 
buying the defendants' books as the genuine 
books of plaintiffs, to their damage in the sum 
of five thousand dollars. 



L T Ot II T 

MSS., who had formerly declined them, he 
took a sweet revenge. He gave those editors 
no new MSS., but with a long forked stick 
poked old ones from out the lofty drawer, and 
sent them just as they were to publication. 
Had he tossed them into the fire instead of 
that drawer, he would have destroyed matter 
worth hundreds of pounds to him. 



During a sojourn in the west of Ireland, in 
Kerry, Galway, and Donegal, three years ago, 
Jeremiah Curtin collected a number of Gaelic 
myth-tales which he has now published in a 
volume entitled "Myths and Folk-I.ore of 
Ireland." In his introduction, which is at 
once scholarly and interesting to the general 
reader, Mr. Curtin draws attention to the dis- 
tinctive features of Irish folk-lore — as, for in- 
stance, the particularity with which names and 
places are preserved, in contradistinction to 
the vagueness of the legends of middle and 
eastern Europe — says a few word.s about the 
very great age of the Gaelic language, and 
considers mythology and folk-lore historically 
and philosophically. The twenty tales in the 
collection will be heartily welcomed by the 
three classes to whom Mr. Curtin addresses 
himself — to the lover of wonderful tales, to 
him who cares for their social and antiquarian 
data, and to him who recognizes their worth 
in studying the hi.story of the human mind. 
The book is handsome in typography and 
binding. Little, Drown & Co., Boston. 



A literary paper says that A. C. Wheeler 
("Nym Crinkle") is about to publish a novel of 
New York life entitled "The Toltec Cup." 
He has probably been looking upon it when it 
was red. 



Clinton ScoUard, the poet, whose verse has' 
made him so favorably known in the past few 
years, was married in Jackson, Miss., on July 
3d, to Miss Georgia Brown a daughter of Mrs. 
George E. Brown of that city. They are in 
Europe, and will spend a year there. 

The Atlantic has lost its editor, Thomas 
Bailey Aldrich, and has found a new one, 
Horace E. Scudder. Mr. Scudder has already 
contributed very largely to the At/antic, and 
his books have been widely read. His con- 
nection with the house of Houghton, Milllin& 
Co., has long been an intimate one, and he is 
now the editor of their Commonwealth Series. 
Mr. Aldrich, who is engaged upon a volume 
of poems, to be published in the autumn, is 
passing the summer in England, where he is 
arranging for the London edition of the book. 
His poem,'"Batushka," published not long ago 
in one of the magazines, was obliterated from 
every copy admitted into Russia. 



Justin McCarthy tells of his rejected MSS., 
which, one after another, he flung into a top 
drawer above his head. When the tide of his 
fortunes turned, and the same editors asked 



The sixteenth volume of Katharine Pres 
cott Worme ley's translation of Honored de 
Balzac's works is entitled "Fame and Sorrow." 
It contains six stories. For the first she has 
retained the original name — "Fame and Sor- 
row" — disregarding the title "La Maison de 
Chat-qui Pelote," which Balzac gave it in 
1842 ; the others are "Colonel Chabert," "The 
Atheist's Mass," "La Grande Bretdche," 
"The Purse," and "La Grenadiijre.'' Balzac 
may almost be called the father of the modern 
short story, and these fairly represent him, 
though he has written more dramatic tales, 
which we hope to see in a future volume. 
Miss Wormeley's translation is quite up to 
the standard she set herself in the earlier vol- 
umes. Roberts Brothers, Boston. 



"The Speaker's Error," by X. M. C, one of 
the leading articles in the July number of the 
A'orth American Review, was ordered printed 
in its entirety in the Congressional Record as 
part of the regular business of the House of 
Representatives on the nth inst. This is tlie 
first time in the history of Congress such a 
distinction has been accorded to any periodi- 
cal. 

"Lawn Tennis for Women" is the title of an 
article in J.ippinLott's for August, wliich will 
greatly interest all lady players. It is written 
by those famous lady players. Miss Bertha L. 
Townsend and Miss Margarette Lyman Bal- 
lard, for years the champions of the United 
States. Lawn tennis is the most widely popu- 
lar of all out-door games among both men and 
women, and much has been written about it, 
but so far only from a man's point of view. 
Women's play of course differs essentially 
from that of men. This article is written with 
the object of improving the play among 
women. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Comiimnications to this di;p,^rtnient are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

DikdinOikici:.— Mrs. I. D. asks: What 
vice-presidents besides Hendricks have died in 
office. George Clinton, of New York, vice- 
president under Thomas Jefferson ; KIbridge 
(Jerry, of Massachusetts, vice-president under 
James Madison ; William R. King of Alabama, 
vice-president under Franklin Pierce; and 
Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, vice-presi- 
dent under U. S. Grant. 

FoKTHic Engknekr.— Traveler asks: From 
the car window one occasionally notices a 
post planted beside the railroad track on which 
the latter "K" is painted. Can you tell me 
what its significance is ? The posts are placed 
beside the track for the benefit of the engi- 
neer. If you will notice carefully, on your 
next journey, you will see that one of these 
posts comes to your notice just before reaching 
a railroad crossing. The "R" stands for 
"Ring," an instruttion to the engineer to ring 
the bell of the engine. You may not hear it 
because of the roar of the train drowning the 
sound. 

Teach Hi.m Bkttek.— P. K. says: I own 
a fine setter dog and he frequently amuses 
himself by chasing a cat that belongs to my 
neighbor. The latter threatens to shoot the 
dog if he catches him at it again, and as he is 
a quick-tempered man, I am afraid he may do 
so. 1 want to avoid trouble, but I think I 
have as good a right to keep a dog as he has 
to have a cat. What would you advise as a 
way out of the difficulty ? The Answerer finds 
it difficult to present .solutions in such cases 
without knowing all the particulars. Perhaps 
you have no great regard for cats, but you 
must remember that different people like 
different pets — an emment philosopher once 
had a treetoad in this wise; and even Lk;iit 
has three alligators in its editorial room. 
With all due regard to your fondness for the 
dog, allow the Answerer to say that the cat is 
probably as well liked and is of as much use 
in the neighborhood, if it is a good mouser, 
as your dog, for probably you've few burglars 
to be frightened away. And if your canine 
pet runs about much, perhaps your neighbor's 
flower garden or strawberry patch has suf- 
fered. The best thing to do is to teach the 
dog l>etter habits and you will conciliate your 
neighbor thereby. Remember that he has no 
right to kill your dog simply for trespass, 
although he could make you pay for actual 
damage. But let the law go. Be neighborly 
if you can ; be gentlemanly anyway. Chain 
up the dog until he has learned to behave 
himself, and give the cat a chance. It is the 
old "live and let live" principle, you know. If 
always acted on, the members of the legal pro- 
fession would have to do some pretty hard 
grubbing to keep alive. 

Tmc Hole ix the Hii.i..— G. says: Please 
give statistics regarding Hoosac Tunnel, and 
tell how long it takes to pass through it. 
Briefly: Projected, 1825 : commenced, 185 1; 
cut through, 1S73: regular trains, 1876; origi- 
nal estimate of cost, $1,948,557; actual cost, 
$20,241,842.31; length, 4V miles; width, 26 
feet. It takes an express train 9,'i minutes to 
pass through. 



10 



The Story of an Old Shoe. 



BY, MARY BURLEIGH. 



It was a pretty little white cottage, covered 
with climbing rose vines and honey-suckle, 
and there dwelt Mrs. Wayne, her little grand- 
daughter, Rachel Earle, and old Peter and his 
wife, who managed the little farm. 

The fire inside was burning brightly, light- 
ing up the dusky corners of the cosy room. 
Mrs. Wayne sat before it with Ray, in her 
little white night gown, curled up in her lap. 

"Now tell me astory, please, grandma," Ray 
was saying. 

"Well, little one, what shall it be ?" 

"Oh, I know !" exclaimed Ray, "tell me 
about the little shoe." And sliding out of 
grandma's lap, she ran over to a little cabinet, 
that stood on the other side of the room, and 
brought back a little shoe. It was a cunning 
little shoe of bright red morocco, with a shining 
silver buckle, through the centre of which, in 
delicately engraved letters, was the name 
"Eric." Establishing herself once more in 
grandma's lap, with her little pink toes to the 
fire, Ray was now ready to listen. 

"A long time ago, when grandma's little girl 
and boy were about your age " 

"Yes," interrupted Ray, "when my mama 
and papa were just my age" 

"It was their birthday," continued Mrs. 
Wayne. "They were twins, little Ray, so 
their birthdays were on the same day. That 
day their uncle James came to see them, and 
brought them each a little shoe. On your 
mama's was her name, 'Erica,' in pretty letters, 
and on her brother's, his name, 'Eric' 

"The children were very fond of the little 
shoes, and hardly ever went anywhere without 
them. They did not wear them, of course, but 
used to play that the little shoes were fairies. 

"One day, a short time after their birthday, 
their papa came home from a sea voyage, and 
when he returned he was going to take little 
Eric with him, to be gone about two weeks. 
Eric was very much delighted and could hardly 
think of anything else ; but little Erica, who 
had never been separated from him, could 
not bear to have him go. Eric thought of a 
plan, however, that quite delighted her. 'I 
tell you what we will do,' said he. 'We will 
exchange fairies, and then when you want to 
tell me anything, you just tell it to the shoe 
and I think it will get to me some way.' 

"So off they went, he taking Erica's little 
shoe with him, while she had his. But he 
never came back, little Ray ; that was the last 
that grandma ever saw of her own little boy 
or of your grandpa. Their ship was lost, and 
none of the crew ever returned. So you see 
that is why there is only one little shoe here. 
We did not stay in that house after that, but 
came here to live." 

"Poor grandma," whispered Ray; "if the 
little shoe is a fairy, some time it will find 
your boy for you." 

Mrs. Wayne kissed the little one softly. 
Her thoughts were far away. She was think- 
ing of the past ; how everything that was dear 
to her had passed away. Only Ray was left, 
bright, laughing, little Ray, who had never 
known what sorrow was. 

She was recalled from her revery by the little 



1.1(1 HT 

shoe dropping to the floor. Ray was fast 
asleep; it was long past her bed-time, and the 
little eyelids had grown so heavy that they had 
slowly dropped over the brown eyes. Mrs. 
Wayne rose and laid her gently on the bed, 
drawing the soft blankets round her. As she 
stooped to pick up the shoe, she recalled Ray's 
words, "Some day the little shoe will find 
your boy for you." 

***** 
The sun was shining brightly into Ray's 
window. There was no more sleep for her. 
Running to the window, she raised it, and 
called out gaily, "Good morning, pretty bright 
sun. Have you waked up the little waves on 
the beach .' I shall want them to play with 
me this morning." It was not long before she 
was down stairs, sitting on the door step, eat- 
ing the big bowl of bread and milk, of which 
she made her breakfast. 

"Peter," she cried, as she saw him on his 
way to the barn, "wait for me, 1 am going to 
help you." 

She ran up to him and carried one of his 
empty milk pails as far as the door, where she 
set it down and ran back to the house. 

"Grandma," she called, "1 am going down 
to play with the little waves." 

"All right, my little one ; don't go out of 
sight of the house, and come home when Peter 
calls you." 

Picking up her little shovel and pail, away 
she ran. "Good morning, Mr. Crab; you was 
'specting me, wasn't you .'"' she said, as she 
carefully deposited him in her pail. But as 
she raised her head, something more import- 
ant attracted her attention. It was a little boy 
of about her own age, who was sitting on the 
rocks. After gazing at him for some time, she 
suddenly called out imperatively, "Boy, come 
and play." 

The little boy climbed down from his perch 
and came up within a few feet of Ray. He 
was a pretty child, with big, thoughtful black 
eyes and short, black, curling hair, directly the 
opposite of Ray, who was a gay little chatter- 
box, with laughing brown eyes and a head 
covered with bright, sunny curls. 

"I am glad I found you," said Ray, break- 
ing the silence. "I have just found a crab ; 
shall we build a house for him?" 

The boy smiled and nodded his head. 

"Why don't you talk .'" inquired Ray. 
"Have you got a grandma to talk to at your 
house ?" 

"No, but I have got a mama and papa," he 
answered. 

"What is your name, boy?" she asked. 
"Mine is 'Ray.' " 

"My name is Leo," answered the child. "I 
live over there," pointing to a cottage a little 
distance off, that had long been empty. 

"Oh !" exclaimed Ray, "that is nice ; you can 
come and play every morning." 

They played happily all the morning, racing 
on the beach, building high towers tor the 
waves to wash down, spreading the great 
jelly-fish out in a long procession, and in fact 
doing everything that two inventive childish 
heads could think of, until Peter came for little 
Ray. 

"Come to-morrow," she called, as she left 
him sitting on the great rock where .she had 
found him. 



Mrs. Wayne had heard from some of the 
neighbors what pleasant people the family 
that had moved into the cottage were, so that 
she was very glad to have Ray have a play- 
mate, for she was beginning to feel that the 
little one was lonely at times. 

The next morning, Ray stood before the 
cabinet looking intently at the little red shoe. 
"Little shoe," she whispered softly, "I am 
going to find grandma's boy for her. You are 
going with me, for you know where he is. 
We will 'sprise her when we bring him back." 
So, putting the shoe into her pocket, she was 
soon on her way to the beach, carrying her 
little lunch basket so that she and Leo might 
have their lunch on the beach together. 

Leo was on the beach waiting for her. He 
seemed rather surprised when Ray told him 
what she was looking for, but seemed as much 
pleased with the idea as she was. 

"I don't know what way to go to find grand- 
ma's boy; but the little shoe will tell us," said 
Ray confidently. So off they started along 
the hard, white sand. 

Dinner time came and went, and no Ray 
appeared. Peter came back from his search, 
looking perplexed. Where could she be? 
She had never run away before. Leo's father 
came over and they both searched, but no trace 
of the children could be found. 

Finally, Mrs. Wayne, who could remain at 
home no longer, proposed that they should 
keep straight on along the beach. So by 
chance they took the same direction which the 
children had taken. On and on they walked; 
it seemed an endless distance, when suddenly, 
Peter, who had gone on ahead, shouted that 
the little wanderers were found. 

There they were, to be sure, curled up fast 
asleep on a low shelf of rock. The tide never 
came up very high in this place, so that the 
children were perfectly safe ; but Mrs. Wayne 
shuddered as she thought what might have 
been. 

On the way back they stopped at Leo's 
house. As Mrs. Wayne sat there with Ray, 
who was fast asleep, in her arms, she sud- 
denly noticed that Ray had the little shoe 
•"clasped tightly in her hand. Leo's father,who 
had looked up at her exclamation of surprise, 
also saw the little shoe. 

"Where did the child get this.'" he ex- 
claimed suddenly. 

"It was her mother's," said Mrs. Wayne 
sadly, "the mate of it was lost at sea with my 
son." 

The gentleman left the room quickly, but 
returned in a moment with something which 
he placed by the side of the red shoe. It was 
the other shoe. 

"Mother!" he cried, "at last I have found 
you." 

"My boy !" 

Ray only moved and murmured sleepily, 
"Grandma, some time the little shoe will find 
your boy for you." 

"My little one," she said softly. "My little 
Ray, the shoe has found my boy." 

IVorcester, Mass. 



— Every heart is like a theatre in one re- 
spect; there are certain effects produced, but 
you don't want every one to see the ropes 
and pulleys. — Robert G. Ingersoll. 



New Yorkers Away 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



tREGULAR CORRESPONDENCE OF LIGHT.] 



New York, July 24, 1890. 

The lotus-eaters of pleasure are abroad over 
the land where it is always afternoon. With 
many, it is but a summarized composition of 
the winter's score but with other environments. 

The rout and revel go on unceasingly. From 
Newport, the Pier, liar Harbor, Leno.x, .Sara- 
toga, Richfield and other far-away haunts of 
fashion, come echoes of joyous merry making. 
The tide of gayety is at flood and these mid- 
summer days of delight are passing all too 
swiftly, for the favored of fortune. 

It appears to be a fashion this year to so- 
journ at a Sanitarium. Several friends are at 
present deriving the benefit of such institu- 
tions. I have recently received a letter from 
Clifton Springs, from a bright New York girl 
who is a great sufferer. She calls the place 
'■The (harden of the Gods, and an Eden of 
loveliness, especially as just below my window 
in the midst of this vernal beauty sits 'one of 
the noblest works.' The only thing lacking to 
complete the picture is an apple tree." This 
modern Eve sits above in her window, and 
listens to the orioles trilling out their vesper 
hymns, while the moon comes up behind the 
hills, flooding the gardens with silvery light — 
a benediction after prayer. 

As to the treatment : "We rub and wash 
and salt, what then ? Why rub and wash and 
salt again." Enclosed was what she dubbed 
"an order of exercises," on the margin of 
which were made clever little pen and ink 
sketches of the various poses, showing the 
modus operandi as pursued in giving the 
different baths, consisting of sponge, rubber 
sheet, Turkish, sulphur, electro-thermal and 
electro-chemical, massage and a dozen others. 
I notice on the prospectus that the Jenness- 
Miller movements are employed in the gymna- 
sium. Also, they made a point of recogniz- 
ing the power of mind over matter, and 
the salutary effects of a consistent relig- 
ious faith upon the sick. Chapel services are 
of frequent occurrence. After undergoing the 
course of treatment for several months, I 
wonder there is anything left of the tissues at 
all. Surely the plastic flesh should come forth 
(i /a Galatea, and purified from the evils of 
disease and pain, but does it.' Aye, there's 
the rub ! 

From Richfield Springs, that smaller .Sara- 
toga, though to me a much more enjoyeble 
place, another charming New York girl writes 
of the gay doings, and many improvements 
since last season. The luxurious new bath- 
house is the prevailing topic of conversation. 
Hundreds are expected to acknowledge the 
efficacy of its medication and good manage- 
ment Fitted with every appliance for the 
amelioration and cure of the divers and sundry 
ills to which poor humanity is heir: with glass 
conservatories for the weak human plants ; 
with rooms adapted to the therapeutic applica- 
tion of electricity, and others devoted to 
Turkish baths, massages, douche, plunge, etc., 
together with a large swimming tank and foun- 
tain to dispense the healing waters of the 
Great White Sulphur Spring, this new temple 



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of "the gentle art" of making whole the in 
firm, opens, as its friends firmly believe, "a 
curative career as unexampled in the history of 
American and European spas, as the building 
and its appearance is unsurpassed in kindred 
American architecture." I can speak a»i 
amore regarding the sylvan loveliness and 
tonic qualities of the delicious air of that rest- 
ful spot, having spent three happy seasons at 
Richfield— so apt.y named. The sweet, 
perfumed breezes woo one to a blissful forget- 
fulness of dull care. The scenery and drives 
are enchanting. Nothing could be more de- 
lightful than the drive on top of a four-in-hand 
break to Cooperstown, dining, as is the custom, 
at one of the well-managed half-way houses on 
the borders of beautiful Lake Ostego. 

The recent severe fall in the mercury caused 
much grumbling and groaning among the 
sensitive rheumatics, but what care the young 
and careless? For them Richfield is a modern 
I'aradise fitted for sports and frolic, flirtations 
and fun generally. There the stern faced 
chaperone relaxes somewhat her rigid conven- 
tionality ; never were more opportunities than 
are here presented for Cupid's mischievous 
pranks. Tennis, riding, driving, the races, 
boating and bowling by day, with alternate 
hops at the leading hotels, theatricals and con- 
certs in the evening, cause the butterfly hours 
to speed away on swiftest wings. I am told 
that the redoubtable leader of the brave "four 
hundred," is soon expected there, with a por- 
tion of the following of that Ward called 
McAllister. Also, the coming of the winter's 
craze is anticipated — Carmencita — who danced 
the ducats with the hearts away from the 
seekers after novelty. 

Richfield is beloved by the Fates, and many 
there are of the world's wealthy and dis- 
tinguished, who each season seek its salubrious 
charms. 

Happy are they who own a "bungalow." 
A bungalow, be it known, is Anglo- .Saxon for 
any highly built summer cottage, ranging in 
price from S500 to $2,000. Thousands of such 
little cozy homes have been put up in the 
Adirondacks, Mount Desert and elsewhere, 
especially in the vicinity of large hotels, upon 
which cottages depend for food. The princi- 
pal reason that commends the scheme to pater 
fainilias is that its cost is often less than a sin- 
gle season at a watering place. Again there 
is abundant room, and the exclusiveness of 
one's own beloved privacy. 

The idea is to make the life of the cottage 
seem as much like out-doors as possible. The 
roof should be ceiled with Georgia pine or 
else painted, and the rooms divided by pretty 
wood partitions, each room being painted in 
some delicate color with enamelled furniture 
to correspond. With an open fire-place for 
damp days, light willow or rattan lounges and 
easy chairs with the pretty silkoline draperies 
that are so inexpensive, a few water colors and 
glass receptacles for tiowers and growing 
tilings from adjacent woods, and of course a 
quantity of light literature, with a magazine or 
two, and the favorite journal, to keep in touch 
with the world's doings— with all these minis- 
ters of grace and comfort surrounding one, 
surely it must be a very pessimistic person 
indeed not to be able to look upon life with the 
calmness of a philosopher. 



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111 llic Beer (jardcn. 



M y Hrclclien in tlic ii^irck-n siiiK-l 

With yoiilliful voice. and shrilly; 
IIlt sonK's thtv ^irithir p<)iiri."it thinKs, 

Her Kestures weak and ^illy ; 
Her ase hath hardly re.clied sixte<-n ; 

.'^he seems a .school-nirl merely : 
Her smiles you scarce know what they mean. 

Her ways affect one queerly. 

\'(t are her eyes as faintly blue 

As skies in twilight weather; 
Her hair of lightly yellow hue 

liound up in pleats together. 
I watch her little hand that all 

The time her fan keeps fanning ; 
Her feet and girlish limbs are small, 

Her waist scarce two hands' spanning. 

I'oor (iretchen, little silly thing. 

1 drink and pay my money ; 
I sit and watch thee stand and sing ; 

How sad it is— and funny. 
'I'hou gives! smiles to him who pays 

'I he waiter for thy drinking ; 
I look upon thy foolish ways. 

And laugh and lall a-thinking. 

Poor Gretchen, thou hast little chance 

Of any good thing winning. 
Hut God shall judge the circumstance. 

Deducting from the sinning. 
Man hath not eye to weigh by rule 

The meed and share of pardon 
Due to the Gretchen of the school, 

.^nd Gretchen of the garden. 
Jersey City. N.J. 

Some Rules to Live By. 

A correspondent who signs herself Flor- 
ence E. sends LiCH^ the following para- 
graphs, under the above title : 

Never tell another to do what you would be 
ashamed to do yourself. 

Never forget for a moment that there are 
other and higher relations between us than 
those of ordinary conversation. 

Train your mind in little things and it will 
prepare it for emergencies. 

.Never think evil of anybody, for it dojs you 
and him as much harm as if you said it. 

And finally, be true to your own self. Do 
as you think is right, not as any one else tells 
you. 

What a Woman Thmks. 
1 have known a gentleman for many years 
— 1 do not care to say how many (for the gen- 
tleman's sake of course)— whom I never saw 
without a flower in his coat ; morning, noon or 
night; church, theatre, street or boat; happy 
or .sad ; best clothes or second best: rose, vio- 
let or cherry bloom— the flower is always 
there; or, if not a flower, a dappled clover 
leaf. It is a pity more men do not care for 
these little things. A woman's eyes invar- 
iably find their way to a flower in man's coat, 
and her heart knosvs a little thrill of pleasure. 
To wear a flower does not mean that you are a 
dude, but it does mean that you have an ap- 
preciation of the beautiful things of life.— 
Ella Higginson in V\ 'est Shore. 



The world is upheld by the veracity of good 
men ; they make the earth wholesome. We 
call our children and our lands by their names. 
Their names are wrought into the verbs of our 
language, their works and effigies are in our 
houses, and every circumstance of the day 
recalls an anecdote of them.— Emerson. 



A Mexican Bull-Fight. 

Mazatlan, Mexico, June 14, 1890. 
^Ty Dear Sister : 

You ask me to describe a bull-fight. I have 
never seen but one, for though there have 
been several fights, only one afternoon have I 
indulged in the pleasant pastime of sitting on 
the soft side of a hard pine plank in the glaring 
sun, watching the world-renowned relic of 
barbarity called a bull-fight. 

On the Sunday preceding last Christmas, I 
was standing in front of the Grand Central 
Hotel in El Paso, Texas. A lady whom I had 
met in Sonora, with her husband (who, by the 
way, was a Methodist parson) and little boy, 
passed along and stopped for a moment to say 
good morning and exchange compliments. 
The small boy said: "Be you agoing to the 
bull fight this afternoon ?" Of course I in- 
tended to go to the bull-fight, all right enough, 
but I was not sufficiently calloused to want to 
own up before a minister of the Gospel ; but 
after hesitating a second (and I suppose I 
blushed and looked confused into the bargain) 
I braced up, resolved to put the best face 
possible on my miserably sinful intentions ; so 
I answered thusly : "My son, I am not a 
good boy any more, I have been out in this 
wild and woolly west now for very nearly ten 
years and the contact has rubbed the fine 
points off my conscience, and made me a trifle 
careless about strict Sabbath keeping, and 
being a miserable sinner, I shall go to the bull- 
fight, and add one more sin to the already too 
long list But you, being a minister's son, you 
of course cannot go to the bull fight, and will 
stay at home with your mamma and papa 
and read your little Sunday School book and 
may be say a prayer for me." 

"Oh, no ! We be all agoing too " ! ! ! 

If the effect of climate or curiosity or call it 
what you will so blunts a Methodist parson's 
conscience that with his family he can take in 
a bull-fight on Sunday afternoon, surely I need 
no further excuse for my presence in the bull 
ring at Paso del Norte on that Sunday. 

I went. It was advertised to commence 
promptly at two o'clock and at that hour I was 
there, in company with half a dozen acquain- 
tances. There was quite a number of Ameri- 
can ladies there and of course a larger number 
of dark-eyed, dark-haired and dark-com- 
plexioned senoritas with a very generous 
sprinkling of Mexican men with their big 
sombreros with the gold and silver trimming. 
As regards colors, the appearance was very 
bright, as the predominant taste of nearly all 
Mexican people is for the brightest of bright 
red, green and yellow, in handkerchiefs, para- 
sols, sashes and dresses. The effect was 
bright and cheerful. 

When anything in Mexico is advertised to 
commence at three o'clock, one will be suffi- 
ciently early to arrive at, say four or half past. 
They always wait for the crowd to arrive 
before commencing. 

The ring was very nearly round and perhaps 
one hundred feet in diameter, surrounded by 
a wooden wall or fence some eight feet high, 
from the top of which shelved back the seats 
in tiers, the same as the balcony in any theatre. 

At about half past three, the door which 
opened into the ring on a level with the ground 



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was thrown open. "Here they come !" said 
some one near, and we all craned our necks 
and saw twohalf-starved-looking men carrjdng 
between them a barrel of water hung on a 
pole running from shoulder to shoulder. They 
walked to the centre of the ring, set the barrel 
down, pulled out the pole and went away. We 
supposed that was where they watered their 
stock, but no ; in about fifteen minutes one of 
them emerged again with a small dipper in his 
hand and proceeded to make a watering cart 
of himself by throwing water all over the ring 
to lay the dust. It took two barrels of water 
to do this to the satisfaction of a very impor- 
tant individual with a big sombrero who bossed 
the job. 

Although it was December, the sun was 
broiling hot, that particular day, as though to 
remind us of what we might expect in the next 
world for being at bull-fights on Sunday, and 
without a particle of shelter from its rays we 
sat there, slowly shrivelling up like Rider 
Haggard's "She." We began to get thirsty 
for other things beside gore and I invited the 
crowd out to take a drink of mezcal, 
the native intoxicant which takes the place of 
our whisky amongst the people of Mexico. It 
is made from the juice of the mezcal plant (a 
variety of cactus) in the same manner that 
whisky is made from corn. They all went, 
prompted by a fatal curiosity which has been 
the cause of much woe in the world ever since 
Adam and Eve had their curiosity imposed 
upon some six or seven thousand years ago. I 
believe that the exact location of the Garden 
of Eden is lost to biblical scholars, and they 
are industriously hunting for it. I digress on 
this subject simply to remark that I feel very 
sure that that famous resort is not and never 
was in Mexico — they need not look here for it. 
Well, we got some mezcal and we all took 
one drink. As for myself I had just as soon 
swallow a yard of Washburn & Moen's 
barbed wire and then pull it up again, but I 
had toyed with the beast once before and was 
prepared. I braced myself and stood the 
shock, but the others — such gagging, and 
coughing, and backing and spitting I never 
saw before. But we all felt Mexicanized then 
and went back to the bull-fight content. 

When we regained our seats, a man with a 
bugle blew a blast on it and a big door was 
thrown open down in the ring and in came 
marching the matadors or bull fighters proper, 
with their fine velvet clothes all sparkling with 
gold and silver spangles and each carrying on 
his arm a kind of cloak of some bright color. 
In the rear of the matadors were two men on 
horse-back, if one could call a man on "horse- 
back" who rode such a crow-bait. These two 
men were called picadors. In the rear of the 
picadors came a pair of mules, all harnessed 
to a whiffletree and a trace chain for dragging 
out the corpses. 

The whole outfit made a very low bow. You 
may think this sentence is wrongly put, but 
no ! I had had a drink of mezcal and I am 
prepared to make affidavit that the horses and 
mules bowed too. They bowed first to one 
side, then walked or rather strutted around to 
the other side and bowed again. Then they 
scattered themselves around the ring and as- 
sumed attitudes, the man with the mules 
vanishing through the door he had entered. 

Then the trumpeter blew another blast and 



a door at the opposite end of the ring was 
thrown suddenly open and out rushed the first 
bull. As he passed under the door a rosette 
with flying ribbon streamers was stuck into 
his back and he came on the run with those 
streamers w-aving liackward. Then one of 
the matadors walked toward him, waving his 
bright-colored cloak tauntingly at him ; the 
bull charged and the man holding the cloak to 
one side, the bull rushed vainly at that, the 
man deftly pulling it out of the way and the 
bull passing him and turning round only to 
find that same bright-colored cloak staring 
him in the face again. He charged again and 
again, always at the cloak, and always passing 
the man. Then he would go through the 
same operation with another matador and 
his cloak, and then a picador on his horse 
would put himself squarely in front of the bull 
as he would stand still in a moment of inde- 
cision, with bright-colored cloaks challenging 
him in all directions. 1 think there were six 
matadors. Then, perhaps, he would charge 
on a horse, when the rider, who was armed 
with a long pole with a short, sharp steel 
point, would skilfully insert the prong into the 
bull's shoulder and push the bull away — the 
bull generally turning on feeling the sharp cut 
and starting for some matador and his cloak. 

In this way they harassed the bull for per- 
haps ten or fifteen minutes and goaded him 
into a frantic state of rage. Then the trumpeter 
blew his horn once more, the doors were 
thrown open and the two picadors retired. 
Then one of the matadors would take a couple 
of barbed sticks about twelve inches long, hav- 
ing steel barbs at one end and all covered 
with fancy paper at the other — they look very 
much like the plumes they put in the horses' 
bridles on fourth of July parades in Massa- 
chusetts — he would take one in each hand and 
get right in front of the bull and wave them at 
him. The bull would charge and the matador 
would step briskly but slightly to one side 
and reach over the bull's back and punch 
these barbs into the bull's hide, one on each 
side of the back bone, and leave them sticking 
there, of course enraging the bull still more. 
If the matador succeeded in sticking both 
firmly in, the applause would be deafening 
and if he failed to stick either in he would be 
roundly hissed. They stuck these things into 
the bull in all sorts of ways, such as sitting in 
a chair until the bull got nearly to them and 
then rising and doing as above stated. 

One matador took one between his teeth 
and successfully jabbed it into the bull's hide. 
This brought down the house, and hats and 
silver money were recklessly showered into 
the ring. The recipient walked around and 
gathered up the coin and another walked 
around and threw the sombreros back into the 
audience. I guess they all got their own hats 
back again, but I don't know. Of course the 
shorter those plumes are, the harder they are 
to successfully insert into the tough bull's 
hide. This act is- concluded by the most re- 
nowned matador among them taking some 
very short ones and sticking them into the bull 
in the same way. 

They show remarkable agility about this, 
but all the same they show no hesitation about 
beating an inglorious retreat and taking refuge 
behind the strong wooden blinds that are there 
for the purpose, whenever the bull charges 



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very viciously at any one of them. There are 
four of these blinds equi-distant around the 
ring and standing close up to the high wooden 
wall, allowing space for four or five men in 
single file to hide there, perfectly safe, there 
not being room enough to let a bull in on ac- 
count of his width and his horns. The bull 
would frequently chase a matador behind one 
of these and then stand there watching for 
him to come out, which he was not apt to do. 
All this while the other five would be making 
efforts to attract the bull, and at last off he 
would go and perhaps tree another man be- 
hind another blind. 

After they had stuck a sufficient number of 
these plumes into Mr. Bull to make him mad 
enough to fight his own mother, the trumpeti r 
blew his horn once more and then the chief 
matador took a long sharp sword in one hand 
and his cloak on the other arm and made a 
bow to the audience, and then, throwing the 
cloak over the sword blade (their cloaks had 
been discarded during the previous act), he 
waved it at the bull, which, of course, charged 
to find nothing there and turned to find it 
staring him in the face again. This resembled 
the first act very much. 

Again and again the bull charges on the 
elusive cloak and then, as he charges once 
more, the cloak is quickly drawn away and the 
naked blade is plunged into the top of his 
neck, just forward of the shoulders, clear to 
the hilt, and is left sticking there, while the 
matador dashes unharmed away. The bull 
halts in his maddened onslaught, the blood 
rushes from his mouth, he wavers, totters and 
sinks to the ground, pouring out his life's 
blood in the sand. 

For an instant a pin could be heard to drop 
and then the most deafening applause rent the 
air and the hats were thrown into the ring 
again and the silver dollars likewise. The 
matador made a profound bow, picked up the 
coins, and another threw the hats back again 
as before. Then in came the man with the 
mules. The sword was pulled from the bull's 
heart, the chain made fasi to his hind feet and 
he was dragged from the ring, dead. 

A breathing spell of two or three minutes 
was had, during which my friends all kindly 
declined another drink of mezcal, and then 
another blast on the bugle and another bull 
was turned in to go through the same opera- 
tion. This second one disembowelled in a 
sickening manner two horses, which the in- 
human brutes rode around the ring, with the 
entrails dragging on the ground, once or twice, 
and then took them out. When, in the ne.xt 
act, this same bull threw and nearly killed one 
of the matadors, an American in front of me 
forgot himself in the uproar and yelled at the 
top of his lungs, "Kill the blasted Cireaser !" 
and that echoed the sentiments of every 
American there. Of course it is e.xciting at 
times, but the poor horses stand no show and 
neither do the bulls. It is entirely a one-sided 
affair of surpassing barbarity and cruelty. 

We saw four fights that afternoon and as 
we meandered batk across the Kio (Irande 
river to El Paso, there was not one among us 
but felt a thrill of joy as we set foot once more 
on the sacred soil of God's own country, where 
the star-spangled banner could be seen waving 
from Fort Bliss, a guarantee for centuries to 



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come of freedom to men and humanity to 
beasts. 

We had seen our bull fight, our curiosity 
was satisfied, and we all exprcs.sed ourselves 
as wanting to see no more. 

If you ever happen to be where there is to 
be a Imll fight, don't go. Vou will regret it if 
you do. My wife has tried to get me to take 
her to a bull fight here— the Mexican ladies go 
—but I won't do it. 

I am glad to say that this species of sport is 
now prohibited in many cities in Mexico. 
Your brother, 

O. J. S. 



Hard Food Makes Hard Teeth. 
The law of deterioration from disuse ob- 
tains with the teeth, as well as with other things. 
The constant and regular use of them in 
masticating hard food tends to make them 
continually grow harder and stronger, and 
better able to resist the influences that make 
them decay, while on the other hand, living on 
soft food and neglect of mastication makes 
them tender, softeus the enamel and renders 
them easily susceptible the corroding effects. 
This is sometimes especially shown in the 
case of people after a long illness, who find 
their teeth tender and sore when they begin 
to return to a diet of solid, hard food. Some 
men have healthy teeth all their lives because 
they were given good, hard food during infan- 
cy. That is the period to begin to save the 
teeth. Mothers and nurses give children soft 
food, utterly ignorant in many cases of the 
result. Crusts and hard stuffs should be 
given to children as soon as they can eat them. 
In this way the teeth begin to grow healthy, 
and gradually harden with time and use. The 
chewing-gum girl gives her molars plenty of 
wholesome and unwholesome exercise. But 
chewing gum is not especially healthy, be- 
cause only part of the teeth are used. It is 
jaw exercise more than anything else. But in 
eating hard, wholesome food, all the teeth 
come in contract with the substance. Tobacco 
chewing is not healthy for the teeth, because 
the tobacco is generally placed in one location 
like chewing gum, and there remains, until 
tlirows out. The Southern negroes have 
better teeth than most any race, because they 
use them from childhood up in masticating 
hard food. 



— The Burlington Free Press says in a re 
cent issue, "Women and wine are often 
clased together by poets, but we have never 
yet heard of a poet who claimed that both of 
them improved with age." 

— Through the medium of the locomotive 
telephone signal two trains approaching each 
other establish communication by closing the 
circuit when two miles apart. The ringing of 
a gong warns the engineers, who, by means of 
the telephone, can talk to each other. 

— The term "dollar" is derived from Joa- 
chim's Valley in Bohemia, where dollars were 
first coined in 15 18. 

— Bangor, Me., has a battalion of thirty 
young women called the Chilicothians. who 
wear uniforms and carry Springfield rifles. 
They gave an exhibition before the governor 
and his staff, recently. 



The Sins of the Fathers. 



nV JA.MF.S H. IlANf UOKT. 



Some forty years since, in a country town of 
this commonwealth there lived a thrifty farmer 
of some fifty years of age, slightly deaf, but 
sharp at a trade. We will call his name 
Jones. IJurirg the spring months, \'ermont 
traders were accustomed to bring droves of 
-shotes into the principal village of the plait 
and sell out to the farmers to raise and fatten 
for their winter's supply of pork. 

Upon one of these occasions. Farmer Jones 
appeared at the market and inquired the prices 
of the animals. The dealer informed him that 
some were four dollars each, others were six 
dollars each and certain others were seven 
dollars each and showed Mr. Jones those of 
each price. Jones looked the drove over, as 
did the other expectant purcha.sers, and lh( n 
told the drover he would take a four dollar 
animal, and gave the dealer four dollars. The 
drover at tliat moment being busy with an- 
other customer replied ; "All right : take any- 
one out of the lot," pointing towards the four 
dollar pigs. Jones says, "\"ery well," and pro- 
ducing a cord such as each buyer had with 
him at these times, proceeded to fasten the 
noo.sed end thereof around the leg of a seven 
dollar future porker and commenced to drive 
him away. 

The dealer, seeing the error, came to him 
and said : "You have taken the wrong pig." 
Jones's hearing being defective, he replied : 
"Let him squeal; I can hold him.'' "But, Mr. 
Jones," says the drover, "you have a .seven 
dollar pig instead of a four." Jones, apparently 
not understanding him, again replied : "Let 
him squeal; I can hold him." 

The driver attempted again and again to 
make Jones understand he had taken the 
higher-priced animal, and Jones as often re- 
peated the same words, "Let him squeal; I can 
hold him," and the drover was compelled to see 
Jones depart with one of his best pigs, for 
which he had received only four dollars, and 
much to the amusement of the as.sembled 
company. 

Jones had a numerous family of children, 
one of them being a son of the same christian 
name, sharp and enterprising, who went to 
California, and accumulated considerable 
wealth. He then returned, located in a city 
adjoining his native town and engaged in 
trade. He also invested in the real estate of 
his adopted home. In due time, about twenty 
years later than the event above mentioned, 
the growing city took portions of his estates, 
together with those of others, for needed street 
iniprovements. The younger Jones was dis- 
satisfied with all attempts at settlement with 
him, as were some of the others, and a public 
hearing was held therein before the aldermen, 
in the large city hall, at which a gnat audience 
was present. Tne vounger Jones with the 
others participated in the debate. Dunng the 
hearing proposals were made, to which the 
others consented, but Jones, vvho made the 
last argument, remained unsatisfied. At this 
point a man in the audience, acquainted vyith 
the fads, aro.se and said in a clear and distinct 
voice. "Let him squeal: I can hold him." 

So true it is that "the evil that men do live 
after them." 

Worcester, Mass. 



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Correct Pronunciation. 



BY AMELIA S. HEARD. 



It must be a source of much satisfaction to all 
lovers of good English to learn of the numer- 
ous clubs and societies forming all over our 
land for cultivation and improvement in Eng- 
lish speech, especially in its pronunciation 
with its important helpers, enunciation and 
articulation. This study, which is of so 
much importance, unfortunately receives but 
meagre attention and seems almost wholly 
ignored in the majority of our schools. 

The English mode of speech is without 
doubt to become the universal language of 
the world. All foreigners coming to this land 
strive to master it as quickly as possible. Peo- 
ple in all lands study and learn our tongue, 
and although many Americans and English- 
speaking people become accomplished and 
fluent in the various foreign tongues, the 
strongest tendency is toward the English. 

With these facts in view, should not our 
educators take this question in hand seri- 
ously .' They have it almost wholly in their 
power to revolutionize and reorganize the 
present positively careless training of the 
youth of our land in the art of reading in all 
its branches. 

All advocates of a thorough education will 
readily admit that a uniform standard of pro- 
nunciation should be one of its chief factors. 
On the clearness of our pronunciation so 
much depends, in truth, the very life our 
words, and too much cannot be said touching 
this element in cultivating or teaching the art 
of reading. 

Few people possess naturally perfect pow- 
ers of articulation ; with some it is very 
strong, with others weak, and this can only be 
moderated and corrected by effort and prac- 
tice the most persistent and faithful. Plu- 
tarch says that Demosthenes built himself a 
place under ground to study in, and thither he 
went every day to exercise his voice, and he 
was so determined to cultivate a smooth and 
finished speech that he was known to pass 
two or three months at a time in this retreat, 
shaving one-half his head, so that he might 
not go abroad though he desired it never so 
much. 

Ruskin writes that a well educated gentle- 
man may not know many languages, may not 
be able to speak any but his own, may read 
very few books. But whatever language he 
knows , he knows precisely ; whatever word 
he pronounces he pronounces rightly ; above 
all he is learned in the peerage of words. 

Language, like any production of nature, 
admits only of growth, and there is a contin- 
ued change in language that is not in the 
power of man to prevent. As man is the lord 
of nature only as he knows her laws and sub- 
mits to them, the poet and philosopher become 
the lords of language only as they know its 
laws and obey them. When the Emperor 
Tiberias had made a mistake and was re- 
proved for it by Marcellus, another grammar- 
ian of the name of Capito, who happened to 
bepresent, remarked, that what the Emperor 
said was good Latin, or if it were not it would 
soon be so. Marcellus. more of a grammarian 
than a courtier, replied, "Capito is a liar, for, 



Cajsar, thou canst give the Roman citizenship 
to men, but not to words." 

Says Prof. Marsh, "While it may be true 
that all who aspire to rhetorical excellence 
cannot become graceful in pure speech, as 
this requires special gifts, still, persons of only 
average intelligence, whether engaged in 
scholarly pursuits or at manual labor, if they 
will systematically devote a fair proportion of 
their leisure moments to the study of English 
speech, can intelligently and with greater or 
less elegance and perfection acquire all the 
arts belonging to prose and poetic prose com- 
position." A few words well chosen and well 
distinguished will do work that a thousand 
cannot. 

In every branch of attainment it is found 
that patient and continued practice is the 
price of perfect attainment. Study the Bible 
and Shakespeare, for in these alone you will 
find a wealth of knowledge and ideas un- 
limited. Erskine's masterly use of language, 
for which he was especially noted, is said to 
have been due to his familiarity with Shakes- 
peare. Bible facts used illustratively have 
proved powerful aids in many an appeal at the 
bar as well as in the pulpit. 

Punctuation plays a very important part in 
reading, and the good sense and keen percep- 
tions of the reader will quickly inform him 
when and where to punctuate. Sampson 
says, "Every passage has a double set of 
punctuation marks, one visible, the other in- 
visible;" one is the printer's work, the other 
the reader's. 

The Archbishop of York, speaking before 
King's College evening classes, said : "In this 
country and in this age, almost every great 
religious, political and social movement is ef- 
fected by the agency of public speaking and 
the advantages of being well versed in the art, 
as well as in that of public reading, are every 
day becoming more apparent. Rev. Dr. Hall, 
of New York, earnestly recommends the 
cultivation of good reading as a most import- 
ant accomplishment and says where one 
person is interested in music twenty are 
pleased by good reading. 

Did you ever notice what beauty, life and 
power the Holy Scriptures have when well 
read? Do you remember the wonderful effects 
produced by Elizabeth Fry on the criminals 
of Newgate by simply reading to them the 
parable of the Prodigal Son. Princes and 
peers of the realm, it is said, counted it a 
privilege to stand in the dismal corridors, 
among felons and murderers, merely to share 
with them the delight of witnessing the mar- 
vellous pathos which genius, taste and culture 
could infuse into that simple story. Hon. W. 
E. Dodge, in a public address, said that he 
had for years watched young ministers and 
had been distressed to see in how many in- 
stances they have failed in this respect, being 
unable to make available the knowledge they 
had acquired by years of careful study. They 
had no power of voice or style of delivery to 
make an impression on any audience and for 
lack of this never attained any considerable 
success. 

As no previous history records the cultiva- 
tion of oratory as an art, Greece may be 
called its birth-place and home. Here it rose 
to its highest perfection, and from Greece it 
has spread over all the world. Rome bor- 



rowed her eloquence and her methods of cul- 
tivating it, from Greece, as she did her other 
arts and learning. The Greeks compared 
oratory to sculpture and painting. 

That the Egyptians knew the power of per- 
suasive speech may be inferred from the prac- 
tice of their courts of justice. The plaintiff 
and defendant wrote their statement and re- 
plies for the court, and the documents were 
submitted to the bench of thirty judges, who 
were presided over by an archjudge. This 
method was adopted, it seems, because the 
art of oratory cast a veil over the truth. 

To become a truly expressive and good 
reader after mastering thoroughly pro- 
nunciation in all its ramifications, the 
reader must make the subject his own, he 
must think the thoughts of the author; in 
truth, he must endeavor to put himself in the 
author's place, for say what we may to the 
contrary, the subject matter of any speech, 
sermon, address, reoitation or reading of any 
character, is enhanced ten fold, and the beauty 
and interest deeply increased when the pro- 
nunciation is correct, the enunciation is 
clear and the articulation is distinct. 



On Friday 
Lee surrendered. 
Moscow was burned. 
Washington was born. 
Shakespeare was born. 
America was discovered. 
Richmond was evacuated. 
The Mayflower landed. 
Queen Victoria was married. 
Fort Sumter was bombarded. 
King Charles I. was beheaded. 
Julius Ctesar was assassinated. 
Napoleon Bonaparte was born. 
The battle of Marengo was fought. 
The battle of Waterloo was fought. 
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. 
The battle of Bunker Hill was fought. 
The battle of New Orleans was fought. 
The Declaration of Independence was 
signed. 

— The Photographic Society of Geneva has 
been testing the theor)' that the long com- 
panionship of man and wife tends to make 
them look more and more like each other 
Photographs of seventy-eight couples, and of 
an equal number of adult brothers and sisters, 
show that the married couples were more like 
each other than the brothers aud sisters of 
the same blood. 

— A circular saw that slits gold pens in the 
size of a quarter, and revolves 3,000 times per 
minute. 




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* ARCHITECT * 
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deadly fevers are caused by impure air arising from foul drains, waste 
pipe, sinks, cesspools, etc., etc. Don't delay. Apply Ozonos to every 
suspicious spot. 

It is so economical all can afford to use it. No tidy housekeeper 
should do her cleaning without it. It is absolutely harmless, non- 
poisonous and odorless. 

One bottle, 50c., diluted, makes 25 to 100 gallons. All druggists and grocers. Send for circular. 
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16 

GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HER RESIDENCE, 29 MAT ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-^Ladies' i Hair i Dressing^^ 

CHILDREN'S HAIR-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 
387 Main St.» Grout's Block, Worcester, Afasfl. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 IvIAIN STREET. 
Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS * MAKING * PARLORS. 
Bridal Oat&ts and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23. Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

^^-:-vWORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL*-^ 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

-^►ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

iTo. 2 T'vT'alii-a.t Street, 



Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. MRS. N. L. HOLT. 

LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Nliss H. Nl PROCTOR, 

92 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



LICiHT 

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Raspberry Jam. 

Put six quarts of raspberries in a porcelain- 
lined kettle, add two quarts and a pint of 
granulated sugar. Mash the fruit with a long 
wooden spoon, stand over a quick fire, boil 
and stir continually forty minutes. Put away 
as directed for jams. 

Cherry Rolypoly. 

Sift half a pound of flour into a bowl, add 
one-quarter of a pound of suet, chopped fine, 
about a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt and 
just water enough to make a dough that can 
be rolled out on a board. Stem and seed one 
pint of Morello cherries. Roll the crust 
nearly an inch thick, spread the cherries 
evenly over it and dredge them lightly with 
flour. Roll it up, put it in a floured cloth and 
and pin it securely. Put it in a pot of boiling 
water and boil it, without stopping, two hours 

Cherry Jam. 

Red cherries are the best for jam ; they 
should not be too ripe. If you like to pre- 
serve them whole, make a syrup, putting, for 
every pound of fruit you intend preserving, 
one pound of loaf sugar into a quarter-pint of 
cold water, which should boil for half an 
hour. Have your fruit picked from the stalks 
and weighed, put it gently into the syrup, and 
let it boil for an hour, stirring gently and care- 
fully to avoid breaking the fruit; skim occa- 
sionally. Put a little on a plate, and when it 
stiffens the jam is done, put it into jars, and 
let get quite cold before you cover it. 
Gelatine Pineapple Jelly. 

Dissolve one box of gelatine, take two pine- 
apples, cut them up and and stew in two 
quarts of water ; strain it, and add the gela- 
tine and one pound of sugar; place on ice to 
become cold. 

Pineapple Bavarian Cream. 

Soak one-half a box of gelatine in one-half 
a cup of cold water, then add half a cup of 
boiling water, stir until dissolved ; add half a 
cup of sugar, and two cups of chopped pine- 
apple ; place on ice until thick, then add one 
pint of whipped cream, stir it in carefully, and 
then let all become very cold. Serve with 
sponge or delicate cake. 

Lemon Jelly. 

Soak one half package of gelatine in one 
large cup of water for an hour. Stir into this 
one cup of sugar, the juice of two lemons 
and the grated peel of one, and add two cups 
of boiling water. Strain withput squeezing 
into a wet mould. 

Rice Snowballs. 

Boil one pint of rice until done soft, put in 
small cups, and when perfectly cold place on 
a dish, make a boiled custard of one pint of 
milk, three eggs, half-cup of sugar, one tea- 
spoonful of corn starch, flavor with either lemon 
or vanilla. When cold, pour over the rice 
balls. This is a simple but nice dessert. 



* NOW IS YODR TIME » 

Be sure that you don't get left. 
Claflln'a best Cabinet Photogn'aphB, 82 a doz. 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 

W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickiel 
Plater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 

* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSDRANCE CO. * 

Office, First National Bank Building, 

■410 ILvdla-iii St., "V^rorcester. 
CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picture Frame Nl'f g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Engravings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

■^7 Park: St., Worcester. 
RICH MATTRESS CO., 

When you want a good mattress of any g^rade 
or your old one made over, send us your order. 
We guarantee first-class work. 

13 Park St., Worcester. 

PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 



-f Bay State Dollar Store ■^ 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* TRAVELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 

LE i JOLLY i FRENCH * DYEING 

AND i CLEANSING t HOUSE. 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 

Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gross & Strauss 
I Cut out this coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring fit with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. T. MELVIN. FKOPKIETOK. WALNUT ST. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Place. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LACNDEKED IN SU- 
PEKIOK STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Worlc called for and deUvered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., PROF'S. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



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LI (I HT 

About the House. 

■ [Readers of I.KiilTare cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*, You ought to have a dozen of sa/in duni- 
ask serviettes for your luncheon table, with 
mottoes from "Ahce in Wonderland" em- 
broidered on them in gold thread. If you 
haven't chosen them for yourself and don't 
want to take the time, here are a dozen for 
you : 

"Feed not on us, the oyster cried." 

"The butter's spread too thick." 

"A loaf of bread is what we chiefly need." 

".Soup of the evening, beautiful soup." 

"Pepper and vinegar are very good indeed." 

"Who for such dainties would not stoop ?" 

"Some gave them plum cake." 

"The little fishes of the sea." 

"Game, or any other dish." 

"Cut us another slice." 

"Trifle, if you please." 

"The goose with the bones and the beak." 

The prettiest way to show these is to have 
them laid over a small glass plate, on which 
stands a colored glass finger-bowl that is very 
small at the bottom. Then bring them on 
before the ice is served ; the finger-bowl and 
serviette will then be removed, the ice eaten 
from the glass plate and each one of your 
guests in arranging this will have an opportu- 
nity to look at the pretty work and read the 
quaint sentence. Usually it forms a very good 
and very safe subject for conversation. 

% Ink stains on mahogany may be obliter- 
ated by touching the spot with a feather dipped 
in a teaspoonful of water to which a few drops 
of nitre have been added, and directly the 
stain disappears. Rub it over quickly with a 
cloth dipped in cold water. 

*# If you insist on your dressmaker facing 
your gowns with velvet or velveteen instead of 
braid, you will lessen your shoemaker's bills 
and be saved from the purple blemish on the 
instep caused by the movements of the skirts 
in walking. 

*,f If the color has been taken out of silks 
by fruit stains, ammonia will usually restore 
the color. 

*, Delicate colors in embroidered handker- 
chiefs can be set by soaking for ten minutes 
previous to washing in a pail of tepid water, in 
which a dessertspoonful of turpentine has been 
well stirred. 

*» People in the country who are annoyed 
by flies should remember that clusters of the 
fragrant clover, which grows abundantly by 
nearly every roadside, if hung in the room and 
left to dry and shed its faint fragrant perfume 
through the air, will drive away more than 
sticky saucers of molasses and other fly traps 
and fly papers can ever collect. 

*, There is no reason why women should 
tire themselves in squeezing juice from fruit 
for jelly or in stoning cherries, when there are 
several patent processes for doing this work 
with perfect success, enabling the worker to 
go through preserving time with unstained 
hands and unexhausted patience. There are 
enough necessary things to do in a household 
which cannot be done. 



'7 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 



One of our old-fashioned Special Sales (or 
SATURDAY, July 26, and the week 
beginning with MONDA'y, July 28, '90. 

Foot Baths, regular Size, . . 45c 
Galvanized Refrigerator Pans, med. size, 35c 
Galvanized Garbage Cans, covered, . $1.25 
Water Sprinklers, 4 qts. tin, . . 25c 



Square Willow Hampers 

honestly made by a workman that is un- 
surpassed. Long life in every one of 
them. The price is 84.00, and well worth 
it. Common round Hampers, 95 cents. 
Picnic Baskets all sizes and kinds. 



Serap Baskets, 

Dog and Cat Baskets, 

Bushel and Market Baskets. 



Every shape, kind and size in our great 
basement 



BASKET DEPARTMENT. 



Preserving Kettles of every kind. Porcelain 
lined and Granite Iron are the mo.st popu- 
lar. Prices in a few days in detail. 

Fruit Funnels, just fitting a quart jar, and al- 
most indispensable for the canner, 

10 cents. 

Ladles and Spoons, with extra long handles, 
for use in canning. 

Florence Oil Stoves, none better — 

1 Burner, 85c. 

2 " $1.70. 

3 " 2.55. 

Alaska Refrigerators keep moving right along, 
looking neither to the right or lert, unaf- 
fected by the clamor of "cut down" prices. 
We can give you the exact size you want. 



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Frills and Plaits. 



Facts for Fine Costumes. 



•j. The latest device in bathing costumes 
comes from the other side, where it was made 
for an English woman who has already worn 
one similar to it during the season at that 
kaleidoscopic seaside resort, Trouville. It is 
made of black satin — the heavy glossy quality 
that comes with a linen back. The bodice is 
laid over a tight-fitting lining of jean, which is 
enough support to the figure to enable the 
wearer to dispense with the stiff corset which 
many bathers consider indispensable. It is 
high up about the throat and buttoned se- 
curely with cut jet balls. The satin is gath- 
ered back and front, and the fullness "gauged" 
from the bust line down to a few inches be- 
low the waist, where a full skirt reaching 
nearly to the knee is set on with a "butter- 
cup shirring." There are no sleeves. In 
each arm-size is set a crescent-shaped piece, 
which laces across several times at the 
shoulder and is tied with a black-silk 
cord. Black-silk tights, with small satin 
trunks and shoes of soft black felt that are 
very pointed at the toes, something like the 
•'Shoon" of the period of Richard the Third, 
complete this outfit. The fair owner says that 
satin holds its own against the onslaught of 
the soft sea waves better than any known 
fabric. It does not cling too' closely, and 
wetting rather improves its lustre. 

% The lightest shades of tan and gray cloth 
rival the white cloth jackets for summer wraps. 
The special novelty for these is the gray cloth 
cloutt!, or studded with steel in small bits like 
nail heads. 

*, White parasols are the favorite of the 
season, and commend themselves by their ap- 
propriateness for any toilet. The full gathered 
covers of chiffon are probably most in favor, 
but there are also many very elegant smooth 
covers of lace, such as Honiton and Point de 
Genes, and white silk covers with each gore 
decorated with an applique lace medallion or 
a wreath,with a design at top the of a bow knot 
and ribbon ends. White enamelled wood 
sticks with gold mounting are on such para- 
sols, and the fancy generally is for thick club 
sticks and short ferrules. 

*» Of all the summer fabrics, nothing is 
prettier than the brocaded India silk, which 
takes the place of the plain surface silk in this 
season's styles. Not alone is it more elegant, 
but far more durable. Many of the French 
models are of this brocaded silk, and as the 
cool, thin silks of China and India have be- 
come a staple article in the market for summer 
costumes, year after year has seen improve- 
ments in their coloring, texture and design. 
This material has really taken the place of 
the raw silks, and is much more attractive, 
being lighter and in a certain way more dura- 
ble. 

*, Thin, sheer lawns make charming dresses 
to be worn at garden parties and other alfresco 
entertainments in midsummer. Woven dots 
as fine as those of point if esprit net are on the 
white lawns, and the edge for the foot of the 
skirt has woven scollops that look like needle- 
work ; then printed sprays, wreaths, or single- 
stemmed flowers of delicate colors, are over 
the whole surfice amid the thick, white dots. 



Come here, ladies ! Something to show you. 
We are coming! Anything for excitement here at Newport. 
What have you there Mrs. Fairweather? 
Where did you get it? 
O, my ! isn't that a handsome little book. 

Wedding plate paper, too. Isn't that ink a lovely shadeW red? 
But what is it all about ? 
Corsets^Royal Worcester Corsets. 

O, well you might know that anything about Royal Worcester Corsets would be well 
gotten up. 

Now look here, ladies, just give me a chance to edge in a word and I will tell you all 
about it. 

You remember you were all asking me, last week, where I got my Pongee Corsets. 
Well, I wrote that day to the Worcester Corset Co. to send me their little book about 
Royal Worcester Corsets. 

They sent me this. Any of you can get one by sending to the Worcester Corset Co.'s 
Retail Store, 328 Main street, Worcester, or by calling there for them. 

Now this book tells you all about the Pongee No. 608. Serges, Satins, Bridal Corsets, 
and lots of others. 

I wouldn't give up my Pongee Corsets under any consideration. 

This little book tells you all about their "Whalebone Corsets." Then under that head 
come, first the Pongees, Royal Worcester 608. 

By the way, do you know what makes the difference between the Pongee silk and 
other silk ? 

No, there is a difference, but I never knew why it was. 

Well, it is this. The silk worm that produces the fibre from which the Pongee is made 
feeds on the leaves of the oak tree, while the other kinds of silk are made by a worm that feeds 
on the mulberry tree. 

You can see the character of the oak in the fibre of the Pongee — tough and strong. 
Look here, Mrs. Fairweather, let us send for a Pongee Corset. Directions for sending are 
given right here in this book. 

That's so. Come on, we will do it. 

Mrs. Fairweather, you write the order. We will give you the sizes. 

Tell them to be sure to send the Pongee Corsets — Royal Worcester No. 608. 




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FRENCH SHAPES! LONG WAISTS! 

PRICES FROM $1 TO $6 EACH. 

STYLES TO SUIT ALL WANTS. 



Worcester Corset Co., 

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Massage and Electrical Treatments. 

These baths are a luxury. Ladies and children only. 
Hours, q to 12 a. m.; 2 to ■; and 7 to 9 p. m. M KS. I. L. 
CUM MINGS, 24 V4 School .Street, Worcester, Mass. 

If you want a piano that will last a life-time, 
get the celehrjited 

SOHMER & CO., 

Which is preferred by all leading artists. 

C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 MAIN ST., 

Sole agents for Worcester County. 
HAVE YOU SEEN 

OUR "IDEAL" 

ONLY SIT). ■RAMTO^? ONLY »15. 

ONLY »15. XarVlN J V-»0. ONLY S15. 

Headquarters for the Bruno Guitar. 
Merrifield's i Music i House, 

43 PLKASANT STREET. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 22 PEARL STREET. 




EVANS $c CO. 



FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

in Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 



ly 1(J HT 

Grins and Grinds. 

Cucumbers Too. 

Watermelons .ire coming in by the carload 
now; but as the census h,is already been 
taken the douliling up of the population will 
do no good. 
And the Tide Went Out. 

"Tell me some fairy tales," she whispered, 
gazing skyward. "I love them." 

"Do you?" said he. "You are very .sweet 
and clever." 

.She turned her radiant eyes upon him. 
"Personal ones don't go," she said. 
And Chain Down the Waves. 

"If Britannia rules the sea," said Marlow, 
"there's is one thing she ought to be made to 
do right off." 

"What's that ?" 

"Put muzzles on the sharks." — Lt/t: 
Otherwise, She Might be a Widow. 

JoHNNV: — Is there really such a person as 
the foolkiller, papa ? 

Mr. Nagley:— Well, Johnny, I never saw 
him. 

Mr.s. Nagley :— No, I don't suppose you 
ever did, William ; and I'm sure he never saw 
you. 
Sold Again. 

When Jay Gould was a struggling young 
surveyor, with hardly one cent to rub against 
another, he stamped his initials and a date on 
a copper cent and put it in circulation. Last 
week Mr. Gould received some pennies in 
change on a street-car, and on looking them 
over, he found the coin he had stamped was 
not among them. 

John was so Literal. 

Her Girl Chum (sweetly) : — What did 
John get you for a birthday present .' 

Mrs. You.n'owife (mournfully):— Not a 
thing. 

H. G. C. (emphatically) :— Why, how did 
that happen .' 

Mrs. Y. (weeping): — Well, you see he 
asked me (sobs) what he should get for me, 
and — and — I (more sobs) told him I'd love 
him just as — just as well (sobs) if he didn't 
g-get me anything, and — he — he — didn't. — 
Hest Shore. 
Couldn't She Climb a Table ? 

JiM.MY : — Where are you going to-day. Jack ? 
Let's go skatin'. 

Jack : — I'm goin' to school, ain't you '! 

Jlmmy: — Yes; but the teacher will dismiss 
us, all the same. Mickey Hooley has two 
mice in his pocket and he's goin' to let 'em 
out on the floor. — Kearney Enterprise. 



NEAR SUMMER. 



WORCESTER, MASS 




G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S.. 



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Room 13, Knowlcs Building, 

51H rvlain St., Vs/oree«ter. 

([^'Elevator. 



(Formerly with liz. Cole.) 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

POK I.AI1IKS AND ( HIM.KHN I>N1,V. 

:)r.'^ Main Street, Corner Maple, Worreiiter, Mann. 

B*"Officehours— 9toi2 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 

menl at the homes of patients by appointment if desired. 



WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Shorthand and Typewriting practically taught. Our 
graduates are successful. \\ rite for terms. 

<3-eo. C. Creeliia.a,ii, Principal, 

44 Front street, Worrenler, Mas*. 
SS*" Typewriting done at reasonable rates durinK the 
summer. 



Art Embroidery and 

Decorative Needlework. 

Original Designs made to order. Materials and be- 
gun work constantly on hand. 

l!«lxss S. Xj. XjaTXTrence, 

ROOM 30, - - - - KNOWLES BUILDING. 

DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

DENTIST 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, fS per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

([^^A lady assistant will be in attendance. 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
TURKIJH BATHS. 



F. AV. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 

8 A.M. toQ P. M. Sundays, 

8 to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House 
Worcester, Mass. 



MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New \'ork Training School, gives 

^^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS -* 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

4.38 Main St., Worcenter. Mhhii. 



DR. KENISON, 
326 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Corns, Bunions and Bad Nails 
Treated Without Pain. 

Separate Rooms for Ladies and Gents. 

OFFICK HOURS, 8 A. M. to 12, 1 to S V. M. 



Mrs. Dr.Wm. Lee, 

339 Main St., 

Burnside Building. 
Room 5. 

Office hours: 9 to 
12.30; 2 to 5. Sun- 
days, 10.30 to 3. 




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About Westboro Folks. 



The Misses Spurr, of Parkman street, are 
revelling amid youth and beauty at the 
Breezy Hill House, Lisbon, N. H. 

Mr. Arthur M. Cobb, a son of the late C. 

D. Cobb, is studying high art in the Old 
World. He is now at Paris, France. 

Mr. Henry A. Fairbanks has added a hand- 
some steam launch to the " navy " on Lake 
Chauncey. Parties can now explore the beau- 
tiful bays and harbors of this matchless sheet 
of water or trail for the great-mouthed pike 
or black bass to their hearts content, and at a 
trivial outlay of muscle or ducats. 

The male guests at Hotel Whitney were 
lavishly entertained on Wednesday evening 
by Mr. C. H. Cobb. The handsome parlors 
were beautifully illuminated and were gar- 
nished by ferns and flowers, transforming 
them into a vertiable paradise. Works of 
Wagner, Chopin and Mendelsshon were ably 
interpreted by a number of the guests. After 
a sumptous lunch, cards were brought out and 
whist took up the remaining hours. Mr. A. 

E. Hoyt succeeded in obtaining first prize, 
and Mr. Harry De Wolfe the " tail-ender." 

Mrs. O. W. Judd is spending a few days at 
Turner's Falls. From there she goes to Deer- 
field to attend the School of Art, History and 
Romance, for a season. 

Mr. C. L W. Robinson and family are along 
the coat of the Pine Tree state. 

Mr. L. Rosenbaum, of Washington is visit- 
ing his daughter, Mrs. J. B. Adams, on 
Church street. 

Miss Grace Kimball has been making con- 
quests at Newcastle, N. H., Boars Head and 
the Isles of Shoals. 

Miss Fanny Maynard is with friends from 
Quincy, doing the South Shore. 

A trio of young society men, Mr. Ralph D. 
Smith, Thad S. Harrington and Howard Bis- 
coe, are "roughing it" at Lake Whitehall. 
They report numerous good catches, especi- 
ally on last Wednesday, when they captured a 
string of beauties near the camp, to wit, Miss 
May Richards, Miss Annie J. Keith and Miss 
Lena Bingham, and a chaperone. 

The "Nairatinu Quartet," Mrs. Coil, Mrs. 
Bradley, Miss Fales and Miss Jacobs, are 
deep in study of the classics, and will bring 
out something grand in the near future. 

The latest acquisition to the wardrobe of 
some of our fashion-plate young ladies is the 
flannel waist and tie, il la man, and the zebra- 
like blazer i\ la — well, what t 

Mr. M. S. Converse has sold his extensive 
coal business to H. W. Kimball, who has for 
the past four years been with J. S. Nason. 
Mr. Converse has purchased an interest in 
the establishment of D. Sturtevant & Co., of 
lioston. 

An equestrian party is being made up for a 
trip to the mountains. They will start in 
about two weeks to be gone ten days. 

De Forest Archdale. 



I^ I (I H T 

Ante Mortem. 
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your 
love and tenderness sealed up until your 
friends are dead, but fill their lives with sweet- 
ness. Speak approving and cheering words 
while their ears can hear them, and while their 
hearts can be thrilled and made happier by 
them. The kind things you will say after they 
are gone, say before they go. The flowers you 
mean to send for their coftins, bestow now, and 
so brighten and sweeten their homes before 
they leave them. If my friends have alabaster 
boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of 
sympathy and affection, which they intend to 
break over my dead body, I would rather they 
would bring them now in my weary and 
troubled hours, and open them, that I may be 
refreshed and cheered, while I need them and 
can enjoy them. I would rather have a plain 
coffin without a flower, and a funeral without 
an eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of 
love and sympathy. Let us learn to annoint 
our friends beforehand for their burial. Post- 
mortem kindness cannot cheer the burdened 
spirit. Flowers on the coflin shed no fragrance 
backward over the weary way by which the 
loved ones have traveled. — C. S. P. 



Don't rub your face with a coarse towel ; 
just remember it is not made of cast-iron, and 
treat it as you would the finest porcelain — 
gently and|delicately. 



The Air-Line Lords. 

An exchange says that the elevator boys of 
Omaha, Neb., are about to form a protective 
association, and will hereafter submit to em- 
ployers, for acceptance, the following code of 
rules whenever the services of an elevator 
boy are sought: 

First — All elevator boys shall be permitted 
to sit in their cars, on chairs occupying space 
not to exceed one-half the area of the car 
floor. 

Second — Patrons must exercise care in ad- 
dressing an elevator boy, that he may not be 
interrupted in the midst of an exciting passage 
in " Swamp Seth ; or the Hoodoo of Hood- 
lum Hollow." 

Third — Do not ask if Mr. So-and-So is in 
his room ; the elevator boy retains the privi- 
lege of resenting such a question by such evi- 
dences of displeasure as he may choose to 
manifest. 

Fourth — The elevator boy has the privi- 
lege of passing and repassing you on any 
floor without permitting you to enter the car. 

Fifth — The operator may have from three 
to six companions in the car with him, to aid 
him in whiling away time. 

Sixth — On arriving at the first floor, permit 
the elevator boy to leave the car first. He 
may have a pressing engagement to finish a 
game of marbles or a jack-knife trade may 
await his coming. 

Seventh — Don't become impatient if the 
car does not start at once when you enter it. 
The boy may be lost in thought, and not ready 
to descend. 



In the Courts. 



— A conception of the cost of London fogs 
may be gained from the fact that during nine 
days of fog in November, 1887, the public 
paid a single one of the several companies 
four hundred and ninety pounds, or twenty- 
four hundred and fifty dollars, an hour for arti- 
ficial light. 

In Prussia there are 20,000,000 acres of for- 
ests, 10,000,000 of which are state fosests. 



Mr. George Crompton, champion of the 
Worcester Tennis Club, and Mr. Harry W. 
Smith, a former champion, are to play a 
match on the Worcester club grounds at 3 
o'clock this afternoon. Both are good play- 
ers and there will undoubtedly be an exhibition 
of scientific tennis. Mr. Randolph Crompton 
offers a flask valued at $25 to the victorious 
player. 

The Lakeside Boat will hold a club tourna- 
ment next week, the entries closing today. 
Messrs. A. H. Lange, Henry J. Gross and 
Arthur J. Bassett are the tournament commit- 
tee. Play begins Monday. 



The Winslow Tennis Club is ready to play 
the season out, at last. The courts were 
marked out Thursday afternoon and some 
playing was done on them. They were dusty 
and needed a wetting, which they got yester- 
day. With a thorough rolling, they will be in 
good condition. The clubs looks forward to 
a season of active play and a fall tournament. 



The club has had a hard time in getting es- 
tablished, through losing the grounds it had 
last year and being unable to secure others 
promptly. The present grounds, on Pleasant 
street, belong to Register of Probate F. W. 
Southwick. They have been leased for three 
years. Four courts have been laid out and 
others can be added when desired. Next year 
the club will think about a clubhouse of some 
kind. About $200 has been expended in 
making the grounds ready for use. 



At Manchester-by-the-Sea, this week, the 
tournament on the Longwood grounds closed, 
Hovey and Wilder beating Tallant and Orcutt 
6-3. 8-6, 5-7, 7-5, and winning first in doubles. 
Hoppin and Mansfield also beat Tallant and 
Orcutt and won second. 



At the Kenwood tennis tournament at Chi- 
cago, last Monday, Chase, the Western cham- 
pion, who has had that distinction for three 
years past, beat McClellan, by a score of 6-3, 
7-6, 4^, 6-1, 6-3, and remains champion. He 
will play at Newport next month for the 
championship of America. He is said to be 
playing in splendid form. 



The row that finally ruptured the firm of 
Gilbert & SuUivan is said to have been on 
account of a carpet. Their business has 
always been done on a sharing system, ex- 
penses of all kinds being charged against the 
receipts, and the profit that is left divided 
between Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte, 
their manager. While Gilbert was in India, 
just after the production of "The Gondoliers," 
Carte purchased some new carpets for the 
theatre, and when Gilbert returned he objected 
to the expense. Carte maintained that the 
purchase was justifiable, and the two appealed 
to Sullivan, who sided with Carte. Gilbert is 
endowed with a temper that is not mild, and 
when he gets into a row he generally sees it 
through. He did in this instance, and the 
result has been the dissolution of the partner- 
ship. 



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About Folks. 



The Boston and Albany Railroad company 
has arranged for a popular excursion to C )ak- 
land (larden, Boston, to-day, the object of the 
trip being a chance to witness the production 
of "The Fall of Babylon." Only 300 tickets 
for this excursion are to be sold. They will 
be good on any train from Worcester to Bos- 
ton, to-day ; a second coupon will be good only 
on the train leaving Boston at 10.50 r. M., to- 
night, or that leaving at 6 I'. M., to-morrow 
(Sunday) night. The rate for the whole, in- 
cluding passage both ways and admission to 
the "Fall of Babylon" is only Si. 25, and the 
chances are that none of the 300 tickets will be 
allowed to "go to waste." "The Fall of 
Babylon" is Barnum and Bailey's great pro- 
duction. It is said to be the finest thing of the 
kind ever produced in the country, and it has 
certainly delighted all who have seen it. 



Another excursion for which the Boston and 
Albany people have made arrangements is 
that of the cold water people, who are to 
have a grand union temperance celebration at 
Melville Garden, Downer Landing, on August 

4. Melville Garden is an ideal picnic ground, 
and is one of the most beautiful spots any- 
where about Boston Harbor. A meeting will 
be held at which there will be speaking by 
ex-Gov. John P. St. John, for the I^rohibition- 
ists; Rev. A. A. Miner, D. D., for the Massa- 
chusetts Temperance Alliance; Hon. John I). 
Long, for the Massachusetts Total Abstinence 
Society; Mrs. S. S. Fessenden, for the 
Womans' Christian Temperance Union; Mrs. 

5. Louise Barton, for the Worcester Reform 
Club; Benjamin N. Jewell, G. W. P., for the 
Sons of Temperance; Charles O. Tirrell, P. 
G. W. T., for the Temple of Honor, and 
James L. Bowen, G. C. T., for the Good Tem- 
plars. The number of tickets is limited to 
500, and the fare for the round trip will be 
$1.15, the tickets being good on a special 
train leaving Worcester at 7.15 A. M., and 
another special train leaving Boston at 7.30 
P. ^L, only. The tickets to and from Downer 
Landing are good on the regular boats of the 
Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company. It 
promises to be something unique in the way 
of excursions. 

Not many books begin their existence in print 
with an edition of fifty thousand copies. This 
is the distinction of a volume which is coming 
out in England, the autobiography of James 
Berry, the public executioner. One chapter is 
horribly entitled, "Men and Women I have 
Executed." 



General Crook shortly before his death had 
consented to prepare a volume of between six 
hundred and seven hundred pages on "Indians 
I Have Met." The book was to have been 
illustrated profusely with colored plates, and 
the text would have been a valuable addition 
to the history of the North American Indian, 
General Crook knew the race thoroughly, and 
the reds trusted, feared, and respected him. 



Fashion's Newest Colors. 
A long time ago people used to think that 
blue was essentially a color for blondes and 
angels. Nobody can dispute its being the 
color for angels, but it is certainly not the one 
to be chosen by a blonde. The fairskin looks 
cold enough, and when blue, especially pale 
blue, is put near it, the effect given is very un- 
desirable, because what was clear white 
before becomes a pallor now. Blondes had 
much better wear any of the rose shades, 
bright scarlet, warm brown, or dark green, 
leaving the very trying pale blue to the brown- 
haired lassie with a bright color, or the warm 
brunette whose skin does not know the un- 
sightly touch of sallowne.ss. Everybody likes 
a rose-colored lining, and, to be in vogue this 
season, everybody ought to have a rose-colored 
frock — in cotton, or wool, in silk or tulle, it is 
always most charitable in bringing out one's 
best features and toning down one's worst. 
Combined with white the pink shades are as 
dainty as a bit of old china, and will suggest 
the pretty pink and white ladies, whom Wat- 
teau painted on fans, who played at little 
Trianon with Marie Antoinette, laughed and 
jested, and yet did not fear when they had to 
face death on the guillotine for the sake of the 
king and ihe queen.— Ltufifs' //o»u'/ot/nia/. 

Removing a Cinder from the Eye. 
The proper way to get a cinder out of the 
eye, is to draw the upper lid down over the 
lower, utilizing the lashes of the lower as a 
broom, that it may sweep the surface of the 
former and thus get rid of the intruder. Or, 
gently drawing the lid away from the globe, 
pass a clean camel's-hair brush— or fold of a 
soft silk handkerchief— two or three times be- 
tween them. This procedure will, in nearly 
all cases, suffice : when it does not, the ser- 
vices of a physician are necessary. It is a re 
markable fact that a very minute body will 
give rise to intense pain, and even after it has 
been extracted, tlie sensation remains for an 
hour or more. After the intruder is out, 
gently bathe the lids every fifteen minutes in 
iced water till the feeling subsides.— /.a,/tes' 
Home Journal. 

—The first watches made in Nuremburg in 



NEW KODAKS!! 



—When a man gets to the point where he'll 
lie, there isn't much choice of subjects.— 
Robert G. Ingersoll. 




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"You press the 

button, 
we do the rest," 



Sev«n New SlyloK un<l Slwii, hII I,n»ili-<1 will, 
rrHiinpnreiit Fllnm. 
For sale by alt I'hoto Stock Dealers. 

THK KASTMAN <<>MI"ANV. 
-Send for cataloRue. |{<l(ll K.STKH. N. V. 



4- WORCESTER DYE HOUSE ^^ 

80 Southbridge Street. 

Gents' Garments and Ladies' Dress Guods of all kinds 
cleansed, dyed and finished. Satisfactory work for all 
patrons. Prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than out of town 
concerns. 

H. ADAPvIS & SON. 



MRS. C. A. ROBnlNS, 

Formerly at Rarnard. Sumner & Co.'s, will \^- pleased to 

mi-.t her friends at her 

^-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS -^ 

No. jS7 Mam street. Grout's block. I'erfect sali.l.ictior 
j;uaraiiteed and jjrices reasonable. 



Fire Insurance ! 

EDW. E, LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOCK 

Which must be diposed of to make room for certain im- 
provements I intend makiuR, and new stock I must buy^ 

1 find on the shelves of my store some f 5,000 worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to fill up your libraries. 

The Ixjoks 1 have, the money and the room I want. 
(;,ill and look over the stock and have what you wish at 
almost your own price. 

GEO. L. SANFORD, 

1 lUII'KlKTOK ol- THK 

Sanford & Company Bookstore, 

;iGl .MAIN STKKKT. 



NANTUCKET, MASS. 

Open the year around. Rates, $2.50 to $3.50 per day. 
CH.*KLKS H. MOWKV, IToprlptor. 

II^SEND FOR CIKCULARS. 

THK SLIMMIT HOIJSH 

On WacHusett Mcnintfiin 

Will open the season of 'go May .4, under -ew management^ ll^ttZ^o^^:^^^ ^^^ 
found for a day's outing, or a longer stay, f'""' ^^.^ '"^^^^et affords. Special attention 
and electric bells. Table supplied *' ^ /he best the marke^a. P.^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ 

given to preparing dinners at short notice^ ^f^^J^hlg -ag'ficent views at every turn, 
horses, as it makes the ascent ^Y =='g"SS. 'urn.sn ng g Worcester, at 

A. HARRIKOTON, Manager. 

Post-ofiice address, Mt. Wachusett, Mass. 



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WHITNEY'S 

LINEN STORE. 



Prices Range from 

\2\ to 50c. 



ON THE!- 



Drummer's Sample 

Handkerchief. 



This is About One-tialf Cost. 



MAIL AND EXPRESS CHARGES PREPAID TO WORCESTER. 



Temple Place, Boston. 



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C. L. GORHAM & CO., 

(Established 1865.) 

The best goods, the most honorable deaUng, and the 
fairest prices in the city. 

PIANOS AND NIUSIC. 

454 MAIN STREET. 



The Travelers of Hartford. 

LIFE AND ACCIDENT. 

Jtastiis E Allen, 
339 Main Street. District Agent. 



The artist paints so wondrous fine 

That he makes a famous name ; 
The printer cannot draw a line. 

But he gets there just the same. 
If for a printer you should seek, 

Needing one whose work is good, 
You'll find him at 3 Maple street, 

And his name is O. B. WOOD. 



A sunny, well-appointed Dining Room 
makes cheery the whole house. The best 
investment you ever make in house furnish- 
ing provides substantial and handsome Side- 
board, Table and Chairs for your Dining 
Room. Artistic merit, solidity, convenience 
and variety mark the new designs for 1890. 
Solid Oak Dining Room Sets, including a 
Sideboard, from $40 up. It will please you 
to look them over in our spacious ware- 
rooms. If you buy, we guarantee satisfac- 
tion, and deliver free in Boston and its 
suburbs, and the depots. 



KiLBORN 

Whitman 

& Co. 



46 Canal Street, 
139 Friend Street, 



Boston. 



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THE SOUTH ! 

THC^SOUTH ! 

Bedford City Land and Improve- 
ment Company, 

BEDFORD CITY, VIRGINIA, 



Chartered by a Special Act of the General Assembly. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000 
Par value, Jicoo. AMOUNT ISSUED, $300,000. Nona.sscssable. 



Every Dollar Paid In 
Goes Toward the Development of the Property. 



BEDFORD CITY is a flourishing city of 4000 inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk & 
Western Railroad, midway between Lynchburg and Roanoke, the surrounding county being 
extremely rich in mineral resources. It is the county seat of Bedford County, is lighted by 
electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It industries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing $100,000, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
of building a $75,000 hotel, and a railroad station to cost $40,000. 



This is a Good Investment ! 



The Bedford City Land and improvement Company offers its Stock at 

$6.50 PER S HARE. 

Make Remittances Payable to 

F. W. PRESCOTT & CO., 

BANKERS AND BROKERS, 

No. ^4 Devonsiiire Street, Boston, Mass. 

Fiscal Agent for the Bedford City Land and Improvement Co. 

Prospecttas Kree l>\' .\l.-iil 



TRANSFER AGENTS: 

INTERNATIONAL TRUST COVIRANY, BOSTON 



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James E. Dennis, M'g'r. 



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S'T'V 3iv4:a,in St., Comer of S3^ca,m.ore. 
([^= We defy competition in work or price. 



A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine KtchiirLgs. 



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STORAGE * 



Metropolitan Storage Company, corner Southbridge 
and Beacon streets, Worcester. Storage for Sleighs, 
Carriages, Furniture, Merchandise, and all kinds of 
Machinery. Building new and well ventilated. Apply 
at building. J. H. DICKIK, M'g'r. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CHARLES H. WOODCOCK. 



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WEST SIDE MACHINE CO.," 



Manufacturers of the improved "Wright Drill," embracing fea- 
tures not applied to other drills. 

The "Wright Counter Shaft and Clutch," just patented. The cheapest, most positive in its action, with 
scarcely perceptible shock or jar, and decidedly the best device for the purpose ever in the market. Every one inter- 
ested is cordially invited to come and see it. The "Woodcock Universal Door Opener." By simply pressing 
a button on either side of the door, it causes the door to swing open.- Can be quickly and cheaply applied to any 
door. Must be seen to be appreciated. A Carpenter's fiuage for Hanging Doors accurately and very quickly. 
No carpenter can afford to be without it. "The Swivel Crotch Center.'' No more broken drills by work catch- 
ing. Hundreds of dollars saved. "A Cuff Holder." The cheapest and best ever seen. We are prepared to make 
the most reasonable terms for all kinds of special machinery. Repairs promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Factory less than two minutes' walk from Pleasant-street cars. 

No. 28 Bellevue Street, Worcester, Mass. 



* GOOD ISHEELS AT LOW PRICES * 

L. M. ALEXANDER, 

At Hill & Tollman's old stand, 
195 FRONT ST. 
_ Ladles' Safeties a Specially. 

Instructions free to purchasers. Lady instructor 
T attend ance. Send for illustrated catalogue. 

A'nm Good Digestion Wait on Appetite^ 




ICE CREAM A SPECIALTY. 



Appetite is largely influenced by pleasant sur- 
roundings. 



You can find pleasant surroundings and all 
the delicacies of the season at 

ESTEY'S, 

No. 411 Main Street (Up One Flight). 
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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1890. 



No. 23 



While there is insurrection in the Argentine 
Republic, and the Central American republics 
are waging a war which, in proportion to their 
size and resources, is an important one, and 
occasional rumors come from lirazil, to the 
effect that the new republic is likely to be in- 
volved in trouble ere long, the greatest repub- 
lic of all moves serenely on, to prove that the 
great principle of popular government is right 
and best for the nations. This nation, passing 
through stormy political contests and endur- 
ing the presence of elements wholly foreign 
to its primary plan, has been able to show 
the world that free thought, free speech and a 
free press may exist without danger to a 
government that is right in principle and needs 
no defense before the people. The stability 
of the French republic, now two decades old, 
and growing stronger every year, despite the 
fact that it is the child of a people in wliom 
the monarchical idea had long been the ac- 
cepted principle of government and whose 
natural temperament would make doubly un- 
certain the success of a republic, shows al.so 
that this is so in the old world as in the new. 
The dawn of the universality of the republic 
has not yet broken, but it is at hand. 



The amateur photographer was at first an 
object of curiosity, then of amusement, then of 
respect, and now of fear and trembling. His 
name — her name, too, — is legion. The camera 
'blossoms out in all sorts of places and among 
all sorts and conditions of people. Vou do 
not know that your neighbor has one until he 
comes around and shows a picture of yourself 
which he took while you were sitting on the 
back stoop, with a glass of pink lemonade in 
one hand and a fan in the other. You do not 
realize that your sister's boy has one until he 
comes around and gets a dollar on the strength 
of a negative which represents you waving a 
fistful of greenbacks at the horse trot. You 
do not know that the newspaper reporter has 
one when he interviews you, until you see in 
the paper pictures of yourself as you appeared 
in postures of debate, laughter, sorrow or ex- 
citement. There is no escaping it, and it 
begins to look as if the only measure of pro- 
tection lies in getting a camera of your own 
and experimenting in retaliation on the rest of 
the community. At any rate, it is one of the 
most interesting and profitalUe amusements 
which have ever attained to popularity. 



It is becoming more and more evident that 
it is dangerous to be the object of "a popular 
fad." A dozen fads have waxed and waned, 
within a very few years, and most of them 
have come to an inglorious ending. Tolstoi 
is now upon the coals, and the bubble of false 
glory which has been blown about him is 
likely to be pricked as soon as the grossnessof 
his latest work, "The Kreutzer Sonata," shall 
have been fully unveiled. For someone who 
is outr^ in methods and mind to be taken up by 



society and lionized, means that the someone 
is bound to incur tlie suspicion and dislike of 
a great many good and sensible people outside 
the golden circle. It has hurt many great 
men, by parading their idiosyncrasies before 
the real merits of their work, to be thus made 
the pet of fashion. Toward such men the 
paragrapliers of the press are sure to turn their 
attention, and once those merciless, keen- 
witted makers of fun begin a campaign upon 
an individual, he is doomed. That ridicule is 
acknowledged to be one of the most potent of 
weapons is evidenced by the bill recently in- 
troduced in Congress, to restrain the i)ress 
from caricaturing the president of the United 
States. No one will (loubt that much of the 
wonderful strength and sweetness of Robert 
Browning's work has been untouched and 
untasted by thousands of people, simply 
because simpering society girls organized 
"Browning Clubs" and made the great poet a 
fad. The merits — limited, to be sure- of 
Henrik Ibsen's work are oliscured by the in- 
discriminate prai.se and raptures of .society. 
Ibsen is — or he has been, for already his 
brielly-bright star seems to be waning — "a 
fad." Just now Rudyard Kipling is becoming 
"a fad." Stanley has been and may yet be in 
danger of it, but perhaps the real greatness of 
his achievements and the people's knowledge 
of him may save him. All the men who have 
been mentioned, save .Stanley, have suffered 
in the popular estimation becau.se of the 
foolish and too often blind worship of silly 
devotees. The I)est advice that can be given 
to a new hero in literature or art is: Beware 
of Society and her fad. 



Two great characters of the nineteenth cen- 
tury are noted for having had what is termed 
— slangily, to be sure — " a horrible fist." One 
was Horace Greeley; the other is John L. 
Sullivan. 

Worcester does not appear to be a baseball 
city. That the national game has many ad- 
mirers and staunch supporters here goes with- 
out saying, the evidence being found in the 
brave though unsuccessful efforts to keep this 
year's team in the Atlantic Association. But 
the people do not cry for it as they once did. 
Last year, when the Worcester team was a 
pennant winner, things went more smoothly, 
though even in the era of general prosperity 
clouds arose upon the horizon at times. But 
the depression in base liall interest which has 
existed this sea.son throughout the country 
found no exception here in Worcester, and we 
might have had the most brilliant manage- 
ment and the most remarkable players with- 
out materially affecting the result. The people 
will not crowd the grandstands as they once 
did, whatever the inducement offered. They 
do not care for base ball as they did. When 
it is suggested that the game has seen its Ijest 
days and that its death as a national .sport is 
coming, there will be a great cry of unbelief 
and scoffing; but, say what the lovers of the 



game will, the indications point that way. As 
for the Worcester Club, the managers were 
wise in their recent action. The city wa.s not 
supporting the club. Worcester's record w.is 
not likely to be a glorious one, cither. Nothing 
was to be gained by dragging the team along 
for another month. As a result of all, the 
chances are that Worcester will not support a 
team next year. 



There seems to be substantial ground for 
belief that the Mormon power in De.stret is 
fast waning, and if at the election next Mon- 
day the Centiles obtain control of Utah, the 
people of Brigham Young will undoubtedly 
awake to the fact that the time is fast ap 
proaching when they must .seek another home, 
should they persist in their present hostility to 
the United .States. Tlie reason why the loyal 
people of the United .States may rejoice so 
much at this prospect is not .so much because 
it means that legalized polygamy is to be 
banished forever from our territory, though 
tliat must of itself be a cause for thankfulne.ss, 
as because Mormonism is theocratic and its 
head is the president of the church, which 
rules the people. This country's prosperity 
has all been built upon the basis of the separa- 
tion of church and state. One territory, essen- 
tially disloyal to the union in the ideas and 
aims of its people, has been the only place in 
the land where this principle wa.s not upheld 
and believed in. When its system, false, arro- 
gant and inimical to the constitution and the 
welfare of the nation, goes down into the dust, 
one of the greatest blots upon the face of this 
fair country will have been removed, an<l the 
stars and stripes will wave in Deseret as they 
wave in New England. Mormonism, tolerated 
and sometimes condoned, has had its era of 
prosperity, and now awaits the swiftly-ap- 
proaching end of its power on United States 
soil. 

.Sometiody has invented a sunshade for 
horses, which is fastened to the pole of the 
wagon to which they are hitched, affording a 
grateful shade for the beasts beneath. It is 
an adjustable affair, of course, and can be 
rai.sed or removed at will. Probably only a 
small percentage of the horses of the country 
will ever receive the benefit of this merciful 
device ; but those who work their horses in 
the fields during harvest and haying time, or 
elsewhere, during the hot season, might well 
consider the de.sirability of using it. Lk.iit 
does not even know who it is that thought so 
much of the horses as to contrive this simple 
arrangement, but it will venture to say that he 
is a humane and kind-hearted man, and that 
because he uses his dumb animals well, it is 
possible for them to give him far better ser- 
vice than the neglected, over-worked brutes 
which so many thoughtless people regard only 
as pieces of mechanism, to be u.sed to their 
fullest capacity until worn out, and then 
thrown away. 




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Worcester, Saturday, August 2, 1890. 



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entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



August 2 : Sun rises at 4.38 a. m.; sets at 
7.03 p. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 25 minutes. 
Moon, last quarter, August 7, 9 hours, 19 min- 
etes, morning, W. 

A very quiet wedding was that of Mrs. 
Helena Hood, of this city, to Mr. Charles H. 
Webb, of the dry goods firm of Durham, 
Buckley & Co., New York, which took place 
Thursday morning at the bride's residence, 17 
Irving street. Rev. Calvin Stebbins performed 
the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Webl) left for 
Saratoga, whence they will go to New York, 
where their home is to be. The bride, who was 
formerly Mrs. Fairbanks, is the mother of 
Lieut. Harry B. Fairbanks. There is an ele- 
ment of romance connected with the wedding, 
as the bride and groom are said to have been 
inclined toward each other years ago, before 
the lady married. She is well known and 
highly esteemed and the good wishes of many 
Worcester friends will follow the newly-wedded 
couple. 

The Congregationatisi' s New York corres- 
pondent speaks in the highest terms of Rev. 
Henry A. Powell, D. D., whom the Old South 
Church has just called to become its pastor 
and says that among his people of the Lee 
Avenue Church there is great regret at the 
thought that he may accept. 

The announcement that Dr. Gates of Rut- 
gers has been called to the presidency of Am- 
herst College will relieve Piedmont Church 



LI(i HT 

people of the apprehension that they might 
lose their pastor. Since President Seelye re- 
signed, there have been various rumors abroad 
to the effect that Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D., 
had been or was to be called to the presidency 
of the college. As Dr. Mears has always been 
active in Amherst alumni affairs and as his 
ability is preeminent, the rumor seemed likely 
to have a foundation in fact. Worcester peo- 
ple will be selfish enough to be glad that it is 
not so. 

Senator Hoar has escaped from the capitol's 
heat and bustle, and is enjoying a rest at 
home. 

Plymouth Church decided Wednesday eve- 
ning, by an unanimous vote of 162, to call Rev. 
Archibald McCullagh, D. D., of Brooklyn, to 
the pulpit. A parish meeting will be held 
next Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock, when the 
parish will be asked to concur in the call. 
There is no doubt that the parish will concur, 
but it is hoped that there will be a large at- 
tendance. Rev. Arthur Little, D. D., of Bos- 
ton, will occupy the pulpit to-morrow, and 
preach at 10.30 A. M. and 7.30 p. m. 



An interesting program has been prepared 
for the laying of the corner-stone of the 
Pleasant Street Baptist Church, which takes 
place next Tuesday, August 5. 



The interesting letter which Licht prints 
this week, under the title, "In the Mexican 
Interior," and the equally interesting one of 
last week, describing "A Mexican Bull Fight," 
were written by a gentleman who has resided 
in our sister republic for some years, to his 
sister in this city. They were not written for 
pnblication, but are nevertheless delightful in 
style and language. The writer is the son of 
a gentleman engaged in manufacturing here 
in Worcester. Light hopes to present to its 
readers more contributions of the same sort. 



Mayor Harrington and Alderman Booth 
visited the scene of the cyclone at South Law- 
rence, last Tuesday. 



It will be remembered that in the Boston 
Herald scholarship competition, of the twenty- 
three accepted candidates out of 224 competi- 
tors, several were Worcester pupils. None of 
them was fortunate enough to receive either of 
the prizes, but they receive, with the twenty- 
one successful candidates, honorable mention. 
They are Miss Bertha E. Longley, Mr. Her- 
bert C. Lakin and Miss Mary B. Fuller of the 
High School, and Mr. Edward M. Makepeace 
of Worcester Academy. 

As Light mentioned a week or two since, 
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney P. Harding are camping 
out at the lake, near Quinsigamond Park, and 
having a general good time. But last Mon- 
day night they experienced a new departure 
in camp life. A party of their friends who 
remembered that the day brought the tenth 
anniversary of their marriage, arranged a 
pleasant surprise for them. Better opportu- 
nity could not have been offered. The party 
assembled in the dancing pavilion, and word 
was sent to Mr. and Mrs. Harding to come and 
join with a few friends in an impromptu con- 
cert. They came and — well, everybody strove 
to make it pleasant for them, and the indica- 



tions were that the effort was a success. After 
the congratulations had been said, and Mr. 
and Mrs. Harding's aching palms had been 
released, Mr. Stephen J. Waite mingled his 
voice with the evening breezes and told them 
what they must have known — that all present 
felt for them the warmest regard, to prove 
which he would leave with them a purse of 
gold which the friends wanted them to accept. 
When this was done with, there were refresh- 
ments to be attended to, and afterward Put- 
nam and Babcock's orchestra furnished music 
for dancing. The grove was very prettily 
decorated with Chinese lanterns, which made 
the surroundings pleasant. When the party 
left the Park on a special boat, the celebrants 
sang "Auld Lang Syne" while going up to 
Lincoln Park, and thence a midnight train 
took them home. Those present included Mr. 
and Mrs. Ezra Churchill, Mr. (leorge B. 
Churchill, Miss Florence Churchill, Miss 
Maria F. Bosworth, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. 
Buckman, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Kelley, Mrs. 
Walter S. Bosworth, Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Os- 
borne, Mrs. D. E. Denny, Miss Alice Denny, 
Miss Florence Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
E. Newton, Mr. and Mrs. J. Newton, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. M. Winchester, Mr. Albert Hall, Miss 
Nellie Fiske, Miss Mabel Fiske, Mrs. E. H. 
Tripp, Miss Goulding, Mr. H. B. Hayden, 
Mrs. George H. Whiting, Miss Alice Turner, 
Mr. Henry Rawlins, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. 
Waite, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Sumner, Mr. and 
Mrs. C. B. Sartelle, Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. 
Van Hoosear, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Stanley, 
Mr. H. Bradley Jackson, Mr. F. A. Hawes, 
Mr. George D. Gifford, Mrs. Cummings, Mr. 
and Mrs. E. A. Sadd, and numerous others. 



Everybody lives on blueberry pie nowadays. 
Fred Perry cuts up forty every day. » 



LTp to last Wednesday, Mr. Peck had in his 
window a display of engravings and etchings 
devoted wholly to our doggish friends. Big 
dogs, little dogs, famous dogs and friendless 
dogs were there depicted, and the windows at- 
tracted a great deal of attention, for Mr. Peck 
is an artist in his window arrangements. I 
spoke casually of the display to him. "Yes," 
he said, with a smile, "dog days, you know." 



Hon. W. W. Rice is the senior living ex- 
mayor of Worcester. He held the office in 

i860. 



A prominent insurance man said to me one 
day this week that he had issued that morning 
three policies for cyclone insurance. This is 
where that old adage, "It's an ill wind that 
blows nobody good," is literally true. Well, 
even Worcester may have a cyclone. Who 
knows ? We had a little one for a nickel, 
some years ago. 

Mrs. Samuel W.Wiley is to sing in place of 
the regular soprano at the Methodist Church 
in Webster, to-morrow. 



When the Free Baptists, who are the latest 
to go toward the .South End for a church site, 
get their new house erected at the corner of 
Wellington street and Jacques avenue, and 
the First Presbyterians have theirs up on 
Main street, there will be quite a collection of 
churches in the vicinity — the Main Street Bap- 
tist, the Old South, Piedmont and the 



two new ones. A committee of the I'ree 
Baptist church, including the pastor, Rev. !•". 
D. George, Mr. William Holden, Mr. John 
Weir, Mrs. Mary E. Rice, Mrs. (ieorge H. 
White, Messrs. George W. Vinton, Newell 
1'. Tyler, P. Davis and J. C. Bennett is looking 
after the building arrangements and the work 
of solicitation. 

The young men of this city who are playing 
in the Elberon Orchestral Club at the Ottawa 
House, Cushing's Island, Me., are having a 
delightful time. The people there like their 
music and the boys are very popular with the 
guests of the hotel. One of our Worcester 
friends who saw them recently reports that 
they are nicely situated and are enjoying them- 
selves immensely. 

Rev. George W. Phillips, of Rutland, Vt., 
formerly pastor of Plymouth Church in this 
city, will occupy the pulpit of Pilgrim Church 
to-morrow. Mrs. Phillips will accompany him 
to Worcester. They will be the guests of Mr. 
George S. Boutwell, on Mt. Hope street, 
Hammond Highlands. 



Mr. Henry Williams's house at Cherry 
Valley was the scene of a very pleasant gather- 
ing, last Wednesday evening, when Mr. Harry 
B. Williams and Miss Florence M. Williams 
entertained a party of their friends. Refresh- 
ments were served and games were played, 
everybody enjoying the evening immensely. 



The demise of the Worcester base ball team 
recalls national league days. Worcester 
joined the league in 1880 and came out fifth, 
with a percentage of .482. In iSSi it was the 
tail-ender, with a percentage of .390, and the 
next year it occupied the same inglorious 
position, with a record of .214 only. Then 
Worcester got out. 

Mr. Edward O. Parker, of Chicago, formerly 
of this city, has resigned his position with the 
Massachusetts Benefit Association and has 
accepted a position as assistant superintend- 
ent of the Provident Life Assurance Company 
of New York, his headquarters still being in 
Chicago. 

The Odd Fellows are looking forward with 
pleasant expectations to the laying of the 
corner-stone of the new Odd Fellows' Home, 
work upon which will soon be begun. The 
corner-stone laying will probably take place 
early in October and will be made a great oc- 
casion. The local lodges will of course have 
charge of the event and all the lodges in the 
state will probably be invited to participate. 



Mr.W. H. Hudson entertained the employees 
of John C. Maclnnes's store at his residence 
on Staffordstreet,on the shore of Curtis Pond, 
Tuesday evening. 

Rev. De Witt S.Clark, of Salem, preached 
at the Old South Church, last Sunday ; Rev. 
Wil.iam E. Merriman, D. U., of Boston, at 
Central; Rev. E. B. Webb, D. IJ., of Welles- 
ley, at Union; Rev. Archibald McCullagh, D. 
D., of Brooklyn, at Plymouth ; Rev. L. T. 
Chamberlain, D. D., of Brooklyn, at Pied- 
mont; Rev. S. Graves, of Atlanta, Ga., at 
Lincoln Square Baptist; Rev. J. E. Wright, of 
Montpelier, Vt., at tlie Church of the Unity. 



L T Ci H T 

The Vacationers. 



Miss Cora Edmunds, of Hopedale, has been 
visiting friends in Worcester recently. 

Miss Gertrude Fanning and Miss Annie 
Brown, of Grafton, have been visiting Wor- 
cester friends this week. 

Mr. Charles L. Walker spent Sunday in 
Milford. 



Miss Jennie Newcomb, the music teacher 
and organist at Belmont church, is away at 
the seashore for a month's rest and recreation. 
During her absence Miss Kate F. Mall will 
take her place as organist at the church. 

Mrs. Dr. J. B. Rich has gone to North 
Scituate. 



Miss Kittle G. De Laney, of Bo.ston, is the 
guest of Miss Marguerite Leonard. 

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Parker, of this city, are 
taking a rest at their cottage (The Pioneer) at 
Monument Beach on Buzzards Bay. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Parker, with his son, 
Mr. Frederick C. Parker, and daugliter. Miss 
Bertha M. Parker,of New York,have been their 
guests, making quite a lively and happy party. 
They participate in all the good times to be 
had at a seaside resort, and have proven them- 
selves to be very fair fishermen, catching one 
day, while out fishing, over one hundred 
pounds of fish. Mr. C. H. Parker and his 
son, Mr. Frederick C. Parker, have returned 
to attend to business, the others remaining to 
enjoy themselves, though loath to part with 
the "men folks." 

The Rev. Edmund S. Middleton, assistant 
rector of All Saints, starts Monday, August 
4, for a month's recreation at the seashore. 
He will join his mother and sister at the 
Minot House, Asbury Park, New Jersey. 



Mr. F. W. Harrington has been at Nan- 
tucket for several days and Mrs. Harrington 
and her daughter have also gone there. 



Mr. George T. Dewey is crcssing the At- 
lantic on his way to Europe. 



Mrs. Charles E. Grover has returned from 
Saratoga. 

Mr. Cyrus K. .Spaulding, of Webster, was 
in Worcester last Tuesday. 



Rev. William R. Huntington, D. D., form- 
erly of All Saints, and now rector of Grace 
church. New York city, was in Worcester last 
Tuesday. 

Mr. Charles H. Davis has arranged to sail 
for Europe to-day. He will there join Mrs. 
Davis, who has been abroad for some time. 
Two neices accompany Mr. Davis. 



Mr. H. Spencer Haskell is at Petersham 
for a vacation. 

Miss Mabelle M. Watson is visiting friends 
on Tirrell street. 



Quite a party started off for Bluenose Land 
last Wednesday. Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mat- 
toon, Miss E. M. Capen, Mrs. E. H. Nichols, 
Mi.ss Florence Nichols, Mrs. S. C. Sweetzer, 



Mi.sses Abbie, Carrie and IJl.i .Swcelzer, and 
Miss May Eddy are included. They will visit 
all the principal points of interest in .Nova 
Scotia and New Brunswick before returning 
home. 

Mr. William H. lilakeslee and his .son, 
Mr. Will lilakeslee, formerly of this city and 
now of Ilillburn, N. V., spent la.st Sunday 
with Worcester friends. 



Mr. John W. Robinson, the popular city 
editor of the Daily 7;/,:(,'n;///, .starts off ne.tt 
Monday for a fortnight's vacation, which will 
be spent in New Hampshire and Maine. 
Mrs. Robinson will accompany him. 

Mr. Albert Mason has been at Cottage City 

this week. 

Mrs. A. C. Buttrick is at Marblehead 

Neck. 



District Attorney Francis A. (;askill has 
been at Lynn this week. 



Mrs. T. J. Goodwin is down Providence 
river for an outing, and Mr. (Joodwin will join 
her shortly. 

Mr. George D. Colgate has gone to East- 
port, Me. Mrs. Colgate and her daughter are 
at New London, Conn. 



Captain Sumner W. Ranger is .spending his 
vacation at Eastham. 



Mi.ss Nannie Cady, of Providence, is the 
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Eneas Morgan. 



Me.ssrs. Walter K. Mellor, P'rank H. Brown 
and William Meggett have gone to St. An- 
drew, N. B., and thence will embark for a 
yatching trip. 

Mr. DeWitt Clinton Wheeler, Jr., of New 
\'ork, with Mrs. Wheeler (nee Davenport) is 
at Yonkers, for the summer. 



Mrs. David H. Hayter is the guest of Mr. 
and Mrs. Jo.seph M. Wood, at Milford. 



Rev. William T. Sleeper has been at Nan- 
tasket this week. 

Mr. E. A. Richmond and family and Mrs. 
A. K. Richmond are spending a fortnight at 
Westport Point. 

Mr. l^verett J. luios is entertaining as guests 
liis father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jo-shua 
Enos, of New London, Conn. 



Miss Hattie .S. Putnam is finding recreation 
in Maine. 

Dr. Arthur Y. Greene is spending his vaca- 
tion at Atlantic City and in Philadelphia. 



Mr. Arthur M. (Jreen and .some of his 
friends are camping at Bass Rock,Glouce.ster. 



Col. W. S. B. Hopkins and his sons, Mr. 
Erastus Hopkins and Mr. W. S. B. Hopkins, 
Jr., have gone away for a trip to the coast of 
Nova Scotia. 

Mrs. George M. Woodward and her son, 
Mr. Creorge T. Woodward, are on the coast 
of Maine, and spent last Sunday at Mouse 
Island. 



"The 400" at Newport. 

[regular correspondence of light.] 

Newport, R. I., July 31, 1S90. 
For many years, Newport has claimed a 
large part of "the 400" as its share during the 
summer months. Year after year, its rival 
resorts have declared that Newport has lo.st 
prestige as a fashionable place, but the asser- 
tion has been most emphatically denied by 
facts, by the continued gaities of each success- 
ive season and the increased number of the 
dlite who congregate thither. 

One who would get an outside view of the 
life of these people — human like ourselves and 
removed from us simply by steps in the so- 
called "social scale" — will find many oppor- 
tunities to see them, their equipages and their 
clothes. 

A visitor, evidently from the country, after 
paying the admission to the Casino grounds, 
during the morning concert hour, asks in dis- 
gust, "What is there to see here?" Alas for 
the lack of penetration and observatory powers 
of such an individual ! Rarely are we given 
chances like this to study human faces and 
actions without seeming impertinent, but these 
people expect and are accustomed to obser- 
vation and admiration from "all sorts and 
conditions of men." 

The above quotation brings forcibly to 
mind the dearth of interesting men in New- 
port this year. A pleasant, wann morning 
and readings at the Casino call thither a large 
number of the leaders in the social world and 
all the available men are there. Groups of 
six or eight maidens, all striving with varied 
degrees of success to be the especial favorite, 
crowd about one homely, awkward youth who 
strives vainly to answer the din of questions 
poured into each ear. There are two classes 
of men to be found here this year — the young 
and often "fresh" college students who receive 
far too much attention for tlieir good, simply 
because their elders and superiors are lacking, 
and the elderly "fops" of questionable age, but 
unquestioned wealth and position,who ape the 
freedom and sprightliness of the youths who 
might well be their sons or even grand.sons. 
The elderly class seem to be the favorites with 
the young girls, who find no objection to com- 
panionship in the disparity of years. Occasion- 
ally, a truly eligible and fascinating young 
man of the world leaves his business (.'') cares 
in the city to spend a few days in Newport, 
but, in spite of the hospitality and smiles 
lavished upon him, he finds it "so slow, don't 
yer know," that he tarries but a short time. 

To make up, as it were, for the dearth of 
interesting men, there is an unusually large 
number of pretty and fascinating girls here 
this summer. Whether seen driving or dan- 
cing or sitting at the Casino, one must 
acknowledge the beauty and grace of these 
young girls. They seem animated and well- 
bred and in their conversation is a spice of 
wit and much intelligence and broad knowl- 
edge. 

The time is past when young girls, even of 
"the 400," can talk "nothing but men and 
clothes." These girls are, in the main, well 
informed and well-read, with individual opin- 
ions of many subjects which they fearlessly 
e.\press. They are warm-hearted girls and 



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interested in charities of many kinds and it is 
unfair to pass them by, as so many critics do, 
as "young butterflies of fashion." 

Well-dressed, by all means ! as is the duty 
of all women, old and young, but the dresses 
are simply made and rarely is seen anything 
startling or in poor taste. White predomi- 
nates, and, for morning gowns, white China 
silks, white mulls and India stuffs of gauzy 
nature and light colors are seen in abundance. 
Large white hats with huge bunches of 
flowers of different colors, the inevitable 
white or black veils, white or bronze slippers 
and light, usually white gloves, complete the 
costume. But no, one article is forgotten, the 
parasol, a marvel of beauty, lace and ribbon, 
to match the dress in color. One of the 
simplest and prettiest costumes was an India 
silk, white, sprinkled with violets of small size 
and exquisite color, a parasol and hat to 
match and all adorning a most perfect bru- 
nette, a charming Southern heiress. Violet 
and pink are the favorite colors, few dresses of 
last year'* favorite yellow being seen. 

In solitary groups, one sees girls of "would- 
be aristocrats," possessed of much money but 
little position, who dress rather more showily 
than their more favored sisters, and who show 
all too plainly their joy at a chance recog- 
nition by some one of the men or women who 
form "the set." 

Newport people have been taking to the 
marvellous for entertainment. Last week 
Forepaugh's circus was well patronized by 
the elite and later Donato gave two or three 
exhibitions of hypnotism with great social 
success. The first exhibition was a private 
one, following a swell luncheon at Mrs. Astor's, 
and, later, another entertainment was given in 
the Casino theatre. Donato and his wife 
hypnotized many persons, in the main, those 
who travel with them, causing them when in 
this state to do and say many strange things, 
one being to drink castor oil under the im- 
pression that it was champagne. 

Donato calls this "experimental fascination," 
and some have been cruel enough to say that 
the coming of Prince George of England e.x- 
plains its popularity among Newport girls. 

When will he come ? This question agitates 
all minds. His long-delayed and often-post- 
poned coming has caused a corresponding 
delay and postponement of the famous Mc- 
Allister picnic which has now been definitely 
aopointed for August 9. This is to be held at 
the McAllister farm near Portsmouth, and 
near the Vanderbilt farm; the price of sub- 
scription is twenty-five dollars and no expense 
will be spared to make the picnic an epitome 
of luxury and elegance. A german will follow 
the picnic. 

McAllister gave a breakfast the other after- 
noon, just before the first fox hunt of the sea- 
son. Of course there is no fox, but an anise- 
seed bag traced over the route gives the scent 
to the hounds, who find reward in a larger 
share of fresh meat than would be theirs if a 
real fox were the prey. The last fox used was 
taken from them by the Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals, but as it is said 
there is only one fox now left in America, ne- 
cessity rather than humane instincts lead to 
the use of the anise-seed bag. 

Polo players are beginning to arrive and 
polo begins in a few days, while rumors of 
dinners and parties of varied kinds awaken 
these devotees of fashion to thoughts of their 
usefulness and duty. A. M. R. 



A Little Trip to Nahant. 

[regular correspondence of light.] 

Boston July 31, 1890. 
There is no pleasanter trip for one to enjoy 
these muggy dog days than a sail down the 
harbor to Nahant. It was a warm, sunshiny 
afternoon last week, when a party of some 
fifty jolly club men took the early boat for this 
quiet, picturesque resort. Down the harbor 
past East Boston and its busy wharves, along 
by Apple Island on one side, and the attract- 
ive shores of Winthrop on the other, skimming 
across the water opposite the cozy cottages of 
the beach, we come to the famous Shirley Gut 
between Point Shirley and the no less noted 
Deer Island, Boston's famous reformatory in- 
stitution. Here, when the tides serves just 
right, is about as swift a current as you will 
find in these waters, and it requires a steady 
nerve and a good eye to take a boat safely 
through. 

Point Shirley, as most everybody knows, is 
first of all famous as being the place where 
Taft's Hotel has held undisputed sway over 
the appetites of bon vivants and £^oi/>i/ii'is for 
over a quarter of a century. It was only this 
year that the old gentleman really succumbed 
to his years, and gave up the ship, as far as 
running his hotel was concerned, and it has 
not been opened this year. 

His, you must remember, is not only, not a 
mere local or state reputation, but a reputa- 
tion that extended all over this country, and 
even beyond, where high livers delighted in 
all the choice bits of game and fish obtainable. 
Here could always be found about any kind 
of game and fish imaginable. It was Taft's 
delight to show strangers his well stocked 
larders, and it was with professional pride that 
he exhibited each dainty specimen. Many a 
noted statesman, scholar, business and pro- 
fessional man has enjoyed himself there while 
sojourning at the Hub, and it would be ex- 
tremely interesting if the walls could talk out 
and speak of what they have heard and seen. 

But we are bound for Nahant and as there 
is some wind and a little sea, we actually get 
quite a little roll, as we steam across the Bay, 
the Point of Pines on our left, and our desti- 
nation straight ahead. However, the "De 
Bary" is a good safe boat, and steams along 
steadily, so we soon arrive at the wharf. 
Here barges are on hand to take us to the 
various hotels, or if we prefer to walk, it is 
only a short distance. 

Our party was bound to the Bass Rock 
House, a hotel on a point of the same name, 
at the opposite end of Nahant, some twenty 
minutes walk from the wharf. Here the club 
dinner was served and a merry jolly time en- 
joyed till late in the evening, when the party 
took barges for Lynn, and the train from 
there to Boston. Before dining, however, a 
game of base ball was indulged in. 

Along Bass Point, a high rocky cliff rising 
boldly from the water, are many comfortable 
cottages, occupied, as a rule, by the common 
middle class specimen of humanity, but along 
the opposite end of the place are more grand 
and imposing houses and their elegant sur- 
roundings, occupied by about as swell and 
exclusive Bostonians as you may ever care to 
see, who compose a little coterie or class, and 



do not mix with llie ordinary inhabitant. A 
good deal like Newport, only less so, as of 
course not nearly as much wealth is repre- 
sented. 

The one advantage of a stranger visiting a 
resort of this kind, is that he escapes the 
crowds that Hock to almost any of our popular 
beaches. Take it of a Sunday, for instance, 
and as far as real genuine comfort is concerned 
it is not to be found at any of our beaches. 
Why ? Because the crowd and mol) go there, 
everything is in a hurly-burly confusion, and 
the chances are you arrive home fully as tired 
as when you left. But to many that makes no 
difference ; it was the going and excitement, 
the strange faces, and some of the strange 
music, that they were looking for, and of course 
they got plenty of that. 

It strikes me that the average American 
does not seem to know how to recreate or to 
enjoy himself. Everything is done with a 
slam and a bang, the high pressure and tension 
is as constantly kept up, while he is looking 
for fun, as when he is struggling for the elu- 
sive dollar, which, of course, is all wrong and 
a bad method. When he learns to take his 
enjoment more leisurely, much will have been 
gained for his own advantage. 

Riding up Hanover street, Saturday night, I 
was much impressed by the number of people 
bound for the markets. Just where Black- 
stone street crosses this street and leads into 
the vicinity of Faneuil Hall and Ouincy mar- 
kets, and various smaller concerns, were hun- 
dreds of working people, with their baskets, 
bound to secure their Sunday dinners, and, 
doubtless, provisions for the coming week. 
Saturday night in our large cities always 
brings out a rather peculiar crowd, anyway. 
It is the night for the busy workman to do his 
shopping, for many who can to run down to 
the beach, for many to walk the streets, get 
some air, and see what they can see. It is the 
night when the street peddler and the fakir 
flourish, whether he is selling ripe banannas, 
or cheap-looking candy, suspenders or collar 
buttons, eye-glasses or toys, everything goes, 
if he is lucky. The street bands, rather out of 
tune, as a rule, aae looking for stray nickels or 
even coppers, and on my way up town that 
night, a German band was playing that much 
worn song "Little Annie Roone*^-" on this 
same street. At the corner of Winter and 
Washington streets some fifty people were 
listening to a man playing on an accordion 
that same tune, while a little girl of say six 
years, with a kind of a cracked voice was sing- 
ing her best or worst. The society with a 
long name was out of town. Up near the cor- 
ner of We.st street was an old woman, with a 
sore-eyed poodle dog on her hand organ, grind- 
ing out the same air. Just beyond was an old 
veteran of the war ; he, too, had a hand organ, 
but thank heaven, he was playing a different 
tune, much to my relief, as I looked into tlie 
Adams House to meet a friend. Watsox. 



lyldHT 

A Literary Sham. 

LuiiiT has had a pretty happy life, so far in 
its career. It has had much to be thankful 
for, and few things to complain of. Worces- 
ter has taken it by the hand and smiled upon 
it. And it has been pleased witli itself in the 
consciousness of doing a good thing for 
Worcester. 

But even Liciit has its sorrows, and one of 
them came by mail the other day. 

A few weeks ago. Light received from a 
party signing herself "Mrs. M. B. Lewis, Nor- 
folk, Conn.," some verses, which were returned 
with editorial regrets at inability to find place 
for them and an encouragement to "try again." 

Light's correspondent did try again, and 
sent to this office a letter, enclosing some 
verses, with a retiuest for their return if un- 
available, with editorial criticism. 

When the editor began to read the verses 
which were offered by this estimal)Ie lady, 
he thought he recognized them, somewhat 
crippled by age or rheumatism, perhaps, 
but still possessing an individuality not soon 
forgotten. Even their title, "Bringing Home 
the Cows," sounded familiar. So he reached 
for a book in his library of poetry and turned 
to a page whereon was printed a poem entitled 
"Driving Home the Cows," the author's name 
appended being "Kate Putnam Osgood." 
Then he compared the two. They might 
have been cousins, there was so strong a 
resemblance, or even twins, only one was 
lame and halt and blind. 

For the edification of its readers, Light 
prints the two poems. As Kate Putnam Os- 
good wrote it, despite minor mechanical de- 
fects, (for "swamp" and "damp" never yet 
rhymed, as Mrs. M. B. Lewis ought to know), 
it is one of the most touching poems of our 
war literature. Here it is : 

Driving Home the Cows. 



— The first law making the change of the 
day of rest and religious observance from the 
seventh to the first day of the week was en- 
acted by Constantine, A. D. 321. He, however, 
simply enjoined that which for many years 
been orowing into a custom. 



KATE l-Uri*" 



Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass. 

Me turned them into the river-lane ; 
One after another he let them pass, 

'1 hen fastened the meadow bars again. 
Under the willows and over the hill, 

He patiently followed their sober pace; 
The merry whistle for once was still. 

And somethmg shadowed the sunny face. 
Only a boy ! and liis father had said 

He never could let his youngest go ; 
Two already were lying dead 

Under the leet of the trampling foe. 
But after the evening work was done. 

And the frogs were loud in the meadow swami 
Over his shoulder he slung his gun. 

And stealthily followed the foot-path damp. 
.Across the clover and through the wheat. 

With resolute heart and purpose grim, 
Though cold was the dew on his liurrying feet. 

And the bhnd bat's flitting startled him. 
Thrice since then had the lanes been white 

And the orchards sweet with apple-bloom ; 
And now when the cows came back at night, 

The feeble father drove them home. 
For news had come to the lonely farm 

That three were lying where two had lain ; 
And the old man's tremulous, palsied arm 

Could never lean on a son's again. 
The summer day grew cold a»d late, 

He went for the cows when the work was dou' 
But down the lane, as he opened tlie gate, 

He saw them coming, one by one,— 
Brindle, Ebony, Speckle and Hess, 

Shaking their horns in the evening wind ; 

Cropping the buttercups out of the grass,— 

But who was it following close behind? 



I -oi.st-ly swung in the idl.: air 

The empty sleeve of army blue ; 
And worn and pale from the crisping hair 
Looked out a face that the father knew. 
For Southern prisons will cometimes yawn, 

And yield their dead unto life again ; 
And tlie day that comes with a cloudy dawn 

In golden glory .at last may wane. 
The great tears sprang In their meeting eyes. 

For the heart must speak when the lips are dumb ; 
And under the silent evening skies, 

Together they followc'd the cattU: home. 
The verses which Mrs. M. B. Lewis .sent to 
Lk;ht were entitled "Bringing Home the 
Cows," and, curiously enough, that title was 
enclosed in quotation marks, and had the 
rhyme and rhythm not been tampered with, 
and finally, had Mrs. M. B. Lewis not signed 
her name to them, she would not have com- 
mitted a plagiarism. Here is her attempt at 
improvement upon Kate Putnam (Osgood's 
poem, which came to Lkjht in a neat manu- 
script, tied with a pink ribbon. It has been 
punctuated ; otherwise no change has been 
made in it: 

Bringing Home the Cows. 

C)ut of the clover and brown-<*yed daises, 

1 14; turned them into the meadow lane ; 
One by one he let them pass. 

And fastened the bars again. 
Past the church and down the hill 

lie slowly followed their lazy pace; 
His merry voice for once was still, 

.'\nd something clouded his sunny face. 
Only a lad (my father said), 

1 ie never could let him go, I know ; 
Three are lying dead 

On tlie battlefield of hmg ago. 
When his evening's work was done, 

And the cricket chirp was loud in the swamp. 
He quietly stole his gun. 

And followed the cow path damp. 
Through the pasture, through the wheat, 

With beating heart, and pur^jose grim. 
Though the cold was fast chilling his feet. 

And the rustle of leaves startled liiiii. 
Many times the orchard has l)cen white 

With pear, apple and i>each bloout. 
But the cows come back at night, 

For the white-haired father drives them home. 
A message has reached the lonely farm, 

That on the battlefield another had lain ; 
And tears rolled down the father's cheek ; 

He would never see his boy again. 
The day grew cold and the hour late. 

He went lor the cows. "The bars were down." 
He entered the lane, he ojwned the gate. 

But, lo ! they were ccuning home. 
Sukey and Midget, Crumple and Bess, 

Shaking their heads in the summer wind, 
Picking the clover out of the grass. 

But who was coming close behind.^ 
Swinging loosely in the summer air 

His empty sleeve of army blue. 
Pale and haggard, worn with care. 

But the face the father knew. 
For prisons have many times yawned 

And given their dead to life again, 
The night that comes from a cloudy dawn, 

A glorious morn will usher in. 
The tears filled both their eyes, 

I'"or hearts will sjieak when lips are dumb, 
Aiul together in the twilight 

They drove the cows home. 
And now as the evening's shadows creep, 

He thinks of the days past and gone. 

But he and the father are loth to speak. 

But the empty sleeve, they gaze upon. 

Mrs. M. B. Lewis. 

217 West Canton street, Boston, Mass. 

"This is not,"' as a famous critic once said in 

a similar case, "a literary coincidence." Ideas, 

rhyme and -words (generally) are the same. 

Light would not devote so much space to 

this sort of an episode, were it not for tlie fact 

that young and disappointed writers may be 

warned away from the pitfall of temptation. 



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Mr. Stone's New Residence. 

In building for himself the new residence 
which is pictured on the first page of this 
week's Light, Mr. Arthur M. Stone seems to 
have realized all that is meant by a beautiful 
and comfortable home. 

The house is a notable addition to the gal- 
axy of handsome dwellings which adorn the 
South End, and is one of the three new ones 
which Light not long since referred to as 
forming a trinity of new houses in that sec- 
tion of the city. 

It occupies a commanding site at the cor- 
ner of Main and May streets. Opposite is 
the comparatively new residence of Mr. E. T. 
Smith, below is the residence of the late 
Francis B. Knowles; from its windows it has 
a view of the homes of Congressman Walker 
and Hon. George S. Barton. It is, in fact, in 
neighborhood of fine houses, and is a worthy 
addition to the city's beauties of architecture. 
When Messrs. Fuller and Delano, the 
architects who drew the plans for this house, 
set themselves to their task, they must have 
resolved to produce something which* would 
always be a monument to their skill and artis- 
tic taste. They succeeded. 

As Light's engraving shows, Mr. Stone's 
house is in style modified Queen Anne. It is 
set upon granite underpinning, and the house 
is painted, the lower story an Indian red and 
the upper stories a straw color, with bronze 
g^een trimmings. 

From the fine granite steps on either street, 
the visitor ascends a broad verandah, which 
extends from the southern end to the entrance. 
At the southeast corner rises a pretty tower, 
about which, at the third story, is a balcony 
rail. On the north side, over the entrance, 
also, IS a balcony. Attractively painted and 
with panels of carved wood on the outside, as 
well as the effect of the colored glass used, 
the exterior is striking and pleasing to the eye. 
After the visitor has pulled at the bronze 
bell-handle, and has waited a moment, he is 
ushered in to the outer and thence to the 
inner hall. He notices, in the former that the 
doors are of quartered oak, with beautiful 
French plate glass in the upper panels, and 
that he looks out on May street, at his right, 
through three windows of crystal and opales- 
cent glass, with transom lights above. Beneath 
his feet is a French tiled floor, and up from it 
extends a dado of onyx tiling, four and a half 
feet high. 

Then through the inner door to the hall. 
His feet sink in the soft carpet, quite different 
from though not less attractive, than the tiled 
lloor which he has just left. The hall inside 
is finished in quartered oak, and on the walls 
is a beautiful paper, Romanesque in design, 
green and gold in colors, with a wide 
frieze to match. The hall is wide and cheer- 
ful, and at the south end of it, two steps de- 
scend to the tloor of a charming little nook 
which Mr. Stone calls a cosy-corner. It is 
fini.shed in cherry, witli panels overhead, and 
from its position at the end of the hall and 
under the staircase, it just suits that descrip- 
tion. Three windows of stained glass light it, 
and a fireplace with steel-blue tiles has place 
on the right. It is just such a placeasalit- 
ery man would have for ascribbling den, or a 
"collector" for his cabinets. 



The staircase, in the prevailing oak, has 
beautifully-carved railings and balustrades. 
Between two short flights of easy steps is the 
landing, where is the magnificent great window 
which is noticed so much from the outside. It 
does not appear in Light's picture, for it is 
on the side of the house farthest from May 
street. It is of opalescent and crystal glass, 
made up in various pretty designs and it tints 
the light in a most delightful way. Across 
the full width of the landing is a cushioned 
seat, comfortable and inviting, just above 
which the large window begins. Here on the 
stair, with the soft light on the green and gold 
paper, its richness is made particularly appar- 
ent. 

To go back a little. Entering at the front 
door, the visitor turns to the left and enters 
the reception-room, which joins the drawing- 
room, the two rooms occupying the Main 
street side of the house. They are finished in 
mahogany. The walls are covered with a 
raised-figure paper, in mode colors, and the 
ceiling, which is particularly beautiful, is fres- 
coed in shades of pearl and gray, giving a 
cloud effect, and from the center, where is a 
representation of a basket, escape vines of 
ivy climbing about a trellis work. The scroll 
border is of Renaissance pattern, and finds a 
corresponding figure in the soft Axminster 
carpet upon the floor. A pleasant bay is found 
in the tower comer of the drawing-room. The 
fire-place is tiled in straw-color. Above the 
carved mantel is a large mirror. The dra- 
peries are of Brussels lace, with silk over- 
hangings. 

On the other side of the hall, the visitor 
enters, first, the library, one of the 
pleasantest rooms in the house. Red 
birch is the finish, and the walls are papered 
with a tapestry effect, the color being a soft 
orange, with a frieze in bronze colors, and the 
frescoing is in panels of olive-brown. Over 
two of the four pleasant windows in the shal- 
low bay looking out upon May street are 
stained glass lights, one with a representation 
of books, the other showing the lamp of learn- 
ing. Over an elaborate mantel is a large 
mirror, and the fire-place is faced with old rose 
tiles in a morning-glory design. The book- 
cases are permanent. Altogether it is a very 
home-like room. 

A corridor divides the library from the din- 
ing-room on the south side, a beautiful 
room finished in quartered oak. The paper is 
in olive-green shades, and there is a particu- 
larly fine frieze of Linn Crusta-Walton. The 
floor is of quartered oak, inlaid in designs. 
The fire-place is tiled in brick red, filled with 
white. A magnificent sideboard has a place. 
Behind comes the china closet, with a sink 
of Tennessee marble for silver washing, and 
then the kitchen, finished in brown ?sh, with 
birch and maple floor. Its appointments are 
perfect. 

On the other side of the corridor, there is a 
lavatory, and an entrance to the pantry and 
refrigerator, whjfh is built in the house, and 
is a model, having metal shelves, while the ice 
is put in from the back piazza. 

Below stairs is a model laundry, which, 
owing to the nature of the ground, is well 
lighted, and is mostly above ground. The 
heating arrangement provides for both hot air 



and steam for all parts of the houge, and the 
ceilings are plastered. 

Going upstairs again, to the second floor, 
the chambers are found to be very pleasant. 
Over the drawing-room is a guest-chamber 
finished in sycamore. The prevailing color is 
yellow. The fire-place having yellow tiles. 
The paper has a design of snow-balls. A 
toilet room is just out of the chamber. 

The chamber over the reception-room is 
also of sycamore finish, and the color is old 
rose, the paper having a design of hydrangeas. 
It has a window of stained glass. Both these 
chambers have delightful outlooks up and 
down Main and up Hammond street. 

Next on the May street side is a chamber in 
white, the only painted room in the house. 
The paper is plain blue felt. 

The chamber over the library is in red 
birch, with nile green for the prevailing color. 
A large toilet room serves the three chambers 
on the May street side, all of which open 
into the corridor and into each other. 

The chamber over the dining-room, which 
Mr. Stone has for his own use, is also finished 
in birch, papered in olive felt, with a French 
frieze of paonies. The fire-place has Mexican 
onyx tiles. 

From this chamber, as well as from the cor- 
ridor, a perfectly appointed bath-room is 
entered. 

In the corridor are drawers, medicine 
closet, a commodious linen closet, and at the 
rear of the house are a pretty sewing-room and 
another chamber. 

The third story is reached by a flight of 
stairs at the rear, and at the half-way landing 
are twelve small square windowsin crystal 
flake glass. 

The front room, embracing the tower win- 
dows and the dormer window, where are two 
pretty alcoves, is floored in birch and maple 
and is designed for a music room. It is a de- 
lightful place. 

On this floor are comfortable rooms for the 
servants, with a servants' bath-room, commo- 
dious trunk rooms and a camphor closet, as 
well as an extra chamber, which could be util- 
ized in an emergency. 

So muclxfor room arrangement. The house 
throughout has the best modern conveniences, 
including a clothes chute to the laundry from 
every floor, speaking tubes on every floor and 
the electric system of gas lighting. The house 
is wired ready for incandescent lighting. The 
water pipes are of brass. In the chambers, 
there are toilet lights as well as central chande- 
liers. 

The finish of the woodwork, which was 
done by Mr. Amos E. Bigelow, is perfect, and 
a close scrutiny has revealed only two ham- 
mer marks in the whole house. The glass is 
French plate glass, imported by Tiffany in 
sizes ready for the sash, and the stained glass 
is tasteful throughout. 

Mr. Stone has one of the most attractive 
homes in the city, and in such surroundings, 
made pleasant in the way that only a charm- 
ing family can make them, he ought to be a 
very happy and contented citizen. That is 
just what he seems to be. 



In the World of LettcM-s. 



A Gotham correspondent says of Edsjar 
Fawcett: "In person Edgar Fawcett is a 
portly man of good figure and average height. 
He wears a heavy black mustache, dresses 
with fastidious taste, and has an unmistakable 
air of culture and refinement. His elegant 
e.xterior and gentlemanly bearing are a marked 
contrast to the literary man of an earlier day. 
He is college-bred, agraduateof Columbia.and 
scholarly in his attainments and tastes. Meet- 
ing him on Broadway, where he is frequently 
seen, one might readily mistake him for a 
banker or gentleman of leisure. A favorite 
haunt of his is Madison square, where, when 
jaded from protracted literary work, he some- 
tiines draws inspiration for future pages while 
walking to and fro in this delightful breathing 
spot. He is a member of the Union Club, a 
great diner-out and a society man, and not- 
withstanding a poetic appreciation of the fair 
se.x, a confirmed bachelor." 



The publishers of the Youth's Companion 
are to erect a building for its business on the 
corner of Columbus avenue and Berkeley 
street, Boston. The building will be a large 
one, having a frontage on Columbus avenue 
of more than two hundred feet and on 
Berkeley street of one hundred feet. It is in- 
tended to use the whole building for the pur- 
poses of the paper. Probably there are com- 
paratively few people who realize to what size 
the Youth's Cotiipaiiion business has grown. 
The paper was the first weekly paper for 
young people pulilished in the United States, 
and probably in the world. It began its e.x- 
istence in the year 1827, and its publisher was 
Nathaniel Willis, the father of N. P. Willis, 
the poet. At that time Boston had but a few 
thousand population, and the whole United 
States had probably less than twelve million 
people. 

"Four Years in Rebel Capitals," by T. C. 
de Leon — who wrote "Creole and Puritan" 
and "Juny" — purporting to be an inside view 
of social life in the Southern Confederacy, 
written from notes made from 1S61 to 1S65, 
is announced for early publication by the 
Gossip Printing Company, of Mobile, Ala. 

A gentleman stepped into a book store in 
New Jersey recently, and asked for "The 
Autocrat at the Breakfast Table." The earn- 
est clerk looked very carefully among the 
cook-books and returned to his customer and 
said : "We haven't 'The Autocrat at the 
Breakfast Table,' sir, but," he added, persua- 
sively, "many like this better," and he handed 
over the counter "Household Receipts." 

Rev. Edward Everett Hale anticipated all 
the essential qualities of the new gospel of 
nationalism in his story, called "How They 
Lived in Hampton," a new edition of which, 
happily, is just out. In fact, Dr. Hale's gener- 
ous sympathies and extended vision antici- 
pated and presented in literary form the spirit 
of all this latter day movement nearly a score 
of years ago. It must be at least fifteen years 
since the "Ten Times One is Ten" gospel set 
the world to talking of the Harry Wadsworth 
Clubs, and it is not too much to say that it is 
to Dr. Hale alone as the first individual todis- 



L I(i HT 

cover tile promise of the future, and to com 
prehend the finer and higher possibilities of 
humanity, that the whole movement of nation- 
alism may be traced. If Mr. Bellamy's 
"Looking Backward" is the book that forms 
the immediate cause, it is merely that it pre- 
cipitated feelings and mental recognitions of 
truth for which Edward Everett Hale had 
prepared the way. We in Worcester know 
Dr. Hale so well that it seems like a conver- 
sation with an old friend merely to read one of 
his books. We know his whole-heartedne.ss, 
his sympathy, and his lively wit and fun. But 
his purpose is a serious one. "How They 
Lived in Hampton" is a consideration of the 
Christian relations of the capitalist and the 
workman thrown into story form. Its business 
details are literally exact, having the authority 
of a well-known and successful manufacturer 
of woollens. The narrative portrays, in Dr. 
Hale's charming way, the plans of the Hamp- 
ton living, the store, the school, the church, 
the public library, the forms of entertainment 
and the financial success of cooperation. 
Boston : J. Stillman Smith & Co. 



The Cosmopolitan Magazine for August is 
an attractive number for several reasons, and 
makes a most acceptable companion for a 
seaside hour. A long article upon Hypnot- 
ism, nowadays attracting so much attention, is 
contributed by Professor Donato, and is in- 
teresting throughout. "The National Guards 
Camps of Instruction" attempts a review of 
the camp life of the militia of the country, 
and while it is a triHe prosy, it gives some val- 
uable facts. Oscar Fay Adams's clever story 
about "Why the Bishop Left Rye Beach" and 
"Hollister's Wife" are the stories. One of 
the best things of all is Edward King's article 
on "The Waning Glories of Versailles." The 
story of the Louis — xiv., xv., and xvi. — always 
intensely interesting, has never been given a 
more chatty and realistic touch than Mr. 
King gives it in this short article. A series of 
Confederate etchings, with an accompanying 
article by Murat Halstead, makes a novel and 
valuable contribution to the "war literature" 
which is flourishing just now. Brave Lieut. 
Schwatka tells about his "First Walrus Hunt" 
and there is other pleasing matter. 

Every few days somebody speaks about the 
book which Sanford and Davis issued some 
time ago, "Carl's Tour in Main Street." As a 
distinctly Worcester book, it is one of the 
most interesting which could be added to a 
local lilirary. "Carl's Tour in Main Street" 
is a series of letters printed in the Worcester 
.I'tilladium, first in 1855, reprinted by request 
in 1S57 and 1858, and again in 1874. So much 
interest for the people did they have then, and 
now another generation has arrived to enjoy 
them as set forth in this neat book, with a 
pretty cloth cover, uncut edges and a gilt top 
and beautiful typography throughout. These 
letters were the joint production of John S. C. 
Knowlton, who founded the Palladium, and 
Clarendon Wheelock, and they purport to 
give the narrative of a person who recalls 
a stroll through Main street, when a boy, the 
various points of interest having been pointed 
out to him by his father. The date would be 
about 1S35. The letters, written in a quaint 
style, contain a fund of local history, wit 
and wisdom worth having. That enthusiastic 
bibliophile and perfect printer, Mr. Franklin 
P. Rice, edited the present edition. It may 
be obtained at any of the bookstores. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this dc|wrtnient are »olicitL-d. 
I hey should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Do.n't Say Poi;Tii.ss.— May I', asks: Do 
you see any objection to the use of the words 
"authoress" and "poetess"? and if so, please 
tell why. The Answerer does see very de- 
cided objection to the use of the forms men- 
tioned. In the first place, it is an affectation, 
and in the second place, it has come to be 
derisive in many cases. We frequently hear 
of the "poetess" who lives on inspiration, and 
writes an epic in four hundred cantos while 
her husband is growling about burnt biscuits 
or cold suppers or the children are ornament- 
ing themselves with butter and molasses. 
Who would dare call Elizabeth Barrett lirown- 
ing, or Helen Hunt Jackson, or Louise Chand- 
ler Moulton, that sweet, lovable woman, a 
"poetess".? No one who respected her and 
her work. Perhaps you have a set of the 
"Briti-sh Female Poets." How would it look 
entitled or advertised, "British I'oetesses?" 
"Poetess" is as bad as "saleslady" and 
"authoress" is ju.st as bad. In the literary 
guild you never hear the word used, and peo- 
ple who do use it display poor taste or igno- 
rance. 

A Mkthodi.st Lani)-M.\rk.— Baptist asks; 
Was it the old elm of Boston Common that the 
Methodists so venerated.' and if so, for what 
reason ? The Old \\\xn certainly was an object 
of great regard among the people of the de- 
nominationnamed, from the fact that beneath 
its boughs, in 1790, Kev. Jesse Lee preached 
the first Methodist sermon ever heard in Boston. 
The tree itself was blown down in 1S76, but on 
the site of it a centennial celebration was held 
by the Methodist people on the nth of July. 

Several Post Offices. — C. H. T. says: 
I recently sent a letter to a party in Hanover, 
Mass., but, having received no reply, I have 
reason to believe it is lost. What shall I do 
about it ? Write to the postmaster at Hano- 
ver, first; then try North Hanover, South 
Hanover, West Hanover and West Scituate. 
There being several post offices in the town, 
the letter may have gone to the wrong one and 
now be lying there uncalled for. 

Population of Ro.me. — C.-csar Augustus 
asks : Can you tell me what the population 
of Rome was in the days of \'espasian and 
what it is now.' L'nder Vespasian, about 70 
A. D., the Eternal City had a population of 
1,300,000; then it declined, and in 335 .\. D. 
had but 300,000, having (lost 1,000,000; and 
still later, in 1377, reached the low watermark, 
having then only 17,000. Under Leo .\. it had 
40,000, but another falling off took pUce, and 
in 1537 there were but 23,000. Coming down 
to more modern days, in 1S71 it had increased 
to 244,000; in 18S1 to 300,000; and a year ago 
it had 410,000. 

Our City Clerk. — Will P. asks how long 
Mr. Towne has been City Clerk. Mr. Enoch 
H. Towne was elected City Clerk in 1S77 and 
has served ever since. He is one of the city's 
most faithful and valuable officers. During 
Mr. Towne's illness, in 1888, Mr. Freeman 
Brown served as City Clerk pro tern, from 
March i to September 1 of that year. This 
was the only interruption which has occurred 
in Mr. Towne's term of service. 



10 



LKjHT 



In the Mexican Interior. 



Mazatlan, Mexico, May II, 1890. 
My Dear Sister ; 

I thought perhaps you might like to hear 
what a trip into the interior here means. 

Instead of leaving here by coach I took a 
small steamer to Altata and went from there 
to Culiacan by rail, reaching the latter place 
at 6 o'clock, P. M. 1 then went out and hired 
my mules and mozo (servant and guide) to be 
ready next morning at 7 o'clock. In perhaps 
half an hour my mozo showed up and told me 
the mules couldn't be gotten ready until 9, the 
next morning. The next morning at nine the 
mozo appeared once more to tell me the mules 
would be around at 11; at 11 he came 
again and said i ; at i he said 3 ; at 3 he said 
4, and at 6 o'clock the mules got there. I ate 
supper at the hotel, had my mozo put my sad- 
dle pockets and blankets on behind my saddle 
and at 6.30 started for Cosala, a hundred miles 
away. 

We rode some twelve or fifteen miles that 
night and then stopped at a ranch where I 
was given a rawhide bed to sleep on. A raw- 
hide bed, I think, was first created or invented 
in the sole interests of his Satanic majesty, 
who is supposed to be responsible for so many 
of our woes. I never struck such a contri- 
vance before and I hope I'll never strike an- 
other. They are regular narrow gauge beds, 
standing on four short legs, without any matt- 
ress except the woven rawhide, which is inter- 
stitched from side to side, and from end to 
end, making interstices some three inches 
sqaare between the rawhide thongs, all over 
the thing. Of course they are cool and airy. 
The wind goes through them all over, and so 
did I. I never knew till that night how many 
sharp corners my anatomy stood possessed of. 
One minute my elbow would stick througli 
and get snarled up and I would no sooner get 
that pulled out and resurrected than a knee, or 
a hip, or a toe, or a foot would suffer the same 
fate. I had to work hard to get to sleep at all 
and as soon as I got asleep I would stick 
through and get snarled up and then have to 
wake up and untie myself. I passed a miser- 
able night and was glad enough when about 
3.30 my mozo murmurmed in my ear "vaminos''' 
(Let us go). 

It was chilly then, too, and my big blanket 
folded under me and over me, on that bed, was 
not sufficient to keep me feeling comfortable 
even as to heat and cold. These people here, 
the natives, never have over one thin blanket, 
which serves as both blanket and overcoat, — 
in fact, it is merely a "serape" and how on 
earth they exist is a conundrum, as the nights 
get very chilly, and they nearly always sleep 
on the ground. Apparently they freeze so 
solid at night that it takes until 3 o'clock in 
the afternoon for them to thaw out in the sun. 
That is the reason they sit in the sun so much: 
they are merely thawing out. 

In a very few minutes we were in the saddle 
again, and rode for perhaps 3 hours before we 
came to a ranch where we could get breakfast. 
They cooked breakfast while we waited, and 
we waited a long time. It consisted of fried 
eggs, baked beans, coffee and tortillas. No 
knives ! no forks ! and no spoons ! Now, how 
would you manage to eat soft fried eggs and 



soft baked beans without any of those, to us 
at least, essential table articles — knives, forks 
or spoons, and without soiling your fingers ? I 
was on the point of resigning in despair when 
the brilliant idea occurred to me to ask 
my mozo to sit down and eat at the same table 
with me and watch him. The idea was a good 
one. A tortilla is, I think, another invention 
of Satan, but still it evidently has its uses. 
Ordinarily, as it is constructed, it is about the 
size and thickness of a buckwheat-cake and in 
appearance resembles one very much, but it is 
made of Indian corn ground between two 
stones and moistened with water into a dough. 
A "hunk" of this dough is taken in the cook's 
hands and patted until it is the required size. 
It is then cooked on a hot stone or on one of 
the native frying pans, which latter are made 
of clay. Our cook here at our house in the 
city uses earthenware cooking utensils entirely, 
and doesn't know how to use iron pots, or 
pans, or kettles, and does all her cooking, and 
stewing, and boiling, and frying in them, over 
open charcoal fires. 

Tortillas are the bread, biscuit and cake of 
the natives and the only kind of bread that 
most of them ever taste. They are good for 
the natives, but Americans don't hanker after 
them very much. In all my Mexican travels 
I have never found one single American who 
did not think he could dissolve partnership 
with tortillas for life without shedding one 
single tear, or sighing one single sigh. 
To return to their uses ; my mozo took a 
tortilla and tore it into quarters. He then 
took a quarter in each hand in such a way 
that it made a kind of a spoon, which he used 
somewhat like a shovel, getting the beans and 
fragments of an egg upon it and then biting 
off and eating the "spoon" along with its con- 
tents. As soon as all the "spoons" that one 
tortilla would make would be eaten — take a 
fresh tortilla. My mozo was an artist at this, 
but my success was rather indifferent; but 
after spilling a varied assortment of beans and 
egg and tortilla all over myself, I did at last 
succeed in getting breakfast enough to do me. 

In the meantime my mules were eating their 
corn and at the same time fighting tor it with 
the pigs and chickens which run loose in every 
door-yard and house in the interior, and which 
had invited themselves to breakfast. 

After settling the account with the lady of 
the house, a fat and dirty and ragged woman 
of the peon class, we mounted our mules 
again and rode in the blistering, stifling heat, 
fighting mosquitos and flies and bugs in end- 
less number and variety, over scorched and 
barren hills, and through scorched and barren 
valleys, (for this is the dryest part of the dry 
season), going league after league, with no 
other thing to break the dull monotony except 
the frequent shrill cry of a parrot or a paroquet 
on the leafless branch of some sun-baked tree. 
Once in a great while we would see ahead the 
leafy branches of the ever-green alamo (or 
poplar) over-hanging the road, and look for- 
ward to a few minutes rest in its shade, but 
the myriads of bugs and gnats would rob us 
of the pleasure, and only dismounting long 
enough to take a drink of very warm water 
from the canteen and re-cinch our saddles, we 
would remount and push on again. 

At noon we reached just such another ranch 
as the one where we breakfasted, and got 



exactly the same sort of a meal for dinner as 
we had for breakfast, except that we had a 
couple of tablespoons, for implements, that 
helped me out very materially and these same 
tablespoons were evidently heir-looms in the 
family, as the points had been worn off by 
usage until there was not over two-thirds of 
the bowl of the spoon left. This feature is 
characteristic of all the spoons I saw on the 
trip. 

After dinner I laid down upon one of those 
rawhide beds again, in the shade of a portico, 
and took a long siesta along with the pigs and 
the chickens, and then at 4 o'clock we started 
once more and rode to a small village, where 
we got supper and spent the night. I had the 
inevitable rawhide bed again and of course 
went to bed with all my clothes on, including 
my boots, and, tired-out, dropped instantly to 
sleep. Sometime during the night I was 
aroused by a terrible commotion under my bed, 
a wrestling and twisting and turning that 
threatened to overturn me. Instantly I divined 
that some murderous cut-throat had been 
stealing up to my bed with the evident inten- 
tion of robbing me and perhaps murdering me 
as a side issue, when he had accidently 
stumbled over my mozo sleeping on the 
ground at my side, who had instantly grappled 
him and now they were rolling around on the 
ground under my bed in their fierce death 
struggle. 

It took but a second for all this to flash 
through my mind, and then, with a six-shooter 
in each hand, I bounded out on the ground 
and looked under the bed, and there, by the 
dim light of the stars, I saw a good-sized pig 
a scratching away at his back against the 
rough rawhide thongs of the bed. He had 
been using me to furnish the resistance neces- 
sary to make his patent .scratching-machine 
work well. I did not lose my presence of 
mind, though, nor did my nerves forsake me, 
but I just reached under that bed with my 
strong right arm and gave that pig a whack 
along his ribs with the long barrel of my Colts 
"Frontier forty-four" that roused the household 
and sent him squealing. It brings a smile of 
satisfaction to my face as I think of it to-day. 

In the saddle at 3.30 again in the morning, 
we rode until 7 or half past and then got 
another meal, all the same as previous ones, 
at another small village called Casa Blanca 
(it means White House) where there was a 
creek of running water, the first since leaving 
Culiacan. It looked quite unique and pretty 
to see the bare-footed, bare-headed and scan- 
tily, but brightly clad native girls going to the 
river with the large water-jars on their heads 
and bringing back the household supply of 
water for the day. As we rode away after 
breakfast, a small native shepherd boy with 
his little herd of goats, driving his flock off to 
the hillsides to graze, struck up that old famil- 
iar air "Home, sweet home," singing his 
native words to it. In his clear, high-toned 
and melodious voice, the notes of the song 
coming out from among the endless fields of 
cactus sounded all the sweeter and all the 
more plaintive on account of the contrast with 
its surroundings. He was singing of his sweet 
home with its adobe walls and dirt floors and 
roof thatched with palm-leaves and full of 
fleas, scorpions, tarantulas and centipedes and 
anything but "sweet" to my mind. If such 



things in the shipe of home were sweet to him, 
how much sweeter did the thought of our own 
old home, with its green lawns and trees and 
ivy vines, seem to me ; and I thought of the 
good old times when you were only a little bit 
of a girl and the same roof-tree covered us all. 

At noon a halt of a couple of hours for din- 
ner and then in the saddle again. At 4 o'clock 
the cathedral spire of Cosala came into view, 
and a few minutes later we were in town. We 
made inquiries of Senor Don Juan Tyler, who 
thirty years or more ago was a sailor from 
Martha's \'ineyard, Massachu.setts, as to the 
road to the Nuestra Senora mines, and then 
left for that mine, where I spent a couple of 
days quite comfortably with two Americans 
there. 

On the way back to Mazatlan, I stayed over 
night with .Mr. Tyler in Cosala and he told me 
that for twelve years m Cosala he never heard 
one single word of English spoken. He is 
forgetting his mother tongue and talks it with 
a Spanish accent. 

From Cosala I rode to Elota, sixty-five 
miles in one day, sent my mozo back to Culia- 
can, with his mules, and took the stage at 7 
o'clock at night for Mazatlan, where I arrived 
the next day at noon, so dirty and grimy that 
I hated myself, but nevertheless a welcome 
sight, 1 guess, to my little wife, who had been 
left alone a stranger in a strange land. 

In some future letter I may depict, at some 
length, my experiences of one night in a 
crowded Mexican stage-coach but this letter is 
too long already. O. J. S. 



Shall the Indian Die Forever? 

t>ne of LuiHx's brightest contemporaries, 
U'lsl S/uJic, of Portland, Oregon, has some 
warm-hearted words to say for the American 
Indian and asks if it is desirable that the 
race should become extinct. Light believes 
that no one with any humanity can harbor 
such a wish. West S/ion; says ; "While 
there is little doubt that the final fate of the 
American aborigine will be total extinction as 
a race, the question of what part, either active 
or passive, the Caucasian race in America is 
playing is an important one. The history of 
the conflict of civilization with barbarism in 
this country is one that civilization can never 
contemplate with the least approach to pride. 
The poor Indian has been deceived with false 
promises, robbed of his patrimony, crowded 
out of the homes of his fathers, wronged in 
his domestic relations, insulted and injured in 
his person, knocked about from pillar to post, 
conquered into subjection by superior power 
whenever his outraged feelings have led him 
to rebel, placed on reservations and deprived 
of his usual means of procuring a livelihood 
on the one hand and robbed by olticial incom- 
petence and dishonesty of the means intended 
by the government to be provided for him on 
the other, and in a thousand ways has been 
so treated that where once there were millions 
now there are but thousands. The chief char- 
acteristic of all this is the utter disregard that 
has been shown for the true welfare of the 
Indian himself. He has been looked upon as 
simply an incumbrance, and generally as a 
dangerous one, and the leading idea has been 
to get rid of him as speedily as possible. 
Perhaps this is right and in accordance with 



LI(iHT 

the law of nature that the higher forms shall 
drive out the lower, but the American people 
cannot congratulate themselves that in obeying 
this law they have done it in the way the 
higher civilization they claim to represent de- 
mands, liut homilies upon this subject are 
well nigh useless. The American Indian 
policy has been settled by years of prece- 
dents, and doubtless I'oor Lo will be crowded 
from his reservations as fast as the land is re- 
quired by settlers, and forced about the couii 
try hither and thither until, like the .Son of 
Man, he will have no place to lay his head, 
and will be born away by attrition, until the 
last full-blooded Indian shall find an unre- 
membered grave. A desirable result .> Yes, 
perhaps it is; but what of the means by 
which it is attained .>" 



11 



Here's To You, J. Bull. 
It may be just as well to mention that 
Uncle Sam's dominion extends a little more 
than half way around the globe. Therefore, 
when any of her maje.sty's subjects brag 
about the sun never setting on the F.ritish do- 
minions, we can brag of the same thing too. 
The distance from the easternmost point in 
Maine to the westernmost island in Behring 
Sea is a little more than 196 degrees of longi- 
tude, so that it is full sun up in Maine before 
it is sundown in Behring Sea. 



Progressive Japan. 

It is not twenty years since the Japane.se 
began to reform their institutions, and during 
that time nothing has more clearly shown 
their adaptability and intelligence than the 
progress which they have made in education. 
Out of 6,740,9:;o children of school age in the 
empire, 2,800,000 are enrolled in the public 
schools, while universities, commercial schools, 
schools of fine art and of music, schools for 
the deaf, dumb and blind, law courses in Ger- 
man, French and English, libraries and 
museums, all form part of a thorough and 
progressive system. 



What the Czar Eats. 
Not long ago a servant made the discovery 
that an egg could be easily poisoned by the in- 
sertion of a thin wire that would leave no 
mark on the shell. Until then the czar had 
eaten eggs with absolute security ; but now, a 
continental correspondent avers, they are sent 
hmi in all sorts of mysterious receptacles — 
sometimes in hat boxes— and they are boiled 
or converted into omelettes in a little kitchen 
contiguous to the czar's study. Here a Par- 
isian cook named Reynaud operates, under 
the personal superintendence of the czarina, 
who goes in aud out of the kitchen at all 
hours and often prepares a dish with her own 
hands. The czar never eats thick soups or 
thick sauces. His food is meat boiled or 
broiled, but the broth or gravy must always 
be perfectly clear. The vegetables are served 
whole, and cnt before him with a silver knife. 
The sugar which he eats with his fruit is 
also pounded in his sight, and his salt is the 
common gray salt in large grains, with which 
it would be impossible to mix arsenic, as 
could be done with fine white table salt. 



Parting. 



BY EDMUNU SMITH MIUIJLETON. 



And now dear trifnds, a brief farewell, 

Nay. do not turn to flee; 
'J'liesc days liave brouKliI more peace to me 

Than tonRue can ever tell. 

A little thouKlit. there by the well - 

It was at eventimi- 
1 hat soon our souls should blend and chime. 

I.ikedeeplxU answerinK hell. 
'lis over now, and I am sad; 

liut, (riend, if ne'er we nictl. 
My thoufjhts of thw shall still lie sweet ; 

You've made my heart moreRLid. 
H^'orcfs/cr, Mass. ' 



Mamma's Bouquet. 



ijiii: 



and Kiilpliat playalltheday. 
In doors and out, 
With many a shout. 
Waking the baby and tras 



All had bec-n quiet for an hour or more, 

Then a ring at the bell. 

And mamma knew well. 
That some one quite small stood just outside. 

Witli a sigh she opens the door, and there 

With a face full of glee. 

In his hand posies three. 
Stands her little l>oy exi>ectantly. 

"Me pick 'ese for 'ou. mamma," he says. 
And the dear little fellow. 
With his dandelions yellow. 

Has changed mamma's sigh very quick to a smile. 

She doesn't forget to thank the wee laddie; 
And he trots away 
Again to his play. 
Leaving the track of a sunbeam behind. 
Worcester, Mass. 



A Vision. 



The ball room fades. 1 see a little child 
Kneel in the gloaming by her small, white bed. 
Moon-kisses trembling on her golden head. 
How pure she is ! How white — how undefiled ! 
1 hear her breathe "Our Father," soft and low; 
1 see the rapt look in her upturned eyes ; 
The reve^nt thought that in her bosom lies— 
iler childish lx)som. white as sun-kissed snow. 
' I.e.id us not into"— Oh. that tender prayer! 
It haunts one like the hopes of vanished years ; 

It hurts- as often on some midnight wild 
One's lips feel kisses that once trembled there. 
The music swells ; but. oh. with passionate tears 
I see her kneel : I was that little child ! 

-FMa H,gg„u.m. 



"Why will the emblems of America outlive 
those of France, England, Ireland and Scot- 
land.-"' asks the American Journal of l'hot(% 
rapby The lily will droop (France), the rose 
will fade (England), the shamrock will wither 
(Ireland), and the thistle will die (Scotland), 
but the stars are eternal (.America). 

A silk handkerchief, so often recommended 
for wiping spectacles and eye-glases is not 
good for this purpose, as it makes the glasses 
eletrical, and causes the dust to adhere to 
them. 

Recent statistics show that the people of the 
United States are longer lived than those of 
Europe. In this country eighteen persons out 
of every 1000 die each year. In England the 
average is twenty and in Germany twenty-six. 



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Daddv Jim. 



BY MARIE MORE MARSH. 



You would never have thought of calling 
him "Daddy," for he didn't look more than 
eighteen years old. In fact, when he first told 
me he was a married man I thought he was 
joking. 

He worked in the same office as I did, and as 
his desk was near mine we had become quite 
friendly, although not intimately acquainted. 
Somehow I took a fancy to the young fellow 
from the very first. He was tall and thin, 
smooth-faced, with regular clean-cut features 
and dark eyes and hair; boyish looking, but 
dignified and very quiet. 

1 had done him a few friendly turns such as 
men working together often get a chance to 
do one another, and we had become pretty 
well acquainted. At least he must have known 
me and my family history pretty well; but he 
was rather reticent, and beyond telling me he 
was a "man of family," as he expressed it, he 
had never talked of his own affairs, and 1 had 
often wondered what his family might con- 
sist of. 

One night he invited me home to dinner 
with him, and, as you may imagine, I accepted 
with great promptness. 

His home was on the outskirts of the great 
city, not in one of the pretty suburbs, but in 
a thinly settled, bleak-looking neighborhood, 
where there were many vacant lots, with here 
and there a fair-looking apartment house or 
block of flats, but no house that looked like 
permanent home. 

My friend apologized for the distance, say- 
ing that cheaper rent had taken him so far 
out, because now his family needed more room 
than he could afford to pay for nearer town. 

"His family," again; well, in a few minutes 
I should see for myself. A ring at the door of 
an upper flat brought a neat little maid-servant 
to the door, and she showed us into a cosy 
little parlor, empty for a moment, then filled, 
it seemed to me, by a lively little tot of two or 
three years. "Daddy Jim, Daddy Jim," he 
called, as he climbed on him and over him, and 
hung on his coat; and tlien the pretty girl- 
mother entered, and then Daddy Jim proudly 
presented me to his family. 

We had a merry meal. Everybody talked, 
even the baby. They both rattled away, and 
I soon knew all about them. Her name was 
Kittie, baby's was Ned. She called her hus- 
band "Daddy Jim," because baby had begun 
it, and it sounded so funny. Both were 
orphans — he was twenty-three and she was 
nineteen. She had married at sixteen, be- 
cause her mother had died then and left her 
alone, and Jim wanted to take care of her. 
They had been engaged ever since they were 
children ; and so as I heard their story I be- 
came more and more interested in them, and I 
resolved then and there to be a sort of a father 
to them. Not that 1 was so awfully old (my 
hair has always been thin this way — early 
baldness runs in our family), but they seemed 
such infants to be all alone in the world. 

I think they must have liked me, too, for 
soon an invitation to dine with them on Sun- 
day became so much a matter of course that 1 
should have felt hurt had it been omitted. I 
became their confidential friend, and was con- 



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suited in so many of their plans that I felt my- 
self quite important, 1 assure you. I helped 
Kittie select Jim's birthday and Christmas 
gifts, and 1 gave Jim the benefit of my experi- 
ence m shopping when Kittie sent him for 
purchases at the great dry goods stores. In 
fact, I began to consider myself one of the 
family. 

Now there was employed in our office as 
typewriter a Mrs. Wyman, a very handsome 
woman of about thirty-hve years of age. A 
relative of one of the firm, her story was well 
known among the men in the office. She had 
been left an orphan with considerable money, 
and at the age of sixteen had married against 
the advice of her friends ; her husband had 
abused her, spent her little fortune, then died 
leaving her to support herself. 

She was, as 1 have said, beautiful, but very 
bitter and sarcastic, and feeling that she owed 
the world a grudge, she was not apt to spare 
any one. 1 think the men were rather afraid 
of her sharp tongue, and she was not on par- 
ticularly good terms with any of them except 
Jim, and from the first day she came she 
seemed to take a fancy to him. 

She was not a bad-hearted woman, and, as 
I afterwards found out, she didn't know Jim 
was a married man ; but she seemed to have 
a sort of a fascination for him which caused 
me no Uttle anxiety. Not that Jim was at 
all in love with her, or likely to forget Kittie, 
but he was so very young and so sorry for her . 
and it is through their sympathies that so 
many men get into trouble. 

I felt that I ought to speak to him about it 
yet what could a fellow do. There was really 
nothing to speak about. So it would seem 
when I was with him, then when I had left 
him it would seem that 1 had neglected my 
duty. Then, again, it would appear too 
trifling a matter to think of, and so there 1 
was, not halting between two opinions, but 
flopping from one opinion to another a dozen 
times a day. 

One Sunday Kittie took him to task in a 
playful manner for not getting home earlier ; 
"fifteen minutes late three times last week," 
she said, shaking her finger at him. I tossed 
the baby and pretended not to hear. Then 
Jim left the room, and Kitty told me she was 
going to surprise him by coming to the office 
to come home with him some day soon. "Do 
you know I never have been in that office," she 
said, and I secretly hoped she never would 
come. 

A few days later she came into the dingy 
office, looking like a picture in her pretty new 
cloak and dainty hat. Jim had justgoneover 
to Mrs. Wyman's desk to carry some papers, 
and through pure ill-luck picked up a flower 
from the bouquet on her desk and laughingly 
asked her for it. The lady graciously gave 
it, and, as he leaned over, reached up with a 
smile and pinned it to his coat with her own 
fair fingers. Such a thing had never hap- 
pened before and might never again, but Kit- 
tie's quick eye caught the whole thing. She 
turned red, then white. "I didn't know there 
was a lady in the office," was all she said. 

Jim, having finished his errand, was walking 
leisurely back toward his desk when he saw 
Kittie. His eyes brightened, and with a glad 
surprise he hurried toward her saying how 
pleased he was that she had come. Kittie re- 



plied stiffly with her eyes fixed upon the un 
lucky flower. He glanced down, then he 
seemed to understand her manner and there 
was an awkward pause, broken shortly by 
their starting for home. 

"And who is Mr. Murray's pretty friend?" 
asked Mrs. Wyman of me later. 

"His wife," I answered sternly. 

"His wife ! what a sweet face ! why I never 
imagined that boy was married," she said with 
surprise. 

"So I inferred," was all I replied as I 
turned and left her. 

The next day Jim seemed ill at ease, and I 
couldn't help noticing he hurried through any 
work he had at Mrs. Wyman's desk. 

She seemed perfectly unconscious of any 
change of manner, and I truly believe never 
suspected there had been the least trouble, 
and was as frank and friendly as ever toward 
him, speaking of his wife's beauty and her 
surprise that he was married. 

They had been painting the building that 
our office was in, and some scaffolding had 
been put up over the door. "A dangerous- 
looking arrangement," I had heard one of the 
men mutter as he passed under it. A strong 
wind was blowing just as Jim was going out of 
the door, and the thing toppled and fell, bury- 
ing him beneath it. He was taken out sense- 
less, and it was found that beside a slight 
injury to his head his leg was broken. He 
soon recovered consciousness, and the doctor 
set his leg and we took him home. 

Mrs. Wyman came to me as we were start- 
ing. "The firm will bear all e-xpense, of 
course," she said, "but if there is anything I 
can do for that dear little girl wife, please let 
me know, and let me help her." She was so 
earnest that I couldn't help taking her hand, 
and promising that if we needed her she should 
come. 

Poor Kittie ! She was terribly frightened, 
and so conscience-stricken because she had 
been cross to Jim. "Oh, will he die.'" she 
asked over and over again. The doctor as- 
sured her there was no danger of dying, but 
that he would need nursing and care. "Have 
you any grown person whom you can get to 
help you?" he said, as he took in Jim, Kittie, 
Ned and the little maid-of-all work at a glance. 
She look dismayed; they knew nobody. Then 
I delivered Mrs. Wyman's message. Kittie 
hesitated a moment, then consented, like the 
dear little girl that she was. 

So Mrs. Wyman was sent for. The mo- 
ment she entered the sickroom she seemed 
transformed. All the bitterness and hardness 
gone — she was sweet, tender, womanly. Jim 
was lying white and still on the bed. Baby 
Ned stroking his pale hand and softly saying 
"po-oor Daddy Jim." Kittie stood beside the 
bed weeping. Mrs. Wyman went quickly to 
her, and taking her in her arms whispered, 
"If my baby had lived she would have been 
almost as old as you, dear." And 1 know 
Kittie was conquered, for she put her arms 
about her neck and they kissed each other and 
cried together woman-fashion, wnile 1 looked 
on and blew my nose furiously, and kept say- 
ing it was strange where I got such a snuffy 
cold. 

Well, there isn't much more to tell. Jim 
got on famously, and all on account of his 
excellent nursing. 

The very first place he went when he was 
able to walk was to the little chapel around 
the corner, with a merry little wedding party. 
Mrs. Wyman was the bride, and, being modest, 
I won't mention the groom's name ; but the 
man who gave the groom away was Daddy 
Jim. 



Jottings from New York. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



(.REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE OF LIGHT.] 



New York, July 31, 1890. 
It is just such a heaven-born day as this 
that causes one to feel that it is good to be 
ahve. The earth is radiant from her bath of 
much-needed showers, and blooms anew in 
all the mature fulfilment of the early promise 
of bud and blossom. All the world, who can, 
is taking high holiday, storing up a reserved 
fund of strengthened nerves and physical force 
against future drafts to come during the win- 
ter's wear and tear. That is what one should 
do, of course, but alas ! so few practise such 
wisdom. In the turning of the wheel of life, 
the motion seems to grow ever faster and 
fiercer, and to keep up with the pace requires 
a system of superhuman energies. As George 
Henry Lewes aptly said, ''The terrible cost of 
nerve tissue is disregarded by the wisest of 
us." In a most sound and sensible article in 
the British Aft-iiical Journal on the higher 
medicine, which prescribes serenity of soul, 
the author says : "The whole teaching of 
modern medicine is in the direction of a better 
regulated mode of life, prevention rather than 
cure, or, if cure, rather by a reconciliation with 
offended nature than warfare with disease by 
medicines." 

This train of thought is suggested by the 
many evidences that come from many sources 
of the activities of summer life as lived at 
Newport and kindred re.sorts — keeping the 
ball rolling with dinnerj and dances and routs 
and rackets galore. Quiet little nooks and 
corners there are where, far from the madding 
crowd, one can cultivate that desirable serenity 
of soul, and conjugate the verb lo rest in all its 
moods and tenses. To one such placid retreat, 
did I lately hie, out on Long Island, just 
beyond the "City of Churches," not far from 
that other and silent city, where, after life's 
fitful fever, they sleep well. It is called Green- 
wood. 

It will not be long before the necessity of 
some other mode of disposition of the dead, 
must be decided upon, else will the fair fields 
of Long Island be overrun with encroaching 
stones and monuments. It is almost impossi- 
ble to purchase a lot in the older portion of the 
cemetery, a final home in the aristocratic part 
being set at as high a premium, relatively, as 
a living one in fashionable Vanity Fair. 
A woman friend, who is an editor and writer, 
tired of yielding up a goodly portion of her 
earnings to the monthly demands of landlords, 
determined to possess her own roof and fig- 
tree, and to that end bought several lots in the 
outlying district of West Brooklyn. By the 
aid of a building and loan association, she 
began the erection of a substantial cottage for 
three thousand dollars, with five years in 
which to release her house from mortgage. 

This plucky woman selected her builder and 
her trials and tribulations began, for she 
pinned her faith to a fallible man ; he, after 
the manner of men, thought to have matters 
and things his own way and that being a 
woman she must needs obey without question, 
and took advantage of her supposed ignorance. 
Owning a horse and wagon she was able to 



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drive out from the city daily to .see the progress 
made. But this made trouble. The men 
objected to having a woman take exception to 
a nail gone wrong, or a misplaced lath, and 
her life was made a burden. Unforeseen ob- 
stacles arose, extra expenses cropped up, de- 
lays were frequent, poor work had to be un- 
done, and a host of troubles appeared, hydra- 
headed, to di.stract the mind of this courageous 
woman. Building a house seemed a Sisyphus 
task of which the end could not be foretold, 
l>ut with all things in this transitory world, the 
troublous days went by, and the day finally 
dawned that found her in possession, the mis- 
tress of her small domain. The trials she 
endured, the practical lessons she acquired 
through bitter experience, will one day be em- 
bodied in a book on what one woman knows 
of building a hou.se, and may serve as a text- 
book for the edification of other lone women 
who wish to set up their lan-s and pcnatcs 
within a home that is not a hired one. 

Now, on its second summer, the i|uaint and 
artistic little villa (for she did succed in liaving 
it that) begins to assume a truly homelike 
aspect with trim lawns, vines and flowers to 
lend their grace and color, ^'ou would not 
dream of the great city so near. Here reigns 
perpetual quiet, only broken by the whistle of 
the trains speeding cityward and back, green 
fields on every side, above, a boundless space 
of blue. Pure o/.one is here without stint in 
quantity or question of ([uality, blowing fresh 
from the ocean. 

Tliere has been a boom in the price of land 
in this suburb. Wealthy men are interested 
in its development, and as one is of Royal 
Baking I'owder fame, his influence can be 
counted on to give a rise to any scheme he 
undertakes. 

We drove through quiet lanes and country 
roads straightaway to where the blue Atlantic 
comes in, with long rollers, breaking on the 
white sand of Bath Beach, a favorite resort 
that offers a rural simplicity witli that quality 
of mellowness in the atmosphere and surround- 
ings, that only comes from the kindly touch of 
Time. 

Benson-Hurst is the next hamlet and boasts 
a more ambitious appearance in fine graded 
streets and well laid out country seats. The 
hundred years old manor house of the Benson 
family stands, a stately pile, guarded by noble 
trees; it is a fine example of the old Dutch 
colonial style, and suggests in its gables and 
dormers many a romance and family history 
perchance enacted within its walls. 

This portion of Long Island is of historical 
interest. Near by is Fort Hamilton, named 
for Alexander Hamilton. The reservation on 
which the fort stands, is situated in the old 
Dutch town of New Utrecht, settled in 1654. 
Just to the east of the present earthworks. 
Lord Howe landed before the great battle of 
Long Island. Handsome old residences of 
the former aristocracy of New \or\ show 
here and there in quaint, old-fashioned gardens 
looking out on the bay. It was very gay there 
years ago, when the gallant officers from the 
fort made merry with the pretty girls of the 
old families there, but now there is very little 
of interest, socially speaking. 

Oueen Natalie of Servia has had her life in- 
sured for two hundred thousand dollars for the 
benefit of her son. 



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Women and Their Ways. 

A list of the twenty-seven wealthiest «om( n 
in the United States is published, in which the 
first place is given lo Mrs. Hettic tireen, of 
New York, who is credited with a fortune of 
$.(0,000,000 in her own right; Mrs. Kliz:dieth 
Garrett comes next with 520,000,000; Mrs. 
Terry, $20,000,000; Mrs. Mark Hopkins, $20,- 
000,000; Mrs. Ldwin Stevens, J15, 000,000; 
Mrs. John C. Green, $10,000,000; Mrs. Cyrus 
H. McCormick, of Chicago, $10,000,000 ; Mrs. 
John Jacob Astor, $8,ooo.oco; Mrs. John Kay 
Barton, of Philadelphia, $7,000,000; Mrs. 
Thomas A. Scott, widow of the railroad 
president, $5,000,000; .Mrs. William Armour, 
of Chicago, daughter of Silas Cobb, $5,000,- 
000; while Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Mrs. 
Josephine Ayer, Mrs. Jane Brown, Mrs.W. I'.. 
Dodge and the daughters of Francis A. 
Drcxel, of I'hiladelphia, are worth $4,000,000 
each ; Mrs. Robert Goelet and Mrs, Jaye pay 
taxes on $3,000,000 apiece. It remains, how 
ever, for Mrs. Terry's baby daughter, not over 
three years old, to distance all competitors 
with wealth in her own right valued at $50,- 
000,000. 

Ida Lewis, keeper of the Lime rock light 
house, in the Newport, Rhode Island, harbor, 
is the only female light house keeper in the 
country, and the last one that will be given a 
light, although no light on all the toast gains 
.so high a report from the government inspect- 
ors as hers. Miss Lewis has a six-roomed 
hou.se, and her spare time is occupied in 
housekeeping and in sewing and reading. 
.Miss Lewis has saved fifteen lives, and is the 
only woman in America to whom the gold life- 
saving medal has been awarded. She has 
also been given three silver medals and has 
received many gifts, both valuable and simple, 
in recognition of her bravery. 



The aspirant for literary honors with pecuni- 
ary renumeration should remember that the 
most famous names in the literary guild 
earned their money for the most part in other 
than literary ways. Bryant was an editor and 
publisher. Longfellow and Holmes and Lo- 
well were Harvard professors. Emerson and 
Bayard Taylor were lecturers, and Taylor was 
also a Trihune editor. Curtis and Stoddard 
depend upon editorial salaries : Stedman is a 
broker, and II alleck was John Jacob Astors 
private secretary. And one might go further 
with this list. Whittier began as an editor, 
and only in middle life attempted to lean upon 
literature alone for a support, which his early 
savings and simple habits made possible. It 
was always Longfellow's advice to young 
men who wished to be literary to have first, 
and mainly, a vocation independent of the 
finer muse. If a young writer thinks he 
possesses genius he may, of course, experi- 
ment with it; but it will serve his purse and 
peace of mind better to secure some source of 
labor and income that is more philistine and 
worldly, and ride his Pegasus only at inspired 
intervals. For it is a fact, in .spile of the 
occasional big figures that are given as the 
results of literary work, pure and simple, that 
the men who prosper or have prospered by 
that alone, are only, at any one time, a few 
dozen in number among our sixty-five millions 
of people. 



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From Cork to Killarney. 



BY HERBERT H. TAYLOR. 



"By Killarney's lakes and fells ; 

Emerald isles and winding bays ; 
Mountain paths and woodland dells, 

Memory ever fondly strays." 
The beautiful city of Cork, a few miles 
distant from ( lueenstown, is usually the first 
resting place of the tourist. Here are two 
first-class hotels— the Imperial and the Royal. 
The former is rather the better of the two. 
Kates are a trifle more than are paid for the 
same accommodation in the United States. 
(The foregoing is generally true of the hotels 
throughout Ireland.) 

The principal thoroughfare of Cork is Pat- 
rick street,in which the famous statue of Father 
Mathew was erected by the people of Cork 
as a tribute to his memory. In the northern 
part of the city is the old Shandon church, 
whose steeple, about 170 feet in height, is a 
most peculiar structure. Two sides are built 
of limestone and two of redstone, which fact 
gave birth to the couplet : 

Party-colored like its people, 
Ked and white stands Shandon steeple. 
It is the only Protestant church in Cork. 
The rector, a most amiable gentleman, con- 
ducted us through the edifice, while under the 
skillful fingers of his little daughter, the bells, 
which have a world-wide renown from Father 
Prout's lyric, pealed forth a merry chime : 
"With deep affection 
And fond recollection 
1 often think on 

Those Shandon bells, 

"W hose sounds so wild would. 
In days of childhood. 
Fling 'round my cradle 
Their magic spells. 

"On this I ponder, 
Where'er I wander, 
And thus grow fonder, 
Sweet Cork, of thee. 

"With thy bells of Shandon. 

That sound so grand on 

The pleasant waters 
Of the River Lee." 
The most approved method of reaching 
Killarney from Cork is via Bantry, Glengariff 
and Kenmare. This is known as the "Prince 
of Wales" route, from the fact that His Royal 
Highness passed through these places upon 
his visit to Ireland in 1S58. 

It was a merry party that sat in the Imperial 
hotel, discussing our trip to the lakes. At the 
suggestion of Mr. Tom Karl, the well known 
tenor of the Bostonians, who had been there 
before and "knew the ropes,'" we left the Al- 
bert Quay station for Bantry at about i o'clock 
in the afternoon, arriving there at about 5. 
The railway ride was extremely tedious and 
the first-class carriages in Ireland are none too 
good. 

At Bantry we took a coach, and three hours' 
drive through what seems to be an enchanted 
region brought us to Glengariff. On every 
side abounds the most beautiful natural scen- 
ery, which is beyond all praise. Upon this 
drive, however, through a country, the mag- 
nificence of whose unrivalled natural beauties 
words are inadequate to express, the tourist is 
made to realize for the first time, the terrible 
poverty existing everywhere in Ireland, with 
the possible exception, perhaps, of the large 



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cities. Men, women and children in almost 
nude condition follow the teams, sometimes 
for nearly a mile, begging in the same stereo- 
typed phrase: "A penny if you please, sir!" 

Glenariff is a most charming spot, com- 
manding a fine view of Bantry Bay. There 
are two good hotels here — the Eccles and 
Roche's. Our party stopped at the latter 
place, and after a good night's rest proceeded 
upon our journey, but not until the entire re- 
tinue of servants had received a sul)Stantial 
reminder of our visit, it Ijeing a popular idea 
in Ireland, as in England, that all American 
tourists are wealthy. Our next stopping 
place was Klenmare, where we had a lun- 
cheon — which one of the party would insist 
upon calling a dinner — aand paid a flying 
visit to the convent of Poor Clares, justly 
celebrated for its beautiful lace. 

As we draw near Killarney, a turn in the 
road discloses a magnificent view of the 
upper lake of Killarney, while to the left rises 
the wooded peak of "Eagle's Nest," 1700 feet 
high. Muckross, two miles distant from the 
town of Killarney, was made the terminus of 
our journey. 

"Castle Lough and Glena bay, 
Mountains Tore and Eagle's Nest ; 

Still at Muckross you must pray. 
Though the monks are now at rest." 

There are two hotels at Muckross, side by 
side, the Muckross hotel and O'Sullivan's. In 
the visitor's book at the latter place are in- 
scrilied numerous testimonials in prose and 
poetry to the virtues and accomplishments of 
the charming hostess. The principal attrac- 
tion at Muckross is the ruined abbey. An 
entrance fee of one shilling is charged here, 
but guests at the hotels are admitted free of 
charge. The abbey is rapidly falling into de- 
cay and its gloomy cloisters are rendered 
still more gloomy by the close proximity of a 
large yew tree, thirteen feet in circumference. 
The abbey was erected in 1340, by the Prince 
of Desmond, and in the immediate vicinity 
are buried numerous Irish chieftains and 
princes. 

At the private grounds of Mr. Herbert, at 
Muckross, is formed the "meeting of the 
waters," the subject of one of Moore's poems : 

"There is not in this whole world a place half so sweet, 
.As that vale in whose valley the bright waters meet." 

And it is the most beautiful spot in all Ire- 
land. The meeting is formed by the union of 
the upper, lower and middle lakes, and this 
"Vale of Avoca" would alone amply repay the 
tourist for his visit to Killarney. 

As we drove over the old Bricken bridge, 
Pat Hurley, the guide, related to us the ro- 
mantic story of the "Colleen Bawn" rock. 
Glena mountain and bay — the bay of good 
fortune — The Tore Cascade and the old 
Weir bridge must needs be seen to be appre- 
ciated. 

There are two other ruins that are full of in- 
terest to the tourist, Castle Lough and Ross 
Castle. There is still considerable remaining 
of Ross Castle, and it is beautifully situated 
upon a small island in the middle lake. 

At the entrance to the Gap of Dunloe, re- 
freshments are served and one is invited by a 
veritable descendant of the far-famed Kate 
Kearney to "take a drop of the mountain 
dew." The d'stance through the gap is nearly 
four miles. 



It is the universal expression of those 
who have visited Ireland, that the Irish 
are, as a class, a courteous, genial and oblig- 
ing people, and when the tourist is brought 
face to face with the deplorable condition of 
Ireland to-day and the suffering which she is 
compelled to undergo, he feels like exclaiming 
with the Nationalist, "God save Ireland." 

Worcester, Mass. 



Chinese Sanitary Secrets. 
The healthfulness of Chinese cities has 
been ingeniously attributed by some people 
to the universal habit of fanning, a practice 
which is said to keep the air in constant cir- 
culation. How far this really affects the 
issue remains to be decided, but the real 
secret of the immunity from sickness, and 
notably from the villainous water universally 
used, lies in the invariable custom of boiling 
all water intended for drinking. As a matter 
of fact, the Chinese never drink cold water. 
The national beverage is tea, and this is 
always "on tap" even in the houses of the 
poor. Every Itttle hamlet, too, has a shop 
where hot water can be bought for a trifling 
sum at any hour of the day or night. 



The Ocean's Under Tow. 
Doubtless we have all heard a great deal 
about this "under tow," as though it were some 
mysterious ocean monster to draw unwary 
bathers to their doom. As a matter of fact, 
its presence is obviously natural, and the ex- 
planation more than simple. As each wave 
rolls in and breaks upon the beach, the volume 
of water which it carries does not remain 
there and sink in the sand; it flows back 
again, and, as the succeeding wave breaks 
over it, the receding one forms an under- 
current, flowing outward, of strength propor- 
tionate to the body of water contained in 
each breaker, and again, proportionate in a 
great measure to the depth of the ditch. 
Where this latter is an appreciable depression 
it can be readily seen that the water of reced- 
ing waves will flow into it with similar 
effect to that of water going over a fall, that a 
person standing near is very likely to be 
drawn over with it, and thus, if the ditch is 
deep enough, carried out of his depth. This 
is all there is to the much-talked-of "under 
tow" and the numerous accidents laid to its 
account. — Scribners. 



— The first bishop of Rome who claimed to 
be the head of the Christian Church was 
Julius 1. O37-353). Innocent I. (402-417) 
followed him ; but the first Pope was Leol. 
(440-461), to whom the bishops in Africa, 
Spain and Greece submitted. 




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LIGHT 











IV 



Gives Practical Points of Interest 

For every young man or woman who wishes to make the most 
of the time at their command. No school has ever grown so 
rapidly in public favor. No school employs so many teachers for 
the number of scholars. No school in this city has ever shown 
the results that have been shown this season by 

Becker's Business College. 

Our Pupils Have Taken Good Positions. 

Of all our immense graduating class this year only six pupils 
remain who have not obtained good positions. During the last six 
weeks of school the calls at the college for help were frequent and 

urgent and 

28 Pupils Took Remnnerative Employment. 



In our Shorthand and Typewriting department our success has 
been far beyond that of any similar department ever in Worcester. 
Our standard is high and we allow no shoddy work to pass. Every 
pupil who graduates must write from 140 to 150 words per minute 
and read notss readily. 

We Cannot Supply One-half the Calls We Have 

For Stenographers. Every graduate thus far has secured a position 
at not less than nine dollars a week within three weeks after com- 
pleting the course. 

Parents, Can You Make a Better Investment 

Than to send your sons or daughters to Becker's College ? 






ATTEND 




(I^^ Lowest rates consistent with good work. Send for circulars and elegant specimen. 



492 M.AIN STREICT, Clark's Block. 



MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOCK 

Which must be diposed of to make room for certain im- 
provements 1 intend making, and new stock 1 must buy. 

I find on the shelves of my store some $5,000 worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to fill up your libraries. 

The books I have, the money and the room I want. 
Call and look over the stock and have what you wish at 
almost your own price. 

GEO. L. SANFORD, 

PROPRIETOR or THE 

Sanford & Company Bookstore, 

364 MAIN STREKT. 



IvlRS. C. A. ROHBINS, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-HEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS^ 

No. 3S7 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 



Fire Insurance ! 
EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



TURKIJn BflTI15. 



F. W. FIKLD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 

8 a.m. to9P. M. Sundays, 

8 to 12 A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House 
Worcester, Mass. 



Davis & Co. 

Sell Fine Ready Made 

^*-C L O T H I N a-4* 

— AND — 

MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 



Ciastorri Uepartiiient 

Contains at all times choice goods, (^.arments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 

Mk.s. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from tlie New York -Iniining School, gives 

^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS * 

and diHerent baths at her office for ladies and children 

only, (jentlenien treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St-, Worcester, Maas. 



u 



GEO. N. MORSE, 



TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HER KESIDENCE, 29 MAT ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-4»Ladies' j( Hair i Dressing-^ 

CHILDREN'S HAIR-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 NIAIN STREET. 
Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

**WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

^^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

ISTo- S ^^XTaln-o-t Street, 

Mezicau Work, Embroidery, Fiue Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 

MRS. S. M. KEYES. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to ii a. m., 2 to 4 P- ni. 

Nliss H. M: proctor, 

Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



L I (i M T 

Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Deviled Tomatoes. 

Cut fresh tomatoes into thick slices, broil 
on a fine wire gridiron, over a clear fire, and 
when done lay in a dish, and pour over them 
a sauce like that made for barbecued ham, 
substituting two tablespoonfuls of olive oil or 
of melted butter for the ham fat. 
Rice Pudding and Berries. 

Cold boiled rice may be made into a 
very nice pudding with the addition of ber- 
ries. Soften the cold boiled rice with milk, 
using tvvo cupfuls of milk to one of rice, and 
stir until the lumps are dissolved ; add three 
well-beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of butter, a 
small cupful sugar and two cupfuls blackber- 
ries, raspberries, stawberries or stoned cher- 
ries. Bake slowly for one hour in a buttered 
pudding dish. 
Baked Rice with Cheese. 

One pint of boiled rice, half a cupful of 
giated cheese, placed in alternate layers in a 
buttered earthern dish. .Spread powdered 
cracker over the top with bits of butter, and 
over the whole pour one egg, well l)eaten, one 
saltspoonful of dry mustard, half a teaspoon 
ful of salt and a shake of cayenne pepper, 
thoroughly beaten together. Bake twenty 
minutes in quick oven, and serve very hot. 
Peach Jelly. 

Crack a handful of peach seeds, and take 
out the kernels and put in a preserving kettle 
with the peeled peaches, add a very little 
water, and set on the fire to boil. When soft, 
strain, measure and return to the kettle to 
cook slowly ; allow a pound of sugar to a 
pint of juice, put in a pan to heat, add to the 
juice, which should be boiled twenty minutes ; 
stir until the sugar dissolves, and take up. 
String Beans and Cream. 

Boil two quarts of string or butter beans 
until very tender in salted water, drain them 
well and let them cool ; make a sauce of one 
and one-half cups of milk, one large table- 
spoonful of butter, a little salt and white pep- 
per, and one tablespoonful of flour; l)oil until 
thick, then add the yolk of one egg, pour over 
the beans, and serve with either hot or cold 
meat. 
Potatoes and Parsley Sauce. 

New potatoes, well scraped and washed and 
.soaked in cold water for half an hour. Boil 
them rapidly for half an hour in salted water. 
Pour off the water when done, dredge lightly 
with salt, shake and turn into a heated dish. 
Melt one tablespoonful of butter, mix in one 
tablespoonful of flour, add a pint of cold 
water and stir until it boils. Add pepper and 
salt to taste and one tablespoonful of chopped 
parsley. Pour over the potatoes and serve. 
Apple Tapioca Pudding. 

Soak a large coffee-cupful of tapioca in 
three cups warm water two hours ; slice one 
pint of sour apples into a pudding dish ; sift 
sugar over them, and pour the tapioca over 
them ; cover with a granite pie plate and bake 
one hour; eat whipped cream or butter and 
sugar sauce with it. 



* HOW IS YOUR TIME * 

Be sure that you donH get left. 
ClaOln'g best Cabinet Photugrapha, «2 a 1 
until July 4th. Take the elevator at 

405 Main Street, Walker's Block. 



W. H. TWICHELL, 

Gold, Silver and Nickel 
Rlater, 

Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
ishing. 

13 Mechanic St., Worcester, Mass. 



*FffiST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.* 

Office, First National Bank Building, 

4tlO Ivlaim. St., '^^T'orc ester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 



C. A. BOYDEN, 

Ricture Frame Nl'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
Eng^aving^s, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

4:7 Rartc St., Worcester. 
A. E. PECK. 

JUST RECEIVED, A NEW LINE OF 

Kine Ktctiings. 



3es 3iviC.A.I2^ ST. 

PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— :0:— 

-f Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* TRAVELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 

LE * JOLLY t FRENCH )^ DYEING 

AND i CLEANSING i HOUSE. 

First-Claee Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gross & Strauss 
Cut out tills coupon from 
LIGHT, and bring: lit with 
you and get 10 per cent die- 
count from regular prlce§. 

C. T. MELVIN, PKOPRIETOR, WALNUT ST. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton F*lace. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., PROFS. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, np one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



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About the House. 



[Keaders of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical liousekeepinR, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all connnu- 
nicationsto Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*, Salt eaten with nuts aids digestion. 
*, Milk which stands too long makes liittcr 
butter. 

*» If a cellar has a damp smell, and cannot 
be thoroughly ventilated, a few trays of char- 
coal, set around on the floor, shelves and 
ledges, will make the air pure and sweet. If 
a large basketful of charcoal be placed in a 
damp cellar where milk is kept, the milk will 
be in no danger of becoming tainted. 

*» Don't let carpets be cleaned on the floor, 
as is being practised in some cities. That 
slimy compound that is brushed on the carpet 
is only soft soap, nothing else, colored and 
perfumed, perhaps, with sassafras. It is true 
that it makes the carpet look clean, but it is 
well known that more or less of that soap 
stays in the back of the carpet, having worked 
its way through, along the sides and in corners. 
A physician, or any one versed in chemistry, 
knows that this soap which stays in the 
carpet is resolved into common grease, attract- 
ing myriads of Hies, carpet bugs and insects 
of all kinds, besides decomposing and filling 
the room with dangerous gases, from this di.s- 
gusting compound of grease, woo! and dirt. 

% A simple remedy for round shoulders is 
to stand facing a corner of the room, and with 
hands extended on the wall in either direction, 
and the feet firmly placed, to move the body 
slowly toward the corner. This exercise, 
faithfully repeated every morning, will make 
the form beautifully erect. 

% Heavy work or driving soon after eating 
and drinking is as bad for a horse as a man. 
Rest should follow a full meal, or very mod- 
erate work, when work cannot be postponed 
long enough. 

*.)t Lamp, chimneys are easily cleaned by 
holding them over the steam from a teakettle, 
and rubbing them with a soft cloth and polish- 
ing with paper. 

** All delicate and facy hoisery should be 
soaked in salt and water before wearing, and 
stains of leather and stockings can be taken 
out by dipping them into chlorine water before 
putting them into soapsuds. Black hosiery is 
dipped in water in which is a little ox gall. 

*, If brooms are soaked in strong, hot salt 
and water before using, the splints will not 
break in sweeping. 

*, In cleansing black stockings, it is not nec- 
essary to wash the entire stocking every time 
they are done up. liy a little care the feet 
only may be washed, and thus the color may 
be retained much longer. Stockings should 
never be put into the suds until they are 
turned wrong side out. 

The statement is made that a weak galvanic 
current, sufiicient soinetimes to cure the tooth- 
ache, may be generated by placing a silver 
coin on one side and a piece of zinc on the 
other side of the gum. The current is in- 
creased by rinsing the mouth with acidulated 
water. 



<r 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 

478 to 482 Main St. 



New and fresh are tlie 1 )innersets 
and Teasets we .speak aljoiit 
tt)-clay. 



Decorated Teasets, 56 pieces, 

3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 6.00 
9.00 9.50 10.00 11.00 11.50 12.00 



Decorated Dinnersets, 112 pieces, 

7.35 8.50 9.00 10.00 10.50 

10.92 12.00 13.50 15.00 

and upward to 150.00. 



A new and handsome toilet set 
and slop jar to match, in brown 
and pink, only 6.50. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



IS 



In Gauze and Muslin. 



*, The silk bathing dress is proving its 
popularity by its lightness and its prettiness. 
It should, however, be dark rather than light 
in coloring. 

% Sashes are wider and handsomer than 
ever. The girls of the period seem to be 
spending a fortune in them this year. 

*, Travelling caps for men are made of mate- 
rial representing the college colors, over 
which the people seem to have "gone wild." 

*» Gray, of the clear dove tint that has 
always been numbered among the artist's 
colors, is more fashionable than ever before. 
Heretofore silver and steel passementeries 
have been used in trimming the soft aesthetic 
gray gowns ; now white is chosen, in silk mull, 
marabout braid and lace borders. 

*ff Good form in dress forbids the wearing 
ot elaborate toilets in summer, and the woman 
who exhibits them is set down as green and 
as knowing nothing of fitness. She should 
keep her velvets and satins for dinners and 
receptions in the city. India silk takes the 
place of costly fabrics in the summer, and 
one may live in an India silk from morn till 
eve and yet always be dressed, and well 
dressed. Several of these silken gowns of an 
inexpensive sort are requisite for the girls 
who would be well gowned for all occasions 
where a sailor rig is out of place. 

*f Japanese cushions woven tightly of 
straw are ornamented liy skilled decorators in 
fancy stitches and are comfortable seats for 
the rocks or on the seats on the cottage 
piazza. 

*4if The fashion of yachting has brought 
about the idea of having a yacht's ensign and 
name embroidered on hats, lapels of the 
jacket, and sometimes on the belt of the 
gown. 

*,if The fleur de lis is one of the prettiest 
and most stylish of designs of the season, and 
it is graceful and very iffcctive on almost any 
sort of a bit of fancy work. 

*'t, Russet leather shoes are said to be not 
as much worn as formerly. They are being 
superseded by black patent-leather and dark 
red Russia leather. They are fitted simply 
to the foot, as plainly and perfectly made as 
po.ssible, and are laced across the instep in 
such a way as to display the handsome hosiery. 

*» The latest imported chemises are models 
of simplicity. They are without sleeves, as 
tliey have been for some time, and are merely 
finished by a narrow band at the neck and 
arm-hole edged with beading run with ribbons 
and full frills of lace. 

% Another pretty new fashion is for white 
tulle dresses with several graduated skirts 
bordered with wreaths of marguerites. .Similar 
flowers are worn on tlie bodice, chiefly on the 
shoulders in combination with a bow of 
ribbon ; the fan is decorated with them, and 
they sometimes appear on the shoes as well. 

*» Pink, blue or white mull is use for little 
children's lawn hats, and nothing quite so 
simple and pretty has yet been devised for 
their purpose. They are light, summer-like 
and attractive. 



Iv I (i HT 

Facts for Fine Costumes. 



Ciai.AJE'TEK 2^. 



A souvenir ? 

Yes. 

A souvenir of what, pray ? 

Why, it is a summer book describing all the summer resorts of the New England coast, 
nearly fifty of them, all combined in one volume of over two hundred pages. 

The first chapter is devoted to Newport. No city in America is like Newport, you know. 

Cottages, hotels, beaches, breakers, points of interest, social life — all are described in a 
fresh and entertaining manner. 

So of all the various summer resorts of our coast. 

What a useful book that would be when one is trying to make up their mind where to 
spend the summer. 

Wouldn't it, though. 

Florence, where can these books be found ? 

At the Worcester Corset Co., 328 Main street (the Royal Worcester Corset House). They 
g!7'f them to their />tiirons. That is where I obtained this one. I was making purchases there 
yesterday and the manager handed me this, saying it was intended for the benefit of their pa- 
trons, and I might find it useful and interesting during my vacation. 

What did you say the number of their store is, Florence.'' 

328 Main street. Royal Worcester Corset House. 

I shall go down there this very day and get a book — for I must buy me a6o8 Pongee Cor- 
set — for I am going to use my old one to go in bathing with. There is positively nothing that 
equals a Pongee Corset for bathing. So soft and flexible. 




m3:E BEST lasr txie -^^t^o-rXuTD. 
FRENCH SHAPES! LONG WAISTS! 



PRICES FROM $1 TO $6 EACH. 



STYLES TO SUIT ALL WANTS. 



Worcester Corset Co., 

Retail Store, 328 Main St., 1 Worcester, Mass. 



NEW KODAKS 




"Yon press the 

bottoD, 
we do the rest." 



Seven Ne.w Styles and Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THK KASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. KOCHESTEK, N. Y. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing: a Specialty. 

NO. 32 PEART. STREET. 




EYAI^S St GO 



FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

In Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 



NEAR SUMMER. 



WORCESTER, MASS 



ly I (I H T 

Gloom-Killers. 

Economy is Wealth. 

Mk. Gkki;n(;|{ocek :— Are you goinj; to 
the sea.shore this summer. Mrs. Brown Stone .? 

Mus. Hkown-Sto.vk:— I think not. 

"I thought you said the children enjoyed 
playing in the sand so much?" 

"So I did; I'll let them come over and play 
in your sugar occasionally. I guess that will 
do as wel\:'—i;,„l\-rs .Statesman. 
A Harvard Baby. 

Rn(s. YoiTNt.Tm.VG (woefully) :—0, Clar 
ence ! the baby's hair is turning red. 

Mr. VouNirrHiNf;:— Well, what of it.? 

Mus. Ydungthing:— Why, how dreadful 
it will be when we wear our blue sashes to the 
ball game and cheer for Vale ! Have you lost 
all respect for your Alma Mater 'i—llu) ling- 
ton Free I'rcss. 
Usually It's on the Toe. 

Farmer Harrow :— What's the noi.se out 
in the barn ? 

Smarty Harrows (who aspires to be a 
wit) :— I don't know, pa, but I think the corn 
is on its ear. 
Had He Smelled Powder.' 

Clara :— So, Belle, you jilted poor Will at 
last. How cruel! And now he has entered 
the army, they say. It's a sliame, for 1 don't 
believe he will make a good soldier. 

Bki.i.e :— Oh, yes he will. 

Ci-Ara : — How do you know.' 

Hki. I, E (sigliing):— Because he can use his 
arms .so well. 
Well Named. 

One of our local druggists calls his soda 
fountain "Elijah," because it is a great profit. 
And Kill Time. 

Some say that a man who would "heat an 
egg" would be so cruel as to "whip cream," 
"thr.ash wheat," or even "lick a postage 
stamp." 
A Sea Breeze. 

She: — Don't you think you had better have 
a shine .' Your shoes are very dingy. 

He:— Why, they don't need it; they are 
patent leather ! 

She : — The patent must have expired — you 
had better get it renewed. 
Sure Enough. 

"It's hotter than " began the deacon, 

when the minister interrupted him with 
"S-h-h." But the deacon wouldn't be bluffed. 
"It's hotter than yesterday," he added. 
They Like to be Helped. 

"If women are really angels," writes an old 
bachelor, "why don't they Hy over the fence 
instead of making such an awkward job of 
climbing .'"' 



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r ON TOP > 

', $399 ' 
5HDE5 



MAIN ST., OPP. FRONT. 





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G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S.. 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 

ni8 Main St., Worcester. 
I^^Elevator. 



(ForliKTly with Dr. Cole ) 

MEDICATED, VAPOR AND ELECTRIC BATHS, 

FOK LAIJIHS AND CHIIDHHN ONLY. 

3r.2 Main Street, Corner Maple, Wurceater, Malta. 

ler"Officeliours^9toi2 A. m.; 2 to 4 p. m. Treat- 
ment at the homes of patients by appointment if desired. 

WORCESTER SELECT SCHOOL OF 

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING. 

Shorthand and Typewriting practically tauKlit Our 
graduates are successful. Write for terms. 

<^e®- O. Creelnn.a,n., IFrincipa,!, 

44 Front Street, Worcester, MafiM. 
^^"Typewriting done at reasonable rates durine the 

snmnipr " 



DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, ^S per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D K N T I S T 

I^^A lady a.ssistant will be in attendance. 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 



J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT* 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 



The Home School. 

MISS KIMBALL'S 

day ANU BOARIJINC; SfHOOI, EOR 
filRLS OF TEN YEARS ANU UPWARDS 
OPENS SEPT. 24TH, IN NEW ANU IM- 
PROVED QUARTERS AT THE CORNER 
OF MAY AND WOODLAND STS. CIRI.S 
FIND HERE A PLEASANT SCHOOL 
HOME, AND ARE THOROUGHLY AND 
JUDICIOIISLY EDUCATED. AN EXCEL- 
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Send for a Circular, which tells all about the 
School. Address, HOME SCHOOt, Worcester. 




Mrs. Dr. Wm. Lee 



339 Main St., 

Burnside Building, 
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Office hours: 9 to 
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^TURKISH » BATHS4 



There are still many people in our beautiful city who do not know what 
a Turkish Bath is. The opportunity to enjoy one has until lately been 
limited to those who could afford to visit Boston or New York for that pur- 
pose, but now, right in our midst, the opportunity i% waiting for all those who 
wish to avail themselves of it. 



If yoa are hot and dusty-it will cool and cleanse you. 

If you are tired and worn out-it will refresh and strengthen you. 

If you are too fleshy-it will reduce you from 2 to 4 pounds each time. 



Many who see the heading of this page will ask the question: "What is a Turkish Bath?" not 
exactly from ignorance, but because they have not lived where the Baths are well-known and popular. 
The process is simple to describe but delightful to experience. The first act, as in every kind of bath, 
is to remove the clothing. After substituting for the discarded clothing a lengthy towel wound about 
the hips, the bather is conducted to the "hot room," where, in a temperature of 130° to 160°, he 
reclines on a comfortable cane lounge covered with a clean sheet for each new occupant. Here he 
remains from twenty minutes to half an hour, breathing the pure, dry air and drinking cool water. If 
one is too stout and wishes to reduce the weight very little water is taken, but if the bather be too 
thin then water is drank freely. This temperature sounds almost unendurable but in the absence 
of all clothing and during profuse perspiration it is not in the least uncomfortable. The next change 
is to the lavatory. While you lay at full length upon a marble slab the attendant shampoos the body 
with the bare dands in clean, warm water, with all the rigor and adroitness acquired by years of ex- 
perience. After every muscle and tendon has been thoroughly rubbed, gathering new strength by the 
process, the bather is washed with a fresh bunch of fibre and soap. Then comes the crowning pleasure 
of the whole. He is placed in the Needle Bath. Tiny streams of water, countless in number, play 
upon all parts of the body. First warm, then gradually cooling until the body can bear absolutely 
cold water. Then he is wiped dry, wrapped in a clean sheet and conducted to the cooling-room, 
there to lie upon the comfortable couch and dream or muse the time away until cool enough to dress 
and depart. The tired, fagged-out person who enters the Bath comes out an hour later with sparkling 
eye, springing step, a skin as soft as velvet and feeling like a new man. 



Our latest inprovement, the "NEEDLE SPRAY," has the exhilirating effects of an electric battery 
without the unpleasant sensations of an electrical shock. 

We have one of the best masseurs and shampooers in the country. He learned to 
manipulate at the great Turkish Baths in Dublin, the first establishment of the kind in Europe, 
and where he spent twelve years. He is fast becoming one of the popular characters of the 
city. Editors, clergymen, lawyers and business men who have taken baths here all know 
and like "Jerry." 

Baths, $1 each. 6 tiekets, $5. Hours-Week-days, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sundays, 8 a.m. to 12 ni. 



F. W. FIELD, 6 Elm St., Worcester. 



The Vacationers. 



A party of Worcester ladies has gone to 
Hampton, N. II., to spend the month of August. 
It includes Miss Knima I'linipton, Mrs. Ida 
L. Ca.skill, Mrs. A. W. Hubbard, Mns. F. H. 
Ball, Miss Kathryn F. Ball, Mrs. M. S. Gray 
and Miss Sybil M. Gray. 



Mr. and Charles N. Hair and Miss Fannie 
Hair are at Ocean Beach, Marshfield. 



Mrs. William P. E. Paine, Miss Marion 
Paine and Master Harold Paine have gone to 
Mansfield, O. 



Frank E. Murray arc at 



Mr. and Mrs. 
Block Island. 

Mrs. W. J. Cutting and her son are at River- 
side, K. I., where they will remain for several 
days. 

Mrs. A. H. Henry spends the present month 
at York Beach. 

Mrs. C. M. Morse is at Echo Lake, near 
Milford. 

Mr. Eben Foskett returned Thursday from a 
vacation at Nantucket, the sun having given 
him a countenance which shows that he went 
blue-fishing and the sun was hot. 



Mr. Arthur E. Gray has been at Cottage 
City this week. 

Mr. George Kendall spends the season at 
the Vineyard. 

Mr. A. A. Barker is with his family at Pig- 
eon Cove. 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Prentice and Miss 
Uottie Prentice are at Falmouth. 



Mr. and Mrs. Waldo E. Sessions and Miss 
Laura Sessions are at Brant Rock, Marsh- 
field. 

Mrs. Daniel Stevens is at Naragansett Pier. 



Miss Minnie Gard is another of the so- 
journers in the provinces. She spends some 
time at St. John, N. B. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. J. W^heeler have gone to 
Dubuque, la. 

Mrs. Charles A. Hoppin and her son, Mr. 
Charles A. Hoppin, Jr., Denholm and Mc- 
Kay's advertising manager, have gone to the 
Vineyard for a fortnight. 



Mr. Theodore H. Bartlett, the mayor's 
secretary, is taking a vacation at Medway. 



Mrs. Albert C. Loring, Miss Mary Loring 
and Mr. Henry Loring are at Oswego, N. Y. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Buffington will remain 
in Europe for several months yet, spending 
the winter in Rome and taking an Egyptian 
tour. 



Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown of the Bay 
State House will be at Old Orchard during 
the month of August. 



Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Stone spent Sun- 
day and two or three days of this week at Fal- 
mouth and Cottage City. 



In the Courts. 



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The members of tlie Winslow Club have at 
last begun playing on their new courts, on 
Pleasant street, three of them having been 
marked out early in the week. All are dirt 
courts, antia few weeks play will put them in 
excellent shape. As the club has leased the 
grounds for three years, it ought to make rapid 
strides towards success. A fall tournament is 
one of the probabilities and should surely l>y 
held, as it will bring the club and its new 
grounds into prominence. 



The Crescent Club's court is in the best 
shape of any dirt court in town, and it is daily 
occupied by club members and visitors who 
are getting in trim for the invitation tourna- 
ment to be held August 25. 



The Lakesides have been holding a tourna- 
ment during the past week, and some good 
matches have been played. The result thus 
far is as follows : 

C. .S. Cook beat A. J. ISassett by default. 

A. II. Lange beat C. .S. Cook by default. 

A. H. LaiiReteat U. A. Adams, 6-3, fv-J, 

.\ C. Marble Ix-at W. K. Heald, 6-0. 6-1. 

H. B. Fairbanks lx*at N. C. Keyes, 6-2, 6-3. 
The tourney will continue every afternoon 
during the coming week. 



The idea of holding an open tournament on 
the new grounds, with prizesof sufficient value 
to attract some of the "cracks," ought to be 
carried out. Worcester has never seen any of 
the really great players, and such an exhibi- 
tion as they would give would be very attract- 
ive to many of Worcester's citizens. 



About Westboro Folks. 



While in conversation with Mrs. Grundy 
this morning, I learned that Mr. C II. tobb 
has found a delightful spot in the White Hills 
of New Hampshire. Plenty of the fair, and 
few young men. 

Captain Charles P. Winslow and daughter 
have been spending a few days at On.set Bay 

Mr. Charles Peters, of Hotel Whitney, wil 
spend a few weeks at Saratoga. 

"The Bush," the charming villa on Charles 
street,erected by Mr. W. B. Frost, is completed. 
A massive granite curbing and steps will be 
placed in position during the coming week. 
Mr. Frost is in the "merry whirl" and a series 
of charming little gatherings is looked for- 
ward to with delight l)y the many friends of 
the host, later. 

The latest fad among the talent is appearing 
minus the coat. Congressman Walker may 
have inaugurated the fashion, but he did so 
indoors, not on the street. .Still it looks better 
than the many-colored blazer. 

Nearly all of the students attending the dif 
ferent colleges have arrived home and tennis 
has received a decided impetus. A tourna- 
ment of great magnitude is under considera- 
tion. 

Boating neath the gaze of nought l)ut the 
pale moon is the latest. Lake Chauncey is 
the favorite pool. DeForest Archdai.e. 

T)r. G. E. Francis and Dr. Samuel B. Wood- 
ward will go, during the coming week, to the 
Saquenay river, Quebec, where they expect to 
do something in the way of fishing. 



CHARLES L. WRIGHT. 



CHARLES H. WOODCOCK. 



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Will open the season of '90 May 24, under new management. No pleasanter place can be 
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and electric bells. Table supplied with the best the market affords. Special attention 
given to preparing dinners at short notice The road to the mountain top is not hard for 
horses, as it makes the ascent by zigzags, furnishing magnificent views at every turn. 
Coaches for the summit connect with morning and afternoon trains from Worcester, at 
Princeton Station. Round-trip tickets can be bought at reduced rates, and parties of six or 
more can make very favorable terms. Direct telephone from AA/orcester. 

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But he gets there just the same. 
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Chartered by a Special Act of the General Assembly. Authorized Capital, Ji, 000 000 
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Every Dollar Paid in 
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BEDFORD CITY is a flourishing city of 4000 inhabitants, and is on the Norfolk & 
Western Railroad, midway between Lynchburg and Roanoke, the surrounding county being 
extremely rich in mineral resources. It is the county seat of Bedford County, is lighted by 
electricity, and has an electric street railway in process of construction. It industries are 
general manufacturing, already of large volume, with certainty of great increase. 

THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY, the largest educational institution in the 
South, costing $100,000, has been erected upon the Company's land, and there is also in process 
of building a $75,000 hotel, and a railroad station to cost $40,000. 



This Is a Good Investment ! 

The Bedford City Land and Improvement Company offers its Stock at 

$6.50 PER S HARE. 

Make Remittances Payable to 

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BANKERS AND BROKERS, 

No. S4 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. 

Fiscal Agent for the Bedford City Land and Improvement Co. 

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V/Sfm(jESTER,t\A<,S, 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
annum, 5 cents a copy. 
1^* Advertising rates upon application. 



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Offices, 339 Main Street, Bumside Building. 

Telephone No. 141-5. 

Entered at the Post-OfiSce, at Worcester, Mass., as 
second-class mail matter. 



Readers of Light will be interested to know that at 
the end of each volume of six months, will be printed a 
complete index of principal contents with a title page. 
Light is of convenient size for binding, and a volume 
of it makes a handsome book,— a full record of local 
happenings, as convenient to handle as an encyclopaedia. 



Worcester, Saturday, August 9, 1890. 



Light Sent Out of Town. 

Subscribers to Light who leave the city during the 
summer can have their papers sent to any address they 
may desire, and changed as often as wanted. Buyers of 
Light can have any issue or number of issues mailed to 
them by paying the usual price per copy, five cents. 



About Folks. 



[The public is cordially invited to contribute articles 
of general interest, news, gossip, personals, notes of 
entertainments, gatherings, parties, and receptions, 
announcements of meetings, and anything reflecting 
the good doings of good people.] 



August 9: Sun rises at 4.45 A. m.; sets at 
6.54 p. M. Length of day, 14 hours, 9 minutes. 
New moon, August 15, 11 hours, 20 minutes, 
— morning, E. 

Frank P. Goulding, Esq., is to be chairman 
of the committee on resolutions, at the Repub- 
lican State Convention in Boston, September 
'7- 

Mr. Edward N. Anderson is to have charge 
of the vocal department of the new college of 
music at Hartford, Conn., during the coming 
season ; but as Worcester people will be glad 
to know, it will not take him away from here 
entirely, as he will spend only one day ot each 
week in Hartford. The future of the Gounod 
club has not yet been announced, l)ut it is to 
lie hoped that it will be continued and that 
Mr. Anderson will still be its director. Mr. 
Anderson has been spending a part of his 
time, recently, at his home in Ware, and will 
start with his father, next week, if he has not 
already gone, for a western trip, going as far 
as Ohio, certainly. He will be at home the 
first of next month. 



Miss Maude L. Davis sang at the Congre- 
gational Church in Warren, last Sunday. 



Plymouth church seems likely to get its 
pastor very soon, for church and parish have 
unied in the call to Dr. Archibald Mc- 
Cullagh, and have offered him a salary of 
S6,ooo, six weeks vacation and moving expen- 



I^ I (i HT 

ses paid, although the latter expense will be 
borne by private parties. There is reason to 
think that Dr. McCuUagh will accept and if 
he does, Plymouth will have an able pastor. 
Dr. McCullagh will be the first Irishman to 
occupy one of the local evangelical pulpits, for 
he was born in Armagh, Ireland, and moved 
to this country in childhood. He is a gradu- 
ate of Princeton. He will have the banner 
salary among local pastors, for iS6,ooo is more 
than any clergyman has ever been paid by a 
Worcester church. It is the largest minister- 
ial salary in the state outside of Boston. The 
Trinitarian Congregational churches pay the 
highest salaries. Rev. D. O. Mears, D. D.,gets 
$4,000 from Piedmont; Rev. W. V. W. Davis 
gets the same from Union church ; Rev. I. J. 
Lansing gets $4,000 also; Rev. Daniel Merri- 
man,D. D., gets $3,500 ; and there are several 
who get $3,000, $2,500, and $2,000. Rev. Charles 
Wadsworth, Jr., got $4,000. 



Mr. Edward W. Kinsley has charge of the 
Y. M. C. A. boat house at the Lake during the 
present month, and is as obliging as his prede- 
cessor, Mr. Berry. 

A party of some sixteen young people, near- 
ly all members of the class of '87 of Worcester 
High School, went to the Lake, last Monday 
evening, and had a merry time. They went 
down on the 6.30 dummy, and boarded the Ve- 
nus, the bow of which was reserved especially 
for them. A table was spread, and covered 
with eatables, which were disposed of with 
avidity, and an Amherst man, experienced in 
such things, made the lemonade. The party 
remained on the Venus for several trips and 
afterward were invited by Col. Charles E. 
Burbank, commandant of Natural History 
Camp, who was one of the party, to visit the 
camp. The trip was made in a smaller 
steamer, and Col. Burbank did the honors at 
the camp, while the party enjoyed a look 
through headquarters, a stop at the camp-fire, 
where Mr. Forbush was telling a story, and 
then witnessed parade and inspection. Re- 
turning to Lincoln Park, the party took the 10 
o'clock dummy home. It was a delightful af- 
fair in every sense of the word. 



Mr. A. A. McLaughlin has resigned his po- 
sition as superintendent of the Sabbath school 
of Webster Square M. E. church. 



T\it Journalist's Boston correspondent says 
that "Henry L. Shumway, the veteran news- 
paper man, so long and favorably known from 
his connection with the old conservative Wor- 
cester Spy, and later as an attache of the 
Evening Tt'h'gram of that city, is now a mem- 
ber of the Herald editorial staff." This is 
interesting reading to Worcester people, among 
whom Mr. Shumway is so well known, es- 
pecially the newspaper men. The joke is too 
apparent to need stating. 



The Pleasant Street Baptist Church people 
laid the corner stone of their new edifice, last 
Tuesday afternoon, the exercises being of un- 
usual interest throughout. A numberof pastors 
of other local churches were present and as- 
sisted in the exercises. These began with 
prayer by Rev. A. B. Chamberlain of the 
Church of Christ, after which Rev. E. B. Has 
kell of the South Baptist Church led the 



responsive service. The doxology was sung, 
and Rev. D. W. Hoyt of Adams Square Bap- 
tist Church read the Scripture lesson. The 
hymn written by Mr. C. H. Thurber for the 
laying of the corner stone of the old church, 
June 8, 1S43, a copy of which was taken from 
the box under the old corner-stone, was given 
out by Rev. Alonzo Sanderson of Laurel Street 
Methodist Church and was sung by the people. 
The pastor. Rev. H. J. White, then read along 
list of the articles deposited in the corner- 
stone box. Light figured here for the first 
time as a representative of Worcester at a 
corner-stone laying, and hopes to be present at 
many more such ceremonies. The box was 
carried to the stone by two of the youngest of 
the church members, Clinton C. White and 
Charles R. Lingley, and the stone was set in 
position by Deacon Robert F. Comstock and 
Mr. Nathaniel P. Gates, a constituent member. 
After a short responsive service, the people 
sang. Rev. Mr. White offered prayer, and Rev. 
Hiram Conway of Mt. Olive I5aptist Church 
read for singing a hymn, " Glorious Things of 
Thee Are Spoken." Addresses were made by 
Rev. George G. Craft, pastor of the First Bap- 
tist Church, Rev. Darius H. Stoddard, pastor 
of the Dewey Street Baptist Church, and Rev. 
I. J. Lansing, pastor of Salem Street Church. 
After singing. Rev. B. D. Marshall, D.D., pro- 
nounced the benediction. The stone itself, of 
brownstone, bears simply the figures "1841- 
1S90," the date of the founding of the church 
and the building of the edifice. 



Mr. O. B. Wood, who has been ill for some 
time, was able to be out several days ago, but 
was attacked by inflammatory rheumatism 
and is now quite ill at his home. Light, with 
scores of other friends, hopes he may soon re- 
cover. 

Independence Lodge, I. O. G. Templars, 
will hold a picnic at Sterling, August 14. 
Lodges from Greendale, Millbury, Farnums- 
ville, Clinton and Shrewsbury will accompany 
the lodge. A game of base ball will be played 
between the Greendale lodge and Indepen- 
dence lodge and there will be a 50-yard dash 
by the ladies, loo-yard dash by gentlemen, 
three-legged race, boat race and other sports. 
A good time is expected by all. 



This afternoon, at 3.30, Mr. Caleb A. Wall 
will hold a historical field meeting at the beau- 
tiful grove of Parks Commissioner James 
Draper's Bloomingdale Nurseries, on Planta- 
tion Street, to which all those interested are 
invited, including ladies. Mr. Wall will give 
a history of that and other ancient farms in 
the vicinity. 

The season opens at the theater to-night 
with the performance of George Thatcher's 
ministrels, which is sure to attract a large 
house. The theater has been made ready for 
occupancy again, and patrons will notice the 
new nickeled orchestra railing, a decided im- 
provement. 

In years past. Lake Quinsigamond has been 
the scene of many hard fought rowing con- 
tests, both amateur and professional. On its 
waters. Harvard and Yale have struggled for 
the supremacy of their "dual league," Cor- 
nell has won the intercollegiate championship, 
Ed Hanlon has established the world's record 



for three miles, and hundreds of other scullers 
have won more or less honors. It has always 
been the desire of the enthusiastic oarsmen of 
Worcester to see the National Association of 
Amateur Oarsmen meet here, but never 
has that desire been satisfied. Next week, 
however, the eighteenth annual regatta of that 
Association will be rowed at the Lake, and 
some of the prettiest contests ever seen may 
be expected. Eight races, including singles, 
doubles, pair-oars, fours, and eights will be 
rowed, and as there are fifty-eight entries, rep- 
resenting one hundred and thirty-five oarsmen, 
the Lake and vicinity will present a lively ap- 
pearance. Crews from Detroit, Mich., Toronto 
and Ottawa, Ont., and St. Paul, Minn., will be 
present, as well as representatives of all the 
large boat clubs in New England and around 
New York. Worcester people will of course 
be most interested in the races in which local 
oarsmen will contest, and these will be the 
senior-singles, in which Erastus D. Rogers of 
the Tatassit will row, the junior singles, in 
which Worcester's representative will be A. 
L. Bennett of the Worcesters, and the eight- 
oared shell race, in which the Wachusetts 
have a crew. The latter race will be the event 
of the week, as the Atalantas and Bradfords 
will fight again for the honors, while the Co- 
lumbias of Washington will also be on hand 
to make the race more exciting. On the 
whole, it will be the biggest week Lake 
Ouinsigamond has ever seen, and there is no 
doubt that the Association will be more than 
pleased with the beautiful sheet of water of 
which Worcester is so proud. 



Miss Mamie Haskins, a daughter of Mr. D. 
A. Haskins, who has been employed at the Bos- 
ton store for some time, left her place there 
last Saturday, and on Sunday went to Roch- 
ester, N. Y., where, at 3 o'clock Monday af- 
ternoon, she was married to Mr. Albert 
Sprague, who was formerly employed at Mr. 
Aaron Taft's rubber store. They will reside 
in Rochester. 



Miss Lizzie M. Urban was married, on Wed- 
nesday, at her father's residence in West- 
minster, to Mr. Charles N. Chapin. Rev. L. 
Partridge performed the ceremony. 



Greendale Lodge, I. O. G. Templars, has 
elected the following officers for the ensuing 
term: C. Templar, Miss Mary E. Lovejoy; 
J. Templar, Miss M. Louisa Lovejoy; Secre- 
tary, Mr. Charles M. Edwards; Financial 
Secretary, Miss Hattie Clark; Treasurer, Mr. 
Harry Dudley; Marshal, Mr. Walter E. Ad- 
ams, Chaplain, Mr. Frank Bowie; Guard, 
Mr. Herbert Gilmore; Sentinel, Mr. Charles 
Peters; Assistant Secretary, Miss Nellie M. 
Paine; Department Marshal, Mr. Frank Lin- 
coln; Superintendent J. Temple, Miss Lucin- 
da Hunting. These officers were installed 
last Tuesday by D. G. C. T., E. E. Maynard, 
of Northboro. 

The interior of Laurel Street Church is 
fast assuming a modern appearance, and when 
the repairs are completed, it will be a much 
more beautiful place than before. With its 
debt paid off and new surroundings, the people 
will feel pretty comfortably happy in their 
church home. 



The Vacationers. 



Mr. Henry E. Dean and his family are at 
Cottage City. 

Mr. Seth Richards is at Bay \'iew. Me. 

Mr. Charles E. Black and his family are at 
the Connecticut House, Block Island. 



Mrs. Ella K. Morgan is at Bethlehem, N. H. 



Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dodge are at 
Londonderry, N.H. 

Miss Lucy E. Reynolds is visiting her 
parents at Lewis, N. Y., and will remain there 
during the present month. 



Miss Evelyn M. Wyman is at Fitchburg. 

Miss Maria F. Bosworth has joined her 
sister. Miss Maude S. Bosworth, at Lawrence, 
and from there they go to Abington next 
week. 

Mrs. Ella M. Keith is at Duxbury Beach, 
where she is entertained by Mr. and Mrs. 
Harvey J. Reynolds. 

Mr. Edward J. Sawyer is at^ Lake Village, 
N. H., and from there will go to the shore 
resorts down Boston Harbor, before returning 
home. 

Capt. and Mrs. A. A. White and daughter, 
and Mrs. Tylee and children are at Block 
Island. 

Mr. Walter Davidson is one of the few peo- 
ple down this way who realize what beauties 
there are about the Lake Champlain region. 
He is spending apart of his vacation at Grand 
Isle. 

Mrs. E. S. Gage, Miss Minnie Gage and 
Masters Arthur and Fred Gage, are at Sea 
View, Scituate. 

Miss Grace E. Underwood and Miss Nettie 
C. Northrop are finding recreation at Lynn 
and Point of Pines. 

Mrs. G. E. Parker and her daughter are at 
Lake Pleasant for a fortnight. 



Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bemis are away 
for a month, spending two weeks at Fiskdale 
and two at Lancaster. 



Mrs. N. A. Thayer, Miss Myra Thayer, 
Miss Edna Thayer, Mrs. E. A. Morse, Miss 
Cora Morse, Miss Carrie Morse, Miss Etta 
Miller and Miss Annie CoUes are camping at 
Point Breeze, Webster, and having a gay time. 



Mr. George A. Park and family are at the 
Aldine, Old Orchard. 



Mr. George W. Gale, clerk of tlie board of 
Overseers of the Poor, is off on his vacation, 
and will spend a part of it at West Point. 



Rev. F. D. George has been at Bath, Me., 
this week. 

Mr. W. C. Carpenter is at Block Island. 



Mrs. A. H. Winslow is at Camp White, R. I. 



Miss Annie S. Marble is at Marblehead, 



Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Patrell, of Monson, 



have been visiting friends in the city this week. 

Mrs. Maria Stockwell and Miss Florence 
Hiscoe are at New Fane, Vt. 



Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Woodward are 
additions to the Worcester colony at Cottage 
City. 

Mr. Clarence R. Goddard is visiting rela- 
tives in East Jaffrey, N. H., for ten days. 

Mr. and Mrs. Carrol W. Dodge are at 
Orleans, on the Cape. 



Miss Elizabeth Kobson is in St. John, N. S. 

Miss Lottie Hubbard has been visiting rela- 
tives in Boston for several days. 

Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Griffin are at Nantasket. 



Miss Nettie A. Underwood is visiting friends 
in Lynn. 

Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Pierce and their daugh- 
ter are at Riverside, R. I. 



Miss Bessie K. Pelton and Miss Annie 
Black, of Providence, are enjoying themselves 
at North Woodstock, N. H. 



Mrs. George Oatley has been at Block 
Island and has this week been visiting rela- 
tives at Providence. 

Mr. Charles E. White and his grandfather, 
Mr. Dwight Waters, are visiting relatives at 
New Ipswich, N. H. 

Miss Ella J. Rider is at Ocean Spray, whence 
she will go to Block Island, returning later to 
Worcester county for a visit at Barre. 



Miss Mabel C. Dewey is spending a fort- 
night at Westfield. 



Miss Mabel Baird is visiting relatives in 
Milford. 



Rev. William T. Sleeper has been at Marsh- 
field this week. 

Miss Agnes Ballard is visiting Mrs. W. D. 
Ballard, at Holyoke. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Howe have for several 
days been enjoying a visit to their old home in 
Holliston. 



Miss Florence Churchill is the guest of Miss 
Calista Gilbert, at Green Harbor. 



Mr. C. E. Chase is spending his vacation 
among the Berkshire Hills, with his brothei', 
W. H. Chase. 

Mr. A. M. Gould and family have gone to 
Barre for several weeks. 



Dr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Hull left Monday 
for Acworth, N. H., the doctor's birth-place, 
where they will remain until September. 



Hon. Samuel Winslow, Mrs. Winslow and 
Miss Robbins sailed for home last Saturday. 
They are due here early next week. 

Mr. Herbert L. Green is off on a trip which 
will extend as far west as Cleveland, O., and 
he will visit Niagara, Toronto Montreal, Que- 
bec and Saratoga. 



A Good Man's Life. 



Out at the South End of the city, whither 
the tide of manufacturing has been turning, 
there is a large factory plant, where, all day, 
hundreds of workmen are busy with their 
various tools, and others are busy in selling 
and shipping the finish product. Still farther 
out, in the quiet city of the dead, rest the 
mortal remains of a man who stood at the head 
of this great manufacturing establishment and 
lived long enough to make it ready for the new 
quarters which its growth demanded, but, sad 
to say, not long enough to enter them himself, 
and assume the helm of his craft. 

It will not be difficult for any citizen of 
Worcester to recognize in this introduction the 
man himself, Francis B. Knowles, or the great 
enterprise of which he was a part — the 
Knowles Loom Works. For many years Mr. 
Knowles was a beloved member of this com- 
munity, and though in later times he found it 
impossible to go about much in society, his 
presence was still felt in the giving of a gen- 
erous hand or the kind words spoken from 
feeble lips — often from the sick-room itself — 
and when he finally was released from the 
struggle, there was needed only the great 
gathering of all the people about his bier, to 
tell what place he had in their regard. 

Lif;HT presents its picture of the late Mr. 
Knowles, sharing the regard of the people for 
him. To those to whom he was so great a 
benefactor, it must awaken pleasant mem- 
ories; to those whom he met in business, it 
must bring back a recollection of a just man; 
to the younger generation, who knew him only 
by sight, it may be a suggestion of the good 
which may be had out of life. 

Francis Bangs Knowles was one of the suc- 
cessful business men of Worcester who have 
come to the Heart of the Commonwealth from 
the country. He was born in Hardwick, a 
little town up on the edge of Worcester Coun- 
ty, on the 29th of November, 1823. 

He was the youngest of four children, and 
of the four, one of his two sisters alone sur- 
vives him. To his brother, four years older 
than himself, he clung with a love remarkable 
for its fervor and its uninterruptedness. From 
the day when they played together as children, 
to the hour of the elder's death, Francis was 
attached to him by the strongest ties. 

When Lucius, his brother, left his home, at 
the age of 14, to " make his way in the world," 
Francis knew his first great grief in their 
separation. It was for him to remain on the 
farm alone, and sad days they were to him, 
with his brother gone. It is curious to note, 
in thinking of this strong attachment, that 
both brothers lived to the same time of life. 
Death sent the same messenger for both of 
them, and both died in the Capital City, Wash- 
ington. 

Francis was a most dutiful son, and always 
a hard worker. His business ability was man- 
ifested early in life, and especially noticeable 
was his fondness for trading. While Lucius, 
who possessed inventive genius of a high or- 
der, was making saw-mills and water-wheels 
and such things, Francis was bartering jack- 
knives, tops or marbles. He had, as a boy, a 
sunny temper, and was fond of leadership, 
which was accorded him by his fellows, who 



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were not slow to respond to his generous 
nature. 

Francis had more than an average educa- 
tion, and when he was only seventeen years 
old, he began teaching school in Dana; but 
the vocation of pedagog was not exactly to 
his taste, and, looking into the future, he saw 
that he must strike out on a large scale. 

From Dana he went to Gloversville, N. Y., 
where he continued teaching for a time, but 
when he was twenty-two years old, he began 
his business career, starting in the manufac- 
ture of gloves and in the clothing trade. 

At the beginning of his business life, he 
married Miss Ann Eliza Pool, and they were 
blessed with two children, one of whom is Mr. 
Frank P. Knowles, the other being Mrs. C. 
Henry Hutchins. 

Meanwhile, the elder brother had been ac- 
tively applying himself to invention and man- 
ufacturing, and in 1S63, he urged Francis to 
join him at Warren, where he was engaged in 
steam pump making. There they began the 
creation of the immense business which is now 
famous all over the world. The first loom was 
made in a small room, with one wood-work- 
man and two machinists to perform the labor. 
To-day it need* but a glance at the factories on 
Grand street to tell how sturdy an oak has 
grown from the acorn. 

The business was removed to Worcester in 
1 865, and has become one of the great up- 
building forces of the city. From the death 
of Mr. Lucius Knowles, in 1884, to the time of 
his own death, last May, Mr. Knowles was at 
the head of the business. 

But during these years he was a great suf- 
ferer. Months of invalidism lengthened into 
years, and he found no cure for his bodily ills. 
Mentally he posse.ssed a serenity that was 
beautiful and sublime, even, and his thought 
was constantly of others. 

On the 23d of April, 1S67, Mr. Knowles 
married Miss Hester A. Greene, of this city, 
and she, with three children. Miss Mabel R. 
Knowles, Miss Fannie W. Knowles, and Mas- 
ter Lucius J. Knowles, survive him. 

For several years before his death, Mr. 
Knowles was an extensive land owner in Flor- 
ida, where he had large orange groves and a 
hotel at Winter Park. It was there that he 
spent the months of winter, whose harshness 
here at home told so fatally upon his constitu- 
tion. He was a very large giver to Rollins 
College, at Winter Park, and manifested the 
greatest interest in Us welfare. 

The religious history of Worcester can 
never be complete without large mention of 
Mr. Knowles. H e did not enter into the church 
relation until after his marriage, but his pro- 
fession of Christianity was an earnest one, 
and he was active in church work throughout 
his life. He was at first identified with Ply- 
mouth Church, and was one of the founders of 
Piedmont, in which he was a deacon for sev- 
eral years; and he was the first superintendent 
of Piedmont Sunday-School. Piedmont Church 
owes much of its substantial prosperity to Mr. 
Knowles, for he was open-handed to the great- 
est degree in his giving. The renovation and 
beautifying of the interior, a few years ago, 
was a gift of his. When Pilgrim Church was 
organized and the time came to erect a house 
of worship, Mr. Knowles gave very largely to- 
ward that object. 



Mr. Knowles did a great deal of good with 
his money, in a private way, and he also gave 
to the Home for Aged Females, the Young 
Men's Christian Association and the Young 
Women's Christian Association, his gift of 
$5,000 to the latter being his last public bene- 
faction, made only a short time before his 
death. 

Mr. Knowles was not a politician, but he 
was an ardent supporter of the Republican 
party, to whose campaign funds he gave large- 
ly; but he never sought office, and allowed the 
political ambition of the family to go to his 
brother, who held several important offices 
during his lifetime. 

His ill health prevented his occupying many 
public positions, but he was a director in the 
Central National Bank for several years. 

On the 15th of last May, while Mr. Knowles 
was in Washington, the wires brought to his 
home in Worcester news of his death. While 
the tidings were not unexpected, they caused 
no less of sadness, and when, a few days later, 
he was borne in to the sanctuary where he had 
been so many times in life, there gathered 
about him friends in the highest and lowest 
walks of life, to testify to their love for the 
good man who had passed away. 

But in his good works, and in the great busi- 
ness which he relinquished, remain substan- 
tial monuments to tell the story of his life. 
He will not soon be forgotten. 



Raymond & Whitcomb's Autumn Tours. 
September and October are delightful 
months for pleasure travel, and it will be seen 
by reference to Messrs. Raymond & Whit- 
comb's announcement, that the enterprising 
firm fully recognize the fact. A magnificent 
list of twenty different tours has been planned, 
chiefly for September, but over-lapping the 
early part of October in one or two instances. 
Few places of fashionable resort in New 
England, Canada, or the Middle States are 
omitted, and it would require much less spaee 
to enumerate these than to give a list of those 
to which visits are made. Two excursions to 
the battlefield of Gettysburg and other places 
of interest in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and 
Virginia are among the notable trips. In 
addition to these tours, there are to be several 
more excursions to the Yellowstone National 
Park (August 14, August 28, and September 1 1), 
two excursions to the Pacific Coast over the 
Northern Pacific Railroad (September 11, and 
October 13), and one direct to Southern Cal- 
ifornia, October 13. Descriptive circulars 
have been issued of the various groups of ex- 
cursions, and these will be sent free by mail, 
by W. Raymond, 296 Washington street, op- 
posite School street, Boston. 



— A thousand years hence nearly all the 
stone buildings now standing in Europe will 
have crumbled to dust. So perishable is 
the material of which they are constructed 
that the process of decay is already evident in 
many conspicuous edifices. The same thing is 
going on in this country. Neither marble nor 
brown-stone can withstand the action of the 
elements. Even the capitol at Washington 
is undergoing disintegration. 

— The finest hand-spun Belgian flax, such 
as is used in making costly lace, is worth from 
$900 to $1000 a ton. 



About Men and Women. 



Madame Helena Modjeska, who is still a 
very "Rose of May" upon the stage, and who 
is known as the gentlest and kindest of ar- 
tists, is quoted as saying that ill-temper, with 
its excitement of the nerves and disturbance 
of the emotions, is a deadly foe to beauty and 
charm, and that no wise woman will permit 
its indulgence. 

Although Mr. Gladstone is a very rich man, 
both he and Mrs. Gladstone are economical 
to the point of penuriousness in personal ex- 
penditure. The trousers of tlie Grand Old 
Man bag at the knees, his coat shines at the 
seams, and his hats are without excuse, while 
the chatelaine of Hawarden Castle habitually 
appears in toilets both dowdy and shabby. 



Mile. Clementina de Vere, soprano in Dr. 
Paxton's church, New York city, receives 
14,500 a year for her services, or $1 12.50 each 
Sunday. This is said to be the highest salary 
ever paid to a choir singer either in this coun- 
try or Europe. Miss Jennie Dutton, soprano 
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, draws 
J3,ooo a year from the church and earns 5s,ooo 
more from concert engagements. 



Mr. Ward McAllister is said by a society 
paper to have spent fifty summers at New- 
port. Now, how old is Mac. ? 



When the unknown Daudet, now Daudet 
the rich and famous, first came up to Paris 
from Lyons, he was so poor that he wore rub- 
ber boots without slippers or stockings under 
them, and a ragged suit of summer clothes, 
while he made his cold journey in a freight- 
car, eating nothing for two days, to save ex- 
pense. By chance the empress saw a copy of 
his poems, and directed the Due de Morny to 
send for him. With the greatest difficulty the 
poor fellow persuaded a tailor to trust him for 
a suit of clothes in which he might answer 
the duke's summons to the Tuileries. But 
when De Morny offered him a secretaryship 
with a salary of five thousand francs, his hard- 
ships were over forever. 



Mrs. Erving Winslow, who has many friends 
in Worcester, has returned from Europe and 
although she will not go with her husband and 
son to their Nahant cottage, they will vaca- 
tionize for a little at Jamaica Plain. Mrs. 
Winslow has been reading Ibsen to the 
Londoners, Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone being 
among her first auditors. She met with great 
success. 



Miss Mary Howe is to be under the manage- 
ment of Mr. L. M. Ruben for the coming win- 
ter season. 

W. D. Howells, the leader of the realistic 
school in this country, when receiving his pay 
for work done, always wants it in bills, and 
objects strongly to any man's check. William 
seems to carry his realism to an excess. His 
publisher ought to pay him a few hundred dol- 
lars in cart wheels some day. 

New York Ninety Years Ago. 
In the year 1800, except for a few banks 
and insurance offices, turnpikes, hedges, 
canals and land companies, neither bonds nor 



lylCl HT 

stocks were known. The city of New York 
was so small as to make extravagance diffkult; 
the Battery was a fashionable walk, Broad- 
way a country drive, and Wall street an up- 
town residence. Great accumulation of 
wealth had hardly begun. The I'atroon was 
still the richest man in the state. John Jacob 
Astor was a fur merchant living where the 
Astor House afterward stood, and had not 
yet begun those purchases of real estate 
which secured his fortune. Cornelius Van- 
derbilt was a boy six years old, playing about 
his father's ferryboat at Staten Island. New 
York city itself was what it had been for a 
hnndred years past, a local market. 



The French Stove. 
The French stove is about the size of an ice- 
water tank in a Pullman car. It is loaded 
with two quarts of coal, the small three-inch 
pipe adjusted to the chimney and the coal 
lighted. After burning awhile the draft is 
shut off, and the stove is wheeled around the 
room. The room is warmed in sections. 
First it is wheeled up to the old man, who 
throws out his fingers, then across to the old, 
lady who embraces it, and then up to the baby. 
Then it is wheeled back to the chimney, the 
draft opened and the fire rekindled. There 
are usually two chimney holes about the room. 
After one room has been trpated to a hre, the 
stove is rolled into the hall or into another 
room, or taken by the handle and carried up 
stairs. The same stove is used in the bed- 
room to dress by, rolled into the breakfast- 
room like a baby carriage, then into the sitting- 
room. It is inultiiiii i?i parvo. It is a cook 
stove, fireplace and furnace. The American 
who burns ten tons of coal in a range, twelve 
tons in a furnace, and two tons in grates, is 
amazed when he sees a whole house in Paris 
warmed with one ton of coal. The twenty 
tons used by the American would warm the 
Boulevard des Italiens. Such overstrained 
economy has, however, its disadvantages in 
loss of health, and occasionally of life itself. 



No Sunstroke That Time. 
A New York paper tells of a little woman 
it Harlem who went out of town to a wedding. 
It was on that awful hot Thursday. The 
hour for the ceremony drew nigh ; the guests 
were all assembled, and no one so gay as she. 
Suddenly into the midst of the joy skulked 
the uniformed figure of a messenger with a 
despatch. It was for the little woman, who, 
when she caught the first glimpse of it, 
straightway fell to sobbing and to laughing 
and to begging someone to catch her, because 
she was going to faint, and to telling between 
gasps how she was perfectly certain John had 
been sunstruck, because he always was sensi- 
tive to heat, and that she had known all the 
day that something horrible was going to 
happen to her. And then she paused long 
enough to ask somebody to open it for her, 
please, and all the guests gathered silently, 
sympathetically about, and sadness fell upon 
their souls, while the parson himself opened 
the envelope and read in prayer-liook tones : 
"Mrs. Susan Brown. Where are my summer 
trousers? — John." But Mrs. Susan finds no 
excuse for John. 



A Rosebud. 



BY I.l/.KTTli WOODWOKTII KliESE. 



Tlic sad South lurks about lier mouth, 

The North is in her eyes ; 
.•-ilie is tile boiiKli with bloom of snow— 
'I'he sweetest weather that we know— 

.She is both warm and wise. 

The sad .South taught those tricks of fan, 

Those dainty, Old World ways; 
And watchiiiK her we seem to be 
In .Spain ; gray streets slip to the sea, 

And roofs are dim with haze. 

But ah, her eyes are Saxon blue! 

So wi' must watch again ; 
Straightway the t.ill thorn hedges blow, 
The nightingales sing loud, sing low, 

Down some dusk Devon lane. 

The secret's out. If North and South 

Be both at Maude's command, 
Is it great wonder she's so sweet, 
And sends us poor lads to her feet 

With one touch of her hand ? 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

Bear This in Mind. 
In aiding a drowning person, writes Clarence 
Deming in an article on swimming in The 
Cliristian Union, seize him firmly from behind 
below the armpits, trying to prevent his turn- 
ing upon you. If, in spite of your grasp, he 
seems likely to turn, swim two or three feet 
away, and try to grasp him behind once more. 
Should he once sieze you firmly, strike him 
with a quick blow between the eyes. Then, 
when he is dazed, jerk yourself free, grasp 
him again, and "steer" him to shore, or sup- 
port him until help comes. In surf bathing, 
if you are caught in the undertow near shore, 
swim in near the surface. But if pretty far 
out from shore, swim high on top of the 
waves and low in the trough. This rule 
depends on a complex law of wave motion, by 
remembering 'which in a time of peril a lead- 
ing professor at one of our universities told 
me he had probably saved his life. 



Hard at Work. 
Nearly one hundred eminent persons are 
now engaged in preparing valuable and im- 
portant contributions to the Youth^s Conpan- 
ion for 1890. Mr. Gladstone is getting 
together his reminiscences of Motley, the 
Historian ; Justin McCarthy is writing all his 
personal recollections of great Prime Minis- 
ters ; Captain Kennedy is recalling the excit- 
ing episodes of his five hundred different 
trips across the Atlantic, and making notes for 
his articles ; General Wolseley is arranging to 
tell the boys how they can endure hardships ; 
Carroll D. Wright is securing statistics 
about the boy and girl laborers of America, 
what they do and what they earn; Hon. 
James G. Blaine is writing a paper for our 
young politicians ; popular authors are at 
work on serial stories ; the Presidents of three 
leading American colleges will give advice to 
boys on their future ; Tyndall and Shaler are 
to talk about the wonders of nature ; Marion 
Harland promises to entertain the girls, while 
Lieutenant Schwatka will take the boys in 
imagination to the loneliest place in the 
United States. There are hundreds of pleas- 
ures in the store for tlie Companion readers 
of 1890. Every one is hard at work, as you 
see. $1.75 will admit you to 52 weeks of these 
entertainments. Send for full prospectus for 
1S90 to the )'oiilh's Companion, Boston, 
Mass. 



In the Courts. 



[Light will be glad to print any news of interest to 
the Tennis fraternity; scores of notable individual 
matches, receptions or ladies day gatherings, etc. Ad- 
dress, Tennis Editor, Light Office. 



The long-looked-for match between Mr. 
George Crompton and Mr. Harry W. Smith 
was played !last Saturday on the Worcester 
Club grounds. A few spectators, including a 
half-dozen ladies, witnessed the match, which 
occupied over two hours. No specially bril- 
liant playing was done by either of the players, 
both appearing anxious to play a slow, sure 
game, rather than to lose by brilliant strokes. 
The first set went to Smith easily, Crompton 
being at a disadvantange as regards court and 
sun. The second and third sets went to 
Crompton, who seemed to be playing an easy 
game, while Smith apparently was rapidly los- 
ing ground. When the men came out for the 
fourth set. Smith evidently had made up his 
mind to win and he played a hard game, 
smashing Crompton's lobs and playing the 
best game he has put up this year. Crompton 
also played finely, his back-hand strokes and 
cross-court returns being very fine. Smith 
finally won after a hard fight. In this set, 
Crompton had two close decisions against him, 
and in the fifth set, he seemed to lose heart 
and Smith walked away with the match. In 
the minds of the spectators, the match left the 
question of supremacy still unsettled and there 
is a possibility of another match. Neither 
man played the tennis expected of them, and 
neither played a game that will win the county 
championship, if Crocker retains his last 
year's form. Mr. John Nelson and Mr. 
George Kimball umpired the match. The 
score of the match follows: H. W. Smith 
beat George Crompton, 6-2, 1-6, 0-6, 8-6, 6-1. 



Crocker, the county champion, failed to 
appear at the Wright and Ditson tourney at 
Newcastle, N. H., although entered for the 
singles and doubles. 

Mr. H. G. Bixby of Nashua, N. H., with 
whom Mr. Crocker frequently played doubles, 
was defeated at Newcastle, by F. L. V. Hop- 
pin, 6-4, 6-4. Mr. Crocker defeated Mr. Bix- 
by at Princeton, last Saturday, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. 
If this match is a criterion of Mr. Crocker's 
form this year, the winner of the county tour- 
nament can be foretold with great ease. 



The interest taken in tennis by the young 
people of Adams Square has resulted in the 
organization of two new clubs at that end of 
the city. One is known as the "Ninety Club," 
while the other goes under the mysterious 
name of "O. A. K." Both clubs are in a pros- 
perous condition. 

The Lakeside Boat Club tournament has 
been slowly progressing but no matches of 
great interest have been played and few spec- 
tators have been present. The finals will be 
played between Harry B. Fairbanks and the 
winner of the most matches receiving first 
honors. 

It is much to be regretted that such a 
trifling matter as the number of sets in a match 
should prevent the playing of the invitation 
tournament at the grounds of the Quinsiga- 
niond Boat Club. From the list of entries, a 



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fine series of matches would have resulted, and 
it seems hardly courteous to the club, and a 
little odd to the outsider to see the whole 
affair come to such an abrupt termination. It 
is to be hoped the players will put aside all 
minor personal preferences, and give the public 
an exhibition on the Quinsigamond grounds 
worthy of the class of players entered for the 
tourney. 

A. P. Kirk, local champion in 1887, and H. 
W. Smith, champion in 1888, played a match 
at the Quinsigamond Boat Club grounds 
Thursday. Both men played in brilliant style. 
Smith winning after a hard fight, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. 



The Wright and Ditson tournament at Ho- 
tel Wentworth, Newcastle, N. H., has been 
the notable event of the week, about half a 
hundred players having striven for honors on 
the Wentworth courts. Some of the cracks 
failed to show up, but the tournament was 
nevertheless one of the most successful ever 
played. Some of the younger players have 
shown wonderful form, and have made the 
result of the Newport tourney even more 
doubtful than ever. Hovey, who has just won 
the Partridge, and Wright and Ditson tourna- 
ments is playing the game of his life and may 
surprise some of the older players at Narra- 
gansett and Newport. Mr. Hovey is a Brown 
University man, and has played for several 
years but has never shown such excellent form. 



Worcester players will be present at a 
tournament next week at the Wachusett 
House, Princeton. The prospect of matches 
between Crocker, H. W. Smith and Crompton 
will be awaited with interest. 



The probabilities of Slocum's defeat by the 
winner of the All-Comers at Newport, are 
being discussed in tennis circles everywhere, 
atid the general opinion is that the champion 
will have to play better tennis than he has 
ever done before to hold his honors. 



Now that the grounds of the Worcester 
Athletic Club begin to appear as an estab- 
lished fact, it will be well for the tennis en- 
thusiasts in the club to lay plans for the 
future. The new club ought to have a half 
dozen fine courts, and there is no reason why 
they should not be in use during the fall. 
Probably there will be a chance to play on 
them before the season closes. 



One of Light's contemporaries has the fol- 
lowing item : " A spineless girl has been dis- 
covered in Worcester, Mass. She curls her- 
self up like a cat and sleeps with her feet un- 
der her chin." It seems curious how people 
outside find out these things before we know 
anything about them at home, until we stop to 
consider that this is the daily paper's dry sea- 
son for news. But it would be a good thing to 
have the writer of the item come and find the 
girl. 

An Iowa editor, says an exchange, by con- 
stant study and practice, has discovered that 
"Pack my box with five dozen jugs of liquor" 
in the shortest sentence in our language con- 
taining all the letters of the alphabet. Evi- 
dently a good many Worcester people h?ve 
been hunting for that same sentence ; but they 
haven't had as long a time to "practice" as 
the Iowa man. 



About Folks. 



Miss Sadie White spent last week with 
friends in Guilford. 



Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Howe visited friends 
in HoUiston this week. 



Mrs. Sarah D. Tucker and Miss Mary F. 
Tucker, the pianist, are at Castine, Me. 



Mr. Eugene Belknap is at Cottage City, 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Chaffee are at 
Maine Coast shore resorts. 



Rev. H. J. White is entertaining New York 
friends. 



Mr. C. A. Ballou is at Rockville, Conn. 

Mr. Arthur E. Dennis, treasurer of the 
Worcester Coal Company, and his daughter, 
are at Cottage City. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher have gone to 
Cleveland, O. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Green go to Bos- 
ton to-day to visit friends. 

Mr. and Mrs. Addison MacuUar are at the 
Bass Rock house, Gloucester. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Woodman and Mrs. 
Alexander Tripp of New Haven are at Great 
Falls, N. H. 



The Boston and Albany railroad people have 
arranged another popular excursion to Boston, 
with " The Fall of Babylon " as an objective 
point, which will take place to-day. The ar- 
rangement made gives patrons a good deal for 
their money, for the tickets are good on any 
train from Worcester to Boston, to-day ; and 
returning, the holder may take the train leaving 
Boston at 10.50 p. m. to-night, or, if he prefer, 
he may remain in Boston during Sunday and 
return on the train leaving Boston at 6 p. m. 
to-morrow night. The coupons admitting to 
" The Fall of Babylon " are likely to be used 
without exception, for the spectacle is one of 
the grandest that has ever Ijeen presented in 
this country. It is an old saying that " Bar- 
num is a humbug" and that "show adver- 
tising is always exaggerated." Light speaks 
from observation when it says that Bamum is 
not " a humbug " in this case, and that the 
■' Fall " has not been unwarrantably adver- 
tised. It is as much grander than any per- 
formance ever put upon a stage in a theater as 
Edwin Booth is grander than "A Brass 
Monkey." Those who go once are sure to go 
again, and Bostonians are taking people out 
to Oakland Garden to see it, as one of the 
great sights of the town. The train arrange- 
ments which the Railroad people make have 
never been excelled, and the old idea that a 
great deal of discomfort must attend every- 
thing in the way of an excursion is fast being 
dissipated, so far as the Boston & Albany is 
concerned. The tickets are sold at the very 
reasonable rate of ;fi.25 for the whole trip! 
including admission to the " Fall." 



In the World of Letters. 



Stanley took lifty days to write his latest 
book, "Through Darkest Africa" ; he wrote 
at the rate of twenty pages a day — that is, the 
two volumes contain one thousand pages; it 
employed an army of seven thousand men, 
women and children ; the paper weighs seven 
and a half tons (as Mr. Kivington said, the 
paper is the only heavy thing about it) ; in 
length, this paper would extend from Zanzibar 
to the Congo. 

Mrs. Lyman Abbott, wife of the successor 
to Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of Plymouth 
Church, is to become one of the editors of the 
Ladies' Home Journal, on September istne.\t. 
An English edition of the paper is to be 
brought out in London on a scale never before 
attempted by an American magazine, and Mr. 
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, proprietor of the /ourna/, 
and Mr. Edward W. liok, the editor, sailed 
for Europe last week to perfect arrangements. 



Sa?iia Claus, the Philadelphia weekly for 
young people, has issued a statement to credi- 
tors, announcing the suspension of publication 
and offering to pay twenty-five per cent, on 
debts, with a "hope" to pay in time the full 
amount. The company is to be reorganized 
with a capital of $250,000, the present manage- 
ment being retained. Mr. Eugene M. Camp 
is the editor-in-chief. The paper has seemed 
to have a certain success, but in many respects 
has been susceptible of great improvement. 
It is not large enough, but it has printed some 
excellent matter. 

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his "Over 
the Teacups," has something to say about 
poetry, the manufacture of which, he thinks, 
"has become an important branch of industry. 
Poetry is commonly thought to be the lan- 
guage of emotion. On the contrary, most of 
what is so called proves the absence of all 
passionate excitement. It is a cold-blooded, 
anxious, worrying hunt after rhymes which can 
be made serviceable" — an altogether new defi- 
nition of poetry with a great deal of truth in 
it. The Doctor has always been frank to say 
that it takes hard mental labor to produce a 
poem. He wrote, years ago : 

"I tell you this writing of verses means business ; 

It makes tlie Israin wliirl in a vortex of dizziness." 
The result, in the case of a real poet, is usually 
a product of faultless verse ; but a great deal 
of the stuff that is written and printed now 
gives the reader the impression that the rhymer 
got into the vortex and couldn't get out. 



Mary Jane Holmes, the novelist, whose 
home is in Worcester, is in San Francisco, 
where she will spend three months studying 
phases of Frisco society. She is now engaged 
in writing a novel of New England life, which 
is to be entitled "Marguerite." 



A Londoner accuses Walter Besant of hav- 
ing hypnotized him and having extracted from 
him in that condition the entire story, word for 
word, of the novelette, "The Doubts of Dives." 



It would be a good thing if every cook and 
housewife would read a little book which con- 
tains Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel's prize essay 
on "Practical Sanitary and Economic Cook- 
ing, adapted to persons of moderate and small 



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means." Tliis essay was considered by a com- 
petent committee to be the best among seventy 
manuscripts. It certainly has great merit. 
To the young woman who has just begun 
housekeeping, Liciix can give no more kindly 
advice than to read this book. It seems pretty 
wicked of the funny men to make those jokes 
about the cake that killed Charlie or the bis- 
cuits that John broke his teeth on ; but there 
is a foundation for them, after all. Well 
then, if the girls will only read these precepts 
of the kitchen and pantry, they will make bis- 
cuits as light as the lightest and cakes that 
shall have no suspicion of being champion 
heavy weights. The writer deals with the food 
question in a practical, intelligent way. And 
although it is given out as a work for "persons 
of moderate or small means," it is even better 
for the wealthier ones, who enjoy richer food 
and more indigestible dishes. This little book 
costs only forty cents, although it is bound in 
cloth, and there can be very little profit on it 
to the publisher, the American Public Health 
Association, Irving A. Watson, secretary. 
Concord, N. H. 

Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese, the gifted 
young Baltimore poet, published her first vol- 
ume of poems, called "A Branch of May- 
bloom," some two years since, and it was 
received with appreciative delight by critics 
and connoisseurs. It was genuine lyric art 
that made itself felt in Miss Reese's work, and 
the possibility that another volume may be 
forthcoming from her this autumn, is a pleas- 
ant one. The title will be "A Handful of 
Lavender." A new literary club has just been 
organized in Baltimore, of which Miss Woods 
(author of "Metzerott, Shoemaker"), Mrs. Sid- 
ney Lanier, Mrs. Simon (author of "Jack 
Horner"), Mrs. Lawrence TurnbuU (author of 
"The Catholic Man") and Miss Reese are 
among the leading members. Mrs. TurnbuU 
is a sister of Grace Denio Litchfield, and it is 
she who founded the chair of poetry in Johns 
Hopkins. Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman is 
to deliver the initial lecture of the course. 



"The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of 
Benjamin Franklin: Originally printed in 
Poor Richard's Almanacs for 1733-175S," col- 
lected and edited by Paul Leicester Ford, is 
the twenty-seventh issue of the Knickerbocker 
Nuggets, in which series Franklin's "Auto- 
biography" was issued not long ago. It is a 
good book for anybody to have. G. P. Put- 
nam's Sons, New York. 



A little treatise which will be found of value 
to a large proportion of the traveling public 
just now is "Sea-Sickness," by Herman 
Partsch, M. FJ., ex-surgeon of the Alameda. 
It considers motions and impure air as causes 
of sea-sickness, describes the symptoms of the 
malady, and gives sensible directions for its 
cure, concluding with some general considera- 
tions of the subject. Published by the J. G. 
Cupples Company, Boston. 



— Prof. Pickering, basing his conclusions on 
a series of photographs of the planet Mars 
in April, concludes that the southern temper- 
ate regions of Mars have just experienced an 
irruption of polar ice no less remarkable than 
that which still adds the zest of danger to the 
navigation of our own North Atlantic. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Who was Grorck Washington? — Pa- 
triot asks: Who originated the saying, "First 
in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of 
his countrymen ?" The words were first used 
by John Marshall, of Virginia, who, on Thurs- 
day, Dec. 19, 1799, in the House of Represen- 
tatives, moved re.solutions of sorrow at the 
death of Washington. The la.st word of the 
third resolution was, according to Hartlett, 
"fellow-citizens," and Henry Lee used the 
expression, changing "fellow-citizens" to 
"countrymen," on Dec. 26, 1799- According 
to the "Abridgement of the Debates of Con- 
gress," however, Marshall said "countrymen." 

The Sweetest of Perfumes. — Mary 
asks : What is the cost of attar of roses ? 
The real attar of roses is worth from twelve 
to fifteen dollars an ounce at wholesale. If 
you expect to purchase any, be careful that 
you are not deceived by unscrupulous dealers. 
The genuine attar of roses is a very potent 
perfume, and if you obtain it, you can have 
it properly diluted by a competent druggist ; 
don't let any boy do it for you. When any- 
one handles attar of roses, he needs to remem- 
ber that it is worth its weight in gold. 

We do not See It Here. — Young As- 
tronomer writes : The Answerer has of course 
been admiring the star-spangled heavens, 
which never seemed more beautiful than they 
do just at present. Can you tell us which one 
of the many twinklers is nearest the earth ? 
The star which gives the greatest parallax of 
any, and which, in consequence, is believed to 
be nearest the earth, is Alpha Centauri, a star 
never visible in this latitude. But even this 
star's parallax is only 93-iooths of a second, 
which corresponds to a distance of 221,000 
times the sun's distance from our earth, or 
over 20,000,000,000,000 of miles. 

A Chinese Journal. — Will H. asks: 
What is the oldest newspaper in the world? 
By far the oldest newspaper in the world is 
the Pekin Gazette, which was established in 
the year 911 of the Christian era, has been 
regularly published since 1351 A. D., and is at 
the present time edited by a committee of six 
members of the academy of Han Lin. 

Mazes. — R. J.S. asks: What labyrinths 
are mentioned in history beside that at Lem- 
nos ? Pliny mentions four labyrinths, the 
first, said to have been built by Dicdalus, in the 
island of Crete, to receive the Minotaur, about 
1210 li. C; the second, that of Arsinde in 
Egypt, in the isle of Mceris, built by Psam- 
meticus, king of that place, about 683 B. C. ; 
the third, at Lemnos, remarkable for its sumpt- 
uous pillars, which seem to have been a 
stalactite grotto; and the fourth, at Clusium, 
in Italy, erected by Porsenda, king of Etruria, 
about 320 B. C. The labyrinth of Woodstock 
is connected with the story of Fair Rosamond. 
The maze at Hampton Court was formed in 
the sixteenth century. 

Senator Quay. — Chairman asks: What 
is Senator Quay's full name. Matthew Stan- 
ley Quay. 



10 



A Chat by the Way. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



Lregular correspondence of light.] 

New York, August 7, 1890. 
The vaulting ambition of the mercury this 
past week has put to shame all minor human 
endeavors. Fain is one to exclaim with Ham- 
let: 

"Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt, 
Tliaw, and resolve itself into a dew !" 
and again, 

"How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable 
Seem to me all the uses of this world !" 
The only thing to do, is not to do, while 
letting the hours drift by. No other desire is 
felt than the passive one of being an exponent 
of the beautiful law of statics. At such a 
time a book, novel or journal is better than 
the best of friends, for they require no an- 
tiphonal service of words, but do all the giving, 
while you need give no thought at all unless it 
pleaseth you. 

Coming from a visit out in one of the 
Oranges of New Jersey, a pretty place and 
well filled with summer homes and guests, I 
can say with the man who went to a picnic, I 
am so glad to get home, that I am glad I went. 
Truly, New Jersey is a hot place in summer 
and a polar region in winter, though I grant 
there are exceptions, but not very near New 
York. 

To be at ease in one's own castle, the house 
and oneself in lightest summer attire, while the 
breeze, when there is one, blows coolly through 
the length and breadth of the halls and rooms, 
is, to my mind, preferable to junketing about 
the country or visiting one's dear friends and 
being en grand ioiletti and on duty socially. 
Very comfortably can one exist for a portion 
of the heated term in New York. There is 
always a change to be enjoyed in the evening, 
after sundown. A sail to Staten Island and 
back, for the fresh sea breeze, on these moon- 
light nights, a pleasant thing to do — or a trip 
down the Bay to the Island called Bedloe's, 
where, lifting to the skies in eternal calm, the 
massive brown arm of the grand Statue of 
Liberty holds aloft a beacon to the world, and 
yet comparatively few New Yorkers go there 
for the express purpose or seeing the Statue, 
for with other objects of interest in this great 
city, it is too near their doors. A trip across 
the big bridge, which with each crossing im- 
presses me anew with its grandeur of con- 
ception and perfection of detail, so convincing 
in its entirety of the power of mind over 
matter, is another agreeable way to spend an 
evening hour. The Bridge promenade is 
especially to the city's poor a great boon. As 
soon as the sun is down, women, with babies in 
their arms and, later, young men and maidens, 
pass along, taking in the beautiful scene and 
enjoying the fresli Ijreezes which nearly always 
prevail on the great structure. The piers 
along the water line are other favorite resorts 
for tlie same class of pjople, who are in search 
of relief from tlie scorching heat and the 
stiHing dwellings. Often these groups present 
picturesque pictures, the different nationali- 
ties, the women in bright and varicolored 
garments, the men with their swarthy foreign 
faces and peasant-like garb all uniting in their 
appreciation of the view so free to all ; and 



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indeed it is well worth looking at. The danc- 
ing waves, the graceful span of the brightly 
illuminated Bridge, the river craft shooting 
hither and thither, and the flashing of the 
electric lights from tower and harbor com- 
pose a picture worthy the attention of both 
potentate and pauper. 

I began this letter with the intention of 
noticing a few books that lay upon my table, 
but in this inconsiderate weather one cannot 
be accountable for any little vagaries of 
thought or action. The speed, and intensity 
also, of the sun as it hurries on its southward 
career towards the equator, increases so 
rapidly during August that it is no wonder if 
it has an effect of temporary aberration upon 
the minds of human beings. But omnia nnit- 
antur, and soon it will be time to tell you all 
about the marvelous new fall fashions. While 
the old order changeth, giving place to much 
that is new, still from what I gather there will 
not be many radical changes either in fashion 
of garments or tint of fabrics. 

A paragraph in a large daily paper has just 
arrested my attention on account of its in- 
accuracy. It speaks of Lee C. Harby, the 
author of "Texan Types and Contrasts," of 
which the Harpers made a feature in their 
July Jlfagaarne, and by saying the article was 
finely illustrated by Remington and is attract- 
ing a good deal of attention North and South. 
This is true, but it asserts further that "he" is 
a native of South Carolina, etc. The pronoun 
is of the wrong gender. Lee C. Harby is the 
name of a charming southern woman. I had 
the pleasure of meeting her and hearing her 
read an original poem at an assembly of the 
Ladies' Art Association in this city, some two 
years or more ago. At that time she was 
seeking a publisher, but now that time is past 
and she is a recognized Itabituee of a certain 
literary circle in New York. Though Mrs. 
Harby has a married daughter, she is still 
handsome, in a typical southern style, with 
dark liquid eyes, and speaks with that soft 
drawling of the vowels so peculiar to the 
southern tongue. 

Also, 1 observe in same column that Marion 
Crawford, the novelist, is proficient in the use 
of no fewer than eleven languages. If this be 
so, surely it is no great marvel that he can do 
such a little thing as turning out a score or 
more of successful tales and novels, with such 
an inexhaustible source of language to call 
upon. When Sanscrit, Arabic and Persian 
are as a mother tongue, to write in plain Eng- 
lish must be to him as simple as an "allegory 
on the banks of the Nile." 

Joaquin Miller believes that too much famil- 
iarity in the family circle is not desirable, as he 
owns three cottages back of Oakland. He 
lives in one, his mother in another and his 
wife and daughter in a third. They meet in 
common only at the table. His habits certainly 
seem peculiar, as he does all his literary work 
in bed in the morning, where he remains until 
noon. 

The literary guild is certainly sui generis in 
many instances. I know several well known 
writers whose doings and sayings, mode of 
living and surroundings, would fill a volume of 
which it might be said with confidence that 
truth is stranger than fiction. Some of these 
persons are among the brightest and most 
fascinating women 1 know. One, the author 



of "As Common Mortals," is a novel in her- 
self. Her conversation sparkles with witty 
sayings and epigrammatic sentences, while the 
author of "Trajan" (in this case a man) sounds 
all the notes in the gamut from grave to gay, 
flippant to severe, in an hour's chat. 

The books I had reference to must wait 
until later, when I may be able to give some 
suggestions that will enable others to find as 
much pleasure in their acquaintance as I have 
enjoyed. 

In Watermelon Time. 
The Savannah News tells something of 
the sight to be seen in a Southern city in 
watermelon time. It says: "There may be 40 
cars waiting to be unloaded, and it is a sight 
to see the wharf-hands go at it. Three or four 
men are apportioned to each car. One has a 
big, oblong box on a pair of trucks, and the 
other two load in the melons, counting as they 
load. Twenty melons of the medium size fill 
the box, or fifteen of the big ones. Each car- 
load of melons is deposited in a separate pile 
on the wharf. The truckman pushes his truck 
to the pile and rolls the melons out one at a 
time, so as not to bruise them. Though han- 
dled quickly, and apparently carelessly, only 
a few are broken out ot a car-load. The men 
do not believe in muzzling the ox that treads 
out the corn, and it is needless to say they do 
not suffer for melons to eat. When the car is 
unloaded a stick is stuck in the topmost melon 
of that pile, bearing a card, stating the num- 
ber of melons, the road which they came in 
on, the consignee and the shipper. From these 
piles the melons are transferred to the hold, or 
rather lower deck of the vessel. At high tide 
the port-holes come up exactly even with the 
wharf, and it is comparatively easy work for 
the truckmen to shove their loads across the 
gang-plank to the lower deck. It isn't high 
water all day, though, and then the work is 
more difficult. It is hard work getting a load 
of twenty big melons down a steep incline. 
Fifteen or twenty men are stationed along the 
gangway and down into the hold, and as the 
truck comes along each one gives a lift as the 
truck goes down, and a push as it comes back 
up. Sometimes it is too steep for the trucks 
to be used, and an ingenious scheme takes its 
place. The gang-plank is thickly lined with 
pine straw, which has been packed in the cars 
with the melons, and ten or twelve men are 
arranged on each side of the plank and down 
in the hold. The trucks are emptied at the 
top of the plank and the melons rolled down 
into the vessel, each man giving them a push 
as they pass him. The melons roll to 
their destination like big green marbles. From 
45,000 to 50,000 is a common shipment. The 
largest number ever carried by a single ship 
was 80,000, by the Nacoochee, several years 

ago." 

—The rapidity with which flies pass through 
the air is not likely to be appreciated by those 
who see only with what apparent ease they do 
it. Flies will keep up with a fast horse, and 
that, too, without lighting on him. In an open 
express car, through which the wind blows, 
they hold their places, flying this way and that 
without hitting against the sides. They must, 
therefore, go faster than horse or car. Give 
man speed like this proportioned to his size, 
and going around the world would be a mat- 
ter of only a few hours at most. 



lylCiHT 



II 



Scientific Brevities. 



— Railway collisions, from the inability to 
stop the locomotive, are likely to be made im- 
possible when the electric light is sulistituted 
for the oil lamps now in use. Recent experi- 
ments prove that the electric headlight casts 
light from half to three-quarters of a mile 
ahead. A train going at the rate of sixty 
miles an hour can thus be stopped in time to 
prevent any accident. 

• — It is a curious fact that among the thou- 
sands of insects killed by the electric lights 
every night, there are no dead mosquitoes 
found. 

— In Australia, winter starts in May and 
ends in rj)ecember. The rest of the year the 
heat is intense, the thermometer frequently 
reaching 140^. 

— Dr. Taylor, of the Department of Agri- 
culture in Washington, has invented a new 
flash-light intended to take the place of several 
which have of late proved dangerous in prac- 
tice. The composition consists largely of 
charcoal made from the silky down of the 
milkweed, a form of carbon which he prefers 
because of its freedom from ash. 

— The object-glass of the Lick telescope in 
California has an area of 1018 square inches. 
The next largest, that at Pulkowa in Russia, 
has an area of only 706 square inches. 

— The light seen through the new eye-piece 
of the Lick telescope will be 2000 times as 
bright as that seen by the naked eye. 

— Prof. Langley, asaresult of experiments as 
to moon temperature, taken during an eclipse, 
concludes that the mean temperature of sunlit 
lunar soil is not greatly above zero C. 

— Natural gas is now used in 104 steel works 
in this country, but the supply shows signs of 
failing, and companies are thinking of return- 
ing to the old fuel. 

— The Germans are much interested in M. 
Paul Giffard's repeating air ritle, named "the 
miracle gun." It uses a steel cartridge about 
a foot long and as thick as a man's thumb, 
which is charged with liquified air and con- 
tains JOG shots. The shots are expelled with 
great force and accuracy, and without Hash or 
smoke. The weapon is inexpensive. 

— Electricity is used to cut glass in factories. 
The glass cylinder is encircled by a fine wire 
that is connected to a small battery. The 
wire is then drawn tightly, and the current 
turned on. Naturally, the wire is heated, and 
the heat extends to the glass under it. When 
in this state, water is poured on, and a clean 
break effected on the path of the wire. 

— There is scarcely anything in the world 
which seems more utterly outside the realm of 
law than a soap-bubble. The delicate film, 
with its exquisite floating colors, its power of 
instantly vanishing, leaving no trace behind, 
hardly seems as though it could form a link in 
the inexorable chain of cause and effect which 
we call physical law. The atmospheric pres- 
sure on a bubble six inches in diameter isover 
1500 pounds, and yet the fragile film lies safely 
between the opposing forces Of nature — the 
pressure of the outer air, the spring of the en- 
closed cushion within it, the downward pull of 
gravity, the upward push of the buoyant 
atmosphere, and the molecular forces in the 



film itself — so long as the bubble lasts ; it is 
because of an exquisite adjustment of all the 
forces, physical and molecular, concerned in 
ts existence. 

— The largest gun yet manufactured was 
recently completed in the Krupp Works in 
Essen, Germany, for the fortifications of Cron- 
stadt in Russia. It is of the finest quality of 
steel, and weighs 135 tons; the calibre is iCi'^ 
inches, and the total length forty-four feet. 
The greatest diameter, over the outside rings, 
is six feet six inches. The estimated range is 
about twelve miles. Each shot fired from 
this gun costs about $1500. At the trial of the 
gun the projectile, four feet long and weighing 
2600 pounds, was propelled by a charge of 
700 pounds of powder, and penetrated nine- 
teen inches of armor, going 1312 yards beyond 
the target. It was carried from Essen to Ham- 
burg on a car specially constructed for the 
purpose. Work is reported as now being 
pushed forward on several guns of this class. 

Heartless Russia. 
According to the recent decision of the 
Russian Senate, the wives of such exiles to 
Siberia as have served their time, but have 
not been restored to their civil rights, have a 
right not only to take out passports, and to 
travel or live wherever they please without 
the consent of their husbands, but even to get 
married to other men. 



How The Eskimo Lives. 
There appears to be little true affection in 
the care which an Eskimo mother gives her 
babies ; she never fondles or pets them, and 
wnen they are peevish or ill she neglects them 
not unlike some of the lowest brutes. As soon 
as they are able to sit alone, they are put 
upon the fur-covered floor to take care of 
themselves; and they sit muffled, with their little 
arms folded about their bodies to keep warm. 
The girls grow deformed by being constantly 
in this position. The boys, who are more 
active and go out-of-doors, escape such de- 
formity; liutall Eskimo women have the upper 
arm short and crippled from disuse. An Eski 
mo girl has an indolent time of it ; there is no 
housework to do. There are no household 
utensils of any kind; no broom with which to 
sweep; even no water for washing. The 
blubber of the whale, the flesh of the polar 
bear, and fish — their only articles of food — are 
eaten frozen and raw. Only the very sick or 
old, or infants, ever taste heated meat. As 
for washing, an Eskimo does not understand 
the term. 

Pollywog Paper. 
Some complaint was recently made about 
black specks in the paper sent out from Rod- 
ney Wallace's paper mills at West Htchburg. 
Investigation shows the cause of these to 
to have been most unique in character. It 
seems that pollywogs were developed rapidly 
in the pond from which the mill draws its 
water. The smallest of these creatures went 
througli the screening and the result was that 
they were ground up between the rollers and 
developed a novelty in the line of paper 
making. — Fitclthiirg Mail. 

— It is believed that the hollyhock was 
brought to Europe from China as early as the 

year 1573. 



What is Good. 



IIY JOHN no^I.E 



"WlKit istlie 



I iiski-.l i 



using moud. 



Order, said the l.iw court ; 
Knowledge, said the school ; 
Truth, said the wise man ; 
Pleasure, said tlie fool ; 
Love, said the maiden ; 
Beauty, said the page ; 
Freedom, said the dreamer ; 
Home, said tlie sage ; 
Fame, said the soldier ; 
Equity, the seer; — 

.Spake my heart full sadly, 
"The* answer is nr)t here." 

'J'hen within my bosom 
■Softly this I heard : 
"Each heart holds the seer 
Kindness is the word." 
Piiiloii. Mass. 



The Sweet Bell of Nantucket. 
A great many Worcester people go to Nan- 
tucket every year. Some of them are among 
the old residents there. They frequently speak 
of the beautifully sweet-toned bell of the 
church tower there, but some of their friends 
at home may not have heard of it. The bell 
has something of a history. It was cast in 
Portugal, and was intended for use upon a 
convent, being dedicated "To the good Jesus" 
in a somewhat lengthy inscription in the Por- 
tugese language, cast in raised letters upon its 
side. There are various romantic stories con- 
cerning the means by which it came to be 
hung in the belfry of a New England church. 
(Jne says that it was taken from a floating 
wreck by a Nantucket crew ; another is to the 
effect that it was captured by a privateer, as 
the angels in the old North Church, Boston, 
are said to have been taken. The real 
truth is said to be that a N antucket sea captam 
at a Portuguese port heard the bell as it was 
being tested, fresh from the foundry, and be- 
ing captivated by its exquisite tone, induced 
the makers to part with it and cast another 
for the convent. He brought it to Nantucket 
in his ship, and it has ever since hung in the 
church steeple. It is said that some years ago 
some people of the congregation of the Old 
South church heard the bell, and thought that 
it would sound well in Boston. This was 
while the church was still worshiping in the 
old edifice. They made overtures to the Nan- 
tucket church, wrtting from Boston that they 
had heard that it was possessed of a very fine 
bell ; that the Old South was in need of a bell. 
For what price would the Nantucket brethren 
sell their bell? The Nantucket church ig- 
nored the main question, and returned reply 
that they had heard that the Old South had a 
very fine clock. For what price would the 
Boston brethren sell their clock ? 



— Sir Isaac Newton seems to have been the 
most abstracted and impractical of men. It 
was he who cut a large hole in his study 
door m order that his favorite cat could go 
and come as she pleased ; at the same time, he 
cut a smaller hole for the kitten. It was New- 
ton, too, who, finding himself too warm upon 
one occasion, rang the bell for the servant and 
requested him to remove the fire-place. 



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The Wrong Letter. 

FROM THE FRENCH OF LEON DE TINSEAU. 



LI(i H T 



One evening last winter as I was strolling 
up and down at the Lyons railway station, 
waiting for the departure of the southern ex- 
press, some one tapped me on the shoulder. 
I turned and saw my friend Jacques. 
"Where are you going?" he asked. 
"To Nice," I replied. 
"So am I. My wife is there." 
"Good, we will go on together." 
We continued walking up and down the 
platform, talking about one thing and another. 
As we passed before the mail-car I said to 
Jacques : "What a hard life those postal 
clerks lead. They must be in a terrible state 
when they arrive at Marseilles." 

"Yes," replied Jacques, "they are com- 
pletely used up. I can speak from experience, 
for I once rode two hundred miles with them." 
"You have traveled in a mail-car ! What 
for?" 

"I will tell you. It's a curious story and 
one that concerns my marriage." 

We took our places, the signal was given, 
and the train started. Then Jacques told me 
the following story : 

"At that certain epoch a certain blonde 
countess whom you know — for I suspect that 
you were a little in love with her yourself — had 
been a widow for two years, and it was almost 
decided that she was to become my wife. 

"At the time when my story begins it was 
autumn, and the countess was at her country 
house in the Var. We wrote to each other 
nearly every day — I, in order to tell her that 
I adored her; she, to occupy her leisure and 
give me errands to do, for I was then in Paris. 
At the same time — let those who have not 
done likewise cast the first stone — I was 
breaking off with another sweetheart. That 
one was not a countess. She was a brunette, 
and lived in Normandy. Poor Louise! In 
one respect she resembles the countess — she 
gave me no end of errands to do. 

"One morning the porter brought me two 
letters and two lists of things to get. I ate 
my breakfast and wrote my replies — one, very 
fervent, for the countess ; the other, calm and 
cool, for Louise. Then I started for the 
Louvre. I selected the samples requested, 
put them in the unsealed envelopes, closed 
both letters, and placed them in my pocket. 
As 1 was coming out of the Louvre 1 met our 
friend Maxime, who was driving on his way 
to the Bois. He took me along with him, be- 
gan to tell me some of his stories, and I had 
quite forgotten my two letters, when a branch 
postoffice at the corner luckily refreshed my 
memory. 

"Maxime pulled up his horse, I got down, 
bought some postage stamps, slipped the 
countess's letter into the box, and, while put- 
ting the stamp on the other letter, 1 thought I 
felt some samples of cloth instead of silk that 
it ought to contain. A cold perspiration 
poured down my face. I opened the envelope. 
My boy, I had made a mistake. My letter 
to Louise had gone to \'ar, and, as you may 
imagine, it was simply the breaking off of my 
marriage. 

"There was no time to weigh the probabili- 
ties. I told Maxime to continue his drive 



alone, and went back into the office to try and 
undo my stupid blunder. 

"Perhaps you think that was an easy mat- 
ter. The clerk looked at me askance, asked me 
all sorts of questions, and gave me a sermon 
on the disadvantages of absent-mindedness. 
I have not much patience, and I presently 
got angry and sent the clerk about his busi- 
ness. 

"I remembered that I had an acquaintance 
who held an important position in the post- 
office department. I jumped into a cab and 
went to the head office. When I got there, I 
found that my friend was absent on business 
connected with the new building. Once 
there it took me half an hour to find him. 
We returned to the head office, where I 
obtained a letter from the minister's secretary 
that would open all the postoffice bags and 
boxes throughout the country. But when I 
got back to the branch postoffice, it was five- 
forty, and I saw the mail wagon starting off. 
My letter was, of course, in that wagon. 

"I told my cabman to follow the wagon. 
When we reached the central office at the 
Tuileries, I showed my ministerial paper. 
They said to me, very politely : 

" 'Well, we have three-quarters of an hour 
to sort two or three hundred thousand letters 
that go to all parts of the world. You will 
readily understand that it would be impossible 
to find yours in that lot. The best thing for 
you to do is to go to the mail-car at the sta- 
tion. As you have a ministerial order, the 
clerks there will find your letter for you.' 

"I got into the cab and started for the sta- 
tion. As soon as I arrived, I went to the car. 
The clerks wanted to send me to Jericho, but 
I insisted, and showed my authorization. 
The head clerk, thinking probably that I was 
a detective, said to me : 'Well, sir, get in. 
We will try and arrange your matter after we 
start. But for the moment I cannot do any- 
thing.' 

"I got into the car, which was already half 
full of sacks, and they had only begun to ar- 
rive. They came from all sides, and some- 
times it took two men to raise one of the bags. 
The car was soon full to the top, and the five 
clerks and myself did not know where to 
squeeze ourselves. And we expected to find a 
letter in all that mass. I was losing courage, 
but there was nothing to be said. If the 
countess received the letter destined for 
Lousie, I should be done for. I was very 
much in love, and it was, moreover, a very 
fine marriage. 

"Finally all the sacks had arrived. I 
crouched into a corner where I nearly stifled 
between dirty leather pouches that had trav- 
eled all over Europe. All I could see were 
the lamps in the tops of the car and the nu- 
merous pigeon holes for the letters. Suddenly 
I felt the wheels revolve. W^e had started. 
The head clerk came to me and a.sked what I 
wanted. I explained to him that 1 wished to 
get a letter addressed to the Chateau of Beil- 
lous, near Barjols, Var. 

" ' In that case it belongs to the Lyons divis- 
ion. We sort these letters after leaving Dijon. 
Until we arrive there, all you can do is to 
wait.' 

"I will shorten my tale of misery. At ten 
in the morning, I arrived at Saint Maxime 
station. It is at that station that the post- 



office bag for Barjols is left, and my letter had 
not yet been found ! Just at the moment 
when the train slackened speed, the reason was 
explained. The clerks, seeing what import- 
ance I attached to the unlucky letter, con- 
cluded it must be registered, and so they had 
not looked for it in the ordinary mail. 

"There was nothing to be said, for the train 
had already stopped. The sack for Barjols 
was thrown out on the platform. I followed 
it, for I was determined to have my letter. 

"1 got into the open wagon that was to con- 
vey the mail and myself — the only passengers 
— to Barjols. How it rained ! With my cane, 
white waistcoat and tall hat, you can imagine 
how I looked. The driver told me that it was 
about sixteen miles from Saint Maxime to 
Barjols. We didn't say much to each other 
on the way — I was too busy with my reflec- 
tions. We crossed deserted spots, and I was 
separated from my letter only by the hard 
board on which I was seated. I could have 
strangled or bribed the driver, but I had not 
strength enough left for the first operation ; as 
to the second, I had only a few louis in my 
pocket, and if I had suborned the driver, I 
should not have had money enough to get 
back to Paris without begging. 

"At last we arrived at Barjols, a pretty little 
village, containing a thousand inhabitants. I 
was on the point of going to the postoffice to 
ask for my letter, when a thought came to my 
mind. What will they say when they see a 
gentleman coming from Paris in a pouring 
rain, with a cane for his only piece of baggage, 
and presenting a ministerial order for a letter 
addressed to Countess X., well known through- 
out the neighborhood ? The story would soon 
spread all over the place and the countess 
would be sure to hear it. 

"I decided to be more diplomatic. An hour 
afterward, when the country letter-carrier left 
the village of Barjols to go to the chateau, 1 
overtook him, as if by chance, and asked the 
way to the countess's residence. 

"Nine miles ! My patent-leather shoes 
trembled at this announcement. Nevertheless, 
I started along through the mud. We stopped 
at each inn and I invited my companion to 
refresh himself. He kept up well until the 
fourth village on his route, but after that he 
was tipsy. As we passed along by a ditch, 
apparently by accident, I tripped him, and he 
rolled over into the opening, which was about 
three feet deep. To jump in after him, under 
pretence of helping him out, open his box, se- 
cure my letter, and stuif it into my pocket was 
the work of a minute. To get my man out of 
the ditch was not so easy. Just as I was 
succeeding in my task I heard a noise of 
rolling wheels along the road. I turned 
round. The rain had ceased and the countess 
was coming along in her pony wagon. 

"How she recognized me in the state 1 was 
in, I do not know yet. But .she did recognize 
me, and her stupefaction was equal to my 
embarrassment, for I had intended to return 
to return to Paris without saying a word. 

"'Well!' she cried; 'what is the matter? 
How did you get into such a plight ?' 

" 'Do you believe in presentiments.'" I said to 
her in a voice made thick by a frightful cold 
in the head? 'Yesterday, at the very moment 
when I went to put a letter for you into the 
postoffice, I distinctly heard my name pro- 



nounced by you in an agonized tone. I thought 
it was one of those mysterious warnings, of 
which I know so many examples, and, seized 
with terror, I started at once for your chateau 
without returning to my house. I love you so 
much, Amelia.' 

"I saw her beautiful eyes moisten. As for 
mine, the cold in my head tilled them with 
tears that were not feigned. Amelia asked 
me to take a seat beside her, and we drove to 
the chateau. This proof of love had touched 
her, and when we arrived before the door, 
she had pronounced the famous 'yes' that she 
had hesitated to utter for six months. 

"And that is how I came to be married." 



The Truth About it. 
The Illustrated American, one of the most 
beautiful papers which the country has ever 
seen, is a comparatively new applicant for 
pulilic favor, but it makes the first strong and 
sensible protest against the indecent and 
shameless talk of the daily press on the sub- 
ject of the bathing dress. Here is its idea: 
"The bathing season is now at its height, and 
we may now begin to expect the annual out- 
put of nonsense on the score of the fashion- 
able bathing dress. Sensational reporters will 
lower their leering, satyr eyes with all the 
. usual pretence of shocked and outraged mod- 
esty and fill the summer resort correspondence 
with their hypocritical denunciations. I'ruri- 
ency will run riot at the spectacle of innocent 
young maidens disporting themselves on the 
beach or in the waves in costumes that clothe 
them from neck to ankle. Not a word will be 
said about the male bathing-dresses, which 
are really much more open to criticism. The 
naked limbs of the men will be passed by to 
dwell upon the stockinged impropriety of the 
dames and damsels. And Mrs. Grundy, in 
the provinces, at whom these senseless out- 
pourings are really aimed, will lift up her eyes 
in horror, and wonder what we are all coming 
to. We are all right, dear Mrs. Grundy ; the 
newspaper gossip laughs in his or her sleeve 
to see the commotion that all this stage thun- 
der has raised. He knows that he is only 
beating on a hollow old gong, and it tickles 
him to see that those who are not behind the 
scenes yield themselves to the illusion. Be- 
sides, he is paid for beating the gong." 



L Id HT 

Dream or Vision? 



13 



HY C. ASHMORE. 



The Fastidious Sultan. 
The food of the Sultan is cooked by one 
man and his aids, and no others touch it. It is 
cooked in silver vessels, and when done each 
kettle is sealed by a slip of paper and a 
stamp, and this is broken in the presence of 
the Sultan by the high chamberlain, who takes 
one spoonful of each separate kettle before 
the Sultan takes it. This is to guard against 
poison. The food is almost always served up 
to the Sultan in the same vessels in which it 
is cooked, and these are often of gold, but 
when the baser metal kettle is used, it is set 
into a rich golden bell-shaped holder, the han- 
dle of which is held by a slave while the Sultan 
eats. The Sultan never uses a plate. He takes 
all his food direct from the little kettles, and 
never uses a table and rarely a knife or fork — 
a spoon, his bread, a pancake, or fingers are 
found far handier. 



When 1 was a child about three years old, 
my little sister, about a year younger than 1, 
died. I remember the day of the funeral very 
well, indeed, and can bring up the scene before 
me as plainly as if it had happened yesterday 
— the company of friends, the solemn service, 
the singing, and my mother weeping quietly. 
It was all a mystery to me, and I was left at 
home in charge of my aunt Hess. 

When I was about nineteen years of age, 
we all moved to the city, and I became clerk 
in a grocery store. One night I had a most 
remarkable dream. It seemed that 1 was in 
the store, when a girl about twelve, neatly 
dressed in dark blue, came in, and 1 recog- 
nized her immediately as my sister. I was 
overjoyed at seeing her ; I was in an ecstasy of 
delight ; 1 cannot express it. 

If my sister had lived, she would have been 
eighteen at this time, but I recognized her in 
this girl of twelve. We at once entered into 
conversation, which was very short but pleas- 
ant. The only part of it I could ever remem- 
ber was that I asked her if she was in Heaven, 
to which she answered that she was not. I 
shall never forget the feeling of surprise that 
this answer gave me, but my surprise was still 
greater when she told me she was on one of 
the planets, and was living in a very pleasant 
family where she was being trained. She 
then shook hands with me, bade me good-bye, 
and went away as quickly as she came. The 
idea of an intermediate state after death was 
altogether new to me, and it was not till after 
this that I learned that such an idea had been 
advanced. Still later, when reading the life 
of Emanuel -Swedenborg, I found many 
ideas that coincided with those in my dream, 
even that regarding the training of infants 
after death. 

When I awoke from the dream, it seemed 
as if I had really seen my sister, and that she 
had uttered those strange words. I told no 
one of my strange dream for a long time, not 
even my mother. 

Later in life, when I became a teacher, a 
young lady, whom I had met once or twice 
before (but whose parents I knew well), came 
a long distance to attend the school where I 
taught. We became the best of friends, and 
our friendship soon ripened into the stronger 
passion, and in time we were engaged. One 
day 1 told her the story of my dream, and she 
appeared very much interested in it. As I 
glanced casually at my companion, I noticed 
that she was dressed in dark blue, and that 
she resembled my sister as she appeared in 
the dream. The resemblance was so strong 
that I wondered that I had not noticed it be- 
fore. 

Can it be that the spirit of the departed 
sister is with her, and that she has been the 
means of bringing us together ? The thought 
is certainly a pleasant one, and I am inclined 
to look upon it as not impossible. I think 
that the spirits of the departed are often near 
us, and help to cheer us many times when we 
are troubled and perplexed. In fact, I have 
substantial reason for thinking so ! 
Worcester, Mass. 



it Might Have Been. 



BY FREDERICK I.0(;K1:K. 



\ friendly bird with bosom red 

Is Huting near my garden seat ; 
\'uur sky is fair above my head. 

And Tweed rejoices at my feet. 

'rile squirrels gambol in the oak, 

All, all is glad, but you prefer 
To linger on, amid the smoke 

Of stony-hearted Westminster. 

Again 1 read your letter through, — 

"ilow wonderful is fate's decree, 
How sweet is all your life to you. 

And oh, how sad is mine to me." 

1 know your wail~who knows it not? — 
He gave— He taketh that He gave, 

Yours is the lot, the common lot. 
To go down weeping to the grave. 

Sad journey to a dark abyss, 
Meet ending of your sorrow keen, — 

The burden of my dirge is this. 
And this my woe, — It might have Iwen ! 

Dear bird! Blithe bird that sings in frost, 

P'orgive my friend if he is sad, 
He mourns what he has only lost, — 

I weep what I have never had. 
Lond.ni. England. 

An Expensive Substitute. 
In the year 1.S14, when the Emperor Napo 
leon made his last levy of troops to resist the 
invasion of France by the powers of Europe, 
one Peter Julian Laurent, a poor knife-grinder, 
was employed by a rich citizen named LMysses 
Gaudin, whose name was more war-like than 
was his disposition, to go to the war in his 
place. Substitutes were somewhat hard to 
find in those days, and before Laurent would 
consent to serve in Gaudin's place, he exacted 
a payment of eight hundred francs down, 
and an agreement that, in case he, Laurent, 
should lose his life in battle, that three hun- 
dred and fifty francs a year should be paid to 
his widow as long as she should live, and after 
her death, three hundred francs a year during 
his life to his son, then four years old. Peter 
Julian Laurent was killed under the walls of 
Paris within four months after his enlistment. 
His widow received her three hundred and 
fifty francs a year regularly from Gaudin and 
his family until i8j2, when she died. The 
Gaudin family then sought to evade the pay- 
ment of the annual amount of three hundred 
francs agreed upon for Laurent's son, but the 
matter was carried into court, and Laurent 
won his case. The Gaudins were ordered to 
pay him the amount each year as long as he 
lived. Laurent is still living, in the best of 
health, and promises to live ten years longer. 
The Gaudin family remain solvent, and have 
paid him regularly, since 1^32, the amount 
which his father stipulated to be given him. 
Those who are curious in arithmetical matters 
can easily compute how much money Ulysses 
Gaudin's substitute has cost, all told : also, 
if they like, what the amount, capitalized in 
1S14, would have been, and also what that 
capital, at compound interest, since 1.S4.S, 
would have amounted to by this time. 



— In Greece, Solon was the first who pro- 
nounced a funeral oration, according to Hero- 
dotus, 580 B. C. The Romans pronounced 
harangues over their illustrious dead. Theo- 
pompus obtained a prize for the best funeral 
oration in praise of Mausolus, 353 B. C. 



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ly I(iHT 



Bread. 



BV A BACHELOR. 



Bread is an indefinite article of food, but as 
a part of speech it is a noun, common, and 
proper, and agrees with any hungry person; 
and it is governed by the price of flour at the 
grocery store. 

Almost every one eats more or less bread ; 
mostly more. It is made of flour, and flour is 
made of wheat, rye, oats, barley or anything 
else that you can make it of. The best flour 
is made of wheat, and is ground in a mill made 
on purpose, and put into barrels and sold to 
the grocery man, who in turn sells t to any- 
body who has got the cash to pay for it. I 
don't know whether the grocer pays for it or 
not, and you need not care very much so long 
as you are happy. 

If you can raise about seven dollars, more 
or less (generally more) you can raise a barrel 
of single barrelled flour, and have it sent to 
your house if you have one. The man who 
brings it to you will leave it at the door, and 
the woman of the house has to almost break 
her back — besides injuring her disposition — 
getting it up the front steps, which are 'most 
always located in the front part of the house, 
through the entry, where all the children are 
crowded around in the way. It won't roll 
through the inside door and has to be up-ended 
into the kitchen and rolled the rest of the way 
to the pantry, turning up all the mats in its 
path ; another turn over at the pantry door 
and the thing is located. 

It is a great job for her to open the barrel ; 
the hatchet cannot be found, for one of the 
boys had taken it out of doors and was orna- 
menting the dash-board of a peddler's wagon, 
when another boy came along with a piece of 
twine and coaxed him away for a horsey, and 
left the hatchet in the street, and somebody 
had gazed on it with their hands, and the 
hatchet was away from home. 

The next best thing to do is to take a flat- 
iron lifter and the stove lifter, one in each 
hand, and put the lifter down under one of the 
hoops ; then take the iron and strike it a 
severe and rapid blow upon the other end, 
guarding your fingers the best you know how 
for fear of missing the lifter, which you are 
certain to do, and most likely it will hurt you 
pretty much. 

Don't give up just then or you will starve. 
After the barrel is opened take a little of the 
flour out in your left hand, to see if it is good, 
poke it around just a little with the middle 
finger of your right hand and look knowingly 
at it and put it back into the barrel, and you 
won't know any better whether it is good or 
not than you did day before yesterday. 

If you guess it isn't good, take out about 
ten pounds, and send the barrel back to the 
man you bought it from. Perhaps he won't 
know you took any out. But if you guess that 
it is good, take out enough to make a batch of 
bread. As much bread as you make at a 
time is called a batch ; I don't know why or I 
would let you know. 

Take the flour out and put it in a big tin 
pan, make a hole in the middle and pour in 
some hot water out of a big blue and red 
pitcher with a broken handle that is kept along 
side of you, put in some salt if you have any, 



if not send the little boy to the shop for some, 
and by the time he has lost all of his marbles, 
has had a swim in the water and half done an 
errand for his grandmother and come home 
with the salt that he has not spilt, the hot 
water will be cold and you will have to make 
a fire and boil some more. 

When the water is boiled you can fill up the 
pitcher as before and pour it in along with the 
salt, then add half a cupful of yeast. 

Yeast is a dirty preparation made of sour 
flour and hops kept in a brown jar without any 
handle — the handle most likely was broken 
off by the jar falling down the cellar stairs' 
which is very injurious to jar handles. If you 
should not happen to have any yeast about 
you, any of your neighbors will give you a 
little, for people are more generous with yeast 
than anything else — except advice. 

If you have the yeast, all the better, for 
there is less chance of the water getting cold 
again (I don't mean catching cold.) Put the 
yeast in and stir them all up together with 
whichever hand is the cleanest. When it is 
all mixed up it is called dough. 

The dough is taken out of the pan and put 
on a board, table or chair and kneaded (this 
is the reason that bread is called the staff of 
life, it is so much needed) by working it back- 
wards and forwards and forwards and back- 
wards until it is all well mixed together. Then 
throw it back into the tin pan again and set it 
by the stove to rise. This is called raising 
your own bread and is done in this way: 

Put a chair with a broken back by the stove, 
set the pan on the upper side of the bottom of 
the chair. Lay on a towel, pat it down well 
and good and lay on a good sized cat to keep 
it snug and warm ; then go and finish the rest 
of your work. 

When the dough rises up so high in the pan 
that the cat falls off, it is just ready to bake. 
If the cat is in anyway fat and warm, she 
should coax the dough up to the top of the 
pan in about six hours — give lean cats one 
hour longer. As soon as the cat is off, seize 
the tin pan and empty the dough out again 
and work it all well together, but don't over- 
work it for if you do it gets spongy and full of 
holes and these holes are unwholesome and 
will give you a pain. 

Take about one-third of it at a time and roll 
it up into a lump as near round as possible, 
Now take what is called a bake-pan, which is 
made of sheet iron about one foot and a half 
of another foot long, of various widths and a 
wire ring in each end, but as these rings are 
always broken out after the bake pans are 
used once, it would not be worth while look- 
ing very much for them and your bread will 
bake just about as well without them. 

Put the ball of dough in one end of the pan, 
it don't matter which end (although the other 
end is best), then roll out another ball as much 
like the other as possible and put it into the 
pan; be careful not to put them both at the 
same end; take the remaining third and roll 
out the same way and put it in the middle of 
the pan. The pan should be well rubbed 
inside with a piece of candle before the dough 
is put in. This is to prevent the dough from 
getting mildewed or rusty on the bottom. 

Now take a fork, if you can find one, if not 
take a toothpick and punch seventeen holes in 
each to let the bake in. Then put it into the 



stove, into the part called the oven ; you will 
mostly find one at the side of the stove and it 
has one or two doors which you will have to 
open or you will have a job getting your pan 
of dough in. 

After it is in the oven, shut the door to keep 
the heat in and the cold out. It is not very 
much use to put it into the oven unless you 
have a fire in the stove, for it is put there for 
the purpose of cooking and you can't do much 
cooking in a cold stove ; they are only for cook- 
ing ice cream and cold victuals in. It takes 
about an hour and a half another hour for it 
to bake, according to the amount of heat there 
is in the stove When it is baked these lumps 
are called loaves. 

After the loaves are taken out of the oven, 
they are leaned up against the window ledge 
to cool, and when they are cool it is bread. 

I expect that there are many readers who 
did not know what it was going to be, but 1 
knew all the time and never let on. That is 
the way to make what is known as loaf bread. 

There are many other kinds of bread, such 
as raised bread, flour bread, baker's bread, 
good bread, bad bread, sour bread, ginger- 
bread, thoroughbred, rolls, cakes, pancakes, 
jumbles, biscuits and dumplings. Dumplings 
are different from any other kind of bread as 
they are baked in a pot of water, and are very 
marvelous concerns, for I have seen a dump- 
ling that did not weigh an ounce put into a pot 
of water, meat and several vegetables, and 
before it was in five minutes it was so heavy 
that it broke the bottom out of the pot and put 
the fire out, made me late going back to work 
and I had to tell the boss a lie about what 
kept me late and I don't like dumplings a 
little wee speck ever since. 

When bread is cut into pieces, each piece is 
called a slice and you can improve the taste of 
it by rubbing butter on one side of it and 
molasses on the other side. When a slice of 
bread is not fit to eat, they make toast of it 
by holding it up against the hot stove with the 
tongs until the outsides are burnt black so you 
can't see what was the matter with it. 

All the bad pieces that the children leave 
and the mouldy crusts that are not fit for 
toasts are made into puddings. 

The way that I learned to make bread was 
by watching Uncle John making it. He kept 
bachelor's hall after his wife ran away with 
an artist. 

Uncle John said that he pitied the artist as 
hard as ever he could, and — Y. Knott? 



The Lamp of Expiation. 
There is an old custom of the courts of 
Venice, that when a prisoner is about to be 
condemned to death, a tall and ghostly looking 
individual, dressed in a long black gown, 
walks majestically to the centre of the court- 
room, bows solemnly to the judges, and in a 
cavernous voice pronounces the following not 
over-startling words: "Kememberthe baker!" 
Then he bows again and stalks away. Just 
three hundred years ago, a baker was e.xecuted 
in Venice for a crime of which he was not 
guilty. When his innocence was established 
the judges who condemned him gave a sum 
of money to the city, the interest on which 
was to be devoted to the setting up and per- 
petual burning of a lamp, known as the 
"lamp of expiation." in the Palare of the 
Doges. It is still burning there. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HER RESIDENCE, 89 MAT ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

^♦Ladies' i Hair i Dressing-*^ 

CHILDREN'S HAIR-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 
387 Main St., Grout's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 MAIN STRKKT. 

Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 
Bridal Outfits and Evening Costnmes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

^^::^ WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

-f ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

^To. S T7v^aln.-u.t Street, 

Mexican Work, Snibroidery, Fine Needle^rork, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 

MRS. S. M. KEYES. 



LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to li a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Vliss H. Nl PROCTOR, 

Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



LI (i HT 

Something to Eat. 



[I.Tf^HT invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cookinfj receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be eond. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor. Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Spiced Tomatoes. 

Twenty pounds of ripe tomatoes scalded and 
peeled, two quarts of vinegar, eight pounds of 
su^ar, four tablespoonfuls each of cinnamon, 
cloves, and allspice. Boil till thick, stirring 
often. 
Tomato Omelette. 

Skin two or three tomatoes; cut in slices, 
fry in butter; beat up some eggs to make 
omelette; season with salt and pepper; warm 
some butter in pan ; put in eggs, stirring well 
to keep from adhering; mix in tomatoes, turn 
out omelette on plate, doubling it in two. 
Another nice way is to roll up tomatoes in 
omelette, and serve with tomato sauce. 
Tomato Catsup. 

One gallon tomatoes (strained), six table- 
spoonfuls salt, three tal)le.spoonfuls lilack pep- 
per, one tablespoonful cloves, two tablespoon- 
fuls cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls allspice, one 
and a half pints vinegar ; boil down one-half. 
One peck tomatoes will make one gallon 
strained. 
Apple Fritters. 

Four large sound apples, peeled, cored, and 
cut each into four slices, one-half gill wine, 
two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful 
royal extract nutmeg. Place slices of apples 
in bowl with sugar, wine and extract ; cover 
with plate, set aside to steep two hours, then 
dip each slice in common batter, fry to light 
brown in plenty of lard made hot for the pur- 
pose ; serve with sugar. 
Blackberry Fritters. 

One cupful blackberries, one and a half cup- 
fuls common batter. Mix berries in batter in 
bowl, and drop by tablespoonfuls in plenty of 
lard made hot for the purpose ; serve with 
sauce. All berry fritters can be made as 
directed for the above. 
Clam Fritters. 

Fifty small or twenty-five large clams ; dry 
them in napkin. If large, cut them in two ; 
put pint of flour into basin, add two well 
beaten eggs, one-half pint milk, and nearly as 
much of clam liquor; beat batter till free from 
lumps, then stir in clams. Put lard or beef 
drippings into frying pan, heat it to boiling, 
then drop into clam batter by spoonful. Fry 
lirown on one side, then turn and fry on the 
other. 
Lobster Pates. 

Make puff paste and spread on very deep 
patL^-pans. Bake it empty. Having boiled 
well two or three fine lobsters, extract all the 
meat and mince very small, mixing it with coral 
smoothly mashed and yolk of hard boiled egg, 
grated. Season with a little salt, cayenne, 
and powdered mace or nutmeg, adding a little 
yellow lemon rind, grated. Moisten mixture 
well with cream, fresh butter, or salad oil. 
Put it into stew-pan, add very little water, let 
stew till it just comes to a boil. Take off the 
fire, and the pat^s being baked, remove them 
from tin pans, place them on large dish, and 
fill them up to top with the mixture. .Similar 
pat^s may be macie of prawns or crabs. 



» FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. * 

Office, First National Bank Kuildlug, 

■410 liv^aixi St., "'v'^rorc ester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK, Secretary. 



C. A. BOYDEN, 

Plctuire Frame Ivl'f g*r, 

And Dealer in 
Kn^avingB, Etchingrs, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

4r F*ark: St., Worcester. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New York Training School, gives 

* MASSAGE TREATMENTS * 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



IVIRS. C. A. ROBBINS, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co. 's, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMSH* 

No. 3S7 Main street, Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 



PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— :o:— 

-f Bay State Dollar Store 4^ 

Directly opposite Barnard & Sumner's. 

* TRAVELLING BAGS OF EL KINDS. * 



TURKIJH B/1TI15. 



F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
8 A.M. to9 p. M. Sundays, 



itoi 



: A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House 
Worcester, Mass. 



LE t JOLLY i FRENCH * DYEING 
AND i CLEANSING * 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 

Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gross & Strauss 

Cut out this coupon fron 

LIGHT, and bring i; it wit! 

you and get 10 per cent dis 

count from regular prices. 

C. T. MELVIN, FKOFKIETOK, WALNUT ST. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Blace. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and dehvered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., PROPS. 

MRS. L S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one fliglit, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



The Home School. 

MISS KIMBALL'S 

DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL FOR 
GIRLS OK TEN YEARS AND UPWARDS 
OPENS SEPT. 24TH, IN NEW AND IM- 
PROVED QUARTERS AT THE CORNER 
OK MAY AND WOODLAND STS. GIRLS 
FIND HERE A PLEASANT SCHOOL 
HOME, AND ARE THOROUGHLY AND 
JUDICIOUSLY EDUCATED. AN E.XCEL- 
LENT HOME FOR MOTHERLESS GIRLS. 

Send for a Circular, which tells all about tin' 
School. Address, HOME SCHOOL, 'WorccBter. 

School of English Speech 

RE-OPENS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 

Heaku I'lace, iS Belmont Street. 

Class and Private instniction in Literature, Rlietoric, 
Reading, Vocal and Physical Culture. 
MRS. JOHN C. CUTTER, Director. 
MISS SARAH E. I.AUGHTON, Assistant Director. 
HOWARD M. TICHNOR, Teacher of Reading and 

\'ocal work. 

Mrs. Throop's School 

For Young Ladies and Children, 

141 PLKASANT STREET, 
Re-opens October i. College Preparatory. 

Summer address, Rockport, Mass. 



DO N'T Be Du ped 

There have lately been placed upon the market 
several clieap reprints of an obsolete edition of 
' Webster's iJictiouary." They aro being offered 



at a low pric 



By 



dry goods dealers, grocers, olothiers, ete., and in 
a few instances as a premiuui for subscriptions 
to papers. 
Announcements of these comparatively 

Worthless 

reprints aro very misleadiuEC ; for instance, they 
are advertised lo bo the substantial equivalent 
of "an ci^lit t> tw-lvo d.-llar book," whun in 
reality from A to Z they aro all 

Reprint Dictionaries, 

phototype copies of a book of over forty years 
ago, which in its day was sold for about S6.0n, and 
♦ho* 1,,^/^L- »i.-.ia much superior in paper, print, and 



that book 

bindiuK t . 

best Dictionary of the t 



t-1 of bt 



Long Since Obsolete. 

The supplementof 10,000 so-called "new words," 
which some of these books are advertised to con- 
tain, wag compiled by a gentleman who has been 
dead over thirty years, and was published ' 
fore his death. Otlier so-called additions ^ro 
reprints of a like nature. 

The Genuine Edition of "Webster's TTna- 
bridged Dictionary, which to-day is accepted 
as Tlie Standard and The Best, contains over2iH)0 
pages, with illustrations on nearly every page, 
and bears our imprint on the title page. 

G. & C. MERRIAM & CO., 

Sl'KENGFIELD, MASS. 



Mrs. Dr.Wm, Lee 



Burnside Building, 
Room ;. 

Office hours; 9 to 
12.30; 2 to s. Sun 
days, 10.30 to 2. 




L I <i M T 

About the House. 



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[Readers of Lir.HT are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all comnm- 
nicationsto Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*» If the fat in the fi^ing-kettle is hot before 
you are ready for it, put in a dry crust of 
bread. It will not burn as long as it has 
something to do, only when it is left idle. 

*, Every mouthful of fruit that repLices a 
mouthful of meat means better health and 
longer life for the child. 

% Black ink spots may be taken from white 
goods by dipping the soiled parts in melted 
tallow, letting it lie for awhile, and then wash 
ing in the ordinary way. 

*, In changing feathers, always put them 
into new ticks, as the feathers will surely prick 
through washed ticks. I believe our grand- 
mothers rubbed the inside of the ticks witli 
hard soap, to prevent this, but I should prefer 
new ones. Old ticking can always be put to 
good use. 

*» Two quarts of water with two ounces of 
glycerine scented with rose, as a dressing in 
the bath, will impart freshness and delicacy to 
the skin. 

** Artificial complexions are said to be on 
the increase. Very likely ; since where they 
are once adopted the wearer soon has no 
other to speak of. 

*f Spirits of turpentine will take grease or 
drops of paint out of cloth. Apply it till the 
paint can be scraped off. 

*^ Tar can easily be removed from clothing 
by immediately rubbing it well with clean 
lard, and then washing out with warm water 
and soap. 

% If soot be dropped upon the carpet, throw 
upon it an equal quantity of salt, and sweep 
all up together. There will be scarcely a trace 
of soot left. 

*» Turpentine and black varnish is the black- 
ing used by hardware dealers for protecting 
stoves from rust. If put on properly it will 
last through the season. 

*» This is the way they clean and renovate 
furs in Russia : Some rye flour is put into a 
pan upon the stove and heated, stirring con- 
stantly with the hand, so long as the heat can 
be borne. Then spread the flour all over the 
fur, rubbing it in well ; then brush it gently 
with a very clean brush, or beat it softly till all 
the flour is removed. It is claimed that this 
method will make the fur appear almost or 
quite like new again. 

*, There is nothing worse for the hands than 
some of the cheap, poor soaps which may be 
used from a mistaken notion of economy. 
They injure the hands, injure clothes, injure 
everything with which they come in contact, 
and should be sedulously avoided. There is 
nothing better for the toilet than pure castile 
soap, and for laundry and kitchen a good 
white soap which bears the name of some 
maker of established reputation is always the 
safest and in the end the cheapest. A tender, 
sensitive skin is often sadly injured and 
poisoned through the use of bad soap, whose 
agency in the matter may never be suspected. 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 

478 to 482 Main St. 



FAYAL POTTERY 

Large vases and flowerpots 
for wild flowers and 
grasses. 



Large Japanese Floor Vases 



Art flowerpots in Minton 
Adderley Tapestry, and 
Royal Victorian. 



Owari and Sedji Flowerpots 
from 6 to 15 in. diameter 
Handsome and Cheap. 



Owari and Sedji Garden 
Seats, Minton Garden 
Seats. 



Umbrella Stands all makes 
and prices. Owari Um- 
brella Stands $1.69 each. 



15 

By Shore and Mount. 

% open-work stockings are among the 
pretty things for summer wear, and are in 
white or in color. 

% Ribbon bands are used to suspend the 
fan from the waist, instead of chatelaine.' 

*, White castor gloves are the best style 
for out-of-door wear in the summer season, and 
are of three or four button length. 

*» A good many ladies who have lace 
barbes among the "left overs" of fashion will 
find them coming nicely into play just now in 
the return of the style. 

*» Very full skirts, however nicely lined, 
are not as graceful as the full skirt unlined 
put over a cambric-gored skirt faced a foot 
high from the bottom with the dress goods. 

*f. A white sailor hat of enamelled leather 
is what the stylish summer girl considers the 
head-gear par excellence for yachting, driving 
and other outing suitable to the season. 

*„ Society women are seen at the country 
fetes, on the drive and on coaches, dressed in 
slips of satin duchesse and surah silk, draped 
with gros grain gauze de crape. The effect is 
decidedly Frenchy. 

*» Corals are appearing in great variety in 
the Paris and London markets, and will be 
worn very generally; and those who have put 
them away in an odd corner of their jewel-case 
will bring them again into the light of day. 

*, Black straw and chip hats can be kept 
in shape and color by brushing, when well 
dusted, with Alma shoe polish. Every hat and 
bonnet should have its separate box, and be 
covered with a silk handkerchief to protect it 
from the dust and light. 

*» Gossamer parasols make charming ef- 
fects for dressy occasions at the seashore or 
in the country. 

*jK Very stylish wool dresses for wear in the 
mountains are of dark navy blue serge or 
camel's hair, or else of the stylish light tan 
color called cliainpignon or mushroom. 

% Wash-leather gloves which have whole 
wrists are very fashionable for seashore and 
country. 

% Long buckles secure the fulness of bod- 
ices in front. They are made in jet, gold and 
steel, oxydized silver, and filagreed gold. 

*» Ladies of all ages wear hats this season, 
and they are usually of a character that make 
the ladies glad of a chance to wear them. 

*, Leghorn hats are turned up and down to 
suit the face of the wearer, and they are pret- 
tier the more irregular their shape. 

*» A pretty fancy is that which some women 
of fashion have of always wearing one kind 
of flowers. Not every one can carry out this 
conceit as does one noticeable woman, by al- 
ways carrying a huge bunch of violets on all 
occasions. Four or more ordinary bunches of 
these exquisite blossoms are combined in this 
sumptuous although not conspicuous posy that 
characterizes the "lady of violets," as she 
is sometimes called. A sweet young bud 
always manages to appear with a loosely-tied 
bunch of white roses, and another, sweet and 
simple as the modest Howeret itself, is decked 
out with a knot of primroses somewhere on 
the corsage. 



I.I(iHT 

Facts for Fine Costumes. 



CXI.A.ITEI?, 2C1. 



Kate, if you want bargains in corsets I can tell you where to get them. 

Where ? 

At 328 Main street — the Royal Worcester Corset House. 

Their "Annual August Bargain Sale" is now in progress. They are manufacturers, and 
accumulate a large number of samples and every August put them on sale at their retail store. 

But are these "samples" good ? 

Perfectly good to wear. They are sold off in this way because they are a little soiled. I 
buy them every year. 

I should not think they would have samples enough for a "Special Sale." 

O, yes ; and they are worth, some of them, almost double what they sell for. I know, for 
I have bought them. 

Then they put in a great many other corsets besides "samples." Corsets that may have 
become slightly soiled, or some style that they want to close out, they save and put into this 
"August Sale," as they call it. 

You need not be'afraid.of not getting your money's worth. You will get more than your 
money's worth, every time. 

It pays to go early, before the best ones are culled out. I am going there this very 
afternoon. 

I believe I'll go with you. 




■mE BEST liT TXIE TXTOI^XjI^. 

FRENCH SHAPES! LONG WAISTS! 



PRICES FROM $1 TO $6 EACH. 



STYLES TO SUIT ALL WANTS. 



Worcester Corset Co., 

Retail Store, 328 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



NEW KODAKS 




"You press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles and Sizes, all Loaded with 
Transparent Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THE KASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send lor catalogue. KOCHESTEK, N. T. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator. 

FINE PAPER HAKGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoing a Specialty. 

NO. 22 PEARL STREET. 




ly I(l H T 

Infant Haw-Haws. 



I? 



FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

In Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 



NEAR .SUMMER. 



WORCESTER, MAS.S 



Touching. 

"I am sorry to see, young man, that you 
wear an artificial leg." 

"Yes, sir; it is the result of tliat big fight 
at Gettysburg." 

"How old are you .''" 

"Twenty, sir." 

"Why, you were you not born when that 
battle was fought." 

"True; but my father was there. I inher- 
ited the leg from him." 
Known by His Works. 

Mr. Suburu: Whereon earth is our hired 
man? I can't find him anywhere. 

Mrs. .Si'iuiRii: There is somebody over in 
Farmer Hayseed's meadow, but I can't tell 
whether it's our man or not. 

Mr. S.: Is he standing up or sitting down ? 

Mrs. S.: Standing. 

Mr. S.: It isn't our man. 
Preparing for an Ordeal. 

Harry (looking over manuscript): You 
don't expect any editor will accept such stuff 
as that, do you ? 

Jack: Certainly not. It has been refused 
by seven already. 

Harry: Why under the sun do you keep 
on sending it around.' 

I am trying to discover in how many ways 
a thing can courteously declined. 

What for.' 

I promised to go with Imogene to the din- 
ner of the Mystic Cooking Club. 
Coercive Measures. 

Maud : Jack proposed to me when we were 
in the surf together yesterday. 

Ethel: And did you accept him? 

Yes; I was afraid he would duck me if I 
didn't. — Sun. 
What are we Coming to ? 

"What's this a picture of — a Venetian blind 
blowing in the wind?" 

"No ; that's my uncle Mike, who lives in 
Florida. He had a malarial chill just as I 
snapped the camera on him." 
Eve Wasn't Made of Dust. 

"Papa," said a talkative little girl, "am I 
made of dust?" 

"No, my child. If you were you would dry 
up once in a while." 
No Breach of Promise for Him. 

.She: Speak out, Mr. Prudence, if you have 
anything to say. 

Hk : No, thank you. There's a phonograph 
hidden under the centre table, your little 
brother is under the sofa, the servant is listen- 
ing at the key-hole, and your mother is looking 
over the banisters. The only thing that re- 
strains me is my doubt as to the whereabouts 
of your father. 
More Filling, to be Sure. 

Mrs. Bismarck : Vwich cookies you rud- 
der haf, meester, de vwones mit holes in de 
meedle or de vwones mit citron in de meedle ? 
Fla.nagan: Av it don't mahk anny differ- 
ence to yez, mem, Oi'll tahk de ones wid de 
citron. Oi'm fonder av citron dan av holes. 
N. B., Boys. 
Oh, George, papa is unchaining the dog. 
It's all right. He used to be my dog. I 
gave him to the dealer to sell to your papa. 



G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S. 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 
518 Pvlain St., Wc:)rcester. 

I^^Elevator. 



DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best of work, lowest prices. Best teeth, >S per set. 
All work warranted. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

(Office will be closed during August.) 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 

MISCELLANEOUS BOOK STOCK 

Wiiich must be diposed of to make room for certain im- 
provements I intend making, and new stock! must buy. 

I find on the shelves of my store some $5,000 worth of 
miscellaneous books which I must sell. 

Now is the time to fill up your libraries. 

The books I have, the money and the room I want. 
Call and look over the stock and have what you wish at 
almost your own price. 

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At Machias, Me., are Mr. E. M. I'rehle and 
Miss Mary Taylor. 



Mr. and Mrs. Willis F. Phelps and daughter 
are at Cottage City. 

Mi.ss M. Addie Prichard is visiting friends at 
Bradford, Vt. 

Mr. Thomas Daniels and Miss Mary Dan- 
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Col. John W. Wetherell is at Bar Harbor. 



Congressman Walker is at Oakland Heights, 

Md. 

Mr. William A. Denholm is at York Beach. 



Mr. Edward C. Fuller and the Misses Ful- 
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New York and up the Hudson. 



Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of Wellesley, will 
occupy the pulpit of I'lymouth Church to-day, 
and preach at 10.30 a. m., and 7.30 p. pi. 



City Clerk Enoch H. Towne is at Salisbury 
Beach. 



Mr. George A. Ladd is in New York city. 



Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Holmes are down on the 
Cape. 

Mr. O. W. Norcross and family are at Mon- 
ument Beach. 

Mr. H. S. Woodis is at .South Acworth, N. H. 



Mr. Eben H. Robinson, one of the pleasant 
young men in Leland's, is spending his vaca- 
tion at Block Island, but he will visit friends 
in Haverhill before his return. 



Mrs. A. W. Walls, is home from Lockport, 

N.S. 



Mr. Thomas S. Childs, of Holyoke, is paying 
Worcester a visit. 

Miss A. M. Luther, of Warren, R. I,, is visit- 
ing friends here. 

Mr. B. G. Luther is entertaining his neice. 
Miss Bertha A. Barney, of Warren, R. L 

Mrs. Dr. H. H. Gabeler, Mrs. J. W. Gilbert, 
Mrs. J. C. Shattuck and Master George O. 
Bartlett are at Cottage City. 



Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Gifford, of Oread 
street, with Miss Alice and Master Arthur 
Gifford, are spending the month of August at 
the Eagle Rock House, Kennebunk, Me. 

Miss Ida Duke is spending the month of 
August with a Providence family in Pa.xton, 
Mass. 

Miss Florence M. Sears, who has been 
spending a week at Ashland with friends, is 
now at Grafton. 

Mrs. A. O. Stevens, of New York city, and 
Miss Maude Reppier, of Brooklyn, who have 



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been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John N. Albee, 
went Thursday to Manchester, N. H., wliere 
they will lie for a week the guests of Mr. and 
Mrs. Lyman H. Whittemore, at their country 
residence. 

Mr. Frank B. Hall is back from his trip to 
Wadley Falls and Old Orchard Beach, and on 
Monday goes to Brant Rock, where he will be 
the guest of Alderman Webster Thayer. 



Mr. and Mrs. IS. F. Robinson go next week 
to Littleton, N. H. 



Mr. Louis T. Wilson is camping with the 
Willises at Lake Chau — etc., in Webster. 



Mr. John M. Blair of the Star Clothing Com- 
pany is making a carriage tour of the State. 



Mrs. Frank Strickland (m'e Deland) of War- 
ren, is visiting at her father's home here. 



Mrs. O. J. Sweet has been spending the 
week with friends in Natick. 



Miss Laura E. Blake of Franklin is spend- 
ing her vacation with friends in this city. 



Mr. and Mrs. David L. Bradt are at St. An- 
drew, N. B. 



Mr. Charles G. Parker and family are liome 
from Monument Beach. 



Miss Minnie F. Allison is visiting friends in 
Auburn. 



Mr. A. V. Chase is at Cottage City and 
thence goes to Long Branch. 



Mrs. L. F. Poland and Miss Amy R. Poland 
are at Manomet. 



Mr. Charles F. Pierce and his family are in 
Maine. 



Mr. William A. Pentecost and family are at 
Young's Hotel, Winthrop. 



Miss Laura H. Fisher is at Danbury, where 
she will remain for several weeks. 

Mr. Seth Lincoln is in Boston and will goto 
Portland to-day. 

Mr. Joseph B. Garland and his family, and 
Mrs. C. C. Spring, are at Old Orchard lieach. 



Mrs. A. N. Currier, Miss Currier and Mrs. 
J. Fred Mason are at Newport. 



Miss. Alice Rice is at Fitchburg. 

Dr. (ieorge E. Savage has gone to Old Or- 
chard Beach for a fortnight's stay. 

Mr. B. S. Roy and family and Mr. and Mrs. 
E. A. Richmond and child, are at Westport. 



Rev. George H. Gould, D. D., and his family, 
have left their summer home in Paxton and 
gone to the Vineyard. 



At York Beach there is quite a Worcester 
party, and at the Garrison house are registered 
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Putnam, Mrs. J. W. Ains- 
worth, Mrs. A. H. Henry, Mrs. S. A. Esta- 



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Lathe, Mrs. W. H. Drury and Miss Miriam 
Drury. 



Mrs. Thomas Talbot and her neice. Miss 
Florence E.Reeves, are at Falmouth Heights. 

Mr. S. Hamilton Coe's people are rustic- 
ating in Paxton. 

Miss .Maud Longley has been in Boston this 
week. 



Messrs. John H. and Henry E. Watson have 
been spending the week at the shore resorts 
of Narragansett bay. 

Mr. George E. Day, of Westfield, spent 
Wednesday and Thursday with relatives in 
Worcester. 

Mr. and Mrs. George E. Fairbanks, with 
their youngest child, and Miss Nellie Fair- 
banks, are at Falmouth to remain until 
September i. Mr. William K. Fairbanks will 
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LIGHT 

WORCESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, AUGUST i6, 1890. 



No. 25 



The gathering of the veterans at IJoston this 
week has been a fitting theme for poet and 
historian, and it has occupied the attention of 
the people more than any event which New 
England has witnessed in many years. It is 
just twenty-five years ago that the war ended 
and Grant, at Appomatox, with magnanimous 
hand, drew the curtain before the remnant of 
the foe and spoke the first words ushering in 
the new era of peace. A space of twenty-five 
years is a long time. There came a grave 
realization of the fact to those who looked at 
that parade on Tuesday last. There came, 
also, a sinking at the heart and a lump in the 
tliroat to those who, looking at the feeble 
steps, the white hair, the worn faces, pictured 
to themselves a day when those men will no 
longer pass in grand review before their sons 
and their fellow-citizens to whom they secured 
the blessings of such a state of liberty and 
happiness as we possess. It was a glorious 
sight. No pen can fittingly describe it. But 
those who saw it wiU never forget it. 



Death came very suddenly to John Boyle 
O'Reilly. In pleasant surroundings, resting 
by the sea in a brief interval between the 
working days of the week ; with no word of 
farewell to say ; perhaps, indeed, even while he 
slept, his spirit took flight. John Boyle 
O'Reilly was an Irishman, but he was more 
than that. He belongs to America ; especially 
does he belong to Massachusetts, and now 
that he has gone, what he was and what he 
did will be even more admiringly remembered 
than before. As a man, he was brave and 
courteous and gentle — truly a knightly champ- 
ion of Freedom and Right ; and no thought 
of race or creed can divide him from those 
who recognize the man wherever he may be 
found. John Boyle O'Reilly was a true poet : 
he sang because the music rose to his lips and 
his heart swelled with ineffable tenderness 
and love for his country — his later country as 
well as the country of his birth — and for his 
fellow-men. He did not need to write a g^eat 
epic or a lofty prose work. His fame will rest 
with the simplicity and sweetness of his 
thought and action. For her adopted son, 
Massachusetts weeps to-day, and whenever 
the name of John Boyle O'Reilly is spoken, 
let it be remembered that he was a worthy son 
of that mother. 



Light is convinced that the young people of 
Worcester — and, presumably, of every other 
similar place, — attach altogether too little im- 
portance to the value of a legible handwriting. 
The eternal principle of "Hurry up!" is 
becoming a vice of penmanship as it is of eat- 
ing and working, to an alarming extent. It 
is not to be expected that every young man 
and woman will write a copper-plate hand, 
but it does seem as if more care ought to be 
taken in the matter. It seems to be a fad to 
cultivate a scrawl which shall be both un- 
gainly and illegible. It is true that this 
tendency has been fostered in the schools 



through which these young people pass. 
However much our teachers may declare that 
they are not responsible, and that the regular 
course of writing les.sons is followed, those 
who are familiar with the process know that 
it is greatly overestimated and has but com- 
paratively little value, when followed by a 
course of "note-taking" in which speed is the 
chief thought. This taking of notes, which 
usually finishes up in college what is begun in 
our high schools, in the way of ruining a good 
penmanship, is an evil which ought to be 
checked in some way, for it does not seem 
likely that it can be altogether dispensed with. 
It causes the student to hurry all the writing 
which he may have to do. The letters are 
formed hastily and carelessly ; t's are not 
crossed ; i's are not dotted ; n's look like u's, 
etc. ; and frequently a wavy line stands for a 
word. It is a bad thing for any young person 
in whose serious business of life writing is to 
play any important part. There are people 
who have to write and write fast. News- 
paper men who have been through the mill 
and learned how to write four or five columns 
a night, are generally wretched penmen. 
Clergymen are frequently so, although Rev. 
Mr. Lovering used to write a neat, round 
hand, and Rev. Mr. Davis does, also. So 
does Dr. Mears — on his type-writer. Lawyers 
are another class. But every one of them 
wishes that he wrote more legibly, and knows 
that it would have saved him many little vexa- 
tions had he done so. Less hurrying in the 
writing at school, and something in the way of 
oversight of penmanship at home, will be a 
good thing for the rising generation. 



The press of the state seems to have a 
grudge against Worcester. The Spy recently 
paid its respects to the Boston /(»«;-««/ and the 
Aih'ertiser, which deplored the decrease in 
Worcester's population, and probably made 
those journals wish they had made sure of 
their facts before they wrote their manifestos. 
Light begs to call the attentionof the Spring- 
field Republican to the fact that it is travelling 
with the Advertiser and the Journal. Last 
Monday it printed a table showing the popu- 
lation and the corresponding rank of the cities 
of the state, and credited Worcester with a 
population of 64,300, giving Cambridge 69,346, 
Fall River 74,427 and Lowell 77,800. Then 
the Repablican sagely remarks; "Worcester 
has, in the five years, fallen from second to 
fifth place, the two manufacturing cities of 
Lowell and Fall River, and the suburban city 
of Cambridge, outstripping her." What seems 
to be the trouble up there in Springfield ? 
How long has the Republican been asleep and 
when is it expected to wake up? Worcester, 
by a hard fight with the census people, managed 
to get credit for a population of 83,400 although 
there is no doubt in a great many minds that 
the figure ought to be considerably larger. 
But to be robbed of what we really have 
secured is too, too much. If the Republican 
would only look before it leaps ! 



"Mrs. Philippine Overstolz," says the St. 
Louis Spectator, "who is summering at Coul- 
terville. 111., writes of a delightful 'frog hunt,' 
in wliich she and her pretty young daughter, 
Lucille, recently participated, along with a 
large party of ladies and gentlemen from the 
hotel. They were all clad in short skirts, with 
high rubber boots, and carried rifles. They 
were conveyed to the hunting ground, at Mud 
Creek, by carryalls, wagons, and on horse- 
back, a la cowboy, and they had a fine day's 
sport, bagging ciuite a number of the brown 
and green hoppers. Timid maidens, who had 
never heard the report of a gun, save at a dis- 
tance, grew quite brave, and made as much 
noise as anybody, whether successful or not. 
Late in the evening, covered with green mud, 
they returned to the city, a dilapidated, but 
merry company, quite satisfied with their day's 
sport." This is a Western society idyl, and it 
oilers a new suggestion to Eastern people who 
complain of ennui during the hot summer 
months and declare that it is impossible to get 
up any excitement or provide any new diver- 
sion for the parties who are vacationizing in 
the country and by the shore. "A frog hunt !" 
Truly a novel idea. They wore "short skirts, 
high rubber boots and carried rifles." Why 
not Catling guns .' "And they had a fine day's 
sport, bagging quite a number of the brown 
and green hoppers," etc. This is a new kind 
of sport to most of us. When we were small, 
our mammas read us the story about the 
wicked boy who stoned the frogs and fell in 
and was drowned ; and, in fact, we are accus- 
tomed to think of the killing of weak and 
harmless creatures as something not altogether 
creditable. To be sure, we hunt Reynard still, 
and we shoot birds and woodchucks; but, 
generally speaking, the game is shot for a 
purpose and has a fair chance for life. With 
frogs" legs becoming more than ever a staple 
of diet, the frog-catching industry must in- 
crease, and if they are needed for food, the 
men who go about it for business and stick 
spears into the hoppers need no excuse. But 
the notion of shooting them with a rifle. Not 
one in a dozen could ever be brought to shore ; 
probably, indeed, the hunters did not worry 
when they lost one. The Spectator''s felici- 
tous description of the party's return, "covered 
with green mud," suggests some of the delights 
of a "sport" like this, and while mud is all very 
well in its way, most people have no fancy for 
wallowing in the slime of a frog-pond. Al- 
together it seems as if it would be rather hard 
to find anything inviting or worthy of emula- 
tion in a frog-killing excursion. If we must 
shoot things, let us shoot at a bird on the 
wing, or at a rabbit on the run ; but to make a 
target of froggy, as he calmly sits and blinks 
at the rifle, seems to be too cold-blooded. 
Light does not believe it will ever be a popu- 
lar "sport." 

Four bell boys at the Bay State House 
"struck" last Monday. That's nothing. There 
are scores of beO buoys down in Boston 
harbor which are striking all the time. 



Saviors of the Republic. 

Encampment week has been a great week 
for Massachusetts and Worcester has borne 
her part in it becomingly. No such general 
interest, wliere all ordinary differences of opin- 
ion were lost sight of, has been known in the 
state for a long time. It has been a distin- 
guished honor for the Bay State, and she has 
proved her worthiness. More than Memorial 
Day, with all its hallowed and sacred memo- 
ries, and more than our Independence Day or 
the anniversarj' of the birth of our first presi- 
dent, does such a day as last Tuesday in Bos- 
ton fire men's souls with patriotism and noble 
purposes. To see them march by — those war- 
worn veterans, hundred after hundred, thou- 
sand after thousand, bearing their tattered 
banners, and marching as years ago they 
marched, in soldierly order, was a sight which 
will never be forgotten by those who saw it. 
And some of those who saw it, too young now 
to realize that it was more than a great parade 
with beautiful banners and music and cheer- 
ing, will live to see the day when such a pa- 
rade as this cannot be mustered forth. The 
nineteenth century may make much of its later 
years, in honoring these men. Time is resist- 
less, and they grow older with the world. 



As has been said, Worcester has borne its 
part in the Encampment week well. The 
manner in which the Kansas City veterans 
were entertained gives the key note to Wor- 
cester's patriotism and hospitality, and not 
only the local veterans, but citizens generally, 
took pride in making the occasion a memora- 
ble one. With lately increased ranks. Post lo 
turned out about half its number and the pa- 
rade on Monday was a fine one. The general 
decoration of the city, too, bespoke the earnest 
desire of Worcester people, not only to show 
courtesy to Post lo's guests, but to honor the 
soldiers of our own post. Indeed, in propor- 
tion to its size and resources, and the impor- 
tance of the occasion, Worcester sustained 
itself as well as did St. Botolph's town on the 
succeeding days. 

It is now easy enough to see why it was 
quite proper that there should be no formal 
opening of the new armory when the local 
militia companies were first quartered in it. 
The honor of giving it a public "christening" 
came to Post lo, and within its walls, on Mon- 
day evening, there was a notable gathering. 
The banquet seemed to put hosts and guests 
in a jovial frame of mind, and when the band 
played "John Brown's Body," a mighty yell 
went up, though a moment later tears might 
have been seen glistening in more than one 
man's eyes. Of the speeches, it may be said 
that not one could have been wished shorter, 
and from beginning to end it was a splendidly 
carried out affair. Commander Charles H. 
Pinkham made a strong address of welcome, 
and Col. W. S. B. Hopkins, who acted as 
toastmaster, did the honors of the evening in 
becoming manner. Dr. Thomas's speech was 
perhaps the best speech that a clergyman has 
ever made at a Post lo gathering ; but Dr. 
Thomas himself is a veteran. He "was there" 
and he knew whereof he spoke. In respond- 
ing to the toast "The President of the United 



Ivl(j HT 

States," he brought forth beautifully the idea 
that the great war was waged in order that 
there might be a president of the United 
States, and not of the northern or the southern 
or the western or the New England states. 
Dr. Thomas's speech was short, and so was 
that of General Devens, for "The Grand 
Army of the Republic," but it need not be 
said that General Devens said a great deal 
in a short time. He always does that. And 
Worcester honors no one of its soldiers nor do 
its soldiers love any of their leaders more, than 
General Devens. "Judge" we call him some- 
times, but this has been a week when the mili- 
tary title is the nearest and most significant to 
all. Brave General Devens! He will never 
have any heartier reception than he always 
gets in Worcester. Senator Henry L. Parker 
spoke for Col. Samuel E. Winslow, whose 
toast was "The Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts." The toast to "The State of Missouri" 
was responded to by Mr. Webster Davis, of 
Kansas City. He spoke as a son of a veteran, 
and his remarks pleased the boys in blue im- 
mensely. They applauded him vigorously, 
and after the banquet made frequent reference 
to what he had said. Mayor Harrington 
spoke for the city, Capt. James K. Churchill 
for the Department of Massachusetts, of 
which he is Junior Vice Commander; Maj. E. 
R. Shumway for the militia ; Capt. James A. 
Gettings for the Sons of Veterans and Capt. 
W. A. Gile for the Woman's Relief Corps. 
During the exercises, a quartet which included 
Comrade H. A. Kimball, Messrs. George A. 
Smith, Charles S. Holden and Luther M. 
Lovell sang patriotic selections. 



The banquet was necessarily closed at an 
early hour, and then came the march through 
Main and Front streets to' the Union Station, 
where the Kansas City veterans were to take 
the train for Boston. It was a grander sight 
than the parade in the day-time, even, for all 
along the way blazed red fire and rockets shot 
upwards and over the marching troops. Then 
came the fire alarm and the blaze of bunting 
at Harrington corner, to make it realistic with 
a vengeance. The veterans departed with ex- 
pressions of appreciation of Worcester's hos- 
pitality, and the local veterans went home to 
get a sleep before their early start the next 
morning. 

Opposite me at table at the banquet sat Mr. 
L. Judson Goodell, and pinned upon his breast, 
along with a lot of badges and medals, I no- 
ticed a tiny thermometer. I asked him what 
it signified, and he said it was a souvenir of 
the Baltimore Encampment of 1S82. While 
they were in Philadelphia, on the way, it was 
tremendously hot, and four veterans found 
these diminutive heat registers and made 
souvenirs of them. Comrade J. B. Lamb has 
one of them, and the other two belong to out 
of town soldiers. 



Beside me, also, sat Mr. George W. Ward. 
I don't believe half of George's friends know 
that he is the son of the valiant George H. 
Ward for whom Post 10 was named. It is 
true, however, and he was the first commander 
of Goodell Camp, Sons of Veterans, I think. 



of march Adjutant Hubbard's daughters, Miss 
Lottie and Miss Addie. Their father was 
with them, of course, giving an arm to each, 
and it seemed a very pretty thing to do. It's 
a patriotic family, all through. 



Post 10 bore well its part in the gathering at 
Boston. The men went down on a special 
train at 6 o'clock, and it was twelve hours af- 
terward when they were through marching. 
The long wait was the most tedious part, al- 
though the march itself was nothing to be 
despised. I occupied a place near the presi- 
dential stand, where I could see President 
Harrison continually take off and put on his 
hat all the afternoon, and I fancy he got tired 
of it. It was a tremendous parade. There 
have been all sorts of figures given for the 
time it took to pass a given point. The Ian- 1 
cers moved past my post of observation at 
exactly 11.53 ; ^^^ Massachusetts men began ; 
to pass at 3.40 ; and the last of the veterans 
passed at 5.40, so that the Massachusetts men ' 
occupied two hours ; then came the Sons of I 
Veterans, and they had passed at 5.58. I did ■ 
not wait, after this, for the long line of car- ' 
riages, but my own taking of time satisfied me ; 
that the parade occupied over six hours in ! 
passing. I was determined to see it all, and 1 1 
did. It was tiresome for the body, but not for ! 
the soul. I went down with the Post, that' 
morning, and all 1 got to eat from the time of 
leaving home at five o'clock, until eight' 
o'clock at night, when I went into Putnam & 
Thurston's, was one forlorn sandwich, which I| 
procured of an itinerant, about two o'clock. 



While the parade was moving up Main 
street, after the banquet, I noticed in the line 



My own notion had been that it would take 
the parade about three hours to pass. The 
Journal said three and a half ; the Globe, .six ; 
but I thought of course it was "a Globe yarn.'' 
Wonderful to relate, the Globe had it right^ 
The people with me guessed two hours, fouti 
hours, and one adopted the Globe's figure, andi 
said six. We had to take off our hats to him,i 
when it was over. 



It was a long time to wait for the Post ic 
boys. When they came, at the head of th< 
second division, they made a splendid appear 
ance, over 450 strong, and they marchec 
finely as they passed the reviewing stand 
They were heartily cheered and I felt quiti 
proud to have some of the veterans in thi 
ranks recognize my salute as they passed. 

The grandeur of the display was not because 
of the bright colors of uniforms and the glitte 
of equipments, as in most military parades 
Indeed, although some companies wore fane 
uniforms, the most of them wore the blu 
uniform of the order, and only a few carrier 
arms. The showy uniforms came with th 
bands, of which there were over a hundrec 
not to speak of drum corps. But ther 
marched the men who had faced deal 
so often and on so many fields — not fc 
themselves,, but for their country and the 
posterity. There were no young men. Th 
white heads were plentiful. The lame an 
stooping were many. At least three me 
marched in line on crutches. Think of that 
Saddest of all it was to see so many who boi 
too plainly the mark of misfortune and povert; 
Old clothes, old hats, old shoes— many unab 
to wear even the cheap blue uniform — told a 



eloquent story. I felt ashamed of my "good 
clothes" while those men were marching by. 



The //era/d spoke of the fact that few of 
the great men marched with the parade, and 
hence the heroes were few. No heroes ! 
There were thousands of them ! They 
marched in every rank. What the Herald 
might have said was that all the famous heroes 
were not there. What of it ? We do not 
need names when we look into such faces. 



There were many beautiful new banners in 
the parade, but the tattered old battle flags 
which some of the veterans bore were what 
aroused the enthusiasm. The people cheered 
them vociferously, and wherever they ap- 
peared, tenderly borne by their brave defend- 
ers, hats went off, handkerchiefs waved, and 
huzzas made the welkin ring. 



i; One Massachusetts soldier carried on his 
shoulder a little girl, perhaps not quite three 
years old, dressed in white, and wearing a G. 
A. R. belt and an encampment badge. She 
wore no hat, and her golden hair and blue eyes 
completed the picture. She was continuously 
■ I red, and waved her hand to the people, 
:iig and nodding. 

'nvnon Washington street, early in the day, 

ird a young man accost a gentleman who 

lud to be in search of something : "Would 

like to hire half a window from which to 

. _ . the parade ?" "No, sir," was the reply, 

"but I wish you would tell me where I can buy 

a slice of a hotel somewhere." 



I saw quite a number of Worcester people 
during the hours of the parade. Toward the 
end, I saw Mayor Harrington and ex-Mayor 
[Winslow walking down Huntington avenue, 
each with his "swallow tail" case in hand. 
They were evidently bound for the Mayors' 
Club dinner. Turning about, 1 could look up 
the avenue and see President Harrison on the 
reviewing stand, and it occurred to me then 
that while neither might be as famous, either 
our present mayor or his predecessor would 
anywhere be ranked as a handsomer man. 



One citizen who stood near me for the first 
two hours of the parade finally sighed : "Well, 
I guess by the looks the country is safe, and 
I'll go and rest my legs." And off he went. 



Going down with the veterans in the morn- 
ing, I heard a pretty good story about a prom- 
inent Worcester man whom everybody knows. 
He was quite young when he went to the front, 
but he came home a Captain. He is not a 
Grand Army man, and I was surprised when 
I heard of it. The reason is a curious one. 
Some years ago he was to be mustered into 
Post 10, but on the night of muster, his grand- 
father died and the event was postponed. 
Soon after he moved to Boston and decicfed 
to join a post there. On the night he was to 
be mustered in, his brother died. He gave it 
up again, and a year or so later he tried again. 
A third time he was to be mustered in, and on 
that night his father died. He began to think 
that there was something supernatural about 
it, and it did look like Parnum's unlucky num- 
ber, for a fact. He has refused to join any 
post since, though the boys declare they will 
have him in Post lo yet. 



L I Ci H T 

North Scituate. 

BY J.^CK .SHEPHERIJ. 

To one who has endured the heat and noise 
of a city, in its most crowded and busiest 
centre, during the excessive heat of June and 
July, "the pathless woods," and "lonely shore," 
though only of medium beauty, may bring 
"pleasure and rapture" but the beach at North 
Scituate is indeed an ideal retreat for seclu- 
sion and rest. Its environment of wood and 
and glade, of rocks, looking like the cleft and 
unwrinkled visages of old Roman warriors and 
suggestive of many a thrilling story of the sea, 
form a fitting introduction to its loveliness. 

There are four miles of the splendid beach, 
which stretches crescent shape, from Scituate 
to Minot's Light, or near that point, which is 
some distance out, built on the solid ledge of 
rocks there. 

On the bluff here, a score or more of pretty 
cottages and small hotels are built. Board can 
be had at these places and also at a dozen or 
more cottages and one excellent hotel below 
on the beach. At this end are the rocks, the 
pride and delight of visitors and children. On 
one of these, called "Bay Rock," a well-finished 
and handsome house is erected, its foundations 
being so solid that no storm of wind or wave 
can injure it. The line of rocks on which it 
stands, reaching out to the limit of "The 
Hazard" or collection of rocks at this part of 
the beach. Here the older children boat and 
some of the visitors bathe, while those on the 
bluff prefer the beautiful surf at the lower end 
of the beach. There is no danger feared for 
the smallest child and here they tirelessly sail 
their little boats in the ponds formed in the 
crevices of the rocks or build forts and castles 
of the soft, fine sand on the beach. 

The two outermost rocks at North Scituate 
are called "The Coliemors,"the next is "Enter- 
ing Rock" then "Mummy Rock" and "Well 
Rock," a huge one on the beach, a resort at 
twilight to watch the brilliant sunsets, as one 
turns from the shore view to look at Cohasset 
Bay and Strawberry Hill. A deep crevice 
worn by the water has given this rock its name 
and every incoming tide fills the well. 

On the last evening in July there was a great 
thunder storm here, the forked and continuous 
lightning making the heavens a grand and 
awful panorama, to which the deep and rolling 
thunder added its mystery, like the accompa- 
niment of a great organ. A terrific rainstorm 
followed and for an hour the merriest were 
stilled and awed by the mighty power that 
"plants his footstep on the sea, and rides upon 
the storm." After the rain was over a beauti- 
ful moon lit up the sea with a flood of light 
and all was peaceful and enchantingly fair 
that had so lately been a scene of stormy 
grandeur. 

There is no harbor here, and so only a fortu- 
nate few have learned to know and love this 
charming spot. Let those who love solitude 
and "the beautiful," come and rest at North 
Scituate. 

Worcester, Mass. 

Camphor, which lately doubled in price, 
owing to the demand for it to make smokeless 
powder, lias now receded to its normal value 
in consequence of the fact that the European 
government have abandoned its use in that 
manufacture. 



John Boyle O'Reilly. 



Died August lo, ifi 



ItY FRANK ROIi KATCHELUEH 



Wliile t!ic calm sea crept up and whispered to him,— 

Ere broke tlie day,— 
Without a word to tliose 'who loved and knew him,— 

He passed away. 

Just as his life its noblest height seemed crowning. 

In manliood's prime. 
Gone all the trials, banished Fortune's frowning, 

God said: '"Tistime." 

Oh, how shall we, then, seek to understand it ? 

it seems so strange ; 
His work was waiting, ready, as he planned it, 

And then this change. 

On that last night I slept almost beside him, 

And at the dawn, 
I found that Death had come, from earth to guide him, 

And he was gone. 

Gone ! Gone ! O sobs we know not how to smother, 

O tears that flow. 
We loved him ! Poet, friend, and tender brother,— 

Why shouM he go ? 

How sweet the music which had never failed him, 

How rich his store! 
How fittingly and fondly had we hailed him: 

Our own Tom Moore ! 

O soul of love. O knightly heart and loyal. 

Death is not thine ; 
Forever with the noble and the royal 

Thy name will shine. 

In the great city to which dear ties bound him, 

But yesterday, 
With the great hosts of freedom marching 'round him, 

Silent he lay. 

He too had thought to see that mighty number 

Of warriors grim ; 
He did not know that only peaceful slumber 

Was meant for him. 

O Freedom, as thy heroes, in their splendor, 

March by thee, here, 
Think of thy son, so loving, loyal, tender,— 

Spare him a tear. 

W^e find some cheer our heavy grief to leaven, 

Some joy to win; 
We know that at the great white gate of Heaven 

He enters in. 

He needs no tolling bell in any steeple. 

No requiem mass; 
From out the great affection of the people 

He may not pass. 

We bring our tears,— what more, now, can we proffer ? 

Behind his hearse 
Humbly I walk, with all I have to offer— 

Tliis love-born verse. 

Thank God, we know, while grief our hearts is wringing. 

And all seems wrong. 
Our sweet musician even now is singing 

A grand new song. 
Worcester^ Mass. 



— About 1400 species of orchids, iioo of 
ferns and 500 of palms and cycads are grown 
in the Botanic Gardens at Kew. 

— An electrical railroad 500 miles long has 
been planned in Russia to connect St. Peters- 
bdrg with Archangle. Its estimated cost is 
515,000 per mile, and the power is to be 
furnished by stations located along the line. 

— In machine shops it is a frequent occur- 
rence that particles of metal penetrate in the 
skin and eyes. Messrs. Frister & Rossman 
have, according X.Q La Jxcvue hidnstrieUe con- 
structed a magnet for the special purpose of 
extracting such particles. It is horse-shaped, 
polished and nickel-plated; the two branches 
are rounded off and end in a point only a few 
millimetres thick. Its attraction for iron 
extends for several millimetres. 



Our Junior Senator. 



Here in Worcester, where we are all so fam- 
iliar with Senator Hoar's pleasant face and 
white crown of hair, it seems odd to think of 
him as the junior senator of Massachusetts, 
yet that is what he is, for Senator Dawes is 
his senior in the Senate by two years of 
service. 

Everybody in Worcester knows Senator 
Hoar, and whenever he appears in public here, 
everybody who can do so goes to hear him 
speak. He always makes a good speech, de- 
livering it in his calm, slow, impressive man- 
ner, and using the most felicitous of language 
at all times. 

Senator Hoar really belongs in Light's 
series of "Famous Worcester People," for he 
ha.s, of course, more of a national reputation 
than other of Worcester's present citizens; 
and that reputation is an enviable one. He 
has been especially prominent in Senate affairs 
of late, and the importance attached by press 
and people to his slightest utterance on matters 
of state shows in what high regard his opinion 
is held. And Senator Hoar has come honestly 
by his fame. Through his long life he has 
been a hard and faithful worker and a con- 
scientious servant of the people. He has 
never shrunk from any responsibility which 
has come upon him, and he has been active in 
many good causes. 

George Frisbie Hoar was born in Concord, 
Mass., August 29, 1S26, and hence has almost 
reached his sixty-fourth birthday anniversary. 
His father was Samuel Hoar, a name honored 
throughout the land. Senator Hoar's ancestry 
was, and is, a just cause of pride to all the 
family. John Hoar, the earliest settler of the 
line in this country, came from Gloucester- 
shire, England. Among his ancestors was one 
of the early presidents of Harvard College. 

Senator Hoar's father, contemporary with 
Webster, Choate and Mason, had repute al- 
most equal to that of his contemporaries as a 
statesman and legal adviser. He was strongly 
opposed to slavery and his judgment was 
adhered to in many matters of state and na- 
tional importance. 

The maternal ancestors of Senator Hoar 
were no less note-worthy, his mother being a 
daughter of Roger Sherman, one of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence and one 
of Connecticut's most famous statesmen. 

Surrounded by refined and cultured influ- 
ences, all tending to inculcate lessons of patri- 
otism and noble aspirations, Senator Hoar 
gained his early education and prepared at 
Concord Academy for Harvard. His aptness 
and assiduity as a pupil were remarkable and 
Harvard proudly ranks him foremost among 
her many illustrious alumni. He was gradu- 
ated in 1846. 

After graduating from Harvard, he studied 
law first with his brother. Judge E. Rockwood 
Hoar, at Concord, later at the Har\'ard law 
school and, finally, witli Judge Thomas of 
Worcester, from whose office he was admitted 
to the bar in 1849. 

He chose Worcester as his residence, and 
here he has passed the most active years of 
his life, leaving the city only for national duties. 
In 1852, he went into partnership with Judge 
Emory Washburn, remaining in this relation- 



lyia HT 

ship until two years later, when Mr. Washburn 
became Governor. Subsequently, he was as- 
sociated in law practice with Judge Devens 
and J. Henry Hill, Esq. 

With a keen mind and careful judgment. 
Senator Hoar became a lawyer of great skill, 
and early was considered an authority on points 
of law. His reputation and ability, coupled 
with an active interest in all local and state 
affairs, soon led him into prominence as a poli- 
tician. In 1846 he was the chairman for the 
committee of the Free Soil party in Worcester 
County, and in 1851 he was elected a Repre- 
sentative to the General Court, being the 
youngest member. Five years later, he 
entered the state Senate. During his ser- 
vice at the State House, he easily became a 
political leader, while his sagacity and upright- 
ness won for him the esteem and respect of all 
with whom he was associated. 

From the first, he was destined to become a 
national stateman and, in 1S68, he was elected 
U. S. Representative in place of Hon. John D. 
Baldwin. His entrance into Congress was a 
brilliant one, for, during his first session, he 
achieved many remarkable successes and 
showed, to his friends, what a powerful ally 
the Republican party had gained and, to his 
enemies, politically, what a shrewd contestant 
must be fought against. He was on the com- 
mittees on Education and Labor and in defense 
of many bills, emanating from these com- 
mittees, he made strong and convincing 
speeches. At one time, the Bureau of Educa- 
tion was threatened with abolishment, by an 
adverse report by the Committee on Appropri- 
ations, but by a timely, masterly speech the 
Bureau was saved by Senator Hoar. During 
the same session, he boldly vindicated Gen. 
Howard from the charges preferred against 
him by Fernando Wood. 

Such were a few of the ways in which he 
gained such an enviable reputation as a de- 
bater and a legislator during his first session 
in Congress. 

The next year he made an equally fine repu- 
tation by his fair, conscientious dealing with 
contested election cases, and he was honored 
alike by both parties. In 1876, he was the 
manager of the famous impeachment of Secre- 
tary Belknap. The same year recorded his 
election to the U. S. Senate, to succeed George 
S. Boutwell; he was re-elected in 1883 and 
again in 1889. 

It is impossible in this brief sketch to out- 
line even his many successful achievements in 
the Senate. He has been chairman of the 
committee on Privileges and Elections and 
has done valiant service on the committees on 
Claims, Library, etc. His strong arguments 
on the tariff are widely quoted. In 18S0, he 
was unanimously chosen as Chairman of the 
National Republican Convention, and his name 
has often been mentioned for the highest hon- 
ors which the government can bestow, but the 
cry has always been : "We cannot spare him 
from the Senate." There, he surely is con- 
sidered one of the most reliable champions of 
national progress whom our country can claim. 
Senator Hoar has been a member of the 
Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and 
a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. He 
has received the degree of Doctor of Laws 
from Harvard, Amherst, Yale and William 



and Mary College, the latter having been re- 
established largely through his effort, affer 
the war had ruined it. 

While primarily a statesman, Senator Hoar 
is a fine scholar and his library, of which he is 
justly proud, is a grand memorial to his schol- 
arship. He is, moreover, prominent in all 
movements of education and research, being 
President of the American Antiquarian Soci- 
ety, trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archae- 
ology and connected with many similar na- 
tional organizations. 

While Senator Hoar is thus a "public serv- 
ant," he has by no means lost interest in 
Worcester affairs, and many progressive move- 
ments owe much to his fertile brain and strong 
will. The Public Library, the Polytechnic 
Institute and Clark University are some of the 
institutions to jom in this debt of local grati- 
tude to him. 

In his private life, Senator Hoar is beyond 
all reproach, and his purity and honor are set 
too high to be assailed. He has been twice 
married, and has two children living, one of 
whom. Col. Rockwood Hoar, is one of the 
ablest and most highly esteemed of our 
younger citizens. 

Senator Hoar's literary attainments have 
been hinted at. He is said to read Greek as 
most of us read English, and carries about a 
copy of Thucydides to peruse for amusement 
It has sometimes been said that he had no 
"funny bone," but those who know him well 
have frequently found him to be possessed of 
a graceful and pungent wit, and a late illus- 
tration of it is found in the letter to the Pitts- 
burg Post which has just been widely circu- 
lated. 

Senator Hoar is known among newspaper 
men as the worst man to interview, in the 
country ; yet he is a pleasant talker and on 
occasion converses with great eloquence and 
wisdom. 

The tribute which Secretary Blaine pays 
Senator Hoar in his "Twenty Years of Cong- 
ress " is a glowing one and, referring as it does 
to Senator Hoar, during his first session 
in Congress, it contains something of a 
prophecy which has been grandly fulfilled in 
the later life of this noble statesman whom 
Worcester delights to honor. Of him Blaine 
says: 

"Eminent in his profession, successful in his 
political career, Mr. Hoar super-adds accom- 
plishments which neither practice of law nor 
participation in public affairs can give. In 
certain fields of learning, he has few peers. It 
may be questioned whether his knowledge of 
our Colonial and Revolutionary history does 
not surpass that of any contemporary. In 
truth, Mr. Hoar is a Puritan, modified by re- 
ligious progress of two centuries but still a 
Puritan, in manners, in morals, in deep earnest- 
ness, in untiring energy. He is independent 
without self-assertion, courageous without bra- 
vado, conscientious without Pharasaism. In 
intellectual power amply developed and thor- 
oughly trained, in force as a debater both for- 
ensic and Parliamentary, Mr. Hoar is entitled 
to high rank and his rank will steadily increase, 
for his mind is of that type which broadens 
and strengthens by conflict in the arena of 
discussion." 



In the World of Letters. 



Frederick tlie Great lias said, "Books make 
up no small part of human happiness," and 
few, if any, would dispute the statemetit. 
•Surely, life would be empty and dissatisfying 
without friends, and books are our never- 
changing friends. How necessary, therefore, 
that we should choose wisely our friends and 
leave hastily unworthy acquaintances in book- 
lore. 



We hear much at present about agnosticism 
and kindred doctrines. Edgar Fawcett, au 
thor of "A Daughter of .Science," has written 
a most fascinating treatise on agnosticism, of 
which Col. IngersoU says, "No intelligent, 
honest man can read what Mr. Fawcett has 
written and then say that he knows the origin 
and destiny of things — that he knows whether 
an infinite being exists or not, that he knows 
whether the soul is or is not immortal." 

The increase of these cleverly written essays 
on agnosticism has called forth an equally- 
clearly presented composition entitled, "The 
Way out of Agnosticism," by Prof. Abbott, 
late professor of philosophy at Harvard. The 
author is a logical thinker, a great scholar and 
his arguments are as flawless as those of Faw- 
cett and his school ; the book will be of great 
service to Christianity. Another excellent ar- 
ticle, published in book form, is "Personal 
Creeds: or How to Form a Working-Theory 
of Life," by Dr. Newman Smyth. This has 
been called forth by the recent agitation upon 
the revision of creeds. 



Two readable books on biography are"Noted 
Men of the Solid South," and a second book 
of biographical essays, "Views and Reviews ; 
Essays in Appreciation," by W. E. Henley. 
This book is cosmopolitan in nature, including, 
in its lists of subjects, Tolstoi, Balzac, Thack- 
eray, Longfellow and many other noted men 
of letters. 



Harper and Brothers offer two new books to 
the public by Lafcadio Hearn. A few months 
ago, "Martinique Sketches " by this author 
gained much favorable criticism. "Youma," 
the story of a West Indian slave girl, is full of 
pathos and beauty. The story of this people 
cannot fail to be full of interest, and told in 
Mr. Hearn's poetical style, the book serves as 
an excellent companion. Hearn is an adopted 
American, being of mixed Greek and English 
blood. 



A novel written anonymously, "The Dan- 
vers Jewels and Sir Charles Danvers," is be- 
coming so popular as to cause much specula- 
tion as to its author. 



Readers of Harper's Magazine are finding 
a rich treat in "Port Tarascon," by Alphonse 
Daudet, translated by Henry James. The il- 
lustrations are highly entertaining and the style 
is charming. It is said that the home of Dau- 
det is full of birds and flowers. Daudet is 
extremely near-sighted and writes while stand- 
ing at a high desk. . 



One of the most popular books of the sum- 
mer, among fiction, is "The Lawton Girl," by 
H.irold Frederic. The .story is intcrcstirg 



L I (i M T 

and clean, and the characters well worth study- 
ing. Mr. Frederic is the London correspond- 
ent of the New York Times, a young man of 
great promise and brain power and very pop- 
ular in London society. 

London's literary lion, Kudyard Kipling, is 
becoming popular in America, but the news- 
paper humorists are after him and are burlesiju- 
ing his style. His short stories, "Plain 
Tales from the Hills," stories of life in India, 
are a change from the ordinary short story of 
the day and give several glimpses of military 
and social life in India. The author is a poet 
as well as a story-writer, and his poems show 
much power. A much quoted passage is from 
his prelude to "Departmental Ditties," 

" I have eaten your bread and salt, 
I have drunk your water and wine, 

Tile deaths ye died I have watched beside. 
And the hves that ye led were mine. 

"Was there aught that I did not share, 

In vigil or toil or ease, 
One joy or woe that I did not know, 

Dear hearts across the seas ?" 

" I have written the tale of our life 

For a sheltered people's mirth, 
In jesting guise — but ye are wise. 

And ye know what the jest is worth." 

Of our women Kipling says : "American 
women are marvelously bright. I am constant- 
ly wondering how they learn so much and tell 
it so readily." 

"Six to One," Edward Bellamy's "Nan- 
tucket Idyl" andhisfirst story, is being revised 
and read this summer. It is a simply told 
romance of a man's friendship with six Nan- 
tuckut girls, which ended in love for one. It 
is lucky he didn't love them all. The descrip- 
tions of Nantucket life and scenery are good, 
but the story is so unlike Bellamy's later efforts 
that one would not easily guess the author. 

The "Bellamy boarding-house," on the co- 
operative plan, in Decatur, 111., is attracting 
much attention. It is known as the "The 
Roby," and the people thus living number over 
fifty. Each member pays $2q^ a week for 
board and the place claims a great success in 
every way. 



Crumbs. 



Edward Eggleston's famous story, "A Hoos- 
ier School-master," will be used in some public 
schools as a reader, much to the delight of the 
children. 

Mexico is said to have 3,000 authors living 
in the country, yet Bok well asks, "Who has 
heard of them ?" 

Louise Chandler Moulton is in Rome writing 
a new story, to be brought out next year. 

It is said that a letter by Carlyle brings S5, 
while one by his wife costs gio. Three love 
letters by Keats brought $150 each recently, 
while his authograph is worth $25. 

It is said that the original transcript of Ed- 
win Arnold's, "The Light of the World," is 
to be presented by the author to Mr. George 
W. Childs as a token of friendship. 

In their "Spare Minute Series," the Lothrops 
have published "The Crown of Life," a col- 
lection of noble sayings by Henry Ward 
Beecher. The collection is made by Mary 
Storrs Haynes, and is preceded by a sketch of 
Mr. Beecher by Rossiter Raymond. 



Quester and Answerer. 



[Communications to this department are solicited. 
They should be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 



John Brown's Body.— Musical Veteran 
asks: Who wrote "John Brown's Body Lies 
a Mouldering in the Grave?" The words and 
the air were written by Mr. Charles Hall of 
Charlestown, Mass., whose father was a well 
known dyer in Boston. When he wrote it the 
Answerer can not say. Probably it was soon 
after John Brown's execution at Harper's 
Ferry. In the Pall Mall Gazette of October, 
14, 1865, is this paragraph : "The street boys 
of London have decided in favor of 'John 
Brown's Body' against 'My Maryland' and 
'The Bonnie Blue Flag.'" The line, "We'll 
hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree," is not 
in the original song. 

Our Unfortunate Possessive Case. — 
Agnes says : It seems to me that it would 
be much better to say, "a friend of Mr. Jones" 
rather than "a friend of Mr. Jones's." What 
does the Answerer think about it .'' There is 
a prevalent and deeply-rooted inelegancy in 
the use of the possessive case in such phrases 
as "a friend of Mr. Jones's," a sister of Mr. 
Brown's," "a whim of Mr. Smith's," where the 
"s" with the apostrophe is clearly unnecessary. 
The "of" is quite sufiicient as a mark of the 
possessive, and the French in similar cases 
would say : " Un ami de M. Jones" "line sa-iir 
lie Af.Brow/i," and "jtnefantasiedeM. Smith,'''' 
all of which could be correctly and clearly 
rendered in English without the "s." It is a 
colloquialism and should be avoided. 

The Lake Poets. — Emily says : We hear 
about the "poets of the Lake school" and the 
"Lake poets." Will you please tell me who 
they were and why they are so called.' The 
poets designated in this way were William 
Wordsworth (1770-1S50), Samuel Taylor Cole- 
ridge (1772-1S34), and Robert Southey (1774- 
1S43). All of them resided in the neighbor- 
hood of the lakes of Westmoreland ; hence the 
term "Lake poets." 

Full Moons.- — Florence R. asks: Is it 
not something unusual to have two full moons 
in one month ? When has it ocurred before ? 
The Answerer is glad to see that Florence 
R. is interested to note the changes of the 
heavenly bodies and the great world overhead, 
but the occurrence spoken of is not infrequent 
enough to merit being called "a phenomenon." 
Perhaps some of Light's readers did not 
notice it, but there was a full moon twice dur- 
ing the month of July — on the 2d and 31st 
days. This happens about once in three years, 
as often, in fact, as the first full moon falls on 
the first or second or early on the third day of 
a thirty-one-day month. This occurred last in 
October, 18S7, and, before that, in December, 
1S84, July, 1882, August, 1S79, December, iS7r,, 
and so on. 

PuHLlc Pri.vter. — Typo asks: Who is the 
public printer of the L'nited .States.'' His 
name is Frank W. Palmer. 

Twenty-seven Years Aro. — Daily Rider 
asks : When was the Worcester Street Rail- 
way opened.'' August 31, 1S63. 



10 



What They Do at Newport. 

[regular correspondence of light.] 



Newport, Aug. 14, 1890. 

All the cottagers at Newport have been "in 
the swim" during the past week, and the gay- 
est part of the season, which usually comes 
later in August, seems to be just at its height. 
This gayety has doubtless been hastened by 
the arrival of the English fleet and the conse- 
quent festivities. Seldom has a more brilliant 
assemblage been seen even in Newport than 
was to be found at the "hop" at the Casino 
last week. The gay officers, with their brilliant 
uniforms, contrasting with the less startling 
but no less beautiful costumes of the ladies, 
made a varied and dazzling combination of 
colors. It was claimed that the English naval 
officers would require an entirely new outfit of 
brass buttons, since each Newport belle gained 
as many buttons as possible to be preserved 
as souvenirs. Lady and Miss Pauncefote 
were centres of attraction for Newport men, 
while the Newport belles were equally fascin- 
ating to the British visitors. The ladies' cos- 
tumes were simple in their elegance, while dia- 
mond crescents and tiaras were the favorite 
ornaments for the hair. 

Dinner parties, receptions, and picnics on a 
grand scale of elegance have rapidly succeed- 
ed each other during the week, some of the 
most sumptuous entertainments being given 
by Mrs. Whitney, the Vanderbilts, the Astors 
and others of "the 400." At one of Mrs. 
Whitney's luncheon parties a novel and beau- 
tiful effect was gained by table decorations of 
pink holly-hocks, these now superseding the 
favorite sweet-peas. 

The much-talked of dispute as to "who is 
Mrs. Astor" amuses Newport people as much 
as it does outsiders and gives rise to many 
jokes and conjectures. It was surely a wise 
decision of the New York post-master that 
any letters addressed to "Mrs. Astor" would 
be sent to "the dead-letter office," where sim- 
ilar letters for "Mrs. Brown" or "Mrs. Smith" 
would be sent. 

Much complaint is made against the ineffic- 
ient police system of Newport, and there is a 
general feeling of alarm because of the many 
robberies of late. The reckless display of 
wealth and jewels everywhere offers great 
temptations to thieves, who have gained booty 
worth many thousands of dollars this summer. 

There is a growing and deplorable tendency 
in Newport to make the new villas massive 
and grand, with an utter lack of quaintness 
and rusticity which has been such a charm in 
these summer homes. A walk along the cliffs 
on the four-mile "cliff walk" is one of the 
most enjoyable treats to visitors, and a better 
view of the grandness of natural scenery and 
the beauty of artificial effects can scarcely be 
obtainable elsewhere. On one side is the 
ocean with its grand waves beating against 
the rocks and cliffs and studded with craft of 
all descriptions. As far as one can see 
stretches the water, meeting and apparently 
blending with the horizon. The sea-breeze, 
strong and fresh, is a tonic of such efficacy 
that one cannot realize he has walked four 
miles without feeling any fatigue. Facing the 
walk and the ocean are some of the most beau- 
tiful of the villas, the summer palaces of these 



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favored people. The most picturesque of these 
houses are of wood, with granite trimmings and 
odd towers and verandahs, broad, delightful 
halls and rooms opening, by beautifully carved 
doors and stained windows, upon the wide 
piazzas, supplied with all manner of beautiful 
and comfortable couches. 

Other cottages are of stone or brick, covered 
with ivy and clinging vines, the houses offer- 
ing comfort and hospitality, but seeming to be 
built for pleasure and use rather than for dis- 
play and expenditure. 

Between these houses and the cliffs are some 
beautiful effects in landscape gardening, and 
despite the drought of the past summer the 
flowers are as flourishing as usual. Some 
houses are partially hidden behind huge palms, 
others are shaded by cacti, while in many 
places are most beautiful hydrangeas of varied 
colors and sizes. 

Conspicuous for its quaint, old-fashioned 
appearance in the midst of these rivalling 
palaces, is the square brick home of the his- 
torian Bancroft, the house with its white trim- 
mings being surrounded with a red brick wall 
topped by urns at regular intervals. Bancroft's 
favorite roses are seen in fewer numbers than 
of yore but in no less brilliancy. 

Contrasted with these older and simpler 
homesteads, stands out the costly and elabor- 
ate new palaces which are being built. The 
new marble house of one of the Vanderbilts, 
now in process of erection, promises to eclipse 
in size and massiveness all other houses, even 
the huge granite palace of the Gamwells, 
which is now nearly ready for occupancy. To 
keep pace with this growing tendency to rival 
each other in expending millions upon houses 
and gardens, comes a corresponding increase 
in the number and magnificence of equipages 
of all kinds, from the luxurious victoria, drawn 
by spirited horses, to the French cart and 
basket phxton, of less pretensions but no less 
comfort. 

As one turns away from this side of New- 
port life to the original "city by the sea," he 
cannot fail to find many objects of interest 
even more fascinating because of contrast with 
the elegance and extravagance of 1890. Trini- 
ty Church, dating back more than one hundred 
and sixty years, has been preserved in much 
of its original form and is still attended by the 
dlite of the city. The high box-pews, large 
enough for the families of a dozen or more, 
have been cushioned, but are otherwise un- 
changed and still afford hiding-places in plenty. 
The "clerk's desk" and "sounding-board" still 
remain in their original form, and the pulpit is 
still reached by a lofty flight of stairs. 

The original case of the -organ, given by 
Bishop Berkeley, about 1730, remains, though 
otherwise the organ differs little from modern 
instruments, since human ears cannot endure 
too great strains upon them. It is said that 
Bishop Berkeley offered this organ to the 
church in Berkeley, but it was refused because 
of Puritanical scruples, and hence was sent to 
Newport. 

Another interesting place to visit is the Jew- 
ish synagogue on Touro street. Many a 
stranger has gazed in wonder at the inscrip- 
tion — "Erected 5,603, by the bequest," etc. 
Services are held every Friday evening, and 
the interior of the building, with its separate 
apartments for the men and the women, is a 



strange contrast to the modern city church. 

It is, indeed, restful to visit these quaint old 
buildings with their simple architecture and 
modest surroundings, and it is to be hoped that 
no rude destroyer of antiquities will tear these 
landmarks down, but that they may long re- 
main in this city of wealth and magnificence 
as a testimony to the simplicity of early New 
England. A. M. R. 



A French Chesterfield. 
The mayor of a French town had, in accord- 
ance with the recent regulations, to make out 
a passport for a rich and highly respectable 
lady of his acquaintance, who, in spite of a 
slight disfigurement, was very vain of her 
personal appearance. His native politeness 
prompted him to gloss over the defect, and, 
after a moment's reflection, he wrote among 
the items of personal description; "Eyes dark, 
beautiful, tender, expressive, but one of them 
missing." 



If a Democrat, be a Bachelor. 

A singular fact about the Democratic Presi- 
dential nominations for the past thirty years is 
that all the bachelors have been elected and 
the Benedicts always defeated. The last 
installed Democratic president prior to Mr. 
Cleveland was James Buchanan, the bachelor 
from Pennsylvania. In i860, the Democratic 
nomines were Stephen A.Douglas and John C. 
Breckinridge, both married men, who were de- 
feated. In 1864, 1S6S, and 1872, the nominees 
were General George B. McClellan, Horatio 
Seymour, and Horace Greeley, respectively, all 
married men. In 1S76, the nominee of the par- 
ty, Samuel J. Tilden, a bachelor, received the 
popular majority. General Winfield Scott Han- 
cock, the hero of Gettysburg, was the candi- 
date in 1S80, but, with the usual luck of mar- 
ried men, he was defeated. In 18S4, Grover 
Cleveland, then a bachelor, was elected, and 
in 18S8, Grover Cleveland, a married man, was 
defeated. On the other hand, the Republicans 
have never nominated an unmarried man for 
President. 



Golden-Rod. 



BV MARY T. GALE. 



"The melancholy days" are on their way 
To banish summer vistas of dehght, 

And autumn blooms give cause to meditate 
"How blessings brighten as they take their 
flight." 

Where spring-time violets were wont to smile, 
"And little footsteps lightly print the ground," 

The sumach, clematis and astePblue 
Are with the radiance of autumn crowned. 

And in the fields, and by the wayside wall. 
There graceful grasses in the soft wind nod. 

With old-time tint and homely cheeriness, 
Appears again the yellow golden-rod. 

We welcome it with pleasure and content. 
Despite the thoughts awakened by its sight, 

Reminding us of chill and dreariness, 
And summer's verdure clothed in winter's 
white. 

For harvest but betokens planting-time, 
As night prepares us for another day. 

And what is dreariest and saddest now 
To happy recompense doth point the way. 

O, golden-rod, so cheery and so bright, 
Like gilded sun-set cloud at close of day. 

Thou pointest to the angels' reaping-time 
When death shall end in immortality '. 
1 1 •<.;,«/■<■;■, Af.iss. 



The Summer Young Man. 



The surpassinfi; charm of the summer girl 
having been set forth in fitting phrase, it is 
only simple justice to say a word or two in 
behalf of the deserving but less decorative 
summer young man ; though, in keeping with 
the natural limitations of the subject, "this 
picture" compared "with that," will be as a 
rough pen and ink drawing to a daintily fin- 
ished aquarelle. 

Considered individually and alone, the sum- 
mer young man may hardly be said to exist at 
all. His existence is dual in its very essence, 
and inextricably bound up in that of "another." 
His semblance in flannels and knickerbockers 
may be seen skimming along on his safety, 
like a prosaic sort of knight-errant in search 
of wind and muscle, and is often heard of as 
cleaving the aqueous element, or pulling the 
lusty oar on the rude billows of the wildly 
flowing river, or the glassy bosom of the 
treacherous lake. This is the athletic young 
man, evilly given over to the culture ot self, 
under its specious form of "physical culture," 
and ignorantly or wilfully heedless of the 
golden opportunities which the generous sum- 
mer time pours out at his very feet. 

The summer young man, pure and simple — 
that is, the real summer young man, is to be 
sought in far other scenes and avocations. It 
is as attendant, shadow, and foil of the sum- 
mer girl that he lives, moves, and has his be- 
ing. In this, his native element, he is a "joy 
forever," and arrayed in white silk coat and 
Stanley sash, who shall say he is not a "thing 
of beauty,"-as well ? He is lovely as the es- 
cort of the summer girl in the twilight prome- 
nade beneath the shadowing trees, or the 
romantic rays of the swinging electric lumi- 
nary ; useful as her protector through the 
snares and pitfalls of the summer theatre, and 
brave as the "outsider," in the dizzy delights 
of the rapid grip. But to see him in full 
bloom is to view him on the tennis ground, 
where, clad in canvas shoes and gaudy blazer, 
he handleth the harmless racquet and grace- 
fully disporteth himself to the delectation and 
delight of the summer girl, who is nothing if 
not generous and is ever ready magnanimously 
to condone shortcomings (where there is hon- 
est effort) — even in the game she does under- 
stand. 

It is as purveyor of sweets, however, that 
the summer young man looms into truly heroic 
proportions. In the performance of this high 
function, for which no doubt he was specially 
created, he feels that he has not lived in vain. 
For who may estimate the percentage of 
sweetness and charm the summer young man 
contributes of those qualities which render 
the summer girl so truly delicious, when he 
leadeth her to the ice cream and soda fount? 
If the summer young man is dependent on 
the summer girl, is not the vice versa ditto ? 
Without him she would be a "fair divided 
excellence," and some of the most important 
ingredients of her sweetness would probably 
be absent, as we have seen. Besides, she 
would be without the background of his short- 
comings, as it were, to throw into perfect re- 
lief her shining perfections — for it is as foil 
also, that this convenient young man is to 



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serve. He is the silver lining to her cloud, or 
rather the black lining to her silver cloud, or 
something or other of the kind. Her beauty 
shows against his ugliness, her grace against 
his ungainliness, her sweetness against his — 
But is this kind or grateful ? There are carp- 
ing critics who have said very unkind things 
about tlie summer young man ; who have at- 
tempted to confound him with that unhappy 
being, the chinless young man, while malic- 
iously directing attention to his alleged pro- 
pensity to "run" to "Adam's apple," and to 
his abnormal tenuity to shin development. 
This is pure envy — and bile. Let the vote of 
the summer girl be taken on the subject and 
see what her verdict will be. The summer 
girl is an angel, we all admit. But would she 
be quite so "fluffy," and altogether lovely, 
without the presence and assistance of the 
summer young man? "Sweets to the sweet," 
is the motto to which both cling, and with the 
most satisfactory results. However that may 
be, without the summer girl the summer young 
man would cease to exist at once. He would 
dissolve into thin air, and vanish from the 
earth, for pure want of a raisiiii d^Hre. 



II 



Making a Rat \A^ork. 
The main telegraph-wires in London run 
through the subways in which the gas-pipes and 
sewers are placed. The principal arteries are so 
large that it is easy enough for men to work in 
them, but the pipes through which the side wires 
branch off are much smaller, and great care 
has to be taken to preserve the connection be- 
tween the main and the lateral wires. Some 
years ago, men were repairing one of these lat- 
ter, and carelessly ommitted to attach it to a 
leading line by which it could be drawn to its 
place when mended. The blunder seemed like- 
ly to have serious consequences, for it was 
thought that the whole of the lateral pipe would 
have to be dug up in order to get at the broken 
wire. But one of the men came to the rescue 
with a happy thought, suggesting that a rat 
should be procured, and with a fine piece of 
wire attached to it sent through the pipe. This 
was done, but to the dismay of the workmen 
the new hand came to a stop after it had gone 
a few yards. The inventor of this idea was not 
yet, however, at the end of his resources, and 
by his advice a ferret was procured and started 
on the dilatory rat's track. There was a mo- 
ment of suspense before it was settled whether 
the rat would show fight or run away; but this 
was soon ended by the paying out of the wire, 
and in a short time the latest addition to the 
staff of the post-office appeared at the other 
end of the pipe. It was caught, the wire detach- 
ed, and then it was set free in recognition of 
the service it had rendered. By means of the 
wire the telegraph line was secured, and a long 
and laborious piece of work was saved. 



Postponed. 



HV A HICYCLEK. 



— It is said that the first clock which re- 
sembles our own was made in 1370 for the 
conceited Charles V., King of France. When 
Henry Vick brought it to him he said that to 
mark four o'clock by IV. was a mistake. On 
being told by the maker that he was wrong, 
he thundered out, "I am never wrong. Take 
it away and correct the mistake." From that 
time to this, as a tradition, clock and watch- 
makers have invariably used IIIL, instead of 
IV., on the dial. 



Sonic time ago I planned to take 
A trip for recreation's sake. 
Into the country I would go, 
And pass in fun a week or so. 
That I might be in latest style 
I bought for cash a new straw tile, 
Four flannel shirts, some yellow shoes, 
Two dozen ties of gorgeous hues. 
Two flannel suits of purest white, 
A tennis sash, a blazer bright, 
A racquet and a summer suit. 
Some patent leather shoes to boot, 
A Ashing pole, a Gladstone grip, 
A wheel on which to take the trip. 
And tiien, in counting up my cash, 
I found I had lx.'en somewiiat rash ; 
So that, for reasons that are clear 
My trip's postponed until ne.xt year. 
hidiattapolis, !nd. 

A Yankee Notion. 
A veteran of a Connecticut Regiment of Vol- 
unteers keeps at home a liandsome uniform of a 
Confederate officer which was never worn but 
by himself, and to which he owes some months 
or years of liberty, if not of life itself. He was a 
tailor before the civil war, and when he was cap- 
tured on a Southern battle-field, this fact 
reached the ears of the commander of the pris- 
oners' barracks. "Egad, I'll have the Yankee 
goose-pusher make me a new suit," said the offi- 
cer, gazing at his dingy uniform. The finest of 
gray cloth, with gold lace and bright buttons, 
was brought to the tailor-prisoner, who worked 
away cheerfully at the welcome employment. 
On the evening the suit was to be delivered, 
however, a bright idea occurred to him, and 
soon what was to all appearance a spruce Con- 
federate officer walked past the guards, and was 
seen no more in that part of "Dixie." History 
kindly draws the veil over the expletives vented 
on the "nutmeg Yankee" for not only gaining 
his liberty — he earned that — but for taking the 
precious suit which cost so many hundred dol- 
lars of good Confederate money. 



Travelled Among Honest People. 
A batch of letters was received in New 
York City recently from Puerto Cortez, Hon- 
duras, some of which had grown mouldy. One 
had been sent from New York on May 27, 1884, 
and a second from New Brunswick, N.J., bore 
the post-mark date of May 29th of the same 
year. Another letter from the place was only 
one year in being returned to the sender, but 
in that case the man to whom it was directed 
was dead. The record for the journeyings of 
letters, however, is way up in the twenties. The 
most curious case of all was that of a package 
of gold coin sent by a New York firm to an ad- 
dress in China. The owner of the gold was 
not found, and the package began a journey 
in search of him. After an extensive trip in 
China it was forwarded to the Philippine Is- 
lands. It lay for months and even years in va- 
rious offices, only to be sent out to another 
island. It got to the .South Sea Islands and 
then returned to China. At last it arrived in 
New York and was delivered to the house 
which had sent it out twenty-five years before. 
Not a single coin was missing. The package 
had been broken several times and had been 
patched up with new paper and new strings 
each time. It is needless to say that the per- 
son to whom it was sent never saw the gold • 



n 

Lady Craddock's Party. 

BY UNCLE JACK. 

Dear Lady Craddock! She was without 
exception the best hostess I have ever met; 
and her liouse, wherever it happened to be at 
the time, was always an ideal house to stay in — 
for bachelors especially. Nobody knew much 
about Lady Craddock, or cared to know it. 
We accepted her as we found her — an unaffect- 
edly vulgar woman of forty, loud-voiced, large- 
waisted, terribly impulsive at all times, and 
immensely generous at some. I think we were 
under a general impression that Craddock had 
been a big brewer, and had found her ladyship 
behind the bar of one of his public-houses. 
However, whatever Craddock's pursuits or 
vices may have been, he had fully atoned for 
them by dying young, and leaving his consort 
amply provided for indulgence in those hos- 
pitable feelings which did such honor to her 
heart. 

I was one of a party of friends whom she 
asked down to her " Rook's Nest" at Henley, 
for regatta week. 

I shall never forget our dinner-party on the 
third day of the Regatta. The dining-room 
was a long, low apartment, with French win- 
dows optning on to the lawn, and, as it was a 
warm moonlight night, these were thrown wide 
open. We had finished our repast, and by 
special request our hostess and the ladies were 
sitting with us over our cigarettes and coffee. 
Throughout the dinner there had been a per- 
fect babel of voices, nobody making any pre- 
tence of listening to anybody else, for as it 
happened we were all talkers — Gander, re- 
nowned tor his brutal absorption of the con- 
versation, Harry Barker, the actor, pretty Mrs. 
Vanburgh and her Stock Exchange husband, 
not to mention our little Lord P"laxleigh, who 
makes more noise than ten when he has dined, 
and half-a-dozen others — I forget their names, 
and am not sure if I ever knew them, for we 
all had sobriquets. 

I had been telling them about the woman 
who came down in the train with me. They 
would not hear of her till I said she was the 
most beautiful woman I had ever met, which 
was hardly accurate, and then they did listen 
for a moment or two. 

"Why didn't you ask her to come to dinner, 
if you were certain she was a lady?" said our 
kind hostess. 

"She didn't say where she was stopping," I 
explained. "But she wanted to know all about 
the Rook's Nest — what we did in the evening, 
and all the rest. Said her friends are friends 
of yours." 

"What was she like?" 

"Don't ask me — beautiful, and that's all I 
know. She was all in white — a boating dress. 
She talked all the way down " — 

"You mean she let you talk all the way 
down," said Gander. 

"But she would not tell me her name — said 
we were sure to meet again ; and I hope we 
shall." 

At dinner. Lady Craddock said: "If we 
are going to play cards to-night, we must break 
up at twelve o'clock. I asked you here to en- 
joy the quiet and peace of the river, not to 
turn the place into a gambling-house." 

"Of course, you hate baccarat yourself, don't 
you?" we all shouted. 



LKjHT 

The fact that foremost among our hostess's 
amiable weaknesses was an unbridled love of 
cards made her solemn appeal rather humor- 
ous. We all knew that, when once started, 
Craddy would play till rosy dawn peeped in, 
if permitted ; and she knew it herself. Wher- 
ever her ladyship might be, there was always 
certain to be a friendly little game after din- 
ner. It was a grand sight to see her take the 
bank herself, and conduct the business of the 
game in the worst possible French, paying out 
and raking in the counters with all the man- 
nerisms of the professional croupier of a sea- 
side casino. Since we had been at the Rook's 
Nest we had played into the small hours every 
night, with the result that no one had been 
ready to take the water, in our hired launch, 
till about lunch-time. We had played a very 
small game at first, but a run of luck for the 
bankers had hastened the natural course of 
events, and the punters had begun to plunge 
sooner than usual. The circumstance that 
dear old Craddy was good for any amount on 
simple note of hand, I am afraid, had led some 
of the company to indulge in a far freer and 
bolder game than was habitual with them. 

Well, we sat down at the table, and made 
ready to play. The three packs were shuffled 
together and formally cut for the banker, when, 
glancing out into the moonlit lawn, I saw a 
woman's face at the window, peering into the 
room. 

The next instant it vanished. 

"Hallo, there's a woman in the garden!" I 
cried out. Our hostess had a good many re- 
spectable friends staying at Henley, and it 
might be better to avoid being discovered at 
our innocent little pastime. 

"One of the servants ?" 

"No, a lady dressed all in white." 

"Your friend of the train, come to look you 
up, perhaps," said somebody. 

"I shouldn't think so," I said nervously. 
"But it did look rather like her. I will go out 
and see." 

So, vacating my place, I opened the window 
and stepped out into the garden. 

There was nobody there, yet I was certain I 
had seen somebody at the window, and, as I 
fancied, looking intently at me. I had made a 
tour of the lawn and shrubberies, had lingered 
a minute at the water's edge, watching two or 
three lamplit boats glide softly down the stream, 
and listening to voices singing to the soft strains 
of a banjo and concertina in the distance, and 
was thoughtfully returning to the house, when 
suddenly I came face to face with her. It was 
the unknown lady of the train. I had hardly 
time to make sure that this was so before she 
spoke, looking me steadily in the face. 

"I have found you out a/ last^ 

"Found me out?" I murmured feebly, ex- 
tremely uncomfortable, without exactly know- 
mg why. 

"Yes ; after so long too," she said, coming 
closer; and then, without a shadow of warn- 
ing, she threw herself into my arms and hung 
round my neck, gasping hysterically. 

"For Heaven's sake, madam," I cried, vain- 
ly struggling to extricate myself, "let go! You 
have made a mistake — you have collared the 
wrong man .' They will see us at the house !" 

Oh, if I could only have guessed what was 
going to follow my indignant protest, I would 
have certainly remained locked in her embrace 



throughout the fiw remaining hours of the 
short summer night ! 

"A mistake — made a mistake?" she gasped; 
then, letting me go, she gathered herself to- 
gether as if for an effort, and uttered the most 
piercing shriek I have ever heard. 

"The shrill-edged shriek" of a woman is a 
terrible thing to have to listen to at any time, 
most of all at night. Even in the far distance, 
such a cry as my lady produced would prob- 
ably curdle the blood of most of us; but close 
in one's ear — Oh, it was too awful ! It positively 
froze me. 

"For God's sake, hush?" I cried. 

But it was no use. Again and yet again that 
fearful yell rent the stillness of the night, and 
echoed and re-echoed down the shadowy 
river. 

Tumbling one over another, Lady Craddock 
at their head, with all the servants following 
close on their heels, they came out of the 
French windows, down the lawn, to where we 
two stood facing each other. 

It must have been a curious scene to the 
calm observer, but nobody was anything like 
calm, unfortunately. They closed round us, a 
ring of terrified, inquiring faces, my friends 
close to me, yelling a thousand questions in my 
dazed ears ; behind them the men-servants, 
frightened out of all respect for persons, and 
in the background the maids. The boats on 
the stream were rapidly drawing in-shore, while 
the occupants roared out that the assistance 
was handy. Down and up the tide, on either 
bank, hundreds of dogs were howling in a 
ghastly chorus of sympathy. At intervals, 
from the opposite shore, a feeble cry of 
" Police " was raised to Heaven. While I, the 
center of all eyes, was peremptorily called on 
for a lucid explanation of the conduct of the 
total stranger who confronted me. To borrow 
a figure of speech from the railway novelist, I 
think I may safely say that the half-hour which 
followed was indelibly burnt into my brain on 
the spot. 

"It is some horrible mistake," I managed to ' 
get out at last ; " this lady I have only seen 
once in my life before — in the train the other 
day, when we talked chiefly about the weather 
— and now she evidently mistakes me for some 
one else." 

"He says that!" the lady broke in — and I 
knew that her clear, bell-like tones penetrated 
right across the river — "the man who deserted 
me three years ago — left me to beg or starve — 
stands there and says he never saw me till 
this minute !" 

A shudder ran through the group at this 
ominous statement. Instinctively I felt the 
confidence of my friends slipping from me. 

"It's all a mistake !" I cried again, "a ter- 
rible mistake." What else could I say? 

"Are you quite sure it is a mistake, sir?" 
said my hostess, speaking with a dignity and 
severity that I never guessed she could have 
summoned up. "Are you certain that this lady 
is making a mistake ?" 

Then — while I wildly vowed and protested 
my innocence, turning in my despair from one 
to another, as one by one they shifted uneasily 
away from me, till I found myself appealing 
even to the butler — this strange creature asked 
me questions too awful to whisper. 

"Did I remember the house in the Rue de 
la Chaise at Paris? Who shot the bank 



courier in the Buda-Pesth express? Had I 
forgotten the night that we tied together from 
the gaml)Iing den in Soho ?" and a hundred 
far worse. 

My brain reeled nnder the ordeal. I plucked 
at the train of Lady Craddock's evening-dress, 
and she snatched it violently away and tore it. 
I think I went down on my knees in the end. 
I know I swore at my supposed victim, and the 
voices of the maid-servants and some men on 
the river cried, ".Shame on you, you villain?" 

We seemed to have been several hours on 
the lawn, when at last relief came to me. 
Without any of us noticing his arrival from 
the river, a tall, white-haired man of sixty or 
seventy stood among us, talking to my ac- 
cuser. 

"My unhappy child ! what is this you have 
done ?" he said, taking her gently by the hand. 
" ^'ou will break my heart, you will break my 
heart I" The words had a magical effect on 
the white woman. At the first sound of the 
old man's voice she trembled violently, and 
drooped as if about to faint: from the mo- 
ment that he touched her hand she clung close 
to him. and never spoke again. 

"My dear lady," said the man, going over 
to Lady Craddock, "what can I say to explain 
the conduct of my poor child ! She is but 
recovering from a brain fever, and is subject 
to .strange delusions. I missed her from my 
house-boat an hour ago — her attendant had 
fallen asleep. Can you pity a father, and for- 
give his unhappy child her misfortune ?" 

Dear Lady Craddock was kindness itself to 
the man and the woman. He said he would 
call next day ; his name was Colonel Vavaseur, 
and his house-boat was the Claribel. Just be- 
fore pushing off with his daughter in their 
boat, he whispered to Craddy that it was a 
sadder case than we could guess at. 

And it was. Even I was sorry for him, but 
I did not feel safe till "the unhappy child " 
had disappeared in the darkness. Then they 
all clustered round me and told me they knew 
how it would end. My hostess said, "Forgive 
me for suspecting you," and kissed me on the 
forehead, after which the good-natured creature 
sobbed outright in her penitence at wronging 
a friend. 

You can guess the rest. Yes, they had com- 
pletely cleared the Kook's Nest of every piece 
of portable property. For the last half-hour, 
while we had all been fooling about on the 
lawn, listening to the preposterous accusations 
of a stranger, some more of "the unhappy 
child's" friends had found a clear field for 
their operations inside the house. The burglars 
had taken absolutely everything of value ; 
Flaxleigh's cigar-case, little Mrs. Vanburgh's 
winnings, Craddy's portemonnaie — in short, 
everything on the table except our I O U's 
(those, which might have been spared, they 
left) ; the plate in the dining-room, the bric-ii- 
brae and silver odds and ends in the drawing- 
room, jewelry from the bed-rooms, and here 
and there a piece of furniture. They must 
have had a van outside, and worked fast to 
gut the place so thoroughly as they did. 

When one comes to think of it, it appears 
incredible that we should all have been de- 
ceived by so shallow a trick, "such an old 
lay," as the detectives called it ; but then they 
did not hear the blood-curdling shriek of the 
poor child "divide the shuddering night." 



L 1 (I HT 

Nobody had ever heard of the Claribel house- 
boat, or the Colonel or his afflicted daughter; 
and the police have entirely failed to trace any 
of the stolen property. 

I wish I was sure that Lady Craddock does 
not suspect me of having been in the swim ; 
but 1 am not. She has never asked me to stop 
with her since that Henley week, and (iander 
says he is afraid she never will. 



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Common Sense About Shoes. 
Never try to wear a shoe that is too small for 
you, nor one that is not a good fit for your foot. 
ISy good fit is meant one that fits sufficiently 
snug not to wrinkle, nor to allow your foot to 
slip around in the shoe, yet loose enough to al- 
low plenty of ease and comfort; with s(|uare 
toes, low, broad heels, and particularly from 
three-quarters to one inch longer than you could 
wear,if you allowed your big toe to go to the end 
of the shoe. A long shoe gives a more graceful 
effect to the foot, is more comfortable and lasts 
longer. Be careful not to run your shoes over 
at the heels or sides; this is the result of care- 
fessness, and in many people really amounts to 
a deformity, besides quickly ruining a shoe. 
Never let shoes get hard or dry, by drying them 
by the fire, which dries and injures them bad- 
ly; dry them gradually, and if quite wet rub on 
a little bit of castor-oil or tallow before drying, 
as the steam generated in a wet boot or shoe 
will scald it and cause it to crack. Occasionally 
wash off the old dry blacking, applying a little 
castor-oil. Do not put on a thick, heavy coat or 
two coats of blacking. When polishing shoes, 
a gentle brushing, with a soft brush, is better 
for the shoes than the vigorous work of the 
boot-black. Never put on, or handle, a patent 
leather, when it is cold; always warm it thor- 
oughly before bending the leather; if put on 
when warm, and in a warm room, a patent lea- 
ther shoe may be worn out in the cold without 
injury. Do not wear rubbers over a nice, new 
pair of shoes, as they spoil the leither. Keep 
an old pair to wear under rubbers when possi- 
ble; always take your rubbers off when enter- 
ing the house. — Good Housekcepiw^. 



Bless You, Cucumber. 
The London Hospital, a paper which tells 
us all about our ills and how to avoid them, 
defends the cucumber warmly. It says: 
"Many people are under the impression that 
cucumber is very indigestible, and when tliey 
eat it they do so under protest, and with ap- 
prehensions of possible dire consequences. 
How this delusion can have arisen it is difli- 
cult to say, unless it be that cucumber is often 
eaten with salmon and other indigestible 
table friends. It is not the cucumber, howev- 
er, but the salmon that sits so heavily upon 
our stomach's throne. Cucumber, in fact, is 
digestible when eaten properly. It cannot, 
indeed, be otherwise when it is remembered 
that it consists mainly of water, and that parts 
which are not water are almost exclusively cells 
of a very rapid growth. In eating cucumber 
it is well to cut it into thin slices, and to mas- 
ticate them thoroughly. Even the vinegar 
and the pepper that are so often added to it 
are of service to the digestion if not taken in 
excess. The cucumber, as every one |knows, 
belongs to the melon tribe, but in our some- 
what cold country it does not grow to any very 
large size, and therefore it is firmer and looks 
less digestible than its congener, the melon. 



Women of the World. 



— Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is forty-four 
years old, and if that means that .she is an "old 
maid," she is a very pleasant "old maid." 
She has taught .school, edited a paper, been 
mistress of the White House and written a 
novel and a book of essays which might have 
been worse. 

— Pauline Marie Elizabeth Wedde — with a 
dozen other names thrown in casually — of 
Thuringia, is eight feet, four inches, in height. 
Her figure is well proportioned and handsome. 
She is sweet sixteen, and it is cheerfully 
prophesied that she has not yet attained her 
full growth. A ladder goes with this. 

— Patti's last farewell American tour made 
her richer by one hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars. How much will she make on her 
next one ? 

— Mrs. Jenne.ss Miller is said to be some- 
whst discouraged by the results of her visit to 
England, where her dress-system has been 
ridiculed severely, one wit saying that a skirt 
divided against itself can not stand. 

— The Princess of Wales's beauty is de- 
cidedly on the wane. To be sure it is time — 
she is nearly forty-six — but she has preserved 
her delicate loveliness .so long unimpaired that 
one parts with an illusion on beholding her 
now. She is ' fearSully and wonderfully made" 
up, though very artistically, and wears cjuanti- 
ties of false hair. Rumor declares that her 
royal highness wears a wig. The Empress 
Eugenie was a fiagrant example of this form 
of error. Before the downfall of the empire, 
rouge and pearl powder, red lip-salve and false 
yellow hair made her a perfect "guy." She 
looks a great deal better now, with her silvery 
locks and pale complexion. 

The True Hospitality. 
There is often a tendency to emphasize hos- 
pitality by scenery and service, rather than by 
spirit. If the arrival of a guest must cause an 
entire revolution in household management it 
becomes an event almost dreaded, even if de- 
sired, and, the hardest part of it is by no means 
the extra burden assumed by the hostess, but 
to passively endure it is, on the part of the 
guest, an even greater tax. Why not take a 
guest easily, if at all, and make a pleasure of 
hospitality rather than any sort of penalty ? 
The secret of making a guest happy is the easy 
simple showing of what one has, not the pro- 
curing of what one has not. It is a wrong to 
go into e.xtravagances one cannot afford. Any 
hotel can furnish these, but your friend, it is 
to be supposed, comes to you for something 
greater and sweeter and more permanent than 
the things which can be bought with a price. 
Let arrangements be in many ways a movable 
feast, as if the household were made for the 
people therein, and not the people for the house- 
hold, as seems to be the case in many a "well- 
regulated," fatally well-rgulated family. The 
great and growing popularity of the hotel sys- 
tem is largely due to its easy elasticity. Be- 
cause one does a certain thing at a given hour 
one day is no sign that he will desire precisely 
the same thing at precisely the same hour the 
next day. He is not a clock, to be wound up 
and kept in a state of exact mechanism. 
"Things are in the saddle and ride mankind," 
said Emerson, and, alas! we are all in too great 
danger of being ridden by things. 



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Some Short Stories. 



They tell of an engineer on the New Jersey 
Central Railroad who is one of those men who, 
no matter what the provocation is, never swear. 
In an accident his locomotive was smashed 
all to pieces. The engineer walked around 
the wreck, gazed at it mournfully, paused, and 
ejaculated : "Oh, fiddle!" 



Probably the man referred to below is un- 
like the engineer, although he did not say so 
when he told about a recent experience of his. 
"A few nights ago," he says, "I came home 
from my business utterly exhausted, and went 
to bed at ten o'clock. Just at midnight I was 
awakened by a peal at the bell. I rushed down 
and found a boy with a telegram. With some 
anxiety 1 tore it open. It was from my wife 
who is at our country-home, and it read: 'Send 
me five yards of black-velvet ribbon. No. 9, at 
once.' '.Maria,' I said,as 1 slowly climbed the 
stairs, I don't always take you for a fool, but 
in cases like this the telegraph company ought 
to do something to protect a man.' Well, I 
clambered back to bed and got to sleep again, 
only to be awakened at two by another awful 
solo on the bell. A second time I crawled 
down-stairs; a second boy, with another tele- 
gram. I opened this one. Again my wife: 
'Do go over to mother's gnd sleep to-night,' 
it said; 'I am sure you will sleep better.' 
'Maria,' I said again — then I stopped saying 
and only thought." 



When Napoleon the Third made a triumphal 
entrj' into Bordeaux soon after the coup ti'ctat 
it was arranged that from an arch of flowers 
under which he was to pass, an imperial crown 
should hang, surmounted by, "He well de- 
serves it." But the wind blew away the crown, 
and when the usurper passed under the arch, 
to the great joy of the Republicans only a rope 
with a noose at the end of it dangled there, 
with "He well deserves it" standing out in bold 
relief above it. 

Herr Goldmark, the composer, who is said to 
love the children of his brain with a truly 
fatherly affection, and never to lose an oppor- 
tunity of seeing how they are treated, was 
once traveling to hear a performance of his 
opera, "The Queen of Sheba," and in the 
train got into conversation with a lady, in 
whom he became much interested. He longed 
to make himself known to his fair companion, 
and at last ventured to say: "I suppose, 
madam, you do not know who I am ?" "No, 
sir, I do not," replied the lady. "Well, then, 
I am Carl (ioldmark, the composer of "The 
Queen of .Sheba.' " "Oh, indeed!" was the 
lady's reply ; "and is that a very good situa- 
tion ?" 

Here was a case where the "know nothing" 
doctrine was applied pretty forcibly. Professor 
Mahaffy was examining a man who had put 
himself down as an "agnostic" on entering 
college. He was having a hard time at 
Mahaffy's hands over some "crux" pa.ssages 
in a Greek book. "I believe, thir," said 
Mahaffy, "that you are— aw— are an agnothtic 
in religiouth matterth." The man feebly ac- 
quiesced. "Well, then, thir," said the pro- 



LICiHT 

fessor, "I can quite athure you that you are an 
agnothtic in Greek ath well." 



An old lady in Vienna ordained in her last 
will and testament that a Strauss waltz should 
be played at her funeral, for which each mem- 
ber of the orchestra was to receive a ducat. 
The heirs objected at first, on religious grounds, 
but the provisions of the will were distinct, 
and could not be violated without endangering 
their own claims ; so Strauss and his musi- 
cians were engaged and placed in a circle 
around the grave, and while the coflin was 
being lowered they played the favorite waltz 
of their late lamented admirer. 



An old lady who belonged to the times when 
courtesy was more elaborate than it is now, 
administered rather neatly a rebuke to a lad 
who did not come up to her ideas. She had 
known the boy's father when he was in Har- 
vard, as now was the son, and as the latter 
could hardly remember his parents, who died 
in his infancy, he was always eager to learn all 
he could about them. The youth met the old 
lady at a country-place one summer day, and 
had an interview with her upon the wide ver- 
anda, where she was sitting when he arrived. 
He lifted his hat, and then, replacing it upon 
his head, went on talking with the old dame, 
who regarded him with looks of disapproval. 
"Do I look like my father ?" the young man 
asked at length. "I can not tell," the old lady 
replied, dryly ; "I never saw him with his hat 
on when he talked with a lady." 



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A very original parting between a husband 
and wife recently took place at the New York 
docks. The lady was about to make the voy- 
age to Europe alone, like many other fair 
Americans, while her lord stayed at home to 
work and supply her with tne necessary funds 
for her tour. After placing his wife on the 
Cunard liner which was to convey her to Liv- 
erpool, the husband withdrew to the landing- 
stage and addressed a group of men who were 
loitering about : "Wliich of you would like 
to earn a dollar ?" Two or three answered in 
the affirmative, and the gentleman, after se- 
lecting his man, gave the following orders : 
"You see that lady dressed in black standing 
at the ship's side ? Well, that is my wife. She 
will expect me to stand for at least twenty 
minutes and wave my handkerchief to her till 
the ship is out of sight. You understand ? I 
am very busy, and have no time to waste ; my 
wife is very short-sighted, so that it will do 
just as well if you take my place." "And if 
the lady looks through a telescope.'" "I have 
thought of that. Bury your face in your 
handkerchief, and she will think that I am 
overcome by emotion." "That will cost half 
a dollar extra." "All right. Time is more 
valuable to me than money — only do what I 
tell you. You may, in case she looks through 
the telescope, throw in a few hand-kisses at, 
let us say, three cents each." The merchant 
then thrust the money into the man's hand, 
and hurriedly looking at his watch, departed. 



— Trees that are struck by lightning before 
rain sets in are generally shattered,while those 
that are struck after they become wet are only 
scarred. The wet outside offers a fairly good 
conductor for the current, is the inference to 
be drawn from this fact. 



'iTED IN PUNCH. 



Of all the types in a printer's h.and, 
Commend me to the Ampersand, 
For he's the gentleman, seems tome, 
Of the typographical companie. 

O. my nice little Ampersand, 

My graceful, swanlike .Ampersand; 

Nothing that Cadmus ever planned 

Equals my elegant .Ampersand ! 

Many a letter your writers hate : 

Ugly Q, with his tail so straight, 

X, that makes you cross as a bear. 

And Z, that helps you with zounds to swear. 
But not my nice little Am]jersand, 
My easily dashed-off .Ampersand ; 
Any odd shape folks understand 
To mean my Protean Ampersand ! 

Notliing for him that's starch or stiff ; 
Never he's used in scold or tiff ; 
Stately ei>istles, so dull and grand, 
Mustn't contain the shortened and. 

No, my nice little .Ampersand, 

Vou are good for those who're jolly and bland ; 

In days when letters were dried with sand 

Old frumps wouldn't use my Ampersand ! 

But he is dear in old friendship's call. 
Or when love laughs in a lady's scrawl ; 
Come *S: dine, & have bachelor's fare. 
Come. & I'll keep you round & square. 

Yes, my nice little Ampersand 

Never must into a word expand ; 

Gentle sign of affection stand. 

My kind, familiar Ampersand. 
London, England. 



Hotel Dinner Mistakes. 
Those of us who have travelled much or 
who have been living at hotels this summer, 
will appreciate the following, which comes 
from the Hotel TJVrA;', an authority in such 
matters. The /T'erA/says: "More vegetables 
and fruit and less of meat .should be found at 
this season on some of the bills of fare gotten 
up by hotels. Not the least change in this re- 
spect is to be noticed on some of the best bills 
of fare sent to this office in the last two weeks. 
On an e.xcellent dinner bill, — it would be excel- 
lent in February — one finds no tomatoes, water 
melon, peas, beets, beans, etc., and unless a 
great deal is meant under the headline of 
"fruit," the bill is as far away from the vege- 
tarian's ideal as it can be made. People of 
carnivorous habits must have some meat food 
every day in the year, but even these must 
take a dislike to a menu having so few of the 
delicious fruit and vegetable dishes. Many 
people suppose they must eat a great deal of 
meat in order to be strong and maintain suffi- 
cient endurance to do their work. This is 
certainly ridiculous. The dray horse, that 
works al)out as hard as even man himself, does 
not complain of a bill of fare in which meat 
and game is not found. It is wonderful how 
little food of any kind is needed during the 
heated summer months, and especially how 
very little of the flesh foods are necessary to 
maintain strength and the best of health. The 
American becomes old fast because he over- 
loads his system with food made of blood and 
flesh. In spite of these unquestionable facts, 
and the additional one that meat is the most 
expensive food product the hotel keeper must 
buy, there seems to be not the least decline 
in the amount served at some of the American 
hotels ; on the contrary, the meat end of the 
bill is with some hotels as heavy and indigesti- 
ble as ever." 



LICiHT 



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Jmufm^ 



Gives Practical Points of Interest 

For every young man or woman who wishes to make the most 
of the time at their command. No school has ever grown so 
rapidly in public favor. No school employs so many teachers for 
the number of scholars. No school in this city has ever shown 
the results that have been shown this season by 

Becker's Business College. 

Our Pupils Have Taken Good Positions. 

Of all our immense graduating class this year only six pupils 
remain who have not obtained good positions. During the last six 
weeks of school the calls at the college for help were frequent and 

urgent and 

28 Pupils Took Remnnerative Employment. 



In our Shorthand and Typewriting department our success has 
been far beyond that of any similar department ever in Worcester. 
Our standard is high and we allow no shoddy work to pass. Every 
pupil who graduates must write from 140 to 150 words per minute 
and read notss readily. 

We Cannot Supply One-half the Calls We Have 

For Stenographers. Every graduate thus far has secured a position 
at not less than nine dollars a week within three weeks after com- 
pleting the course. 

Parents, Can You Make a Better Investment 

Than to send your sons or daughters to Becker's College ? 




ATTEND 




I^' Lowest rates consistent with good work. Send for circulars and elegant specimen. 



492 MAIN STREET, Clark's Block. 



The Travelers of Hartford. 

LIFE AND ACCIDENT. 

Jiastiis K Allen, 

SSQ^Main Street. District Agent. 



6. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S. 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 
518 Main St., Worcester. 
(i;^=Elevator. 




" IN HIS NANIE." 

Dedicated by special permission to the order of Tlie 
King's Daughters. For sale by 

A. E. PECK. 

368 Main street. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D B N T I S T 

(Office will be closed during August.) 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass, 



Fire Insurance ! 

EDW. E. LONGLEY, 

339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
ings and Household Furniture under the 
latest and most approved forms, at lowest 
rates. 



DR. D. F. NEGUS, 

D K N T I S T 

554 Main St. 

Best teeth, #8 per set. 



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GEO. N. MORSE, 



TEACHER OF 



Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HER KESIDENCK, 39 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

MISS C. KENNARD, 

-f Ladies' i Hair i Dressing^*- 

CHILDREN'S HAIR-CUTTING, 

And all kinds of Hair-work made to order. Wig-making 

a specialty. 

387 Main St., Groat's Block, Worcester, Mass. 

Ladies' hair dressed at their residence. 

MRS. W. M. COSHBURN, 

Ladies' Hair-dressing 

— AND — 

Hair-cutting Parlor, 
826 IVIAIN STREET. 
Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING i PARLORS. 
Bridal Ootfits and Evening Costnmes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

^":^WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL*^ 

527 MAIN ST. 
Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MRS. L. F. WALCH. Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STAMPING^- 

1^0- 2 ^;^7"a.lii-u.t Street, 

Mexican Work, Embroidery, Fine Needlework, 
Done to Order. 

Instruction given and material furnished. Goods sold 
on commission. 

MRS. S. M. KEYES. 

LADIES' HAIR CUTTING 

AND CURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 



SUPERFLUOUS HAIR CAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours : 9 to 1 1 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Nliss H. M: proctor, 

Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 



LICi HT 

Something to Eat. 



[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to CuUnary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester. Mass.] 



Veal Croquettes. 

Veal croquettes for breakfast can be pre- 
pared the night before, and so be ready for 
the table in a few minutes. Chop the veal 
fine ; mix half a cup of sweet milk with a tea- 
spoonful of flour. Melt a piece of butter the 
size of an egg and stir the flour and milk in it ; 
then let it come to a boil. Mix this thorough- 
ly with the meat ; form it in balls or flat cakes ; 
lay on a platter; scatter a little pepper and 
salt over it, and let it stand until morning. 
Then beat one egg very light ; add a little 
milk; dip the meat-balls in the egg, and then 
in cracker crumbs. Fry till brown in hot 
lard. 

Sweet Pickle. 

This receipt applies to plums, peaches or 
tomatoes. Four quarts cider vinegar, five 
pounds sugar, '/C pound cinnamon, two ounces 
cloves to seven pounds fruit. Scald the vine- 
gar and sugar together and skim, add spices, 
boil up once, and pour over the fruit. Pour 
off and scald vinegar twice more at intervals 
of three days, and then cover all close. A 
less expensive way : Take four pounds sugar 
to eight pounds of fruit, two ounces cinna- 
mon, one ounce cloves, one teaspoonful salt, 
one teaspoonful allspice. 

Pickled Red Cabbage. 

Slice it into a colander, sprinkle each layer 
with salt ; let it drain two days, then put into 
a jar, pour boiling vinegar enough to cover, 
put in a few slices of beet-root. Choose pur- 
ple red cabbage. Those who like flavor of 
spice will boil it, with vinegar. Cauliflower 
cut in bunches, and thrown in after being 
salted, will look red and beautiful. 

Peach Short Cake. 

One quart flour, one teaspoonful salt, two 
heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, two ta- 
blespoonfuls butter, one pint milk. Sift the 
flour, salt and powder together, rub in the 
butter cold ; add the milk, and mix into a 
smooth dough, just soft enough to handle; 
divide in half, and roll out to the size of 
breakfast plates ; lay on a greased baking tin 
and bake in hot oven twenty minutes, separate 
the cakes without cutting, as cutting makes 
them heavy. Have two dozen peaches peeled 
and cut in slices; use half of them to cover 
the bottom halves of short cake ; sprinkle 
plentifully with sugar and cream ; lay on the 
top halves with the crust downwards ; use the 
rest of the fruit over them and sugar plenti- 
fully. 

Tomato Salad. 

Pare with sharp knife. Slice and lay in 
salad bowl. Make dressing as follows : Work 
up saltspoonful each of salt, pepper, and fresh 
made mustard, with two tablespoonfuls of 
salad oil, adding only a few drops at a time, 
and, when thoroughly mixed, whip in with an 
egg beaten with four tablespoonfuls of vine- 
gar ; to.ss up with fork. 



* FIRST NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. * 

Office, First National Kank Biilliling, 

■43.0 3^ain. St., "V^orcester. 

CHAS. B. PRATT, President. 

R. JAMES TATMAN, V. Pres. and Treas. 
GEORGE A. PARK. Secretary. 



C. A. BOYDEN, 
Picture Frame IVl'f' g'r, 

And Dealer in 
EngrraTings, Etchings, and Art Ooods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

-ir Parle St., Worcester. 



Mrs. J. Schuyler, 

Graduate from the New York Training School, gives 

i^ MASSAGE TREATMENTS ^^ 

and different baths at her office for ladies and children 

only. Gentlemen treated only at their homes. 

438 Main St., ^Vorcester, Mass. 



IVIRS. C. A. ROBBINS, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS^^ 

No. 3S7 Main street. Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 



PICTURES IN GREAT VARIETY. 

— :o:— 

-4 Bay State Dollar Store 4- 

Directly opposite Barnard Si. Sumner's. 

* TRAVELLING BAGS OF ALL KINDS. * 



TURKIJH B/1TH5. 



F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 

Personal attention. Hours 
8 A.M. to9 p. M. Sundays, 



8 to 1 



: A. M. 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House 
Worcester, Mass. 




LE * JOLLY i FRENCH i DYEING 
AND i CLEANSING * 

First-ClaBS Work at Short Notice. 
Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gross & Strauss 
Cut out this coupon froui 
LIGHT, and bring Tit with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular pricee. 

MELVIN, PKOPRIETOK, WALNUT ST. 

WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton F*lace. 

COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDERED IN SU- 
PERIOR STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and deUvered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., PROPS. 

MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 



Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one lliglit, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



Home School. 

This popular Day and lioarding 
School for Girls will re-open Septem- 
ber 24, in new, enlarged and improved 
quarters at the corner of May and 
Woodland Sts. Miss KIMBALL is 
now at the school home, and will be 
glad to meet inquirers, or circulars 
will be sent on application. 

School of English Speech 

RE-OPENS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 

Heard Place, iS Belmont Street. 

Class and Private instruction in literature, history, 

Shakespeare, rhetoric, reading, speech culture and 

physical culture. 

MRS. JOHN C. CUTTER, Director. 

MISS SARAH E. LAUGHTON, Associate Director. 

HOWARD M. TICKNOR, A.M., Instructor in Read- 
ing and \'ocal work. 



Mrs. Throop's School 

For Young Ladies and Children, 

141 PLKASANT STREET, 
Re-opens October i. College Preparatory. 

Summer address, Rockport, Mass. 



Dress Cutting School. 

All wlio wish to understand every principle of dress- 
cutting should call and examine the various modern 
systems now in use ; the King of Squares, the Budding- 
ton, and others. Prices from Five to Fifteen Dollars. 
Every pupil thoroughly taught. I ime not Mmited. 
MRS. A. S. N E W COMB, 

236 Main Street. 

DO N'T Be Du ped 

There have lately l..fn j.luee.l up..n tho market 
several cheap reprints of an obsolete edition of 
" Webster's Dictionary." They are being olfered 
at a low price 

By 

dry goods dealers, grocers, clothiers, etc., and in 
a few instances as a premium for subscriptions 
to papers. 
Announcements of these comparatively 

Worthless 

reprints are very misleading; ; for instance, they 
are advertised to bo tlie substantial equivalent 
of "an eight to twt-Ivo dollar book," when in 
reality from A to Z they are all 

Reprint Dictionaries, 

phototype copies of a bonlc (I't.vi-r fnrty years 
ago, which in its day wa-^ S"M f, a- iilmtU S'l.nn. and 
that Ijook was mu^li pui^iTi-r in p.tpri , prnit.aiid 
binding to thes.- miitatiMn.s, ;(inl \\.<^ then tiit- 
best Dictionary of lli-' imi'.- in-.tf:h! "I being 

Long Since Obsolete. 



reprints of a like nature. 



LI(i HT 

About the House. 



^r 



The Genuine Kdition of Webster's TJna- 
bridg^ed Dictionary, whicli to-day is accepted 
as The Standard and The Best,contaiusover2000 
pages, with illustrations on nearly every page, 
and bears our imprint on the title page. 

G. & C. MERRIAM & CO., 

SFBINGFLELD, MASS. 



[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

*, Don't bathe in hard water ; soften it with 
a few drops of ammonia, or a little borax. 

*» If the coffee is not ground home when 
needed it mu.st positively be kept in a tight 
can. Beat an egg thoroughly, and add to it 
one teacupful of cold water. Wet the coffee 
thoroughly with a few table.spoonfuls of this 
mi.xture, and add it to the boiling water ten or 
twelve minutes before needed. The water 
should have just come to the boiling point ; 
continued boiling injures its flavor. After 
adding the coffee draw the pot near the edge 
of the stove where it will be six or eight min- 
utes in coming to the boiling point. As soon 
as it reaches this point remove it to the back of 
the range. 

*,Common gasoline is far superior to lucine 
or benzine for cleaning silk, woollen and kid, 
besides being cheaper, and the odor leaves the 
garments in one-third the time. 

*^ If you want a lovely odor in your rooms, 
break off branches of the Norway spruce and 
arrange them in a large jug well filled with 
water. In a few days tender, pale green 
branches feather out, soft and cool to the 
touch, giving the delightful health-giving odor. 

*»Keep nickel, silver ornaments and mounts 
bright by rubbing with woollen cloth saturated 
in spirits of ammonia. 

*^f. White gowns grow yellow if left to hang 
uncovered. Make bags for them and for your 
silk and velvets as well. Seal-skin retains its 
beauty for a greater length of time if kept in 
the dark free from dust. To make the most 
successful bags for these purposes use light 
calico, which has no fuzz and washes easily. 
Sew the breadths together, leaving the top and 
bottom open. Sew hooks and eyes on the 
bottom and run a shirr string in the top. The 
gown should first be put on a wire arm, and 
the bag drawn over it and fastened at the 
bottom with the hooks and eyes ; then draw 
the string over the arm, leaving the loop by 
which it is hung up uncovered. If the gar- 
ment is white, or delicate in color, put a cake 
of white wax in the bag to prevent it turning 
yellow. 

*f, Tut French chalk or magnesia on silk or 
ribbon that has become greasy, and hold it 
near the fire. This will absorb the grease so 
it may be brushed off. 

*s^ A heaping quart or four coffeecupfuls of 
tiour make one pound. 

*« How many women know how to prepare 
a perfectly fresh egg so that an afflicted 
stomach can eat it ? Pour boiling water over 
"the egg in its shell, let it stand on the tank in 
the water for five minutes. The egg will be 
nearly as smooth as custard, and is almost as 
easily digested as a raw one, while its flavor is 
something delicious. 

** For children who wear out the knees of 
their stockings badly, it is a nice idea to buy 
protectors, or little caps, that fit over the knee 
and protect the stocking. 



The Clark 
Sawyer Co 

478 to 482 Main St. 



Pencil Cotton Plant Dinner Sets, 112 
pieces, $ 

Sage Poppy Dinner Sets, 112 pieces, 

Mayflower Dinner Sets, 112 pieces, 

colors mat t)lue, pinlt and brown. 
Brown Thorn Dinner Sets, 112 pieces, 

on white body, 
Chester Dinner Sets, colors brown and 

still grey, 
Filley Dinner Sets, 112 pieces, colors 

green and brown. 
Hazel Dinner Sets, 130 pieces, colors 

brown and peacock, 
Blue-Grey Adelaide Dinner Sets, 130 

pieces, 
Pavot Dinner Sets, 130 pieces, colors 

dark brown and claret brown, 
Crane's-Bill Dinner Sets, 130 pieces, 

colors brown and pencil, 
Arcadia Dinner Sets, 130 pieces, col- 
ors brown and peacock. 
Brown Rosaline Dinner Sets, 130 pes, 
Dove Kent Dinner Sets, 130 pieces, 
Dove Kent Dinner Sets, 112 pieces, 
Enamelled Pavot Dinner Sets, 130 



Regular price, $25. 
Celeste Dinner Sets, 130 pieces, 
Mulberry Tournay Dinner Sets, 130 

pieces, 
Decorated Carlsbad China Dinner Sets, 

125 pieces, 
American China Dinner Sets, 142 

pieces, assorted decorations, 
Haviland Decorated China Dinner Sets 

Irom $50.00 to 



7.35 
8.50 



10.00 

10.50 

10.50 

12.00 

12.00 

12.00 

14.00 

15.00 
15.00 
16,00 
12.00 

17.98 

17.75 

23.00 

25.00 

30.00 

150.00 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



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Late Summer Fancies. 



*, Necklaces of all kinds have been revived. 
*» Entire bodices or waists made of beads 
on a foundation of net are something new. 

*, Gold is in favor ; gold braid, gold passe- 
menterie, gold lace and gold embroiderie are 
the favorite garnitures. 

», A wide box-plaiting of folded tulle, form- 
ing a thick ruche, is a becoming garniture for 
wide-brimmed straw hats. 

*, A capital new notion is that of the india- 
rubber-stemmed collar stud, which yields to 
every turn and movement of the neck, pre- 
venting all unpleasant pressure as well as 
preserving the buttonholes. 

*, New bangles are graduated silver balls 
strung on silver wire. They are usually worn 
over a strip of black velvet to give a better 
effect. 

*« Corsets seem to be revolving again to 
the Louis XV. straightness and high bust. 
Each season the corset becomes a still more 
studied portion of the dress, and the necessity 
for skill and intelligence in fitting is more 
obvious. 

*» Blouse waists and shirt waists of striped 
percale, muslin with small figures, or linen 
lawns, are very popular to wear with any kind 
of skirt, and have a cool, clean appearance. 
Sometimes these waists are made of India 
silk, foulard or wash silk. 

*, Heavy faille ribbons are chiefly made 
with a satin stripe in the middle of them, and 
a satin lisierc of a lighter shade of the same 
color as the ribbon. Sometimes two colors 
are used, and yellow satin on black faille, or 
steel blue satin on navy blue faille ground, 
produce handsome effects. 

% White embroidered muslins of the long 
princess-dress lengths, introduced last year, 
are made up in wrappers with fitted back and 
straight, loose fronts, while others are shaped 
like the full round cloaks, with shirring at the 
neck and waist, and in some of these are 
angel sleeves that fall below the knees. 

*» Large plaids have met with scanty favor 
this Summer, although they had been brought 
out in nice color combinations. This will 
prevent their being sampled extensively for 
next year. On the other hand, small squares, 
in subdued quadrangles, which are cut by 
lines that form larger squares, may find de- 
served recognition. English styles of worsteds 
in gray or mode in small squares, occasionally 
rendered more effective by means of small 
silk knots, will also be worn. 

*» Foreign fashion papers are already pre- 
dicting the revival of the Valois fashions in 
the coming season. Dresses are already being 
made abroad, for elaborate wear, with close- 
fitting waists laid in puffs, full sleeves slashed 
high on the shoulder and pointed \"andyke 
cuffs of rare old lace, such as are familiar in 
portraits of Marie de Medici and the women 
of her time. The Uirectoire cravat and full 
ruche are all that remain of the Directoire 
styles. Soft cream-white plaitings of sheer 
crepon, about four inches wide, cut in large 
saw-teeth on the edge, and tipped with a bor- 
der of gold or silver, are put in handsome 
watering-place toilets of wnite wool. This 
plaited ruche lies flat around the throat and 
forms a soft fall to the waist. 



Facts for Fine Costumes. 



CH.A.^»TEI?, 2C1. 



Kate, if you want bargains in corsets I can tell you where to get them. 

Where ? 

At 328 Main street — the Roya! Worcester Corset House. 

Their "Annual August Bargain Sale" is now in progress. They are manufacturers, and 
accumulate a large number of samples and f very August put them on sale at their retail store. 

But are these "samples" good ? 

Perfectly good to wear. They are sold off in this way because they are a little soiled. I 
buy them every year. 

I should not think they would have samples enough for a "Special Sale." 

O, yes; and they are worth, some of them, almost do^ible what they sell for. I know, for 
I have bought them. 

Then they put in a great many other corsets besides "samples." Corsets that may have 
become slightly soiled, or some style that they want to close out, they save and put into this 
"August Sale," as they call it. 

You need not be afraid of not getting your money's worth. You will get more than your 
money's worth, every time. 

It pays to go early, before the best ones are culled out. I am going tliere this very 
afternoon. 

I believe I'll go with you. 




ti3:e best II^T rrnE ttvToi^XjX). 
FRENCH SHAPES! LONG WAISTS! 

PRICES FROM $1 TO $6 EACH. 

STYLES TO SUIT ALL WANTS. 



Worcester Corset Co., 

Retail Store, 328 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 



NEW KODAKS 




"Yon press the 

button, 
we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles aud Siies, all Loaded with 
TraiiBpareiit Films. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THK KASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. KOCHKSTKK, N. T. 



ARTHUR C. KING, 

Importer and 

Decorator, 

FINE PAPER HANGINGS & DRAPERIES. 

Fine Frescoiug a Specialty. 

NO. 22 PEARL STREET. 




FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

In Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 



Yeast for the Spirits. 



NEAR SUMMER. 



WORCESTER, MASS 



One of the Current Jokes. 

"Well, I'm olim," said the electrician, when 
he had let himself in after midnight. 
"But why are you insulate ? " asked his wife. 

At the State House. 

FiK.ST Bill : It seems to me we ought to 
be acquainted with each other. 
Seco.n'U Bill: Yes, we've been introduced. 

They Knew How. 

"The 'Funny Man' is away this week. Let's 
put something good in his department." 

"All right. It would be cjuite a novelty. It 
must be easy to write such stufi. What shall 
we put in?" 

They are still thinking. 

Information Thankfully Received. 

Burly party: Are you aware, sir, that 
you deliberately placed your umbrella in my 
ear last evening. 

Little Blifferton: Very careless of me, 
I'm sure. I wondered what became of it, and 
— would it be too much trouble to ask you to 
return it? 

Well Quoted. 

"Now, boys," said the enthusiast, "let's give 
three cheers for the speaker and then go have 
a drink." 

"Excuse me," said the prohibitionist; "I 
cheer but I do not inebriate." 

Beware of Advice. 

First mail-clerk: Throw that package 
on the floor, Pete, and jump on it. 

Second mail-clerk: Why, wot ails it? 

Some fool man has marked it "With great 
care, please." 

But Would You Rake it ? 

"John," said Mrs. J., "you were talking all 
night in your sleep about a jack-pot. What is 
a jack-pot ? 

John (scornfully) : You know what a jack 
rose is, I suppose. Well, they can grow in 
pots, can't they.' — Li/c: 

She Had it Sent to the House. 

Woman (to drug store clerk) : Have you an 
article called a 2-cent postage stamp on sale ? 

Drug clerk (mechanically) : We some- 
times keep it, but I think we are out of it just 
now. There is very little demand for it. Quite 
inferior, I assure you. Now, we make an 
article of our own that — oh, it was a postage 
stamp that you want ! Certainly, here is one. 
Have it charged ? 

Incubator Patented. 

Maude: Papa, I thought you said this 
morning that Jack Brewer was no chicken. 

Father (grimly) : That's what 1 said. 

Maude: Then what does this mean (read- 
ing) — "Jack Brewer, stroke of the Yale crew, 
stepped jauntily out of the shell ?" 

Without Orders. 

"Look here! Who told you to strike?" 
asked the walking delegate of the lightning. 

"Nobody ; I struck because I felt like it," 
replied the liglitning in a flash. 



12 

Davis & Co. 

Sell Fine Ready Made 

^v-C L O T H I N G-4- 

— and — 

MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 



Custom Department 

Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 



The artist paints so wondrous fine 
That he makes a famous name; 

The printer cannot draw a line, 
But he gets there just the same. 

If for a printer you should seek, 
Needing one whose work is good, 

You'll find him at 3 Maple street, 
And his name is O. B. WOOD. 



RAYMOND'S 

VACATION 

EXCURSIONS. 

all travelling EXl'ENSKS INCLUDED. 



*20*AUTDMN*T0URS* 

of from five to si.xteen days' duration, and including 
visits to Hudson Kiver, Saratoga, Lake George, Lake 
Champlain, Ausable Chasm, the White Mountains, 
Isles of Shoals, Mount Desert, Moosehead Lake, 
Poland Spring, Montreal. Quebec, Saguenay and St. 
Lawrence Rivers, Lake Meniphreniagog, Lehigh Val- 
ley, Mauch Chunk, Watkins Glen, Niagara Falls, the 
Thousand Islands, Alexandria Bay, Adirondack Moun- 
tains, Lake Placid, Trenton Falls, liattletield of Gettys- 
burg, Blue Mountain House, Fortress Monroe, Old 
Point Comfort, Richmond, tlie Natural Bridge of Vir- 
ginia, Luray Caverns, Harper's Ferry, Washington, 
Mount \'ernon, etc. 

In addition to above. Tours throiigli the Yellow- 
Btoiie National Park, August 14, August 28, and 
September ii. 

Two Transcontinental Tours via the Northern 
Pacific Railroad, September 11 and October 13. 

Kxcurelon to Southern California direct- 
October 13. 

W. RAV.MOND. I. A. Whitcomb. 



i^W Send for descriptive circulars, designating 
whether book of "Twenty .\utumn Tours," Yellow- 
stone National Park Trips, or Across the Continent 
excursions are desired. 

W. RAYMOND, 
296 Washington Street, opposite School St., BOSTON. 



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[special correspondence of light.] 



Falmouth Heiohts, August 14, icSyo. 

August at the Heights is always the jolliest 
month, this summer being no exception to tlie 
general rule. 

Last Monday the Island Home brought a 
big excursion here from New liedford, and the 
place was filled with strange faces. They 
brought a band with them which discoursed 
sweet harmony in Mr. VVinsIow's skating rink. 

I was on the pier as the steamer was getting 
ready to leave and much enjoyed watching a 
young couple who were evidently quite suf- 
ficient unto themselves, as they walked the 
whole length of the pier, his ami about her 
waist and her hand clasped confidingly in his. 

Last week, Monday night, the yachts came 
into Vineyard Haven. It was a very pretty 
sight, as we sat on the bluff, and darkness 
gathered, to watch the whole Haven suddenly 
grow into a patch of myriad shining lights. 
All the yachts had been lighted as nearly as 
possible at the same time. 

The next day we took the steamer, and as it 
had to go into the Haven, we saw the vessels 
from a nearer point of view. 
. Wednesday there was a yacht race, which I 
failed to see, as it was unannounced here. 

Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Higgins drove down 
from Worcester last week and are now occu- 
pying their cottage on the flat. 

Dr. Homer Fitts also drove down from 
Worcester. 

Grandpa Kanouse went to Great Pond, a 
few days ago, and brought home over three 
hundred crabs, which he gave aw?y to friends 
among the cottagers. 

Mr. Charles Holman, of Worcester, an- 
chored his yacht off here the first of the week 
and stopped at Tower's Hotel until yesterday, 
when I saw his boat heading off in the direc- 
tion of Nantucket. 

The coast is being surveyed by men in the 
government employ. They are putting up 
white flags all along the shore. 

Emmeline. 



Captain David A. Matthews is off on his 
vacation. He witnessed the parade in Boston, 
last Tuesday. 

Miss Maud Learned has gone to Canada 
for a vacation and sketching trip. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Chichester are enter- 
taining a relative. Miss Florence Chichester, 
of Danbury, Conn. 

Messrs. William F. and George Hogg were 
recently at Saratoga. 



Hon. and Mrs. Samuel Winslow and Miss 
Alice Robbins reached Worcester, on their 
return from Europe, last Sunday evening. 
They enjoyed a delightful trip and have seen 
a great deal of interest. 



Mr. Ernest W. Oilman, of Montreal, Poly- 
technic Institute, '8S, is in Worcester visiting 
friends. 



Mr. Joseph P. Cheney, Jr., has joined his 
familyat Bailey's Island, Me., and will remain 
there several weeks. 



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the Tennis fraternity; scores of notable individual 
matches, receptions or ladies day gatherings, etc. Ad- 
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No tennis of importance has been played 
during the past week, except the matches at 
the invitation tournament at Nahant. The 
varied results of the different matches has 
shown most conclusively that America will 
produce a new champion this year, and that 
Slocum will be obliged to give up the honor 
he has held for two years. Defeats by Phil 
Sears and R. P. Huntington, added to his 
previous defeat by Clarence Hobart, must 
make Mr. Slocum very much surprised, and 
when the fine form shown by four or five other 
players is considered, it would appear that the 
present champion's ranking would be fourth 
or fifth this year instead of a proud first. 



The tournament at Narragansett Pier next 
week will probably bring out all the prominent 
players, and the winner of the All-Comers at 
Newport, the succeeding week, can be more 
definitely picked. 



The local clubs have been very quiet the 
past week, and there will propably be little of 
interest here till the Crescent Club tourney, 
which begins on the 25th of this month. 



The tournament the past week, at Princeton, 
in which several of the local cracks were en- 
tered, lost its interest for Worcester people when 
Crocker, the Cromptons and Smith failed to 
play. The players were worthy younger men 
who are unknown here. 



A tournament with twenty entries is being 
played at the Natural History Camp. The 
boys have been getting lots of fun out of it, 
and some good playing was seen in the last 
rounds. 



Mr. Albert C. Marble won the Lakeside 
Championship, defeating Lieut. Harry B. Fair- 
banks in the finals. The tournament was a 
great success. 



Mr. W. B. Chamberlin and family, Mrs. 
William L. Maynard and Miss Carrie May- 
nard, are registered at the Ocean House, Old 
Orchard Beach. 

Assistant Secretary Will B. I). Meade of 
the Young Men's Christian Association is 
spending his vacation in Pittsfield, his former 
home. He certainly deserves a rest, for he 
has done the work of three men during the 
past two months. 



Mrs. C. E. Hubbard is with her mother, 
Mrs. C. N. Delano, of Bath, at Popham 
Beach, Me. 



Mrs. Ida Thomas has just been admitted to 
the bar at South Bend, Washington, and she 
is the first woman to practice in the new state. 
Wyoming came into the union with a woman 
suffrage banner nailed to the masthead. It 
doesn't seem to make much difference whether 
there are any men out there in the West, or 
not. 



Shells and Sculls. 



The placid bosom of fair Quinsigamond has 
during the past week been dotted with more 
of the frail shells of America's amateur oars- 
men than have ever before been gathered 
there, and on regatta days they have skimmed 
airily over the surface of the lake, bearing 
their occupants onward to glory and cham- 
pionship medals. 

Oarsmen from most of the noted clubs of 
the United States and Canada have been 
within our borders for the week past, and the 
winners of the various minor regattas 
gathered here to decide the question of Ameri- 
can supremacy. Worthy antagonists have 
these young men been, and hard fought have 
been the battles, when a single stroke has sent 
one crew to victory and dashed from sight the 
trophies almost in the grasp of their oppo- 
nents. 

From all points of view the eighteenth an- 
nual regatta of the National Association of 
Amateur Oarsmen has been a success and 
none but words of congratulation have been 
heard at the lakeside this week. 

The arrangements for the races have been 
as near perfect as possible, and promptness and 
dispatch have been the order of the day, thanks 
to the efficient Regatta committee. 

The races have not had the local coloring 
which a large number of Worcester entries 
would have given them, but the few local rep- 
resentatives acquitted themselves nobly, and 
as a result, the American championship in 
junior singles remains at home, and the proud 
possessor is Mr. Albert L. Bennett of the 
Worcester Boat Club. The Wachusett^ight, 
although bringing up the rear in the greatest 
race of the season, may well feel proud of its 
record, when the winners, record breakers, are 
only twenty seconds ahead. 

It is pleasing to remark the uniform 
courtesy and fairness of all contestants and 
officials, and to true lovers of aquatic sports it 
was highly agreeable to witness twelve races 
squarely rowed and won on their merits. 

The winners of the various races met at the 
Bay State House, Thursday evening, where 
they were presented with the medals and ban- 
ners, emblematic of the American amateur 
championship. 

By Monday almost all the oarsmen will be 
gone, and Light trusts they will carry with 
them as pleasant a recollection of their week at 
Lake Quinsigamond as the local oarsmen will 
retain of their visit. 

During the week, the various boat clubs at 
the lake have thrown their houses open to the 
visiting crew and have extended all possible 
assistance to the visitors. Mr. W. A. Winn, 
chairman of the reception committee, and 
Mr. Irving E. Bigelow, have been of great 
assistance in arranging various matters of im- 
portance, both for the oarsmen and the repre- 
sentatives of the press, who have been so well 
cared for that not a single word of complaint 
has been heard. 

Light extend its congratulations to the 
winners and especially to Mr. Bennett, the loca 
champion, and trusts that the National Asso- 
ciation of Amateur Oarsmen may again see 
fit to hold its races on Quinsigamond, prom- 
ising them a regatta as successful as the last, 
and as pleasant a sojourn in the "Heart of 
the Commonwealth." 



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Science and History. 

— A new shell has lately been invented by 
an Austrian for the purpose of scattering oil 
over the waves during a storm. It is a wooden 
cylinder lined with shellac to keep the oil from 
penetrating the wood, and it carries in addition 
a calcium light, which illuminates the water 
for a considerable distance. 

— Kenihvorth Castle was built about i r20, by 
Geoffrey de Chilton, whose grandson sold it to 
Henry III. 

— In the Argentine Republic, Frank \'incent 
saw a rocking stone which weighs 700 tons, and 
is so nearly poised that it rocks in the wind, and 
may be made to crack a walnut. The old Dic- 
tator Rosas once Iiarnessed a thousand horses 
to it, but could not displace it. 

— The council of Hygiene in Paris, it is said, 
is about to take steps to suppress the use of old 
magazines and newspapers for wrapping up 
foods. The Austrian government has prohibi- 
ted the use of such papers, and of colored pa- 
pers to enclose articles intended to be eaten. 

— The name of Cambridge, Mass., was first 
Newtown, and was changed to its present name 
in honor of the English University at which 
nearly all the Massachusetts ministers were 
educated. Harvard University was the first in- 
siitution of higher learning established in Amer- 
ica, and its first president was Heniy Dunstan, 
a noted Hebrew scholar. The first graduating 
class consisted of nine, and received their de- 
grees in 1643. The first honorary degree, that 
of D. D., was bestowed upon Increase Mather 
in 1692. Rev. John Harvard, the young and no- 
ble founder, died at Charlestown in 1638, leav- 
ing to the institution his library and half his es- 
tate, about S4000, considered a munificent sum 
at that time. 

—In England, where particular attention has 
been given to the subject of electric brakes, a 
means has been discovered by which a train 
going thirty miles an hour can, by an electric 
brake, be brought to a standstill in a space of 
200 feet. 

— An average of five feet of water is estima- 
ted to fall annually over the whole earth. 

— It takes about fifteen minutes to transmit 
a message over the wire from San Francisco to 
Hong Kong, via New York, Canso, Penzance, 
Aden, Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singa- 
pore. 

Cooled Off. 
A law-suit has just been brought to an end 
in Hungary, which has been on trial for four 
hundred and seventy years. This was an old- 
er law-suit by some seventy years than one 
which has just been settled in Poland. In the 
year 1490, a farmer in that country laid claim 
to ownership of a piece of uncultivated, unused 
land, about fifty acres in extent, of which an- 
other farmer was in nominal possession. The 
dispute was taken before the court. There it 
remained, and the usual postponements and 
arguments took place. The original litigants 
died; their descendants inherited the suit, and 
becjueathed it to their heirs. In the year 1SS9 
it was still on the docket, undecided and ap- 
parently with no prospect of decision. The 
litigants, therefore, came to the conclusion to 
celebrate the four hundreth anniversary of the 
suit by compromising it. They reached_an 



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amicable agreement on the point at issue and 
put an end forever to the long wrangle. "It's 
fortunate we agreed," said one of the parties, 
"because if we hadn't both happened to be men 
of peaceful and accomodating dispositions, 
that law-suit might have gone on for another 
four hundred years." "But why," said the 
other party, "couldn't our ancestors have set- 
tled it as easily in 1490 as we have in 1S90.'" 
"Because," replied the first, "they were angry. 
In the interval which has elapsed, you and I 
have had time to cool off." 



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The Right and the Wrong Side. 

A noted writer has truthfully expressed him- 
self as follows: "Like most garments, like most 
carpets, everything in life has a right and a 
wrong side. You can take any joy and, by turn- 
ing it around, find trouble on the other side; or 
you can take the greatest trouble and, by turn- 
ing it around, find joys on the other side. The 
gloomiest mountain never casts a shadow on 
both sides at once, nor does the greatest of life's 
calamities. The earth in its revolutions man- 
ages about right — it never has darkness all over 
at the same time. Sometimes it has night in 
America, and sometimes in China, but there is 
some part of the earth constantly in the briglit 
sunlight. My friends, do as the earth does. 
When you have trouble, keep turning round, 
and you will find sunlight somewhere. Amid the 
thickest gloom through which you are called to 
pass, carry your own candle. A consummate 
fret will, in' almost every instance, come to no- 
thing. Fretfulness will kill anything that is 
not in its nature immortal." 



Fisherman's Luck. 
There seems to be a secret understanding 
between very good fish and very bad men. 
That is to say, fish who are ready to die 
sometimes prefer to be caught by the worst 
characters in the neighborhood. I have an 
illustration of this fact, painful to recall, in 
my own experience. I was following an un- 
familiar brook, and with indifferent luck, when 
suddenly a local desperado appeared a few 
rods ahead of me in the brook. He was apt 
to be in a public institution, through which no 
trout brook runs, "about this time." Yet here 
he was, with an alder for a rod, a cotton string, 
and the indispensable hook — though the very 
name ought to have made him discard the 
last-mentioned aid, and cling to the pin which 
figures in newspaper stories. Before I could 
have time to count the statutes the man had 
broken, he had caught a string of choice trout, 
put them in a tin pail, and was off to convert 
his stock into Jamaica Ginger — his favorite 
tipple, and openly sold in the community where 
most other liquids were under the ban. — S/iec- 
ta/or, in The Christian Union. 



Lines of Business. 



My barber says that the hair and beard 
grow very much faster in warm weather than 
in cold, and attributes it partly to the perspir- 
ation. As I am not learned in these things, I 
take his word for it ; but it had never occurred 
to me before. According to the same author- 
ity, the use of the razor is necessary three 
times in summer as against two in winter, for 
the same period. We live to learn. It oc- 
curred to me that some of the boys who are 
striving so hard to catch up with the proces- 
sion might consider it a valuable pointer.] 



One of the first things to l)e impressed upon 
the young man entering business is the neces- 
sity of good habits, such as punctuality, neat- 
ness and order. He may never have thought 
of these things at school as a part of business 
success, but he soon hears of them in the 
office. Comparatively few persons, however — 
save those specially endowed by nature — suc- 
ceed in exemplifying the latter until they have 
gone through a long course of discipline. Very 
fretiuently their affairs for a considerable 
period are in such a condition as to merit the 
term systematic disorder. Take it in the mere 
matter of the keeping of their business sup- 
plies, examining the drawers of a desk, for 
example. Instead of all the bill heads being 
in one place there will be a few of these nec- 
essary articles in each of several compart- 
ments. By the same token, postage stamps, 
blotting pads, letter paper and rubber bands 
are found almost everywhere. Each drawer 
and pigeon-hole is in apparent order, but in 
that kind of order that would be observed in 
a company of soldiers if all the different uni- 
forms in the service were displayed instead of 
all the men being in the same uniform. Orderly 
disorder is far worse than disorder of the usual 
kind, for the latter is so baneful to all appear- 
ances that an effort is often made to correct it. 
Orderly disorder, on the other hand, so fre- 
quently deceives the victim into believing that 
he is orderly that it remains unchecked, and 
accordingly works the greatest harm. 



So few tradesmen appreciate the value of 
doing something in a new way. The average 
country printer insists upon filling every job 
with meaningless and intricate brass rules, 
when a plain, tasteful setting would attract 
attention, merely for the reason that it is differ- 
ent from the general run of work set up in 
such offices. The dealer who cannot do 
something new does not deserve to succeed. 
Analyze the reasons for the success of those 
who have done best in any trade which de- 
pends upon patronage of a large number of 
people, and see how the principle of advertis- 
ing has been utilized. 



A recent writer has wittily remarked that 
the total destruction of all our matches would 
cause the world more actual bother than the 
total loss of its art treasures. Be that as it 
may, it is curious to look over the sources of 
the world's supply of this absolute essential 
in the household economy. In the first place, 
they are made in almost untold quantities in 
Sweden. Then, China is making them so fast 
and so abundantly that she competes even in 
the Hamburg market with Sweden. At this 
moment India comes along with a yet larger 
supply and at prices that are wofully low. as 
the European producer says. But Japan will 
not be left out in the race, so she joins with 
the manufacturers at the Cape of Good Hope, 
and Brazil, land the rivalry is more earnest 
than profitable for the producers. One would 
think that the day must soon come when some 
shrewd inventor will supply the world with an 
igniter that will be cheaper and better every 
way than the match. 



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No. 26 



What is the matter with us here in Worces- 
ter, that clergymen from other cities should 
find it so difficult a matter to accept a call to 
labor here? Is it because they think we are 
hard subjects or because they have an idea 
that we are all so good that we can get along 
with almost anything, now ? It certainly does 
seem odd that our leading churches should 
have so hard a time in getting men to fill their 
vacant pulpits. Dr. Powell was offered a 
chance such as most clergymen would jump 
at — a magnificent new church, a strong soci- 
ety, having the prestige of almost two hundred 
years existence, and a pleasant circle of 
people. Dr. Powell says he would like to, 
and he doesn't know but he is making a mis- 
take, but on the whole he rather thinks he 
won't. Dr. Noble was given an opportunity 
to make Plymouth Church famous, and he, 
too, had a notion that he would like to come, 
but he guessed he'd better not. At the pres- 
ent writing, Dr. McCuIIagh is still hanging 
fire, and he hasn't said yet that he will or he 
will not. If the offer made him doesn't bring 
him, Worcester will have to give it up. It 
takes a pretty good preacher to be worth $6000 
a year. There seems to be no doubt that Dr. 
McCullagh is a good preacher, and likely to 
be a splendid pastor ; but he won't have a 
million chances to earn §6000 a year any 
easier. It is some little time now since a local 
pastor has been called away. They went so 
thick and fast for a time that it was hard 
work to keep count of them. But our present 
restful state of mind may be shattered any 
day. Who will be the next to desert us ? 

We are passing through the season when 
travel is most fruitful in discomforts, and 
when it needs the resignation of a Spartan 
and the patience of a Job to get along with the 
people against whom we are crowded and 
jostled, without being cross and inconsiderate 
and vexed with ourselves and the world in 
general. After we have overlooked the of- 
fence of the boy who tosses into our laps his 
dingy box of "Pure Caramels," and have for- 
given the other boy who wants to sell us the 
latest output of French novels, and have 
ceased to murmur against the small boy who 
leaves his mamma and visits the other passen- 
gers, we are suddenly and painfully awakened 
to the fact that the occupant of the seat m 
front has decided to introduce a draught of 
air. Up goes the window and in comes the 
breeze, freighted with particles of soot and 
cinder, and in less time than it takes to write 
it, we partially assume the appearance of a 
chimney-sweep and are roused to a state of 
desperation which begets unkind and violent 
thoughts and wishes. The open-window fiend 
is one of the worst of the large family to which 
he bears relationship. If he alone received 
the benefit of his desire for "pure air," it 
would be his privilege to revel in cinders until 
doomsday — and thereafter, if he liked. Cut 
the worst results are visited upon his neighbor 
next behind. Here in Worcester a great 



many of us know, personally or by sight. Dr. 
Ouint, of Boston. Dr. Quint preached the 
sermon at the opening of the new Old South, 
and he was a prominent figure in the Congre- 
gational Council of 1 889. Dr. Quint is a good- 
natured man, but a "kicker," and recently he 
wrote a very funny article about "Pure Air 
Without Draughts," in which he said : "The 
worst pure-air crank is a woman in a railway 
car who persists in opening the window at her 
side. The air, whether smoky or cindery, of 
course does not strike her, but the people on 
the seat next behind her. To your discomfort 
she knowingly remains in bland unconscious- 
ness. She knows perfectly well that she is a 
nuisance, but she wants pure air ! Even if the 
air be indeed pure, this process has carried 
many a victim into eternity. I have seen an 
excellent remedy tried. Hold up before you a 
thick and large newspaper close to the back of 
her seat, and with the edge against the wall of 
the car. This is of course on your own prem- 
ises, and, by a judicious adaptation of the 
newspaper to the divine benevolence embod- 
ied in the law of incidence and reflection, the 
air, with all its cold or smoke, is thrown back 
upon the face and neck of its rightful proprie- 
tor. Another effective method is to obtain a seat 
directly in front of the crank and throw 
your window up to its full extent. The home- 
opathic doctrine of like cures like is generally 
successful. But 1 do not recommend these 
methods. I am afraid they are not quite 
Christian. Change your seat, if possible, and 
let the woman alone. But I advise everv 
young man, before he is committed to the 
woman who attracts him, to see what she will 
do in a railway car. If she opens the window 
to the discomfort of others, or if she robs other 
people of needed seats for the sake of her 
packages, she is selfish and dishonest, and is 
not fit to be a good man's wife." So says 
Dr. Quint, and he is quite right, but Light 
will add that it advises every young woman 
to try the same e.xperiment witli the young 
man "who attracts her." This is a good rule, 
and it works both ways, even if the Doctor 
did forget that the open-window fiend as fre- 
quently wears trousers as skirts. But 
wouldn't it be funny to see the Doctor holding 
that newspaper up against the seat in front of 
him ? 

Confession and apology are to the soul what 
a Turkish bath is to the body. You go into 
the ordeal hot and uncomfortable, with a reali- 
zation that you need a thorough scrubbing of 
your moral hide to be rid of the grime and 
dust that have gathered in a week's rough 
contact with the outside world. You come out 
feeling like a new person, with all the sense of 
irritation gone, the circulation quickened, and 
a sweet sense of comfort scarcely describable. 
Remember, young man and young woman, 
that no manly man or womanly woman fails 
to confess and apologize for a wrong done to 
others, wittingly or unwittingly. In the most 
ordinary affairs of our life, we are continually 



running up against people or stumbling over 
them, and almost unconsciously the apology 
for our heedlessness springs to the lips. Hut 
wlien it is .some greater matter, when we have 
done a more serious hurt, and the other person 
shares the blame, how frequently we wait, and 
hesitate, and try to believe that we have no re- 
paration to make and no self-reproach to utter. 
We need to be more generou.s, and to consider 
that our self-abasement will be for our own 
best good, for no just or sensible man or wo- 
man ever refuses to accept an honest apology. 
Neither does a just or sensible man or woman 
hesitate to apologize, when in the wrong. It 
is the cardinal principle of good breeding, and 
the ill-bred are soon known by their ignorance 
or disregard of it. 



The lottery bill which has passed the House 
and which will undoubtedly become a law, not 
only places the business itself under ban, but 
also considers the relation of the press to it, 
and provides that any newspaper that publishes 
advertisements of the lottery or lists of gifts 
secured by the drawings, shall be refused 
transmission through the mail. There is sure- 
ly a Daniel come to judgment. The newsp-i- 
pers which have cried out the most loudly 
against this evil have been those most anxious 
to print the results of the drawings, and stories 
of "big strikes," as "matters of news." Light 
hopes they have seen the text of this bill and 
can read the hand-writing on the wall. 



The Boston reporters who were sent to 
report the proceedings of the Mayor's Club, 
at the banquet to President Harrison, were 
refused admittance by those in charge, al- 
though they bore the cards of invitation which 
had been sent to the publishers of their re- 
spectative papers. It seems to have been one 
of the grossest pieces of snobbishness ever 
known in New England. Had the event been 
of less importance, the newspapers might well 
have ignored it. Their duty to the public 
made it necessary for them to swallow the 
insult and do their work as best they could. 
It is curious that the public will not learn to 
treat the reporters better. Generally speak- 
ing, the reporter is a gentleman, or, in cases 
where he is not that, he is gentlemanly — from 
policy ; and any trouble he may have with 
people with whom he has to do is almost in- 
variably not of his brewing. The reporter has 
frequently to undertake work for which he has 
the greatest dislike, personally ; and because 
he does his duty like a man, he is not infre- 
quently snubbed or otherwise ill-treated. 
People who improve their opportunities to 
make a reporter uncomfortable or to mislead 
him, are pretty sure to find out their mistake 
at some later day, if the reporter is one of the 
kind that knows his business and sticks to it. 
There are lots of bad reporters, but there are 
a great many more good ones. Give them all 
a chance. 




' / /7^(X5C£STER,A\A5S. 



A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORCESTER AND 
HER NEIGHBORS. 



Published every Saturday. Price $2.50 per 
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Take Time by the Forelock. 

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Friday afternoon or even Saturday morning, matter 
which they expect to appear in the issue of Light of the 
same week. In order that they may understand why 
such matter is not printed, or is held until the following 
week. Light will explain that its last form is closed 
Friday noon, and hence no copy received after an 
early hour on Friday morning can be used. To print 
and bind a paper in the handsome form in which Light 
appears,— a style excelled, by the general testimony of 
the press of the country, by no local weekly in the 
United States,— it is necessary that the work should be 
done with great care. Light is printed on Friday 
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iK-r this fact when writing, and send in all matter offered 
for publication as early in the week as possible, and not 
later than Thursday night. 

'rhe large number of queries addressed to the Quester 
Editor, and the time and r' search necessary to secure 
answers to many of them, will explain to querists why 
their interrogations are not always answered in the issue 
of the week during which they are received. 



An Index to Volume One. 

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first volume. Some time ago Light announced that it 
would print an index and title page, suitable for binding 
with the volume, in order that those who desire may 
preserve the volume in a neat and durable form. It is 
hardly necessary to say that when thus bound, a volume 
of Light will make one of the most valuable and enter- 
taining books that a Worcester resident can possess. 
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so make their volumes complete. Those who intend 
avaihng themselves of this offer are requested to call 
and make arrangements at the office of Light as soon 
as possible. 



About Folks. 



August 23: Sun rises at 5 a.m.; sets at 
6.33 P. M. Length of day, 13 hours, 33 minutes. 
Moon, first quarter, August 23, 8 hours, 20 
minutes, morning, E. ; full moon, August 29, 
II hours, 35 minutes, evening, E. 



LIGHT 

The engagement of Miss Cheever, a daugh- 
ter of Rev. Henry T. Cheever, to Mr. George 
I. Rockwood, has been announced. 



Miss Ida Snow, the elder daughter of the 
late Dr. Windsor N. Snow, was quietly mar- 
ried on the ninth, to Mr. Wallace Rand, of 
Boston. Mr. Rand is a member of the firm of 
Rand & Crane, who are the Tiffany & Co. of 
Boston, and is well provided with this world's 
goods. The wedding took place at the bride's 
home on Edward street, the ceremony being 
performed by Rev. Mr. Rand of Waltham. 
Only a few friends were present. Mr. and 
Mrs. Rand are now on their wedding trip, 
from which they will return about September 
I, and they will then remain in Worcester for 
a month or so, before going to their home in 
Boston. 

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cutter are in town. 



There was a pretty wedding at 22 Maywood 
street, the residence of Captain Sumner W. 
Ranger, Tuesday evening, when his daughter, 
Miss Anna B. Ranger, was married to Mr. 
Elmore F. Johnson. The bridal pair stood 
under a floral horseshoe, while Rev. Charles W. 
Southgate, of Pilgrim Church, tied the knot. 
Miss Ethel R. Farr, the bride's neice, was maid 
of honor, and Master Ralph W. Ranger, the 
bride's brother, was best man. Quite a num- 
ber of friends was present, and there were 
many pretty gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson 
went to Boston and thence to Portland, on 
their wedding trip. 



Mr. Charles M. McFarland, the jeweller, 
was married at Northboro, on Monday, his 
bride being Miss Mary Thompson, of that 
town. Rev. Edward L. Chute performed the 
ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. McFarland went to 
New York for their wedding tour. 



Few of our local pastors occupied their own 
pulpits, last Sunday morning. At Piedmont 
Church, Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., of Chica- 
go, preached; at Union, Rev. G. F. Magoun, 
D. D., of Grinnell, la.; at Central, Rev. C. 
M. Lamson, of St. Jonsbury, Vt. ; at Park, 
Rev. George H. Pratt, of .Saundersville ; at 
Plymouth, Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of Welles- 
ley; at Summer Street, Rev. Louis N. Beau- 
dry; at Belmont, Rev. S. D. Hosmer. Rev. I. 
J. Lansing seemed to be the only Congrega- 
tional preacher in his own pulpit. At Trinity 
Church, Rev. V. M. Simons preached ; at 
Grace, Rev. George Whitaker, formerly pastor 
of the church, and now president of Wiley 
University, Texas. Rev. B. A. Greene, of 
Lynn, preached at the First Baptist, and Rev. 
B. D. Marshall, D. D., at Lincoln Square Bap- 
tist, Rev. Francis Tiffany, of New York, 
preached at the First Unitarian Church. 



Rev. Addison Blanchard, D. D., of Denver, 
Col., will preach at Plymouth Church, to-mor- 
row, at 10.30 Arjl. and 7.30 p. m. 



Miss Clara Barton, who was recently made 
the subject of a sketch in Light, has been 
visiting her niece, Mrs. Adolphus Reccius, of 
Milbury. Last Monday night she was given a 
reception in the First Unitarian Church, by 
the citizens of Milbury. .She was introduced 
by Mr. S. H. Blanpied, principal of the Mil- 



bury High School, and she spoke for some 
time, giving a history of the Society of the 
Red Cross. After she had finished, all those 
present were given an opportunity to meet her 
and speak with her. There were but few 
people present from Worcester, owing to the 
fact that the reception was arranged in so 
short a time that but few knew of it. 



Mr. O. B. Wood is gaining strength every 
day. He was down town Thursday. 



Mr. Bancroft, so long one of the most 
familiar sights at Newport, is, says a Newport 
correspondent, no longer often seen on Belle- 
vue avenue. He chooses unfrequented drives, 
and may be seen leaning back in his open 
carriage, looking old and broken. The old 
simile of the giant oak decayed and ready to 
fall, but majestic to the last, applies singularly 
well to Mr. Bancroft. He seems now to have 
acknowledged that he is fairly beaten in the 
flight with old age. His mind is as clear as 
ever, but the bodily vigor is gone. He is 
usually accompanied by his niece in his drives 
and his son's family take solicitous care about 
him. 

Mr. Paul A. Davis, one of Worcester's 
bright young newspaper men, who has until 
recently been an attach^ of the Spy, has 
joined the Boston Herald si-aii. 



Mr. Peck has at his art rooms a picture 
painted by Mr. Addison L. Bemis, which has 
been attracting the attention of all who drop 
in there either to inspect or purchase. It is 
an oil, the subject being strawberries, and the 
picture is executed with a degree of skill 
highly creditable to the painter. It shows a 
box of strawberries on the kitchen table, over 
which is drawn an oil-cloth, and the ragged 
edges of the oil-cloth, the color of the straw 
berries, and the general distribution of color, 
command admiration. Light made some 
reference to Mr. Eemis's pictures shown at the 
last Art Students exhibition. Recently he 
has sold the picture "An Old Veteran," show- 
ing a brass kettle and doughnuts, to a Chicago 
physician, Dr. Beaman, who saw it at Mr. 
Peck's while passing through the city and was 
delighted with it. The pictures, "A Cooling 
Beverage," showing lemonade pitcher and 
glasses, and a "A Study of the Corn Cham- 
ber" have been sold to Worcester people. 
His "Study of a Violin" and "Oranges and 
Wine" are now on exhibition at Gill's, Spring- 
field, where they have attracted much favora- 
ble notice. Mr. Bemis's success is very pleas- 
ing to his Worcester friends. He certainly is 
on the highway to success in his art. 



Mr. Caleb A. Wall's historical field meet- 
ings certainly do not lack for appreciation, 
and his researches and labors in presenting to 
his fellow-citizens valuable and faithful histor- 
ical records will cause him to be long remem- 
bered in generations to come as a public 
benefactor. Last .Saturday afternoon, Mr. 
Wall held a meeting at Mr. James Draper's 
beautiful grove on his Bloomingdale estate, 
and over one hundred people were present. 
Mayor Harrington presided, and Mr. Wall 
gave an interesting account of the estates 
occupied by Mr. Draper and Mr. William 



Eaton, and also referred to the estate non- 
owned and occupied by the Putnams, George 
Dana, A. Frank Gates, George S. Howe, 
Darius Rice, Mayor Harrington, and others. 
Remarks full of interest were made by Mr. 
Albert Curtis, Mr. Joseph Lovell, President 
E. B. Crane of the Worcester Society of An- 
tiquity, ex-Mayor Samuel Winslow, Col. Ed- 
ward 15. Glasgow, William H. Earle and O. 
B. Hadwen. Librarian Thomas A. Dickinson 
showed an old account book of Paul Gates, 
kept from 1799 to 18 iS. The last speech 
came from Mr. Draper, whose remarks made 
a graceful and pleasing conclusion of the 
e.xercises. Those present afterward separated 
and looked over Mr. Draper's grounds, par- 
taking of refreshments at the pavilion. Those 
present were as follows: Hon. Francis A. 
Harrington, William H. Earle, George E. 
Smith, H. H. Mecorney, Charles Belcher, 
Joseph Lovell, Charles Munroe, David Logan, 
Henry Putnam, B. F. Harrington, F. M. Mar- 
ble, William Eames, James L. Estey, Nahum 
Flagg, N. E. Harrington, S. A. Moore, Mrs. 
A. Chapin, S. A. Burgess, Mrs. Joseph 
Dennis, Miss S. M. Burgess, Mrs. S. A. 
Burgess, Mrs. J. A. Kendrick and Miss Cros- 
ley of Greendale, Joseph Dennis, L. R. Eames, 
George S. Eaton, Leonard Harrington, T. S. 
Harrington, Charles J. Nourse, Mrs. L. E. 
Dodge, Daniel Seagrave, S. A. Pratt, William 
Putnam, Warren Williams, Hon. Samuel 
Winslow, E. B. Crane, W. T. Merrifield, P. 
A. Lee, J. A. Colvin, WilHam H. Brown, J. P. 
Houghton, Charles H. Knapp, Charles Green- 
wood, Mrs. Charles Greenwood, Hugh J. 
Allen, Mrs. H. J. Allen, Mrs. F. A. Harring- 
ton, Clara A. Harrington, Mary E. Harring- 
ton, W. H. Sawyer, L. A. Ely, A. G. Mann, 
H. A. Harrington, O. B. Hadwen, Burton W. 
Potter, Mrs. C. A. Wall, Sarah E. Wall, Ella 
M. Gibbs, Mrs. H. A. Harrington, Mrs.,Eben 
Jewett, Mrs. J. Merrifield Woodice, Florence 
W^oodice, Mrs. J. E. Goodell of West Boyls- 
ton, Mrs. F. W. Emerson, Mrs. H. B. Buck, 
Mrs. D. Rolston, Edith M. Rolston, George 
W. Thomas, Geo. F. Rice, Miss S. N. Rugg, 
Mrs. D. S. Goddard, F. E. Kennedy, S. A. 
Dickinson, Mrs. H. Putnam, Mrs. William 
Putnam, Lena M. Eaton, Francis M. Peel, 
E. F. Peel, G. K. Mellor, Mrs. G. K. Mellor, 
Mrs. W. A. Richardson, Florence E. Richard- 
son, Helen C. Richardson, Mrs. Richard 
Barker, Mrs. B. W. Potter, Mabel E. Dick- 
inson, Mrs. E. A. Boswell, Mary E. Aber- 
crombie, Mrs. N. H. Sawyer, Eflie B. Draper, 
Alice G. Draper, Wilhs E. Sibley, Thomas 
A. Dickinson, Col. E. B. Glasgow, H. H. 
Bigelow, James Draper, Mrs. James Draper, 
Charles A. Harrington, Frank C. Harrington, 
May E. Harrington, Helen R. Goodell of 
West Boylston, John S. Harrington, Daniel 
A. Harrington, Jr., Eben Jewett, Alfred 
Holden, H. M. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Joel 
Howe, S. Frank Gates. 



Col. I vers Phillips, of Boulder, Col., and 
formerly a well known Worcester man, was in 
earlier days a school teacher in Fitchburg, and 
last Monday morning he was given a reception 
at Phillips Chapel, in that city, a large com- 
pany of friends assembling to honor him. 
There was some pleasant speech-making, and 
Mr. Alfred Wyman, of this city, read a poem 
for the occasion. 



The Vacationers. 



Mrs. Jennie Abbott Mattoon has been at 
Saratoga this week. 



Mr. George P. Mattoon is at Northfield. 



M rs. George E. Fairbanks suffered a bad 
accident at Falmouth, recently. She made a 
mi.sstep on the piazza, and fell, breaking her 
ankle. She has been confined to the house, 
but is improving, and her Worcester friends 
unite in hoping that the pleasures of the vaca- 
tion may not be entirely spoiled for her. 

Mr. Will W. Lewis is off on a vacation trip 
through the Canadian provinces and will not 
return before September i. 



Messrs. Thomas B. Hamilton, Will N. Stark 
and Foster H. Goodwin have gone for a trip 
along the shores of the Eastern Canadian 
provinces. They will travel about 2000 miles 
by sea and some distance by land. 



Mr. J. G. Colles, book-keeper for Davis & 
Co., and Mr. A. S. Longley, book-keeper for 
the Worcester Corset Company, have gone 
for a two weeks trip to Digby, Nova Scotia. 

Miss Eva M. Clarke has gone to Gilmanton, 
N. H., for a month. 



Miss Annie M. Alton has been entertaining 
Connecticut friends. Miss Ethel R. Baldwin 
of Meriden and Miss Sarah C. Crosby of 
Thompson. 



Mrs. Edward W. Pond and daughter and 
Miss Allie J. Davis are doing the Vineyard. 

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Crosby are enjoy- 
ing life about Lake George, at Caldwell, N. Y. 

Mr. Jonathan Hapgood is entertaining his 
daughter, Mrs. Albert Houghton of Kansas 
City. 



Mrs. S. P. Todd and family are at Bridge- 
port, Conn. 



Mr. Fred C. Harlow thinks it isn't too warm 
to go south. He is spending his vacation in 
Washington. 



Mr. and Mrs. John H. Goes and Miss Goes 
are recent arrivals at Saratoga. 



Miss Bertha R. Houghton returned from 
Gloucester early in the week. 



Mr. Clarence A. Sibley is down among the 
fishermen at Gloucester and Marblehead. 



Miss Susie M. Adams is at Cottage City. 

Councilman George S. Clough is back 
from Old Orchard. 



Mr. and Mrs. William S. Jourdan are at 
Saratoga. 

Messrs. George and Randolph Crompton 
are off on a two weeks vacation. 



Messrs. A. M. Thomas and John N. Morse, 
Jr., returned home on Wednesday. They 
have been in Europe, and after they had com- 
pleted their business, in England, they crossed 



over to tlie continent and took a trip up the 
Rhine and through Switzerland. They have 
had a delightful time and on both voyages 
across the water had pleasant weather and 
smooth sailing. 

Miss Susie L. Hays is at Crescent Beach. 



Mr. Edwin H. Marble and his family are 
at Warrenville, Conn., where the little folks 
are having as gay a time as can be imagined. 

Mr. and Mrs. C. A. White have been at 
Bangor, Me., this week. 



Mr. C. H. Tilden has gone to De Soto, 
Wis. 



Mr. and Mrs, James Muzzy visited relatives 
in West Medway last week. 



Mrs. Fred Bardett has been visiting at Mrs. 
John Bartlett's, in Hopedale, this week. 



Miss Alice Patch, who has been visiting 
here, where she formerly resided, has returned 
to Minneapolis. 

Councilman and Mrs. Irving E. Comins and 
their son, Edward Irving Comins, with Miss 
Mary E. Leonard and Miss Elizabeth Prouty, 
the latter of Spencer, are at Southwest Har- 
bor, Mt. Desert. 

Mr. Willis E. Sibley selects North Prescott 
as his resting-place for the remainder of the 
vacation season. 



Mrs. M. B. Lane is entertaining Miss Helen 
Hinkley, of Eastport, Me. 



Miss Madge Keyes is visiting Connecticut 
friends at Hartford and Windsor Locks. 



Mr. J. E. Snyder and his family are at East- 
port, Me. 

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Keith are at Annapolis. 

Mr. James Mellor is among the visitors to 
Cottage City. 

Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bradley have returned 
from Maine. 



Mrs. Samuel Brown is visiting friends in 
Dudley. 

Miss Mary T. Gale is at Kennebunkport, 
Me. 



Miss Anna Volkmar has gone to Welch- 
ville. Me. 

Mrs. M. A. Lathe and Mrs. W. H. Drury are 
at Kennebunk Beach, Me. 



Francis A. Gaskill, Esq., was the guest of 
Alderman George C. Whitney at the latter's 
summer residence at Westminster, last Sun- 
day. 

Mr. George Ellinwood is at Alton Bay, N . H . 



Mr. and Mrs. W. V. H. Barhydt are spend- 
ing their vacation at Plymouth. 



Mrs. G. E. Parker and Miss Parker, of 
WaterviUe, are visiting here. 



Misses Alice and Emma Waite are home 
from West Brookfield. 



General Chamberlain. 

George Washington refused a king's crown ; 
Gladstone refused a peerage ; and Governor 
Bullock refused a mission to England ; but, so 
far as memory serves, Worcester has never 
had but one citizen to refuse a seat in the 
mayor's chair when it was absolutely sure that 
he could have it if he so desired. This dis- 
tinction belongs to one of our best-known and 
most popular citizens, the gentleman whose 
picture Light is proud to add to its portrait 
gallery to-day— General Robert H. Chamber- 
lain. 

It need hardly be said that General Cham- 
berlain is not a politician, for he is one of the 
most modest men to be found in a day's 
march, and politicians who refuse the first 
honor of the municipality are not of frequent 
occurrence. On the contrary, he is a plain 
citizen, although for almost twenty years he 
served the city in an ofificial capacity; and is 
to-day serving the county in a responsible 
position. 

It is because Worcester has produced such 
men as General Chamberlain that it occupies 
so honorable a place among the cities. For he 
was born here in Worcester, and it is interest- 
ing to note that Light began its first volume 
with a Worcester-born man's face upon its 
first page, and it closes the volume in the same 
way, with no similar occurrence through the 
other twenty-four numbers. 

Robert Horace Chamberlain was born at the 
old Chamberlain homestead, out on Salisbury 
street, on the i6th of June, 1838. The roots of 
his family tree go deep down into Worcester 
soil, and for over a hundred and fifty years his 
ancestors have been located in the Heart of 
the Commonwealth. His father was General 
Thomas Chamberlain, a man of the greatest 
probity, who held the regard and confi- 
dence of his fellow-citizens to an unusual de- 
gree. He died thirty-five years ago, and the 
younger generation does not remember him; but 
older citizens remember him well. He, like 
his father, was a selectman of the town for 
many years, and when Worcester became a 
city, he was the first president of its common 
council, in 1848. On the other side, General 
Chamberlain's mother was Hannah Blair, and 
she, too, came from a family whose fortunes 
had been cast in Worcester as early as 1750. 
General Chamberlain's grandmother, also, was 
a Curtis — one of the Curtis family which still 
owns large tracts of land near the Lake ; and 
they were among the first, if not the first, set- 
tlers. 

Robert was brought up in a good home, and 
the effects of his early training have been man- 
ifest all through his life. He attended 
the city schools and went to the High School 
when it occupied the old building now on Wal- 
nut street. He went, also, to Worcester Acad- 
emy and to Westfield Academy. 

When he had done schooling, and was seven- 
teen or eighteen years old, he decided to learn 
a trade, and as he did everything thoroughly, 
then as now, he served an apprenticeship with 
Ball and Ballard, on School street,learning the 
trade of a machinist. 

Until the time of the war, General Cham- 
berlain lived a quiet citizen's life ; but in the 
days when stern resolution and prompt action 
were necessary, he was not found wanting. He 



went to the front with Co. A, of the 51st Mas- 
sachusetts regiment of volunteers, in which he 
served as sergeant, and again in Co. F, of the 
Coth Massachusetts, of which he was captain. 
After the war had closed, and General 
Chamberlain was at home again, he recruited 
the Worcester City Guards, of which he was 
the captain for two years. His interest in the 
militia was strong, and he became one of the 
most popular officers in the state. He was for 
a year a major, and then, for three years, 
served as colonel of the loth regiment. Ris- 
ing step by step, he came at last to be a Brig- 
adier-General, in which capacity he served for 
seven years, until 1876. 

General Chamberlain was also instrumental 
in raising Battery B, which was named for him. 
Although many removes from the atmos- 
phere of political life and office-seeking. Gen- 
eral Chamberlain was such a man as could 
hardly be overlooked when trustworthy ser- 
vants of the people were being sought. In 
1869 and 1870 he was a member of the common 
council from Ward 3, sitting in the same 
chamber where his father had presided. 

About this time, General Chamberlain had 
some thoughts of removing from the city, but 
Mayor Blake, who was one of his warm friends, 
said to him that he must not go, and, recog- 
nizing the worth of the General, he appointed 
him superintendent of sewers. It was then an 
appointive office, and General Chamberlain so 
held it until it became elective, when the de- 
sirability of retaining him m the position had 
been made so apparent that he was continued 
in the office, and each succeeding year brought 
to him a re-election. From 1870 to 188S, 
General Chamberlain discharged the duties of 
his office with regularity and faithfulness 
and a marked ability which made him one of 
the most valued and valuable men in the city's 
service. The city has to thank him for some 
of its best public works. The main island 
sewer was his plan, and the great tunnel built 
through Maywood and Crystal streets and so 
on to the south would have been much longer 
delayed, if it had been built at all, had it not 
been for his persistent efforts Under his 
direction, the sewage system of the city grew 
to great proportions. Indeed, in eighteen 
years he looked after the building of some 
sixty miles of sewers. 

In 18S8, General Chamberlain was offered 
by General Sprague, then Sherifi of Worces- 
ter County, a position as deputy-sheriff and 
Master of the House of Correction at Worces- 
ter, and the offer was accepted. The city 
government probably did not realize what it 
was losing for the city, when it did not make 
sure of him at an earlier time. After he had 
agreed to go, strenuous efforts were made to 
retain him, but they came too late. April i, 
1S8S, he entered upon his duties at the Jail, 
and he still remains there, having been wisely 
retained by Sheriff Nye when the administra- 
tion changed. 

It is a fortunate county that can get such a 
man as General Chamberlain to have charge 
over its criminals. He is one of the kindest- 
hearted men in the world, but he has a strong 
sense of justice and an equally strict sense of 
duty, so that his administration, while tempered 
with mercy, is not less exacting in those things 
which must be made a part of any prison code. 
He is a man who would as soon think of wrong- 



ing one of his friends as he would of wrong- 
ing one of the prisoners entrusted to his 
charge. Those unfortunate victims of their 
own sins realize it more than anybody else, 
and many a prisoner has gone out of that great 
iron door a better man in every way because 
of the man who had held the keys. The man- 
agement of the prison is perfect and with all 
due regard for General Chamberlain's prede- 
cessors, it must be said that he has contributed 
largely to this result, in the brief time he has 
been there. 

It was last winter, when the tremendous rup- 
ture in the republican party in Worcester had 
brought about a most extraordinar>' state of 
political feeling, that General Chamberlain 
was looked to as being the man to solve the 
difficulty. A canvas of republican leaders 
was held, in the interests of harmony, and it 
was the unanimous sentiment that General 
Chamberlain was the man above all men to be 
made the candidate for the mayoralty. Twice 
did committees of Worcester's most influential 
citizens wait upon him and urge him to accept 
the nomination. It was a tempting chance. 
Everybody knew that if General Chamberlain 
consented to run, he would be elected by an 
overwhelming majority. He was very popular 
and there was absolutely nothing that could 
be said against him. The General thought it 
over long and carefully. In that admirable, 
cool-headed way of his, he reviewed the situa- 
tion in all its phases, not allowing the honor to 
dazzle him and not shrinking from a position 
of responsibility, but simply considering 
whether it was the best thing to do. He 
decided that he would not run, and that settled 
it beyond all power of persuasion. His de- 
cision finally announced, he stuck to it. So 
the city lost a splendid mayor and the General 
pursued "the even tenor of his way." 

General Chamberlain's spotless life and 
character have been recognized among his 
fellow-citizens, and he has enjoyed that confi- 
dence 'and esteem the possession of which 
makes a man feel, more than anything else, the 
blessings of free life in a free country. He is 
a 32° Mason, belonging to Montacute Lodge; 
he was for two years commander of Worces- 
ter County Commandery, Knights Templar, 
and has been an executive officer of the same 
body for twenty-five years. His advancement 
in Masonry has been in the line of the Scottish 
Rite. He is the treasurer of the Worcester 
Masonic Relief Association. 

General Chamberlain is a charter member 
of Post 10. He was for three years president 
of the Worcester County Mechanics Associa- 
tion. 

General Chamberlain is an earnest and con- 
sistent Christian, and an active member of 
Salem Street Church. 

His home life has been a happy one. He 
married Miss Esther Browning, a Hubbards- 
ton lady. They have two daughters. Miss 
Flora B. Chamberlain, a graduate of the High 
School and the Normal school and now assis- 
tant principal of the Southbridge High School, 
and Miss Mabel S. Chamberlain, now a pupil 
in the High School. 

Week after next, General Chamberlain will 
serve as chief marshal for the New England 
Fair, and the people of the County will have 
an opportunity to e.xchange greetings with him. 
LuiHT has not space enough to express all 
its good wishes to General Chamberlain. This 
notice must suffice, instead. 



About Folks. 



The sad death of Mr. George W. Sumner, 
at Orr's Island, Me., has, during the past week, 
brought sorrow to the hearts of his many 
friends here in Worcester. Of a sunny, genial 
nature, with the milk of human kindness flow- 
ing warmly in his bosom, he made friends 
wherever he went. 



An eightieth birthday anniversary is seldom 
more pleasantly celebrated than was that of 
Mr. John C. Newton, who received the congrat- 
ulations of his friends at his home. No. 9 
Orange street, last Monday. Among those 
present were ex-President Julius H. .Seelye, 
Prof. Edward Hitchcock and Prof. W. S. 
Tyler, of Amherst College, Rev. C. M. Lam- 
son, D. D., and Mrs. Lamson, of St. Johns- 
bury, Vt., Rev. I. J. Lansing, Miss Anna L. 
Kendall, Mrs. Lois Grosvenor Hufford, of 
Indianapolis, who is Mr. Newton's daughter, 
and other friends. A tasteful spread was 
provided, and the sociability was above par. 
Mr. Newton was for over thirty years clerk 
and treasurer of Salem Street Church, and 
has many friends throughout the city. 



The memorial services to be held at 
Mechanics Hall next Tuesday evening, at 
which Worcester will honor the memory of the 
late John Boyle O'Reilly, are to be of such a 
character that the audience will undoubtedly 
be a representative one and the likelihood is 
that the hall will be crowded. Rev. Thomas 
J. Conaty, D. D., is to deliver the eulogy, and 
Rev. William H. Thomas, D. D., pastor of 
Trinity Church, and Hon. John E. Russell, of 
Leicester, will be the other speakers. Selec- 
tions from the poet's works will be read by 
Mrs. Thomas W. Butler. City officials and 
prominent citizens are to occupy seats on the 
platform, and on the Hoor Mr. James C. 
Coffey will look after the work of the ushers. 
It will be a notable gathering. 



'Y\\^ Journal of Education of August 14 has 
the following : "More Friend than Master" : 
this is the suggestive heading of an article in 
Lu;ht upon Alfred S. Roe, who recently re- 
signed as principal of the Worcester High 
School and who has for ten years exerted an 
influence upon the young people of the city 
rarely equalled. He is a great teacher, but 
above all he is a man of exceptional force of 
character. He is ingenious in his methods but 
what is of greater moment, he inspires moral 
heroism. He was a soldier under Col. William 
H. Seward, Jr. Although a mere boy he 
spent the closing year of the war in Rebel 
prisons. He has been principal of the school 
for ten years, having been previously an assis- 
tant for five years. Although he can make an 
advantageous place for himself in literature 
or upon the lecture platform he should return 
to the school-room. 

"Vhe. Hoh'l Uorhl has the following item 
which is doubtless correct it itself, but it does 
seem to be too bad that every fraud that knows 
what a prestige the mere mention of a resid- 
ence in Worcester gives should claim to hail 
from here. We disclaim the fair tricycler and 
the hotel fraternity will please bear in mind 
that we havn't any of this sort. The item is 



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as follows : "A handsome young lady, riding 
a tricycle, beat the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, 
out of about a week's entertainment, when she 
cycled over to the St. Lawrence Hall and re- 
peated her tactics there, I)ut remained only 
two days. From the St. Lawrence she went 
to the Albion House. Here the proprietor 
took her tricycle in payment for hotel bill. 
She claimed to hail from Worcester, Mass., 
and her game was to tell the hotel proprietors 
that she expected her parents to be along in a 
day or two." 

Advantage is being taken of the closing of 
the P'irst L'niversalist Church during the 
present month, to do something in the way of 
painting inside and outside. The new coat of 
red which the bricks are receiving sets off the 
sandstone trimmings well and gives the build- 
ing quite a spruce look. Probably it wants to 
bear a creditable appearance alongside of its 
new neighbor, the Pleasant Street Baptist 
Church, which, by the way, is going up rapidly. 



The success attending the opening of Mr. 
F. J. Ellis's new Golden Rule Dialing Rooms 
augures well for the future prosperity of the 
business. The rooms are those formerly oc- 
cupied by John D. Chollar, in the building at the 
corner of Barton Place, and they are tastefully 
fitted up, offering cool and spacious rooms into 
which the dust and noise of the street does 
not penetrate. The kitchen is above the din- 
ing rooms, and there are no unsavory kitchen 
odors to rise from below. 



The Methodists are all ready to begin their 
annual camp-meeting at Sterling Junction, and 
on Monday they will have their first service in 
the afternoon, with services following on the 
remaining days of the week as usual. Rev. 
John Vf. Lindsay, D. D., presiding elder of 
the North Boston District, will be in charge, 
and Rev. John Peterson, of Newton Upper 
I-'alls, will preach the first sermon. In the 
evening. Rev. C. M. Hall, of Ware, will preach. 
Other preachers, on the following days, will be 
Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., of Worcester, 
Rev. Ernest P. Herrick, of Marlboro, Rev. E. 
S. Best, of Whitinsville, Rev. W. N. Richard- 
son, of Athol, Rev. O. W. Adams, of Town- 
send, Rev. George M. Smiley, of Charlestown, 
Rev. Charles E. Davis, of Lowell, Rev. 
Charles Tilton, of Waltham, and Rev. W. B. 
Toulmin, of Clinton. Rev. M. V. B. Knox, of 
Manchester, N. H., is to speak on Thursday 
afternoon concerning his experience in mission 
fields. A large gathering at the grounds is 
expected. The Swedish Methodists are to 
begin their services on Thursday, and con- 
tinue through the week. Light met that most 
cordial and delightful of men, Rev. H. W. 
Eklund, a day or two since, and talked with 
him concerning the meeting. He said that at 
least a thousand of the .Swedish people would 
be there. Their services are always interest- 
ing, even to those who do not speak the musi- 
cal tongue of the Norsemen. 



Miss Mary Alice Smith, a daughter of Mr. 
George E. Smith, who has been a pupil at the 
Normal Art School in Boston, for three years 
past, has accepted a position as a teacher of 
drawing in the high school of Minneapolis, 
and will start for that city next Tuesday. 



Strayed or Stolen. 



1!V JOHN RKNI-Sr M CANN. 



Has any one seen a pair of eyes 

As blue as the sea 'neath Grecian skies, 

;\nd sweet, red mouth, and teeth Hke pearl? 

Well, they lielong to my little girl. 
She strayed away with a pretty pout, 
.'\nd I don't know what it's all about. 

I would give my life, were my life all bliss. 

To feel again on my cheek her kiss. 

She strayed away on a summer morn. 
When only the ghost of a storm was born ; 

.'\nd it was born in her eyes of blue. 

I don't know what in the world to do 
Without her smile and her soft caress, 
And her presence my days and life to bless. 

She was so fair, delicious and sweet. 

That my heart never knew 'twas beneath her feet. 

Oh, she was so sweet —and she was st) fair. 
With her lovely eyes and her soft, warm hair ! 
.^nd her dear little hands, that fluttered so, 
And in which the dimples would come and go, 
When she opened them wide, or sliut them tight, 
Wlien love or storms made them pink or white. 
There is only this: I must pray to Him 
To send her back in the twilight dim. 
iVcw York Ci/y. 



Origin of Names of Fabrics. 

Muslin is named from Mosul in Asia. 

Taffeta and tabby from a street in Bagdad. 

Drugget is derived from a city in Ireland, 
Drogheda. 

Cambric from Cambrai. Gauze has its 
name from Gaza. 

Baize from Bajac, dimity from damietta, and 
jeans from Jean. 

Damask is from the city of Damascus. 
Satins from Zaytown, in China. 

Velvet is from the Italian vellute, woolly. 
(Latin, vellus, a hide or pelt.) 

Serge derives its name from .Xerga, a 
.Spanish name for a peculiar woollen blanket. 

Shawl is the Sanscrit sala (floor), for shawls 
were first used as carpets and tapestry. 

Bandanna IS f I om an Indian word to bind 
or tie, because it is tied in knots before dyeing. 

Alpaca from an animal in Peru, of the llama 
species, from whose wool the fabric is woven. 



Economy in the Use of Ice. 
A serious waste of ice, with those who use 
it in coolers, is in the lack of judgment or a 
knowledge of physics displayed by many in 
the choice of a location for the cooler. A 
lump of ice that will last all day and night in 
a judiciously placed receptacle will not last half 
of that time if the cooler be so placed that it 
is exposed to a constant draught of wind. The 
cooler should be located at a point where the 
wind cannot play upon it, or, if this be impossi- 
ble, it should be protected by a covering of dry, 
porous, non-conducting material. Take any 
ordinary zinc cooler and wrap it around with 
a dozen thicknesses of newspaper tied in 
place, and take a similar cooler unprotected, 
and put the same amount of ice and water 
into each. Long before the ice is melted in 
the first it will have disappeared in the last. A 
soup-plate of shaved ice, standing by the bed- 
side unprotected, melts very rapidly, but if 
the plate be pressed down into a feather pil- 
low, a saucer turned over it, and another pil- 
low pressed over the whole, it will last for 
many hours almost unchanged. — National 
Druggist. 



Kipling or Bruce ? 

Rudyard Kipling. 
Who is Rudyard Kipling? 
That is what everybody has been anxious 
for some time past, to find out. The literary 
world has been on the grand hunt for the 
identity of the individual. He is a new star in 
the literarj' firmament, and he rose so sudden- 
ly that almost before you could say Jack 
Robinson, he was famous in two hemispheres. 
He has made himself known as a writer of 
tales of Indian life and of verses, and his style 
is so remarkably original and his mask so 
well sustained, that he has commanded the 
attention and the praise of all the critics, and 
his stories are being widely copied and circu- 
lated. The New York Sun gave him a whole 
page recently, and altogether there has been a 
great deal of powder burned. His stories 
have appeared in book form, and he has con- 
tributed to leading English and American 
magazines. His work has conspicuous merits. 
Hut until recently it has not transpired that 
anybody knew this new author. In its last 
issue, Light referred to him as "London's 
literary lion," and quoted his opinion of Amer- 
ican women. The general impression has 
been that he was an Englishman who had 
spent some years in India. Quite recently it 
has been given out that he is an American, 
that his name is Bruce, and that he is a grad- 
uate of Harvard. 

Light has this week received information 
which strongly confirms the latter statement, 
and makes it appear, almost beyond a doubt, 
that "Rudyard Kipling" has lived and breathed 
and had being here in Worcester, and is, in 
fact, the son of a Congregational missionary 
who lived here some two years ago and is well 
known in Worcester church circles. 

Worcester people who furnish this informa- 
tion do not wish to be named, but if their story 
is correct, and there is every reason to believe it 
is, Rudyard Kipling's real name is Henry 
Goodnow Bruce. He resided in Worcester 
with his parents, two years ago for a while 
and he has paid Worcester a visit this 
summer. 

Mr. Bruce is a son of Rev. H. J. Bruce, who 
resided on West street, during the year men- 
tioned, and he was born in India, where his 
father has been for many years engaged in 
missionary work, under the direction of the 
A. B. C. F. M. His early years were spent in 
India and there he obtained the insight into 
the life of the soldiers and people of India 
which enables him to write as he does of them. 
When eight or nine years old, he came to 
America, tutored at Boxford, went to Phillips 
Academy a year or two, doing some fine liter- 
ary work there, and then went to Harvard. 
Mr. Bruce is a young man, not yet twenty-five 
years of age, and he entered Harvard college 
with the class of 'SS. Here he distinguished 
himself by a variety of literary work on the 
Harvard Advocate, the college monthly, some 
of his articles being in the nature of essays 
and in one or two instances he wrote tales of 
Indian life similar to those which are now 
making him famous. 

At college Mr. Bruce was a grind, rather 
than an athlete or a sportsman. He did not 
get his diploma, it is understood, owing to 
some troul)le with one of the professors. The 



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money for his education came from funds 
handled by the missionary people, who sup- 
ported his father. Now Mr. Bruce wasso un- 
fortunate as to have a decided cast in his eyes. 
He was very sensitive about it, and while he 
was in college he underwent treatment for the 
defect, with successful results ; but one of the 
professors who had something to do with his 
money matters thought it unwarrantably ex- 
travagant of Mr. Bruce or that he had no busi- 
ness to go away in term time for treatment and 
remonstrated with him. High words passed, 
and Mr. Bruce lost the professor's favor. As a 
matter of fact, he did not use the "missionary 
money" for his eye doctoring, the entire bill 
being paid by a l?dy friend. 

After leaving college, he went to England 
as a teacher in some classical school, and 
while there wrote for the English press in such 
a way as to give the idea that he was a young 
Englishman. 

A young gentleman, who met Mr. Bruce 
during his stay in Worcester, describes 
Mr. Bruce, as he remembers him, as 
being a short, scarcely prepossessing young 
man of abouf twenty-two years. He has dark 
hair and eyes, and wears spectacles, being 
very near-sighted. The first afternoon I met 
him, this gentleman continues, he was lying in 
a hammock at his home on West street, 
dressed in a flannel suit with a Harvard blazer 
and cap. In his hand was a volume of Haw- 
thorne, I believe, and our conversation turned 
in a literary line. Mr. Bruce appeared to be 
a very close student, in fact, a regular book- 
worm, and I never saw him without a book in 
his hand or pocket. On the afternoon men- 
tioned Mr. Bruce mentioned the fact that he 
had done some slight literary work while in 
college, and in speaking of various writers and 
their works he expressed himself very de- 
cidedly. Some of his views on methods of 
study and special branches of literature were 
very original and it was due to these, as well 
as to his striking personal appearance, that I 
have borne him in mind. Mr. Bruce was a 
fairly interesting conversationalist in the 
special lines of work which interested him, 
but on topics of the day and current college 
gossip, he was decidedly slow. He was a man 
who impressed me, but I must confess not 
favorably, though still I cannot say I am sur- 
prised to learn that he has shown remarkable 
genius. 

As a matter of fact, it appears that Mr 
Bruce is very much of a crank. So his neigh- 
bors describe him, and his tradesmen, even. 
When he bought a necktie, he ordered it sent 
up, because he had the English notion that 
only flunkeys carried parcels. 

In religion he is an agnostic and made no 
secret of his belief that Jesus Christ was a 
gross impostor. He had more or less intimate 
relations — chiefly more — with the family of a 
Jewish physician in Boston, and he is now 
understood to be with the physician at one of 
the Atlantic coast beaches. He was in 
Worcester not longer ago than June, and de- 
sired to engage rooms of his former boarding 
mistress for the summer, but she could not ac- 
comodate him, and he departed. While here 
he was noticed by quite a number of people 
who know him, and he was conspicuous on the 
street because of wearing a very light summer 
suit. 



Mr. Bruce is one of a family of seven or 
eight children. His oldest sister. Miss Hattie 
Bruce, is something of a poet and has written 
some very pretty things. A younger sister. 
Miss Helen Bruce, is now an undergraduate at 
Wellesley, and is expecting to enter the mis- 
sion field. Rev. Mr. Bruce, the father of the 
family, is a verj' quiet, methodical man, never 
enthusiastic about anything, but a man of 
puritanical honesty. He has been at the 
Satara station, in India, for many years, hav- 
ing gone to that country in 1S62. He is a 
graduate of Amherst, and expected to send 
his son there, but the son, who, it appears, has 
pretty much his own way about everything, 
decided to go to Harvard, and to Harvard he 
went, much to his father's sorrow. 

As a teacher in England, Mr. Bruce is said 
to have the deadest sort of a failure. 

While in Worcester he did not cultivate ac- 
quaintances, but spent most of his time in the 
hammock, reading. He was not a social man 
and acted as if he much preferred his own 
company to that of anybody else. Altogether 
he is a very peculiar fellow. His Worcester 
landlady says that he usually sat up until 
three or four o'clock in the morning, writing, 
and it was his habit to wander about the 
house with a book in his hand, reading aloud. 
The John W. Lovell company has published 
"authorized editions," in cheap form, of "Plain 
Tales from the Hills," "The Phantom 'Rick- 
shaw," "Soldiers Three," "In Black and 
White." All these are made up of short 
sketches. "Departmental Ditties," a volume 
of his verses which are of great strength, has 
also been printed. 

Is Kipling Bruce, and is Bruce Kipling? 
There seems to be the best of reasons for 
thinking so. At any rate, we ought to solve 
the mystery very shortly. 



Mr. G. Fred Grover of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
formerly of this city,who is clerking in Hotel 
St. Charles (formerly Breeze Lawn) at Hunter, 
N. Y., in the Catskills, was tendered a com- 
plimentary hop last Monday evening, by the 
guests of the hotel. The affair was a grand 
social success. During the evening, Mr. Phil 
H. Abbott, of New York, presented Mr. 
Grover, in behalf of the guests, with a purse 
containing over one hundred dollars. The 
presentation was highly complimentary to Mr. 
Grover, and shows the appreciation of the 
way in which he does his work in the office, as 
well as the manner in which he entertains and 
makes it pleasant for the large number of 
guests at the hotel. During the evening, the 
genial manager, Mr. S. H. Scripture, served 
as his compliment and testimonial, a very nice 
ittle repast for the guests and their friends. 
Mr. drover's popularity was further made 
evident by the appearance on the carte des 
danses of one number, Lanciers, dedicated to 
"Mr. Grover (everybody's friend)." 



Captain W. H. Whelan, the journalist-lec- 
turer, is to occupy Trinity Church pulpit 
to-morrow, and will speak at 10.30 a. m., 3 and 
7.30 a. m. The Captain is an eloquent 
speaker. 

Rev. F. T. George, of Cherry Valley, ex- 
changes pulpits with Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, 
to-morrow. 



In the World of Letters. 



It will be a disappointment if we may not 
soon have a volume of John Boyle O'Reilly's 
poems, containing all the verse he has written, 
up to the time of his death. And it seems as 
if the work of preparing such a volume, with a 
memorial of the poet, might be entrusted to no 
better hands than those of Mr. James Jeffrey 
Roche, himself a poet of no mean order, and 
for several years Mr. O'Reilly's closest asso- 
ciate on the Pilot. 

Mrs. Cornelia Wesson Boyden, of this city, 
a frequent contributor to Light, has in Dai- 
laic's Monthly Magazine for September a po- 
em entitled "A Lost Ideal." 



Very frequently we see in our leading jour- 
nals and magazines the name of A. Mary 
F. Robinson appended to charming verses. 
And as it is always interesting to learn of the 
personality of those whose names greet us 
from the printed page, the following from the 
Pall Mall Budget ^\\\ be interesting in this 
instance: "In Paris, in the city of delightful 
homes, there is a delightful home in a quiet 
street not far from the Luxembourg Gardens, 
where, if you are fortunate enough to go there 
some afternoon, you will find yourself in the 
center of Parisian letters and learning. You 
will be welcomed by the master of the house. 
But you will be happiest if you are able to 
have a quiet talk with the little lady who 
comes forward to say a bright welcoming 
word, the lady who seems so French among 
those French people, but who is English none 
the less, and was Mary Robinson — so English 
a name ! — before she became Mme. James 
Darmesteter." And now we know why "Paris, 
France," always appears below this lady's 
contributions. 

Alphonse Daudet, whom Henry James and 
other critics consider the greatest living 
author, is still a young man. He has not yet 
reached his fiftieth year. He went to Paris in 
1857, without money or friends. His success 
is of his own making. Personally he is a 
delightful man, a genial conversationalist, 
and an entertaining host. His family consists 
of a clever wife, two sons, and a daughter. 
His eldest son is twenty-one years of age. 
Daudet dedicated his "Sappho" to his two 
sons, to be read when they reached their 
majority. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward has 
relinquished her lot at Eastern Point, Glouces- 
ter, where it has been her intention to build a 
permanent residence. The place has been a 
favorite resort both of Mrs. Ward and her 
husband. Together they matured the plans 
of an ideal home to be erected on that site, 
but the whistling buoy in the ofling was too 
much for them. 

Mr. Whittier's fine poem on "Haverhill" ap- 
pears in its complete and perfect form only in 
the Atlantic Monthly im August. None of 
the newspapers which have printed it have 
given it in full and accurately. 



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tired from his latter post some few years ago 
in order to devote himself more unreservedly 
to literary work. He is a genuine lover of 
children, and his beautiful suite of rooms in 
the northwest corner of Wolsey's great quad- 
rangle, looking over St. Aldate's , were at one 
time a veritable children's paradise. Never 
did rooms contain so many cupboards, and 
never did cupboards contain such endless 
stores of fascinating things. Musical boxes, 
mechanical performing bears, picture-books 
innumerable, toys of every description, came 
forth in bewildering abundance before the 
child's astonished eyes. For many years he 
was a considerable amateur photographer, 
and amused himself by taking his little friends 
in all sorts of odd and fanciful costumes, till 
his albums became filled with Japanese boys 
and girls, beggar maids in picturesque tatters, 
or Joans of Arc in glittering armor. 

Ward McAllister, it is said, anticipates a 
sale for his book greater than than the sale of 
any preceding book in this country, excepting 
only "Grant's Memoirs." He will have to get 
Wanamaker to suppress it, then. 



Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian novelist, is 
said to write so poor a hand that his wife has 
to copy all his manuscript for him. Evident- 
ly she doesn't believe in type-writers. 

Mr. John Fiske, the author, is, says the Book 
Buyer, among his intimate friends a most com- 
panionable man. His talk wanders over a 
wide range of subjects, and his retentive mem- 
ory gives him a fund of illustrative facts and 
anecdotes that illuminate and enforce his argu- 
ment. He could hardly be called a fluent 
talker, but everything that he says expresses 
his exact meaning and is pertinent. While 
pursuing his studies in philosophy and history, 
Mr. Fiske has found time to develop an ex- 
cellent baritone voice and to attain a sufticient 
proficiency in pianoforte playing to enable him 
to find relaxation in a Beethoven sonata. He 
sings German and English songs with expres- 
sion, taste and feeling. 



"Lewis Carroll," the author of "Alice in 
Wonderland," is a senior student of Christ 
Church, O.xford, and was for many years 
mathematical lecturer to the college, but re- 



"Xht Sc'i^itmhtr U^ide Awake' s most inter- 
esting feature to older people — for "older 
people" ought never to be too old to read the 
children's magazines — is an article about 
"An Obscure Hero." It describes the work of 
"Ingompa Shi," as he is known among the 
Indians, or Mr. Lewis I. Hadley; as his real 
name is. This gentleman has for eighteen 
years devoted himself to studying the sign- 
language of the Indians and he has succeeded 
in reducing it to a form in which it is possible 
to print it. It is a remarkable work, the result 
of years of patient toil and study among all 
the tribes of the red men, and he designs it to 
be for their good, for through it he means to 
carry to them the opportunity for an education. 
The boys will read with keen interest "The 
Last Base Ball of the Season," by C. H. 
Garland, and all will enjoy the story of a little 
black girl, "Rijane," by Preston Lee Otis. 
"The Quest of the Whipping-Boy," is con- 
cluded, and Mr. Ward's serial, "The New 
Senior at Andover," has some splendid chap- 
ters. A tragedy for parior-acting, entitled, 
"She Did Not Go To Cooking School," by 
Anna Connolly Pollok, has its moral as well 
as its fun. There are other stories and bright 
verses as usual. 



Quester and Answerer. 

[Communications to this department are solicited. 
Tliey sliould be addressed to Quester Editor, Light, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

Railway Clerkships — H. F". W. writes: 
Will you please inform me as to the neces- 
sary qualifications for a clerkship in the rail- 
way mail service, also what is the salary and 
when and where are the examinations held? 
The best thing for you to do is to write to the 
Civil Service Commissioner, at Washington, 
and he will send you blanks and such infor- 
mation as may be necessary. Applicants are 
required to take the civil service examination. 
The examinations are held in different sec- 
tions of the country, twice a year, that for this 
vicinity being at Boston. The appointee 
usually begins on the trunk lines at a salary 
of $Soo and the maximum is $1300. Appli- 
cants are examined in penmanship, copying 
arithmetic and geography, and special stress 
is laid upon the latter, as well as upon abilitj 
to decipher handwriting. AH appointments 
are made from Washington. 

At Home Cards. — H. A. M. asks: Is i: 
necessary to acknowledge "At Home" card; 
when received ? If the cards are for one re 
ception only, the recipient should send a card 
in an envelope, at about the hour indicated ; i 
they are for two or more, tlie card may b( 
sent either on the first or last of the days. 

Hypnotism. — Mrs. E. B. B. asks ; Can yoi 
tell me of one or more educated and wel 
known physicians in this city who understanc 
the principles of hypnotism and can and d( 
apply them in the treatment of their patients 
The late Dr. D. W. Niles probably laid mor 
stress upon hypnotism than any other Worces 
ter physician, and he said that he intended t( 
make a specialty of it. The Answerer know 
of a Worcester physician who amputated ; 
finger while the subject was under hypnoti 
influence, but he would not care to hav 
his name mentioned. It should be understoo( 
that not all persons can be hypnotized; henc 
there is no likelihood that it can be made 
regular feature of medical practice, though i 
may be used in some cases. In so far as th 
so-called Christian Scientists are successful i: 
" healing," their work is the result of an exei 
tion of the hypnotic influence over their "p^ 
tients." Hypnotism, or mesmerism, is th 
mastering of another's mind : when that is ae 
complished, the controlling mind can indue 
in the subject such feelings, beliefs, and fait 
as may be desire. Used in this way, grea 
good might be accomplished; but, as statec 
not all persons can be made subjects, and nc 
all of those who respond to the influence ca 
be made subjects by the same person. 

The Fahrenheit Thek.mometer. - 
Science asks: Why is the Fahrenheit the 
mometer so-called? The Fahrenheit the 
mometer is so called because first brought int 
use l)y the inventor of that name in HoUanc 
about 1720. On it the freezing point is marke 
32 and the boiling point 212. Mercury freeze 
at about 39^ below the zero point of Fahrei 
heit's thermometer, and therefore alcohol co 
ored is used in thermometers for very col 
places. It is stated that more than 100' belo' 
zero can be measured in an alcohol the 
mometer. 



10 



Notes from the Gay World. 



BY EUGENIA H. SIEBERS. 



[regular correspondence op light.] 



New York, Aug. 21, 1890. 

The cool wave that has recently come among 
us is not an especially welcome visitor to the 
feminine portion of humanity, that is, those 
who are engaged in the business of keeping 
up with the procession in society. Be it 
known that every woman with a spark of 
Mother Eve in her nature admires her thin, 
cool, soft clinging draperies more than she 
does stiff brocades, or heavy silks, and what is 
to be done with that pile of thin, gauzy mid- 
summer dresses, if the thermometer remains 
at a point where to venture in one gives the 
bystanders the chills ? When the mercury 
runs up to 90 or 100 degrees, pretty girls and 
young married women look sweet as a peach 
and cool as a cucumber, apparently unmindful 
of the heat, for then do they don those ravish- 
ing and diaphanous creations that are made on 
purpose for such days. 

The other day, as I was doing a little shop- 
ping preparatory to running down to Newport 
for a few days, I saw on Twenty-Third street, 
near Fifth Avenue, comparatively deserted 
these days, such a charming picture that 1 must 
describe her. A friend was able to tell me 
the name of this quaint and curious maiden. 
She was a Miss Paul, of Philadelphia, a cousin 
of Mrs. W. W. Astor. She was a blonde, a 
genuine one, a bit tinted with the sun. She 
wore a blue cotton gown, made plain, with a 
very short waist and very high sleeves. There 
was a puff at the shoulder, then a band, then 
another puff that came to the elbow and met 
long chamois skin gloves. Her hat was a big 
shirred affair, made out of a piece of her 
gown and tied under her chin, while her yellow 
hair crept all around it. She wore little pointed 
patent leather shoes, and on her arm was an 
old fashioned blue cotton bag. I should have 
liked at that moment to take her picture with 
a snap camera, as an ideal presentment of the 
summer girl. 

I was glad to get out of town, for New York 
was getting entirely too suggestive of the place 
to which we calmly relegate our intimate en- 
emies — a place where we ourselves never ex- 
pect to see them. We can endure the city up 
to a certain degree, but that degree must not 
exceed 90. 

Never was Newport more glorious than now, 
like Owen Meredith's Marchioness of Carra- 
bas, "with that regal, indolent air she has, so 
confident of her charms," and well she may 
be, but there ! if one begins to rhap,sodize 
about Newport, there is no knowing what in- 
anities one may commit. The friend with 
whom I staid has the entr(;e of the charmed 
inner circle, so I was enabled to be something 
more than a mere looker on in Vienna. There 
is no place under the American sun where one 
can see more beautiful women and girls in 
wonderful gowns, or more accomplished dudes 
than at that most fascinating of cities by the 
sea. 

At a dance one night at the Casino, I saw 
a dazzling array of beauty and exquisite toilets. 
The girls of the four hundred, while engown- 
ing themselves in simple tulles, mousseline de 



1^1(1 MT 

sole, gauze, etc., yet attain the perfect art of 
inimitable elegance, with a chic peculiar to the 
daughters in Vanity Fair. 

Who is the belle of Newport this year? 
That is a query. The decision of the ques- 
tion of beauty is just as important and conse- 
quential this summer as in the days when Paris 
offended all-powerful Juno by awarding the 
prize to suit himself. Who is the modern 
Paris of Newport? Why, Mr. Ward McAl- 
lister, to be sure. Still, I fancy even his auto- 
cratship has a difficult task to decide. While 
Miss Sally Hargous, of New York, is just as 
popular as ever, and the roses in her cheeks as 
blooming after being the most admired of 
belles for two years, there is another fair con- 
testant for the palm of beauty in the person of 
Miss Alva Willing, of Philadelphia, who is 
much talked about and set down by many as 
the belle of this season. Miss Hargous is a 
brunette with a plump figure and looked 
bewitching at the Casino in a pale pink 
gown, dancing length. The skirt was partially 
veiled with flouncings of soft creamy laces, 
with yards of flowing ribbons. Miss Willing, 
who is neither blonde nor brunette, but has 
bronze brown hair and eyes, with a rare com- 
plexion of lilies and roses, with a graceful car- 
riage and perfect repose of manner, had on a 
costume of dull rose pink made with great 
simplicity. One of the most charming cos- 
tumes was a silk in pink and violet, sweet pea 
tints. Around the bottom of the dress and 
around the neck was a pinked ruche of the 
silk with a black lace ruche running through 
the middle. Over this underr-obe was a red- 
ingote of black net. Along the front were 
knots of violet ribbons. Other dainty costumes 
were gossamer fabrics in delicate tints of 
lavender, gray and green, made up with soft 
laces which falls caressingly on wrist and neck. 
All of these gowns are of wonderfuU fineness 
of texture : that is a sitie giia non. No matter 
how simple, they must be exquisitely fine and 
expensive. 

Falling into line with the gorgeous turnouts 
that pass and repass on the Avenue, the pa- 
geant still goes on. One pale lovely girl was 
a picture in a costume of heliotrope velvet and 
bengalene with steel embroidery and cream 
lace, with big hat and lace parasol. But to be 
"in the swim" at Newport is an office that is not 
a sinecure. For all the apparent indolence 
and repose of Clara Vere de Vere, it is constant 
activity, requiring thought, clever manage- 
ment, finesse, tact and worldly knowledge gen- 
erally. To be a successful woman of the 
world requires an amount of generalship that 
might put to the blush a trained military tacti- 
cian. 

And what of the gilded youth of Newport 
with their immaculate white flannel suits, 
gorgeous silk negligde shirts, waistcoats and 
Gordon sashes? Is life the egregious bore 
they would have us imagine? Far from it; 
theirs is a primrose path, and their souls de- 
light in the daily round. Their chief end in 
life would seem to be to avoid betraying any 
enthusia.sm, as "such bad form, you know." 
They take life, as it were, on sufferance, 
and bowl along in their lofty French dog-carts, 
serene in the consciousness of duty well per- 
formed. As the reign of naturalness of man- 
ner is at present the correct thing with the 
girls, their brothers would do well to imitate 



their example and convert that accomplished 
vis inertia- into more manly vigor. 

People go to Newport ostensibly to recuper- 
ate after the fatigues of the winter, but the 
scene only changes — the same drama goes on 
unceasingly, from morn to morn, and the 
hostess who provides the newest, most novel 
form of entertainment is for the nonce the en- 
vied of all. Mrs. Paran Stevens's hypnotizing 
evening was the latest novelty. The Lucullian 
feasts that are daily spread would make old 
Rome howl with envy. Life is one great fes- 
tivity in these fairy realms, where time was 
made for slaves. The tired and sated senses 
must be humored. The visitor who is present 
for a few days sees only the joyous, gay crowd, 
the bright and lovely faces, and longs to be in 
the swim; but it is Vanity Fair as real to-day 
as when Thackeray wrote. There are the 
same petty quarrels, the same displays of sor- 
did dispositions in these real scenes as in the 
pictured ones ; and also there are the same 
sweet fair girls, the same whole souls, purifying 
sorrows and disappointments. It is not all 
happiness and pleasure, though this alone 
seems to be the end and aim of watering-place 
existence. 



Tight Sleeves and Their Effects. 
It should be Ijome in mind that whatever 
tends to force the blood to the hands or to re- 
tain it there, is an enemy, not only to perfection 
of color, but to the health of the memliers. 
Many a maiden, prettily attired in some charm- 
ing manner, with close fitting sleeves, has suf- 
fered mortification from the fact that her hands 
and wrists would persist in looking so provok- 
ingly red, and has doubtless mentally ascribed 
every cause but the true one. Just the tight 
sleeve, which prevented the free return of the 
abundant supply of blood which her energetic 
young heart was persistently throwing into the 
hands and wrists — that was the only cause of 
her annoyance ; but it was a cause quite suffi- 
cient to account for the heightened color, and 
with the color went also the fact that the cir- 
culation was being more or less interfered with, 
the veins of the section affected were being ab- 
normally filled and distended; and interference 
with the normal circulation is always better in 
its absence, for every reason. What is true of 
tight sleeves, is also true of gloves, corsets, or 
any other portion of the apparel which acts as 
a compressor. Wherever the ill-effect is no- 
ticed, the remedy is apparent. 



Cutting the Finger Nails. 
The ultra fashionable nail is cut, not to a 
graceful curve, but to a long, sharp point, that 
is doubtless intended to give the finger a tap- 
ering appearance, but which really suggests 
nothing else so much as the adoption of a 
bird's claw in place of the natural equipment 
of the man or woman — for it must be confessed 
that both sexes tolerate this absurd method of 
disfigurement. Another prohibition should cov- 
er the practice of scraping and polishing the 
surfaces of toe nails. Given good health, with 
cleanliness of habit and watchful care, the nat- 
ural polish of the nail's surface will be richer 
and more pleasing far than any artificial lustre 
which can be imparted to it. There may be 
deformities to correct, to palliate or offset ; but 
given the normal condition of the hand, the 
natural form and color of the nail will be found 
in keeping therewith. — Good Housekeeping. 



Greeley. 



'J'iic sliore to-night from out the diirkiicss cries ; 

Aiictlier star liath fallen in the sea ; 
The heart of the metropolis in ashes lies : 

The east wind brings a cry of misery, 
O'er a fresh grave the llowers are thick to-day, 
But "dust to dust," to earth, earth ; clay to clay ; 
To-morrow all will have passed cpiite away. 

The lover and the loved together rest, 
The loss is to tlie living—piteous loss ! 

A mighty soul shall evermore be blessed : 
Columbia's urn holds but the nan\eless dross. 

Oh, had we to the man of miglit been just, 

We might not now wail piteously o'er his dust. 

The i>en of power is withered and it falls 
From the unhonored and the lielpless hand ; 

Columbia stretches forth her arm and calls. 
But answer there is none in all the land. 

The many pointed censure to deplore 

Is for no ear, no eye forevermore. 

A mighty spirit moved upon the time. 
And freedom southward flooded earth with day, 

A matchless master placed the type divine, 
And tyranny and treason passed away. 

And peace came with her flowers so very gay ; 

She came to bid her burning banners wave 

O'er the free land, but great Reformer's grave. 

We live upon the great lives of the past ; 

We haste to honor, not discriminate. 
The claim of service rudely from us cast. 

The knave and not the true we give the state ; 
To folly and pretense we grant the boon 
Of power : the man condemn and idolize a tomb. 
Kingn'ille, Ohio, 

* Written in 1S72, after Mr. Greeley's death, and now 
first published. Found among post-humous papers of 
the writer. 



A Few Maxims. 

It is not always the man who looks like a 
fool who is one. 

A large brain is better than a small foot. 

A respectable man may wear a threadbare 
coat, but if he does so he will find very few 
people who will believe in his respectaljility. 

It is better to begin life on Indian meal 
pudding and salt codfish and rise to roast 
beef and mince pie than to begin on roast 
beef and mince pie and get down to Indian 
meal pudding and salt codfish. 

We find happiness while we are pursuing 
it and lose it after we reach it. 

To ascertain whether or not a man loves 
his family, mark how he provides for it. 

He is a wise man who holds unswervingly 
to a policy of conciliation in his dealings 
with his fellow-men. 

A man may sow and another reap, but the 
sower of wild oats usually reaps the harvest 
himself. 

The politician who cultivates a faculty for 
remembering names and faces will succeed 
better than the one that cultivates a liking for 
softshell crabs. 



— The total number of stars, of which 
some knowledge may be obtained by the op- 
tical appliances now available, according to 
Prof. Lockyer, is from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000. 
Of these only about 6000 are visible to the 
naked eye, equally divided between the two 
hemispheres. 

— Of the entire human race 500.000,000 are 
well clothed, that is, they wear garments of 
some kind ; 250,000,000 habitually go naked, 
and 700,000,000 only cover parts of the body ; 
500,000,000 live in houses, 700,000,000 in huts 
and caves and 250,000,000 virtually have no 
shelter. 



L ICi MT 

In School-Days. 

A correspondent who vouches for the follow- 
ing sends the anecdote to Li(;iit with the 
statement that it has never Ijcen published 
and actually happened. 

A little boy of eleven years, in a village 
school, was reprimanded by his teacher for 
some misdemeanor and was told by her that 
he could not go home until he had composed 
a rhyme. In half an hour he presented her 
with the following : 

"'J'he devil flew from north to south ; 

He had a teacher in his mouth : 

And when he found he'd got a fool. 

He dropped her down to teach this school." 

However naughty he was, it was certainly 
cleverly done. 

Speaking of school-children, J. L. Harbour, 
in the September Wide Awake, tells some 
funny stories about excuses, which will be as 
interesting to older people as to the army of 
little folks who read the magazine. 

I once taught, says the writer, a country 
school in the backwoods, and as was the cus- 
tom then, I required a written excuse when a 
pupil was absent one or more days. Some of 
these excuses I have kept and they afford me 
a deal of amusement after all the years that 
have come and gone since then. 

Here is an excuse brought one day by a tall, 
red-haired boy of seventeen : 

"Dere Cir — Pleze to eggcuce Henry for 
absents yisterday. We made sourkrout and 
he had to tromp it down. Allso he had to 
Help bucher 2 pigs. 

"Resperkful yuers. His pap." 

"Did your father write this excuse himself?" 
I asked. 

"No, sir," replied Henry, "I writ it for him 
'cause he can't spell very good." 

I am very glad to add that Henry's spelling 
improved while I had him in charge. Another 
boy brought me this excuse : 

"Kind Teacher : Ab could not come yester- 
day on account of taring his pants very bad 
just before starting, so it took me most all day 
to mend them up." 

A boy of about ten years who had been ab- 
sent two weeks brought me the following ; 

"John Henry had a soar tow, allso a soar 
throte and a soar finger. Please egscuse." 

A girl of about fourteen whose mother 
affected a degree of culture and great mental 
superiority over her neighbors brought me the 
following note : 

"Dear Sir: I trust you will pardon 
Alcione's wholly unavoidable absence yester- 
day. Circumstances are not always controll- 
able by our finite minds, as you are no doubt 
aware. We are all subject to immutable laws 
and are constantly doing that we would not — 
alas! Therefore Alcione's unavoidable failure 
to attend yesterday's session. I trust 1 may not 
soon have to indite a similar unexpected cir- 
cumstance. Believe me to be 

"Yours truly and respectfully, 

A.NASTASIA C. H ." 

Simpler and more directly to the point was 
the excuse brought me by a tow-headed little 
girl of about eight years whose mother wrote : 

"Pha-be could not be there or she would of 
went. I think she et too much sossage for 
breakfast. Slie shan't do it agen. Pleese ex- 
cuse her." 

.'\ boy of sixteen who came very irregularly 
always brought this excuse from his father ; 

"Excooze Bill." 

That was all there was of it. but as I knew 
it came from his father I always "excoozed 
Bill" accordingly. 



11 



The Hudson at Night. 



IIV EUMUNU SMITH MlDIJlIiTON. 



How Still, how calm, thou roUest on, broad stream, 

Beneath the stars and summer sky. 
Borne on thy peaceful bosom in the night, 

1 lose the world, nor hear its cry. 

Thy banks have seen hist ric deeds and war, 

liut strife's a stranger in the night. 
When all thy waves are singing songs of pe,ace, 

To souls aweary of the light. 

I feel the grateful rest and sweet repose. 
Which follows thee past curve and lx-*nd, 

And all my heart goes out to give thee thanks; 
Dear Hudson, thou art made my friend. 

Aslntry Park, N. J. 



The Little HohenzoUerns. 

The elder two of Emperor William's sons 
show as yet little of their imperial father's 
cold and domineering disposition. In their 
friendliness they much resemble their gentle 
grandfather, the late Emperor Frederick. 
They are ready to make a comrade of any lad 
they meet, especially if he show a lively and 
dashing spirit. At Wilhelm's Hohe, where 
they lately have been staying, the young 
princes have had a particularly good time, 
and they and their matchless little white 
ponies have a "speaking acquaintance" with 
everybody. 

One afternoon the two little HohenzoUerns 
were out for a canter when they came on a 
peasant lad, well mounted, who was galloping 
by. The Crown Prince immediately touched 
up his spirited little steed, and springing for- 
ward tried to outride the country boy ; but all 
in vain. The latter, with the true spirit of 
Hessian independence and with a loud shout 
and touch of his huge whip, so urged on his 
beast that he soon shot ahead beyond all pos- 
sibility of being overtaken by the prince ; 
then turning round he waved his cap in the 
air to the royal lads on the snowy ponies and 
vanished out of sight. Friederich Wilhelm 
was manly enough to take his discomfiture in 
perfect good humor, and courteous enough to 
return the triumphant salutation of the strang- 
er with smiles of admiration. 

After a long ride the princes were hurrying 
home, when suddenly they encountered an old 
Hessian peasant woman carrying a monstrous 
collection of dried brushwood on her back, 
which so covered her that her figure was 
scarcely to be perceived. "Ach," exclaimed 
Prince Eitel to his brother, "look yonder. 
Fritz, the forest is moving; there is certainly 
a Miirchen (fairy) here." 

But as they approached nearer, the old 
peasant woman peering out beneath the dried 
wood, dropped her load and stood before the 
boys, her old care-worn face all aglow, her 
eyes filling with tears of loyal affection, and 
her lips murmuring endless blessings on their 
fair young heads ! 

The boys, laughing at their childless fears 
and funny mistake, begged their attendants 
to be allowed to empty their joint tiny purses 
into the trembling palm of the poor wood- 
gatherer: and this done, they galloped off to 
the castle, having proved themselves to be the 
genuine "Marchen." — \]'ide Awake. 



— When the Emperor of Russia visited 
London in 181 1, the Prince Regent gave a 
supper to 2000 guests at the Carlton House, 
and a stream with gold and silver fish flowed 
through a marble canal down the centre table. 



12 



Cousin Jack's Picture. 



BY F. W. WALTON. 



Cousin Jack was not a woman-hater, though 
appearances were fearfully against him . 
What other explanation could there be for his 
great castle of a house without a mistress, and 
he thirty-four his last birthday ? 

But there were extenuating circumstances 
and in justice to him they should be given. He 
had taken his turn in society when he was 
young and enjoyed it. But he was not mated 
in those early susceptible years, and shortly 
after they had passed he was lost to society, 
duty and inclination binding him to the bedside 
of an invalid nother. 

After her death he never resumed his place. 
He would some day, he thought, but somehow 
the day had never come. 

"I'm glad Annt Mildred has consented to 
spend the summer with me," he mused as he 
sat on his piazza one evening awaiting the re- 
turn of the carriage from the depot. "This 
country air will do her good, and the library is 
an excellent companion for her while I'm out 
on the place. As for Florence, she can run 
wild here for a spell and be all the better for it 
the next season — the exercise will tell in good 
lessons. If she has outgrown the overseer's 
children I'll get her a pony and she can gallop 
over to the neighbors." 

A few minutes later the carriage was at the 
door and dear Aunt Mildred was pressing him 
close to her heart. It was Henry's only son ; 
Henry was dead and this was his representa- 
tive — she could scarcely let him loose. 

"Cousin Jack, you have forgotten me," said 
a sweet voice at his side, and the next minute 
a pair of arms were about his neck, and the 
young lips that had reproached him were kiss- 
ing him as if he were an old patriarch whose 
forgetfulness must be overlooked. 

"Florence," he exclaimed, when he had 
gotten his breath. "It can't be possible ? You 
don't mean to say you are Florence, and 
g^own ?" 

"Grown ! Listen, mamma ! Why, I'm 
nineteen, Cousin Jack. I've been out of 
school a whole year — in society — and having 
oceans of fun. Grown, indeed !" 

While his guests were laying off their wraps 
Cousin Jack betook himself again to musing : 
"Florence grown, Florence a young lady ! 
Here's a dilemma — now I'm in for it. What 
can I do with a young lady, pray. She's 
worse than a white elephant. I might keep 
the elephant fed, but how satiate a girl with 
society out here in the country? She'll be 
wanting to run here, there and everywhere, 
croqueting, picnicking, driving no telling 
what, and going no telling where, and not a 
sign of an escort but Jack Thurston ! But the 
girl is a beauty, there's no mistake about that. 
I'll have no trouble getting her off my hands 
if the boys can only see her once. I'll just 
launch her out with a fete champetre, that's 
what I'll do. I'll string this lawn with Chinese 
lanterns and fill it with fiddlers some night 
and have all the country here. A 'sink or 
swim' affair it shall be ; if she takes and goes 
off like a top, all right; if she doesn't she can 
stay at home and keep her mother company in 
the library ; she can improve her mind. 
There's much a girl nineteen can learn if she 



I^ICiHT 

only knew it." And Cousin Jack smiled at 
his clever sarcasm and cool philanthropy. 

On the following morning the three went for 
a walk. 

"Cousin Jack," said Mildred, as they walked 
down the grape arbor, turning and looking 
him directly in the face, "Do you know that I 
didn't want to come here a to." 

"That's candid — and cool," he replied, with 
a laugh. "But I don't blame you in the least. 
This place is pleasant enough for Aunt Mil- 
dred, with its shade, cool air, and old memo- 
ries, but it must be stupid for a gay young girl 
who enjoys the swim. But I'm going to stir 
things up for you, Flo," he continued, after a 
pause; "don't be discouraged; I'm going to 
have the beaux all trotted out for you, and — " 

"Oh, no. Cousin Jack," she interrupted, "I 
don't want to see a single beau, do you under- 
stand — not one ! I didn't want to come a bit 
when mamma first told me that you had 
written for us. She said it would be very 
different here to what I had been used to ; 
that you were old (Cousin Jack winced) and 
dind't go out much, and I wouldn't see many 
young people. But she said it would be the 
best place in the world to pursue my art. You 
see. Cousin Jack, I am an artist. I have a 
great deal of talent, mamma says, and I in- 
tend to cultivate it. Portrait painting is my 
forte, and I intend to make my mark in it. 
So I don't want to be interrupted by beaux ; 
I'd rather not risk being diverted from my aim, 
for I intend to be famous, to be — " 

"One of the old masters," suggested Cousin 
Jack. 

"Yes," assented Florence, in her eagerness 
losing sight of his irony. 

"And now, Cousin Jack, you must help me" 
(the pretty face was turned again in sweet 
pleading to him). "First, you must not invite 
any young folks here, nor try in any way to 
make it pleasant for me socially." 

Cousin Jack drew a breath of relief, dis- 
missed the fete champetre, fiddlers and all, 
and consented. 

"And then," she ran on, "I want you to help 
me another way : I want you to sit for your 
picture." 

"Oh, be merciful, Flo !" exclaimed her 
mother, "don't make any such imposition on 
Jack's good nature as that." But Jack thought 
he could stand it, and consented. 

Cousin Jack was in the studio sitting for his 
portrait. Florence was directly opposite, her 
lovely face now turned toward him, now side- 
wise, as she took critical views of the measure- 
ments she was making on the canvas in front 
of her. 

"You see. Cousin Jack," said the young 
artist slowly, "I have heretofore only copied 
pictures, but this one I intend shall be a por- 
trait from the original, and I intend it shall be 
a success. I will leave a little place here on 
the corner of the canvas on which to write the 
word suicess." 

"And who shall be the judge ?" asked 
Cousin Jack. 

"You. I'll leave it to you. I believe I can 
trust that to your judgment. You shall write 
on the canvas failure or success." And 
success was in every tone of her happy, hopeful 
voice. 

She kept her model fully two hours and 
strange to say he showed no signs of weari- 



ness. Back and forth he swung in a bamboo 
rocker, a cigar between his lips, a book in his 
hand, in which by-the-by he turned only a few 
pages. At last she released him. 

"You can go now," she said, crossing over to 
where he sat. "You are a dear, patient. 
Cousin Jack; and leaning over she kissed him 
again as if he had been the "patriarch of her 
tribe." 

And Jack stuck to his post faithfully, day 
after day. Florence informed him that the 
picture was to be a surprise, and he must not 
see it until it was finished. 

One afternoon as Florence lay asleep in the 
hammock, the certainty that he could not be 
caught in the theft emboldened Cousin Jack 
to steal a glimpse at his portrait. Quick as 
thought he ascended the stairs and entered 
the studio. Now was his time. He neared 
the easel and lifted the scarf. 

A loud laugh rent the air. "Who is it? and 
what is it ?" he exclaimed as he looked at the 
caricature that faced him. "Well, Thurston," 
he said as soon as he could find breath for 
anything but laughter, "I never knew you 
were cross-eyed before, and, as for your mus- 
tache, I would call it a wisp of hay if it were 
not hay is never red. It's doubtless what she 
calls the Titian tint. And see, the dear girl 
has dashed my eyes with it, too — red-eyed as 
well as cross-eyed. Oh, Thurston, Thurston, 
where is your vanity ; and what about your 
lying friends and looking glass ! Ah, my little 
darling, I love you to your finger tips, but you 
are not a portrait painter. I'd enter you in a 
sweepstake ring for a lot of things — but not 
for portrait painting. As an artist you would 
never get under the wire !" 

An hour later he was as usual doing duty 
demurely as model for his artist. 

Florence for awhile worked away with some 
interest but it soon died out and a troubled 
look came into her happy face. She was 
beginning to realize tnat the undertaking was 
a failure, that her brush had not caught the 
faintest resemblance. It looked so hopeless, 
and what would Cousin Jack think of her for 
having wasted so much of his precious time 
as she had. He might think, too (men are so 
vain), that she had made him sit just to have 
his pleasant company. A faint flush tinged 
her cheeks as the faint consciousness stirred in 
her heart that his company was pleasant to 
her. 

He noted but made no comment on her 
thoughtful mood. 

"Cousin Jack," she said after a while, and 
there was a tremor in her voice. He might 
not have heard ; he made no answer. 

She sat for a long while in deep thought, 
her pretty arms resting on the easel, their 
whiteness accentuated and their shapeliness 
not hurt by the specks and stripes with which 
they were decked. In one hand she held her 
pallet, profusely splotched with paint and in 
the other her brush filled with her favorite 
color, the Titian. 

"Cousin Jack," she faltered, and this time 
there were tears in her eyes, "I'm a failure. I 
haven't made a — a — good portrait of you ; I 
— I — somehow can't catch your expression." 

"Well, don't mind that, Flo, you have caught 
me, and that's a great deal better if I do say it 
myself — a live man is worth a thousand pic- 
tures any day. I don't need that portrait for 



my walls, but I need you. This would be a 
desolate old castle, Flo, if you ever left it. I 
don't know how I endured it before you came. 
I couldn't stand living here without you — more- 
over, I don't intend to try." 

Cousin Jack had gone up to her side, and 
risked all manner of dyes and splotches by 
holding her close in his arms, pallet and all. 

When he lifted her face from the hands in 
which she had hidden it, he found it was plen- 
tifully freckled with gamboge, burnt amber 
and what not, but the Vermillion of her lips 
Cousin Jack found unadulterated and not 
transferable. 

"Now, let me write my verdict," he said, 
taking the brush from her hand. 

Then (in the Titian tint) across the middle 
of the canvas, making havoc of the lineaments 
over which the young artist had puzzled so 
long, he wrote in big letters : "Success !" 



Where Cuttle Fish Come From. 
Fortwo months, from the latter part of April 
until the closing days of June, the number of 
small and somewhat barren islands of the Chu- 
san Archipelago, situated within a radius of fif- 
ty miles of Chinha:- (at the mouth of the Yung 
river), swarm with men engaged in the occupa- 
tions of cleaning and drying the cuttle-fish for 
the Ningpo market, and the adjacent waters 
are literally covered with boats engaged in 
fishing. With regard to the numlier of men 
and boats employed, it is impossible to give an 
exact report ; but, culling the figures supplied 
liy men who have been in the business all their 
lives as a basis for my calculations, we have a 
total of fourteen thousand boat.s, each of 
which carries an average crew of six men, 
which gives a total of eighty-four thousand 
men actually engaged. These men are drawn, 
principally, from the agricultural classes, re- 
ceiving each from $8 to $20 for their services 
during the season. The cuttle-fish lioats are 
from twenty-five to thirty feet in length, with a 
beam of seven feet. They are furnished with 
a single lug-sail, usually made of foreign T- 
cloths tanned with mangrove bark ; they are 
worked with two, sometimes three, sculling 
oars, with which the Ijoats are propelled with 
astonishing speed. The boats, as a rule, work 
in pairs, a bamboo fastened at the bows of each 
to keep them separated, with a space of about 
twenty feet between. To the bamboo is at- 
tached the large net. Others, again, catch the 
fish by means of a square net fastened at the 
corners to the ends of two slender bamboos, 
which cross at right angles, and sewed together 
in the middle. These Ijamboos, wtih the at- 
tached net, are suspended from a stout beam 
which projects some distance over the bow 
and has fastened to the in-board end a heavy 
weight for facilitating the raising of the net. 
This is used in shallow water, and principally 
at night, when a fire is kept burning in a pan 
in the bow of the boat to attract the fish. One 
or two men attend to the working of this net 
while the rest of the crew are employed in 
scooping in the fish with hand-nets. The boat 
loaded, the fish are landfd, cleaned and sun- 
dried. The drying occupies about three days. 
They are then shipped in packages of about 
j;ij pounds each by small junks to Ningpo. 



A Mountain Walk. 



— The first post of the Grand .•\rmy was 
founded at Decatur, 111. on April 6, 1S66, by 
Major B. F. Stephenson. 



The readers of Light are always interested 
to hear of the doings of Worcester travelers, 
and the following extracts are given from 
letters written from Switzerland by Worces- 
ter people now there. 

"We are now riding in a diligence with five 
horses, from Krieg over the grand Siniplon 
Pass, en route for Italy. Napoleon had this 
Pass built for his army between iSoo and 1806. 

"This has been a perfect day ; it is nearly 
six o'clock, and I have not been able to detect 
the tiniest fleecy cloud in the sky. We left 
Zermatt about seven this morning, riding 
eleven miles in carriages ; then walked seven 
miles over a mountain path where we must 
either walk or ride mules; and after an hour's 
ride in the cars we began this ride, stopping, 
of course at d'fferent places for lunch and rest. 
Since we left home every day has been 'a red 
letter day' and yet there is no sameness about 
them. 

"Yesterday, Sunday, was a glorious day. 
We arose at 7.30 and as it was still some little 
time before breakfast we sauntered out, and 
seeing the peasants all flocking to a little 
church next to the hotel, we went in, too. 
Although early, the seats were all filled and we 
had to stand, but we were very much interested 
in the service. The women, dressed in bright 
dresses, and with 'kerchiefs on their heads, sat 
on one side of the church and the men on the 
other. There was quite a good organ and a 
male quartette for music. No walks or rides 
are planned for Sunday, so we spend the day 
as we choose. After breakfast, we went out 
on the piazza and the mountains looked so 
grand in the clear air that half a dozen of us 
decided to take a quiet walk up the Riftelberg, 
a trip planned for the day before. 

"We started out and in three hours had 
climbed 3000 feet, by a good mountain road, 
the last half-hour of it through the snow, for 
what had fallen as rain below was all snow 
there. We took dinner at the Rifflelhaus, next 
to the highest hotel in Europe, and staid there 
an hour or two to enjoy the grand view of the 
Matterhorn, which towers above the countless 
other peaks all around. I don't believe the 
mountain was ever seen to better advantage, 
for the air was so clear and the sky so blue. 
We had hoped to climb the (jorner Grat, 
which is 1600 feet higher, but we were already 
above the tree-line and surrounded by snow, 
and we were told at the hotel that there was 
too much snow to attempt going higher. 

"On our way down we made a collection of 
the different wild Mowers which we saw 
and when we reached Zermatt again and took 
account of stock we found we had seventy-six 
different varieties. After dinner, at eight 
o'clock, we attended a praise service at a little 
English church near by. In accordance with 
a request made in the morning, we all carried 
our 'bed-room candles,' which we lighted as 
we went in and placed on a rack in front of us. 
The church was very poorly lighted and the 
candles in their brass candlesticks presented a 
strange but very pretty appearance. It was 
rather hard, sometimes, to keep a sober face 
when someone in the seat in front would give 
a sudden move and every one in our seat would 
jump for the candles, fearing they would be 
jounced off the slanting racks. 



12 

"When service was over, the rector said that 
as the descent was a little dangerous — the 
church was situated a short di.stance up the 
mountain side — we would better keep our can- 
dles burning as we went down. We followed 
his advice and the procession of lights wind- 
ing down the steps and hill made one of the 
(luaintest and prettiest sights I ever saw. 

"We had another little treat at sunset in see- 
ing the pink 'Alpine glow' on .some of the 
beautiful snow-clad mountains. We enjoyed 
the day thoroughly and were glad of our 
twelve-mile walk which had given us such 
grand sights in nature." 



A Girl's Own Brother. 

" But, he's my own brother." 

Is that any rea.son why you should take his 
courtesies for granted, and never say "thank 
you .''" 

Is that any reason why you should not try 
and make an evening at home pleasant for 
him, instead of forcing him by your selfishness 
to seek his happiness somewhere else .'' 

Is that any reason why you should not think 
his opinion of your frocks, your bonnets or 
your looks, worth consideration ? 

Is that any reason why, when you have a 
man visitor, he should be made to feel that you 
endured your brother when there was nobody 
else, but that when there was — well, then it was 
different? 

Is that any reason why you should not be 
glad of a dance or a game with him as your 
partner.' 

Is that any reason why you should not listen 
to his word of advice about other girls or their 
brothers? 

Is that any reason why youshould not be in- 
terested in /u's story of the shooting or the 
hunting, when you do to the same tales from 
other people ? 

Is that any reason why you should push 
him to the wall, except when you need him, 
and then claim his attention as your right? 

Because he is your very own brother you 
ought to be ten-fold more considerate of him 
than of the brothers of other girls. Because 
he is your very own brother you ought to study 
his tastes and cater to them ; read the books 
that he likes and suggest others to him ; study 
the songs he fancies and be glad to make new 
ones known to him. In this way you will 
make your brother your i'i:rj' omii, and to 
him "sister" will be the most delightful among 
girls. Are you your brother's keeper? Yes, 
in a way ; but you do not keep him by fetters 
formed of ill-temper, untidyness and lack of 
courtesy, but by one made of every feminine 
grace and brightened by a sisterly love. That 
is the keeper that will give you your brother's 
love, and make you worthy the heart of some 
other girl's brother, too. — Ladies^ Home 
Journal. 



— At Loretto, near Ancora,Italy, is the Santa, 
or Holy House, in which it is pretended the 
Virgin Mary lived at Nazareth, and said to 
have been carried by angels into Dalmatia 
from Galilee in izgr, and brought here a few 
years afterwards. The Lady of Loretto, 
gauddy dressed, stands upon an altar holding 
the infant Jesus in her arms, surrounded with 
gold lamps. Loretto was taken by the French 
in 1797; the holy image, which had been 
carried to France, was brought back with 
pomp, Jan. 5, 1803. 



u 

A Letter from Chautauqua. 

As the readers of Light know more or less 
about the C. L. S. C. movement, some account 
of the yearly assembly of this society at Chau- 
tauqua may not be devoid of interest. 

We all know that Chautauqua is situated on 
the shores of Chautauqua Lake, in the south- 
western corner of New York State; but only 
those of us who have visited the place, really 
know how beautiful it is, and how it differs 
from the general run of summer resorts. 

In order to get some idea of the grounds and 
what takes place here, suppose we take a stroll 
together, starting from the dock, where every- 
body leaves the boat upon arrival, and is 
obliged to pay gate money before entering 
these classic precincts. 

Leaving the dock, we direct our steps toward 
the principal hotel. Along the lake is the 
famous model of Palestine, laid out on the 
scale of a foot to the mile. 

After a walk of about five minutes, we reach 
the grounds of the Hotel Athenxum, and 
enter the hotel itself, where about four hundred 
guests can be accommodated. The Assembly 
owns and runs the house, and it is here that 
the principal speakers are entertained during 
their stay. One of the features of this hotel 
is that the help employed consists almost en- 
tirely of students from various schools and 
colleges. 

Just a few steps above the Athena;um we 
come to the great amphitheater, which is 
modelled after those of ancient Rome, having 
rows of seats ranged one above another in the 
form of a semi-circle, the whole roofed over 
but not walled in. Here are held lectures, 
concerts, meetings and entertainments of all 
kinds. Although six thousand people can 
crowd within this vast audience room, yet its 
seating capacity is too limited for all who as- 
semble to listen to the eloquent preachers, the 
great musicians, and the excellent readers 
heard here. 

In the midst of the grove, south from the 
amphitheater, and isolated from the other lec- 
ture rooms, is the Hall of Philosophy, which 
is built in imitation of a Grecian temple, hav- 
ing a roof supported by large square pillars, 
and no walls. 

On an avenue running north from the am- 
phitheatre is the C. L. S. C. building, wliich is 
a fine new structure with Corinthian pillars in 
front and containing an office and a small hall 
where prayer meetings are held and bible 
classes meet. Next door is the museum of 
curiosities from bible lands; and across the 
way the building in which the Chautauqua 
Daily Herald is published. This is also a new 
building, and one of considerable architectural 
beauty. 

As we proceed along this avenue toward the 
north, we pass the Children's Temple on our 
left, where the little folks have their special 
entertainments. There they assemble every 
Sabbath afternoon and are taught the Sunday- 
School lesson by Secretary W. A. Duncan, who 
thoroughly understands children. Opposite 
is a well shaded park, though for that matter 
there is shade everywhere, for the grounds are 
laid out in an extensive grove which slopes to 
the lake. 

The post-office is a busy place during certain 
hours of the day. If it happens to be mail 



I^ I(i HT 

time, we shall find a long line of people await- 
ing their turn at the delivery window. We 
pass a number of stores and next see the Kel- 
logg Memorial building, which is the finest 
structure on the ground. This is given up to 
the kindergarten department. 

Now we continue north and plunge into the 
woods, having left the cottagers' section, 
and reached the region of tents, although at 
present tenting is not so popular at Chautauqua 
as it used to be. Right here in the woods we 
come upon Normal Hall, where Dr. i:)ickinson, 
the superintendent of schools for the State of 
Massachusetts, has charge of the pedagogical 
department. Off here in this quiet place we 
also find the School of Cookery, which this 
summer is quartered in a large tent, and has, 
by the way, been pretty well soaked during 
one of our violent thunder showers. 

Pushing on through the woods, we come out 
into the open fields where is situated the Col- 
lege of Liberal Arts, on a knoll commanding 
a magnificent view of the Lake and the sur- 
rounding country. This is a neat structure of 
considerable size, and contains a library and 
recitation rooms. 

We can proceed but a short distance farther 
in this direction, for we soon bring up against 
the high picket fence which encloses the 
grounds. This fence is a mile and a quarter 
long, and is patroled by policemen, to prevent 
people from entering without paying the ad- 
mission fee, which is one of the chief sources 
of revenue for the Assembly. It costs twenty- 
five cents a day in July, and forty cents a day 
in August to remain on the grounds, but that 
includes admission to the lectures, concerts, 
and entertainments. 

In our stroll through the grounds we have 
managed to take in most of the important 
buildings, but there still remain to be visited 
the School of Delsartism, the music school, 
the new gymnasium, the swimming place, the 
base-ball grounds, and the tennis courts. And 
we have scarcely noticed yet the hundreds of 
cottages that are in many cases half concealed 
by the trees. Some of these are quite fine and 
even luxurious, but many are built for tempo- 
rary occupation, and are frequented by the oc- 
cupants only at meal times, and at night, it 
being far pleasanter to spend the daytime out 
of doors, for the elevation of the place is four- 
teen hundred feet, which insures pure air, and 
for the most part cool temperature even in the 
hottest part of the season. 

Here one can live out of doors, and grow 
brown and healthy ; at the same time, he need 
not spend all his time in physical pleasures, 
but when so inclined can find a change in at- 
tending some of the meetings that are in 
progress forenoon, afternoon and evening, at 
which he is sure to hear something interesting 
and instructive. Then Chautauqua offers rare 
opportunity for students to finish their prepa- 
ration for college or make up back work under 
the very ablest instructors, and teachers and 
even college professors come here to pursue 
some special line of work. I have met one 
man this summer who came from California to 
study Hebrew under Dr. Harper. The best 
of instruction is also given in bible study by 
some of the most profound bible scholars in 
the country. There have been over three 
hundred students enrolled in the bible schools 
this season. 



There has been a college Y. M. C. A. con- 
vention, a missionary conference, Christian 
Endeavor meetings, and meetings for discus- 
sing Sabbath School work and methods. The 
Sabbath is very quiet here; no Sunday excur- 
sions are allowed, the gates being closed, al- 
though on that day the steamers touch at the 
other resorts along the lake. There are no 
balls given here, and there is no dancing on 
the grounds. But the popularity of the place 
is growing every year, as is attested by the 
fact that the number of visitors is constantly 
on the increase, and bids fair to exceed this 
season that of any previous season. 

And the influence which Chautauqua exerts 
for the cause of learning and true culture can 
never be estimated. I wish that many Worces- 
ter people might come and learn for themselves 
more about this model summer resort. 

G. C. B. 



Danger in Wet Cellars. 
Scarcely anything is more prejudicial to 
good health than wet cellars. Rheumatism, 
bronchitis, pneumonia and malarial affections, 
including neuralgia and sciatica, are some of 
the dangers to be apprehended. Damp cellars 
mean foul and noxious air, and should be sed- 
ulously avoided. Now, before the rains come, 
while the water or moist line is considerably 
below the surface, is the proper time to pre- 
vent these evil influences. Drain tiling, laid 
outside and a foot below the base of the foun- 
dation, and running diagonally across the cel- 
lar, and connecting with the outside drains, 
and thence leading to the street drain or some 
low ground, is the best and perhaps only safe 
way to drain, not only the cellar for a foot be- 
low its surface, but the outlying ground for 
several feet in all directions from the house. 
This drain, while having a free outlet, should 
furnish no opportunity to put into it anything 
but what is extracted from the soil. It should 
never, on any conditions, have any connection 
with sewage, nor receive any kitchen slops or 
surface water, and should be well below the 
frost line. If possible, the cellar floor and the 
sides of the wall, as high as the surface of the 
ground outside, should be well cemented. It 
is well, owing to the great porosity of bricks, 
if used for foundation walls, to have interven- 
ing layers of cement, so as to prevent, as far 
as possible, the upward passage of the water 
by absorption. This drain should be laid as 
far as possible from the well, lest in some way 
its contents should be emptied in the well, and 
contaminate the drinking water. The expense 
of such drainage and wise precaution would be 
but a trifle, especially if, by neglect, a pro- 
tracted sickness, with its doctor and drug and 
nurse bills, and eventually a funeral, should be 
prevented. The soundest wisdom and strict- 
est economy favor the adoption of all measures 
that lessen, or reduce to a minimum, the dan- 
gers from preventable diseases. 



— One ounce of alcohol raises the pulse three 
beats per minute, or, in other words, causes 
the heart to beat while its effects last at the rate 
of 4300 beats more than natural in the twenty- 
four hours. The heart cannot be made to do 
this extra work without suffering. The bad 
effects of alcohol on the brain and nervous 
system are equally demonstrable. 



IvlCiHT 




u 

X1RS. C. A. ROBBIXS, 

Formerly at Barnard, Sumner & Co.'s, will be pleased to 
meet her friends at her 

4-NEW DRESS-MAKING ROOMS -4^ 

No. 3S7 Main street. Grout's block. Perfect satisfaction 
guaranteed and prices reasonable. 

Miss M. E. Tibbetts, 

DRESS i MAKING t PARLORS. 

Bridal Outfits and Evening Costumes 

MADE A SPECIALTY. 

Room 23, Knowles Building. Take Elevator. 

-^^^WORCESTER DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL-** 

527 MAIN ST. 

Ladies wanted to investigate the Improved Tailor Rule 
System of Dress Cutting, so called from the method of 
measuring and draughting. Pupils have free access to 
the work-rooms to see for themselves the practical work- 
ing of the system. Each pupil will receive special atten- 
tion, time not limited. 

MKS. L. F. WALCH, Sole Proprietor. 

—AGENTS TAUGHT FREE.— 

-^ART NEEDLEWORK AND STA]fflPING4- 

2>ro. 2 ■';X7"a,lrL-u.t Street, 



given and material furnished. Goods sold 
MRS. S. M. KEYES. 

LADIES' HAIR GUTTING 

AND GURLING PARLORS. 

Bangs cut and curled for 15 cents. Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen's Wigs a specialty. 

IDA F. BOND, 571 Main Street. 

FLATIRON BUILDING. 

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR GAN BE 

permanently eradicated by the 

ELECTRIC NEEDLE 

Process. No scarring or other injury, There is now no 
excuse for any lady to allow a growth of hair to remain 
upon her face to mar her personal beauty and to make 
her friends unhappy. Moles are also permanently re- 
moved. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 

Nliss H. ISA PROCTOR, 

Summer Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Dress Cutting School. 

All who wish to understand every principle of dress- 
cutting should call and examine the various modern 
systems now in use ; the King of Squares, the Budding- 
ton, and others. Prices from Five to Fifteen Dollars. 
Every pupil thoroughly taught, 'i ime not limited. 
M K S. A. S. N E W C O M B, 

23(1 Main Street. 



MRS. I. S. RICHARDS, 

Millinery 

Parlors ! 

Rooms 6 and 7, up one flight, 
368 1-2 Main St., Worcester, 

Between Elm and Maple Sts. 



L T Ci H T 

Something to Eat. 

[Light invites the ladies of Worcester and vicinity to 
contribute cooking receipts which they have tried and 
proven to be good. Please write upon one side of the pa- 
per only, and address the communications to Culinary 
Editor, Light, 339 Main street, Worcester, Mass.] 



Daisy \A^ine. 

Take one quart of common field daisies and 
turn over them a quart of boiling water. 
Let them stand twenty-four hours, then strain 
and add one quart of white sugar. Let it 
stand four or five days, skimming every morn- 
ing, and then bottle. A very pleasant and 
healthful drink. Mrs. C. L. P. 

Serving Bananas. 

To make a salad of bananas slice half a 
dozen and put in a dish with layers of as many 
oranges also sliced. Over all squeeze the 
juice of a lemon and sprinkle plentifully with 
powdered sugar. Serve very cold. Any deli- 
cate cake baked in layers and put together 
with layers of bananas sliced very thin will 
make a choice dessert. The cake should be 
served with sweetened whipped cream or it 
will be too dry to be palatable. 

Raspberry Pie. 

Three cupfuls raspberries, one cupful sugar. 
Line pie plate with the paste, prick over with 
fork to prevent shrinking and blistering; cut 
a top crust out a little larger than the other, 
prick also and bake ; put the fruit and sugar 
in the pie plate, and cover with the top crust ; 
if the fruit is ripe they will steam tender ; if 
not, just return to the oven until hot through. 

Sweet Potato Pudding. 

Six good sized potatoes, grated raw ; one 
tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of 
lard, one pint molasses, three tablespoonfuls 
brown sugar, one-half pint milk, one egg, one 
teaspoonful each cloves, allspice and ginger, 
two teaspoonfuls salt, water to make a soft 
batter; stir two or three times while baking; 
bake slowly for two hours. 

Baked Stuffed Fish. 

Wash thoroughly and dry by rolling in a 
towel. Salt and pepper to taste ; fill the cavity 
with stuffing sauce as used for fowl, sew up 
and place in a baking pan with a cupful of 
boiling water and two ounces of butter. Baste 
two or three times during one hour, which it 
will take to cook it. Serve with white gravy 
or mashed potatoes. 

Apple Pot Pie. 

Fourteen apples, peeled, cored and sliced, 
one and one-half pints flour, one teaspoonful 
baking powder, one cupful sugar, one-half cup- 
ful butter, one cupful milk, large pinch salt. 
Sift flour with powder and salt, rub in cold 
butter, add milk, mix into dough as for tea 
biscuits; with it line shallow stewpan to 
within two inches of bottom ; pour in one and 
one-half cupfuls water, apples, and sugar ; wet 
edges and cover with rest of dough ; put cover 
on, set it to boil twenty minutes, then place in 
moderate oven until apples are cooked ; then 
remove from oven, cut top crust in four equal 
parts ; dish apples, lay on them pieces of side 
crust cut in diamonds, and pieces of top crust 
on a plate ; serve with cream. 




" IN HIS NAMK." 

Dedicated by special permission to the order of The 
King's Daughters. For sale by 

A. E. PECK. 

368 Main street. 



G. F. HARWOOD, D. D. S. 



Room 13, Knowles Building, 
518 Nlain St., Worcester 
I^^Elevator. 

DR. W. H. SEARS, 

D K N T I S T 

(Office will be closed during August.) 

45 Park Street, Worcester, Mass. 
TURKIJH B/lTn5. 



F. W. FIELD, 

Professional Manipulator, 

Massage. 
Personal attention. Hours 



No. 6 Elm Street, 

Opposite Lincoln House 
Worcester, Mass. 



LE i JOLLY * FRENCH ^ DYEING 
AND i CLEANSING i 

First-Class Work at Short Notice. 

Reference for Laces and Lace Curtains, Gross & Strauss 
Cut init this coupon froui 
LIGHT, and bring lit with 
you and get 10 per cent dis- 
count from regular prices. 

C. T. MELA'IN, PKOFKIETOK, WALNUT ST. 



WORCESTER COLLAR LAUNDRY, 

Barton Place. 

COltARS AND CUFFS lACNDKRED IN SV- 
PKRIOK STYLE. 

Special attention given to Shirts and Gent's Under- 
wear. Work called for and delivered without extra 
charge in all parts of the city. 

C. B. COOK & CO., BROPS. 



THE 

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Is clean, relia- 
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The best news- 
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LARGEST CIRCULATION 



GEO. N. MORSE, 

TEACHER OF 

Piano, Organ and Harmony. 

STUDIO, 446 MAIN STREET. 

MISS EDITH L. SMITH, 

(Graduate of the Monroe College of Oratory, Boston), 

WILL RECEIVE PUPILS IN 

Elocution and Physical Culture, 

AT HKK KESIDENCE, 39 MAY ST. 

Instruction privately or in classes. 

Ben T. Hammond, 

-f TEACHER K OF RINGING 4- 

WILL RESUME TEACHING ON 

TVLonday, Septem.t)er, 1st. 

People's Savings Bank Bldg., 452 Main .St. 

— : T 13: :e: :— 

Home School 

This popular Day and Boarding 
School for Girls will re-open Septem- 
ber 34, in new, enlarged and improved 
quarters at the corner of May and 
Woodland Sts. Miss KIMBALL is 
now at the school home, and will be 
glad to meet inquirers, or circulars 
will be sent on application. 



School of 



English 



Speech 



RE-OPENS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 

Heard Place, iS Belmont Street. 

Class and Private instruction in literature, history 

Shakespeare, rhetoric, reading, speech culture and 

physical culture. 

MRS. JOHN C. CUTTER, Director. 

MISS SARAH E. LAUGHTON, Associate Director. 

HOWARD M. T1CKN0R,.A..M., Instructor in Read- 
ing and Vocal work. 



Mrs. Throop's School 

For Young Ladies and Children, 

141 PLEASANT STREET, 
Re-opens October i. College Preparatory. 

Summer address, Rockport, Mass. 

Worcester Dress Cutting Academy. 

Dress cutting and making patterns and linings cut to 
fit perfectly by the Kellogg-French Tailor System, 

Lessons in cutting, making and draping. Teaching 
at residence when desired. Agents wanted. Send 
for Circular. Room 17 Clark's Block, 492 Main 
Street, Worcester, Mass. 

M R S. E. F. B R V S O X. 

C. A. BOYDEN, 

Picttire Frame h/l'f'g'r, 

And Dealer in 
En^avings, Etchings, and Art Goods. 

Cameras, Lenses, Paper, Plates, Etc. 

47 Park St., Worcester. 



L I Ci H T 

About the House 



[Readers of Light are cordially invited to contribute 
articles on practical housekeeping, and also any informa- 
tion which would be interesting to the housekeeper. Please 
write on only one side of the paper. Address all commu- 
nications to Household Editor, Light, 339 Main street, 
Worcester, Mass.] 

** If jelly does not "form" the next day after 
being made, it is useless to cook it over. If it 
does not become firm when first cooled, stand- 
ing it in the sun before covering it will some- 
times assist in hardening it. Jelly should be 
well covered and kept in a cool, dry place. 

*» Half-pint jelly-gla.sses are the best. They 
should be rinsed in scalding water and dried, 
then stood up side by side in .some large pan, 
and filled with the jelly to the brim. Allow 
tlicm to .stand a day or two in some sunny 
window, cover them, if possible, with bits of 
glass, and as the moisture gathers on the un- 
der side wipe it carefully away. 

*j(f Save carefully the small paper bags which 
groceries come in; they are useful in many 
ways. Slip the hand in one when you black 
the stove, and you will not soil it. When flies 
abound, slip them over the clean lamp-chim- 
neys during the day. After fruit is canned 
draw them over the can, and label them plain- 
ly ; the action of the light causes more fruit 
to spoil than any other one thing. 

*j( Mi.\ stove blacking with spirits of turpent- 
ine. It will take off the rust, polish easier, and 
stay glossy longer than when water is used. 

*^ In restoring draperies or curtains of art 
needlework on muslin, they should first be well 
shaken to get out the dust, and then soaked in 
cold water to remove the worst of the dirt ; 
they are then washed in tepid water with good 
white soap, rinsed through cold water with a 
little salt in it, and dried quickly in the shade. 
They should be folded before getting quite 
dry, and ironed lightly with a not too hot iron. 

*^ When cutting a tablecloth before hem- 
ming it, always save the pieces, because these 
ravellings are the best threads to darn all 
napery. 

*jf Do you find that your glassware, dishes, 
tumblers and the like, are too prone to crack 
and break? Here is a well-tested preventive. 
Put your glass into a kettle, cover it entirely 
with cold water, and place the kettle on a part 
of the stove vi'here it will soon come to a lioil. 
Allow it to boil briskly a few seconds, then 
cover closely, set aside and allow it to cool 
gradually. When the water has become quite 
cold take out the glass. 

*> Sponge or bread set to rise the first time 
will rise much more rapidly in a close vessel. 

*((;. Whenever eggs are used in baking, it is 
better to beat them thoroughly before any 
other ingredients are added. This is especially 
true when baking-powder is used, as too much 
beating after the powder is added seems to kill 
its essential qualities. 

*^ If one rubs the hands, after peeling onions, 
on a stick of celery, the smell of the onion will 
be entirely removed. 

*,K For burns, sweet oil and cotton are the 
standard remedies. If they are not at hand 
sprinkle the burned part with flour, and wrap 
loosely with a soft cloth. Don't remove the 
dressing until the inflammation suljsides, as it 
will break the new skin that is forming. 



]7 

The Clark 
Sawyer Co. 

478 to 482 Main St. 



The Reason Why 

We sell so many fancy scrap baskets, right in the 
heat of midsummer, is because of the variety we 
are showing. You've never seen their equal. How 
does it happen.' Wliy, we've opened up twenty 
cases of samples from which we order our holiday 
stock ; these are what we are selling now— more than 
likely the great majority of patterns will never again 
he seen in the city— not many of a kind, but j^oui/ 
ones, every one of Ihcm. 

An Old Concern, 

That of the Stuart, Peterson Company. 'Iliey've 
been making Porcelain-lined preserving kettles al- 
most as long as the memory of man, and what's the 
result ? Only that they know how to do that one 
thing, and do it well. Ask any one in the business 
who makes the best ; the reply comes sharp and 
quick— The S. P. Co. They won't cost a penny more, 
if you buy here, than the ordinary sorts, although 
we pay a premium for thenL 

A Word with You 

About bird cages. If you havn't had occasion to 
buy one of late, the prices will seem astonisliingly 
low, particularly in square brass cages. What would 
you say to an oblong brass cage— a good one— bot- 
tom 11x13 1-2 inches, and only costing you an even 
dollar. That's about the way they go. All sorts of 
cage and bird furnishings — springs, swings, perches, 
cups, baths, as well as cages for all sorts of birds. 
Parrots, Canaries, Robins or Mockers. "Puritan" 
brand bird seed, we import, screen, winnow and 
pack ourselves — if it isn't good, none can be. 

Do You, or do You Not 

Drop in as you are passing ? It's a good habit, a 
pleasant one, and one practiced by many. You're 
very welcome. About the only way to see all the 
new and beautiful things is to call often. Don't feel 
as though ^ou were obliged to buy something. 
Don't feel obliged to make excuses for your being 
there. What we want is to have you come as often, 
stay as long and ask as many questions as you like, 
and not have you feel as though you were making 
our life a burden, for sucli is not the case. In the 
crockery department particularly, and silver ware as 
well, tliere are daily arrivals of most entertaining 
wares. 

Just About Now 

We are receiving fine porcelains from I-'rance, Eng- 
land and Germany, every steamer arriving in either 
port. New York or Boston, having packages con- 
signed to us. We are opening as fast as possible. 
Many of tiie knowing ones pick up a choice piece 
now and then almost out of the straw in the cask. 

We Want You 

To feel at home here. It is your right to come, our 
pleasure to serve ; you and your stranger friend can 
spend a pleasant hour with us. 

Which Reminds Us 

Of an "out-of-towner's" remark of to-day— "I never 
saw anything like /<7«//j until now."— And he wasn't 
far from right— Central, Draft, Decorated Fount and 
.^hade to match, complete, for $4.00. \'ou miglit 
tliink them worth $7.50, until you see what that 
amount will buy. Banquet, Table, Piano, Hall and 
Library Lamps, we make them a special feature. 

The Woods are Full of 

Central Draft Lamps. The "Rochester" is the 
original— the "B and H" a close follower ; one is 
about as good as the other, and both reliable. Other 
makes may be— it remains to be proven. 



THE CLARK-SAWYER CO. 



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Forerunners of Fall. 



*jk Furriers are expecting black furs to lead 
in the opening season. 

*j. Leather trimming studded with steel or 
gilt will be worn on winter garments, and 
entire jackets of supple leather are hinted at. 

*» The short silks, which are really among 
the most charming silken stuffs of the 
season, will be worn for early autumn gowns. 
They are shorn of their garniture of lace, 
and velvet replaces this sort of trimming, but 
they are always lovely, no matter how they are 
adorned. All the combinations of color which 
taste and a sense of harmony can suggest are 
found in these silks, so that all tastes and 
all complexions can be suited. A pigeon's 
breast shot silk has a garniture of drab 
velvet with a tiny cord of pink at the edge. 
Another with sunset colors of dark red and 
gold has a trimming of deep red velvet, while 
a blue and gold glories in a deep sapphire 
trimming, edged with a yellow cord. The 
simplicity of the models makes them all well 
adapted for street wear in September and 
October. 

*„ Bands of metal braid will still adorn the 
pretty lightweight gowns for early autumn 
wear. They are, after all, among the pretty 
things for the decoration of all sorts of gowns 
for autumn wear. 

*jjf Morning costumes of white wool for the 
seaside have fine serge forthe skirt and jacket, 
with a shirt waist of China silk. All are 
made in the simplest fashion, with merely rows 
of stitching for trimming. The skirt has a 
corslet attached to it, extending even all 
around the waist, or else there is a narrow 
white ribbed belt ribbon, fastened by a pearl 
or ivory clasp. 

% .Silk handkerchiefs are a furore, and 
among other things are used to fashion a de- 
lightfully light toque for travelling and busi- 
ness occasions. 

*^. Black lace fans, mounted over with 
gauze, and with tortoise-shell sticks, are much 
used by elderly ladies. 

*jiThe cheese cloths of fine quality that 
are so popular this season for the toilets of 
young ladies for afternoon and evening wear 
are among the very prettiest to be seen this 
season. Their very simplicity makes them 
attractive, and the sheer effect to the material 
makes it particularly well adapted to the 
purposes for which it is used. The tints are 
particularly beautiful and delicate also. 

*» The combination of straw color and 
white is again shown in the fabrics for early 
autumn when these two with a pretty shade of 
.soft brown will be seen combined with fawn 
color in plaids and barred woolens for walk- 
ing costumes. 

*JK Lace trimmed surahs will be among the 
most stylish costumes for autumn wear, and 
insertions, narrow flounces and tuckings of 
net are among the fashionable modes for dis- 
posing of the pretty trimming. 

*» Sashes have been transferred from the 
waist to the throat. Now the long china crape 
scarfs are on all occasions wound about the 
neck, and make a pretty and becoming note 
of color in toilet, and they are very becoming. 



Facts for the Fair. 



CH-A-^TEX^ 22:11. 



Well, well ! how is this ? 

What .? 

This letter from a friend of mine in Worcester, says : "You must make your plans to come 
to Worcester shopping during the first two weeks in September, without fail." 

What is that for, I wonder ? 

Well, she explains it ; listen : 

"There is to be the finest 'bargain sale' at the Worcester Corset Co.'s Retail Store, 328 
Main Street, ever offered in Worcester. 

"A large quantity of perfect, elegantly fitting corsets are to be put on 'special sale' dur- 
ing those two weeks. 

"The manager of the store, (a friend of mine) gave me an idea of what the prices will be, 
and showed me some of the corsets. 

"Clara, you must surely come! It will be your golden opportunity to get corsets. Come 
early, before the Worcester people cull out all the choicest bargains." 

I declare, Clara, that's worth knowing. I need some corsets, and I will improve this 
opportunity, you can be assured. 

328 Main Street. Why, that is where I buy my Royal Worcester Corsets. 

Why, yes. That is where I got my Pongee Corsets (Royal Worcestef No. 608). Do you 
know, I think the 608 Pongee is the most delightful and satisfactory corset I ever wore. 

By the way, they keep the choicest selection of neckwear novelties to be found in the city 
of Worcester, or Boston, either, did you know that ? 

Now, look here! we must go to Worcester — let me see, September comes in on Monday — 
I can't go Monday, but I will go Tuesday, the 2d. Can you go that day ? 
Yes, I can go any day you set, the earlier the better, so to get the best bargains. 




1':e3:e best iisr rrxaiE -"^t^t-oi^IjID. 
FRENCH SHAPES! LONG WAISTS! 



PRICES FROM $1 TO $6 EACH. 



STYLES TO SUIT ALL WANTS. 



Worcester Corset Co., 

Retail Store, 328 Main St., W^orcester, Mass. 



NEW KODAKS 




"You press the 
Hir-'V)! button, 

we do the rest." 



Seven New Styles aud Sizes, all Loaded with 
Traueparent Filuis. 
For sale by all Photo Stock Dealers. 

THK KASTMAN COMPANY, 
Send for catalogue. BOCHESTEK, N. T. 



Davis & Co. 

Sell Fine Ready Made 

-f -C L O T H I N 0-4- 

— AND^ 

MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 



Custort:i Department 

Contains at all times choice goods. Garments 
made to order in the most correct manner. 

Opposite Bay State House, 

286 Main Street. 




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Don't Scowl So. 



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FINE MONUMENTAL WORK 

In Granite and Marble, 

131 CENTRAL STREET, 



NEAR SUMMER. 



WORCESTER, MASS 



A Rustic Idyl. 

Ai'NTii; (who is on a visit in the country): 
What a heavenly morning it is, Nina. I feel 
as though I should like to make some one 
supremely happy today ! 

Nina (catching the same feeling); Yes, 
Auntie, and so do I. Let's go and scratch 
the pig's back. 
His First Name Used to be O. 

"Mamma, I know the gentleman's name 
that called to see Aunt EUie last night, and 
nobody told me, either." 

"Well, then, what is it, Bobby.'"' 
"Why, Oeorge Dont. I heard her say 
'Cieorge, don't,' in the parlor four or five times 
hand-running. That's what his name is." — 
PJiiladt'lpJiia Times. 
And Rarer. 

Little Isaac: O, fader! Loog ad de 
shtars, how dey shine ! 

ScHOXBERG : Don'dloogad de shtars, Ikey ; 
loog ad de moon, id's bigger. — Sun. 
Conclusive Evidence. 

Blinks: I used to think that your sister 
Mary was a very good girl, and I am sorry to 
learn that she has become a burglar. 

Toothless: A burglar! What do you 
mean ? 

Bli.nks : Oh, I know it is true, for I saw 
her last night going around with her Jimmy. — 
Boston Th/u's. 
She Repented. 

"No," said she, "I — I can be only a sister to 
you." 

"Very well," said he, "I must be going ! I 
had expected a different answer, but — well, 
good-night !" 

"George," she faltered, as he started out 
into the night, "George !" 

"What is it ?" he asked crossly. 
"Aren't you going to kiss your sister good- 
night?" 

He did not go. — Lawreiicc America)!. 
Very Swell. 

Guest (to unknown man by his side) : This 
is a great society event. 

LInknownMan: Indeed it is. One of the 
most fashionable weddings ever held in New 
York. 

"None but the very ereme de laLrcmc\\txe." 
"That's so. It is exceedingly select." 
"Are you a relative of the parties ?" 
"Not at all. I am a detective, watching 
out that none of the guests steal the wedding 
presents." — .Sif tings. 
He Had Heard About Them. 

Train Robber (boarding parlor car, West- 
ern e.xpress) : Quick, now, if yer knows wot's 
best for yer. Get yer valybles ready. 

Mr. Hayseed: Land sake ! Marier, here 
comes the porter. 

We Have Been There. 

Confused Stranger : What is the 
name of this street ? 

Citize.v: Well, on this side it is called 
Tremont row ; on the other side it is Court 
street; and in the middle of the street it is 
Scollay square. You can take your choice. 



New England 
-FAIR- 

-AT- 

WORCEJTEK, 

MASS., 

SIPI. 2, 3, i 5,181 

Twenty-Seventh Annual Fair of 
tlie New England Agricultural 
Society, 

in connection with the 

Seventy-Third Annual Fair of the 
Worcester Agricultural Society. 



$13,500 

OFFERED IN FREHIUnj 



Grand Exhibition 

Of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Poultry. Fruit. 
Flowers and Vegetables. Ploughing Match. Milk and 
Butter Tests for Sweepstakes and Special Premiums. 

Exciting Races 

Trotting and Running, Hurdle Races, Foot Races, 
t;t|uestrian Exhibitions, ComiKtitive Drill of MiUtary 
Companies. Splendid exhibits will fill the 

New Exhibition Halls. 



Many New Attractions. 
Excursion Rates on all Railroads. 

Grounds situated almost in the centre of the city. 



Exhibitions Each Evening 

With Halls, Grounds and Track 

Brilhantly Lighted by Electricity 



DR. GEO. B. LOKING, 

Pres. New England .Agricultural Society. 
HON. DANIEL NEEDH.4M, 

Secy. New England Agricultural Society, 
J. LEWIS EI.LSWOKTH, 

Pres. Worcester .Agricultural Society 
F. H. CHAMHKKLAIN, 

Secy. Worcester Agricultural Society 



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NEW * CLEAN * ODORLESS * (lUIET^^ 

The GOLDEN RULE DINING AND ICE CREAM ROOMS, 

formerly at 500 Main Street, are now permanently located at 476 Main 
Street, up one flight. With plenty of room and the latest and most 
approved appliances for cooking, it is the best place in the city to get good 
meals at moderate prices. 



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t GOOD MEAT « 


t GOOD BREAD i 


t GOOD BUTTER * 


t GOOD MILK « 


- GOOD COOKING \ 



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"There is not in tliie whole w^orld a place half so 

Bweet" 
As tliat place — to a hungry man — where he can 

eat 



Six pinners lilie tlie one below for $1.50. 



DINNER BILL OF FARE. 

SOUPS 

Chicken, loc Tomato, loc Lamb Stew, 15c 

Fricassee of Chicken, 25c 

FISH. 

Fried Pouts, 20c Baked Blue Fish, 25c 

BOILED. 

Leg of Mutton— Caper Sauce, 25c 

ROASTS. 

Sirloin of Beef, 25c Rib of Beef, 20c Stuffed Veal, 20c 
Rib of Pork, 20c Lamb, 25c 

VEGETABLES. 

Sliced Tomato, 5c Cucumbers, 5c Green Corn, 5c 
Shell Beans, 5c 

COLD MEATS. 

Boiled Ham, 20c Roast Beef, 15c Boiled Tongue, 20c 
Corned Beef, 15c 

ENTREES. 

Minced Ham and Dropped Egg-;, 20c 

Vegetable Hash, loc 
Beef Pie, 20c Sausage and Mashed Potato, 15c 

PUDDINGS. 

Marble, 5c Plum, 5c Steamed Blueberry, 5c 

PIES. 

Pineapple, 5c Apple, 5c Custard, 5c Blueberry, 5c 
Apricot, 5c Squash, 5c Lemon, 5c 

DRINKS. 

Tea, 5c Coffee, 5c Chocolate, 5 Milk. 5c 









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The rooms are cool and pleasant, and the service prompt and 
courteous. Any who may desire a home-like place for meals are 
cordially invited to call and inspect thoroughly. 

Table Board, $3.50 per week; 21-Meal Tickets, $4.00; 6 Full Course Dinner Tickets, $1.50. 

COMMUTATION TICKETS, $1.15 for $1; $3.50 for $3; $6.00 for $5. 
Hours, 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. .Sundays, 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. 

Golden « Rule * Dining ? Rooms, « 476 1 Main i Street, 

F. J. ELLIS, Propr. 



In the Courts. 



[I.iGHT will be glad to print any news of interest to 
the Tennis fraternity ; scores of notable individual 
matches, receptions or ladies day gatherings, etc. Ad- 
dress, Tennis Editor, Light Office. 



The invitation tournament at Nahant, last 
week, was an interesting e.xbiljition of fine ten- 
nis, and brought to the front as a winner, 
Oliver S. Campbell, of Columbia Colltj;e, one 
of the most promising players in the country, 
and the probable winner of the All-Coniers at 
Newport ne.xt week. 



In his match with Champion Slocum, Mr. 
Campbell showed such fine form that many 
are of the opinion that, should he win the All- 
Coniers, he will also defeat Mr. Slocum for the 
championship. This would be highly probable 
were it not for the fact that the challenger for 
the championship is obliged to play through 
four or five hard rounds while the champion 
himself is comparatively fresh. However, Mr. 
Campbell is a player of large experience, and 
will doubtless make a hard fight for the highest 
tennis honor in the country. 



The western cracks place their whole con- 
fidence in Charles -A. Chase, of Chicago, and 
his form this year is entirely unknown in the 
east, as he has not played in any of the tourna- 
ments. He is probably Mr. Campbell's most 
dangerous competitor in the All-Comers, and if 
he is playing in as good form as in years past, 
a match between the two men will be of great 
interest. 

The finals in doubles between the champion 
teams of the east and the west will also be 
played at Xewport and will be a well fought 
battle. Hall and Hobart, of New York, will 
find worthy competitors in Carver and Ryerson, 
of Chicago. The latter pair have done bril- 
liant work together in the recent tournament, 
and the chances of their winning are excellent. 



The Highland Club, of Millbury, holds its 
annual tournament next week on its new ash 
court. Singles and doubles will be contested. 
E. B. Clapp presents a racquet for first prize, 
and the second prize is a silk umbrella. The 
tourney will be open to Millbury players only. 



The Worcester Tennis Club announces its 
second annual tournament open to Worcester 
county, to be played on the club grounds the 
first week in September. Singles and doubles 
will be played. The winner in singles will 
play Mr. George F. Crocker, of Fitchburg, 
for the county championship, and the posses 
sion of the elegant vase emblematic of the 
championship. 

The tournament at Narragansett Tier had 
fifty entries, but with the exception of a half 
dozen players, none of the cracks were entered. 
The feature of the week was the playing of 
M. H. Chase, of Providence, a fifteen year 
old player who defeated his opponents in the 
first two rounds in two love sets each and 
made R. P. Huntington, Jr., the intercollegiate 
champion, play his best to defeat him two sets 
to one. 

The Winslow Tennis Club held an impor- 
tant meeting Wednesday evening and elected 
to membership Messrs. Addison L. Bemis, 



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Louie E. Ware, David White, losepli H. 
Wallace, William H. Parker, \\'ilfred 1). 
Smith, Jesse Coburn, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur 
W. Hobbs, Miss Grace Smith, Miss Hattie 
.Smith, Miss Marion Baldwin, Miss Josephine 
Hammond. An executive committe-e includ- 
ing Messrs. Charles T. Tatman, (;. Stewart 
Dickinson and George O. Bridges was ap- 
pointed, to have charge of the courts and 
transact necessary Ijusiness. The courts, 
with the exception of No. i, are to run north 
and .south, instead of east and west, to avoid 
the western sun late in the afternoon. 



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The recent tournament at Princeton num- 
bered among the players Messrs. Alexander 
and Chandler Bullock, Mr. H. W. Smith, Mr. 
A. P. Kirk, and Dr. Kelley, of this city. 



The entries for the Crescent Tennis Club 
tournament closed Thursday night and the 
drawings are as follows : 

Preliminary round — Albert C. Marble vs. 
Wilton W. Dadmun; William H. Parker vs. 
F. W. Ryerson; O. S. Kendall vs. Harry 
D. Temple; byes, Fred A. Whittemore, 
Charles F. Marble, Louie E. Ware, George 
T. Woodward, Eugene C. Belknap, F. W. 
Jones, Hugh M. Southgate, Pelham W. Lin- 
coln, Frank R. Batchelder, Charles B. Earle, 
Harry L. Dadmun, H. L. Parker, Jr., Harry 
N. Rice. 

First round — Whittemore vs. C. F. Marble; 
Ware vs. Woodward; Belknap vs. Jones: 
winner of Marble-Dadmun match vs. winner 
Parker-Ryerson match ; winner Kendall-Tem- 
ple match vs. Southgate ; Lincoln vs. Batchel- 
der; Earle vs. Dadmun ; H. L. Parker Jr., vs. 
Rice. 

Doubles, First Round — Southgate and Rice 
vs. Dadmum and Dadmun; Ware and Batch- 
elder vs. Kyerson and Jones; Parker brothers 
vs. Earle and Lincoln; Whittemore and Ken- 
dall vs. Marble brothers. 

The first prize in singles will be a silver 
cup ; the second, a pair of russet tennis shoes ; 
in doubles, first prizes, two canes : second 
prizes, two racquets. The consolation prizes 
have not yet been decided upon. Play will 
begin at 9 o'clock Monday and the playing 
hours will be from 9 to 12, and from 2 to 5 
daily till the tournament is finished. The court 
is being put in first-class condition, and will be 
newly taped. 

Miss Annie AL Alton will spenel her vaca- 
tion in Thompson, Conn. 



Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Hall have returned 
home from a delightful trip to the mountains. 
They also spent a short time down the Provi- 
dence river. 

Mr. Aldus C. Higginsand Mr. George Clark 
are together in the Adirondacks. 



Mr. John W. Higgins is at Manchester, 

N. H. 



Miss Ella E. Hopper is at Portland, Me. 



Inspector J. B. Willarel and his family have 
jone to Jericho — that is, Jericho, \'t. 

Capt. James K. Churchill is at Winthrop. 



Master Herbert Parker, a son of .Senator 
Parker, is with relatives at Kingston, R. I. 



The Vacationers. 



Mr. I". K. Hillman is at Northampton. 



Mr. and Mrs. !•'.. E. lirown and Mi.'-s luiima 
K. Clair go to Princeton next Monday. 'Ihey 
have bull at Mount I'lcasant. 



Mr. and Mrs. 1''. W. Bu.xton appreeiate the 
(|uiet beauty of Vineyard llaven. 



Mi.ss Lizzie H. Thompson is at Falmouth 
Heights. 

Misses Edith and Addie Marcy are visiting 
relatives in Charlton. 



Misses Mary A. and Marion O. Midgley left 
yesterday for Asbury I'ark, N. J., and after 
remaining there for a season, they will go to 
Kingston, N. Y. On their return home they 
will stop at Waterbury, Conn. They expect 
that their vacation outing will extend over a 
month. 

Mr. E. N. Lust is at Newfield, Me., and Mr. 
J. E. Dean is at West Bethel, in the same state. 



Dr. James J. Rafferty is having lots of fun 
at Block Island. 

Miss L. Eva ISarr spends her vacation at 
I'^ast Brookfield. 

Mr. Charles R. Kirby, formerly a resident 
of this city, and now located at \"ineland, N. 
J., has been in town this week. 

Messrs. P. H. Stearns and John Merrill have 
been tasting the delights of Old Orchard. 



Mrs. Margaret Philpot is with Miss Helen 
Davis, of Boston, at Manchester-by-the-Sea. 



Mr. James H. Cafferty is at Orr's Island, 
Me. 

i\Ir. Solon Bartlett, Polytechnic Institute, 
'SS, and now an instructor in mathematics at 
Lawrenceville, N. J., is in town. 



Captain John W. Hadley gave a reception 
at his residence, 21 Florence street, Wednes- 
day evening, to Miss Mary Bostwic Shelman, 
of Westminster, Maryland, and the members 
of the Sixth Regiment association were 
invited to meet her. Those present were Mr. 
J. Stewart Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dyson, 
Mr. Thomas Talbot, Mr. and Mrs. Amos 
M. Parker, Rev. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, 
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Robinson, Mr. and 
Mrs. Fred Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. George Mills, Mrs. 
B. F. Clough, Mrs. M. R. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. 
J. H. Brewer, Miss Nellie Munroe, Mr. and 
Mrs. George A. Reid, of Saxonville, and Mr. 
Charles Whipple of Toledo, O. Miss Shel- 
man was a little girl when the old Sixth 
marched through Baltimore, and her home 
was but thirty miles away. Later, she showed 
her patriotism, while surrounded by rebel 
sympathizers, by ministering to the comforts 
of the soldiers of the union in such ways as a 
little girl might, even if it was only the giving 
of "a cup of cold water." The reception 
Wednesday evening was something unique 
and will be pleasantly remembered by all 
concerned. 



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Round 





Strong 



Linens. 



These goods come in all widths and are particu- 
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Samples Sent on Application. 



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Temple Place, Boston. 



Lines of Business. 



How Our Boy Sweeps. 

We don't use a leaky old sprinkling pot to 
sop the floor all over in puddles when we 
sweep. No sir ! We have wet sawdust, and I 
put a row of it across one end of the store and 
sweep that right along to the other end just 
like a regiment marching across a ten-acre lot. 
It catches all the dirt and carries it along. 
If it gets a little dry, I add some more. .Some 
folks scatter sawdu.st all over the floor, but 
Mr. Vanders says that's no good, that the 
reason for using sawdust is to avoid wetting 
the floor all over and to have something that 
will absorb the dust. 



Copy Your Letters. 

Among the valuable adjuncts to a success- 
ful business, and almost a necessity to a large 
one, is the advantageous practice of copying 
all letters. The advantage and importance of 
this practice is one largely underrated by the 
majority of business men. "Oh, well, I know 
what I write, I reckon," is the answer common 
to many, yet there often comes a day when to 
know just what was written at a certain time 
would be of much profit. No business is so 
small or unimportant but that some of its 
details will at times skip the memory, and the 
transaction that is forgotten is oftentimes that 
which one would wish to know about. Some 
firms keep a copy of every writing connected 
with their business, so that at all times they 
have at hand a detector for any incorrect bills 
or any items which in course of correspond- 
ence are by lapse of time misunderstood. 
Letters are left uncopied by many parties, first 
because of the trouble occasioned by copying ; 
second, because of the unimportance of the 
letter in hand. The trouble or difficulty in 
copying letters is more a lack of practice than 
any other. Like many habits, use makes 
perfect, and the satisfaction, after receiving 
a somewhat incoherent reply to a former 
letter, of writing, "By ours of such a date 
you will see," etc., will often repay the trouble 
of copying many more. The habit of copying 
often tends to carefulness in writing and leads 
the writer to write just what is wanted and 
nothing more. Its influence is to encourage 
in one's self and also among employes 
the thought that if what is written is worth 
taking care of, then it is also worth care in 
writing. It is an incentive to systematic and 
improved methods in business, while the very 
fact that it is to be kept and looked at after 
the original is gone, will lead to accuracy and 
clearness of statement. Unimportant letters 
are over-looked and not copied often. Then 
the question comts as to what letters are im- 
portant, and it often happens that a letter is 
called unimportant because the writer does 
not wish to stop to copy it. Is not any letter 
which is worth writing, in a business way, also 
worth copying ? The principle of a copied 
letter is that it is always at hand as a v itness. 
Incases of doubt the letter at hand will often 
settle a disputed point at hand, that is : How 
often do you wish that you knew just exactly 
what you wrote a certain party at a certain 
time? Does it not occasionally occur, that to 
know just what you have agreed to do would 



be of advantage to you ? Is not this question 
of copying your correspondence one worth 
considering ? 

London Shop Girls. 

Strict discipline is usually the order, and 
whatever advantages either sex may otherwise 
enjoy, a marked equality exists as to the fines 
imposed throughout the day. These "correct- 
ors" vary from 2 pence to 10 shillings, and to 
enumerate the multitudinous opportunities 
presented to the unwary would cover much 
paper. The list of "offenses" may often be 
found in a draper's check-book, and sufiicient 
food for long study is afforded to the "fresh 
hands" in mastering its details. In fact, in 
some houses, 'tis said, all the regulations are 
never understood. Suffice it to mention a few 
stock offenses, such as too long a meal, late 
arrival, incorrect bills, incorrect checking, 
taking bad money, giving wrong change, 
leaving one's department without a just reason, 
and many other misdemeanors wliich trip the 
unwary. To balance this network of penalties 
a "spiff" system is usually adopted, spiffs 
being premiums placed on certain articles, 
not of the last fashion, indicated by a marvel- 
lous hieroglyphic put on the price-ticket. 
These marks are well known by the assistant, 
and the almost invisible mystic sign explains 
why an article, wholly unsuitable, is foisted 
on the jaded customer as "just the thing." 
The price-marks themselves are often conun- 
drums to "madam," because these too are 
written in unknown characters, often drawn 
from a motto code. In some firms the g'rls, 
when not serving, are permitted to adjourn to 
a comfortable sitting and reading room, or are 
allowed to sit behind the counters, and, with 
respect to food, dainties are often provided in 
form of fish, fowl or pastry, which the less 
favored "fellows" fail to obtain. The average 
times for meals are half an hour and twenty 
minutes, for dinner and tea respectively, except 
throughout the hottest weather, when the tea- 
time is extended to thirty minutes, in consider- 
ation of the longer hours consequent on light 
evenings. Supper is usually provided imme- 
diately after closing time, and then a much- 
coveted span of freedom is enjoyed till 1 1 
o'clock sharp, or 12 o'clock one night a week, 
for the convenience of playgoers. As any 
"fellow" who contemplates starting a business 
for himself usually chooses a wife from among 
the "girls" of the house, it will be seen that a 
real "trade-unionism" exists among the com- 
munity, in a peculiar sense, and the so-called 
"rag-trade" is thus perpetuated by duly quali- 
fied assistants. 



— According to a French savant, a journey 
around the world could be made : Ly a man 
walking day and night, in 428 days ; a railway 
train, forty days ; sound, at a medium tempera- 
ture, 32^2 hours: a canron ball, 21 V hours; 
light, a trifle over one tenth of a second ; elec- 
tric ity, a little under one-tenth of a second. 



Rain in-the-Face, the Sioux chief who is 
said to have fired the I)ullet vvliich kilkd 
(iencral Custer, is dying at Standing Rock 
Agency, in North Dakota, from knife wounds 
inflicted by a jealous squaw. After killing 
Custer, he stood on guard over the body and 
prevented its mutilation. 



5> 

RAYMOND'S 

VACATION 

EXCURSIONS. 

AM, TKAVKLLIiVG EXPENSES INCLUDED. 



*20*ADTUMN*T0DRS* 

Of from five to si.xteen days' dur.itiun, and includinK 
visits to Hudson Kiver, Saratoga, Lake George, Lake 
Cliamplain, A usable Cliasm, tlie White Mountains, 
Isles of Slioals, Mount Desert, Moosehead Lake, 
Poland Spring, Montreal, Queljec, Saguenay and St. 
Lawrence Kivcrs, Lake Memphremagog, Lehigh Val- 
ley, Maudi Chunk, Watkins C;k-n, Niagara Falls, the 
Thousand Islands, Alexandria Bay, Adirondack Moun- 
tains, Lake Placid, Trenton Falls, Hattlefield of Gettys- 
burg, liluc Mountain House, F'ortress Monroe, Old 
Point Comfort, Richmond, the Natural Bridge of Vir- 
ginia. Luray Caverns, Harper's Ferry, Washington, 
Mount Vernon, etc. 

In addition to above. Tours IhrotiKli the Yellow- 
stone National Park, August 14, .i^ugust 28, and 
September 11. 

Two Transcontinental Tours via the Northern 
Pacific Railroad, Septemljer 11 and October 13. 

Excursion to Soutliern California direct- 
October 13. 

W. RAVMOND. I. .\. Whitcomb. 



El^^^ Send for descriptive circulars, designating 
whether book of "Twenty Autumn Tours," Yellow- 
stone National Park Trips, or Across the Continent 
excursions are desired. 

W. RAYMOND, 
296 Washington Street, opposite School St., BOSTON. 




J. B. Woodworth, 

* ARCHITECT * 
492 Main St., 

Worcester. 



DO N'T Be Du ped 

Thoro liavo lately hr.-n jilaceii upr.n the market 
several elieap reprints of an nbsolete edition of 
" Webster's Dictionary." They are being oflered 
atalow price 

By 

dry goods dealers, groeers, clothiers, etc., and in 
a few instances as a premium for subscriptions 
to papers. 
Aunouncemeuts of these comparatively 

Worthless 

reprints are very misleadius;; for instance, they 
are advertised to bo the substantial equivalent 
of *'an eight to twelve dollar book," when in 
reality from A to Z they arc nil 

Reprint Dictionaries, 

phototype eopie.s cif a \'-><>k .-f .>\.r f-rty years 
ago, winch in it.s day was ^-^M l-.r :il"ait S;..Oi),and 
that book wa.'! much superior in paper, print, and 
binding to these imitations, and was then the 
best Dictionary of the time instead of being 

Long Since Obsolete. 

The Buppl'in.Mit mI" ill, SI i-i ,11. .! "ill w words," 

which SI 11 ftli.^i- I k-,iii.;,,|ii,ii~t.d to con- 
tain, W.1S I. .iH|iil.il l.v agcritleui.iu will, ii.asheen 
dead over tliirty yiars, and was published ' 
fore his lioalh. Otlier so-called addition.") ate 
reprints of ft like nature. 

The Genuine Kdition of AV.I.vi.rs Iiki- 

bridged l>iotionary, which 1 1 1 1 1 1 

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pages, with illustrations on iii.u;. i;i;\ 1 .kt;.--, 
and bears our imprhit on the titl.; ii;m.-. 

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339 Main St., Worcester. 

We make a specialty of insuring Dwell- 
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Bronzing, Lacquering and Oxidizing. Also job pol- 
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"A'o'u/ Good Digestion IVaii on Appetite.''^ 



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Appetite is largely influenced by pleasant sur- 
roundings. 



You can find pleasant surroundings and all 
the delicacies of the season at 

ESTEY'S, 

No. 411 Main Street (Up One Flight). 

Open from 5 a. m. to ii i". m., including 
Sundays. 



The artist paints so wondrous fine 
That he makes a famous name; 

The printer cannot draw a line, 
But he gets there just the same. 

If for a printer you should seek. 
Needing one whose work is good, 

You'll find him at 3 Maple street. 
And his name is O. B. WOOD. 



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CLOCKS, JEWELRY 

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